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{{short description|Research institute located in Plön, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.}}
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The '''Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology''' is a German institute for [[evolutionary biology]]. It is located in [[Plön]], [[Schleswig-Holstein]], Germany.

== History ==
The institute was founded by German zoologist [[Otto Zacharias]] as ''Hydrobiologische Station zu Plön''. Working in Italy in the 1880s, Zacharias was inspired by the highly recognised [[Stazione Zoologica]] in [[Naples]], founded in 1870 by [[Anton Dohrn]], to set up the first [[biological station]] for freshwater research in Germany. He secured financial support from the [[Prussia]]n government and several private individuals to establish it on [[Großer Plöner See]] in 1891, as a private research institute.<ref>Wetzel, N. / Nöthlich, R.: Vom „Homo literatus“ zum „Self made man“ – Der Werdegang des Emil Otto Zacharias. In: Mauritiana, 19 (2006), No. 3, p. 463-477. {{in lang|de}}</ref>

As the director, Zacharias published research reports from 1893 on the Station's activities, which were recorded from 1905 in the Archives of Hydrobiology.<ref>Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Vol 20, Leipzig, 1909, p. 831. {{in lang|de}}</ref> In so-called "summer schools" Zacharias trained teachers and laity interested in working with the [[microscope]].<ref>Zacharias, O.: Ferienkurse in Hydrobiologie und Planktonkunde an der Biologischen Station zu Plön, in: Archiv für Hydrobiologie und Planktonkunde 4 (1909), p. 267-272. {{in lang|de}}</ref>

It became part of the [[Max Planck Society]] in 1948, and was renamed in 1966 as the '''Max Planck Institute of Limnology'''.<ref>[http://www.evolbio.mpg.de/english/instUeberInstitut/instGeschichte/index.html History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511173229/http://www.evolbio.mpg.de/english/instUeberInstitut/instGeschichte/index.html |date=2011-05-11 }} on official website</ref>

It was renamed again as Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in 2007, marking a change of the research focus towards [[evolutionary biology]].

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== Departments ==

* Evolutionary Genetics ([[Diethard Tautz]])
* [http://web.evolbio.mpg.de/~traulsen/#home Evolutionary Theory] (Arne Traulsen)
*[http://micropop.evolbio.mpg.de/ Microbial Population Biology] (Paul Rainey)

== Research groups ==

*Behavioural Genomics ({{ill|Miriam Liedvogel|de}})
*Biological Clocks (Tobias Kaiser)
*Dynamics of Social Behavior (Christian Hilbe)
*Evolutionary Cell Biology (Javier López Garrido)
*Craniofacial Biology (Marketa Kaucka )
*Environmental Genomics ({{ill|Eva Stukenbrock|de}})
*Antibiotic Resistance Evolution (Hinrich Schulenburg)
*Evolutionary Genomics (John Baines)
*Evolutionary Immunogenomics (Tobias L. Lenz)

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{official website|https://www.evolbio.mpg.de/}}
* [http://www.ploener-ansichten.de/category/biologische-station/ Personal site with views of the Biological Station at Plon] {{in lang|de}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718195411/http://www.altes-faehrhaus.de/hotel/Tradition.html Current usage of the former "Biological Station"] {{in lang|de}}

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