Halil Mert Solak, PhD

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles and manuscripts, newest first. Full profile on ResearchGate and ORCID.

Submitted and in review

  1. Solak HM, Vejmělka F, Okena DS, Bryjová A, Ribas A, Poonlaphdecha S, Moradpour N, Novotný V, Kreisinger J, Čížková D. Adaptive radiation, incumbency and local ecological context drive dietary niches in New Guinean rodents. Molecular Ecology (in review).

Peer-reviewed articles

  1. Yanchukov A, Çetintaş O, Çolak F, Nedyalkov N, Rusin M, Solak HM, Bilgin R, et al. (2026). Genome-wide SNP and mtDNA phylogeny of blind mole rats (Spalacinae Gray, 1821) reflects a complex history of relictualism, expansion, and speciation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 206(1): zlaf186.
  2. Solak HM, Kreisinger J, Čížková D, Sezgin E, Schmiedová L, Murtskhvaladze M, Henning Y, Çolak F, Matur F, Yanchukov A (2024). Altitude shapes gut microbiome composition accounting for diet, thyroid hormone levels, and host genetics in a subterranean blind mole rat. Frontiers in Microbiology 15: 1476845.
  3. Solak HM, Sezgin E, Čížková D, Kreisinger J, Çolak F, Çetintaş O, Yanchukov A (2023). The microbiota of long-living and cancer-free blind mole rat (Nannospalax xanthodon) from the edge of its distribution in Northern Anatolia. Communications Faculty of Sciences University of Ankara Series C Biology 32(2): 105–118.
  4. Uludüz N, Yanchukov A, Solak HM, Sözen M (2023). Cetacean stranding events at Zonguldak, southwestern Black Sea coast of Türkiye. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 75(1): 123–131.
  5. Solak HM, Yanchukov A, Çolak F, Matur F, Sözen M, Ayanoğlu C, Winternitz JC (2020). Altitudinal effects on innate immune response of a subterranean rodent. Zoological Science 37(1): 1–11.