Karrenberg lab
Evolutionary ecology and genetics
Almost all plants and animals can be identified as different species. How do these species form and how are they maintained?
We investigate the speciation process using closely related species that can still form natural hybrids in nature. We study both ecological process such as adaptation to different habitats and genetic processes that play important roles for the speciation process.
Our study systems include campions (Silene), willows (Salix) and thale cress (Arabidopsis).
Group members
Publications
Part of New Phytologist, p. 1641-1652, 2022
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 3511-3525, 2020
Part of Evolution, p. 245-261, 2019
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 3889-3904, 2018
Trait differentiation and adaptation of plants along elevation gradients
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 784-800, 2018
Part of New Phytologist, p. 1487-1499, 2017
Can Evolution Supply What Ecology Demands?
Part of Trends in Ecology & Evolution, p. 187-197, 2017
Part of Journal of Ecology, p. 1041-1050, 2016
Part of Ecology and Evolution, p. 3940-3952, 2016
- DOI for Evolutionary potential in the Alpine: trait heritabilities and performance variation of the dwarf willow Salix herbacea from different elevations and microhabitats
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Part of Heredity, p. 220-228, 2015
Former group members
- Susanne Gramlich (post-doc)
- Xiaodong Liu (PhD student, UU), currently post-doc at University of Copenhagen
- Alessio Costa (MSc student, UU)
- Shangjun Zhou (MSc student, UU)
- Daniel Connaghan (MSc student, UU)
- Andres Cortés (PhD student, UU)
- Emelie Hallander (MSc student, UU)
- Sofia Häggberg (MSc student, UU)
- Tora Finderup-Nielsen (MSc student, Copenhagen University, Denmark)
- Nicolas Quèbre (PhD student, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
- Jasmin Bregy (MSc student, ETH/UU)
- Janine Moll (technical assistant, UU)
- Adrien Favre (PhD student, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
- Joelle Rahmé (PhD student, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
- Paul Page (PhD student, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)