Direction:Morphometrics
Position:Assistant Professor
2013 – obtained a master’s degree in Ecology from Ilia State University. In 2019, received a Ph.D. degree in Life Sciences (at Ilia State University) and Biology (at Ghent University, Belgium) through a joint degree program. In 2020 became the recipient of the Margaret Koenig post-doctoral fellowship at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (Bonn, Germany), and currently works as a technical assistant in the morphology laboratory of the same institution
Scientific interests / research interests
- Geometric Morphometrics,
- Evolutionary Morphology,
- Taxonomy and Species Delimitation,
- Organisms’ form and function
Featured publications
Gabelaia, M., Tarkhnishvili, D., & Adriaens, D. (2018). Use of three-dimensional geometric morphometrics for the identification of closely related species of Caucasian rock lizards (Lacertidae: Darevskia). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 125(4), 709-717. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/bly143
Gabelaia, M., Adriaens, D., & Tarkhnishvili, D. (2017). Phylogenetic signals in scale shape in Caucasian rock lizards (Darevskia species). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 268, 32-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2017.04.004
An extensive list of publications
Yanchukov, A., Tarkhnishvili, D., Erdolu, M., Şahin, M. K., Candan, K., Murtskhvaladze, M., Gabelaia, M., Iankoshvili, G., Barateli, N., Ilgaz, Ç., Kumlutaş, Y., Matur, F., Çolak, F., Arakelyan, M. & Galoyan, E. (2022). Precise paternal ancestry of hybrid unisexual ZW lizards (genus Darevskia: Lacertidae: Squamata) revealed by Z-linked genomic markers. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 136(2), 293-305. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blac023
Wasiljew, B. D., Pfaender, J., Wipfler, B., Gabelaia, M., Utama, I. V., Wantania, L. L., & Herder, F. (2021). Sexual dimorphism in an adaptive radiation: Does intersexual niche differentiation result in ecological character displacement?. Ecology and Evolution, 11(21), 14615-14629. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8137
Galoyan, E., Moskalenko, V., Gabelaia, M., Tarkhnishvili, D., Spangenberg, V., Chamkina, A., & Arakelyan, M. (2020). Syntopy of two species of rock lizards (Darevskia raddei and Darevskia portschinskii) may not lead to hybridization between them. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 288, 43-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2020.06.007
Tarkhnishvili, D., Yanchukov, A., Şahin, M. K., Gabelaia, M., Murtskhvaladze, M., Candan, K., Galoyan, E., Arakelyan, M., Iankoshvili, G., Kumlutaş, Y., Ilgaz, Ç., Matur, F., Çolak, F., Erdolu, M., Kurdadze, S., Barateli, N., & Anderson, C. L. (2020). Genotypic similarities among the parthenogenetic Darevskia rock lizards with different hybrid origins. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 20(1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-020-01690-9
Tarkhnishvili, D., Gabelaia, M., & Adriaens, D. (2020). Phenotypic divergence, convergence and evolution of Caucasian rock lizards (Darevskia). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 130(1), 142-155. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa021
Tarkhnishvili, D., Gabelaia, M., Kandaurov, A., Bukhnikashvili, A., & Iankoshvili, G. (2017). Isolated population of the Middle Eastern Phoenicolacerta laevis from the Georgian Black Sea Coast, and its genetic closeness to populations from southern Turkey. Zoology in the Middle East, 63(4), 311-315. https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2017.1361191
Gabelaia, M., Adriaens, D., & Tarkhnishvili, D. (2017). Phylogenetic signals in scale shape in Caucasian rock lizards (Darevskia species). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 268, 32-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2017.04.004
Tarkhnishvili, D., Gabelaia, M., Mumladze, L., & Murtskhvaladze, M. (2016). Mitochondrial phylogeny of the Darevskia saxicola complex: two highly deviant evolutionary lineages from the easternmost part of the range”. The Herpetological Journal, 26(2), 175-182.
Gabelaia, M., Tarkhnishvili, D., & Murtskhvaladze, M. (2015). Phylogeography and morphological variation in a narrowly distributed Caucasian rock lizard, Darevskia mixta. Amphibia-Reptilia, 36(1), 45-54. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685381-00002975
Tarkhnishvili, D., Gavashelishvili, A., Murtskhvaladze, M., Gabelaia, M., & Tevzadze, G. (2014). Human paternal lineages, languages and environment in the Caucasus. Human Biology, 86(2), 113-130.
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