Christoph Mayer

Projects

Investigating the genomic and transcriptomic signatures of global change in a marine fish species in space and time
Management: Dr. Christoph Mayer
Mega-evolutionary dynamics in anurans
Management: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

Publications

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2025

2025/01
Schöneberg, Y., Audisio, T.L., Ben Hamadou, A., Forman, M., Král, J., Kořínková, T., Líznarová, E., Mayer, C., Prokopcová, L., Krehenwinkel, H., Prost, S., Kennedy, S.
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Three Novel Spider Genomes Unveil Spidroin Diversification and Hox Cluster Architecture: Ryuthela nishihirai (Liphistiidae), Uloborus plumipes (Uloboridae) and Cheiracanthium punctorium (Cheiracanthiidae)
Molecular Ecology resources, 1, 25
2025/03
Arsic, P., Mayer, C.
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Ali-U-Net: A Convolutional Transformer Neural Net for Multiple Sequence Alignment of DNA Sequences. A proof of concept

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
2024/11
Kulikov, N., Derakhshandeh, F., Mayer, C.
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Machine learning can be as good as maximum likelihood when reconstructing phylogenetic trees and determining the best evolutionary model on four taxon alignments
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 200
2024/08
Bartsch, S.B., Vogel, J., Ankermann, A., Mayer, C., Peters, R.S.
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Protocol for the preparation of Wings and Wing Interference Pattern Imaging from ethanol preserved specimens
2024/08
Vogel, J., Forshage, M., Bartsch, S.B., Ankermann, A., Mayer, C., Falkenhausen, P.v., Rduch, V., Müller, B., Braun, C., Krammer, H., Peters, R.S.
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Integrative characterisation of the Northwestern European species of Anacharis Dalman, 1823 (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Figitidae) with the description of three new species
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 97
2024/08
Fuhrmann, N., Brasseur, M.V., Bakowski, C.E., Podsiadlowski, L., Prost, S., Krehenwinkel, H., Mayer, C.
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Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of the Viviparous Eelpout Zoarces viviparus
Genome biology and evolution, 8, 16
2024/12
Dietz, L., Kukowka, S., Eberle, J., Mayer, C., Niehuis, O., Podsiadlowski, L., Ahrens, D.
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Museomics reveal origins of East African Pleophylla forest chafers and Miocene forest connectivity
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 201
2024/08
B. Bartsch, S., Vogel, J., Ankermann, A., Mayer, C.
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Protocol for the preparation of Wings and Wing Interference Pattern Imaging from ethanol preserved specimens v1
2024/04
Dietz, L., Eberle, J., Mayer, C., Kukowka, S., Bohacz, C., Baur, H., Espeland, M., Huber, B., Hutter, C., Mengual, X., Peters, R., Vences, M., Wesener, T., Willmott, K., Misof, B., Niehuis, O., Ahrens, D.
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Standardized nuclear markers improve and homogenize species delimitation in Metazoa (vol 14, pg 543, 2023)
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 4, 15

2023

2023/04
Brasseur, M.V., Astrin, J.J., Geiger, M.F., Mayer, C.
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Efficient extraction of mitochondrial genes from next‐generation sequencing libraries
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 4, 14
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
2023/09
Brasseur, M.V., Buchner, D., Mack, L., Schreiner, V.C., Schäfer, R.B., Leese, F., Mayer, C.
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Multiple stressor effects of insecticide exposure and increased fine sediment deposition on the gene expression profiles of two freshwater invertebrate species
1, 35
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
2023/10
Brasseur, M.V., Leese, F., Schäfer, R.B., Schreiner, V.C., Mayer, C.
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Transcriptomic sequencing data illuminate insecticide-induced physiological stress mechanisms in aquatic non-target invertebrates
335
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

2022/04
Flury, J.M., Hilgers, L., Herder, F., Spanke, T., Misof, B., Wowor, D., Boneka, F.B., Wantania, L.L., Mokodongan, D.F., Mayer, C., Nolte, A.W., Schwarzer, J.
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The genetic basis of a novel reproductive strategy in Sulawesi ricefishes: How modularity and a low number of loci shape pelvic brooding
Evolution, 5, 76
2022/10
Mengual, X., Mayer, C., Burt, T.O., Moran, K.M., Dietz, L., Nottebrock, G., Pauli, T., Young, A.D., Brasseur, M.V., Kukowka, S., Kelso, S., Etzbauer, C., Bot, S., Hauser, M., Jordaens, K., Miranda, G.F.G., Ståhls, G., van Steenis, W., Peters, R.S., Skevington, J.H.
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Systematics and evolution of predatory flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) based on exon‐capture sequencing
2, 48
2022/06
Joshi, M., Espeland, M., Dincă, V., Vila, R., Tahami, M.S., Dietz, L., Mayer, C., Martin, S., Dapporto, L., Mutanen, M.
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Delimiting continuity: Comparison of target enrichment and double digest restriction‐site associated DNA sequencing for delineating admixing parapatric Melitaea butterflies
Systematic entomology, 4, 47
2022/12
Brasseur, M.V., Beermann, A.J., Elbrecht, V., Grabner, D., Peinert-Voss, B., Salis, R.K., Weiss, M., Mayer, C., Leese, F.
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Impacts of multiple anthropogenic stressors on the transcriptional response of Gammarus fossarum in a mesocosm field experiment
1, 23

2021

2021/03
Mayer, C., Dietz, L., Call, E., Kukowka, S., Martin, S., Espeland, M.
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Adding leaves to the Lepidoptera tree: capturing hundreds of nuclear genes from old museum specimens
Systematic entomology, 3, 46
2021/11
Kohli, M.K., Letsch, H., Greve, C., Béthoux, O., Deregnaucourt, I., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Donath, A., Mayer, C., Podsiadłowski, L., Gunkel, S., Machida, R., Niehuis, O., Rust, J., Wappler, T., Xin, Y., Misof, B., Ware, J.L.
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Evolutionary history and divergence times of Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) revealed through transcriptomics
iScience, 11, 24
2021/02
Bayless, K.M., Trautwein, M., Meusemann, K., Shin, S., Petersen, M., Donath, A., Podsiadłowski, L., Mayer, C., Niehuis, O., Peters, R.S., Meier, R., Kutty, S.N., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Yeates, D.K., Wiegmann, B.M.
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Beyond Drosophila: resolving the rapid radiation of schizophoran flies with phylotranscriptomics
BMC biology, 1, 19
2021/03
Call, E., Mayer, C., Twort, V., Dietz, L., Wahlberg, N., Espeland, M.
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Museomics: Phylogenomics of the Moth Family Epicopeiidae (Lepidoptera) Using Target Enrichment
Insect systematics and diversity, 2, 5
2021/07
Letsch, H., Simon, S., Frandsen, P.B., Liu, S., Machida, R., Mayer, C., Misof, B., Niehuis, O., Zhou, X., Wipfler‍, B.
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Combining molecular datasets with strongly heterogeneous taxon coverage enlightens the peculiar biogeographic history of stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera)
Systematic entomology, 4, 46
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
2021/09
Stringer, D.N., Bertozzi, T., Meusemann, K., Delean, S., Guzik, M.T., Tierney, S.M., Mayer, C., Cooper, S.J., Javidkar, M., Zwick, A., Austin, A.D.
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Development and evaluation of a custom bait design based on 469 single-copy protein-coding genes for exon capture of isopods (Philosciidae: Haloniscus)
PloS one, 9, 16
2021/01
Pauli, T., Meusemann, K., Kukowka, S., Sann, M., Donath, A., Mayer, C., Oeyen, J.P., Ballesteros, Y., Berg, A., van den Berghe, E., Escalona, H.E., Guglielmino, A., Niehuis, M., Fusu, L., Podsiadłowski, L., Polidori, C., de Rond, J., Rosa, P., Schmitt, T., Strumia, F., Wurdack, M., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Peters, R.S., Niehuis, O.
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Analysis of RNA-Seq, DNA Target Enrichment, and Sanger Nucleotide Sequence Data Resolves Deep Splits in the Phylogeny of Cuckoo Wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae)
1, 5

2020

2020/06
Vasilikopoulos, A., Misof, B., Meusemann, K., Lieberz, D., Flouri, T., Beutel, R.G., Niehuis, O., Wappler, T., Rust, J., Peters, R.S., Donath, A., Podsiadłowski, L., Mayer, C., Bartel, D., Böhm, A., Liu, S., Kapli, P., Greve, C., Jepson, J.E., Liu, X., Zhou, X., Aspöck, H., Aspöck, H.
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An integrative phylogenomic approach to elucidate the evolutionary history and divergence times of Neuropterida (Insecta: Holometabola)
BMC evolutionary biology, 1, 20
2020/04
Eberle, J., Ahrens, D., Mayer, C., Niehuis, O., Misof, B.
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A Plea for Standardized Nuclear Markers in Metazoan DNA Taxonomy
Trends in ecology & evolution, 4, 35
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
2020/05
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
2020/10
Maletti, S., Niehuis, O., Mayer, C., Sann, M., Klopfstein, S., Nottebrock, G., Baur, H., Peters, R.S.
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Phylogeny, taxonomics, and ovipositor length variation of the Pteromalus albipennis species group (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Pteromalinae)
Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 2, 59
2020/12
Biswas, M.K., Bagchi, M., Biswas, D., Harikrishna, J.A., Liu, Y., Li, C., Sheng, O., Mayer, C., Guo, L., Deng, G.
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Genome-Wide Novel Genic Microsatellite Marker Resource Development and Validation for Genetic Diversity and Population Structure Analysis of Banana
12, 11
2020/02
Dömel, J.S., Dietz, L., Macher, T., Rozenberg, A., Mayer, C., Spaak, J.M., Melzer, R.R., Leese, F.
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Analyzing drivers of speciation in the Southern Ocean using the sea spider species complex Colossendeis megalonyx as a test case
4, 43
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)
2020/07
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
2020/10
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

2019/11
McKenna, D.D., Shin, S., Ahrens, D., Balke, M., Beza-Beza, C., Clarke, D., Donath, A., Escalona, H.E., Friedrich, F., Letsch, H., Liu, S., Maddison, D.R., Mayer, C., Misof, B., Murin, P., Niehuis, O., Peters, R.S., Podsiadłowski, L., Pohl, H., Scully, E.D., Yan, E.V., Zhou, X., Ślipiński, A., Beutel, R.G.
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The evolution and genomic basis of beetle diversity
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 49, 116
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
2019/01
Wipfler‍, B., Letsch, H., Frandsen, P.B., Kapli, P., Mayer, C., Bartel, D., Buckley, T.R., Donath, A., Edgerly, J.S., Fujita, M., Liu, S., Machida, R., Mashimo, Y., Misof, B., Niehuis, O., Peters, R.S., Petersen, M., Podsiadłowski, L., Schütte, K., Shimizu, S., Uchifune, T., Wilbrandt, J., Yan, E.V., Zhou, X., Simon, S.
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Evolutionary history of Polyneoptera and its implications for our understanding of early winged insects
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 8, 116
2019/06
Vasilikopoulos, A., Balke, M., Beutel, R.G., Donath, A., Podsiadłowski, L., Pflug, J.M., Waterhouse, R.M., Meusemann, K., Peters, R.S., Escalona, H.E., Mayer, C., Liu, S., Hendrich, L., Alarie, Y., Bilton, D.T., Jia, F., Zhou, X., Maddison, D.R., Niehuis, O., Misof, B.
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Phylogenomics of the superfamily Dytiscoidea (Coleoptera: Adephaga) with an evaluation of phylogenetic conflict and systematic error
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 135
2019/07
Dietz, L., Dömel, J.S., Leese, F., Mahon, A.R., Mayer, C.
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Phylogenomics of the longitarsal Colossendeidae: The evolutionary history of an Antarctic sea spider radiation
136
2019/09
Dömel, J.S., Macher, T., Dietz, L., Duncan, S., Mayer, C., Rozenberg, A., Wolcott, K., Leese, F., Melzer, R.R.
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Combining morphological and genomic evidence to resolve species diversity and study speciation processes of the Pallenopsis patagonica (Pycnogonida) species complex
1, 16
2019/09
Krehenwinkel, H., Meese, S., Mayer, C., Ruch, J., Schneider, J.M., Bilde, T., Künzel, S., Henderson, J., Russack, J., Simison, W.B., Gillespie, R.G., Uhl, G.R.
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Cost effective microsatellite isolation and genotyping by high throughput sequencing
2, 47
2019/10
Vizán-Rico, H.I., Mayer, C., Petersen, M., McKenna, D.D., Zhou, X., Gómez-Zurita, J.
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Patterns and Constraints in the Evolution of Sperm Individualization Genes in Insects, with an Emphasis on Beetles
Genes, 10, 10

2018

2018/11
Johnson, K.P., Dietrich, C.H., Friedrich, F., Beutel, R.G., Wipfler‍, B., Peters, R.S., Allen, J.M., Petersen, M., Donath, A., Walden, K.K.O., Kozlov, A., Podsiadłowski, L., Mayer, C., Meusemann, K., Vasilikopoulos, A., Waterhouse, R.M., Cameron, S.L., Weirauch, C., Swanson, D.R., Percy, D.M., Hardy, N.B., Terry, I., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Robertson, H.M., Yoshizawa, K.
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Phylogenomics and the evolution of hemipteroid insects
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 50, 115
2018/05
Sann, M., Niehuis, O., Peters, R.S., Mayer, C., Kozlov, A., Podsiadłowski, L., Bank, S., Meusemann, K., Misof, B., Bleidorn, C., Ohl, M.
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Phylogenomic analysis of Apoidea sheds new light on the sister group of bees
BMC evolutionary biology, 1, 18
2018/03
Peters, R.S., Niehuis, O., Gunkel, S., Bläser, M., Mayer, C., Podsiadłowski, L., Kozlov, A., Donath, A., van Noort, S., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Heraty, J.M., Krogmann, L.
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Transcriptome sequence-based phylogeny of chalcidoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) reveals a history of rapid radiations, convergence, and evolutionary success
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 120
2018/11
Gillung, J.P., Winterton, S.L., Bayless, K.M., Khouri, Z., Borowiec, M.L., Yeates, D.K., Kimsey, L.S., Misof, B., Shin, S., Zhou, X., Mayer, C., Petersen, M., Wiegmann, B.M.
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Anchored phylogenomics unravels the evolution of spider flies (Diptera, Acroceridae) and reveals discordance between nucleotides and amino acids
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 128

2017

2017/04
Peters, R.S., Krogmann, L., Mayer, C., Donath, A., Gunkel, S., Meusemann, K., Kozlov, A., Podsiadłowski, L., Petersen, M., Lanfear, R., Diez, P.A., Heraty, J.M., Kjer, K.M., Klopfstein, S., Meier, R., Polidori, C., Schmitt, T., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Wappler, T., Rust, J., Misof, B., Niehuis, O.
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Evolutionary History of the Hymenoptera
CB/Current biology, 7, 27
2017/01
Möck, T., Otillar, R., Strauss, J., McMullan, M., Paajanen, P., Schmutz, J., Salamov, A., Sanges, R., Toseland, A., Ward, B.J., Allen, A.E., Dupont, C.L., Frickenhaus, S., Maumus, F., Veluchamy, A., Wu, T., Barry, K., Falciatore, A., Ferrante, M.I., Fortunato, A.E., Glöckner, G., Gruber, A., Hipkin, R., Janech, M.G., Kroth, P.G., Leese, F., Lindquist, E., Lyon, B.R., Martin, J., Mayer, C., Parker, M.S., Quesneville, H., Raymond, J.A., Uhlig, C., Valas, R.E., Valentin, K., Worden, A.Z., Armbrust, E.V., Clark, M., Bowler, C., Green, B.R., Moulton, V., van Oosterhout, C., Grigoriev, I.V.
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Evolutionary genomics of the cold-adapted diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus
Nature, 7638, 541
2017/11
Bank, S., Sann, M., Mayer, C., Meusemann, K., Donath, A., Podsiadłowski, L., Kozlov, A., Petersen, M., Krogmann, L., Meier, R., Rosa, P., Schmitt, T., Wurdack, M., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Peters, R.S., Niehuis, O.
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Transcriptome and target DNA enrichment sequence data provide new insights into the phylogeny of vespid wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata: Vespidae)
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 116
2017/01
Biswas, M.K., Mayer, C., Deng, X.
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Repeats in the transcribed regions: comprehensive characterization and comparison of Citrus spp.
4, 4
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

2016/03
Mayer, C., Sann, M., Donath, A., Meixner, M., Podsiadłowski, L., Peters, R.S., Petersen, M., Meusemann, K., Liere, K., Wägele, J., Misof, B., Bleidorn, C., Ohl, M., Niehuis, O.
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BaitFisher: A Software Package for Multispecies Target DNA Enrichment Probe Design
Molecular biology and evolution, 7, 33
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
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)
2016/07
Araújo, C.A.C., Mayer, C., Waniek, P.J., Azambuja, P., Jansen, A.M.
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Differentiation of Trypanosoma cruzi I (TcI) and T. cruzi II (TcII) genotypes using genes encoding serine carboxypeptidases
Parasitology research, 11, 115

2015

2015/02
Frandsen, P.B., Calcott, B., Mayer, C., Lanfear, R.
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Automatic selection of partitioning schemes for phylogenetic analyses using iterative k-means clustering of site rates
BMC evolutionary biology, 1, 15
2015/07
Dietz, L., Arango, C.P., Dömel, J.S., Halanych, K.M., Harder, A.M., Held, C., Mahon, A.R., Mayer, C., Melzer, R.R., Rouse, G.W., Weis, A., Wilson, N.G., Leese, F.
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Regional differentiation and extensive hybridization between mitochondrial clades of the Southern Ocean giant sea spider Colossendeis megalonyx
Royal Society open science, 7, 2
2015/06
Biswas, M.K., Liu, Y., Li, C., Sheng, O., Mayer, C., Guo, L.
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Genome-Wide Computational Analysis of Musa Microsatellites: Classification, Cross-Taxon Transferability, Functional Annotation, Association with Transposons & miRNAs, and Genetic Marker Potential
6, 10
2015/07
Kjer, K.M., Ware, J.L., Rust, J., Wappler, T., Lanfear, R., Jermiin, L.S., Zhou, X., Aspöck, H., Aspöck, U., Beutel, R.G., Blanke, A., Donath, A., Flouri, T., Frandsen, P.B., Kapli, P., Kawahara, A.Y., Letsch, H., Mayer, C., McKenna, D.D., Meusemann, K., Niehuis, O., Peters, R.S., Wiegmann, B.M., Yeates, D.K., von Reumont, B.M., Stamatakis, A., Misof, B.
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Response to Comment on “Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution”
Science, 6247, 349

2014

2014/11
Misof, B., Liu, S., Meusemann, K., Peters, R.S., Donath, A., Mayer, C., Frandsen, P.B., Ware, J.L., Flouri, T., Beutel, R.G., Niehuis, O., Petersen, M., Izquierdo-Carrasco, F., Wappler, T., Rust, J., Aberer, A.J., Aspöck, H., Aspöck, H., Bartel, D., Blanke, A., Berger, S., Böhm, A., Buckley, T.R., Calcott, B., Chen, J., Friedrich, F., Fukui, M., Fujita, M., Greve, C., Grobe, P., Gu, S., Huang, Y., Jermiin, L.S., Kawahara, A.Y., Krogmann, L., Kubiak, M., Lanfear, R., Letsch, H., Li, Y., Li, Z., Li, J., Lu, H., Machida, R., Mashimo, Y., Kapli, P., McKenna, D.D., Meng, G., Nakagaki, Y., Navarrete-Heredia, J.L., Ott, M., Ou, Y., Pass, G., Podsiadłowski, L., Pohl, H., von Reumont, B.M., Schütte, K., Sekiya, K., Shimizu, S., Ślipiński, A., Stamatakis, A., Song, W., Su, X., Szucsich, N.U., Tan, M., Tan, X., Tang, M., Tang, J., Timelthaler, G., Tomizuka, S., Trautwein, M., Tong, X., Uchifune, T., Walzl, M., Wiegmann, B.M., Wilbrandt, J., Wipfler‍, B., Wong, T.K.F., Wu, Q., Wu, G., Xie, Y., Yang, S., Yang, Q., Yeates, D.K., Yoshizawa, K., Zhang, Q., Zhang, R., Zhang, W., Zhang, Y., Zhao, J., Zhou, C., Zhou, L., Ziesmann, T., Zou, S., Li, Y., Xu, X., Zhang, Y., Yang, H., Wang, J., Wang, J., Kjer, K.M.
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Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution
Science, 6210, 346
2014/01
Lanfear, R., Calcott, B., Kainer, D., Mayer, C., Stamatakis, A.
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Selecting optimal partitioning schemes for phylogenomic datasets
BMC evolutionary biology, 1, 14
2014/03
Peters, R.S., Meusemann, K., Petersen, M., Mayer, C., Wilbrandt, J., Ziesmann, T., Donath, A., Kjer, K.M., Aspöck, H., Aspöck, H., Aberer, A.J., Stamatakis, A., Friedrich, F., Hünefeld, F., Niehuis, O., Beutel, R.G., Misof, B.
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The evolutionary history of holometabolous insects inferred from transcriptome-based phylogeny and comprehensive morphological data
BMC evolutionary biology, 1, 14
2014/08
Biswas, M.K., Xu, Q., Mayer, C., Deng, X.
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Genome Wide Characterization of Short Tandem Repeat Markers in Sweet Orange (Citrus sinensis)
PloS one, 8, 9

2013

2013/06
Read, B., Kegel, J., Klute, M.J., Kuo, A., Lefebvre, S.C., Maumus, F., Mayer, C., Miller, J.J., Monier, A., Salamov, A., Young, J.R., Aguilar, M.J.C., Claverie, J., Frickenhaus, S., González, K., Herman, E.K., Lin, Y., Napier, J.A., Ogata, H., Sarno, A.F., Shmutz, J., Schroeder, D.C., Verret, F., von Dassow, P., Valentin, K., Van de Peer, Y., Wheeler, G.C., Huxleyi, E., Dacks, J.B., Delwiche, C.F., Dyhrman, S.T., Glöckner, G., John, U., Richards, T.A., Worden, A.Z., Zhang, X., Grigoriev, I.V., Cock, J.M.
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Pan genome of the phytoplankton Emiliania underpins its global distribution
Nature, 7457, 499
2013/03
Dambach, J., Raupach, M.J., Mayer, C., Schwarzer, J., Leese, F.
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Isolation and characterization of nine polymorphic microsatellite markers for the deep-sea shrimp Nematocarcinus lanceopes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea)
1, 6
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Stemmer, K., Burghardt, I., Mayer, C., Reinicke, G.B., Wägele, H., Tollrian, R., Leese, F.
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Morphological and genetic analyses of xeniid soft coral diversity (Octocorallia; Alcyonacea)
Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 13

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2012/07
Niehuis, O., Hartig, G., Grath, S., Pohl, H., Lehmann, J., Tafer, H., Donath, A., Krauß, V., Eisenhardt, C., Hertel, J., Petersen, M., Mayer, C., Meusemann, K., Peters, R.S., Stadler, P.F., Beutel, R.G., Bornberg‐Bauer, E., McKenna, D.D., Misof, B.
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Genomic and Morphological Evidence Converge to Resolve the Enigma of Strepsiptera
CB/Current biology, 14, 22
2012/05
Kück, P., Mayer, C., Wägele, J., Misof, B.
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Long Branch Effects Distort Maximum Likelihood Phylogenies in Simulations Despite Selection of the Correct Model
PloS one, 5, 7
2012/11
Leese, F., Brand, P., Rozenberg, A., Mayer, C., Agrawal, S., Dambach, J., Dietz, L., Doemel, J.S., Goodall-Copstake, W.P., Held, C., Jackson, J.A., Lampert, K.P., Linse, K., Macher, J.N., Nolzen, J., Raupach, M.J., Rivera, N.T., Schubart, C.D., Striewski, S., Tollrian, R., Sands, C.J.
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Exploring Pandora's Box: Potential and Pitfalls of Low Coverage Genome Surveys for Evolutionary Biology
PloS one, 11, 7
2012/01
Bernhardt, B.C., Lampert, K.P., Leese, F., Mayer, C., Tollrian, R.
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Are shoals of minnow Phoxinus phoxinus formed by close kin?
3, 80

2011

2011/12
Biswas, M.K., Chai, L., Mayer, C., Xu, Q., Guo, W., Deng, X.
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Exploiting BAC-end sequences for the mining, characterization and utility of new short sequences repeat (SSR) markers in Citrus
Molecular biology reports, 5, 39
2011/08
Kurtenbach, S., Mayer, C., Pelz, T., Hatt, H., Leese, F., Neuhaus, E.M.
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Molecular evolution of a chordate specific family of G protein-coupled receptors
BMC evolutionary biology, 1, 11
2011/03
Dietz, L., Mayer, C., Arango, C.P., Leese, F.
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The mitochondrial genome of Colossendeis megalonyx supports a basal position of Colossendeidae within the Pycnogonida
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 3, 58

2010

2010/06
Spanier, K.I., Leese, F., Mayer, C., Colbourne, J.K., Gilbert, D., Pfrender, M.E., Tollrian, R.
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Predator-induced defences in Daphnia pulex: Selection and evaluation of internal reference genes for gene expression studies with real-time PCR
BMC molecular biology, 1, 11
2010/04
Mayer, C., Leese, F., Tollrian, R.
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Genome-wide analysis of tandem repeats in Daphnia pulex-a comparative approach
BMC genomics, 1, 11
2010/03
Krabbe, K., Leese, F., Mayer, C., Tollrian, R., Held, C.
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Cryptic mitochondrial lineages in the widespread pycnogonid Colossendeis megalonyx Hoek, 1881 from Antarctic and Subantarctic waters
Polar biology, 3, 33

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
2009/01
Kraemer, L., Beszteri, B., Gäbler-Schwarz, S., Held, C., Leese, F., Mayer, C., Pöhlmann, K., Frickenhaus, S.
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STAMP: Extensions to the STADEN sequence analysis package for high throughput interactive microsatellite marker design
BMC bioinformatics, 1, 10

2008

2008/11
Raupach, M.J., Mayer, C., Malyutina, M., Wägele, J.
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Multiple origins of deep-sea Asellota (Crustacea: Isopoda) from shallow waters revealed by molecular data
Proceedings - Royal Society. Biological sciences/Proceedings - Royal Society. Biological Sciences, 1658, 276
2008/09
Leese, F., Mayer, C., Held, C.
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Isolation of microsatellites from unknown genomes using known genomes as enrichment templates
Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 9, 6

2007

2007/01
Wägele, J., Mayer, C.
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Visualizing differences in phylogenetic information content of alignments and distinction of three classes of long-branch effects
BMC evolutionary biology, 1, 7

2006

2006/07
Araújo, C., Waniek, P., Stock, P., Mayer, C., Jansen, A., Schaub, G.
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Sequence characterization and expression patterns of defensin and lysozyme encoding genes from the gut of the reduviid bug Triatoma brasiliensis
Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 7, 36

2005

2005/12
Waniek, P.J., Hendgen-Cotta, U.B., Stock, P., Mayer, C., Kollien, A.H., Schaub, G.A.
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Serine proteinases of the human body louse (Pediculus humanus): sequence characterization and expression patterns
Parasitology research, 6, 97

2002

2002/05
Hornig, G., Mayer, C.
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Towards a third-order topological invariant for magnetic fields
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 17, 35

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Investigating the genomic and transcriptomic signatures of global change in a marine fish species in space and time

Mega-evolutionary dynamics in anurans

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