Diethard Tautz

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Diethard Tautz is Director of the Department of Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology. He is an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, and of the National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina. Furthermore, he is co-founder and co-editor in chief of Frontiers in Zoology as well as member of several editorial boards, including that of Developmental Biology and Evolution and Development. He is particularly interested in understanding the molecular mechanism of evolutionary adaptations as well as population genetics, speciation and comparative genomics.