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PD Dr. Arne Ludwig

 

Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17
10315 Berlin
phone:   (030) 5168 312
fax:        (030) 5126 104
mail:      ludwig@izw-berlin.de

  

 

 

 

Curriculum vitae

1988 - 1993

Study of Animal Breeding and Genetics at the Humboldt-University Berlin

1991 - 1993

Tutor at the Museum of Natural History Berlin (Laboratory for Evolutionary Biology)

 

 

1993 - 1996

PhD student (NaFöG scholarship) at the Museum of Natural History Berlin (Institute of Systematic Zoology)

1993 - 1994

Research stay at the WIT`s University Johannesburg, SA, Department of Zoology

 

 

1997

Dissertation in Animal Genetics

1997 - 2001

Scientist at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries Berlin

 

 

seit 2002

Senior scientist at the Leibniz-Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research

 

 

2005

Habilitation in Genetics

since 2005

Lecturer for Genetics at the Humboldt-University Berlin

 

Additional information

 

Selected Publications Since 2000

PRUVOST, M., R. BELLONE, N. BENECKE, E. SANDOVAL-CASTELLANOS, M. CIESLAK, T. KUZNETSOVA, A. MORALES-MUŃIZ,  T. O’CONNOR, M. REISSMANN, M. HOFREITER, A. LUDWIG (2011): Genotypes of pre-domestic horses match phenotypes painted in Paleolithic works of cave art. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA: 108: 18626-18630.  

CIESLAK, M., M. REISSMANN, M. HOFREITER, A. LUDWIG (2011): Colours of domestication. Biological Reviews 86: 885-899.

LUDWIG, A.; PRUVOST, M.; REISSMANN, M.; BENECKE, N.; BROCKMANN, G. A.; CASTANOS, P.; CIESLAK, M.; LIPPOLD, S.; LLORENTE, L.; MALASPINAS, A.-S.; SLATKIN, M.; HOFREITER, M. (2009): Coat color variation at the beginning of horse domestication. Science 324: 485.

LUDWIG, A., U. ARNDT, S. LIPPOLD, N. BENECKE, L. DEBUS, T.L. KING & S. MATSUMURA (2008): Tracing the first steps of American sturgeon pioneers in Europe. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8: 221.

LUENSER, K. & A. LUDWIG (2005): Variability and evolution of bovine beta-defensin genes. Genes and Immunity 6: 115-122.

LUDWIG, A., L. CONGIU, C. PITRA, J. FICKEL, J. GESSNER, F. FONTANA, T. PATARNELLO & L. ZANE (2003): Nonconcordant evolutionary history of maternal and paternal lineages in Adriatic sturgeon. Molecular Ecology 12: 3253-3264.

LUDWIG, A., L. DEBUS, D. LIECKFELDT, I. WIRGIN, N. BENECKE, I. JENNECKENS, P. WILLIOT, J. R. WALDMAN & C. PITRA (2002): When the American sea sturgeon swam east. Nature 419: 447 - 448.

LUDWIG, A., N. M. BELFIORE, C. PITRA, V. SVIRSKY & I. JENNECKENS (2001): Genome duplication events and functional reduction of ploidy levels in sturgeon (Acipenser, Huso and Scaphirhynchus). Genetics 158: 1203-1215.

JENNECKENS, I., J.N. MEYER, L. DEBUS, C. PITRA & A. LUDWIG (2000): Evidence of mitochondrial DNA clones of Siberian sturgeon, Acipenser baerii, within Russian sturgeon, Acipenser gueldenstaedtii, caught in the River Volga. Ecology Letters 3: 503-508.

LUDWIG, A., B. MAY, L. DEBUS & I. JENNECKENS (2000): Heteroplasmy in the mtDNA control region of sturgeon (Acipenser, Huso and Scaphirhynchus). Genetics 156: 1933-1947.  

 

Complete list of publications and talks (November 2011)