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Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The IZW conducts integrated biological and veterinary research on wildlife. Our work is focused on the mechanisms and functions of evolutionary adaptations that ensure the survival and reproduction of individuals in free-ranging and captive populations of wildlife, and the limits that may affect the viability and persistence of such populations. For this purpose, we study the behavioural and evolutionary ecology, wildlife diseases, and reproduction of mostly larger mammals and birds.
Activities
- Research
Networks
Coordinated projects
- Basic research to influence the offspring sex in particularly endangered rhinoceros species
- Berlin Summer School 'Non-invasive Monitoring of Hormones'
- Comparative studies on the digestive physiology nichtwiederkäuender Vormagenfermentierer
- Domstication of the horse
- Extraction of fecundation able eggs from ovaries after freeze conservation - genome resource banking from cat like
- Identification and reconstitution of detergent-resistant membrane domains in mammalian sperm and its function in fertilization
- Quantity at the expense of quality - the importance of estrogens in spermatogenesis and sperm maturation of teratozoospermer cats
- ScreenForBio - Species in Global Change: Impacts of sustainable forestry on biodiversity
- Studies on TSEs and prion protein genotyping in mouflon sheep in Germany
- The trefoil domain of the zona pellucida B protein of the domestic cat - a sperm receptor
Involved in research projects
- Considering biodiversity and ecosystem performance as a source of wind energy production in forests
- Cross-sector project 'AgroScapeLabs – Biodiversity Exploratories for agricultural landscapes
- From Forest to Fork - Contamination of game meat through bullet particles. A study of bullet abrasions and fragmentation.
- Innovative antimicrobial concepts in pig artificial insemination
- SIGNATURES OF FE/MALE FERTILITY: Using long-term selection for high fertility to decipher the genetics of increased reproductive performance
- Validation of a minimum-invasive blood-sampling technique for measuring catecholamines
Contact
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
(IZW)
Postfach 601103
10252 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Phone: 030-5168-0
Fax: 030-5126-104
Email: direktor(@)izw-berlin.de