Evolutionsbiologie: Die Mitarbeiter

Dr. Katharina C. Wollenberg

Spielmannstr. 8
38106 Braunschweig
Germany

Current address:
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA


Telefon:   
E-Mail:   kc.wollenberg(at)tu-braunschweig.de

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Research interests

Phylogenetic Systematics and Phylogeography, Evolutionary Biology, Evolution of morphological characters (especially visual signals) using the Comparative Method, GIS-based biodiversity assessments, Conservation Geography


Ph.D project (2005-2008):
Integrating molecular phylogenetic, spatial, ecological and climatic information to infer i) evolutionary processes shaping the distribution patterns and ii) the geographical modes of speciation in Malagasy amphibians

Currently (since 2009) working as postdoctoral researcher in Jonathan Losos' lab at Harvard (inferring lineage diversification in Anolis lizards)

Publikationen

Research papers

Vences, M., F. Glaw, J. Köhler & K. C. Wollenberg (2010). Molecular phylogeny, morphology and bioacoustics reveal five additional species of arboreal microhylid frogs of the genus Anodonthyla from Madagascar. Contributions to Zoology 79: 1-32.

Randrianiaina, R. D., Navarro Antúnez, R., Canitz, J., Forth, F., Lemme, I., Rodríguez, B., Rinas, H., Thanert, R., Troger, P., Westphal, N., Willim, A., Wollenberg, K. C., Strauss, A. & M. Vences. 2009. Vogue or adaptive character? A tadpole's goatee helps to distinguish two cryptic treefrog species of the genus /Boophis/. Herpetology Notes 2: 165-173.

Vences, M., K. C. Wollenberg, D. R. Vieites & D. C. Lees (2009). Madagascar as a model region of species diversification. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 24: 456-465.

Vieites, D. R., K. C. Wollenberg, F. Andreone, J. Köhler, F. Glaw & M. Vences (2009). Vast underestimation of Madagascar's biodiversity evidenced by an integrative amphibian inventory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106: 8267-8272.

Wollenberg K. C. & G. J. Measey (2009). Why colour in subterranean vertebrates? Exploring the evolution of colour patterns in caecilian amphibians. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 1046-1056.

Muenchenberg T., K. C. Wollenberg, F. Glaw & M. Vences (2008). Molecular phylogeny and geographic variation of Malagasy iguanas (Oplurus and Chalarodon). Amphibia-Reptilia 29: 319-327.

Wollenberg, K. C., D. R. Vieites & M. Vences (2008). Annual temperature data for two Malagasy sites of high anuran diversity. In: Andreone F. (Editor). A Conservation Strategy for the Amphibians of Madagascar - Monografie XLV. Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino. 452pp

Wollenberg K. C., D. R. Vieites, A. van der Meijden, F. Glaw, D. C. Cannatella & M. Vences (2008). Patterns of endemism and species richness in Malagasy cophyline frogs support a key role of mountainous areas for speciation. Evolution 62: 1890-1907.

Wollenberg K. C., F. Andreone, F. Glaw & M. Vences (2008): Pretty in pink: A new treefrog species of the genus Boophis from North-Eastern Madagascar. Zootaxa 1684: 58-68.

Wollenberg K. C., S. Lötters, C. Mora-Ferrer & M. Veith (2008): Disentangling composite colour patterns in a poison frog species. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 93: 433-444.

Wollenberg K. C., F. Glaw, A. Meyer & M. Vences (2007): Molecular phylogeny of Malagasy reed frogs, Heterixalus, and the relative performance of bioacoustics and color-patterns for resolving their systematics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45: 14-22.

Wollenberg K. C, M. Veith, B. P. Noonan & S. Lötters (2006): Polymorphism versus species richness — systematics of large Dendrobates from the Eastern Guiana Shield (Amphibia: Dendrobatidae). Copeia 2006 (4): 623-629.

Mora-Ferrer C, S. Hausselt, R. Schmidt-Hoffmann, B. Ebisch, S. Schick, K. C. Wollenberg, C. Schneider, P. Teege & K. Jurgens (2005): Pharmacological properties of motion vision in goldfish measured with the optomotor response. Brain Research 1058(1-2):17-29.



Selected presentations

March 2008
Wollenberg K.C., Vieites D.R., van der Meijden A., Glaw F., Vences M,
Cannatella D.C.: Explaining patterns of endemism and species richness
in Malagasy cophyline frogs.
Departement Systématique & Evolution at the Muséum national d'Histoire
naturelle, Paris, France

September 2007
Wollenberg K.C., Vieites D.R., van der Meijden A., Glaw F., Vences M, Cannatella D.C.: Explaining patterns of endemism and species richness in Malagasy cophyline frogs.
14th European Congress of Herpetology, Porto, Portugal.

April 2006
Wollenberg K. C., S. Lötters, B. P. Noonan & M. Veith: Evolution of color and pattern polymorphism in the Dyeing Poison Frog, Dendrobates tinctorius (Amphibia: Dendrobatidae).
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA

May 2006
Wollenberg K. C., S. Lötters, B. P. Noonan & M. Veith: Evolution of color and pattern polymorphism in the Dyeing Poison Frog, Dendrobates tinctorius (Amphibia: Dendrobatidae).
Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas, Austin, USA

June 2005
Wollenberg K. C., S. Lötters, B. P. Noonan & M. Veith: Evolution of color and pattern polymorphism in the Dyeing Poison Frog, Dendrobates tinctorius (Amphibia: Dendrobatidae).
Fifth World Congress of Herpetology (WCH5), Stellenbosch (Republic of South Africa)