Welcome Alina

15 March 2019, by Marlena Winter

A warm welcome to our new doctoral studen Alina Sanke! She is a new researcher in the field of hybridization and she analyses reproductive anomalies in the hybridogenetic beetle Altica lythri. Good luck!

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07.07.2023|molevolbio

Magna cum laude

Alina Sanken successfully completed her dissertation and disputation about the "Analysis of reproductive anomalies in the flea beetle Altica lythri (Chrysomelidae)". Congratulations and all the best for her future!

01.06.2023|molevolbio

Coevolutionary escalation led to differentially adapted paralogs of an insect's Na,K-ATPase optimizing resistance to host plant toxins

The milkweed bug, Oncopeltus fasciatus, has evolved intricate adaptations to the toxic cardenolides present in its host plants. Amongst others its Na,K-ATPase (NKA) has evolved strong resistance against these toxins. This resistance is due to the possession of several gene copies of the NKA subunits...