Recent projects
Photo: Ariel Rodríguez (IES)
Advertisement call and mitochondrial DNA variability in Eleutherodactylus auriculatus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) in Cuba
Partners: Ariel Ricardo Rodríguez Gómez (Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Carretera de Varona, Km3½, Capdevila, Boyeros. A.P.8029, C.P. 10800, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba) and Miguel Vences (Technische Universität, Zoologisches Institut, Abteilung Evolutionsbiologie, Spielmannstr. 8, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany).
Source: GTI project (module: Individual and Institutional Capacity Building in Taxonomy and Collection Management)(2007).
Photo: Pionus Katuala (Univ.Kisangani)
Training Program for the Study of Biodiversity and Management of Rodents in Kisangani (DR Congo)
Partners: Herwig Leirs (Universiteit Antwerpen) and Akaibe Migumiru Dudu (University of Kisangani, DR Congo).
Source: DGDC-RBINS-GTI project (2004-2005).
Photo: Célestin Danadu (Univ.Kisangani)
Training Program for the Study of Biodiversity and Management of terrestrial and aquatic vertebrates in Kisangani (DR Congo)
Partners: Herwig Leirs (University of Antwerp), Jos Snoeks (Royal Museum for Central Africa-Tervuren) and Akaibe Migumiru Dudu (University of Kisangani, DR Congo).
Source: DGDC-RBINS-GTI project (2005-2006).
Providing Access to Albertine Rift Biodiversity Data
Partners: Jos Snoeks and Michel Louette (Royal Museum for Central Africa-Tervuren), Jérôme Degreef (National Botanic Garden-Meise.
Source: Coordinator, ENBI pilot project WP7 (2003-2005).
Photo: Dudu Akaibe (Univ.Kisangani)
Evaluating the effect of Pleistocene climate changes on speciation patterns in selected African vertebrates
Partners: Herwig Leirs (University of Antwerp), Marco Corti (University of Rome, Italy), Marc Colyn (University of Rennes, France)
Source: Belgian Science Policy (Research project) (2000-2003).
Photo: Lukas Rüber
Developmental and genetic basis for the adaptive evolution of oral teeth in closely related endemic cichlids from Lake Tanganyika
Partner: Ann Huysseune (University Ghent), coordinator
PhD-student: Els Vandervennet
Source: Belgian Science Policy (PhD project) (2002-2005)
Genetic selection and physiological acclimatization in a stress gradient: Role of metallothionein in the adaptation of natural populations of the gudgeon (Gobio gobio) to dissolved heavy metals.
Partner: Ronny Blust (University of Antwerp), coordinator.
Source: Research Foundation – Flanders project G.0487.03, (2003-2006)
Photo: Koen Martens (RBINS)
Morphological en molecular diversity, evolution en speciation in endemic ostracods (Crustacea) in Lake Tanganyika (project 1)
Partner: Koen Martens and Isa Schoen (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences).
Photo: Els Vandervennet (Univ. Ghent)
Developmental and evolutionary aspects of tooth shape in some representative bony fishes (project 2)
Partner: Ann Huysseune (University of Ghent).
Source: Research Foundation – Flanders project G.0109.99, (1999-2001, ext.-2004)
Photo: Lieven Bervoets (Univ. Antwerp)
Loss of genetic variation in rare and endangered fishes native to the Flanders: Extent, consequences and measures
Partners: Marcel Eens and Ronny Blust (University of Antwerp)
Source: Vlaams Impulsprogramma Natuurontwikkeling project (1999-2001)
Photo: Erik Verheyen (RBINS)
Fieldwork to study the effect of excessive sedimentation on endemic rock-dwelling cichlid fishes from Lake Tanganyika, Africa: An approach based on conservation genetics
Partners: Jos Snoeks (Royal Museum of Central Africa-Tervuren -Tervuren, Belgium)
Source: Leopold III-Foundation (1999)
Photo: Dieter Anseeuw (KULAK University)
The trophic ecology of the demersal fish community of Lake Malawi/Nyasa, Central Africa
Partners: Koen Martens (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium); Jos Snoeks (Royal Museum of Central Africa-Tervuren, Belgium); Gary Carvalho (University of Hull, United Kingdom), Eddy Allison (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom), George Turner (University of Southampton, United Kingdom), and Ken Irvine ( Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland), coordinator
Source: INCO-DC project (ERBIC18CT970195) "Cooperation with Third Countries and International Organisations, Part C: Scientific and Technical Cooperation with Developing Countries" (1998-2002)
Photo: Jos Snoeks (RMCA)
Pollution Control and other Measures to Protect Biodiversity in Lake Tanganyika
Partner: Ken Irvine (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland), coordinator
Source: Global Environmental Facility program (GEF Strategic Action Plan for Lake Tanganyika, Worldbank), (1998-2000)
Photo: Risto Vainola (Univ.Helsinki)
Phylogeny and Ecology of invertebrates of Lake Baikal
Partners: Dima Sherbakov (Limnological Institute Irkutsk, Russia), Koen Martens and Boudewijn Goddeeris (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences), coordinator
Source: Funds for Collective Fundamental Research-Ministerial Initiative project 30.35 (1996-1999)
A Molecular phylogeny of the meso- and bathypelagic bioluminescent fishes of the Mediterranean
Partner: Pierre Maréchal (Université Catholique de Louvain) and Fernand Baguet (Louvain-la-Neuve), coordinator.
Source: Funds for Collective Fundamental Research Project 2.4542.94 (1994-1998)
Photo: Erik Verheyen (RBINS)
Genetics, Speciation and Phylogeny of Lake Tanganyika fishes and Mollusks
Partners: Axel Meyer (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA) and Thierry Backeljau (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences)
Source: International Scientific Exchange Programs (NATO), Collaborative Research Grant 91.0911 (1992-1994)
Integrated multidisciplinary study on speciation and adaptive radiation of selected groups of aquatic and terrestrial taxa
Partners: Thierry Backeljau (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences), Walter Verheyen (University of Antwerp), coordinator
Source: National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium) program 2.0004.91 (1991-’94, ext.-1997)
Photo: Risto Vainola (Univ.Helsinki)
Systematics and Ecology of Selected Animal Groups in Lake Baikal
Partners: Dima Sherbakov (Limnological Institute Irkutsk, Russia), Koen Martens and Boudewijn Goddeeris (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences), coordinator
Source: Funds for Collective Fundamental Research-Ministerial Initiative project 30.35 (1991-1995)
