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Madhava Meegaskumbura
PeerJ Author & Reviewer
2,385 Points

Contributions by role

Author 100
Preprint Author 70
Reviewer 45
Editor 2,170
Questions 5

Contributions by subject area

Biodiversity
Conservation Biology
Taxonomy
Zoology
Freshwater Biology
Animal Behavior
Ecology
Evolutionary Studies
Molecular Biology
Biogeography
Genomics
Plant Science
Bioinformatics
Ecohydrology
Entomology
Genetics
Microbiology
Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
Mycology
Population Biology
Biogeochemistry
Paleontology

By Q&A topic

Madhava Meegaskumbura

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Professor & PI - I have dedicated my career to understanding adaptive diversification, using genetic tools. I hold a B.Sc in Zoology from the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka and a Ph.D. in Biology from Boston University (USA). Following this, I was a Ziff Environmental Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University. Next, I served as a Professor at the University of Peradeniya and am presently at Guangxi University in China. My work explores a range of subjects, from amphibians, freshwater fish, and cavefish, to microbiomes and diseases. In addition, I serve as the Co-Chair for the Amphibian Specialist Group in Sri Lanka (ASG/IUCN/SSC), contributing to amphibian conservation.

Biodiversity Biogeography Bioinformatics Climate Change Biology Conservation Biology Evolutionary Studies Freshwater Biology Genetics Genomics Microbiology Paleontology Parasitology Population Biology Taxonomy Zoology

Past or current institution affiliations

Harvard University
Guangxi University (广西大学化学化工学院)
University of Peradeniya

Work details

Professor (Full) & PI

Guangxi University (广西大学化学化工学院)
College of Forestry

Ziff Environmental Fellow

Harvard University
July 2007 - July 2010
Harvard University Center for the Environment & MCZ
Postdoctoral Researcher, working on extinctions and ancient DNA

Professor in Molecular Biology & Biotechnology

University of Peradeniya
March 2010 - June 2017
Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Research and Teaching

Professor & Lecturer

Postgraduate Institute of Science, University of Peradeniya
January 2010 - June 2017
Supervising and teaching graduate students

Identities

@meegaskumbura

Websites

  • Meegaskumbura Lab
  • Madhava@ResearchGate
  • Google Scholar

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
  • Preprints 1
  • Edited 17
  • Questions 1
  • Answers 1
December 20, 2018
Undocumented translocations spawn taxonomic inflation in Sri Lankan fire rasboras (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae)
Hiranya Sudasinghe, Jayampathi Herath, Rohan Pethiyagoda, Madhava Meegaskumbura
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6084 PubMed 30595978
December 19, 2015 - Version: 2
Realities of rarity: climatically and ecologically restricted, critically endangered Kandian Torrent Toads (Adenomus kandianus) breed en masse
Madhava Meegaskumbura, Nayana Wijayathilaka, Nirodha Abayalath, Gayani Senevirathne
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1575v2

Academic Editor on

September 5, 2023
Genetic structure and relatedness of brown trout (Salmo trutta) populations in the drainage basin of the Ölfusá river, South-Western Iceland
Marcos Lagunas, Arnar Pálsson, Benóný Jónsson, Magnús Jóhannsson, Zophonías O. Jónsson, Sigurður S. Snorrason
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15985 PubMed 37692111
December 12, 2022
DNA barcoding unveils a high diversity of caddisflies (Trichoptera) in the Mount Halimun Salak National Park (West Java; Indonesia)
Isabel C. Kilian, Marianne Espeland, Wolfram Mey, Daisy Wowor, Renny K. Hadiaty, Thomas von Rintelen, Fabian Herder
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14182 PubMed 36530410
July 13, 2022
Synthesis of geological data and comparative phylogeography of lowland tetrapods suggests recent dispersal through lowland portals crossing the Eastern Andean Cordillera
Erika Rodriguez-Muñoz, Camilo Montes, Fernando J. M. Rojas-Runjaic, Andrew J. Crawford
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13186 PubMed 35855906
May 3, 2022
Microbial communities in carbonate precipitates from drip waters in Nerja Cave, Spain
Valme Jurado, Yolanda Del Rosal, Concepcion Jimenez de Cisneros, Cristina Liñan, Tamara Martin-Pozas, Jose Luis Gonzalez-Pimentel, Bernardo Hermosin, Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13399 PubMed 35529484
April 29, 2022
The influencing factors for distribution patterns of resident and migrant bird species richness along elevational gradients
Jin-Yong Kim, Jongmin Yoon, Yu-Seong Choi, Soo Hyung Eo
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13258 PubMed 35509964
April 18, 2022
Differentiation patterns of emperor moths (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae: Saturniinae) of a continental island: divergent evolutionary history driven by Pleistocene glaciations
Wen-Bin Yeh, Cheng-Lung Tsai, Thai-Hong Pham, Shipher Wu, Chia-Wei Chang, Hong-Minh Bui
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13240 PubMed 35462756
April 11, 2022
Ecomorphospace occupation of large herbivorous dinosaurs from Late Jurassic through to Late Cretaceous time in North America
Taia Wyenberg-Henzler
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13174 PubMed 35433123
April 5, 2022
Comparison of gut microbiome in the Chinese mud snail (Cipangopaludina chinensis) and the invasive golden apple snail (Pomacea canaliculata)
Zihao Zhou, Hongying Wu, Dinghong Li, Wenlong Zeng, Jinlong Huang, Zhengjun Wu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13245 PubMed 35402093
March 17, 2022
Positively selected genes in the hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus) lineage: prominence of thymus expression, immune and metabolic function, and regions of ancient synteny
Robert S. Cornman, Paul M. Cryan
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13130 PubMed 35317076
February 8, 2022
A new golden species of Diasporus (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae) from southwestern Colombia, with evaluation of the phylogenetic significance of morphological characters in Diasporus
Jhon Jairo Ospina Sarria, David Andrés Velásquez Trujillo, Christian Oswaldo Castaño Saavedra, Luis Fernando Castillo, Wilmar Bolívar-García
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12765 PubMed 35186452
January 18, 2022
A new ancient lineage of ablepharine skinks (Sauria: Scincidae) from eastern Himalayas with notes on origin and systematics of the group
Zeeshan A. Mirza, Andrey M. Bragin, Harshal Bhosale, Gaurang G. Gowande, Harshil Patel, Nikolay A. Poyarkov
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12800 PubMed 35111410
January 13, 2022
ChiroVox: a public library of bat calls
Tamás Görföl, Joe Chun-Chia Huang, Gábor Csorba, Dorottya Győrössy, Péter Estók, Tigga Kingston, Kriszta Lilla Szabadi, Ellen McArthur, Juliana Senawi, Neil M. Furey, Vuong Tan Tu, Vu Dinh Thong, Faisal Ali Anwarali Khan, Emy Ritta Jinggong, Melissa Donnelly, Jayaraj Vijaya Kumaran, Jian-Nan Liu, Shiang-Fan Chen, Mao-Ning Tuanmu, Ying-Yi Ho, Heng-Chia Chang, Nurul-Ain Elias, Nur-Izzati Abdullah, Lee-Sim Lim, C Daniel Squire, Sándor Zsebők
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12445 PubMed 35070499
January 10, 2022
An integrative taxonomic revision of slug-eating snakes (Squamata: Pareidae: Pareineae) reveals unprecedented diversity in Indochina
Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Tan Van Nguyen, Parinya Pawangkhanant, Platon V. Yushchenko, Peter Brakels, Linh Hoang Nguyen, Hung Ngoc Nguyen, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Nikolai Orlov, Gernot Vogel
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12713 PubMed 35047234
December 16, 2021
Identification of evolutionary relationships and DNA markers in the medicinally important genus Fritillaria based on chloroplast genomics
Tian Zhang, Sipei Huang, Simin Song, Meng Zou, Tiechui Yang, Weiwei Wang, Jiayu Zhou, Hai Liao
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12612 PubMed 35003925
December 10, 2021
Taxonomic evaluation of Xylodon (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota) in Korea and sequence verification of the corresponding species in GenBank
Yoonhee Cho, Ji Seon Kim, Yu-Cheng Dai, Yusufjon Gafforov, Young Woon Lim
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12625 PubMed 34966599
November 30, 2021
Mapping the hidden diversity of the Geophagus sensu stricto species group (Cichlidae: Geophagini) from the Amazon basin
Aline Mourão Ximenes, Pedro Senna Bittencourt, Valéria Nogueira Machado, Tomas Hrbek, Izeni Pires Farias
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12443 PubMed 34909270
October 28, 2021
Wild gut microbiomes reveal individuals, species, and location as drivers of variation in two critically endangered Hawaiian honeycreepers
Maria S. Costantini, Matthew C.I. Medeiros, Lisa H. Crampton, Floyd A. Reed
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12291 PubMed 34760361

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