Professor Dr. Axel Meyer

Address Universität Konstanz
Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Sektion
Fachbereich Biologie
Lehrstuhl für Zoologie/Evolutionsbiologie
Universitatsstraße 10
78457 Konstanz

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - The effects of ancestral plasticity and genetic assimilation on convergence and the diversification of East African cichlid fishes (Priority Programmes)
- Completed projects
  - Developmental basis of the evolutionary diversification of the gill skeleton of teleost fishes (Research Grants)
  - Phylogenie und adaptive Radiation thalassoider Gastropoden des Tanganjika-Sees (Ostafrika) auf der Grundlage neuer morphologischer und molekularer Befunde (Research Grants)
  - Molekular-phylogenetische Analysen zur Evolution der Landwirbeltiere (Research Grants)
  - Molekulare Phylogenie der Poecillidae (Pisces), Rekonstruktion ihrer Biogeographie und sexuelle Selektion innerhalb der Gattung Xiphophorus (Research Grants)
  - Gene and genome duplications and the evolution of novel gene functions in deuterostomes (Priority Programmes)
  - Phylogeny of lake Tanganyika cichlid fishes (Research Grants)
  - Evolution der modernen Amphibien, erschlossen aus Phylogenien von Kerngenen (Research Grants)
  - Fischparasiten und Bakterienfilm als genetische Marker der Demographieänderung und der Migrationsrouten des Nordatlantischen Aals (Research Grants)
  - Charakterisierung und Kartierung von "quantitative trait loci" (QTL) bei ostafrikanischen Buntbarschen der Tribus Haplochromini (Research Grants)
  - Mechanisms of speciation in sympatry in polymorphic crater lake cichlid fish: the Neotropical Amphilophus citrinellus species complex (Priority Programmes)
  - Genetic investigation of mouth asymmetry and lateralized (handed) foraging behavior in the scale-eating cichlid fish, Perissodus microlepis, from Lake Tanganyika, Africa (Research Grants)
  - Genetic mapping of the Midas cichlid GOLD locus (Research Grants)
  - The molecular basis of phenotypic plasticity and genetic assimilation in rapidly evolving lineages of East African cichlid fishes (Priority Programmes)
  - Species Delimitation in East African Cichlid Fish Adaptive Radiations (Priority Programmes)
  - Lungfish Mega-Genomes: Analysis of the Largest Vertebrate Genomes and the Evolution of Tetrapod Adaptations (Research Grants)
  - Genomics of Hybridization and Species Delimitation in Cichlid Fishes (Priority Programmes)
  - Applying integrative multispecies coalescent models to tackle the long-standing problem of species delimitation in allopatrically distributed populations (Priority Programmes)
As Participating Researcher
- Completed projects
  - GRK 2272: R3 - Responses to biotic and abiotic Changes, Resilience and Reversibility of Lake Ecosystems (Research Training Groups)
As Project Head
- Completed projects
  - Population genetics and postglacial colonization in different littoral zone fish of Lake Constance with divergent life histories (Collaborative Research Centres)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects