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evolutionary ecology, sexual selection, animal behaviour, host-parasite interactions

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Employment (1)

University of Ulm: Ulm, DE

2021-01-01 to present | PostDoc (Institute of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics)
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Dominik Werner Melville

Education and qualifications (3)

Queen Mary University of London: London, London, GB

2016 to 2019-07-31 | PhD. (School of Biological and Chemical Science)
Education
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Dominik Werner Melville

Universität Zürich: Zurich, ZH, CH

2014 to 2016 | Master
Education
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Dominik Werner Melville

James Cook University: Townsville, QLD, AU

2011 to 2014 | Bachelor
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Dominik Werner Melville

Works (18)

Delayed feeding disrupts diurnal oscillations in the gut microbiome of a neotropical bat in captivity

FEMS Microbiology Ecology
2025-01-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiaf012
Contributors: Dominik W Melville; Magdalena Meyer; Corbinian Kümmerle; Kevin A Alvarado-Barrantes; Kerstin Wilhelm; Simone Sommer; Marco Tschapka; Alice Risely
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Hibecovirus (genus Betacoronavirus) infection linked to gut microbial dysbiosis in bats

2024-12-14 | Other
DOI: 10.1093/ismeco/ycae154
Contributors: Dominik Werner Melville; Magdalena Meyer; Alice Risely; Kerstin Wilhelm; Heather J. Baldwin; Ebenezer K. Badu; Evans Ewald Nkrumah; Samuel Kingsley Oppong; Nina Schwensow; Marco Tschapka et al.
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Subtle diurnal microbial rhythms in a large mammalian carnivore

Journal of Mammalogy
2024-12-13 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyae143
Contributors: Dominik W Melville; Connie A Rojas; Alice Risely; Kevin R Theis; Jesse Alston
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Twenty-year co-evolutionary arms race between meerkat MHC and Tuberculosis

2024-07-10 | Preprint
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4685784/v1
Contributors: Nadine Mueller-Klein; Alice Risely; Kerstin Wilhelm; Vanessa Riegel; Marta Manser; Tim Clutton-Brock; Pablo Santos; Dominik Melville; Simone Sommer
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Bat species assemblage predicts coronavirus prevalence

Nature Communications
2024-04-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46979-1
Contributors: Magdalena Meyer; Dominik W. Melville; Heather J. Baldwin; Kerstin Wilhelm; Evans Ewald Nkrumah; Ebenezer K. Badu; Samuel Kingsley Oppong; Nina Schwensow; Adam Stow; Peter Vallo et al.
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MHC class II genes mediate susceptibility and resistance to coronavirus infections in bats

Molecular Ecology
2023-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16983
Contributors: Dominik W. Schmid; Magdalena Meyer; Kerstin Wilhelm; Tatiana Tilley; Thomas Link‐Hessing; Ramona Fleischer; Ebenezer K. Badu; Evans Ewald Nkrumah; Samuel Kingsley Oppong; Nina Schwensow et al.
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Co‐infections mask pathogen‐specific associations with the gut microbiota in wild voles

Journal of Animal Ecology
2023-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13906
Contributors: Dominik W. Schmid; Alice Risely
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Circadian rhythms of hosts and their gut microbiomes: Implications for animal physiology and ecology

Functional Ecology
2023-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.14255
Contributors: Dominik W. Schmid; Pablo Capilla‐Lasheras; Davide M. Dominoni; Nadine Müller‐Klein; Simone Sommer; Alice Risely
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Climate change and tuberculosis drive non-adaptive shifts in the faecal microbiota of wild meerkats

ResearchSquare
2022 | Other
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1873485
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2-s2.0-85138565990
Contributors: Risely, A.; Müller-Klein, N.; Schmid, D.; Wilhelm, K.; Clutton-Brock, T.; Manser, M.; Sommer, S.
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Dominik Werner Melville via Scopus - Elsevier

Disentangling direct from indirect effects of habitat disturbance on multiple components of biodiversity

Journal of Animal Ecology
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13802
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2-s2.0-85137887002

Part of ISSN: 13652656 00218790
Contributors: Schwensow, N.I.; Heni, A.C.; Schmid, J.; Montero, B.K.; Brändel, S.D.; Halczok, T.K.; Mayer, G.; Fackelmann, G.; Wilhelm, K.; Schmid, D.W. et al.
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Gut microbiota individuality is contingent on temporal scale and age in wild meerkats

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0609
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2-s2.0-85136067699

Part of ISSN: 14712954 09628452
Contributors: Risely, A.; Schmid, D.W.; Müller-Klein, N.; Wilhelm, K.; Clutton-Brock, T.H.; Manser, M.B.; Sommer, S.
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Dominik Werner Melville via Scopus - Elsevier

Two decades of tuberculosis surveillance reveal disease spread, high levels of exposure and mortality and marked variation in disease progression in wild meerkats

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.14679
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2-s2.0-85136906348

Part of ISSN: 18651682 18651674
Contributors: Müller-Klein, N.; Risely, A.; Schmid, D.W.; Manser, M.; Clutton-Brock, T.; Sommer, S.
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A framework for testing the impact of co-infections on host gut microbiomes

Animal Microbiome
2022-08-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1186/s42523-022-00198-5
Contributors: Dominik W. Schmid; Gloria Fackelmann; Wasimuddin; Jacques Rakotondranary; Yedidya R. Ratovonamana; B. Karina Montero; Jörg U. Ganzhorn; Simone Sommer
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Interaction between MHC diversity and constitution, gut microbiota and Astrovirus infections in a neotropical bat

Molecular Ecology
2022-05-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16491
Part of ISSN: 0962-1083
Part of ISSN: 1365-294X
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Dominik Werner Melville
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Gut microbiota repeatability is contingent on temporal scale and age in wild meerkats

2022-03-29 | Preprint
DOI: 10.32942/OSF.IO/DSQFR
Contributors: Alice Risely; Dominik Schmid; Nadine Mueller-Klein; Kerstin Wilhelm; Tim Clutton-Brock; Marta Manser; Simone Sommer
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Noise pollution on coral reefs? - A yet underestimated threat to coral reef communities.

Marine Pollution Bulletin
2021-02-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112129
PMID: 33588103
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Dominik Werner Melville
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Rapid divergence of predator functional traits affects prey composition in aquatic communities

American Naturalist
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1086/701784
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2-s2.0-85060525931
Contributors: Schmid, D.W.; McGee, M.D.; Best, R.J.; Seehausen, O.; Matthews, B.
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Dominik Werner Melville via Scopus - Elsevier

Transgenerational selection driven by divergent ecological impacts of hybridizing lineages

Nature Ecology and Evolution
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0308-2
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2-s2.0-85031766857
Contributors: Best, R.J.; Anaya-Rojas, J.M.; Leal, M.C.; Schmid, D.W.; Seehausen, O.; Matthews, B.
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Dominik Werner Melville via Scopus - Elsevier
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