Dr. Kristina von Rintelen

Address
Museum für Naturkunde
Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity
Invalidenstrasse 43
10115 Berlin
Germany

Phone +49 (0)30 2093 8990
Fax +49 (0)30 2093 8565
E-mail kristina.rintelen(at)mfn-berlin.de

• Since 2009 principal investigator (PostDoc) of a DFG-funded research project and wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Insitute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt-University Berlin
• Research on evolutionary biology, biogeography and systematics of freshwater organisms

I am generally interested in the evolution, biogeography, and systematics of freshwater organisms with a geographic focus on the Malay Archipelago. My current research aims to study the biogeography of atyid freshwater shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea) at the Sundaland-Wallacea interface to contribute towards a better understanding of the historical processes shaping the biodiversity and its distribution in this area. Further, I am interested in the evolution of subterranean freshwater shrimps. During my PhD I studies the evolution and biodiversity of the shrimp fauna on the Indonesian island Sulawesi.

• Biogeography at the Sundaland-Wallacea interface: testing hypotheses with freshwater shrimps
• Evolutionary biology of cave shrimps from Maros karst on the Indonesian island Sulawesi
• Phylogeny of atyid freshwater shrimps and evolution of subterranean lineages
• Member of the Wallacea Research Group http://www.wallacea.info/

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• von Rintelen, K., Page, T.J., Cai, Y., Roe, K., Stelbrink, B., Kuhajda, B.R., Iliffe, T.M., Hughes, J. & von Rintelen, T. (2012). Drawn to the dark side: a molecular phylogeny of freshwater shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Atyidae) reveals frequent cave invasions and challenges current taxonomic hypotheses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 63: 82-96
• Lohman, D.J., de Bruyn, M., Page, T., von Rintelen, K., Hall, R., Ng, P.K.L, Shih, H.T., Carvalho, G.R. & von Rintelen, T. (2011). Biogeography of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Annual Reviews in Evolution, Ecology and Systematics, 42: 205-226.
• von Rintelen, K. (2011). Intraspecific geographic differentiation and patterns of endemism in freshwater shrimp species flocks in ancient lakes of Sulawesi. In: Phylogeography and Population Genetics in Crustacea (Held, C., Koenemann, S. & Schubart, C.D., eds), pp. 257-271. Springer, Berlin.
• von Rintelen, K., Glaubrecht, M., Schubart, C.D., Wessel, A. & von Rintelen, T. (2010). Adaptive radiation and ecological diversification of Sulawesi's ancient lake shrimps. Evolution, 64:3287-3299.
• von Rintelen, K. & Cai, Y. (2009). Radiation of endemic species flocks in ancient lakes: Systematic revision of the freshwater shrimp Caridina H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae) from the ancient lakes of Sulawesi, Indonesia, with the description of eight new species. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57: 343-452.