Researcher
Franky Bossuyt
- Research Expertise:
- Amphibian evolution (frogs, salamanders, caecilians); Biodiversity and conservation genetics
- Keywords:Biology
- Disciplines:Wildlife and habitat management, Phylogeny and comparative analysis, Natural resource management, Ecosystem services, Biogeography and phylogeography, Conservation and biodiversity, Biology of behaviour, Sustainable agriculture, Horticultural crop production, Landscape ecology, Forest protection, Forestry management and modelling, Silviculture and agroforestry, Molecular evolution, Animal ecology
- Users of research expertise:
- Amphibian evolution (frogs, salamanders, caecilians); Biodiversity and conservation genetics
Affiliations
- Amphibian Evolution Lab (Research group)
Responsible
From4 Oct 2012 → Today - Ecology and Systematics (Research group)
Member
From31 Dec 1999 → Today - Biology (Department)
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From1 Oct 2019 → 31 Dec 2023 - Biology (Department)
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From8 Apr 2019 → Today - Biology (Department)
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From1 Oct 2005 → 20 Oct 2022 - Biology (Department)
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From1 Oct 2002 → 30 Sep 2005 - Biology (Department)
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From1 Oct 1997 → 30 Sep 2010
Projects
1 - 9 of 9
- House of Sustainable TransitionsFrom1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: IOF - technology validation in lab, IOF - mandates
- AGRIWILDING: evaluating the potential of merging biodiversity restoration and sustainable food production in future agri-environmental schemes.From1 Nov 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- The evolution of colouration in an adaptive radiation of frogs.From1 Oct 2017 → 1 Jan 2018Funding: FWO fellowships
- Evolution of a protein pheromone system in newts (Salamandridae)From1 Jan 2015 → 31 Dec 2018Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- SRP (Groeiers): Evolutionary innovations in amphibians: from ecology to moleculesFrom1 Mar 2014 → 28 Feb 2019Funding: BOF - Concerted Research Project from 1994
- An integrative study of sex pheromones of the axolotl (Abystoma mexicanum)From1 Oct 2013 → 30 Sep 2017Funding: FWO fellowships
- Origin of ancient endemism in the "Lost World" table mountains, and its bearing on South American biodiversityFrom1 Oct 2013 → 30 Sep 2019Funding: FWO fellowships
- Structural and functional evolution of a pheromone defense system in Amphibia.From1 Jan 2010 → 31 Dec 2013Funding: IWT personal funding - strategic basic research grants
- A pheromone function for sexual dimorf glands in amphibiansFrom1 Jan 2009 → 9 Apr 2010Funding: IWT personal funding - specialisation scholarships
Publications
1 - 10 of 20
- Love bites: male frogs (Plectrohyla, Hylidae) use teeth scratching to deliver sodefrin precursor-like factors to females during amplexus(2021)
Authors: Lisa Maria Schulte, , Raciel Cruz-Elizalde, Aurelio Ramirez-Bautista, Franky Bossuyt
- Odorant-binding proteins in canine anal sac glands indicate an evolutionarily conserved role in mammalian chemical communication.(2021)
Authors: Sunita Leentje Janssenswillen, Kim Roelants, Sebastien Carpentier, Hilde de Rooster, Mieke Metzemaekers, Bram Vanschoenwinkel, Paul Proost, Franky Bossuyt
- Phylotranscriptomic evidence for pervasive ancient hybridization among Old World salamanders(2021)
Authors: Loïs Rancilhac, Iker Irisarri, Claudio Angelini, Jan Willem Arntzen, Wiesław Babik, Franky Bossuyt, Sven Künzel, Tim Lüddecke, Frank Pasmans, Eugenia Sanchez, et al.
- Multiple Independent Recruitment of Sodefrin Precursor-Like Factors in Anuran Sexually Dimorphic Glands(2019)
Authors: Franky Bossuyt, Lisa Maria Schulte, Margo Maex, Sunita Leentje Janssenswillen, Polina Yu. Novikova, SD Biju, Yves Van de Peer, Severine Matthijs, Kim Roelants, An Martel, et al.
Pages: 1921-1930 - Exaptation as a Mechanism for Functional Reinforcement of an Animal Pheromone System(2018)
Authors: Margo Maex, Dag Treer, Henri De Greve, Paul Proost, Ines Van Bocxlaer, Franky Bossuyt
Pages: 2955-2960.e5 - Divergence of species-specific protein sex pheromone blends in two related, nonhybridizing newts (Salamandridae)(2018)
Authors: Dag Treer, Margo Maex, Ines Van Bocxlaer, Paul Proost, Franky Bossuyt
Pages: 508-519 - Van molecule tot gedrag: De evolutie van seksferomonen in salamanders.(2018)
Authors: Margo Maex, Franky Bossuyt
- Drivers of salamander extirpation mediated by Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans(2017)
Authors: Gwij Stegen, Frank Pasmans, Benedikt R Schmidt, Lieze Rouffaer, Sarah Van Praet, Michael Schaub, Stefano Canessa, Arnaud Laudelout, Thierry Kinet, Connie Adriaensen, et al.
Pages: 353–356 - Evolution in the South American ‘Lost World’: insights from multilocus phylogeography of stefanias (Anura, Hemiphractidae, Stefania)(2016)
Authors: Philippe Kok, Valerio Giovanni Russo, Sebastian Ratz, Bruce Means, Ross Macculloch, Amy Lathrop, Fabien Aubret, Franky Bossuyt
Pages: 170-181 - Beyond sodefrin: evidence for a multi-component pheromone system in the model newt Cynops pyrrhogaster (Salamandridae).(2016)
Authors: Ines Van Bocxlaer, Margo Maex, Dag Treer, Sunita Leentje Janssenswillen, Rik Janssens, Wim Vandebergh, Paul Proost, Franky Bossuyt
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