External censor: Associate professor Kim Præbel, Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, University of Tromsø

Internal censor: Senior Researcher Nils Risgaard-Petersen, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University

Supervisor: Associate professor Thomas Boesen, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University

Supervisor: Professor MSO Kai Finster, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University.