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Overview

Axel Janke is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focused on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, environmental science, and agricultural and biological sciences.

The scientist's work covers several main research topics including genomics and phylogenetic studies, genetic diversity and population structure, wildlife ecology and conservation, chromosomal and genetic variations, identification and quantification in food, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, and marine animal studies.

Key publication venues for Axel Janke include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 12 publications, Gigabyte with 5 publications, BMC Biology contributing 4 publications, the Journal of Heredity with 3 publications, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) also with 3 publications.

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations are Sven Winter (23 coauthored works), Raphael T. F. Coimbra (18 coauthored works), Menno de Jong (16 coauthored works), Magnus Wolf (13 coauthored works), and Carola Greve (12 coauthored works).

Notable recent papers include:

  • Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in raw and treated wastewater in Germany - Suitability for COVID-19 surveillance and potential transmission risks, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Whole-genome analysis of giraffe supports four distinct species, 2021, Current Biology
  • SambaR: An R package for fast, easy and reproducible population-genetic analyses of biallelic SNP data sets, 2021, Molecular Ecology Resources
  • Gene losses in the common vampire bat illuminate molecular adaptations to blood feeding, 2022, Science Advances

Their subfields of expertise include genetics, molecular biology, ecology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and plant science.

Best Publications

  • Mammalian mitogenomic relationships and the root of the eutherian tree.

    Ulfur Arnason;Joseph A. Adegoke;Kristina Bodin;Erik W. Born

  • Molecular analysis of wild and domestic sheep questions current nomenclature and provides evidence for domestication from two different subspecies

    Stefan Hiendleder;Bernhard Kaupe;Rudolf Wassmuth;Axel Janke

  • Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in raw and treated wastewater in Germany – Suitability for COVID-19 surveillance and potential transmission risks

    Sandra Westhaus;Frank Andreas Weber;Sabrina Schiwy;Volker Linnemann

  • Implementing and testing the multispecies coalescent model: A valuable paradigm for phylogenomics

    Scott V. Edwards;Zhenxiang Xi;Axel Janke;Brant C. Faircloth

  • The marsupial mitochondrial genome and the evolution of placental mammals.

    A. Janke;G. Feldmaier-Fuchs;W. K. Thomas;A. von Haeseler

  • Nuclear Genomic Sequences Reveal that Polar Bears Are an Old and Distinct Bear Lineage

    Frank Hailer;Verena E. Kutschera;Björn M. Hallström;Denise Klassert

  • Pinniped phylogeny and a new hypothesis for their origin and dispersal.

    Ulfur Arnason;Anette Gullberg;Axel Janke;Morgan Kullberg

  • The Complete Mitochondrial Genome of the Wallaroo (Macropus Robustus) and the Phylogenetic Relationship Among Monotremata, Marsupialia, and Eutheria

    Axel Janke;Xiufeng Xu;Ulfur Arnason

  • Multi-locus Analyses Reveal Four Giraffe Species Instead of One.

    Julian Fennessy;Tobias Bidon;Friederike Reuss;Vikas Kumar

  • Phylogenetic relationships among eutherian orders estimated from inferred sequences of mitochondrial proteins: instability of a tree based on a single gene.

    Ying Cao;Jun Adachi;Axel Janke;Svante Pääbo

  • Conflict among individual mitochondrial proteins in resolving the phylogeny of eutherian orders.

    Ying Cao;Axel Janke;Peter J. Waddell;Michael Westerman

  • The Complete Mitochondrial DNA Sequence of the Domestic Sheep ( Ovis aries ) and Comparison with the Other Major Ovine Haplotype

    Stefan Hiendleder;Heidrun Lewalski;Rudolph Wassmuth;Axel Janke

  • Marsupial relationships and a timeline for marsupial radiation in South Gondwana

    Maria A Nilsson;Ulfur Arnason;Peter B S Spencer;Axel Janke

  • Networks: expanding evolutionary thinking

    Eric Bapteste;Leo van Iersel;Axel Janke;Scot Kelchner

  • The complete mitochondrial genome of Alligator mississippiensis and the separation between recent archosauria (birds and crocodiles).

    A Janke;U Arnason

  • Molecular Timing of Primate Divergences as Estimated by Two Nonprimate Calibration Points

    Ulfur Arnason;Anette Gullberg;Axel Janke

  • The evolutionary history of bears is characterized by gene flow across species.

    Vikas Kumar;Fritjof Lammers;Tobias Bidon;Markus Pfenninger

  • Mitogenomic analyses provide new insights into cetacean origin and evolution

    Ulfur Arnason;Anette Gullberg;Axel Janke

  • Mitogenomic relationships of placental mammals and molecular estimates of their divergences.

    Ulfur Arnason;Joseph A. Adegoke;Joseph A. Adegoke;Anette Gullberg;Eric H. Harley

  • Pattern and timing of evolutionary divergences among hominoids based on analyses of complete mtDNAs

    Ulfur Arnason;Anette Gullberg;Axel Janke;Xiufeng Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulfur Arnason
Ulfur Arnason Lund University
Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Neil J. Gemmell
Neil J. Gemmell University of Otago
Michael Westerman
Michael Westerman La Trobe University
Leen Stougie
Leen Stougie Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Markus Pfenninger
Markus Pfenninger Goethe University Frankfurt
Masami Hasegawa
Masami Hasegawa The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Norihiro Okada
Norihiro Okada National Cheng Kung University
Takashi Gojobori
Takashi Gojobori King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Jennifer A. Marshall Graves
Jennifer A. Marshall Graves La Trobe University

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