Selected Publications

Selected works

The collection includes recent articles from the group’s work on freshwater biodiversity, flying insects, aquatic fungi, and planktonic parasites.

The Molecular Ecology and Genomics Research Group, based at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries and the Institute of Biology at Freie Universität Berlin, maintains an extensive publication record spanning freshwater biodiversity, molecular ecology, and evolutionary biology. The collection gathers peer-reviewed articles and preprints produced by group members, reflecting work on topics that range from global agendas for advancing freshwater biodiversity to the ecology and genetics of organisms such as eels, insects, and fungal communities. The archive is presented as a complete and continuously updated list, allowing visitors to trace the group's research trajectory over time and to follow how individual projects contribute to wider scientific discussion in the field.

Across the listed outputs, a recurring theme is the use of molecular and genomic tools to understand ecological questions in freshwaters. Analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA variation, gene expression, and whole-genome data are applied to questions about population structure, species delimitation, climate-induced stress, and community composition. Several contributions address compositional changes and the pronounced rarity or dominance of particular species, alongside the dynamics of biomass and temperature variation in aquatic and forest systems. Related work considers the parasite and host relationships of invasive eel species, illustrating how genomic sequencing can clarify the ecological consequences of introductions and the health of wild populations.

The research represented here also extends beyond the laboratory bench into practical conservation and resource management. Studies on forest dieback, river systems, and freshwater community responses connect molecular evidence with on-the-ground environmental pressures, while contributions to journals and conference proceedings support the dissemination of these findings to scientific, conservation, and policy audiences. A number of the group's outputs appear as invited perspectives, letters, and reference works that situate empirical findings within broader debates about biodiversity monitoring and global change, and the group's teaching activities are structured to equip students with the computational and bioinformatics skills required to work with genomic data.

The publication section of the group website is designed as a straightforward, readable index, with entries arranged so that readers can quickly locate work by topic, by research area, or by the projects that generated it. Each entry links onward to the corresponding article, preprint, or resource, and the broader site includes dedicated pages for people, teaching, media, and the institutes involved, providing context for the research described in the literature. By gathering both long-standing foundational papers and very recent submissions in one place, the page functions as a living bibliography for a group whose work continues to evolve through collaboration with international partners in ecology, genomics, and conservation science.