Conservation genomics: speciation of the Neotropical damselfly species Megaloprepus caerulatus – as a model for insect speciation in tropical rainforests

Abstract

The work presented in this thesis is located at the interface between ecology, evolution and developmental biology. It addresses theories and questions in population biology, phylogeography and speciation as well as methodological approaches for applying Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data. In the center of this thesis stands the world’s largest extant damselfly, Megaloprepus caerulatus, as a model system for primary rainforests.