UNIFR
Dept Biology
Ecology & Evolution
  


The Lexer Lab

Molecular ecology
&
evolutionary genetics group

Kai Nikolas Stölting

Post-Doctoral Researcher


E-mail
kai.stoelting[@]unifr.ch

Address
University of Fribourg
Department of Biology
Unit of Ecology & Evolution
Chemin du Musée 10
CH-1700 Fribourg
Switzerland

Phone
+41(0)26 300 8813 (office)
+41(0)26 300 8895 (lab)

Fax
+41 (0)26 300 96 98





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Kai Nikolas Stölting


Research Interests


The origin of species is a central aspect of evolutionary biology. I am studying speciation processes and the evolution of complex traits using a variety of molecular and in silico methods. I am currently involved in a SNF funded project aiming at characterizing the porous species boundary between two closely related Populus species using next-generation sequencing technologies and computational analyses.

Short CV

2010-present
 PostDoc Christian Lexer Lab, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
2006-2010
 PhD student Tony Wilson Lab, Zoological Museum, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2005
 Research Assistant Axel Meyer Lab, University of Konstanz, Germany
2002-2003 Research Internship, Federal Amazonian Research Institute (INPA), Brazil
1999-2004 Studies of biology, University of Konstanz, Germany


Publications


Lexer C, Stölting KN. 2011. Tracing the recombination and colonization history of hybrid species in space and time. In press: Molecular Ecology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05246.x

Winkler JD, Stölting KN, Wilson AB. 2011. Sex-specific responses to fecundity selection. Accepted:  Evolutionary Ecology. doi: 10.1007/s10682-011-9516-4

Stölting KN, Clarke AC, Meudt HM, Blankenhorn W, Wilson AB. 2011. Cost-effective fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analyses using a three primer system. Molecular Ecology Resources, 11(3), 494-502.

Stölting KN. 2010. Male pregnancy in the seahorse (Hippocampus abdominalis): investigating the genetic regulation of a complex reproductive trait. PhD Thesis, University of Zurich, Switzerland. http://dx.doi.org/10.5167/uzh-43648

Stölting KN, Gort G, Wüst C, Wilson AB. 2009. Eukaryotic transcriptomics in silico: Optimizing cDNA-AFLP efficiency. BMC Genomics, 10:565.

Bussiere LF, Hunt J, Stölting KN, Jennions MD, Brooks R. 2008. Mate choice for genetic quality when environments vary: suggestions for empirical progress. Genetica, 134(1), 69-78.

Michel C, Hicks BJ, Stölting KN, Clarke AC, Stevens MI, Tana R, Meyer A, van den Heuvel MR. 2008 Distinct migratory and non-migratory ecotypes of an endemic New Zealand eleotrid (Gobiomorphus cotidianus) - implications for incipient speciation in island freshwater fish species. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 8, Article 49.

Bleher H, Stölting KN, Salzburger W, Meyer A. 2007. Revision of the Genus Symphysodon Heckel, 1840 (Teleostei: Perciformes: Cichlidae) based on molecular and morphological characters. Aqua, 12(4), 133-174.

Stölting KN, Wilson AB. 2007. Male pregnancy in seahorses and pipefish: Beyond the mammalian model. BioEssays, 29, 884-896.

Van den Heuvel M, Michel C, Stevens MI, Clarke AC, Stölting KN, Hicks BJ, Tremblay LA. 2007. Monitoring the effects of pulp and paper effluents is restricted in genetically distinct populations of common bully (Gobiomorphus cotidianus). Environmental Science & Technology, 41 (7), 2602-2608.

Luo J, Lang M, Salzburger W, Siegel N, Stölting KN, Meyer A. 2006. A BAC library for the goldfish Carassius auratus auratus (Cyprinidae, Cypriniformes).  Journal of Experimental Zoology B Mol. Dev. Evol., 306(6), 567-574. 

Barluenga M, Stölting KN, Salzburger W, Muschick M, Meyer A. 2006. Evolutionary biology: Evidence for sympatric speciation? (Reply). Nature, 444, E13. 

Barluenga M*, Stölting KN*, Salzburger W*, Muschick M, Meyer A. 2006. Sympatric speciation in Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fish. Nature, 439, 719-723. *equal contribution

Hrbek T, Stölting KN, Bardacki F, Kücück F, Wildekamp RH, Meyer A. 2004 Plate tectonics and biogeographical patterns of the Pseudophoxinus (Pisces: Cypriniformes) species complex of central Anatolia, Turkey.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 32, 297-308.

Hrbek T, Kücück F, Frickey T, Stölting KN, Wildekamp R, Meyer A. 2002.  Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Aphanius (Pisces, Cyprinodontifomes) species complex of central Anatolia, Turkey.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 25, 125-137. 

Abstracts


Stölting KN, Nipper R, Lindtke D, Barbará T, Caseys C, Waeber S, Castiglione S, Lexer C. 2011. Genome-wide scan for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) reveals patterns and causes of allele sharing between ecologically divergent species. European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) 2011 Meeting. Tuebingen, Germany

Stölting KN, Gauthier ME, Bruggmann R, Qi W, Wilson AB 2010 Comparative Transcriptomics of the Male-Pregnant Seahorse Hippocampus abdominalis. SMBE 2010, Lyon, France & Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics of Adaptation 2010, Fribourg, Switzerland

Stölting KN, Gort G, Wüst C, Wilson AB. 2009 Experimental design: in silico  cDNA AFLPs in eukaryotes. European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) 2009 Meeting. Torino, Italy

Barluenga M, Stölting KN, Meyer A. 2004. Sympatric speciation in a crater lake cichlid in the neotropics: the midas cichlid species complex. Genomes and Evolution 2004 Meeting, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

Aadland CR, Braun CB, Stölting KN, Alves-Gomes JA. 2004. Intraspecific differences in the electric organ discharge of two species of sympatric gymnotiforms. Congress of the American Society of Ichthyology and Herpetology (ASIH), Manaus, Brazil

Stölting KN, Braun CB,  Alves-Gomes JA. 2004. Mitochondrial phylogeography of Microsternarchus bilineatus. Congress of the American Society of Ichthyology and Herpetology (ASIH), Manaus, Brazil

Book Chapter


Stölting KN. 2008. Von morphologischen Strukturen zur genetischen Architektur. In: Sammelsurium der Tiere. Loetz, F, Steinbrecher, A (Hrsg.). pp113-115

Public Media Coverage


Klusman I.  2007. Schwangere Männer: Seepferdchen und Seenadeln. Published online in: unipublic (online news of the University Zurich) at http://www.unipublic.unizh.ch/magazin/umwelt/2007/2536.html