Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.

Christian Sturmbauer

Christian Sturmbauer

Korrespondierendes Mitglied der mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse im Inland seit 2008

  • Institut für Biologie, Universität Graz

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Forschungsbereiche:

  • Biologie
  • Zoologie
  • Evolutionsforschung

Ausgewählte Publikationen:

  • Sturmbauer, C. & A. Meyer (1992). Genetic divergence, speciation and morphological stasis in a lineage of African cichlid fishes. Nature 358: 578-581.
  • Sturmbauer, C., J. Christy, and J. Levinton (1996). Molecular phylogeny analysis of fiddler crabs: a test of the hypothesis of increasing behavioral complexity in evolution. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93: 10855-10857.
  • Irisarri, I., Singh, P., Koblmüller, S., Torres-Dowdall, J., Henning, F., Franchini, P., Fischer, C., Lemmon, A. R., Moriarty-Lemmon, E., Thallinger, G. G., Sturmbauer, C. & A. Meyer (2018). Anchored phylogenomics uncovers deep inter-tribal hybridizations in the Lake Tanganyika cichlid radiation and highlights adaptive loci shaping species’ ecology. Nature Communications (2918)9: 3159, https://doi.org/10.138/s41467-018-05479-9.
  • Singh, P., Irisarri, I., Torres-Dowdall, J., Thallinger, G. G., Svardal, H., Moriarty Lemmon, E., Lemmon, A. R., Koblmüller, S., Meyer, A. & C. Sturmbauer. (2022). Phylogenomics of trophically diverse cichlids disentangles processes driving adaptive radiation and suggests repeated parallelism of eco-morphologies. Ecology and Evolution 12/7: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9077.
  • Singh, P., Taborsky, M., Peichel, C. & C. Sturmbauer (2023). Genomic basis of Y-linked dwarfism in cichlids pursuing alternative reproductive tactics. Molecular Ecology 32/7: 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16839.