Dagmar Frisch

The paper tests local adaptation in Arctic asexual Daphnia using respiration rates and genome sequencing, finding two genetic clusters with distinct metabolic adaptations to oxygen environments.

The paper introduces a protocol to quantify DNA damage in individual dormant eggs using the comet assay, showing its effectiveness for assessing DNA integrity in sedimentary archives.

This study compares the evolutionary trajectories of two Daphnia pulicaria populations in lakes with different environmental histories using resurrection ecology and SNP genotyping, finding divergent patterns of selection and gene-environment correlations.

The paper develops and evaluates a whole genome amplification workflow for historical Daphnia eggs, achieving sufficient DNA for sequencing and revealing mitochondrial genome coverage from over 300-year-old samples.