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Kim Præbel is affiliated with the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong emphasis on Ecology and Molecular Biology as subfields. Their work also spans Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research interests extend through these main topics:

  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research

Kim Præbel has contributed to several scientific papers published in diverse venues. Some of the recent papers include:

  • Space-time dynamics in monitoring neotropical fish communities using eDNA metabarcoding, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Genome-resolved metagenomics suggests a mutualistic relationship between Mycoplasma and salmonid hosts, 2021, Communications Biology
  • Metabarcoding as a quantitative tool for estimating biodiversity and relative biomass of marine zooplankton, 2021, ICES Journal of Marine Science
  • Shared ancestral polymorphisms and chromosomal rearrangements as potential drivers of local adaptation in a marine fish, 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • DNA Metabarcoding of Deep-Sea Sediment Communities Using COI: Community Assessment, Spatio-Temporal Patterns and Comparison with 18S rDNA, 2020, Diversity

The frequent publication venues in which they have appeared include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ICES Journal of Marine Science

Collaborations with other researchers have been an important part of their work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Owen S. Wangensteen
  • Siv Nam Khang Hoff
  • Sissel Jentoft
  • Peter Rask Møller
  • Louis Bernatchez

In addition, Kim Præbel has published books, including a work released by TemaNord entitled Perspectives on implementation of eDNA methods in Northeast Atlantic marine monitoring (2023).

Best Publications

  • Ecological speciation in postglacial European whitefish: rapid adaptive radiations into the littoral, pelagic, and profundal lake habitats

    Kim Præbel;Rune Knudsen;Anna Siwertsson;Markku Karhunen

  • Space-time dynamics in monitoring neotropical fish communities using eDNA metabarcoding.

    Naiara Guimarães Sales;Owen Simon Wangensteen;Daniel Cardoso Carvalho;Kristy Deiner

  • From metabarcoding to metaphylogeography: separating the wheat from the chaff.

    Xavier Turon;Adrià Antich;Creu Palacín;Kim Præbel

  • Sympatric diversification as influenced by ecological opportunity and historical contingency in a young species lineage of whitefish

    Anna Siwertsson;Rune Knudsen;Kimmo K. Kahilainen;Kim Præbel

  • Genome-resolved metagenomics suggests a mutualistic relationship between Mycoplasma and salmonid hosts

    Jacob A. Rasmussen;Kasper R. Villumsen;David A. Duchêne;Lara C. Puetz

  • Facultative semelparity in capelin Mallotus villosus (Osmeridae)-an experimental test of a life history phenomenon in a sub-arctic fish

    Jørgen S. Christiansen;Kim Præbel;Sten I. Siikavuopio;James E. Carscadden

  • Metabarcoding as a quantitative tool for estimating biodiversity and relative biomass of marine zooplankton

    Elizaveta Ershova;Owen S. Wangensteen;Raphaelle Descoteaux;Coralie Marie Christine Barth-Jensen

  • Speciation reversal in European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus (L.)) caused by competitor invasion.

    Shripathi Bhat;Per-Arne Amundsen;Rune Knudsen;Karl Øystein Gjelland

  • From clear lakes to murky waters : tracing the functional response of high-latitude lake communities to concurrent ‘greening’ and ‘browning’

    B. Hayden;B. Hayden;C. Harrod;S.M. Thomas;Antti Eloranta

  • Invader population speeds up life history during colonization

    Per-Arne Amundsen;Erno Salonen;Teuvo Niva;Karl Øystein Gjelland

  • Environmental DNA: A New Low-Cost Monitoring Tool for Pathogens in Salmonid Aquaculture

    Lucy Peters;Lucy Peters;Sofie Spatharis;Maria Augusta Dario;Toni Dwyer

  • Parallel and non-parallel morphological divergence among foraging specialists in European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus).

    Anna Siwertsson;Rune Knudsen;Colin Ean Adams;Colin Ean Adams;Kim Præbel

  • Shared ancestral polymorphisms and chromosomal rearrangements as potential drivers of local adaptation in a marine fish.

    Hugo Cayuela;Quentin Rougemont;Martin Laporte;Claire Mérot

  • Advancing Research for the Management of Long-Lived Species: A Case Study on the Greenland Shark

    Jena E. Edwards;Elizabeth Hiltz;Franziska Broell;Peter G. Bushnell

  • Greenland Shark (Somniosus microcephalus) Stomach Contents and Stable Isotope Values Reveal an Ontogenetic Dietary Shift

    Julius Nielsen;Jørgen Schou Christiansen;Peter Grønkjær;Peter Bushnell

  • Polygenic selection drives the evolution of convergent transcriptomic landscapes across continents within a Nearctic sister species complex

    Clément Rougeux;Pierre-Alexandre Gagnaire;Kim Praebel;Ole Seehausen

  • DNA metabarcoding of deep-sea sediment communities using COI: community assessment, spatio-temporal patterns and comparison with 18S rDNA

    Sara Atienza;Magdalena Guardiola;Kim Præbel;Adrià Antich

  • Swimming energetics of the Barents Sea capelin (Mallotus villosus) during the spawning migration period

    Jane W. Behrens;Kim Præbel;John F. Steffensen

  • More Than Expected From Old Sponge Samples: A Natural Sampler DNA Metabarcoding Assessment of Marine Fish Diversity in Nha Trang Bay (Vietnam)

    Marta Turon;Carlos Angulo-Preckler;Adrià Antich;Kim Præbel

  • Discrete foraging niches promote ecological, phenotypic, and genetic divergence in sympatric whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus)

    Anna Siwertsson;Rune Knudsen;Kim Præbel;Colin Ean Adams

  • Interactions between invading benthivorous fish and native whitefish in subarctic lakes

    Brian Hayden;Tiina Holopainen;Per‐Arne Amundsen;Antti P. Eloranta

  • Novel biodiversity baselines outpace models of fish distribution in Arctic waters

    Jørgen S. Christiansen;Erik Bonsdorff;Ingvar Byrkjedal;Svein-Erik Fevolden

Frequent Co-Authors

Per-Arne Amundsen
Per-Arne Amundsen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Rune Knudsen
Rune Knudsen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Owen S. Wangensteen
Owen S. Wangensteen University of Barcelona
Louis Bernatchez
Louis Bernatchez Université Laval
Kimmo K. Kahilainen
Kimmo K. Kahilainen University of Helsinki
Colin E. Adams
Colin E. Adams University of Glasgow
Ian J. Winfield
Ian J. Winfield Lancaster University
Kathryn R. Elmer
Kathryn R. Elmer University of Glasgow
Michael Møller Hansen
Michael Møller Hansen Aarhus University
John F. Steffensen
John F. Steffensen University of Copenhagen

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