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Beate Nürnberger, Ph.D.


Position: grant funded researcher
Research topics: evolutionary biology, population genetics, bioinformatics
Department: External research facility Studenec
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E-mail: bdnurnbergerivb.cz

Research interests

  • evolutionary ecology,
  • life history evolution,
  • speciation,
  • hybrid zones,
  • genetic basis of adaptive traits.

Running Projects

Genomic dissection of barriers to gene flow in hybridising fire-bellied toads

Education

  • 2002: Habilitation (Zoology and Ecology) - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.
  • 1991: Ph.D. (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) - Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., USA.
  • 1983: Vordiplom (~ Bachelor, Biology) - Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, Germany.

Employment

  • 2016-present: Institute of Vertebrate Biology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, External Research Facility Studenec - Researcher.
  • 2011-2014: The University of Edinburgh - Senior Research Fellow (Daphne Jackson Trust).
  • 2007-2011: Career break.
  • 1997-2007: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany - Lecturer.
  • 1991-1997: The University of Edinburgh - NERC Post-Doctoral Research Assistant.

Academic Service

  • Reviewer - Ecology, Evolution, Molecular Ecology, American Naturalist, Heredity, Genetica, Zoology.
  • Associate Editor - Evolution (2005-2007).

Publications

2013

Nürnberger B. Ecological Genetics. in: S.A. Levin (ed), Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, 2nd edition, Elsevier, London, vol 2, pp 714–731.

2012

Maier E., Buckenmaier A., Tollrian R., Nürnberger B. Intracolonial genetic variation in the scleractinian coral Seriatopora hystrix. Coral Reefs 31: 505-517.

2009

Maier E., Tollrian R., Nürnberger B. Fine-scale analysis of genetic population structure in the brooding coral Seriatopora hystrix from the Red Sea. Coral Reefs 28: 751-756.

2006

Yanchukov, A., HofmannS., Szymura J.M., Mezhzherin S., Morozov-Leonov S., Barton N.H., Nürnberger B. A Bombina (Anura: Discoglossidae) hybrid zone at a sharp ecotone in Western Ukraine: comparisons across transects and over time. Evolution 60: 583 - 600.

2005

Maier, E., Tollrian R., Rinkevich B., Nürnberger B. Isolation by distance in the scleractinian coral Seriatopora hystrix from the Red Sea. Mar. Biol. 147: 1109 – 1120.

Nürnberger, B., Barton N.H., Kruuk L.E.B., Vines T.H. Mating patterns in the Bombina hybrid zone: inferences from adult and full-sib genotypes. Heredity 94: 247 – 257.

2003

Nürnberger, B., Hofmann S., Förg-Brey B., Praetzel G., Szymura J.M., Abbott C.M., Barton N.H.  A linkage map for the hybridising toads Bombina bombina and Bombina variegata. Heredity 91: 136 – 142.

Vines, T.H., Köhler S.C., Thiel M, Sands T.R., Ghira I., MacCallum C.J., Barton N.H., Nürnberger B. The maintenance of reproductive isolation in a mosaic hybrid zone between the toads Bombina bombina and B. variegata. Evolution 57: 1876 – 1888.

2002

Vorndran, I., Reichwaldt E., Nürnberger B. Does differential susceptibility to predation in tadpoles stabilize the Bombina hybrid zone? Ecology 83: 1648 – 1659.

2001

Maier, E., R. Tollrian, und B. Nürnberger. Development of species-specific markers in an organism with endosymbionts: microsatellites in the scleractinian coral Seriatopora hystrix. Mol. Ecol. Notes 1: 157 – 159.

Griffin, A.S., B. Nürnberger, J.M. Pemberton. A panel of microsatellites developed for meerkats (Suricata suricatta) by cross-species amplification and species-specific cloning. Mol. Ecol. Notes 1: 83-85.

2000

Nürnberger, B. 2000. Ecological Genetics. in: Levin, S.A. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. Vol. 2, pp 245 – 258. Academic Press, San Diego.

1999

Nürnberger, B., W. Gabriel. Invited commentary - Continued hope for a general explanation of sex. J. evol. Biol. 14: 1040 – 1042.

1998

MacCallum, C.J., B. Nürnberger, N.H. Barton, J.M. Szymura. Habitat preference in the Bombina hybrid zone in Croatia. Evolution 52: 227 - 239.

1996

Nürnberger B. Local dynamics and dispersal in a structured population of the whirligig beetle Dineutus assimilis. Oecologia 106: 325 - 336.

1995

Nürnberger B., N.H. Barton, C. MacCallum, J. Gilchrist, M. Appleby. Natural selection on quantitative traits in the Bombina hybrid zone. Evolution 49: 1224 – 1238.

Nürnberger B., R.G. Harrison. Spatial population structure in the whirligig beetle Dineutus assimilis : Evolutionary inferences based on mtDNA and field data. Evolution 49: 266 - 275.

1994

Adler, F. R.,  B. Nuernberger. Persistence in patchy, irregular landscapes. Theor. Pop. Biol. 45: 41 - 75.

Publications

2016

Nürnberger B., Fijarczyk A., Lohse K., Szymura J. M., Blaxter M. L.: Para-allopatry in hybridizing fire-bellied toads (Bombina bombina and B. variegata): Inference from transcriptome-wide coalescence analyses, Evolution 70 (2016) 1803-1818.