Vertebrates
The majority of our research projects explore the evolutionary histories of organisms and how they have been influenced by environmental changes, to elucidate genetic processes that determine shape differences among closely related species, and to investigate whether natural populations have developed genetic adaptations to overcome the consequences of environmental pollution.
Our research team consists of people who study specimen and tissue collections that are gathered during fieldwork financed by several projects on freshwater and terrestrial species assemblages.
We implement phylogenetic, phylogeographic and population genetic methods to investigate the evolutionary trajectories of species and their populations. When appropriate, we also implement methods that are relevant to conservation biology, or use of mitochondrial DNA sequences as DNA barcodes for characterizing species of organisms.
We share the results of our research activities with the scientific community through scientific publications and softwares.