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Filip Volckaert

Filip Volckaert

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
61
Citations
12596
World Ranking
2214
National Ranking
27

Overview

Filip Volckaert is a researcher affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium, with a focus on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans several subfields, including ecology, genetics, nature and landscape conservation, molecular biology, and global and planetary change.

Their research covers a variety of topics related to biodiversity and fish ecology, with significant attention to genetic diversity and population structure, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, and fish ecology and management studies. Additional areas of research include identification and quantification in food, microbial community ecology and physiology, marine and fisheries research, and parasite biology and host interactions.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Volckaert include Joost A. M. Raeymaekers, Bart Hellemans, Henrik Christiansen, Franz M. Heindler, and Quentin Jossart.

Volckaert's publications have appeared in several scientific venues, notably:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Marine Policy
  • International Journal for Parasitology
  • Journal of Food Composition and Analysis
  • Journal of Great Lakes Research

Recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Volckaert include:

  • Life in a drop: Sampling environmental DNA for marine fishery management and ecosystem monitoring, 2020, Marine Policy
  • Weak population structure and recent demographic expansion of the monogenean parasite Kapentagyrus spp. infecting clupeid fishes of Lake Tanganyika, East Africa, 2020, International Journal for Parasitology
  • Local perceptions on the state of the pelagic fisheries and fisheries management in Uvira, Lake Tanganyika, DR Congo, 2020, Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • Rapid and low-cost identification of common sole (Solea solea) in the field using a fast DNA isolation protocol and loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), 2023, Journal of Food Composition and Analysis
  • Complementarity and discriminatory power of genotype and otolith shape in describing the fine-scale population structure of an exploited fish, the common sole of the Eastern English Channel, 2020, PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • Microsatellites and their genomic distribution, evolution, function and applications : A review with special reference to fish genetics

    Dimitry A. Chistiakov;Dimitry A. Chistiakov;Bart Hellemans;Filip A.M. Volckaert

  • Pillars of Hercules: is the Atlantic–Mediterranean transition a phylogeographical break?

    Tomaso Patarnello;Filip A. M. J. Volckaert;Rita Castilho

  • European sea bass genome and its variation provide insights into adaptation to euryhalinity and speciation

    Mbaye Tine;Heiner Kuhl;Pierre-Alexandre Gagnaire;Bruno Louro

  • Rapid, local adaptation of zooplankton behavior to changes in predation pressure in the absence of neutral genetic changes

    C Cousyn;L De Meester;JK Colbourne;L Brendonck

  • Gene-associated markers provide tools for tackling illegal fishing and false eco-certification

    Einar E. Nielsen;Alessia Cariani;Alessia Cariani;Eoin Mac Aoidh;Gregory E. Maes

  • Quality control of refrigerated and cryopreserved semen using computer-assisted sperm analysis (CASA), viable staining and standardized fertilization in African catfish (Clarias gariepinus).

    Eugène Rurangwa;Filip Volckaert;Geert Huyskens;D E Kime

  • Panmixia in the European eel: a matter of time...

    Johan Dannewitz;Gregory E Maes;Leif Johansson;Håkan Wickström

  • A Microsatellite Linkage Map of the European Sea Bass Dicentrarchus labrax L.

    Dimitry A. Chistiakov;Bart Hellemans;Chris S. Haley;Andy S. Law

  • Widespread occurrence of the micro-organism Wolbachia in ants

    T. Wenseleers;F. Ito;S. Van Borm;R. Huybrechts

  • The catadromous European eel Anguilla anguilla (L.) as a model for freshwater evolutionary ecotoxicology: Relationship between heavy metal bioaccumulation, condition and genetic variability

    G Maes;J. A. M Raeymaekers;C Pampoulie;A Seynaeve

  • Phylogeography of the common goby, Pomatoschistus microps, with particular emphasis on the colonization of the Mediterranean and the North Sea.

    E S Gysels;B Hellemans;C Pampoulie;Filip A M Volckaert

  • Late glacial history of the cold-adapted freshwater fish Cottus gobio, revealed by microsatellites

    B Hanfling;Bart Hellemans;Filip Volckaert;Gr Carvalho

  • Divergent selection as revealed by P(ST) and QTL-based F(ST) in three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) populations along a coastal-inland gradient.

    Joost A. M. Raeymaekers;Jeroen K. J. Van Houdt;Maarten H. D. Larmuseau;Sarah Geldof

  • Hybridization and phylogeography of the Mozambique tilapia Oreochromis mossambicus in southern Africa evidenced by mitochondrial and microsatellite DNA genotyping

    María Eugenia D’Amato;María Eugenia D’Amato;Maria M. Esterhuyse;Ben C. W. van der Waal;D. Brink

  • Development of EST-SSR Markers by Data Mining in Three Species of Shrimp: Litopenaeus vannamei , Litopenaeus stylirostris , and Trachypenaeus birdy

    Franklin Pérez;Juan Ortiz;Mariuxi Zhinaula;Cesar Gonzabay

  • Marine invasion genetics: from spatio-temporal patterns to evolutionary outcomes

    Marc Rius;Xavier Turon;Giacomo Bernardi;Filip A. M. Volckaert

  • Analysis of the genetic structure of European eel (Anguilla anguilla) using microsatellite DNA and mtDNA markers

    Edgar Daemen;Tom Cross;Frans Ollevier;Filip Volckaert

  • ICES meets marine historical ecology: placing the history of fish and fisheries in current policy context

    Georg H. Engelhard;Georg H. Engelhard;Ruth H. Thurstan;Brian R. MacKenzie;Heidi K. Alleway

  • Evidence for isolation by time in the European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.).

    Gregory E. Maes;J. M. Pujolar;B. Hellemans;Filip A. M. Volckaert

  • Paleoclimatic history and vicariant speciation in the “sand goby” group (Gobiidae, Teleostei)☆

    Tine Huyse;Jeroen Van Houdt;Filip A.M. Volckaert

  • Timing of the population dynamics of bullhead Cottus gobio (Teleostei : Cottidae) during the Pleistocene.

    Filip Volckaert;B Hanfling;Bart Hellemans;Gr Carvalho

Frequent Co-Authors

Tine Huyse
Tine Huyse KU Leuven
Maarten P.M. Vanhove
Maarten P.M. Vanhove Hasselt University
Adelino V.M. Canario
Adelino V.M. Canario University of Algarve
Luca Bargelloni
Luca Bargelloni University of Padua
Dimitry A. Chistiakov
Dimitry A. Chistiakov Mount Sinai Hospital
Chris Haley
Chris Haley University of Edinburgh
Christian Sturmbauer
Christian Sturmbauer University of Graz
Jan Vanaverbeke
Jan Vanaverbeke Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences

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