Sven Gippner

Vita:

2013-2018: Bachelor of Science in Biology, TU Braunschweig, Germany

2018-2020: Master of Science in Biology – with honors, TU Braunschweig, Germany

Thesis: Elucidating the evolutionary history of Dwarf geckos, genus Lygodactylus, based on a multigene phylogeny

2020-2021: Traineeship at the Natural History Museum of Braunschweig

September 2021-present: PhD student, Division of Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, TU Braunschweig

Research Interests:

• Evolutionary biogeography and comparative phylogenetics in reptiles and amphibians
• Hybrid zone analysis as an approach for species delimitation
• Speciation and taxonomy

Publications:

Gippner, S., Travers, S. L., Scherz, M. D., Colston, T. J., Lyra, M. L., Mohan, A. L., Multzsch, M., Nielsen, S. V., Rancilhac, L., Glaw, F., Bauer, A. M., Vences, M. (2021): A comprehensive phylogeny of dwarf geckos of the genus Lygodactylus, with insights into their systematics and morphological variation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 165, 107311. doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107311

Gippner, S., Preißler, K. (2019): Die Gelbfärbung des Feuersalamanders: Mögliche Einflüsse von Giftigkeit, Geschlecht und Lebensraum. Feldherpetologisches Magazin, 12: 3–9.

Preißler, K., Gippner, S., Lüddecke, T., Krause, E. T., Schulz, S., Vences, M., Steinfartz, S. (2019): More yellow more toxic? Sex rather than alkaloid content is correlated with yellow coloration in the fire salamander. Journal of Zoology, 308(4): 293–300. doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12676

Sanchez, E., Gippner, S., Vences, M., Preißler, K., Hermanski, I. J., Caspers, B. A., Krause, E. T., Steinfartz, S., Kastrup, F.-W. (2018): Automatic quantification of color proportions in dorsal black and yellow colored amphibians, tested on the fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra). Herpetology Notes, 11: 73–76.