Ralph S. Peters

Projects

BGE - Biodiversity Genomics Europe
Management: Dr. habil. Astrid Böhne

Publications

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2025

2025/01
Guinet, B., Vogel, J., Kacem Haddj El Mrabet, N., Peters, R., Hrcek, J., Buffington, M.L., Varaldi, J.
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Dating the origin of a viral domestication event in parasitoid wasps attacking Diptera
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2039, 292
2025/01
Kilian, I.C., Kirse, A., Peters, R.S., Bourlat, S.J., Fonseca, V.G., Wägele, W.J., Hamm, A., Mengual, X.
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Maximizing Identification Precision of Hymenoptera and Brachycera (Diptera) With a Non‐Destructive Metabarcoding Approach
Ecology and Evolution, 1, 15

2024

2024/09
Salden, T., Müller, B., Japoshvili, G., Hein, N., Ugrelidze, A., Peters, R.S.
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First records of the Hymenoptera superfamilies and families Mymarommatoidea: Mymarommatidae and Stephanoidea: Stephanidae in Georgia
Caucasiana, 3
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
2024/05
Rehberger, S., Vogel, J., Müller, B., Vasilita, C., Krogmann, L., Schmidt, S., Peters, R.S.
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The obligate fig-pollinator family Agaonidae in Germany (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea)
Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1, 71
2024/03
Gilgenbach, C., Vehof, J., Wipfler, B., Peters, R.S.
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Small wasps, big muscles: Fore and hind leg modifications in chalcidoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)
Arthropod Structure & Development, 79
2024/00
Vogel, J., Sauren, J., Peters, R.S.
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New evidence on the identity of the European Helorus species (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea, Heloridae)
Biodiversity Data Journal, 12
2024/00
GUINET, B., Vogel, J., Peters, R.S., Hrcek, J., Buffington, M., Varaldi, J.
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Dating the origin of a viral domestication event in parasitoid wasps attacking Diptera
bioRxiv
2024/05
Vogel, J., Peters, R.S., Selfa, J., Ferrer-Suay, M.
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Characterising the north-western European species of Phaenoglyphis Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Charipinae) with novel insights from DNA barcode data
Biodiversity Data Journal, 12
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
2024/08
Rduch, V., Dey, L., Ghazaryan, A., Husemann, M., Iankoshvili, G., Krammer, H., Lambrecht, M., Marabuto, E., Mengual, X., Müller, B., Peters, R., Rulik, B., Salden, T., Silva-Brandao, K.L., Espeland, M., Thormann, J., Töpfer, T., Weiss, C., Zyla, D., Hein, N.
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Exkursion in den Kaukasus: Der CaBOL BioBlitz 2022 in Armenien und Georgien
2024/03
Meusemann, K., Scherber, C., Rduch, V., Peters, R.
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Leibniz Research Network Biodiversity. (2024). 10 Must Knows from Biodiversity Science 2024 (Version 1). Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
2024/10
Peters, R., Rduch, V.
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German Barcode of Life, Entdeckung und Beschreibung neuer Arten
2024/11
Verheyde, F., Peeters, T., De Ketelaere, A., Vogel, J., Peters, R., Ferrer-Suay, M.
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Een beknopte inleiding tot de haarbandwespen (Hymenoptera: Figitidae)
Entomologische berichten, 5, 84

2023

2023/11
Cruaud, A., Rasplus, J., ZHANG, J., Burks, R.A., Delvare, G., Fusu, L., Gumovsky, A., Huber, J., Janšta, P., Mitroiu, M., Noyes, J.S., van Noort, S., Baker, A.J., Böhmová, J., Baur, H., Blaimer, B.B., Brady, S.G., Bubeníková, K., Chartois, M., Copeland, R.S., Dale-Skey, N., Dal Molin, A., Dominguez, C., Gebiola, M., Guerrieri, E., Kresslein, R.L., Krogmann, L., Lemmon, E.M., Murray, E.A., Nidelet, S., Nieves‐Aldrey, J.L., Perry, R.K., Peters, R.S., Polaszek, A., Sauné, L., Torréns, J., Triapitsyn, S.V., Целих, Е.В., Yoder, M., Lemmon, A.R., Woolley, J.B., Heraty, J.M.
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The Chalcidoidea bush of life: evolutionary history of a massive radiation of minute wasps
Cladistics, 1, 40
2023/05
Jafari, S., Müller, B., Rulik, B., Rduch, V., Peters, R.S.
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Another crack in the Dark Taxa wall: a custom DNA barcoding protocol for the species-rich and common Eurytomidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea)
Biodiversity Data Journal, 11
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
2023/07
Kilian, I.C., Swenson, S.J., Mengual, X., Gemeinholzer, B., Hamm, A., Wägele, J.W., Peters, R.S.
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More complex than you think: Taxonomic and temporal patterns of plant–pollinator networks of caraway (Carum carvi L.)
Molecular ecology, 13, 32
2023/00
Martin, J., Vogel, J., Peters, R.S., Herz, A.
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First record of Leptopilina japonica Novković & Kimura, 2011 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae) in Germany, a parasitoid of the Spotted Wing Drosophila Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura …
Journal of Applied Entomology, 147
2023/07
Salden, T., Peters, R.S.
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Afrotropical Ceraphronoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera) put back on the map with the description of 88 new species
European Journal of Taxonomy, 884

2022

2022/12
Burks, R.A., Mitroiu, M., Fusu, L., Heraty, J.M., Janšta, P., Heydon, S.L., Dale-Skey, N., Peters, R.S., Целих, Е.В., Woolley, J.B., van Noort, S., Baur, H., Cruaud, A., Darling, C., Haas, M., Hanson, P., Krogmann, L., Rasplus, J.
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From hell’s heart I stab at thee! A determined approach towards a monophyletic Pteromalidae and reclassification of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera)
Journal of Hymenoptera Research/Journal of Hymenoptera research, 94
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
2022/12
Burks, R., Mitroiu, M., Fusu, L., Heraty, J.M., Janšta, P., Heydon, S., Papilloud, N.D., Peters, R.S., Tselikh, E.V., Woolley, J.B., Noort, S.v., Baur, H., Cruaud, A., Darling, C., Haas, M., Hanson, P., Krogmann, L., Rasplus, J.
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From hell’s heart I stab at thee! A determined approach towards a monophyletic Pteromalidae and reclassification of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera)
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 94

2021

2021/09
Albrecht, J., Peters, M.K., Becker, J.N., Behler, C., Claßen, A., Enßlin, A., Ferger, S.W., Gebert, F., Gerschlauer, F., Helbig‐Bonitz, M., Kindeketa, W.J., Kühnel, A., Mayr, A.V., Njovu, H.K., Pabst, H., Pommer, U., Röder, J., Rutten, G., Costa, D.S., Sierra-Cornejo, N., Vogeler, A., Vollstädt, M.G.R., Dulle, H.I., Eardley, C., Howell, K.M., Keller, A., Peters, R.S., Kakengi, V., Hemp, C., Zhang, J., Manning, P., Mueller, T., Bogner, C., Böhning‐Gaese, K., Brandl, R., Hertel, D., Huwe, B., Kiese, R., Kleyer, M., Leuschner, C., Kuzyakov, Y., Nauß, T., Tschapka, M., Fischer, M., Hemp, A., Steffan‐Dewenter, I., Schleuning, M.
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Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient
Nature ecology & evolution, 12, 5
2021/08
Ahrens, D., Ahyong, S.T., Ballerio, A., Barclay, M.V.L., Eberle, J., Espeland, M., Huber, B.A., Mengual, X., Pacheco, T.L., Peters, R.S., Rulik, B., Vaz-de-Mello, F.Z., Wesener‍, T., Krell, F.
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Is it time to describe new species without diagnoses?—A comment on Sharkey et al. (2021)
Zootaxa, 2, 5027
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
2021/01
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
2021/02
Bandyan, S.K., Peters, R.S., Kadir, N.B., Ferrer-Suay, M., Kirchner, W.H.
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A survey of aphid parasitoids and hyperparasitoids (Hymenoptera) on six crops in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 81
2021/00
Braun, C., Peters, R.S.
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Twelve new species of Dipara Walker, 1833 (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae, Diparinae) from Kenya, with a key to the Afrotropical species
ZooKeys, 1067
2021/08
Ahrens, D., Ahyong, S.T., Ballerio, A., Barclay, M.V., Eberle, J., Espeland, M., Huber, B.A., Mengual, X., Pacheco, T.L., Peters, R.S., RULIK, B., Vaz-De-Mello, F., Wesener, T., Krell, F.
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Is it time to describe new species without diagnoses?—A comment on Sharkey et al. (2021)
Zootaxa, 2, 5027

2020

2020/01
Thomas, G.W.C., Dohmen, E., Hughes, D., Murali, S.C., Poelchau, M.F., Glastad, K.M., 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.E., Gasser, R.B., Goodisman, M.A.D., 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.I., Mayer, G., McGregor, A.P., McKenna, D.D., Misof, B., Munidasa, M., Muñoz-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.M., 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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Gene content evolution in the arthropods
Genome biology, 1, 21
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
2020/02
Claßen, A., Eardley, C., Hemp, A., Peters, M.K., Peters, R.S., Ssymank, A., Steffan‐Dewenter, I.
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Specialization of plant–pollinator interactions increases with temperature at Mt. Kilimanjaro
Ecology and Evolution, 4, 10
2020/07
Hausmann, A., Krogmann, L., Peters, R.S., Rduch, V., Schmidt, S.
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GBOL III: DARK TAXA
Barcode bulletin, 1, 10
2020/02
Zhang, J., Lindsey, A.R.I., Peters, R.S., Heraty, J.M., Hopper, K.R., Werren, J.H., Martinson, E.O., Woolley, J.B., Yoder, M., Krogmann, L.
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Conflicting signal in transcriptomic markers leads to a poorly resolved backbone phylogeny of chalcidoid wasps
Systematic entomology, 4, 45
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
2020/11
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
2020/10
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
2020/00
Rduch, V., Peters, R.S.
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GBOL III: Dark Taxa–die dritte Phase der German Barcode of Life Initiative hat begonnen
Koenigiana, 2, 14
2020/00
Hausmann, A., Krogmann, L., Peters, R.S., Rduch, V., Schmidt, S.
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GBOL III: Dark taxa: Researchers launch new BIOSCAN project that aims to illuminate thousands of new insect species on Germany's doorstep
Barcode bulletin, 10
2020/03
Janšta, P., Delvare, G., Baur, H., Wipfler, B., Peters, R.S.
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Data–rich description of a new genus of praying mantid egg parasitoids, Lasallegrion gen. n.(Hymenoptera: Torymidae: Podagrionini), with a re-examination of Podagrion species …
Journal of Natural History, 9-12, 54

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
2019/11
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
2019/03
Peters, M.K., Hemp, A., Appelhans, T., Becker, J.N., Behler, C., Claßen, A., Detsch, F., Enßlin, A., Ferger, S.W., Frederiksen, S., Gebert, F., Gerschlauer, F., Gütlein, A., Helbig‐Bonitz, M., Hemp, C., Kindeketa, W.J., Kühnel, A., Mayr, A.V., Mwangomo, E., Ngereza, C., Njovu, H.K., Otte, I., Pabst, H., Renner, M., Röder, J., Rutten, G., Costa, D.S., Sierra-Cornejo, N., Vollstädt, M.G.R., Dulle, H.I., Eardley, C., Howell, K.M., Keller, A., Peters, R.S., Ssymank, A., Kakengi, V., Zhang, J., Bogner, C., Böhning‐Gaese, K., Brandl, R., Hertel, D., Huwe, B., Kiese, R., Kleyer, M., Kuzyakov, Y., Nauß, T., Schleuning, M., Tschapka, M., Fischer, M., Steffan‐Dewenter, I.
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Climate–land-use interactions shape tropical mountain biodiversity and ecosystem functions
Nature, 7750, 568
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
Evangelista, D.A., Wipfler‍, B., Béthoux, O., Donath, A., Fujita, M., Kohli, M.K., Legendre, F., Liu, S., Machida, R., Misof, B., Peters, R.S., Podsiadłowski, L., Rust, J., Schuette, K., Tollenaar, W., Ware, J.L., Wappler, T., Zhou, X., Meusemann, K., Simon, S.
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An integrative phylogenomic approach illuminates the evolutionary history of cockroaches and termites (Blattodea)
Proceedings - Royal Society. Biological sciences/Proceedings - Royal Society. Biological Sciences, 1895, 286
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

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
2018/07
PAULI, T., BURT, T.O., MEUSEMANN, K., BAYLESS, K., DONATH, A., PODSIADLOWSKI, L., MAYER, C., KOZLOV, A., VASILIKOPOULOS, A., LIU, S., ZHOU, X., YEATES, D., MISOF, B., PETERS, R.S., MENGUAL, X.
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New data, same story: phylogenomics does not support Syrphoidea (Diptera: Syrphidae, Pipunculidae)
Systematic entomology, 3, 43
2018/08
Pauli, T., Castillo‐Cajas, R.F., Rosa, P., Kukowka, S., Berg, A., van den Berghe, E., Fornoff, F., Hopfenmüller, S., Niehuis, M., Peters, R.S., Staab, M., Strumia, F., Tischendorf, S., Schmitt, T., Niehuis, O.
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Phylogenetic analysis of cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) reveals a partially artificial classification at the genus level and a species‐rich clade of bee parasitoids
Systematic entomology, 2, 44
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
2018/00
Salas, I.C.K., Hamm, A., Mengual, X., Peters, R., Wägele, W.
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Analyse der Bestäubernetzwerke im Kümmel (Carum carvi) mittels DNA-Barcoding
Julius-Kühn-Archiv, 460
2018/00
Weber, M., Klimsa, E., Reder, G., Peters, R.S.
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Reliability, completeness and improvement of our knowledge on Germany’s parasitoid wasp fauna - a case study in Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera)
Bonn zoological Bulletin, 2, 67
2018/04
Werner, J., Peters, R.S.
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Taxonomic revision of the genus Oodera Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae, Cleonyminae), with description of ten new species
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 63

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
2017/02
Petersen, M., Meusemann, K., Donath, A., Dowling, D., Liu, S., Peters, R.S., Podsiadłowski, L., Vasilikopoulos, A., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Niehuis, O.
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Orthograph: a versatile tool for mapping coding nucleotide sequences to clusters of orthologous genes
BMC bioinformatics, 1, 18
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
2017/07
Dalíková, M., Zrzavá, M., Hladová, I., Nguyen, P., Šonský, I., Flegrová, M., Kubı́čková, S., Voleníková, A., Kawahara, A.Y., Peters, R.S., Marec, F.
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New Insights into the Evolution of the W Chromosome in Lepidoptera
Journal of Heredity, 7, 108
2017/12
Li, Y., Zhang, R., Liu, S., Donath, A., Peters, R.S., Ware, J.L., Misof, B., Niehuis, O., Pfrender, M.E., Zhou, X.
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The molecular evolutionary dynamics of oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) genes in Hymenoptera
BMC evolutionary biology, 1, 17

2016

2016/12
Peters, M.K., Hemp, A., Appelhans, T., Behler, C., Claßen, A., Detsch, F., Enßlin, A., Ferger, S.W., Frederiksen, S., Gebert, F., Haas, M., Helbig‐Bonitz, M., Hemp, C., Kindeketa, W.J., Mwangomo, E., Ngereza, C., Otte, I., Röder, J., Rutten, G., Costa, D.S., Tardanico, J., Zancolli, G., Deckert, J., Eardley, C., Peters, R.S., Rödel, M., Schleuning, M., Ssymank, A., Kakengi, V., Zhang, J., Böhning‐Gaese, K., Brandl, R., Kalko, E.K.V., Kleyer, M., Nauss, T., Tschapka, M., Fischer, M., Steffan‐Dewenter, I.
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Predictors of elevational biodiversity gradients change from single taxa to the multi-taxa community level
Nature communications, 1, 7
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)
2016/03
Janšta, P., Delvare, G., Krogmann, L., Schütte, K., Peters, R.S.
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Systematics, biology and distribution of Microdontomerus iridis (Picard, 1930), comb. n. (Hymenoptera, Torymidae, Toryminae, Microdontomerini), a parasitoid of Mantodea oothecae
48
2016/00
Schwarz, N., Hamm, A., Mengual, X., Peters, R.S.
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Examining Plant-Pollinator Networks in Agriculture
Barcode bulletin

2015

2015/12
Bläser, M., Krogmann, L., Peters, R.S.
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Two new fossil genera and species of Cerocephalinae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae), including the first record from the Eocene
545
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
2014/03
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
2014/00
NIEHUIS, A.B.v.M., PETERS, R.S.
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Der Verwechselte Fanghaft (Mantispa aphavexelte U. ASPÖCK et H. ASPÖCK, 1994) in Rheinland-Pfalz nachgewiesen (Neuroptera: Mantispidae)
Fauna Flora Rheinland-Pfalz, 12
2014/00
Peters, R.
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First record of the parasitoid wasp Tachinaephagus zealandicus Ashmead, 1904 (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae) in Germany
Bonn zoological Bulletin, 63
2014/00
Kubiak, M., Stotzem, H.C., Schütte, K., Peters, R.S.
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A commented historic inventory of the caddisfly fauna (Trichoptera) of the fen complex "Eppendorfer Moor" in Northern Germany, based on material collected by G. Ulmer 1896–1907
Lauterbornia, 77

2013

2013/10
Dell’Ampio, E., Meusemann, K., Szucsich, N.U., Peters, R.S., Meyer, B., Borner, J., Petersen, M., Aberer, A.J., Stamatakis, A., Walzl, M., Minh, B.Q., von Haeseler, A., Ebersberger, I., Pass, G., Misof, B.
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Decisive Data Sets in Phylogenomics: Lessons from Studies on the Phylogenetic Relationships of Primarily Wingless Insects
Molecular biology and evolution, 1, 31

2012

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
2012/06
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

2011

2011/08
Peters, R.S., Meyer, B., Krogmann, L., Borner, J., Meusemann, K., Schütte, K., Niehuis, O., Misof, B.
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The taming of an impossible child: a standardized all-in approach to the phylogeny of Hymenoptera using public database sequences
BMC biology, 1, 9
2011/00
ABRAHAM, R., PETERS, R.S.
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The Leucospidae (Hym. Chalcidoidea) of the Zoologisches Museum Hamburg
Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg, 185, 15
2011/10
Peters, R.S.
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Two ways of finding a host: A specialist and a generalist parasitoid species (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae)
European Journal of Entomology, 4, 108
2011/07
Peters, R.S., Baur, H.
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A revision of the Dibrachys cavus species complex (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae)
Zootaxa, 1, 2937

2010

2010/02
Peters, R., Abraham, R.
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The food web of parasitoid wasps and their non-phytophagous fly hosts in birds' nests (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, and Diptera: Cyclorrhapha)
Journal of Natural History, 9-10, 44
2010/00
KUBIAK, M., PETERS, R.S.
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New and remarkable records of tyrphophilic caddisfly species (Insecta, Trichoptera) from Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (Northern Germany)
Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg, 15
2010/04
Peters, R.S.
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Host range and offspring quantities in natural populations of Nasonia vitripennis (Walker, 1836) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae)
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 1, 19

2009

2009/00
PETERS, R.S., ABRAHAM, R.
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A wind tunnel olfactometer of novel design: Testing the response to substrate volatiles on a vertical gauze screen
Entomol. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Hamburg, 15
2009/00
PETERS, R.S.
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New habitat and host records and notes on the life history of Pachycrepoideus vindemmiae (RONDANI, 1875)
Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 106

2008

2008/00
PETERS, R.S.
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Abundance and phenology of two species of earwig parasitoids in Northern Germany (Diptera: Tachinidae)
Studia dipterologica, 1/2, 15
2008/00
Abraham, R., Peters, R.S.
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Nistkästen als Lebensraum für Insekten, besonders Fliegen und ihre Schlupfwespen
Vogelwarte, 46

2006

2006/00
Peters, R.
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Interaktionen zwischen Wirten und Parasitoiden: Nahrungsnetzstruktur, Wirtsspektren und Wirtsfindung am Beispiel der Arten aus Vogelnestern (Insecta: Diptera: Cyclorrhapha und …

2004

2004/12
Peters, R., Abraham, R.
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Interactions Between Parasitoid Hymenoptera (Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae) and Diptera: Cyclorrhapha in Nests of Cavity-nesting Birds
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