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Dr. Karen Meusemann

  • Scientific Referee & Research Coordination

Alexander-Koenig-Gesellschaft e. V
Adenauerallee 127
53113 Bonn

Phone: +49 228 9122 307
E-Mail: k.meusemann@leibniz-lib.de

Projects

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    2024

  • 2024/01

    Crisp, M.D., Minh, B.Q., Choi, B., Edwards, R.D., Hereward, J., Kulheim, C., Lin, Y.P., Meusemann, K., Thornhill, A.H., Toon, A., Cook, L.G.

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    Perianth evolution and implications for generic delimitation in the eucalypts (Myrtaceae), including the description of the new genus, Blakella

    Journal of systematics and evolution/Journal of Systematics and Evolution

  • 2024/03

    Leibniz Research Network Biodiversity. (2024). 10 Must Knows from Biodiversity Science 2024 (Version 1). Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. 

  • 2023

  • 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

  • 2022

  • 2022/04

    Waterhouse, R., Meusemann, K.

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    “Phylogenetics in the Genomic Era” brings together experts in the field to present a comprehensive synthesis

    Peer Community in Genomics, 1

  • 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

  • 2022/07

    Flury, J., Meusemann, K., Martin, S., Hilgers, L., Spanke, T., Böhne, A., Herder, F., Mokodongan, D., Altmüller, J., Wowor, D., Misof, B., Nolte, A., Schwarzer, J.

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    Contribution of hybridization to the evolution of a derived reproductive strategy in ricefishes

    bioRxiv

  • 2022/09

    Kück, P., Romahn, J., Meusemann, K.

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    Pitfalls of the site-concordance factor (sCF) as measure of phylogenetic branch support

    NAR genomics and bioinformatics, 3, 4

  • 2021

  • 2021/04

    Korb, J., Meusemann, K., Aumer, D., Bernadou, A., Elsner, D., Feldmeyer, B., Foitzik, S., Heinze, J., Libbrecht, R., Lin, S., Majoe, M., Kuhn, J.M.M., Nehring, V., Negroni, M.A., Paxton, R.J., Séguret, A.C., Stoldt, M., Flatt, T., Consortium, S.

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    Comparative transcriptomic analysis of the mechanisms underpinning ageing and fecundity in social insects

    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 1823, 376

  • 2021/06

    Séguret, A., Stolle, E., Fleites-Ayil, F.A., Quezada-Euán, J.J.G., Hartfelder, K., Meusemann, K., Harrison, M.C., Soro, A., Paxton, R.J.

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    Transcriptomic signatures of ageing vary in solitary and social forms of an orchid bee

    Genome biology and evolution, 6, 13

  • 2021/12

    Yan, L., Pape, T., Meusemann, K., Kutty, S.N., Meier, R., Bayless, K.M., Zhang, D.

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    Monophyletic blowflies revealed by phylogenomics

    BMC biology, 19

  • 2021/05

    Kuhn, J.M.M., Meusemann, K., Korb, J.

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    Disentangling the aging gene expression network of termite queens

    BMC genomics, 1, 22

  • 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

  • 2021/07

    Sann, M., Meusemann, K., Niehuis, O., Escalona, H.E., Mokrousov, M., Ohl, M., Pauli, T., Schmid‐Egger, C.

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    Reanalysis of the apoid wasp phylogeny with additional taxa and sequence data confirms the placement of Ammoplanidae as sister to bees

    Systematic entomology, 3, 46

  • 2021/12

    Karmeinski, D., Meusemann, K., Goodheart, J.A., Schroedl, M., Martynov, A., Korshunova, T., Wägele, H., Donath, A.

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    Transcriptomics provides a robust framework for the relationships of the major clades of cladobranch sea slugs (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Heterobranchia), but fails to resolve the …

    BMC ecology and evolution, 21

  • 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

  • 2021/04

    Kramer, B.H., Nehring, V., Buttstedt, A., Heinze, J., Korb, J., Libbrecht, R., Meusemann, K., Paxton, R.J., Séguret, A., Schaub, F., Bernadou, A.

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    Oxidative stress and senescence in social insects: a significant but inconsistent link?

    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 1823, 376

  • 2020

  • 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

  • 2020/02

    Meusemann, K., Korb, J., Schughart, M., Staubach, F.

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    No evidence for single-copy immune-gene specific signals of selection in termites

    Frontiers in ecology and evolution, 8

  • 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)

  • 2020/10

    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

  • 2019/10

    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

  • 2019/03

    Brandt, A., Bast, J., Scheu, S., Meusemann, K., Donath, A., Schütte, K., Machida, R., Kraaijeveld, K.

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    No signal of deleterious mutation accumulation in conserved gene sequences of extant asexual hexapods

    Scientific reports, 1, 9

  • 2019/01

    Korb, J., Kasseney, B.D., Cakpo, Y.T., Daza, R.H.C., Gbenyedji, J.N.K., Ilboudo, M.E., Josens, G., Koné, N.A., Meusemann, K., Ndiaye, A.B., Okweche, S.I., Poulsen, M., Roisin, Y., Sankara, F.

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    Termite taxonomy, challenges and prospects: West Africa, a case example

    Insects, 1, 10

  • 2019/08

    Choi, B., Crisp, M.D., Cook, L.G., Meusemann, K., Edwards, R.D., Toon, A., Külheim, C.

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    Identifying genetic markers for a range of phylogenetic utility–From species to family level

    PloS one, 8, 14

  • 2019/09

    Meusemann, K., Korb, J., Schughart, M., Staubach, F.

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    No evidence for immune-gene specific signals of selection in termites

    bioRxiv

  • 2019/02

    Kuhn, J.M.M., Meusemann, K., Korb, J.

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    Long live the queen, the king and the commoner? Transcript expression differences between old and young in the termite Cryptotermes secundus

    PloS one, 2, 14

  • 2019/00

    Elsner, D., Meusemann, K., Korb, J.

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    Data from: Longevity and transposon defense, the case of termite reproductives

  • 2018

  • 2018/08

    Bernadou, A., Schrader, L., Pable, J., Hoffacker, E., Meusemann, K., Heinze, J.

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    Stress and early experience underlie dominance status and division of labour in a clonal insect

    Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1885, 285

  • 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

  • 2018/05

    Elsner, D., Meusemann, K., Korb, J.

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    Longevity and transposon defense, the case of termite reproductives

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 21, 115

  • 2018/11

    Skinner, R., Dietrich, C.H., Yoshizawa, K., Meusemann, K., Robertson, H.M., Johnson, K.P.

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    Phylogenomic analysis of Paraneoptera using transcriptome sequencing

  • 2017

  • 2017/11

    Ware, J., Letsch, H., Meusemann, K., Blanke, A., Kohli, M.K., Greive, C.

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    Transcriptomics to estimate the systematic relationships of Odonata

  • 2017/00

    Beutel, R.G., Yavorskaya, M.I., Mashimo, Y., Fukui, M., Meusemann, K.

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    The phylogeny of Hexapoda (Arthropoda) and the evolution of megadiversity

    Proc. Arthropod. Embryol. Soc. Jpn, 51

  • 2017/11

    Evangelista, D.A., Wipfler, B., Meusemann, K., Simon, S., Legendre, F.

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    Phylogenomics of cockroaches (Blattodea)

  • 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

  • 2016/02

    Yeates, D.K., Meusemann, K., Trautwein, M., Wiegmann, B., Zwick, A.

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    Power, resolution and bias: recent advances in insect phylogeny driven by the genomic revolution

    Current Opinion in Insect Science, 13

  • 2016/09

    Bayless, K.M., Meusemann, K., Trautwein, M., Wiegmann, B.M.

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    Using transcriptome based phylogenomics to address previously intractable acalyptrate fly phylogeny (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha)

  • 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.

  • 2015/03

    Bartel, D., Szucsich, N., Meusemann, K., Böhm, A., Pass, G.

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    Die frühen Verzweigungen der Insekten als „gordischer Knoten “der Phylogenomik.: Beiträge des ÖEG-Kolloquiums im Haus der Natur, Salzburg, 21.03. 2015: Kurzfassungen der …

    Entomologica Austriaca: Zeitschrift der Österreichischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 22

  • 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

  • 2014/00

    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

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