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Tine Huyse
Position: Marie Curie Research Fellow
Department: Zoology
Section: Parasitic Worms Group
Contact details: ++44 (0)20 7942 6115 - email
Research interests
I am interested in host-parasite cospeciation, using Gyrodactylus parasites (Monogenea, Platyhelminthes) from gobies (Pomatoschistus, Gobiidae) as a model system. This mainly involved species-level phylogenies but recently COI mtDNA has been included such that the phylogeographic pattern of the parasite can be compared with that of the host. Complemented with population genetic analyses, this should increase our knowledge on Gyrodactylus transmission strategies, the population dynamics and speciation patterns.
More recently, I am assessing the phylogenetic and population genetic content of the mitochondrial genome of Gyrodactylus salaris, a pathogen of Salmo Salar, especially affecting wild and cultured salmon parr in Norway.
Current activities
- Characterize the mt genome of Gyrodactylus salaris and G. derjavini
- Identifying mt SNPs and other suitable genetic markers for strain diagnostics and population genetics
- Phylogeography of Gyrodactylus spp. infecting gobies
Contracts, grants, awards
- 1998: PhD Scholarship of the Institute of Scientific and Technological research (IWT).
- 2000: ESF grant for the organization of “The 6th Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology”, Leuven, Belgium.
- 2000: First prize of the Young Scientist Awards at 8'th European Multicolloquium of Parasitology, Poznan, Poland.
- 2000: Grant by the Improving Human Potential Programme from the European Union for sampling at Marine Biological Station in Bergen (Norway).
- 2000: Grant by the European Commission's Training and Mobility of Researchers programme for sampling at Trondheim Marine Systems RI (Norway).
- 2003: Prize of the Royal Belgian Academy for Sciences and Arts for PhD thesis (Van Oye prize).
- 2003-2004: FWO travel grant for conducting research at the Natural History Museum London, U.K.
- 2005: Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship, Natural History Museum London, U.K.
Higher education
| 1994 - 1998 | Univ. of Leuven, Belgium - Lic. (Biology) |
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| 1998 - 2002 | Univ. of Leuven, Belgium - PhD |
Publications
Zietara, M., Huyse, T., Lumme, J. and Volckaert, F.A.M. 2002 Deep divergence among subgenera of Gyrodactylus inferred from rDNA ITS region. Parasitology 12: 39-52. Download pdf (1201KB)
Huyse, T., and Volckaert, F.A.M. 2002 Identification of a host-associated species complex using molecular and morphometric analyses, with the description of Gyrodactylus rugiensoides n. sp. (Gyrodactylidae, Monogenea). International Journal for Parasitology 32: 907-919. Download pdf (291KB)
Huyse, T., Audenaert, V. and Volckaert, F.A.M. 2003 Speciation and host-parasite relationships in the parasite genus Gyrodactylus (Monogenea, Platyhelminthes) infecting gobies of the genus Pomatoschistus (Gobiidae, Teleostei). International Journal for Parasitology, 33, 1679-1689. Download pdf (287KB)
Audenaert, V. Huyse, T., Goemans G., Belpaire C., and Volckaert, F.A.M. (2003) The spatio-temporal dynamics of the nematode Anguillicola crassus in Flanders (Belgium). Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 56, 223-233. Download pdf (448KB)
Huyse, T., Van Houdt, J. and Volckaert, F.A.M. 2004. Paleoclimatic history and vicariant speciation in the “sand goby” group (Gobiidae, Teleostei). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 32: 324-336. Download pdf (352KB)
Huyse, T. and G. Malmberg 2004. Molecular and morphological comparisons between Gyrodactylus ostendicus n. sp. (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae) on Pomatoschistus microps (Krøyer) and G. harengi Malmberg on Clupea harengus membras L. Systematic Parasitology, 58: 105-113.
Huyse, T., Malmberg, G. and Volckaert, F.A.M. 2004. Discrimination of four new species of Gyrodactylus (Monogenea, Platyhelminthes) on gobiid fish: combined DNA and morphological analyses. Systematic Parasitology, 59: 103-120. Download pdf (424KB)
Huyse, T. and Volckaert, F.A.M. 2005. Comparing host and parasite phylogenies: Gyrodactylus flatworms jumping from goby to goby. Systematic Biology, in press. Download pdf (5308KB)
Huyse, T., R. Poulin and A. Theron. 2005. Speciation in parasites: a population genetic approach. Trends in Parasitology, 21: 469-475. Download pdf (160KB)
Huyse, T. 2006. Population genetics puts reproductive isolation back on track. Trends in Parasitology, 22: 152-153.
Huyse, T., Pampoulie, C., Audenaert, V. and Volckaert, F.A.M. 2006. First report of Gyrodactylus (Monogenea, Platyhelminthes) in the Mediterranean Sea: molecular and morphometric comparisons. The Journal of Parasitology. 92 (4): 682-690.
Huyse, T. L. Plaisance, B. L. Webster, T. A. Mo, T. A. Bakke, L. Bachmann and D. T. J. Littlewood. The mitochondrial genome of Gyrodactylus salaris (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea), a pathogen of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Parasitology, In press.