Sandra Kukowka

Projects

2026/06
De Keyzer, E.L.R., Herder, F., Böhne, A., Jiménez, F.C., Burskaia, V., Kukowka, S., Tracey, A., Denton, A.L., Oatley, G., Mokodongan, D.F., Wowor, D., Svardal, H.
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Ancient and Recent Riverine Gene Flow Contributed to the Adaptive Radiation of Sailfin Silversides in Wallace's Dreampond
Molecular Ecology, 11, 35
2026/05
De Keyzer, E.L.R., Herder, F., Böhne, A., Campuzano Jiménez, F., Burskaia, V., Kukowka, S., Tracey, A., Denton, A., Oatley, G., Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life, p., Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations, D.P.c., Tree of Life, C.I.c., Mokodongan, D.F., Wowor, D., Svardal, H.
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Ancient and recent riverine gene flow contributed to the adaptive radiation of sailfin silversides in Wallace's Dreampond
Molecular Ecology

2025/10
Dietz, L., Eberle, J., Kukowka, S., Podsiadlowski, L., Bazzato, E., Stange, M., Warnock, R.C.M., Niehuis, O., Mayer, C., Ahrens, D.
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Cryptic Species Can Be Phylogenetically Old Despite Strong Sex-Biased Dispersal
Systematic Biology
2025/04
De Keyzer, E.L.R., Herder, F., Böhne, A., Campuzano Jiménez, F., Burskaia, V., Kukowka, S., Tracey, A., Denton, A., Oatley, G., Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme, ., Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective, ., Tree of Life Core Informatics collective, ., Mokodongan, D.F., Wowor, D., Svardal, H.
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Multiple instances of river-lake introgression in the adaptive radiation of sailfin silversides in Wallace’s Dreampond
2025/02
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
2025/01
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: Phoxinus phoxinus) provide evidence of haplotype diversity
Gigascience, 14

2024/12
Dietz, L., Kukowka, S., Eberle, J., Mayer, C., Niehuis, O., Podsiadlowski, L., Ahrens, D.
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Museomics reveal origins of East African Pleophylla forest chafers and Miocene forest connectivity
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 201
2024/06
Jaume-Schinkel, S., Müller, B., Avila-Calero, S., Kukowka, S., Rduch, V., Mengual, X.
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Preserving morphology while extracting DNA: a non-destructive field-to-museum protocol for slide-mounted specimens
Biodiversity Data Journal, 12

2023/12
Böhne, A., Oğuzhan, Z., Chrysostomakis, I., Vitt, S., Meuthen, D., Martin, S., Kukowka, S., Thünken, T.
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Evidence for selfing in a vertebrate from whole-genome sequencing
Genome Research, 12, 33
2023/08
Stolle, E., Guiglielmoni, N., Kirangwa, J., Kukowka, S., Meitzel, T., Cartney, A.M.M., Heilmann-Heimbach, S., Becker, K., Köhrer, K., Böhne, A.
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Reference genome sequence of the solitary bee Camptopoeum friesei Mocsáry, 1894 (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae)
bioRxiv
2023/02
Dietz, L., Eberle, J., Mayer, C., Kukowka, S., Bohacz, C., Baur, H., Espeland, M., Huber, B.A., Hutter, C.R., Mengual, X., Peters, R.S., Vences, M., Wesener‍, T., Willmott, K.R., Misof, B., Niehuis, O., Ahrens, D.
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Standardized nuclear markers improve and homogenize species delimitation in Metazoa
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2, 14

2021/10
Vasilikopoulos, A., Balke, M., Kukowka, S., Pflug, J.M., Martin, S., Meusemann, K., Hendrich, L., Mayer, C., Maddison, D.R., Niehuis, O., Beutel, R.G., Misof, B.
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Phylogenomic analyses clarify the pattern of evolution of Adephaga (Coleoptera) and highlight phylogenetic artefacts due to model misspecification and excessive data trimming
Systematic entomology, 4, 46
2021/03
Mayer, C., Dietz, L., Call, E., Kukowka, S., Martin, S., Espeland, M.
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Adding leaves to the Lepidoptera tree: capturing hundreds of nuclear genes from old museum specimens
Systematic entomology, 3, 46

2020/06
Giebner, H., Langen, K., Bourlat, S.J., Kukowka, S., Mayer, C., Astrin, J.J., Misof, B., Fonseca, V.G.
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Comparing diversity levels in environmental samples: DNA sequence capture and metabarcoding approaches using 18S and COI genes
Molecular ecology resources, 5, 20