Molecular Evolution, Molecular Laboratory Bonn

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2025

• 2025/4

  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

  https://doi.org/

• 2025/4

  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

  https://doi.org/

• 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

  https://doi.org/

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

  https://doi.org/

• 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

  https://doi.org/

• 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

  https://doi.org/

• 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

  https://doi.org/

• 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

  https://doi.org/

• 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

  https://doi.org/

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

  https://doi.org/

• 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

  https://doi.org/

• 2023/12

  Giesen, A., Blanckenhorn, W.U., Schäfer, M.A., Shimizu, K.K., Shimizu-Inatsugi, R., Misof, B., Podsiadlowski, L., Niehuis, O., Lischer, H.E.L., Aeschbacher, S., Kapun, M.

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  Geographic Variation in Genomic Signals of Admixture Between Two Closely Related European Sepsid Fly Species

  Evolutionary Biology, 4, 50

  https://doi.org/

• 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

  https://doi.org/

• 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

  https://doi.org/

2022

• 2022/10

  Espeland, M., Podsiadlowski, L.

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  How butterfly wings got their pattern

  Science, 6617, 378

  https://doi.org/

• 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

  https://doi.org/

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

  https://doi.org/

• 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)

  https://doi.org/

• 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

  https://doi.org/

• 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

  https://doi.org/

• 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

  https://doi.org/

• 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

  https://doi.org/

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

2016

• 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

  https://doi.org/

• 2016/9

  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

• 2016/9

  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)