Markus Friedrich

My interest in insects became obvious early on when I started culturing moth and butterfly caterpillars in my room as a boy. This, as it turns out, was the beginning of a career in comparative biology with a focus on insects, their eyes, their genomes, and genes:

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My lab explores the phylogenetic history as well as the developmental evolution of the Drosophila visual system integrating molecular phylogenetics, comparative development and genomic approaches. Our animal models include the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum and, as of most recently, the small carrion cave beetle Ptomaphagus hirtus.

October 2016