current members
BAHECHAR HOGGA IlhamBURKI Fabien
CID Michaël
FAHRNI José
FONTAINE Delia
GUIARD Jacqueline
JAQUET Yannis
KUDRYARTSEV Alexander
LECROQ Béatrice
MONTOYA Juan
PAWLOWSKI Jan Wojciech
PILLET Loïc
WEYENETH Nicole
ex-members
BERNEY CédricHEGER Thierry
NIKOLAEV Sergey
POCHON Xavier
SCHMITZ Patrick
SINNIGER Frédéric
STADELMANN Benoit
PAWLOWSKI Jan Wojciech
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My major research interests relate to molecular evolution and ecology of Foraminifera, a group of typically shelled protists, ubiquitous in all marine habitats. Because of the extensive knowledge of foraminiferal fossil record, this group constitue an ideal model for study of evolutionary and ecological processes in time and space.
research themes
- Molecular systematics of Foraminifera
- Phylogenomics, micropaleontology, and molecular dating
- Updating the tree of life: large-scale sequencing of key protist taxa
- Phylogeny of Zoanthids
- Symbiodinium dinoflagellates in soritid Foraminiferans
recent publications (more)
2009
Pawlowski J, Burki F. 2009. Untangling the phylogeny of amoeboid protists. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol.; 56, 16-25.(pdf)
Pawlowski J, Gooday AJ. 2009. Precambrian biota: protistan origin of trace fossils?. Curr. Biol.; 19, R28-R30.
2008
Burki F, Shalchian-Tabrizi K, Pawlowski J. 2008. Phylogenomics reveals a new megagroup including most photosynthetic eukaryotes. Biology Letters; 4, 366-369.(pdf)
Fiore-Donno AM, Meyer M, Baldauf SL, Pawlowski J. 2008. Evolution of dark-spored Myxomycetes (slime-molds): Molecules versus morphology. Mol. phylogenet. Evol.; 46, 878-889.
Sinniger F, Reimer JD, Pawlowski J. 2008. Potential of DNA sequences to identify zoanthids (cnidaria: zoantharia). Zoolog. Sci.; 25, 1253-1260.
2007
Brandt A, Gooday AJ, Brandão SN, Brix S, Brökeland W, Cedhagen T, Choudhury M, Cornelius N, Danis B, De Mesel I, Diaz RJ, Gillan DC, Ebbe B, Howe JA, Janussen D, Kaiser S, Linse K, Malyutina M, Pawlowski J, Raupach M, Vanreusel A. 2007. First insights into the biodiversity and biogeography of the Southern Ocean deep sea. Nature; 447, 307-312.(Pubmed)
Burki F, Shalchian-Tabrizi K, Minge M, Skjæveland A, Nikolaev SI, Jakobsen KS, Pawlowski J. 2007. Phylogenomics reshuffles the eukaryotic supergroups. PLoS ONE; 2, e790.(Pubmed, pdf)
Longet D, Pawlowski J. 2007. Higher-level phylogeny of Foraminifera inferred from the RNA polymerase II (RPB1) gene. European Journal of Protistology; 43, 171-177.(Pubmed)
Pawlowski J, Fahrni J, Lecroq B, Longet D, Cornelius N, Excoffier L, Cedhagen T, Gooday AJ. 2007. Bipolar gene flow in deep-sea benthic foraminifera. Mol Ecol; 16, 4089-4096.(pdf)
Pochon X, Garcia-Cuetos L, Baker AC, Castella E, Pawlowski J. 2007. One-year survey of a single Micronesian reef reveals extraordinarily rich diversity of Symbiodinium types in soritid foraminifera. Coral Reefs; 26, 867-882.(pdf)