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Comparative genomics (Insects) Bonn

New experimental and data processing techniques offer us completely new possibilities to compare organisms at the genomic level and thus understand how genomes evolve and how new phenotypic characteristics develop. This makes it possible to understand the development and change of biodiversity itself. Insects, as the most species-rich group of higher eukaryotes, are a particularly promising system for uncovering the complexities of evolutionary innovation.

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    2026

  • 2026/05

    Pieplow, J., Colgan, T.J., de Souza Araujo, N., Stolle, E.

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    The role of the sex determination cascade in the development of caste polyphenisms

    Current Opinion in Insect Science

  • 2026/01

    Proesmans, W., Alaux, C., Albrecht, M., Bassit, K., Cyrille, N., Dalmon, A., Diévart, V., Dominik, C., Felten, E., Gajda, A., Heuschele, J.M., Laurent, E., Maurer, C., Neumann, P., Pioz, M., Schauer, A., Schweiger, O., Settele, J., Stolle, E., Szentgyörgyi, H., Yañez, O., Liu, Y., Żmuda, A., Paxton, R.J., Vanbergen, A.J.

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    Drivers of Viral Prevalence in Landscape‐Scale Pollinator Networks Across Europe: Honey Bee Viral Density, Niche Overlap With This Reservoir Host and Network Architecture

    Ecology letters, 1, 29

  • 2026/01

    Möllmann, J.S., Hu, X., Baumgarten, E.A., Hartleib, A., Nowick, K., Colgan, T.J., Stolle, E.

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    A Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly and Resequencing Data Reveal Low DNA Methylation and Reduced Diversity in the Solitary Bee Pollinator Osmia cornuta

    Genome Biology and Evolution, 1, 18

  • 2025

  • 2025/11

    Lehmitz, R., Hohberg, K., Husemann, M., Peters, R.S., Scheunemann, N., Bálint, M., Balke, M., Bieberich, J., Bista, I., Borsch, T., Bourlat, S.J., Bussmann, R.W., Damm, U., Dey, L., Flocco, C.G., Grossart, H., Haase, P., Höfer, H., Krashevska, V., Krogmann, L., Lücking, R., Arbizu, P.M., Meier, R., Mengual, X., Mercado-Salas, N.F., Moore, J.M., Orr, M.C., Otte, V., Overmann, J., Pauls, S.U., Pereira, R.J., Peters, J., Potapov, A., Printzen, C., Raub, F., Raupach, M.J., Rduch, V., Retter, A., von Reumont, B.M., Rossel, S., Schmelz, R.M., Schmitt, T., Scholler, M., Stolle, E., Thines, M., Vasilita, C., Wesener, T., Zahiri, R., Zaitsev, A., Zimmermann, J., Żyła, D., Misof, B., Tockner, K.

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    Unknown Germany - An integrative biodiversity discovery program

    npj Biodiversity, 1, 4

  • 2025/08

    Larragy, S.J., Colgan, T.J., Stolle, E., Mayack, C., Köhler, I., Stout, J.C., Carolan, J.C.

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    A Genome‐Wide Analysis of Structure and Evolution in Irish and British Populations of (L. 1758): Implications for Genetic Resource Conservation

    Evolutionary Applications, 8, 18

  • 2025/06

    Taylor, B.A., Slater, G.P., Stolle, E., Dorey, J., Buchmann, G., Oldroyd, B.P., Gloag, R., Harpur, B.A.

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    Multi‐Omic Analysis Reveals Population Differentiation and Signatures of Social Evolution in Tetragonula Stingless Bees

    Molecular Ecology

  • 2024

  • 2024/06

    Feldmeyer, B., Bornberg-Bauer, E., Dohmen, E., Fouks, B., Heckenhauer, J., Huylmans, A.K., Jones, A.R., Stolle, E., Harrison, M.C.

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    Comparative Evolutionary Genomics in Insects

  • 2023

  • 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

  • 2023/08

    Stolle, E., Guiglielmoni, N., Kirangwa, J., Kukowka, S., Meitzel, T., Cartney, A.M.M., Heilmann-Heimbach, S., Becker, K., Köhrer, K., Böhne, A.

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    Reference genome sequence of the solitary bee Camptopoeum friesei Mocsáry, 1894 (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae)

    bioRxiv

  • 2022

  • 2022/12

    Favreau, E., Lebas, C., Stolle, E., Priyam, A., Pracana, R., Aron, S., Wurm, Y.

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    No supergene despite social polymorphism in the big-headed ant Pheidole pallidula

    bioRxiv

  • 2022/01

    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

  • 2022/01

    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

  • 2021

  • 2021/05

    Priyam, A., Witwicka, A., Brahma, A., Stolle, E., Wurm, Y.

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    Parameter exploration improves the accuracy of long-read genome assembly

    bioRxiv

  • 2020

  • 2020/00

    Saure, C., Stolle, E.

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    Rote Listen Sachsen-Anhalt: Stechwespen (Hymenoptera: Aculeata)

    Berichte des Landesamtes für Umweltschutz Sachsen-Anhalt, 1

  • 2020/00

    Saure, C., Dziock, F., Jentzsch, M., Stolle, E.

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    Rote Listen Sachsen-Anhalt: Schwebfliegen (Diptera: Syrphidae)

    Berichte des Landesamtes für Umweltschutz Sachsen-Anhalt, 1

  • 2017

  • 2017/06

    McKendrick, L., Provan, J., Fitzpatrick, Ú., Brown, M.J., Murray, T.E., Stolle, E., Paxton, R.J.

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    Microsatellite analysis supports the existence of three cryptic species within the bumble bee Bombus lucorum sensu lato

    Conservation Genetics, 18

  • 2017/01

    Pracana, R., Levantis, I., Martínez-Ruiz, C., Stolle, E., Priyam, A., Wurm, Y., Ashby, B., King, K.C.

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    Fire ant social chromosomes: Differences in number, sequence and expression of odorant binding proteins

    Evolution Letters, 1

  • 2016

  • 2016/09

    Stolle, E., Pracana, R., Wurm, Y.

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    Super-scaffolding the fire ant genome and detection of chromosomal rearrangements

  • 2016/00

    Jentzsch, M., Dziock, F., Pellmann, H., Saure, C., Stolle, E.

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    Schwebfliegen (Diptera: Syrphidae)

  • 2016/00

    Stolle, E., Saure, C.

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    Wespen (Hymenoptera: Aculeata)

  • 2016/00

    Saure, C., Stolle, E.

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    Bienen (Hymenoptera: Aculeata: Apiformes)

  • 2015

  • 2015/05

    Kapheim, K.M., Pan, H., Li, ., Cai, ., Salzberg, S.L., Puiu, D., Magoc, T., Robertson, H.M., Hudson, M.E., Venkat, A., Fischman, B.J., Hernandez, A., Yandell, M., Ence, D., Holt, C., Yocum, G.D., Kemp, W.P., Bosch, J., Waterhouse, R.M., Zdobnov, E.M., Stolle, E., Kraus, F.B., Helbing, S., Moritz, R.F.A., Glastad, K.M., Hunt, B.G., Goodisman, M.A.D., Hauser, F., Grimmelikhuijzen, C.J.P., Pinheiro, D.G., Nunes, F.M.F., Soares, M.P.M., Tanaka, É.D., Simões, Z.L.P., Hartfelder, K., Evans, J.D., Barribeau, S.M., Johnson, R.M., Massey, J.H., Southey, B.R., Hasselmann, M., Hamacher, D., Biewer, M., Kent, C.F., Zayed, A., III, C.B., Sinha, S., Johnston, J.S., Hanrahan, S.J., Kocher, S.D., Wang, J., Robinson, G.E., Zhang, G.

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    Genomic signatures of evolutionary transitions from solitary to group living

    Science, 6239, 348

  • 2014

  • 2014/11

    Chipman, A.D., Ferrier, D.E., Brena, C., Qu, J., Hughes, D.S., Schröder, R., Torres-Oliva, M., Znassi, N., Jiang, H., Almeida, F.C., Alonso, C.R., Apostolou, Z., Aqrawi, P., Arthur, W., Barna, J.C., Blankenburg, K.P., Brites, D., Capella-Gutiérrez, S., Coyle, M., Dearden, P.K., Pasquier, L.D., Duncan, E.J., Ebert, D., Eibner, C., Erikson, G., Evans, P.D., Extavour, C.G., Francisco, L., Gabaldón, T., Gillis, W.J., Goodwin-Horn, E.A., Green, J.E., Griffiths-Jones, S., Grimmelikhuijzen, C.J., Gubbala, S., Guigó, R., Han, Y., Hauser, F., Havlak, P., Hayden, L., Helbing, S., Holder, M., Hui, J.H., Hunn, J.P., Hunnekuhl, V.S., Jackson, L., Javaid, M., Jhangiani, S.N., Jiggins, F.M., Jones, T.E., Kaiser, T.S., Kalra, D., Kenny, N.J., Korchina, V., Kovar, C.L., Kraus, F.B., Lapraz, F., Lee, S.L., Lv, J., Mandapat, C., Manning, G., Mariotti, M., Mata, S., Mathew, T., Neumann, T., Newsham, I., Ngo, D.N., Ninova, M., Okwuonu, G., Ongeri, F., Palmer, W.J., Patil, S., Patraquim, P., Pham, C., Pu, L., Putman, N.H., Rabouille, C., Ramos, O.M., Rhodes, A.C., Robertson, H.E., Robertson, H.M., Ronshaugen, M., Rozas, J., Saada, N., Sánchez-Gracia, A., Scherer, S.E., Schurko, A.M., Siggens, K.W., Simmons, D., Stief, A., Stolle, E., Telford, M.J., Tessmar-Raible, K., Thornton, R., Zee, M.v.d., Haeseler, A.v., Williams, J.M., Willis, J.H., Wu, Y., Zou, X., Lawson, D., Muzny, D.M., Worley, K.C., Gibbs, R.A., Akam, M., Richards, S.

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    The first myriapod genome sequence reveals conservative arthropod gene content and genome organisation in the centipede Strigamia maritima

    PLoS Biology, 11, 12

  • 2014/01

    Elsik, C.G., Worley, K.C., Bennett, A.K., Beye, M., Camara, F., Childers, C.P., Graaf, D.C.d., Debyser, G., Deng, J., Devreese, B., Elhaik, E., Evans, J.D., Foster, L.J., Graur, D., Guigo, R., Hoff, K.J., Holder, M.E., Hudson, M.E., Hunt, G.J., Jiang, H., Joshi, V., Khetani, R.S., Kosarev, P., Kovar, C.L., Ma, J., Maleszka, R., Moritz, R.F., Munoz-Torres, M.C., Murphy, T.D., Stolle, E., Muzny, D.M.

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    Finding the missing honey bee genes: lessons learned from a genome upgrade

    BMC genomics, 1, 15

  • 2014/00

    Authors, div., Stolle, E.

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    Subpannonische Steppen-Trockenrasen - ein FFH-Lebensraumtyp in besonderer Verantwortung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt

    Naturschutz im Land Sachsen-Anhalt, Sonderheft, 51

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