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Our task
Statistical phylogenetics deals with systematic and statistical errors in phylogeny.
When reconstructing phylogenetic trees (family trees), a number of modelling assumptions are made about the course of actual evolution. If these assumptions are not correct, the reconstruction of the phylogenetic tree is uncertain. An important task is to recognise and prove effects that lead to the reconstruction of false phylogenetic trees.
Contact person
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- Head of Section
- Chairman of Staff Council
- Data Protection Vice-Commissioner
Phone: +49 228 9122 403
E-Mail: c.mayer@leibniz-lib.de
Projects
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Investigating the genomic and transcriptomic signatures of global change in a marine fish species in space and time
Management: Dr. Christoph Mayer
Publications
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2026/02
Genome and transcriptome‐based identification and expression profiling of chemosensory gene families across developmental stages and tissues in Sirex noctilio (Hymenoptera: Siricidae)
Insect Molecular Biology
2025/10
Cryptic Species Can Be Phylogenetically Old Despite Strong Sex-Biased Dispersal
Systematic Biology
2025/07
Heat stress responsive genes are not affected by ocean warming: long-term environmental monitoring and acute thermal stress experiments identify non-overlapping sets of differentially expressed genes in a marine fish
2025/03
Ali-U-Net: A Convolutional Transformer Neural Net for Multiple Sequence Alignment of DNA Sequences. A proof of concept
2025/01
Three Novel Spider Genomes Unveil Spidroin Diversification and Hox Cluster Architecture: Ryuthela nishihirai (Liphistiidae), Uloborus plumipes (Uloboridae) and Cheiracanthium punctorium (Cheiracanthiidae)
Molecular Ecology resources, 1, 25
2024/12
Museomics reveal origins of East African Pleophylla forest chafers and Miocene forest connectivity
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 201
2024/11
Machine learning can be as good as maximum likelihood when reconstructing phylogenetic trees and determining the best evolutionary model on four taxon alignments
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 200
2024/08
Protocol for the preparation of Wings and Wing Interference Pattern Imaging from ethanol preserved specimens v1
2024/08
Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of the Viviparous Eelpout Zoarces viviparus
Genome biology and evolution, 8, 16
2024/08
Integrative characterisation of the Northwestern European species of Anacharis Dalman, 1823 (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Figitidae) with the description of three new species
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 97
2024/08
Protocol for the preparation of Wings and Wing Interference Pattern Imaging from ethanol preserved specimens
2024/04
Standardized nuclear markers improve and homogenize species delimitation in Metazoa (vol 14, pg 543, 2023)
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 4, 15
2023/01
Author response for "MitoGeneExtractor: Efficient extraction of mitochondrial genes from next‐generation sequencing libraries"
2020/11
Are fleas highly modified Mecoptera? Phylogenomic resolution of Antliophora (Insecta: Holometabola)
2020/10
Correction to: An integrative phylogenomic approach to elucidate the evolutionary history and divergence times of Neuropterida (Insecta: Holometabola)
BMC evolutionary biology, 1, 20
2020/07
How old are dragonflies and damselflies? Odonata (Insecta) transcriptomics resolve familial relationships
2019/10
Patterns and Constraints in the Evolution of Sperm Individualization Genes in Insects, with an Emphasis on Beetles
Genes, 10, 10
2017/01
A posteriori evaluation of molecular divergence dates using empirical estimates of time-heterogeneous fossilization rates
bioRxiv
2015/07
Response to Comment on “Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution”
Science, 6247, 349
2011/08
Molecular evolution of a chordate specific family of G protein-coupled receptors
BMC evolutionary biology, 1, 11
2011/03
The mitochondrial genome of Colossendeis megalonyx supports a basal position of Colossendeidae within the Pycnogonida
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 3, 58
2010/06
Predator-induced defences in Daphnia pulex: Selection and evaluation of internal reference genes for gene expression studies with real-time PCR
BMC molecular biology, 1, 11
2010/04
Genome-wide analysis of tandem repeats in Daphnia pulex-a comparative approach
BMC genomics, 1, 11
2010/03
Cryptic mitochondrial lineages in the widespread pycnogonid Colossendeis megalonyx Hoek, 1881 from Antarctic and Subantarctic waters
Polar biology, 3, 33
2009/01
STAMP: Extensions to the STADEN sequence analysis package for high throughput interactive microsatellite marker design
BMC bioinformatics, 1, 10
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Dr. Christoph Mayer
zmb Statistical Phylogenomics and Machine Learning ScientistPhone: +49 228 9122 403
E-mail: c.mayer@leibniz-lib.de