PhD Projects 2013

This was the list of our 2013 PhD projects. Application deadline was January 15, 2013.

Evolutionary ecology of dispersal
Keywords behavioral ecology, animal personality, life-history, dispersal, songbird
Main advisor Niels Dingemanse, MPIO Seewiesen more
Evolution of social behaviors
Keywords Behavioral ecology, indirect genetic effects, island population, quantitative genetics, social environment, social networks, songbird Main advisor Julia Schroeder, MPIO Seewiesen more
Isotopic finger-printing of contemporary and historic changes in copepod trophic position following a shift in in lake trophy
Keywords stable isotopes, zooplankton, copepods, trophic structure
Main advisor Elizabeth Yohannes, University of Konstanz more
The genetic basis of behavioral "handedness" in scale-eating cichlid fish

The genetic basis of behavioral "handedness" in scale-eating cichlid fish

Keywords left-right asymmetry, laterality, dimorphism, ecological specialization, QTL mapping, population genomics, next-generation sequencing
Main advisor Axel Meyer, University of Konstanz
Ecology and genomics of parallel speciation of cichlid fishes in Nicaraguan crater lakes
Keywords sympatric speciation, parallel evolution, ecological genomics, evo-devo, transgenics, next-generation sequencing
Main advisor Axel Meyer, University of Konstanz more
Physiological and behavioral ecology of black and white-browed coucals
Keywords sex-role reversal, mating system evolution, territorial behavior, telemetry, nestlings, fledglings
Main advisor Wolfgang Goymann, MPIO Seewiesen more
Seasonal brain size changes in the common shrew
Keywords Dehnel's phenomenon, neurobiology, ecology, metabolism
Main advisor Dina Dechmann, MPIO Radolfzell more
Neural mechanisms underlying vocal communication of crows
Keywords vocal communication, birds, neural mechanisms
Main advisor Manfred Gahr, MPIO Seewiesen
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The song learing related genome of birds
Keywords song learning, birds, genome, transcriptome
Main advisor Manfred Gahr, MPIO Seewiesen more
Social colony defense in ants
Keywords olfaction, ants' nestmate recognition, aggression, social behavior, self-organization, neurobiology
Main advisor Christoph Kleineidam, University of Konstanz more
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