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Ecology and Evolution
Switzerland
2025

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
99
Citations
34080
World Ranking
296
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Jan Pawlowski is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland and has a research focus primarily in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans across several interdisciplinary fields including Ecology, Molecular Biology, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Identification and Quantification in Food

Jan Pawlowski has authored papers with various collaborators and frequently co-authors with:

  • Maria Holzmann
  • Andrew J. Gooday
  • Laure Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil
  • Tristan Cordier
  • Inès Barrenechea Angeles

Their research outputs have appeared extensively in established venues such as:

  • Molecular Ecology
  • ARPHA Conference Abstracts
  • Scientific Reports
  • European Journal of Protistology
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Recent publications include:

  • "Environmental DNA: What's behind the term? Clarifying the terminology and recommendations for its future use in biomonitoring" (2020) in Molecular Ecology
  • "Ecosystems monitoring powered by environmental genomics: A review of current strategies with an implementation roadmap" (2020) in Molecular Ecology
  • "Expanding ecological assessment by integrating microorganisms into routine freshwater biomonitoring" (2020) in Water Research
  • "Environmental DNA metabarcoding for benthic monitoring: A review of sediment sampling and DNA extraction methods" (2021) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Environmental DNA for biomonitoring" (2021) in Molecular Ecology

Jan Pawlowski has also contributed to book publications, including:

  • "A practical guide to DNA-based methods for biodiversity assessment" (2021), published by Pensoft Publishers
  • "A Next-Generation of Biomonitoring to Detect Global Ecosystem Change" (2020), published by Frontiers Media

Best Publications

  • The Protist Ribosomal Reference database (PR2): a catalog of unicellular eukaryote Small Sub-Unit rRNA sequences with curated taxonomy

    Laure Guillou;Dipankar Bachar;Stéphane Audic;David Bass

  • The revised classification of eukaryotes

    Sina M. Adl;Sina M. Adl;Alastair G. B. Simpson;Christopher E. Lane;Julius Lukeš

  • Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes

    Sina M. Adl;David Bass;David Bass;Christopher E. Lane;Julius Lukes;Julius Lukes

  • The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing

    Patrick J. Keeling;Patrick J. Keeling;Fabien Burki;Heather M. Wilcox;Bassem Allam

  • CBOL Protist Working Group: Barcoding Eukaryotic Richness beyond the Animal, Plant, and Fungal Kingdoms

    Jan Wojciech Pawlowski;Stéphane Audic;Sina Adl;David Bass

  • The future of biotic indices in the ecogenomic era: Integrating (e)DNA metabarcoding in biological assessment of aquatic ecosystems

    Jan Pawlowski;Mary Kelly-Quinn;Florian Altermatt;Laure Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil

  • Patterns of Rare and Abundant Marine Microbial Eukaryotes

    Ramiro Logares;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;David Bass;Lucie Bittner;Lucie Bittner;Lucie Bittner

  • First insights into the biodiversity and biogeography of the Southern Ocean deep sea

    Angelika Brandt;Andrew J. Gooday;Simone N. Brandão;Saskia Brix

  • Phylogenomics Reshuffles the Eukaryotic Supergroups

    Fabien Burki;Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi;Marianne Minge;Åsmund Skjæveland

  • Molecular evidence of cryptic speciation in planktonic foraminifers and their relation to oceanic provinces.

    C de Vargas;R Norris;L Zaninetti;Stuart l Gibb

  • DNA metabarcoding-Need for robust experimental designs to draw sound ecological conclusions.

    Lucie Zinger;Aurélie Bonin;Inger G. Alsos;Miklós Bálint

  • Marine protist diversity in European coastal waters and sediments as revealed by high-throughput sequencing

    Ramon Massana;Angélique Gobet;Angélique Gobet;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;David Bass;David Bass

  • New supraordinal classification of Foraminifera: Molecules meet morphology

    Jan Pawlowski;Maria Holzmann;Jarosław Tyszka

  • Molecular phylogeny, evolutionary rates, and divergence timing of the symbiotic dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium

    Xavier Pochon;Juan I. Montoya-Burgos;Benoit Stadelmann;Jan Pawlowski

  • High genetic diversity and relative specificity among Symbiodinium-like endosymbiotic dinoflagellates in soritid foraminiferans

    X. Pochon;J. Pawlowski;L. Zaninetti;R. Rowan

  • Morphological distinction of molecular types in Ammonia – towards a taxonomic revision of the world’s most commonly misidentified foraminifera

    Bruce W. Hayward;Maria Holzmann;Hugh R. Grenfell;Jan Pawlowski

  • Phylogenomics reveals a new 'megagroup' including most photosynthetic eukaryotes.

    Fabien Burki;Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi;Jan Pawlowski

  • The evolution of early Foraminifera.

    Jan Pawlowski;Maria Holzmann;Cédric Berney;José Fahrni

  • Accurate multiplexing and filtering for high-throughput amplicon-sequencing

    Philippe Esling;Philippe Esling;Franck Lejzerowicz;Jan Pawlowski

  • The twilight of Heliozoa and rise of Rhizaria, an emerging supergroup of amoeboid eukaryotes

    Sergey I. Nikolaev;Cédric Berney;José F. Fahrni;Ignacio Bolivar

  • Article Patterns of Rare and Abundant Marine Microbial Eukaryotes

    Ramiro Logares;David Bass;Lucie Bittner;Christophe Boutte

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Gooday
Andrew J. Gooday National Oceanography Centre
Thorsten Stoeck
Thorsten Stoeck Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Florian Altermatt
Florian Altermatt University of Zurich
Agnès Bouchez
Agnès Bouchez Université Savoie Mont Blanc
David Bass
David Bass Natural History Museum
Fabrice Not
Fabrice Not Roscoff Marine Station
Micah Dunthorn
Micah Dunthorn University of Oslo
Florian Leese
Florian Leese University of Duisburg-Essen
Lucie Bittner
Lucie Bittner Université Paris Cité
Patrick J. Keeling
Patrick J. Keeling University of British Columbia

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