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Dr. Bahar Patlar

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Research

Keywords: Evolution, Ecology, Population & Quantitative Genetics, Reproduction, Sexual Selection, Male Ejaculate, Sexual Conflict, Sperm Competition

Education & academic positions

• since 2022: Research Associate, Animal Ecology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
• 2021-2022: Post Doc Fellow, York University, ON, Canada
• 2019-2021: Post Doc Fellow, Department of Biology, University of Winnipeg, MB, Canada
• 2014-2019: Ph.D. edu., Evolutionary Biology Department, Bielefeld University, Germany
• 2011-2013: M.Sc. edu., Evolutionary Biology, Hacettepe University, Turkey
• 2006-2011: B.Sc. edu., Biology, Hacettepe University, Turkey

Recent Publications

2023

• Patlar, B., Fulham, L., Civetta, A. (2023) A predominant role of genotypic variation in both expression of sperm competition genes and paternity success in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290 (2007), 20231715. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1715   

2022

• Patlar B & Civetta (2022) Seminal fluid gene expression and reproductive fitness in Drosophila melanogaster. BMC Ecol Evo 22, 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-01975-1   
• Patlar, B. (2022) On the role of  seminal fluid protein and nucleic acid content in paternal epigenetic  inheritance. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(23), 14533. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms232314533   

2021

• Patlar B, Jayaswal V, Ranz JM, Civetta A (2021). Non‐adaptive molecular evolution of seminal fluid proteins in Drosophila. Evolution 75(8), 2102-2113. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14297   
• Özsoy ED, Yılmaz M, Patlar B, Emecen G, Durmaz E, Magwire MM, Zhou S, Huang W, Anholt RR, Mackay TF (2021). Epistasis for head morphology in Drosophila melanogaster. G3 11(10):jkab285.  https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkab285   
• Grewal G, Patlar B, Civetta A (2021) Expression of Mst89B and CG31287 is needed for effective sperm storage and egg fertilization. Cells 10(2):289. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells10020289   

2020

• Patlar B, Civetta A (2020) Speciation and male-biased gene expression in Drosophila. Genome 999: 1-11.
• Patlar B, Ramm SA (2020) Genotype‐by‐environment interactions for seminal fluid expression and sperm competitive ability. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 33(2): 225-236. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13568   
• Patlar B, Weber M, Temizyürek T, Ramm SA (2020) Seminal fluid mediated manipulation of post-mating behavior in a simultaneous hermaphrodite. Current Biology 30(1): 143-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.018   
• Weber M, Patlar B, Ramm SA (2020) Effects of two seminal fluid transcripts on post‐mating behavior in the simultaneously hermaphroditic flatworm Macrostomum lignano. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 33(5):714-726. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13606   

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