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Çiğdem
Akın studies speciation and
phylogeography in water frog (Ranidae: Pelophylax) Turkey and the
neighboring lands. In her M.Sc. thesis, she studied mitochondrial DNA
polymorphism to reveal species boundaries at the Lakes Region (southwestern
Turkey). Her work so far revealed a far more complex situation than
known before, with haplotypes belonging to two separate forms occuring mixed
over a a large area in southwestern Turkey.
She is now working towards a Ph.D. degree and using
nuclear markers to understand the complex situation presented by water frogs
better.
Publications
Akın, Ç.,
Bilgin, C.C., Hotz, H., Beerli, P., Westaway, R., Ohst, T., Guex, G.-D.,
Litvinchuk, S.N., Uzzell, T., Bilgin, M., Plötner, J. (2009). Use of genetic
divergence in water frogs to constrain geodynamics and landscape development
in the eastern Mediterranean Region. Abstract: International Workshop on
Active Tectonic Studies and Earthquake Hazard Assessment in Syria and
Neighboring Countries, Arab School of Science and Technology –
Damascus – Syria, 17-19 November, 2009, pp, 92-93.
Akın,
Ç., Bilgin, M. & Bilgin, C.C. (2010) Discordance between ventral colour
and mtDNA haplotype in the water frog Rana (ridibunda) caralitana 1988
Arıkan. Amphibia-Reptilia 31(1): 9-20
Plötner, J., Uzzell, T.,
Beerli, P., Akın, Ç., Bilgin, C.C., Haefeli, C., Ohst, T., Köhler, F., Schreiber,
R., Guex, G., Litvinchuk, S.N., Westaway, R., Reyer, H. & Hotz, H. (in
press) Genetic Divergence and Evolution of Reproductive Isolation in Eastern
Mediterranean Water Frogs. In: Evolution in Action - Adaptive Radiations and
the Origins of Biodiversity (eds. Glaubrecht, M. & Schneider, H.)
Springer Verlag
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