PhD project embedded in Project 2: Evolution in Action: Environment, Agriculture, and Human Disease

Topic of PhD thesis:

Evolution of Reproductive Barriers between the two Hybridizing Sister Species Sepsis cynipsea and S. neocynipsea

Publications:

Giesen A, Blanckenhorn WU, Schäfer MA, Shimizu KK, Shimizu-Inatsugi R, Misof B, Podsiadlowski L, Niehuis O, Lischer HEL, Aeschbacher S, Kapun M (2023).

Geographic Variation in Genomic Signals of Admixture Between Two Closely Related European Sepsid Fly Species (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-023-09612-5)

Evolutionary Biology, August 2023

Baur J, Giesen A, Rohner PT, Blanckenhorn WU, Schäfer MA (2020).

Exaggerated male forelegs are not more differentiated than wing morphology in two widespread sister species of black scavenger flies (https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12327)

Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, February 2020

Giesen A, Schäfer MA, Blanckenhorn W (2018).

Geographic patterns of postzygotic isolation between two closely related widespread dung fly species (Sepsis cynipsea and Sepsis neocynipsea; Diptera: Sepsidae) (https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12239)

Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, July 2018

Giesen A, Blanckenhorn WU, Schäfer MA (2017).

Behavioural mechanisms of reproductive isolation between two hybridizing dung fly species (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.08.008)