Forskning vid Uppsala universitet

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2021-12-31

Each branch of the tree of life includes a myriad of parasitic species but current research does not adequately represent their remarkable diversity. Today, entire parasitic groups have eluded characterization ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-07-01 till 2017-11-03

Brachiopods are amongthe first mineralized metazoans to appear in the fossil record, yet agreement about the phylogenetic relationships among these early forms is remarkably poor. While the brachiopod ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2014-01-01 till 2016-12-31

Orchids are collected widely in Asia Minor for use in the traditional product salep. Destructive harvesting and overexploitation of fragile populations has forced traders to tap into new resource areas ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2017-12-31

Det här projektet undersöker vilka miljöfaktorer som styr produktionen av matsvamp i västra Afrika. Matsvamp utgör ett viktigt tillskott till maten för stora delar av befolkningen och samlande och försäljning ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2020-12-31

Most of our timber producing trees are depending on a root associated symbiosis with fungi called ectomycorrhiza (ECM). ECM communities usually containing only a few stand forming trees but hundreds of ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2014-12-31

The aim of the project is to produce sequence data in order to address both long-standing and novel questions regarding the evolution of early land plants. Our three interrelated questions include i) a ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2014-01-01 till 2017-12-31

The eukaryote tree of life is a central paradigm in evolutionary biology. A new root for the eukaryote tree identifies the little known Discoba as one of its earliest branches. We have sequenced the genome ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2015-12-31

The impact of large-scale environmental alteration on mammalian biodiversity is poorly understood, especially in Australasia, where many native marsupial lineages are experiencing high rates of extinction ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2014-01-01 till 2016-12-31

Farmers in the Southern Tanzania have associated an unidentified macro-fungus with cashew tree wilting for more than three year by now. The fungus was first noted by cashew growers in Mtwara; then in their ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

The spread of farming practices has had a marked influence on how humans are distributed around the globe today. The expansion of Bantu-speaking farmers from west Africa to the whole of sub-Saharan Africa ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2017-12-31

In Tanzania, medicinal plants are an important source of primary healthcare. Molecular identification of plant material is an expressed critical interest for the research capacities at the Institute of ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2017-12-31

In Tanzania, medicinal plants are an important source of primary healthcare. Molecular identification of plant material is an expressed critical interest for the research capacities at the Institute of ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

The present project proposal employs high-throughput sequencing to assemble genomes and transcriptomes of several Bryophyte species in order to resolve long standing issues on the evolution of early land ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2021-12-31

The tree of life is a central paradigm in evolutionary biology. Our data strongly support the little known Excavata as a paraphyletic assemblage including the eariest branches of eukaryotes. This is a ...