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Molecular Evolution, Molecular Laboratory Bonn

Our task

Since 1997, the molecular laboratory at the Museum Koenig Bonn has steadily developed into an essential part of the LIB research area.
The conditions for genomic, population genetic and phylogenetic work are optimally realised and are used in a large number of projects.

In the laboratory, we use PCR techniques, microsatellite analysis and library preparation for high-throughput sequencing. Long-read sequencing for genomic analyses is used intensively. A key objective is to use the museum site with its extensive collections to answer questions of evolutionary biology on the basis of molecular biological data.

Contact person

Dr. Lars Podsiadlowski

  • Scientific head of molecular lab (zmb)

Phone: +49 228 9122 356
E-Mail: l.podsiadlowski@leibniz-lib.de

Projects

Publications

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    2025

  • 2025/07

    Zahnow, F., Jäger, C., Mohamed, Y., Vogelhuber, G., May, F., Ciocan, A.M., Manieri, A., Maxeiner, S., Krasteva-Christ, G., Schnappauf, O., Cobain, M.R.D., Podsiadlowski, L., Crespo-Picazo, J.L., García-Párraga, D., Althaus, M.

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    The evolutionary path of the epithelial sodium channel δ-subunit in Cetartiodactyla points to a role in sodium sensing

    Communications Biology, 1, 8

  • 2025/07

    Abrha, A.M., Rödder, D., Gedeon, K., Podsiadlowski, L., Töpfer, T.

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    Evaluating the impact of climate change on mountaintop endemic bird species in the Ethiopian highlands: insights from moorland francolin (Scleroptila psilolaema)

    Ornithology Research, 1, 33

  • 2025/05

    Human impacts on the distribution and genetic diversity of Eurasian minnows (Phoxinus: Leuciscidae) in the Rhenish Massif

    Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 426

  • 2025/04

    Hadrava, J., Klečka, J., Moran, K., Klečková, I., Kelso, S., Etzbauer, C., Skevington, J.H., Mengual, X.

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    The evolution of wasp mimicry and biogeography in the genus Temnostoma (Diptera: Syrphidae)

    Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 205

  • 2025/04

    Schell, T., Greve, C., Podsiadlowski, L.

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    Establishing genome sequencing and assembly for non-model and emerging model organisms: a brief guide

    Frontiers in Zoology, 1, 22

  • 2025/01

    Hadrava, J., Klečka, J., Moran, K., Klečková, I., Kelso, S., Etzbauer, C., Skevington, J.H., Mengual, X.

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    The evolution of wasp mimicry and biogeography in the genus Temnostoma (Diptera: Syrphidae)

    Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

  • 2024

  • 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

  • 2024/11

    Zahnow, F., Jäger, C., Mohamed, Y., Vogelhuber, G., May, F., Ciocan, A.M., Manieri, A., Maxeiner, S., Krasteva-Christ, G., Cobain, M.R.D., Podsiadlowski, L., Crespo-Picazo, J.L., García-Párraga, D., Althaus, M.

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    The evolutionary path of the epithelial sodium channel δ-subunit in Cetartiodactyla points to a role in sodium sensing

  • 2024/08

    Hofmann, S., Rödder, D., Andermann, T., Matschiner, M., Riedel, J., Baniya, C.B., Flecks, M., Yang, J., Jiang, K., Jianping, J., Litvinchuk, S.N., Martin, S., Masroor, R., Nothnagel, M., Vershinin, V., Zheng, Y., Jablonski, D., Schmidt, J., Podsiadlowski, L.

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    Exploring Paleogene Tibet's warm temperate environments through target enrichment and phylogenetic niche modelling of Himalayan spiny frogs (Paini, Dicroglossidae)

    Molecular ecology, 15, 33

  • 2024/08

    Hofmann, S., Podsiadlowski, L., Andermann, T., Matschiner, M., Baniya, C.B., Litvinchuk, S.N., Martin, S., Masroor, R., Yang, J., Zheng, Y., Jablonski, D., Schmidt, J.

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    The last of their kind: Is the genus Scutiger (Anura: Megophryidae) a relict element of the paleo-transhimalaya biota?

    Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

  • 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

  • 2024/08

    Abrha, A.M., Gedeon, K., Podsiadlowski, L., Töpfer, T.

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    Nesting behavior, egg morphology, and breeding biology of Harwood’s Spurfowl (Pternistis harwoodi) in the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia

    Journal of Field Ornithology, 3, 95

  • 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

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