Simone Behrens-Chapuis

Ichthyology [13]

Tel: +49 228 9122-431

Fax: +49 228 9122-212

Mail: sichapuis [at] t-online.de

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Field of work

During my PhD project I focus on the freshwater fauna – fishes and macroinvertebrates – of the River Sieg (Germany) to evaluate potential advantages in taxa detection, taxonomic resolution and sample processing time when DNA barcoding approaches supplement stream monitoring routines.

Research interests

DNA barcoding, biodiversity monitoring, freshwater fauna, aquatic ecology, systematics and taxonomy, morphology

Further information

Expedition:

05/2010 – 08/2010

Expedition to Lake Matano, Soroako, Sulawesi (Indonesia). Collection of photospectrometic data for the M. Sc. thesis.

Working experience:

Since 2014

Research assistant in the GBOL-project

2011 – 2012

Research assistant in the section Ichthyology (georeferencing)

2008 – 2010

Student assistant in the section Ichthyology (digitalization of the fish collection)

Projects

2018

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Evaluating the efficiency of different DNA-barcoding approaches for routine stream monitoring tasks [17]

The focus of this project is to evaluate exemplary for the freshwater fauna of the river Sieg (Germany) the efficiency of different single specimen DNA-barcoding approaches for routine stream monitoring tasks.The taxonomic resolution of morphological and DNA barcode-based species identification is directly compared, investigating additional value and congruence of both methods. In cases where standard COI barcodes failed to offer unambiguous species identifications, the discrimination capacity of the nuclear rhodopsin marker (RHO) is tested.

Unit:

Ichthyology [13]

Project lead:

PD Dr. Fabian Herder [18]

2011

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GBOL- German Barcode of Life [19]

"German Barcode of Life" ( GBOL ) is a project sponsored by the BMBF and includes the creation of inventories for the gentic characterization of the animals, fungi and plants of germany, using DNA-Barcodes.

Unit:

Chair Systematic Zoology [20], Centre for Biodiversity Monitoring [21], Mammalogy [22], Department Arthropoda [23], Molecular Taxonomy [24], Biobank [25], Directorate [26], Administration [27], ZFMK International Graduate School [28], Coleoptera [29], Ichthyology [13], Metabarcoding [30], Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research [31], Bat Banding Centre [32], Biodiversity Informatics [33], Arachnids [34], Environmental Genomics [35], Myriapoda [36], Staff Council [37], Chair Molecular Biodiversity Research [38], Diptera [39], Hymenoptera [40], Herpetology [41], Ornithology [42]

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. J. Wolfgang Wägele [43]

Funding:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

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FREDIE - Freshwater Diversity… [44]

Freshwater Diversity Identification for Europe: Barcoding all European freshwater fishes, freshwater molluscs and mayflies.

Unit:

Ichthyology [13], Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research [31], Molecular Taxonomy [24], Biodiversity Informatics [33], Mammalogy [22]

Project lead:

PD Dr. Fabian Herder [18]

Funding:

Leibniz Association

Publications

Behrens-Chapuis, S., Malewski, T., Suchecka, E., Geiger, M.F., Herder, F., Bogdanowicz, W. (2018): Discriminating European cyprinid specimens by barcode high-resolution melting analysis (Bar-HRM) – A cost efficient and faster way for specimen assignment? Fisheries Research, 204, 61-73.

2015

Behrens-Chapuis, S., Herder, F., Esmaeili, H.R., Freyhof, J., Hamidan, N.A., Özuluğ, M., Šanda, R., Geiger, M.F. Adding nuclear rhodopsin data where COI-based barcoding fails – from no benefit at all to the solution of a taxonomic conflict. DNA Barcodes, 3: 187–199.

2013

Pfaender, J., Gray, S. M., Rick, I. P., Chapuis, S., Hadiaty, R. K., & Herder, F. (2013). Spectral data reveal unexpected cryptic colour polymorphism in female sailfin silverside fish from ancient Lake Matano. Hydrobiologia, 1-7.

2012

Gawor, A., Chapuis, S., Pham, C. T., Nguyen, T. Q., Schmitz, A., Ziegler, T. (2012) Larval morphology of two species of the genus Theloderma (Tschudi, 1838) from Vietnam (Anura: Rhacophoridae: Rhacophorinae) Zootaxa, 3395: 59-64.

2010

Herder, F., & Chapuis, S. (2010) Oryzias hadiatyae, a new species of ricefish (Atherinomorpha: Beloniformes: Adrianichthyidae) endemic to Lake Masapi, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 58, 269-280.

Published in

2018

Behrens-Chapuis, S., Malewski, T., Suchecka, E., Geiger, M.F., Herder, F., Bogdanowicz, W. (2018): Discriminating European cyprinid specimens by barcode high-resolution melting analysis (Bar-HRM)—A cost efficient and faster way for specimen assignment? Fisheries Research, Volume 204, August 2018, 61-73, ISSN 0165-7836, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2018.02.007.

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2015

Behrens-Chapuis, S., Herder, F., Esmaeili, H.R., Freyhof, J., Hamidan, N.A., Özuluğ, M., Šanda, R., Geiger, M.F. Adding nuclear rhodopsin data where COI-based barcoding fails - from no benefit at all to the solution of a taxonomic conflict. DNA Barcodes 3: 187–199.

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Documents:

PDF [47]

2012

Gawor, A., Chapuis, S., Pham, C.T., Nguyen, Q.T., Schmitz, A., Ziegler, T. (2012) Larval morphology of two species of the genus Theloderma (Tschudi, 1838) from Vietnam. Zootaxa 3395: 59-64.

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2010

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Links:

PDF [50]

Presentations

Talks

S. Chapuis, F. Herder, B. Rulik, M. F. Geiger (2017): „DNA Barcoding in der Anwendung – Eine Untersuchung der Süßwasserfauna des Sieg-Flusssystems“. 14. Tagung der Gesellschaft für Ichthyologie, Bonn, Germany.

S. Chapuis, F. Herder, M. F. Geiger, I. Steinmann (2012): „DNA Barcoding in der Anwendung – Eine Untersuchung der Fischgemeinschaft des Sieg-Fluss-Systems im Rahmen des GBOL-Projekts“. 9. Tagung der Gesellschaft für Ichthyologie, Düsseldorf.

Poster

S. Chapuis, M. F. Geiger, I. Steinmann, F. Herder (2013) DNA Barcoding in der Anwendung – Eine Untersuchung der Süßwasserfauna des Sieg-Fluss-Systems im Rahmen des GBOL-Projekts. 10. Tagung der Gesellschaft für Ichthyologie, Bonn.

S. Chapuis, R. M. Luetzenkirchen, I. P. Rick, S. A. Baldauf, J. Pfaender, F. Herder (2011) Der Farbpolymorphismus männlicher Sonnenstrahlfische (Telmatherinidae) des Matanosees – eine erste Analyse. 8. Tagung der Gesellschaft für Ichthyologie, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland.

S. Chapuis, F. Herder (2009) Morphological variation in stream- dwelling sailfin silversides (Atheriniformes: Telmatherinidae) of the Malili Lakes system, Sulawesi (Indonesia). 6th International Tropical Biology Symposium, Bonn.

M. Hiermes, R. Modarressie, S. Chapuis, M. Wildenhues, T. C. M. Bakker (2009) Habitat-dependent olfactory population recognition in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft 102. Annual Meeting, Regensburg.

S. Chapuis, F. Herder (2008) A morphometric approach to test for local differentiation in stream- dwelling sailfin silversides (Atheriniformes: Telmatherinidae) of the Malili lakes system, Sulawesi (Indonesia). 6. Tagung der Gesellschaft für Ichthyologie, München, Deutschland.

Since 2012

PhD project: "Evaluating the efficiency of single specimen DNA barcoding approaches for routine stream monitoring tasks – an application study with the River Sieg freshwater fauna” Supervisor: PD Dr. Fabian Herder

2011

Master of Science in “Organismic Biology, Evolutionary Biology and Palaeobiology” (OEP) at the Friedrich Wilhelms- Universität Bonn.

Master thesis: “Male colour polymorphisms and fitness correlates in Lake Matano’s “roundfin” sailfin silverside fish radiation”.

2008

Bachelor of Science in Biology at the Universität zu Köln. Bachelor thesis: “Morphometric and meristic analysis of sailfin silversides (Teleostei: Atheriniformes) inhabiting streams and rivers of the Malili Lakes system in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia”.

Working experience

2014 – 2018

Research assistant in the GBOL-project (sample processing)

2011 – 2012

Research assistant in the section Ichthyology (georeferencing)

2008 – 2010

Student assistant in the section Ichthyology (digitalization of the fish collection)

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