Bernhard Misof

Projects

Genomics technology for the Caucasus
Management: Dr. Jonas Astrin
Hybrid swarm evolution in minnows
Management: Dr. Madlen Stange
Museum Koenig #digital
Management: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof
CaBOL - Caucasus Barcode of Life
Management: Dr. Nils Hein
FOGS
Management: Dr. Jonas Astrin
GGBC
Management: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

Publications

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2025

2025/01
Mozer, A., Di‐Nizo, C.B., Consul, A., Huettel, B., Jäger, R., Akintayo, A., Erhardt, C., Fenner, L., Fischer, D., Forat, S., Gimnich, F., Grobe, P., Martin, S., Nathan, V., Saeed, A., von der Mark, L., Woehle, C., Olek, K., Misof, B., Astrin, J.J.
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FOGS: A SNPSTR Marker Database to Combat Wildlife Trafficking and a Cell Culture Bank for Ex‐Situ Conservation
Molecular Ecology resources

2024

2024/07
Frandsen, P.B., Holzenthal, R.W., Espeland, M., Breinholt, J., Thomas Thorpe, J.A., Simon, S., Kawahara, A.Y., Plotkin, D., Hotaling, S., Li, Y., Nelson, C.R., Niehuis, O., Mayer, C., Podsiadlowski, L., Donath, A., Misof, B., Moriarty Lemmon, E., Lemmon, A., Morse, J.C., Liu, S., Pauls, S.U., Zhou, X.
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Phylogenomics recovers multiple origins of portable case making in caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera), nature’s underwater architects
Proceedings - Royal Society. Biological sciences/Proceedings - Royal Society. Biological Sciences, 2026, 291
2024/07
Wellenbeck, A., Fehrmann, L., Feilhauer, H., Schmidtlein, S., Misof, B., Hein, N.
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Discriminating woody species assemblages from National Forest Inventory data based on phylogeny in Georgia
Ecology and Evolution, 7, 14
2024/02
Hein, N., Astrin, J.J., Beckers, N., Giebner, H., Langen, K., Löffler, J., Misof, B., Fonseca, V.G.
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Arthropod diversity in the alpine tundra using metabarcoding: Spatial and temporal differences in alpha‐ and beta‐diversity
Ecology and Evolution, 2, 14
2024/06
Mozer, A., Consul, A., Misof, B., Jäger, R., Olek, K., Astrin, J.J.
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Joint detection of microsatellites and flanking sequences–SNPSTR markers for Athene noctua to fight illegal wildlife trade
Forensic Science International Animals and Environments, 5

2023

2023/06
Dietz, L., Seidel, M., Eberle, J., Misof, B., Pacheco, T.L., Podsiadłowski, L., Ranasinghe, S., Gunter, N.L., Niehuis, O., Mayer, C., Ahrens, D.
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A transcriptome‐based phylogeny of Scarabaeoidea confirms the sister group relationship of dung beetles and phytophagous pleurostict scarabs (Coleoptera)
Systematic entomology, 4, 48
2023/08
Flury, J.M., Meusemann, K., Martin, S., Hilgers, L., Spanke, T., Böhne, A., Herder, F., Mokodongan, D.F., Altmüller, J., Wowor, D., Misof, B., Nolte, A.W., Schwarzer, J.
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Potential contribution of ancient introgression to the evolution of a derived reproductive strategy in ricefishes
Genome biology and evolution, 8, 15
2023/12
Dietz, L., Mayer, C., Stolle, E., Eberle, J., Misof, B., Podsiadłowski, L., Niehuis, O., Ahrens, D.
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Metazoa‐level USCOs as markers in species delimitation and classification
Molecular Ecology resources, 3, 24
2023/02
Dietz, L., Eberle, J., Mayer, C., Kukowka, S., Bohacz, C., Baur, H., Espeland, M., Huber, B.A., Hutter, C.R., Mengual, X., Peters, R.S., Vences, M., Wesener‍, T., Willmott, K.R., Misof, B., Niehuis, O., Ahrens, D.
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Standardized nuclear markers improve and homogenize species delimitation in Metazoa
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2, 14

2022

2022/01
Möckel, L., Meusemann, K., Misof, B., Schwartze, V.U., Licht, H.H.D.F., Voigt, K., Stielow, B., Hoog, S.d., Beutel, R.G., Buellesbach, J.
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Phylogenetic revision and patterns of host specificity in the fungal Subphylum Entomophthoromycotina
Microorganisms, 2, 10

2021

2021/10
Vasilikopoulos, A., Balke, M., Kukowka, S., Pflug, J.M., Martin, S., Meusemann, K., Hendrich, L., Mayer, C., Maddison, D.R., Niehuis, O., Beutel, R.G., Misof, B.
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Phylogenomic analyses clarify the pattern of evolution of Adephaga (Coleoptera) and highlight phylogenetic artefacts due to model misspecification and excessive data trimming
Systematic entomology, 4, 46
2021/12
Spanke, T., Hilgers, L., Wipfler, B., Flury, J.M., Nolte, A.W., Utama, I.V., Misof, B., Herder, F., Schwarzer, J.
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Complex sexually dimorphic traits shape the parallel evolution of a novel reproductive strategy in Sulawesi ricefishes (Adrianichthyidae)
BMC ecology and evolution, 21

2020

2020/06
Giebner, H., Langen, K., Bourlat, S.J., Kukowka, S., Mayer, C., Astrin, J.J., Misof, B., Fonseca, V.G.
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Comparing diversity levels in environmental samples: DNA sequence capture and metabarcoding approaches using 18S and COI genes
Molecular ecology resources, 5, 20
2020/12
Szucsich, N.U., Bartel, D., Blanke, A., Böhm, A., Donath, A., Fukui, M., Grove, S., Liu, S., Macek, O., Machida, R., Misof, B., Nakagaki, Y., Podsiadlowski, L., Sekiya, K., Tomizuka, S., Reumont, B.M.V., Waterhouse, R.M., Walzl, M., Meng, G., Zhou, X., Pass, G., Meusemann, K.
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Four myriapod relatives–but who are sisters? No end to debates on relationships among the four major myriapod subgroups
BMC evolutionary biology, 20
2020/05
Oeyen, J.P., Bâa-Puyoulet, P., Benoit, J.B., Beukeboom, L.W., Bornberg‐Bauer, E., Buttstedt, A., Calevro, F., Cash, E., Chao, H., Charles, H., Chen, M.M., Li, C., Cridge, A.G., Dearden, P.K., Dinh, H., Doddapaneni, H., Dolan, A., Donath, A., Dowling, D., Dugan, S., Duncan, E.J., Elpidina, E.N., Friedrich, M., Geuverink, E., Gibson, J.D., Grath, S., Grimmelikhuijzen, C.J.P., Große‐Wilde, E., Gudobba, C., Han, Y., Hansson, B.S., Hauser, F., Hughes, D., Ioannidis, P., Jacquin‐Joly, E., Johnston, J.S., Khila, A., Klasberg, S., Lee, S.L., Lesný, P., Lovegrove, M., Martin, S., Martynov, A., Mayer, C., Montagné, N., Moris, V.C., Muñoz‐Torres, M., Murali, S.C., Palli, S.R., Oppert, B., Parisot, N., Pauli, T., Peters, R.S., Petersen, M., Pick, C., Persyn, E., Podsiadlowski, L., Poelchau, M.F., Provataris, P., Qu, J., Reijnders, M., von Reumont, B.M., Rosendale, A.J., Simão, F.A., Skelly, J., Sotiropoulos, A.G., Stahl, A., Sumitani, M., Didion, E.M., Tidswell, O., Tsitlakidis, E., Vedder, L., Waterhouse, R.M., Werren, J.H., Wilbrandt, J., Worley, K.C., Yamamoto, D., van de Zande, L., Zdobnov, E.M., Ziesmann, T., Richards, S., Hatakeyama, M., Misof, B., Niehuis, O.
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Sawfly Genomes Reveal Evolutionary Acquisitions That Fostered the Mega-Radiation of Parasitoid and Eusocial Hymenoptera
Genome biology and evolution, 7, 12
2020/11
Meusemann, K., Trautwein, M., Friedrich, F., Beutel, R.G., Wiegmann, B.M., Donath, A., Podsiadlowski, L., Petersen, M., Niehuis, O., Mayer, C., Bayless, K.M., Shin, S., Liu, S., Hlinka, O., Minh, B.Q., Kozlov, A., Morel, B., Peters, R.S., Bartel, D., Grove, S., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Yeates, D.K.
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Are fleas highly modified Mecoptera? Phylogenomic resolution of Antliophora (Insecta: Holometabola)
2020/01
Wipfler, B., Koehler, W., Frandsen, P.B., Donath, A., Liu, S., Machida, R., Misof, B., Peters, R.S., Shimizu, S., Zhou, X., Simon, S.
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Phylogenomics changes our understanding about earwig evolution
Systematic entomology, 3, 45
2020/07
Kohli, M., Letsch, H., Greve, C., Béthoux, O., Deregnaucourt, I., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Donath, A., Mayer, C., Podsiadlowski, L., Machida, R., Niehuis, O., Rust, J., Wappler, T., Yu, X., Misof, B., Ware, J.
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How old are dragonflies and damselflies? Odonata (Insecta) transcriptomics resolve familial relationships
2020/11
Song, H., Béthoux, O., Shin, S., Donath, A., Letsch, H., Liu, S., McKenna, D.D., Meng, G., Misof, B., Podsiadlowski, L., Zhou, X., Wipfler, B., Simon, S.
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Author Correction: Phylogenomic analysis sheds light on the evolutionary pathways towards acoustic communication in Orthoptera
Nature communications, 1, 11
2020/10
Vasilikopoulos, A., Misof, B., Meusemann, K., Lieberz, D., Flouri, T., Beutel, R.G., Niehuis, O., Wappler, T., Rust, J., Peters, R.S., Donath, A., Podsiadlowski, L., Mayer, C., Bartel, D., Böhm, A., Liu, S., Kapli, P., Greve, C., Jepson, J.E., Liu, X., Zhou, X., Aspöck, H., Aspöck, U.
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Correction to: An integrative phylogenomic approach to elucidate the evolutionary history and divergence times of Neuropterida (Insecta: Holometabola)
BMC evolutionary biology, 1, 20

2019

2019/12
Thormann, J., Ahrens, D., Anderson, C., Astrin, J., Mumladze, L., Rulik, B., Tarkhnishvili, D., Espeland, M., Geiger, M., Hein, N., Iankoshvili, G., Mengual, X., Morkel, C., Neiber, M.T., Peters, R., Reimann, A., Ssymank, A., Wesener, T., Ziegler, J., Misof, B.
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A prelude to the Caucasus Barcode of Life Platform (CaBOL): Biodiversity days in Georgia in 2018 and 2019
Bonn zoological bulletin, 2, 68
2019/10
Kawahara, A.Y., Plotkin, D., Espeland, M., Meusemann, K., Toussaint, E.F.A., Donath, A., Gimnich, F., Frandsen, P.B., Zwick, A., dos Reis, M., Barber, J.R., Peters, R.S., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Mayer, C., Podsiadłowski, L., Storer, C., Yack, J.E., Misof, B., Breinholt, J.W.
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Phylogenomics reveals the evolutionary timing and pattern of butterflies and moths
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 45, 116

2018

2018/03
Rakitov, R., Moysa, A.A., Kopylov, A.T., Moshkovskii, S.A., Peters, R.S., Meusemann, K., Misof, B., Dietrich, C.H., Johnson, K.P., Podsiadlowski, L., Walden, K.K.
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Brochosomins and other novel proteins from brochosomes of leafhoppers (Insecta, Hemiptera, Cicadellidae)
Insect biochemistry and molecular biology, 94
2018/06
Böhm, A., Meusemann, K., Misof, B., Pass, G.
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Hypothesis on monochromatic vision in scorpionflies questioned by new transcriptomic data
Scientific reports, 1, 8
2018/00
Thomas, G.W., Dohmen, E., Hughes, D.S., Murali, S.C., Poelchau, M., Glastad, K., Anstead, C.A., Ayoub, N.A., Batterham, P., Bellair, M., Binford, G.J., Chao, H., Chen, Y.H., Childers, C., Dinh, H., Doddapaneni, H., Duan, J.J., Dugan, S., Esposito, L.A., Friedrich, M., Garb, J., Gasser, R.B., Goodisman, M.A., Gundersen-Rindal, D.E., Han, Y., Handler, A.M., Hatakeyama, M., Hering, L., Hunter, W.B., Ioannidis, P., Jayaseelan, J.C., Kalra, D., Khila, A., Korhonen, P.K., Lee, C.E., Lee, S.L., Li, Y., Lindsey, A.R., Mayer, G., McGregor, A.P., McKenna, D.D., Misof, B., Munidasa, M., Munoz-Torres, M., Muzny, D.M., Niehuis, O., Osuji-Lacy, N., Palli, S.R., Panfilio, K.A., Pechmann, M., Perry, T., Peters, R.S., Poynton, H.C., Prpic, N., Qu, J., Rotenberg, D., Schal, C., Schoville, S.D., Scully, E.D., Skinner, E., Sloan, D.B., Stouthamer, R., Strand, M.R., Szucsich, N.U., Wijeratne, A., Young, N.D., Zattara, E.E., Benoit, J.B., Zdobnov, E.M., Pfrender, M.E., Hackett, K.J., Werren, J.H., Worley, K.C., Gibbs, R.A., Chipman, A.D., Waterhouse, R.M., Bornberg-Bauer, E., Hahn, M.W., Richards, S.
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The genomic basis of arthropod diversity

2017

2017/01
Gunkel, S., Rust, J., Wappler, T., Mayer, C., Niehuis, O., Misof, B.
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A posteriori evaluation of molecular divergence dates using empirical estimates of time-heterogeneous fossilization rates
bioRxiv

2016

2016/12
Dowling, D., Pauli, T., Donath, A., Meusemann, K., Podsiadłowski, L., Petersen, M., Peters, R.S., Mayer, C., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Niehuis, O.
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Phylogenetic Origin and Diversification of RNAi Pathway Genes in Insects
Genome biology and evolution, 12, 8
2016/12
Pauli, T., Vedder, L., Dowling, D., Petersen, M., Meusemann, K., Donath, A., Peters, R.S., Podsiadlowski, L., Mayer, C., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Heger, P., Wiehe, T., Hering, L., Mayer, G., Misof, B., Niehuis, O.
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Transcriptomic data from panarthropods shed new light on the evolution of insulator binding proteins in insects: Insect insulator proteins
BMC genomics, 17
2016/09
Sann, M., Peters, R., Niehuis, O., Mayer, C., Donath, A., Petersen, M., Bank, S., Podsiadlowski, L., Meusemann, K., Misof, B., Bleidorn, C., Ohl, M.
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Phylogenetic relationships of apoid wasps and bees inferred from analyzing target DNA enrichment data
2016/09
Yeates, D.K., Meusemann, K., Schneeberg, K., Beutel, R., Misof, B.
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Inferring the relationships of early brachyceran lineages with phylogenomic and comprehensive morphological data
2016/09
Niehuis, O., Meusemann, K., Donath, A., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Peters, R., Liu, S., Petersen, M., Mayer, C., Krogmann, L., Podsiadlowski, L.
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Inferring the evolutionary history of wasps, ants, and bees from transcriptomic data (Insecta: Hymenoptera)

2015

2015/00
Meusemann, K., YEATES, D., Vasilikopoulos, A., Misof, B., Beutel, R.G.
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Fleas, Flies, Scorpionflies: phylogenetic relationships of Antliophora based on transcriptomics.

2014

2014/00
Stocsits, R.R., Letsch, H., Meusemann, K., Reumont, B.M.v., Misof, B., Hertel, J., Tafer, H., Stadler, P.F.
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RNA in phylogenetic reconstruction

2012

2012/11
Kück, P., Greve, C., Misof, B., Gimnich, F.
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Automated Masking of AFLP Markers Improves Reliability of Phylogenetic Analyses
PloS one, 11, 7
2012/06
Hartig, G., Peters, R.S., Borner, J., Etzbauer, C., Misof, B., Niehuis, O.
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Oligonucleotide primers for targeted amplification of single-copy nuclear genes in apocritan Hymenoptera
PloS one, 6, 7
2012/02
Reumont, B.M.V., Struwe, J., Schwarzer, J., Misof, B.
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Phylogeography of the burnet moth Zygaena transalpina complex: molecular and morphometric differentiation suggests glacial refugia in Southern France, Western …
Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 1, 50

2009

2009/01
Wägele, J., Letsch, H., Klussmann‐Kolb, A., Mayer, C., Misof, B., Wägele, H.
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Phylogenetic support values are not necessarily informative: the case of the Serialia hypothesis (a mollusk phylogeny)
Frontiers in zoology, 1, 6

2008

2008/09
Schwarzer, J., Herder, F., Misof, B., Hadiaty, R.K., Schliewen, U.K.
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Gene flow at the margin of Lake Matano’s adaptive sailfin silverside radiation: Telmatherinidae of River Petea in Sulawesi
Hydrobiologia, 205

Projects

Genomics technology for the Caucasus

Hybrid swarm evolution in minnows

Museum Koenig #digital

CaBOL - Caucasus Barcode of Life

FOGS

GGBC

Publications

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2025

2025/01

2024

2024/07

2024/07

2024/02

2024/06

2023

2023/06

2023/08

2023/12

2023/02

2022

2022/01

2021

2021/10

2021/12

2020

2020/06

2020/12

2020/05

2020/11

2020/01

2020/07

2020/11

2020/10

2019

2019/12

2019/10

2018

2018/03

2018/06

2018/00

2017

2017/01

2016

2016/12

2016/12

2016/09

2016/09

2016/09

2015

2015/00

2014

2014/00

2012

2012/11

2012/06

2012/02

2009

2009/01

2008

2008/09