The NatSciCol research group promotes and enhances collection-based research at the Arctic University Museum of Norway. We employ technological and methodological advances that increase our ability to obtain data from specimens. We enable efficient curation and preservation, and improved accessibility of the museum collections to both the research community and the public.
Dominiak, P., Stur, E. & Szadziewski, R. 2024. Rediscovered after half a century – a new record of Dasyhelea erici Havelka, 1978 in Europe (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Norwegian Journal of Entomology 71, 201–207.
Elvebakk A. & Bjerke J.W. 2024. Papaver recircumscribed: A review of neighbouring Papaveraceae genera, including Afropapaver nom. & stat. nov. and Oreomecon, a large, arctic-alpine genus. PhytoKeys 248: 105–188. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.248.121011.
Szadziewski R., Dominiak P., Rumišek M., Neinhuis C., Wanke S. & Rupp T. 2024. Predatory midges of the genus Schizohelea Kieffer, 1917 in Europe and North Africa (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa 5514 (2), 169-187. https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5514.2.5
Szadziewski R., Blatrix R., Dominiak P. 2024. A new species of Dasyhelea Kieffer, 1911 (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) visiting flowers of Aristolochia in France. Polish Journal of Entomology 93(1), 17-22. https://pje-journal.com/resources/html/article/details?id=625016
Wernström, J.V., Bergman, S., Hembrom, A.A., Dinevik, H., Henriksen, J., Aga, K.G., Broms, F., Pitusi, V. and Altenburger, A., 2024. Cruise report HHUMLT24: Longyearbyen–Tromsø, July 3–10, 2024. Septentrio Reports, (1).
Calvet, N., Bluhm, B. A., Yoccoz, N. G., & Altenburger, A. (2024). Shifting invertebrate distributions in the Barents Sea since pre-1900. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11, 1421475.
Högström, A.E.S., De aller minste fossilene forteller om istida ved dyrelivets begynnelse. Geonytt 2024 ;Volum 29.(1) s. 9-10
Fromm, Bastian; Sorger, Thomas. Rapid adaptation of cellular metabolic rate to the MicroRNA complements of mammals and its relevance to the evolution of endothermy. iScience 2024 ;Volum 27.(2)
Duncan, Rebecca J.; Nielsen, Daniel; Søreide, Janne; Varpe, Øystein; Tobin, Mark J.; Pitusi, Vanessa; Heraud, Philip; Petrou, Katherina. Biomolecular profiles of Arctic sea-ice diatoms highlight the role of under-ice light in cellular energy allocation. ISME Communications 2024
Altenburger, Andreas; Nylund, Per helge; Hatteng, Bjørn; Dahlen, Håkon; Rämä, Heini Emilia; Lennert, Ann Eileen; Hansen, Christel Slettli; Pitusi, Vanessa; Wernström, Joel Vikberg. Tareskogen - Havets Oase / The Kelp Forest - Oasis of the Ocean. [Kunstnerisk og museal presentasjon] Museum Exhibition. UiT the Arctic University of Norway; Trosmø. 2024-01-24 - 2024-11-30
Yu, Daqi; Ren, Yandong; Uesaka, Masahiro; Beavan, Alan; Muffato, Matthieu; Shen, Jieyu; Li, Yongxin; Sato, Iori; Wan, Wenting; Clark, James; Keating, Joseph; Carlisle, Emily; Dearden, Richard; Giles, Sam; Randle, Emma; Sansom, Robert; Feuda, Roberto; Fleming, James Frederick; Sugahara, Fumiaki; Cummins, Carla; Patricio, Mateus; Akanni, Wasiu; D'Aniello, Salvatore; Bertolucci, Christiano; Irie, Naoki; Alev, Cantas; Sheng, Guojun; de Mendoza, Alex; Maeso, Ignacio; Irimia, Manuel; Fromm, Bastian; Peterson, Kevin J; Das, Sabyasachi; Hirano, Masayuki; Rast, Jonathan P; Cooper, Max; Paps, Jordi; Pisani, Davide; Kuratani, Shigeru; Martin, Fergal J.; Wang, Wen; Donoghue, Philip C J; Zhang, Yong E.; Pascual-Anaya, Juan. Hagfish genome elucidates vertebrate whole-genome duplication events and their evolutionary consequences. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2024
Agić, H., Jensen, S., Meinhold, G., Högström, A.E.S., Ebbestad, J.O.R., Høyberget, M. Palacios, T. & Taylor, W.L., 2023; Life through an Ediacaran glaciation: shale- and diamictite-hosted organic-walled microfossil assemblages from the late Neoproterozoic of the Tanafjorden area, northern Norway. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111956
Kjærandsen, Jostein; Kerr, Peter H.; Lindemann, Jon Peder; Kurina, Olavi. When details matter: Integrative revision of Holarctic Coelophthinia Edwards (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), including mapping of its mitogenome, leads to the description of four new pseudocryptic species. Biodiversity Data Journal 2023 ;Volum 11.
Høye, Eirik; Dagenborg, Vegar Johansen; Kristensen, Annette Torgunrud; Lund-Andersen, Christin; Fretland, Åsmund Avdem; Lorenz, Susanne; Edwin, Bjørn von Gohren; Hovig, Eivind; Fromm, Bastian; Inderberg, Else Marit; Greiff, Victor; Ree, Anne Hansen; Flatmark, Kjersti. T cell receptor repertoire sequencing reveals chemotherapy-driven clonal expansion in colorectal liver metastases. GigaScience 2023 ;Volum 12. s. -
Nikola Burdíková, David Kaspřák, Jostein Kjærandsen, Andrea Špalek Tóthová, Jan Ševčík 2023. Molecular phylogeny of the fungus gnat subfamilies Sciophilinae and Leiinae (Mycetophilidae), with notes on Sciaroidea incertae sedis (Diptera: Bibionomorpha). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad176
Marmol-Sanchez, Emilio, Bastian Fromm, Nikolay Oskolkov, Zoe Pochon, Panagiotis Kalogeropoulos, Eli Eriksson, Inna Biryukova et al. (2023). Historical RNA expression profiles from the extinct Tasmanian tiger. Genome Research. doi: 10.1101/gr.277663.123
Karl Frafjord. Verdens nordligste bestand av flaggermus. Fauna 2023
Maria, Garcia-Portela; Moestrup, Øjvind; Daugbjerg, Niels; Altenburger, Andreas; Lundholm, Nina. Studies on the complex Warnowiaceae (Dinophyceae) I. Lohmann’s Pouchetia parva refound and renamed Nematodinium parvum comb. nov. (= Warnowia parva). Phycologia 2023 ;Volum 62.(5) s. 421-435
Högström, A.E.S, Ebbestad, Jan Ove R.; Høyberget, Magne. En mark med potensial - kunsten å sette grenser. Geonytt 2023 s. 18-22
Vikberg Wernström, Joel; Slater, Ben J; Sørensen, Martin V; Crampton, Denise; Altenburger, Andreas. Geometric morphometrics of macro- and meiofaunal priapulid pharyngeal teeth provides a proxy for studying Cambrian “tooth taxa”. Zoomorphology 2023 ;Volum 142. s. 411-421
Jenike, Ana E.; Jenike, Katharine M.; Peterson, Kevin J.; Fromm, Bastian; Halushka, Marc K. Direct observation of the evolution of cell-type-specific microRNA expression signatures supports the hematopoietic origin model of endothelial cells. Evolution & Development 2023 ;Volum 25.(3) s. 226-239
Dominiak, Patrycja & Salmela, Jukka 2023. Dasyhelea atrata Wirth, 1952 (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae), a new species to the fauna of Finland and Norway, with notes about synonymy. Norwegian Journal of Entomology.
Umu, Sinan Ugur; Paynter, Vanessa Molin; Trondsen, Håvard; Buschmann, Tilo; Rounge, Trine Ballestad; Peterson, Kevin J.; Fromm, Bastian. Accurate microRNA annotation of animal genomes using trained covariance models of curated microRNA complements in MirMachine. Cell Genomics 2023 ;Volum 3:100348.(8) s. 1-15
Dominiak, Patrycja & Borkent, Art 2023. A new species of Dasyhelea (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), mining the leaves of the floating fern Salvinia minima Baker. Journal of Natural History.
Rukke, Bjørn Arne; Querner, Pascal; Hage, Morten; Steinert, Mari; Kaldager, Marianne; Sømhovd, Astrid; Dominiak, Patrycja; Garrido, Mónica; Hansson, Tone; Aak, Anders 2023. Insecticidal gel bait for the decimation of Ctenolepisma longicaudatum (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae) populations in libraries, museums, and archives. Journal of Cultural Heritage.
Espinel Velasco, Nadjejda; Gawinski, Christine; Kohlbach, Doreen; Pitusi, Vanessa; Graeve, Martin; Hop, Haakon. Interactive effects of ocean acidification and temperature on oxygen uptake rates in Calanus hyperboreus nauplii. Frontiers in Marine Science 2023 ;Volum 10.
Kurina, Olavi; Kjærandsen, Jostein; Kirik, Heli; Hadbavná, Dominika; Dénes, Anna; Oboňa, Jozef; Manko, Peter. On the identity and distribution of the rare Rymosia tolleti Burghele-Balacesco, 1965 (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) encountered in European caves. Check List 2023 ;Volum 19.(3) s. 381-389
Dominiak, Patrycja & Szadziewski, Ryszard. 2023. Taxonomic status of two European sibling and barcode-sharing species of Brachypogon Kieffer, 1899 (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa.
Pitusi, Vanessa; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf; Søreide, Janne. Temporal and spatial variability of sympagic metazoans in a high-Arctic fjord, Svalbard. Frontiers in Marine Science 2023 ;Volum 10.
Joel Vikberg Wernström, Ben J. Slater, Martin V. Sørensen, Denise Crampton, Andreas Altenburger: Geometric morphometrics of macro-and meiofaunal priapulid pharyngeal teeth provides a proxy for studying Cambrian “tooth taxa”. Zoomorphology. 12 August 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-023-00617-4
Gonzalo A. Collado, Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador, Marcela Vidal, Fernanda P. Aravena, Vannia Delgado, Cristian Torres-Díaz: Distribution, conservation status and proposed measures for preservation of Radiodiscus microgastropods in Chile. PeerJ 10. January 2023 DOI
Joel Vikberg Wernström, Ludwik Gasiorowski, Andreas Helmut Hejnol: Brachiopod and mollusc biomineralisation is a conserved process that was lost in the phoronid–bryozoan stem lineage. EVODEVO 19. September 2022 ARKIV / DOI
Art Borkent, Patrycja Dominiak, Florentina Díaz: An Update and Errata for the Catalog of the Biting Midges of the World (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa 2022 ARKIV / DOI
Teodoro Palacios, Anette Högström, Sören Jensen, Jan Ove R. Ebbestad, Heda Agić, Magne Høyberget, Guido Meinhold, Wendy L. Taylor: Organic-walled microfossils from the Kistedalen Formation, Norway: acritarch chronostratigraphy of the Baltic Miaolingian and evolutionary trends of placoid acritarchs. Papers in Palaeontology 2022 https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1457
Tomas Roslin, Panu Somervuo, Mikko Pentinsaari, Paul D. N. Hebert, Jireh Agda, Petri Ahlroth, Perttu Anttonen, Jouni Aspi, Gergin Blagoev, Santiago Blanco, Dean Chan, Tom Clayhills, Jeremy deWaard, Stephanie deWaard, Tyler Elliot, Riikka Elo, Sami Haapala, Eero Helve, Jari Ilmonen, Petri Hirvonen, Chris Ho, Juhani Itämies, Vladislav Ivanov, Jevgeni Jakovlev, Aino Juslén, Reijo Jussila, Jere Kahanpää, Lauri Kaila, Jari-PekkaKaitila, Ari Kakko, Iiro Kakko, Ali Karhu, Sami Karjalainen, Jostein Kjaerandsen, Janne Koskinen, Erkki M. Laasonen, Leena Laasonen, Erkka Laine, Petri Lampila, Valerie Levesque-Beaudin, Liuqiong Lu, Meri Lähteenaro, Pekka Majuri, Sampsa Malmberg, Ramya Manjunath, Petri Martikainen, Jaakko Mattila, Jaclyn McKeown, Petri Metsälä, Margarita Miklasevskaja, Meredith Miller, Renee Miskie, Arto Muinonen, Veli-MattiMukkala, Suresh Naik, Nadia Nikolova, Kari Nupponen, Otso Ovaskainen, Ika Österblad, Lauri Paasivirta, Timo Pajunen, Petri Parkko, Juho Paukkunen, Ritva Penttinen, Kate Perez, Jaakko Pohjoismäki, Sean Prosser, Martti Raekunnas, Miduna Rahulan, Meeri Rannisto, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Pekka Raukko, Aki Rinne, Teemu Rintala, Susana Miranda Romo, Jukka Salmela, Juha Salokannel, Riitta Savolainen, Leif Schulman, Pasi Sihvonen, Dina Soliman, Jayme Sones, Claudia Steinke, Gunilla Ståhls, Jukka Tabell, Mikko Tiusanen, Gergely Várkonyi, Eero J. Vesterinen, Esko Viitanen, Veli Vikberg, Matti Viitasaari, Jussi Vilen, Connor Warne, Catherine Wei, Kaj Winqvist, Evgeny Zakharov, Marko Mutanen. A molecular-based identification resource for the arthropods of Finland. Molecular Ecology Resources 2022 ARKIV / DOI
Patrycja Dominiak, Elisabeth Stur: New findings and an overall assessment of Norwegian biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Norwegian Journal of Entomology 2022
Lila Nath Sharma, B. Adhikari, M.F. Watson, B.B. Shrestha, E. Paudel, B. Karna, D. P. Rijal: Forest canopy resists plant invasions: a case study of Chromolaena odorata in Sal (Shorea robusta) forests of Nepal. Journal of Tropical Ecology 2022 DOI
Garrett, Steven; Becher, Hannes; Gussarova, Galina; dePamphilis, C. W.; Ness, R. W.; Gopalakrishnan, S.; Twyford, A.D. Pervasive Phylogenomic Incongruence Underlies Evolutionary Relationships in Eyebrights (Euphrasia, Orobanchaceae) Frontiers in Plant Science 2022 ARKIV / DOI
Guido Meinhold, Matthias Willbold, Volker Karius, Sören Jensen, Heda Agić, Jan Ove R. Ebbestad, Teodoro Palacios, Anette Högström, Magne Høyberget, Wendy L. Taylor: Rare earth elements and neodymium and strontium isotopic constraints on provenance switch and post-depositional alteration of fossiliferous Ediacaran and lowermost Cambrian strata from Arctic Norway. Precambrian Research 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2022.106845
Tingting Yu, Barna Páll-Gergely, Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador: Caenogastropoda and Stylommatophora (Gastropoda) from the mid-Miocene Zhangpu amber of East Asia. Palaeoworld 2022
Karl Frafjord: Ekkolokalisering og sosiale lyder hos nordflaggermus. Fauna 2022
Linn Kristin Novis, Sören Jensen, Magne Høyberget, Anette Högström: Trace fossils from the Upper Member of the Duolbagáisá Formation (Cambrian Series 2-Miaolingian), northern Norway, with the first diverse Cambrian record of Halimedides. Norwegian Journal of Geology 2022. https://dx.doi.org/10.17850/njg102-4-1
Jostein Kjærandsen: Rocetelion humerale (Zetterstedt, 1850) (Diptera, Keroplatidae) rediscovered in Norway after more than 100 years, with description of the larva and its habitat. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 14. December 2022 ARKIV
Angelika H.H. Renner, Rolf Gradinger, Andreas Altenburger, Pernille Amdahl, Karoline Barstein, Pedro Duarte et al.: JC3 Winter gaps cruise: Cruise Report. 2022 DATA
Tingting Yu, He Wang, Yanan Fang, Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador, Sha Li, Edmund A. Jarzembowski, Han Yu, Haichun Zhang: Non-marine gastropods from the Cretaceous–Paleogene transition in the Pingyi Basin, eastern China. Proceedings Geological Association 2022 DOI
Jostein Kjærandsen, Jevgeni Jakovlev, Alexei Polevoi, Jukka Salmela, Olavi Kurina: A Rarely Seen Taxonomic Revision with Immense Value for 41 Years and Counting: Reflections on the 1981 Monograph of Trichonta Winnertz, 1864 (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) by Raymond Gagné, with an Integrative Revision of the Trichonta Vulcani (Dziedzicki, 1889) Species Complex. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 2022 ARKIV / DOI
Alsos, Inger Greve; Rijal, Dilli Prasad; Ehrich, Dorothee; Karger, Dirk Nikolaus; Yoccoz, Nigel; Heintzman, Peter D.; Brown, Antony; Lammers, Youri; Pellissier, Loïc; Alm, Torbjørn; Bråthen, Kari Anne; Coissac, Eric; Merkel, Marie Føreid; Alberti, Adriana; Denoeud, France; Bakke, Jostein: Postglacial species arrival and diversity buildup of northern ecosystems took millennia. Science Advances 28. September 2022 ARKIV / DOI
Joel Vikberg Wernström, Anju Angelina Hembrom, Christel Slettli Hansen, Oleksandr Holovachov, Georg Brenneis, Elisabeth Zieger, Andreas Wanninger, Andreas Altenburger: Cruise Report HHUMTL22. Septentrio Reports 2022 DOI
Daniel caracanhas Cavallari, Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador: Calliostoma frumari García, 2007 is a junior synonym of Ancistrobasis costulata (Watson, 1879) (Gastropoda: Seguenziidae). Zootaxa 2022 DOI
Borkent, Art; Dominiak, Patrycja; Díaz, Florentina. An Update and Errata for the Catalog of the Biting Midges of the World (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa 2022. ISSN 1175-5326.s doi: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5120.1.3.
Kjærandsen, Jostein. Current State of DNA Barcoding of Sciaroidea (Diptera)— Highlighting the Need to Build the Reference Library. Insects 2022; Volum 13 (2). ISSN 2075-4450.s doi: 10.3390/insects13020147.
Rafael masson Rosa, Daniel caracanhas Cavallari, Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador: iNaturalist as a tool in the study of tropical molluscs. PLOS ONE 2022 ARKIV / DOI
Bastian Fromm, Xiangfu Zhong, Marcel Tarbier, Marc R. Friedländer, Michael Hackenberg: The limits of human microRNA annotation have been met. RNA: A publication of the RNA Society 2022 DOI
Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador, Tingting Yu: Reassessment of Asian Mesoneritina spp. (Gastropoda, Neritidae), with the description of a new genus and species from middle Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous research (Print) 2022 DOI
Elsebeth Thomsen. Tromsø Museum har målt jordens puls i 62 år (forelæsning med omvisning i Jordskjelvstasjonen). 150 års jubileet til museet 2022
Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador, Daniel caracanhas Cavallari, Douglas Rands, Barbara mizumo Tomotani: Publication practice in Taxonomy: Global inequalities and potential bias against negative results. PLOS ONE 2022 ARKIV / DOI
Zolotarov, Grygoriy; Fromm, Bastian; Legnini, Ivano; Ayoub, Salah; Polese, Gianluca; Maselli, Valeria; Chabot, Peter J.; Vinther, Jakob; Styfhals, Ruth; Seuntjens, Eve; Di Cosmo, Anna; Peterson, Kevin J.; Rajewsky, Nikolaus. MicroRNAs are deeply linked to the emergence of the complex octopus brain. Science Advances 2022 ARKIV / DOI
Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador, Camille Locatelli, Jos Lenaerts: Fossil Pupilloidea land snails from the Borgloon Formation (Early Oligocene, Belgium). Journal of Conchology 2022
Rafael masson Rosa, Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador, Larissa Teixeira, Marcos ricardo Bornschein, Daniel caracanhas Cavallari: The Rapid Expansion of the Jumping Snail Ovachlamys fulgens in Brazil. Diversity 2022 ARKIV / DOI
Høye, Eirik; Fromm, Bastian; Böttger, Paul H.M.; Domanska, Diana; Kristensen, Annette Torgunrud; Lund-Andersen, Christin; Abrahamsen, Torveig Weum; Fretland, Åsmund Avdem; Dagenborg, Vegar Johansen; Lorenz, Susanne; Edwin, Bjørn von Gohren; Hovig, Eivind; Flatmark, Kjersti. A comprehensive framework for analysis of microRNA sequencing data in metastatic colorectal cancer. NAR Cancer 2022 ARKIV / DOI
Gustavo Darrigran, Ignacio Agudo-Padrón, Pedro Baez, Carlos Belz, Franz Cardoso, Gonzalo A. Collado, Modesto Correoso, María Gabriela Cuezzo, Cristina Damborenea, Alejandra A. Fabres, Monica A. Fernandez, Suzete R. Gomes, Diego E. Gutiérrez Gregoric, Sergio Letelier, César Lodeiros, Sandra Ludwig, Maria Cristina Mansur, Samuel Narciso, Guido Pastorino, Pablo E. Penchaszadeh, Ana Carolina Peralta, Andrea Rebolledo, Alejandra Rumi, Rodrigo B. Salvador, Sonia Santos, Paula Spotorno, Silvana Carvalho Thiengo, Teofânia Vidigal & Alvar Carranza. Species movements within biogeographic regions: exploring the distribution of transplanted mollusc species in South America. Biological Invasions 2022 DOI
Aparicio-Puerta, Ernesto; Gómez-Martín, Cristina; Giannoukakos, Stavros; Medina, José María; Scheepbouwer, Chantal; García-Moreno, Adrián; Carmona-Saez, Pedro; Fromm, Bastian; Pegtel, Michiel; Keller, Andreas; Marchal, Juan Antonio; Hackenberg, Michael. sRNAbench and sRNAtoolbox 2022 update: accurate miRNA and sncRNA profiling for model and non-model organisms. Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) 2022 ARKIV / DOI
Barbara M. Tomotani, Rodrigo B. Salvador, Amandine J. M. Sabadel, Colin M. Miskelly, Julie C. S. Brown, Josette Delgado, Patrick Boussès, Yves Cherel, Susan M. Waugh & Sarah J. Bury. Extreme bill dimorphism leads to different but overlapping isotopic niches and similar trophic positions in sexes of the charismatic extinct huia. Oecologia 2022 DOI
Elsebeth Thomsen. Historien om Grønlands jernskatt. Oppdrag for kommunikasjonsavd ved UIT om Grønlands mineraler 2022
Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador: Phylogenetic position of African punctoid snails (Stylommatophora, Punctoidea, Trachycystinae). Taxonomy 2022 ARKIV / DOI
Fromm, Bastian; Høye, Eirik; Domanska, Diana; Zhong, Xiangfu; Aparicio-Puerta, Ernesto; Ovchinnikov, Vladimir; Umu, Sinan Ugur; Chabot, Peter J; Kang, Wenjing; Aslanzadeh, Morteza; Marmol-Sanchez, Emilio; Urgese, Gianvito; Johansen, Morten; Hovig, Eivind; Hackenberg, Michael; Friedländer, Marc R.; Peterson, Kevin. MirGeneDB 2.1: toward a complete sampling of all major animal phyla. Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) 2022; Volum 50 (D1). ISSN 0305-1048.s D204 - D210.s doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab1101
Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador, Fernanda Santos Silva, Maria Elina Bichuette: Phylogenetic position of the relict South American genus Idiopyrgus Pilsbry, 1911 (Gastropoda, Truncatelloidea), with the description of two new cave species. Zoosystematics and Evolution 2022 ARKIV / DOI
Peterson, Kevin; Beavan, Alan; Chabot, Peter J; McPeek, Mark A; Pisani, Davide; Fromm, Bastian; Simakov, Oleg. MicroRNAs as Indicators into the Causes and Consequences of Whole-Genome Duplication Events. Molecular Biology and Evolution (MBE) 2022; Volum 39 (1). ISSN 0737-4038.s doi: 10.1093/molbev/msab344.
Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador, Olaf Höltke, Bárbara L. Valentas-Romera, Michael W. Rasser: Fossil molluscs from the Middle Miocene of Öhningen, southwestern Germany. Folia Malacologica 2022 ARKIV / DOI
Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador, Fernanda Santos Silva, Daniel caracanhas Cavallari, Carlo Magenta Cunha, Maria Elina Bichuette: Cave-dwelling gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Brazil: state of the art and conservation. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 2022 ARKIV / DOI
Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador, Lorenzo G. O. Ravalo, Alan J. D. Tennyson: The rapid spread of the girdled snail Hygromia cinctella in New Zealand (Gastropoda: Helicoidea). Strombus 25. December 2022 ARKIV
Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador, Fernanda dos Santos Silva, Maria Elina Bichuette: New records of land-snail species from caves of Mato Grosso state, Midwest Brazil (Gastropoda, Neritimorpha and Stylommatophora). Check List 2022 ARKIV / DOI
Lindemann, Jon Peder; Søli, Geir Einar Ellefsen; Kjærandsen, Jostein. Revision of the Exechia parva group (Diptera: Mycetophilidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 2021; Volum 9. ISSN 1314-2836.s doi: 10.3897/BDJ.9.e67134.
Ebbestad, Jan Ove R.; Hybertsen, Frida; Högström, Anette; Jensen, Sören; Palacios, Teodoro; Taylor, Wendy L.; Agic, Heda; Høyberget, Magne; Meinhold, Guido. Distribution and correlation of Sabellidites cambriensis (Annelida?) in the basal Cambrian on Baltica. Geological Magazine 2021. ISSN 0016-7568.s doi: 10.1017/S0016756821001187.
Agić, Heda; Högström, Anette; Jensen, Sören; Ebbestad, Jan Ove R.; Vickers-Rich, Patricia; Hall, Michael; Matthews, Jack J.; Meinhold, Guido; Høyberget, Magne; Taylor, Wendy L.. Late Ediacaran occurrences of the organic-walled microfossils Granomarginata and flask-shaped Lagoenaforma collaris gen. et sp. nov.. Geological Magazine 2021. ISSN 0016-7568.s doi: 10.1017/S0016756821001096.
Magnussen, Trude; Johnsen, Arild; Kjærandsen, Jostein; Struck, Torsten H; Søli, Geir Einar Ellefsen. Molecular phylogeny of Allodia (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) constructed using genome skimming. Systematic Entomology 2021. ISSN 0307-6970.s 1 - 15.s doi: 10.1111/syen.12529.
Fromm, Bastian; Tarbier, Marcel; Smith, Oliver; Mármol-Sánchez, Emilio; Dalén, Love; Gilbert, M. Tom P.; Friedländer, Marc R. Ancient microRNA profiles of 14,300-yr-old canid samples confirm taxonomic origin and provide glimpses into tissue-specific gene regulation from the Pleistocene. RNA: A publication of the RNA Society 2021; Volum 27 (3). ISSN 1355-8382.s 324 - 334.s doi: 10.1261/rna.078410.120.
Ebbestad, Jan Ove R.; Hybertsen, Frida; Högström, Anette; Jensen, Sören; Palacios, Teodoro; Taylor, Wendy L.; Agic, Heda; Høyberget, Magne; Meinhold, Guido. Distribution and correlation of Sabellidites cambriensis (Annelida?) in the basal Cambrian on Baltica. Geological Magazine 2021. ISSN 0016-7568.s doi: 10.1017/S0016756821001187.
Thomsen, Elsebeth. Å se det store i det lille: En tollkasserers død. Ottar 2021; Volum 337 (4). ISSN 0030-6703.s 3 - 10.
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Is there one driving force of animal evolution that explains the immense diversity of life and can it also help us to understand the exceptional success of parasitic species that affect us?
The underlying and very strong feature of both processes seems in fact to be very small: microRNAs. Since the discovery that they are found in all animals and regulate important biological processes about 20 years ago, these tiny fine-tuners of cellular programs are among the most studied molecules ever. However, with more than 16,000 annual publications, the rapidly growing microRNA field became riddled with contradicting reports that hindered novel discoveries and applications. In the recent research of Dr. Bastian Fromm, this was addressed with the microRNA gene database MirGeneDB and the foundations to transform the microRNA field from a qualitative research area to the quantitative level, and ask fundamental questions, were laid.
In his TFS-project MIRevolution, Dr. Fromm and his group will use novel sequencing approaches, state of the art single cell experiments and take advantage of the unique biodiversity in Tromso, to deepen the understanding of animal evolution, and parasites in particular. Using microRNAs, open questions in systematics and gene-regulation will be addressed. Facilitated by the ancient DNA laboratory at the Museum, and the Museums collection, the Fromm lab will further set out to use microRNAs in the novel research line paleotranscriptomics that, for the first time, enables gene expression studies in long-dead biological material.
My research interests are in marine invertebrate zoology, developmental biology, evolutionary morphology, protozoology, and eukaryote phylogeny.
I am particularly interested in the discovery and description of marine organismal diversity. I focus on the diversity and evolution of organisms, and the evolution of symbiotic interactions between algae and invertebrate animals and protists. My lab uses comparative molecular methods, as well as confocal laser scanning microscopy in order to study innovations in patterns of organismal diversity. Groups of particular interest are brachiopods, kinorhynchs, scalidophorans, cryptophytes, ciliates and dinoflagellates.
Are you interested in working on marine protists or meiofauna as a Marie-Curie postdoc? Please contact me, I am looking for candidates to apply for the new Horizon Europe - MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships program.
Paleotranscriptomics, Ancient DNA, Genomics, Evolutionary Biology, Forensic Science
MicroRNAs, Systematics, Evolution
I am particularly interested in analyzing environmental DNA of ancient to modern samples to reconstruct the history of individuals and ecosystems. I have a broad experience in applying metabarcoding approach in analyzing sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) to reconstruct past ecosystems. Our group has demonstrated use of traits in reconstructing past functional diversity of plants. We have been reconstructing past ecological networks of plants and animals using sedaDNA and aim to reconstruct whole ecosystem.
More recently, I have expanded the application of eDNA to other key components of an ecosystem such as cryptogams (bryophytes, lichens, mushrooms, and other micro fungi). By generating spatial and temporal dynamics of all plants and fungi in concert, I aim to understand how plants interacted in the past and their potential interactions in the future. Such consolidated information of spatial and temporal dynamics of different components of ecosystems will provide more precise plant species distribution models. That in turn is expected to provide management decisions in the face of global change.
My research focus on the ancient history of complex life. Based especially in the Precambrian-Cambrian deposits of Finnmark, northern Norway, we are looking at life and Earth history through comprehensive studies of key localities.
I also have a soft spot for unravelling the affinities of problematic fossil organisms, reconstructing their life histories and functional morphology.
My research interest is to study patterns of insect diversity in a taxonomic and biosystematic framework. I am further interested in the functional evolution of their various organs such as genitalia and wings and how they are used in mating-systems and for species recognition. My research is contributing to build a taxonomic knowledge base of the Holarctic fauna of fungus gnats (Diptera, Sciaroidea). With some 1000 Nordic species, fungus gnats play an important role in the ecosystem of the boreal taiga.
