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3456
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Overview

Martin J. Genner is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to the subfields of Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Molecular Biology, Aquatic Science, and Genetics.

The scientist has focused on a range of main topics in their work, including:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity

Recent publications by Martin J. Genner include:

  • Climate Change Drives Poleward Increases and Equatorward Declines in Marine Species, 2020, published in Current Biology
  • Meta-Fish-Lib: A generalised, dynamic DNA reference library pipeline for metabarcoding of fishes, 2021, published in Journal of Fish Biology
  • Invasive Nile tilapia dominates a threatened indigenous tilapia in competition over shelter, 2020, published in Hydrobiologia
  • Epigenetic divergence during early stages of speciation in an African crater lake cichlid fish, 2022, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Newly discovered cichlid fish biodiversity threatened by hybridization with non-native species, 2020, published in Molecular Ecology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Genner include:

  • George F. Turner
  • Asilatu Shechonge
  • Rupert A. Collins
  • Benjamin P. Ngatunga
  • Andrew D. Saxon

Common venues for their research publications are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Hydrobiologia, Environmental DNA, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Molecular Biology and Evolution.

Best Publications

  • Whole-genome sequences of Malawi cichlids reveal multiple radiations interconnected by gene flow

    Milan Malinsky;Hannes Svardal;Alexandra M. Tyers;Alexandra M. Tyers;Eric A. Miska;Eric A. Miska

  • Genomic islands of speciation separate cichlid ecomorphs in an East African crater lake.

    Milan Malinsky;Milan Malinsky;Richard J. Challis;Alexandra M. Tyers;Stephan Schiffels

  • Persistence of environmental DNA in marine systems.

    Rupert A. Collins;Owen S. Wangensteen;Eoin J. O’Gorman;Stefano Mariani

  • Long-term oceanographic and ecological research in the western English Channel

    Alan J. Southward;Olivia Langmead;Nicholas J. Hardman-Mountford;James Aiken

  • Age of Cichlids: New Dates for Ancient Lake Fish Radiations

    Martin J Genner;Ole Seehausen;Ole Seehausen;David H Lunt;Domino A Joyce

  • Non-specific amplification compromises environmental DNA metabarcoding with COI

    Rupert A. Collins;Judith Bakker;Judith Bakker;Owen S. Wangensteen;Owen S. Wangensteen;Ana Z. Soto

  • Consequences of climate-driven biodiversity changes for ecosystem functioning of North European rocky shores

    Stephen Hawkins;Heather Sugden;Nova Mieszkowska;Philippa Moore

  • Regional climatic warming drives long–term community changes of British marine fish

    Martin J. Genner;David W. Sims;Victoria J. Wearmouth;Emily J. Southall

  • Complex interactions in a rapidly changing world: responses of rocky shore communities to recent climate change

    S J Hawkins;Phillipa Moore;Michael Burrows;E Poloczanska

  • Continental Shelf-Wide Response of a Fish Assemblage to Rapid Warming of the Sea

    Stephen D. Simpson;Simon Jennings;Simon Jennings;Mark P. Johnson;Julia L. Blanchard;Julia L. Blanchard

  • Low-temperature-driven early spawning migration of a temperate marine fish

    David W. Sims;Victoria J. Wearmouth;Martin J. Genner;Alan J. Southward

  • Body size‐dependent responses of a marine fish assemblage to climate change and fishing over a century‐long scale

    Martin J. Genner;Martin J. Genner;David W. Sims;David W. Sims;Alan J. Southward;Georgina C. Budd

  • Detection of environmental change in a marine ecosystem--evidence from the western English Channel.

    Stephen J. Hawkins;Alan J. Southward;Martin J. Genner

  • Timing of squid migration reflects North Atlantic climate variability.

    David W. Sims;Martin J. Genner;Alan J. Southward;Stephen J. Hawkins

  • Climate change drives poleward increases and equatorward declines in marine species

    Reuben A. Hastings;Louise A. Rutterford;Louise A. Rutterford;Jennifer J. Freer;Jennifer J. Freer;Rupert A. Collins

  • Repeated colonization and hybridization in Lake Malawi cichlids

    Domino A. Joyce;Domino A. Joyce;David H. Lunt;Martin J. Genner;George F. Turner

  • The mbuna cichlids of Lake Malawi: a model for rapid speciation and adaptive radiation

    Martin J. Genner;George F. Turner

  • Ancestral Hybridization Facilitated Species Diversification in the Lake Malawi Cichlid Fish Adaptive Radiation.

    Hannes Svardal;Fu Xiang Quah;Milan Malinsky;Benjamin P Ngatunga

  • Molecular markers reveal spatially segregated cryptic species in a critically endangered fish, the common skate (Dipturus batis)

    Andrew M. Griffiths;David W. Sims;Stephen P. Cotterell;Aliya El Nagar

  • Future fish distributions constrained by depth in warming seas

    Louise A. Rutterford;Louise A. Rutterford;Louise A. Rutterford;Stephen D. Simpson;Simon Jennings;Mark P. Johnson

  • Assortative mating among rock‐dwelling cichlid fishes supports high estimates of species richness from Lake Malawi

    Madeleine J. H. Van Oppen;George F. Turner;Ciro Rico;Rosanna L. Robinson

Frequent Co-Authors

George F. Turner
George F. Turner Bangor University
Stephen J. Hawkins
Stephen J. Hawkins University of Southampton
David W. Sims
David W. Sims University of Southampton
Daniel F. R. Cleary
Daniel F. R. Cleary University of Aveiro
Eric A. Miska
Eric A. Miska University of Cambridge
Alan J. Southward
Alan J. Southward Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
Stephen D. Simpson
Stephen D. Simpson University of Exeter
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin University of Cambridge
Nova Mieszkowska
Nova Mieszkowska University of Liverpool
Michael T. Burrows
Michael T. Burrows Scottish Association For Marine Science

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