Professor Martin Genner
B.Sc.(Liv.), M.Sc.(Aberd.), Ph.D.(Soton.)
Current positions
Professor in Evolutionary Ecology
School of Biological Sciences
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Research interests
I am interested in the ecological and evolutionary processes have shaped spatial and temporal patterns of biological diversity, primarily in aquatic environments. I have mainly worked on two systems: European marine fishes, and African freshwater fishes .
Topics currently being pursued include:
- Speciation and adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes
- Historical phylogeography of African freshwater fishes
- Influence of climate change and fishing on marine fish assemblages
- Conservation genetics of European marine fishes
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Environmental DNA survillance for health and food security in Africa
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/10/2019 to 31/12/2021
Characterising the biodiversity of freshwater fishes of Africa using environmental DNA metabarcoding: A case study within the Kilombero river system of Tanzania
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
31/03/2019 to 31/01/2022
Aquatic environmental DNA for enhanced health and food security in Tanzania
Principal Investigator
Description
Trace “environmental” DNA (eDNA) in water samples can be analysed to determine the presence and relative abundance of species. This project will evaluate eDNA applications in two sustainable development contexts:…Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/02/2019 to 31/07/2019
Can phenotypic plasticity and DNA methylation promote adaptive radiation?
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/01/2019 to 31/10/2022
The Invisibility of the Sea
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The following research questions are central to our project:
• How has the cultural invisibility of the sea resulted in its overexploitation and pollution, and in inadequate regulatory standards? How might this…Managing organisational unit
Dates
19/01/2017 to 31/07/2017
Thesis supervisions
Unrecognised endemic biodiversity within East African Chiloglanis catfish populations
Supervisors
Hybridization and conservation of tilapia cichlid fish biodiversity in Tanzania
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Morphological and Molecular Approaches for Assessing Diversity of East African Freshwater Fishes
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Body size and latitude predict the presence of multiple stressors in global vertebrate populations
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Allometric scaling of the extinction vortex
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Phylogenetic and population genetic structure of riverine Astatotilapia cichlid fishes of East Africa.
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Molecular approaches to improve understanding of the distribution of human-infecting Schistosoma species
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Southern Ocean mesopelagic fish
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Ecological Niches and Geographic Distributions of Lanternfishes
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Competitive Behaviour, Impact and Success of Invasive Tilapia (Oreochromis spp.) in Quintana Roo, Mexico
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
16/10/2021Conservation genomics of the endangered Seychelles Magpie‐Robin ( Copsychus sechellarum ): a unique insight into the history of a precious endemic bird
Ibis
Ecological networks in the Scotia Sea: Structural changes across latitude and depth
Ecosystems
Estuarine molecular bycatch as a landscape-wide biomonitoring tool
Biological Conservation
Mapping epigenetic divergence in the massive radiation of Lake Malawi cichlid fishes
Nature Communications
Meta-Fish-Lib
Journal of Fish Biology
