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Biodiversitätsgenomik

Our task

The comparative analysis of genomes and transcriptomes is establishing itself as an elementary component of biodiversity research. New sequencing technologies as well as developments in analysis methods and algorithms enable us to analyze samples from collections and the environment, especially from non-model organisms, as well as entire populations.

The Comparative Genomics Section at the zmb analyzes biodiversity in an evolutionary context in an attempt to better understand phenotypic and genomic changes within vertebrates.

Linking genotype and phenotype

Dr. Astrid Böhne represents this section with outstanding expertise in the areas of de novo sequencing and assembly as well as comparative genome-wide analyses.
The focus of this section is on the genomic architecture of phenotypic novelties and adaptive traits as well as speciation processes.

Projects in the Comparative Genomics Section deal in detail with population dynamics, speciation, gene flow, hybridization, adaptation and conflicts between the sexes, especially in fish.

Biodiversity

We are interested in the origin, interaction and distribution of new species and focus in particular on extremely successful animal groups that are part of speciation hotspots and (adaptive) radiations but also invasive and hybridizing species to understand drivers and threats of biodiversity genomically.

Genome research at the zmb collaborates intensively with scientists from the sections Bioinformatic Genomics and Phylogenomics.

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Projects

Publications

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    2025

  • 2025/4

    Carranza, S., Fernández-Guiberteau, D., Blasón, L., Palma-Guerrero, J., Fernández, R., Monteiro, R., Böhne, A., Aguilera, L., Gut, M., Câmara Ferreira, F., Cruz, F., Gómez-Garrido, J., Alioto, T., Haggerty, L., Sinha, S., Martin, F., De Panis, D.

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    ERGA-BGE reference genome of the Western Montpellier Snake (Malpolonmonspessulanus), a key species for evolutionary and venom studies

  • 2025/4

    Buzan, E., Bončina, A., Pokorny, B., Escudero, N., Fernández, R., Böhne, A., Monteiro, R., Aguilera, L., Gut, M., Câmara Ferreira, F., Cruz, F., Gómez-Garrido, J., Alioto, T., Haggerty, L., Martin, F., De Panis, D.

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    ERGA-BGE Reference Genome of the Northern chamois (Rupicaprarupicapra): Europe’s most abundant mountain ungulate

  • 2025/4

    Janžekovič, F., Buzan, E., Bončina, A., Escudero, N., Fernández, R., Böhne, A., Monteiro, R., Aguilera, L., Gut, M., Câmara Ferreira, F., Cruz, F., Gómez-Garrido, J., Alioto, T., Haggerty, L., Martin, F., De Panis, D.

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    ERGA-BGE reference genome of the Striped Field Mouse (Apodemusagrarius), a widespread and abundant species in Central and Eastern Europe

  • 2025/4

    Vasileiadou, K., Manousaki, T., Dailianis, T., Skouradakis, G., Vernadou, E., Karakasi, D., Böhne, A., Monteiro, R., Fernández, R., Escudero, N., Team, G.S., Moussy, A., Cruaud, C., Labadie, K., Demirdjian, L., Istace, B., Couloux, A., Wincker, P., Oliveira, P.H., Aury, J., Haggerty, L., Sinha, S., Martin, F., Bortoluzzi, C.

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    ERGA-BGE genome of Pinctadaradiata (Leach, 1814): one of the first Lessepsian migrants

  • 2025/4

    Vasileiadou, K., Manousaki, T., Dailianis, T., Skouradakis, G., Vernadou, E., Karakasi, D., Böhne, A., Monteiro, R., Fernández, R., Escudero, N., Team, G.S., Moussy, A., Cruaud, C., Labadie, K., Demirdjian, L., Téodori, E., Duprat, S., Wincker, P., Oliveira, P.H., Aury, J., Haggerty, L., Sinha, S., Martin, F., Bortoluzzi, C.

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    ERGA-BGE genome of Noah`s Ark shell (Arcanoae Linnaeus, 1758), a Mediterranean bivalve species

  • 2025/4

    Pellicer, J., Garnatje, T., Vitales, D., Hidalgo, O., Vallès, J., García-Fernández, A., Santos-Guerra, A., Böhne, A., Monteiro, R., Fernández, R., Escudero, N., Samples and Laboratory Team, W.S.I.T.o.L.M., Sequencing Operations, W.S.I.S.O., Tree of Life Core Informatics Team, W.S.I., Thomas, A., Jackson, B., Wood, J.M., Howe, K., Blaxter, M., McCarthy, S., Haggerty, L., Sinha, S., Martin, F., Bortoluzzi, C.

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    ERGA-BGE genome of Cheirolophustagananensis: an IUCN endangered shrub endemic to the Canary Islands

  • 2025/3

    Möhring, J., Hüllen, S., Martin, S., Mokodongan, D.F., Wowor, D., Schwarzer, J., Herder, F.

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    Increased phenotypic diversity as a consequence of ecological opportunity in the island radiation of Sulawesi ricefishes (Teleostei: Adrianichthyidae)

    BMC Ecology and Evolution, 1, 25

  • 2025/3

    Lymberakis, P., Karakasi, D., Papadimitrakis, M., Monteiro, R., Böhne, A., Fernández, R., Escudero, N., Aury, J., Moussy, A., Cruaud, C., Labadie, K., Mangenot, S., Belser, C., Demirdjian, L., Sinha, S., Haggerty, L., Martin, F., Wincker, P., Oliveira, P.H., Brown, T.

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    ERGA-BGE genome of Acomysminous (Bate, 1906): the Crete spiny mouse, endemic to the island of Crete, Greece

  • 2025/3

    Ventura, M., Franch, N., Fernández, R., Palma-Guerrero, J., Böhne, A., Monteiro, R., Aguilera, L., Gut, M., Alioto, T.S., Câmara Ferreira, F., Cruz, F., Gómez-Garrido, J., Haggerty, L., Martin, F., Brown, T.

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    ERGA-BGE genome of Valenciahispanica (Valenciennes, 1826): a critically endangered Iberian toothcarp

  • 2025/2

    Wantania, L.L., Koppetsch, T., Möhring, J., Miesen, F.W., Wowor, D., Boneka, F., Herder, F.

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    Sulawesi stream fish communities depend on connectivity and habitat diversity

    Journal of Fish Biology, 106

  • 2025/2

    López, H., Oromí, P., Belles, X., Ylla, G., Escudero, N., Fernández, R., Böhne, A., Gut, M., Aguilera, L., Alioto, T., Ferreira, F.C., Gómez-Garrido, J., Cruz, F., Monteiro, R.

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    ERGA-BGE reference genome of Lobopterasubterranea: a cave adapted cockroach endemic to the Canary Islands

  • 2025/2

    Bein, B., Chrysostomakis, I., Arantes, L.S., Brown, T., Gerheim, C., Schell, T., Schneider, C., Leushkin, E., Chen, Z., Sigwart, J., Gonzalez, V., Wong, N.L.W.S., Santos, F.R., Blom, M.P.K., Mayer, F., Mazzoni, C.J., Böhne, A., Winkler, S., Greve, C., Hiller, M.

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    Long-read sequencing and genome assembly of natural history collection samples and challenging specimens

    Genome Biology, 1, 26

  • 2025/2

    Smith, S.H., Kukowka, S., Böhne, A.

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    Investigation of sex determination in African cichlids reveals lack of fixed sex chromosomes in wild populations

    Journal of Evolutionary Biology

  • 2025/2

    Möhring, J., Mokodongan, D.F., Gani, A., Wowor, D., Annawaty, ., Böhne, A., Herder, F.

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    A New and Unique Species of Ricefish (Teleostei: Adrianichthyidae: Oryzias) from the Lariang River Basin, Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the First Known Sympatric Ricefish Species Pair from Sulawesi Rivers

    Ichthyology & Herpetology, 1, 113

  • 2025/2

    Stefen, C., Jentke, T., Birkwald, T., Chmieleski, J., Decher, J., Kaus-Thiel, A., Morkel, C., Thielen, J., Goldberg, R., Jakobitz, J., Atzig, H., Müller, A., Krause, R., Fichter, E., Wolfram, E., Twietmeyer, S., Stuckas, H.

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    Large scale monitoring of terrestrial small mammals using noninvasive sampling and COI barcoding

    Mammal Research

  • 2025/1

    Oriowo, T.O., Chrysostomakis, I., Martin, S., Kukowka, S., Brown, T., Winkler, S., Myers, E.W., Boehne, A., Stange, M.

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    A chromosome-level, haplotype-resolved genome assembly and annotation for the Eurasian minnow (Leuciscidae: Phoxinusphoxinus) provide evidence of haplotype diversity

    Gigascience, 14

  • 2025/1

    Mozer, A., Di‐Nizo, C.B., Consul, A., Huettel, B., Jäger, R., Akintayo, A., Erhardt, C., Fenner, L., Fischer, D., Forat, S., Gimnich, F., Grobe, P., Martin, S., Nathan, V., Saeed, A., von der Mark, L., Woehle, C., Olek, K., Misof, B., Astrin, J.J.

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    FOGS: A SNPSTR Marker Database to Combat Wildlife Trafficking and a Cell Culture Bank for Ex‐Situ Conservation

    Molecular Ecology resources

  • 2025/1

    Vila, M., Torrado-Blanco, L., Ryrholm, N., Romero-Pedreira, D., Conejero, M., Böhne, A., Monteiro, R., Marcussen, T., Oomen, R., Struck, T.H., Aguilera, L., Gut, M., Ferreira, F.C., Rodriguez, F.C., Gómez-Garrido, J., Alioto, T.S., Bortoluzzi, C.

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    ERGA-BGE genome of Erebia palarica Chapman, 1905: a montane butterfly endemic to North-West Iberia

  • 2025/1

    Vila, M., Marí-Mena, N., Vila, R., Riesgo, A., García-Souto, D., Lopez-Vaamonde, C., Böhne, A., Monteiro, R., Marcussen, T., Oomen, R., Struck, T.H., Gut, M., Aguilera, L., Ferreira, F.C., Rodriguez, F.C., Gómez-Garrido, J., Alioto, T.S., Bortoluzzi, C.

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    ERGA-BGE genome of the Spanish Moon Moth Graellsia isabellae Graells, 1849: a nocturnal lepidopteran protected by the Habitats Directive

  • 2025/1

    Fernandez-Alvarez, F.A., Bernal-Bajo, A., Escudero, N., Conejero, M., Riesgo, A., Fernandez, R., Monteiro, R., Bohne, A., Aguilera, L., Gut, M., Alioto, T.S., Ferreira, F.C., Cruz, F., Gomez-Garrido, J., Brown, T.

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    ERGA-BGE genome of Stigmatoteuthis arcturi Robson, 1948: the jewelled squid

  • 2025/1

    Chrysostomakis, I., Mozer, A., Bruno Di-Nizo, C., Fischer, D., Sargheini, N., von der Mark, L., Huettel, B., Astrin, J.J., Töpfer, T., Böhne, A.

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    A high-quality reference genome for the Ural Owl (Strix uralensis) enables investigations of cell cultures as a genomic resource for endangered species

  • 2025/1

    Lavergne, S., Rosa, A., Peng, C., Monteiro, R., Böhne, A., Marcussen, T., Struck, T., Oomen, R.A., Genoscope Sequencing Team, ., Moussy, A., Cruaud, C., Labadie, K., Téodori, E., Demirdjian, L., Wincker, P., Oliveira, P.H., Aury, J., Brown, T.

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    ERGA-BGE genome of Androsace saussurei Dentant, Lavergne, F. C. Boucher & S. Ibanez, a recently described plant from the rooftops of Europe

  • 2025/1

    Galià-Camps, C., Pontes, M., Marcussen, T., Struck, T.H., Oomen, R., Böhne, A., Monteiro, R., Aguilera, L., Gut, M., Ferreira, F.C., Cruz, F., Gómez-Garrido, J., Alioto, T.S., De Panis, D.

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    ERGA-BGE reference genome of Phyllidia flava (Nudibranchia: Phyllidiidae), a relict species endemic to the Mediterranean Sea

  • 2024

  • 2024/12

    Mc Cartney, A.M., Formenti, G., Mouton, A., De Panis, D., Marins, L.S., Leitão, H.G., Diedericks, G., Kirangwa, J., Morselli, M., Salces-Ortiz, J., Escudero, N., Iannucci, A., Natali, C., Svardal, H., Fernández, R., De Pooter, T., Joris, G., Strazisar, M., Wood, J.M.D., Herron, K.E., Seehausen, O., Watts, P.C., Shaw, F., Davey, R.P., Minotto, A., Fernández, J.M., Böhne, A., Alegria, C., Alioto, T., Alves, P.C., Amorim, I.R., Aury, J., Backstrom, N., Baldrian, P., Baltrunaite, L., Barta, E., BedHom, B., Belser, C., Bergsten, J., Bertrand, L., Bilandija, H., Binzer-Panchal, M., Bista, I., Blaxter, M., Borges, P.A.V., Dias, G.B., Bosse, M., Brown, T., Bruggmann, R., Buena-Atienza, E., Burgin, J., Buzan, E., Cariani, A., Casadei, N., Chiara, M., Chozas, S., Čiampor, F., Crottini, A., Cruaud, C., Cruz, F., Dalen, L., De Biase, A., del Campo, J., Delic, T., Dennis, A.B., Derks, M.F.L., Diroma, M.A., Djan, M., Duprat, S., Eleftheriadi, K., Feulner, P.G.D., Flot, J., Forni, G., Fosso, B., Fournier, P., Fournier-Chambrillon, C., Gabaldon, T., Garg, S., Gissi, C., Giupponi, L., Gomez-Garrido, J., González, J., Grilo, M.L., Grüning, B., Guerin, T., Guiglielmoni, N., Gut, M., Haesler, M.P., Hahn, C., Halpern, B., Harrison, P.W., Heintz, J., Hindrikson, M., Höglund, J., Howe, K., Hughes, G.M., Istace, B., Cock, M.J., Janžekovič, F., Jonsson, Z.O., Joye-Dind, S., Koskimäki, J.J., Krystufek, B., Kubacka, J., Kuhl, H., Kusza, S., Labadie, K., Lähteenaro, M., Lantz, H., Lavrinienko, A., Leclère, L., Lopes, R.J., Madsen, O., Magdelenat, G., Magoga, G., Manousaki, T., Mappes, T., Marques, J.P., Redondo, G.I.M., Maumus, F., McCarthy, S.A., Megens, H., Melo-Ferreira, J., Mendes, S.L., Montagna, M., Moreno, J., Mosbech, M., Moura, M., Musilova, Z., Myers, E., Nash, W.J., Nater, A., Nicholson, P., Niell, M., Nijland, R., Noel, B., Noren, K., Oliveira, P.H., Olsen, R., Ometto, L., Oomen, R.A., Ossowski, S., Palinauskas, V., Palsson, S., Panibe, J.P., Pauperio, J., Pavlek, M., Payen, E., Pawlowska, J., Pellicer, J., Pesole, G., Pimenta, J., Pippel, M., Pirttilä, A.M., Poulakakis, N., Rajan, J., M.C. Rego, R., Resendes, R., Resl, P., Riesgo, A., Rodin-Morch, P., Soares, A.E.R., Fernandes, C.R., Romeiras, M.M., Roxo, G., Rüber, L., Ruiz-Lopez, M.J., Saarma, U., da Silva, L.P., Sim-Sim, M., Soler, L., Sousa, V.C., Santos, C.S., Spada, A., Stefanovic, M., Steger, V., Stiller, J., Stöck, M., Struck, T.H., Sudasinghe, H., Tapanainen, R., Tellgren-Roth, C., Trindade, H., Tukalenko, Y., Urso, I., Vacherie, B., Van Belleghem, S.M., Van Oers, K., Vargas-Chavez, C., Velickovic, N., Vella, N., Vella, A., Vernesi, C., Vicente, S., Villa, S., Pettersson, O.V., Volckaert, F.A.M., Voros, J., Wincker, P., Winkler, S., Ciofi, C., Waterhouse, R.M., Mazzoni, C.J.

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    The European Reference Genome Atlas: piloting a decentralised approach to equitable biodiversity genomics

    npj Biodiversity, 1, 3

  • 2024/12

    Böhne, A., Fernández, R., Leonard, J.A., McCartney, A.M., McTaggart, S., Melo-Ferreira, J., Monteiro, R., Oomen, R.A., Vinnere Pettersson, O., Struck, T.H.

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    Contextualising samples: supporting reference genomes of European biodiversity through sample and associated metadata collection

    npj Biodiversity, 1, 3

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