SPP 1127:  Radiations - Origins of Biological Diversity

• Subject Area: Biology
• Term: from 2002 to 2008
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5471414

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• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes
• International Connection: Italy

Projects

• A population genetic approach to speciation in wild tomatoes (Applicant Stephan, Wolfgang )
• Adaptive radiation in a tritrophic system: pollen resources, Andrena pollen foragers and Nomada cleptoparasites (Applicant Gumbert, Andreas )
• Adaptive radiation of land crabs from the Greater Antilles: ecological mechanisms and intraspecific plasticity (Applicant Schubart, Christoph D. )
• Adaptive radiation, speciation, and reproductive isolation in African weakly electric fishes (genus Campylomormyrus, Mormyridae, Teleostei) (Applicant Tiedemann, Ph.D., Ralph )
• Biodiversity and speciation in telmatherinid fishes of the Malili-Lake-System (Indonesia) (Applicant Schliewen, Ulrich )
• Causations of a riverine radiation: Assessment and evaluation of the morphological and genetical differentiation in a species flock of viviparous gastropods (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) (Applicant Köhler, Frank )
• Co-evolution between ambrosia fungi and abrosia beetles of the genus Xyleborus (Applicant Oberwinkler, Franz )
• Comparative analysis of land snail radiations on Crete (Applicant Hausdorf, Bernhard )
• Diversity and evolution of Salvia: morphological and functional flower characters drive speciation within the genus (Applicant Claßen-Bockhoff, Regine )
• Effect of shifts of the larval biology on the radiation of Microlepidoptera (Pyralidae, Yponomeutidae) feeding on gymnosperm hosts (Applicant Segerer, Andreas H. )
• Evolution of scaly tree ferns (Cyatheaceae) in Madagascar and adjacent regions (Applicant Schneider, Harald )
• Exploring phylogenetic aspects of radiations of derived ferns: using the epiphytic polygrammoid as a model lineage (Applicant Schneider, Harald )
• Floral evolution in the genus Conophytum (Aizoaceae) in South Africa (Applicant Jürgens, Andreas )
• Genetic divergence and evolution of reproductive isolation in Eastern Mediterranean water frogs (Applicant Plötner, Jörg )
• Limax (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Stylommatophora) in Corsica (part II): A case of double radiation (Applicant Haszprunar, Gerhard )
• Mating systems in Brassicaceae: Self-incompatibility system in the genus Capsella at the molecular and phenotypic level (Applicant Neuffer, Barbara )
• Mechanisms of speciation in Crematogaster spp. subgenus Decacrema associated with Macaranga (Applicant Feldhaar, Heike )
• Mechanisms of speciation in Southeast Asian ant-plants of the genus Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae) associated with Crematogaster ants (Applicants Blattner, Frank R. ;  Fiala, Brigitte ;  Weising, Kurt )
• Mechanisms of speciation in Southeast Asian ant-plants of the genus Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae) associated with Crematogaster ants (Applicant Blattner, Frank R. )
• Mechanisms of speciation in sympatry in polymorphic crater lake cichlid fish: the Neotropical Amphilophus citrinellus species complex (Applicant Meyer, Axel )
• Molecular evolution and adaptive radiation in drought-adapted plant groups of the coastal deserts of Chile and Peru (Applicant Schneider, Julio Valentin )
• Molecular genetic analysis of the speciation process of the Cyprinodon species flock (Teleostei) from Laguna Chichancanab, Mexico (Applicant Strecker, Ulrike )
• Natural morphological diversity and haplotype structure in the Karacadag mountain populations of Triticum monococcum from which humans first cultivated einkorn wheat (Applicant Martin, William )
• Natural morphological diversity and haplotype structure in the Karacadag mountain populations of Triticum monococcum from which humans first cultivated einkorn wheat (Applicant Salamini, Francesco )
• Origin, evolution and adaptive radiation in the genus Micromeria Benth. (Lamiaceae) in Macaronesia (Applicant Heubl, Günther )
• Radiation, biological diversity and host-parasite interactions in wildroses, rust fungi and insects (Applicants Brandl, Roland ;  Oberwinkler, Franz ;  Wissemann, Volker )
• Radiation, biological diversity and host-parasite interactions in wildroses, rust fungi and insects (Applicant Oberwinkler, Franz )
• Radiation, biological diversity and host-parasite interactions in wildroses, rust fungi and insects (Applicant Tscharntke, Teja )
• Radiation, biological diversity and host-parasite interactions in wildroses, rust fungi and insects (Applicant Brandl, Roland )
• Radiation in sexual and parthenogenetic oribatid mites (Acari, Acariformes) (Applicant Maraun, Mark )
• Radiation in socially parasitic Formicoxenine ants (Applicant Heinze, Jürgen )
• Radiation in termites: the importance of recognition cues (Applicant Kaib, Manfred )
• Radiation in termites: the importance of recognition cues (Applicant Brandl, Roland )
• Radiation in termites: the importance of recognition cues (Applicants Brandl, Roland ;  Kaib, Manfred )
• Radiation of aeolid Nudibranchia (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda) as a function of their relationship with zooxanthellae, with special emphasis on the genus Phyllodesmium (Applicant Melkonian, Michael )
• Radiation of Sacoglossa (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda) as a function of long term retention of chloroplasts, and usage of their metabolites (Applicant Wägele, Heike )
• Radiation of Saltatoria species in montane areas of East Africa (Insecta: Orthoptera) (Applicant Hemp, Claudia )
• Speciation and sexual selection in acoustically communicating grasshoppers (Applicant Mayer, Frieder )
• Speciation in sexually deceptive orchids (Applicant Ayasse, Manfred )
• Speciation mechanisms underlying rapid radiations in South American and Central Asian species of Hordeum (Poaceae) (Applicant Blattner, Frank R. )
• Speciation, niche differentiation and reproductive isolation in European cereal leaf beetles (Genus Oulema, Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) (Applicant Dobler, Susanne )
• Studying adaptive radiation at the molecular level: a case study in the Macaronesian Crassulaceae-Sempervivoideae (Applicant Thiv, Mike )
• Sympatric/parapatric speciation via differential host plant utilisation in the tephritid fly Tephritis conura (Applicant Seitz, Alfred )
• Testing allopatric and ecological speciation in a morphologically and genetically diverse species flock of viviparous freshwater gastropods (Mollusca: Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) in the ancient lakes of Sulawesi, Indonesia (Applicant Glaubrecht, Matthias )
• Testing for non-adaptive radiations in European spring snails (Applicants Brändle, Martin ;  Wilke, Thomas )
• The basics and mechanisms of a current radiation in Chromaphyosemion Killifish (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes) (Applicant Kullmann, Harald )
• The Herring Gull complex (Larus argentatue-fuscus-cachinnans) as a model group for recent holarctic vertebrate radiations (Applicant Liebers-Helbig, Dorit )
• The importance of flower-pollinator interactions for reproductive isolation and speciation processes in the genus Salvia: an experimental approach (Applicant Speck, Thomas )
• The roles of vicariance and dispersal in the speciation process among Mesoamerican birds (Applicant García-Moreno, Jaime )
• Variation in quantitative and molecular genetic traits among populations of Nigella degenii and N. doerfleri (Ranunculaceae): Implications for drift and selection in the Aegean archipelago (Applicant Kadereit, Ph.D., Joachim W. )
• Wolbachia induced sympatric speciation in the genus Doronomyrmex? (Applicant Ortius-Lechner, Diethilde )

• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. William Martin