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Costas Tsigenopoulos

Contact Address

Institute of Marine Biology of Crete
P.O.Box 2214
Heraklion 71003
Crete, Greece.
Tel: +30 2810 337854
Fax: +30 2810 337820
Email: tsigeno@imbc.gr

Education

• 1994: B.Sc.,Biology, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

• 1996: D.E.A. Biologie de l'Evolution et Ecologie , Université Montpellier II Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc – Ecole Nationale Superieure Agronomique de Montpellier (ENSAM), Montpellier, France

• 1999: Ph.D. Biologie des Populations et Ecologie, Université Montpellier II Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, Montpellier.
  

Professional Experience

• 1999 to date. Participation in research projects carried out in the Department of Genetics and Molecular Biotechnology, IMBC: Genetic Diversity and Structure of Marine Organisms, Genetic improvement of Aquacultured Fish Species .

Current European Projects

• BRIDGING GENOMES: An integrated genomic approach toward genetic improvement of aquacultured fish species (BRIDGE-MAP / QLRT-2000-01797).

• Tools for the genetic improvement of sea bass. Construction and preliminary application of a medium density linkage and synteny map (BASSMAP / QLRT-2000-01701).

Selected publications

• Tsingenopoulos C. S. & Karakousis Y. 1996. Phylogenetic relationships of Leuciscus keadicus , an endemic cyprinid species from Greece, with other species of the genus Leuciscus . Folia Zoologica 45 : 87-93.
• Tsigenopoulos C. S. , Karakousis Y. & Berrebi P. 1999. The North Mediterranean Barbus lineage: phylogenetic hypotheses and taxonomic implications based on allozyme data. Journal of Fish Biology 54 (2): 267-286.
• Tsigenopoulos C. S. & Berrebi P . 2000. Molecular phylogeny of North Mediterranean freshwater barbs (genus Barbus : Cyprinidae) inferred from cytochrome b sequences: Biogeographic and systematic implications . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 14 (2): 165-179.
• Durand J. D., Tsigenopoulos C. S. , Unlü E. & Berrebi P. 2002. Phylogeny and biogeography of the family Cyprinidae in the Middle East inferred from cytochrome b DNA – Evolutionary significance of this region. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 22 (1): 91-100 .
• Tsigenopoulos C. S. , Kotlík P. & Berrebi P. 2002. Biogeography and pattern of gene flow among Barbus species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) inhabiting the Italian Peninsula and neighboring Adriatic drainages as revealed by allozyme and mitochondrial sequence data. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 75 (1): 83-99.
• Tsigenopoulos C. S. , Ráb P., Naran D. & Berrebi P . 2002 . Multiple origins of polyploidy in the phylogeny of southern African barbs (Cyprinidae) as inferred from mtDNA markers. Heredity 88 (6): 466-473.
• Kotlík P., Tsigenopoulos C. S. , Ráb P. & Berrebi P. 2002. Two new Barbus species from the Danube River basin, with redescription of B. petenyi (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Folia Zoologica 51 (3): 227-240.
• Berrebi P. & Tsigenopoulos C. S. 2002. Contribution des séquences mitochondriales à l'éclatement phylogénétique du genre polyploïde Barbus ( Téléostéen Cyprinidés). Implications biogéographiques. Biosystema 20 :49-56.
• Berrebi P. & Tsigenopoulos C. S. 2003. Phylogenetic organization of the genus Barbus sensu stricto: A review based on data using molecular markers. “The Freshwater Fishes of Europe. Vol. 5/II: Cyprinidae, Part II: Barbus ", pp. 11-22, P. Banarescu and N. G. Bogutskaya Eds., AULA-Verlag.
• Tsigenopoulos C.S. , Hellemans B., Chistiakov D.A., Libertini A., Kotoulas G. & Völckaert F. 2003. Eleven new microsatellites of the sea bass ( Dicentrarchus labrax L.). Molecular Ecology Notes 3 : 352-354.
• Tsigenopoulos C. S. , Durand J. D., Unlü E. & Berrebi P. 2003 . Rapid radiation of the Mediterranean Barbus species (Cyprinidae) after the Messinian salinity crisis of the Mediterranean Sea, inferred from mitochondrial phylogenetic analysis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 80 (2): 207-222