Prof. Dr. Arne Ludwig

Scientist

Head "Selection of traits and domestication, wildlife forensics"

Department of Evolutionary Genetics

Tel: 0049 (0) 30 5168 - 312

Short curriculum vitae

Arne is adjunct Professor at the Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute at the Faculty of Life Sciences of the Humboldt University Berlin. Research and teaching are focused on animal genetics and wildlife forensics. He completed his dissertation in Breeding Biology and Molecular Genetics in 1997. Between 1997-2001 Arne was a post-doc at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries where he started with his research on the restoration of sturgeon in German rivers as well as on genetic methods for trade control of caviar. Both projects are running until today. Arne came to the IZW in 2002. He is a member of several scientific advisory boards and is the Co-Chair of the IUCN Sturgeon Specialist Group. Arne gives lectures on genetics and conservation genetics at several universities (Hildesheim, Madrid, Berlin).

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Projects

The origin of the last remaining wild horses

BioRescue - Advanced reproductive technologies for saving critically endangered mammals like the northern white rhinoceros

Control of caviar trade

Research interests

- Genetic adaptation and selection

- Conservation genetics

- Domestication

- Wildlife forensics

Selected publications

Librado P, Khan N, Fages A, (…), Ludwig A, (…), Wincker P, Outram A, Orlando L (2021): The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes. NATURE 598, 634-640. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04018-9.

Westbury MV, Hartmann S, Barlow A, Preick M, Ridush B, Nagel D, Rathgeber T, Ziegler R, Baryshnikov G, Sheng G, Ludwig A, Wiesel I, Dalen L, Bibi F, Werdelin L, Heller R, Hofreiter M (2020): Hyena palaeogenomes reveal a complex evolutionary history of cross-continental gene flow between spotted and cave hyena. SCI ADV 6, eaay0456. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aay0456

Fages A, Hanghøj K, Khan N, (…), Ludwig A, (…), Outram AK, Librado P, Orlando L (2019): Tracking Five Millennia of Horse Management with Extensive Ancient Genome Time Series. CELL 177, 1419-1435.e31. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2019.03.049

Gaunitz C, Fages A, Hanghøj K, Albrechtsen A, Khan N, Schubert M, Seguin-Orlando A, Owens IJ, Felkel S, Bignon-Lau O, de Barros Damgaard P, Mittnik A, Mohaseb AF, Davoudi H, Alquraishi S, Alfarhan AH, Al-Rasheid KAS, Crubézy E, Benecke N, Olsen S, Brown D, Anthony D, Massy K, Pitulko V, Kasparov A, Brem G, Hofreiter M, Mukhtarova G, Baimukhanov N, Lõugas L, Onar V, Stockhammer PW, Krause J, Boldgiv B, Undrakhbold S, Erdenebaatar D, Lepetz S, Mashkour M, Ludwig A, Wallner B, Merz V, Merz I, Zaibert V, Willerslev E, Librado P, Outram AK, Orlando L (2018): Ancient genomes revisit the ancestry of domestic and Przewalski’s horses. SCIENCE 360, 111-114. doi:10.1126/science.aao3297

Westbury MV, Hartmann S, Barlow A, Wiesel I, Leo V, Welch R, Parker DM, Sicks F, Ludwig A, Dalén L, Hofreiter M (2018): Extended and continuous decline in effective population size results in low genomic diversity in the world's rarest hyena species, the brown hyena. MOL BIOL EVOL 35, 1225-1237. doi:10.1093/molbev/msy037

Wutke S*, Sandoval-Castellanos E*, Benecke N, Döhle H-J, Friederich S, Gonzalez J, Hofreiter M, Lõugas L, Magnell O, Malaspinas A-S, Morales-Muñiz A, Orlando L, Reissmann M, Trinks A, Ludwig A (2018): Decline of genetic diversity in ancient domestic stallions in Europe. SCI ADV 4, eaap9691 (*contributed equally). doi:10.1126/sciadv.aap9691

Librado P, Gamba C, Gaunitz C, Der Sarkissian C, Pruvost M, Albrechtsen A, Fages A, Khan N, Schubert M, Jagannathan V, Serres-Armero A, Kuderna LFK, Povolotskaya IS, Seguin-Orlando A, Lepetz S, Neuditschko M, Thèves C, Alquraishi S, Alfarhan AH, Al-Rasheid K, Rieder S, Samashev Z, Francfort H-P, Benecke N, Hofreiter M, Ludwig A, Keyser C, Marques-Bonet T, Ludes B, Crubézy E, Leeb T, Willerslev E, Orlando L (2017): Ancient genomic changes associated with domestication of the horse. SCIENCE 356, 442-445. doi:10.1126/science.aam5298

Sandoval-Castellanos E, Wutke S, Gonzalez-Salazar C, Ludwig A (2017): Coat colour adaption of post-glacial horses to increasing forest vegetation. NAT ECOL EVOL 1, 1816–1819. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0358-5

Last updated on November 5th, 2021.