Hailer, Frank - Cardiff University - School of Biosciences

个人简介

After studies in biology at Marburg University (Germany), I completed my Master’s degree at Uppsala University (Sweden), where I continued to pursue PhD studies in the lab of Hans Ellegren and Carles Vilà (now at CSIC, Spain). My PhD work focused on conservation genetics of white-tailed eagles, but I also worked on other projects on dog domestication and canid population genetics. I then worked with Jennifer Leonard on hybridization of coyotes and wolves in North America. In 2007 I started a new postdoc with Rob Fleischer at the Smithsonian National Zoo. In 2010-2014 I worked at BiK-F in Axel Janke’s group, studying population genetics and adaptation of arctic vertebrates and their boreotemperate counterparts.

研究领域

I am an evolutionary biologist working at the interface of evolutionary genomics, molecular ecology and conservation biology. My research interests focus on surveying genetic variation within and among species to infer key processes in ecology and evolution, such as speciation, adaptation, introgression and population structuring. I am also interested in the causes and consequences of dispersal, mechanisms of loss or maintenance of genetic diversity, and disease ecology. Understanding these processes often requires knowledge about population structure and phylogeographic history. Hence, my research traces the origin and fate of genetic variation within individuals to their populations and species, and continues deeper into phylogenetic time scales. In this context I find it particularly fascinating to see how independently inherited parts of the genome reflect different aspects of present and past processes. In my research I have studied a wide range of taxa, including bears, eagles, various species of tropical seabirds, wolves, coyotes and dogs, turtles, fruit flies, lynxes, elephants etc., spanning arctic to tropical habitats.

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Kutschera, V.et al. 2016. High genetic variability of vagrant polar bears illustrates importance of population connectivity in fragmented sea ice habitats. Animal Conservation 19(4), pp. 337-349. (10.1111/acv.12250) pdf Liu, Z.et al. 2016. Dietary specialization drives multiple independent losses and gains in the bitter taste gene repertoire of Laurasiatherian Mammals. Frontiers in Zoology 13(1), article number: 28. (10.1186/s12983-016-0161-1) pdf Rossi Lafferriere, N.et al. 2016. Multiple paternity in a reintroduced population of the Orinoco Crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius) at the El Frío Biological Station, Venezuela. PLOS ONE 11(3), article number: e0150245. (10.1371/journal.pone.0150245) pdf Schregel, J.et al. 2015. Y chromosome haplotype distribution of brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Northern Europe provides insight into population history and recovery. Molecular Ecology 24(24), pp. 6041-6060. (10.1111/mec.13448) pdf Aarnes, S.et al. 2015. Y-chromosomal testing of brown bears (Ursus arctos): Validation of a multiplex PCR-approach for nine STRs suitable for fecal and hair samples. Forensic Science International: Genetics 19, pp. 197. (10.1016/j.fsigen.2015.07.018) pdf Bidon, T.et al. 2015. Genome-wide search identifies 1.9 Mb from the polar bear Y chromosome for evolutionary analyses. Genome Biology and Evolution 7(7), pp. 2010-2022. (10.1093/gbe/evv103) pdf Hailer, F. 2015. Introgressive hybridization: brown bears as vectors for polar bear alleles. Molecular Ecology 24(6), pp. 1161-1163. (10.1111/mec.13101) pdf Hailer, F.et al. 2015. Distinct and extinct: Genetic differentiation of the Hawaiian eagle. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 83, pp. 40-43. (10.1016/j.ympev.2014.11.005) pdf Bock, F.et al. 2014. Genomic resources and genetic diversity of captive lesser kudu (Tragelaphus imberbis). Zoo Biology 33(5), pp. 440-445. (10.1002/zoo.21146)