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Researcher Department of Arctic and Marine Biology barbara.m.tomotani@uit.no +4777644490 Tromsø You can find me here

Barbara Mizumo Tomotani

Job description

I am an evolutionary biologist studying rapid evolution in the Anthropocene. I focus on timing-related traits, such as circadian clocks and I am particularly interested in new animal populations moving into the Arctic as they allow me to study the process of adaptation in action.

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    Barbara Mizumo Tomotani, Mika Couweleers, Bram Ten Brinke, Anne Walboom, Kees Van Oers, Marcel E Visser :
    Size in the city: morphological differences between city and forest great tits have a genetic basis
    Evolution Letters 2025 DOI / ARKIV
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    Marcel E. Visser, Kees Van Oers, Anne Charmantier, Szymon M. Drobniak, Carys V. Jones, Erik Mathyssen et al.:
    Geographic differences in the phenology of gonadal development and moult, but not of egg laying, are genetically based in a small songbird
    Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences 2025 DOI / ARKIV
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    Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador, Cedric D'udekem D'acoz, Maxim V. Vinarski, Yves Samyn, Barbara Mizumo Tomotani :
    François Roffiaen's terrestrial and freshwater gastropod types in the collection of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
    ZooKeys 2025 DOI / ARKIV
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    Alan J. D. Tennyson, Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador, Barbara Mizumo Tomotani, Felix G. Marx :
    A New Diving Pliocene Ardenna Shearwater (Aves: Procellariidae) from New Zealand
    Taxonomy 2024 DOI / ARKIV
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    Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador, Barbara Mizumo Tomotani :
    Clocks at a snail pace: biological rhythms in terrestrial gastropods
    PeerJ 2024 DOI / ARKIV
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    Barbara Mizumo Tomotani, Aurelia F. T. Strauß, Dmitry Kishkinev, Huib van de Haar, Barbara Helm :
    Circadian clock period length is not consistently linked to chronotype in a wild songbird
    European Journal of Neuroscience 2024 DOI / ARKIV
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    David Grey Hazlerigg, Barbara Mizumo Tomotani, Alexander Christopher West, Daniel Appenroth, Shona Hiedi Wood :
    Biological timekeeping in polar environments: lessons from terrestrial vertebrates
    Journal of Experimental Biology 2023 DOI / ARKIV
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    Melanie Lindner, Jip Jc Ramakers, Irene Verhagen, Barbara Mizumo Tomotani, A Christa Mateman, Phillip Gienapp et al.:
    Genotypes selected for early and late avian lay date differ in their phenotype, but not fitness, in the wild
    Science Advances 2023 DOI / ARKIV
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    Barbara Mizumo Tomotani, Fabian Timpen, Kamiel Spoelstra :
    Ingrained city rhythms: flexible activity timing but more persistent circadian pace in urban birds
    Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences 2023 DOI / ARKIV

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    Research interests

    The Arctic is a very interesting laboratory for studying rapid adaptation due to its particularly challenging light condition for new populations colonizing this environment. The ability to successfully settle in such extreme conditions may involve changes in circadian and circannual timekeeping mechanisms, behavioural flexibility, personality traits, cognition, as well as morphological and physiological characters.

    I carry out my studies both in the field and in controlled conditions with two model systems, the songbird great tit (Parus major) and the copse snail (Arianta arbustorum), both recent Arctic colonizers.

     

    I am currently leading two projects:

    EvoLight - funded by a TFS starting grant

    Evolution of biological clocks in land snails - funded by the Velux Stiftung

    For more information visit the BiRBS Lab Page

     

    ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8855-4803

    Member of research group / centre

    ASTI   English content Arctic chronobiology and physiology   English content

    Member of project

    Wild clocks
    Avdeling for arktisk biologi 3-121


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