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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

  • 2025/1

    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

    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

  • 2024/11

    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

  • 2024/8

    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

  • 2024/8

    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

  • 2024/8

    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

  • 2024/8

    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

  • 2024/7

    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

  • 2023

  • 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

  • 2023/12

    Hundsdoerfer, A.K., Schell, T., Patzold, F., Wright, C.J., Yoshido, A., Marec, F., Daneck, H., Winkler, S., Greve, C., Podsiadlowski, L., Hiller, M., Pippel, M.

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    High-quality haploid genomes corroborate 29 chromosomes and highly conserved synteny of genes in Hyles hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)

    BMC genomics, 1, 24

  • 2023/10

    Koludarov, I., Velasque, M., Senoner, T., Timm, T., Greve, C., Hamadou, A.B., Gupta, D.K., Lochnit, G., Heinzinger, M., Vilcinskas, A., Gloag, R., Harpur, B.A., Podsiadlowski, L., Rost, B., Jackson, T.N., Dutertre, S., Stolle, E., Reumont, B.M.v.

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    Prevalent bee venom genes evolved before the aculeate stinger and eusociality

    BMC Biology, 1, 21

  • 2023/6

    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

  • 2022

  • 2022/10

    How butterfly wings got their pattern

    Science, 6617, 378

  • 2022/1

    Koludarov, I., Velasque, M., Timm, T., Lochnit, G., Heinzinger, M., Vilcinskas, A., Gloag, R., Harpur, B.A., Podsiadlowski, L., Rost, B., Dutertre, S., Stolle, E., Reumont, B.M.v.

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    Bee core venom genes predominantly originated before aculeate stingers evolved

    bioRxiv

  • 2022/1

    Koludarov, I., Velasque, M., Timm, T., Greve, C., Hamadou, A.B., Gupta, D.K., Lochnit, G., Heinzinger, M., Vilcinskas, A., Gloag, R., Harpur, B.A., Podsiadlowski, L., Rost, B., Jackson, T.N., Dutertre, S., Stolle, E., Reumont, B.M.v.

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    A common venomous ancestor? Prevalent bee venom genes evolved before the aculeate stinger while few major toxins are bee-specific

    bioRxiv

  • 2021

  • 2021/6

    Podsiadlowski, L., Tunström, K., Espeland, M., Wheat, C.W.

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    The Genome Assembly and Annotation of the Apollo Butterfly Parnassius apollo, a Flagship Species for Conservation Biology

    Genome biology and evolution, 8, 13

  • 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

  • 2020/11

    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)

  • 2020/11

    Song, H., Béthoux, O., Shin, S., Donath, A., Letsch, H., Liu, S., McKenna, D.D., Meng, G., Misof, B., Podsiadlowski, L., Zhou, X., Wipfler, B., Simon, S.

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    Author Correction: Phylogenomic analysis sheds light on the evolutionary pathways towards acoustic communication in Orthoptera

    Nature communications, 1, 11

  • 2020/10

    Vasilikopoulos, A., Misof, B., Meusemann, K., Lieberz, D., Flouri, T., Beutel, R.G., Niehuis, O., Wappler, T., Rust, J., Peters, R.S., Donath, A., Podsiadlowski, L., Mayer, C., Bartel, D., Böhm, A., Liu, S., Kapli, P., Greve, C., Jepson, J.E., Liu, X., Zhou, X., Aspöck, H., Aspöck, U.

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    Correction to: An integrative phylogenomic approach to elucidate the evolutionary history and divergence times of Neuropterida (Insecta: Holometabola)

    BMC evolutionary biology, 1, 20

  • 2020/7

    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

  • 2020/5

    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

  • 2018

  • 2018/3

    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

  • 2017

  • 2017/2

    Podsiadlowski, L., Gamauf, A., Töpfer, T.

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    Revising the phylogenetic position of the extinct Mascarene parrot Mascarinus mascarin (Linnaeus 1771)(Aves: Psittaciformes: Psittacidae)

    Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 107

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