Untersuchung des biologischen Informationsgehaltes von Wachstumsringen in Otolithen von rezenten und fossilen Arten der Gobiidae (Teleostei)

• Antragstellerin: Professorin Dr. Bettina Reichenbacher
• Fachliche Zuordnung: Paläontologie
• Förderung: Förderung von 2016 bis 2018
• Projektkennung: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 328193571

• Erstellungsjahr: 2017

Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse

Conclusions: (1) Determination of life history characteristics is principally possible both in Recent and fossil goby species, but would require much more time and efforts. (2) Only very well preserved fossil otoliths can be used for such an approach because diagenetic overprint results in unclear growth lines that are difficult to interpret. (3) Very small otoliths (< 2mm) cannot be processed with the available techniques. Therefore it is currently not possible to investigate differences in the life history traits of normal-sized and dwarf gobies.

Projektbezogene Publikationen (Auswahl)

• (2017). How to produce high quality thin sections of fish otoliths without costly equipment. 15th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists, Munich, Germany. – Zitteliana, 91: 40
  Gut, C., Kevrekidis, C., Gholami, Z., Khan, A., Reichenbacher, B.