Dr. Alexander Donath

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2026

• 2026/02

  Postma, A., Klynsmith, L., Duong, T.A., Allison, J.D., Smidt, W., Waterhouse, R.M., Lesny, P., Oeyen, J.P., Petersen, M., Martin, S., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Ziesmann, T., Donath, A., Mayer, C., Misof, B., Niehuis, O., Peters, R.S., Podsiadlowski, L., Coetzee, M.P.A., Joubert, F., Slippers, B.

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  Genome and transcriptome‐based identification and expression profiling of chemosensory gene families across developmental stages and tissues in Sirex noctilio (Hymenoptera: Siricidae)

  Insect Molecular Biology

  https://doi.org/

2025

• 2025/05

  Letsch, H., Greve, C., Hundsdoerfer, A.K., Irisarri, I., Moore, J.M., Espeland, M., Wanke, S., Arifin, U., Blom, M.P.K., Corrales, C., Donath, A., Fritz, U., Köhler, G., Kück, P., Lemer, S., Mengual, X., Salas, N.M., Meusemann, K., Palandačić, A., Printzen, C., Sigwart, J.D., Silva-Brandão, K.L., Simões, M., Stange, M., Suh, A., Szucsich, N., Tilic, E., Töpfer, T., Böhne, A., Janke, A., Pauls, S.

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  Type genomics: a framework for integrating genomic data into biodiversity and taxonomic research

  Systematic Biology, 6, 74

  https://doi.org/

2024

• 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

  https://doi.org/

2023

• 2023/07

  Frankenbach, S., Melo Clavijo, J., Brück, M., Bleidißel, S., Simon, M., Gasparoni, G., Lo Porto, C., Laetz, E.M.J., Greve, C., Donath, A., Pütz, L., Sickinger, C., Serôdio, J., Christa, G.

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  Shedding light on starvation in darkness in the plastid-bearing sea slug Elysia viridis (Montagu, 1804)

  Marine biology, 7, 170

  https://doi.org/

• 2023/02

  Moris, V.C., Podsiadlowski, L., Martin, S., Oeyen, J.P., Donath, A., Petersen, M., Wilbrandt, J., Misof, B., Liedtke, D., Thamm, M., Scheiner, R., Schmitt, T., Niehuis, O.

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  Intrasexual cuticular hydrocarbon dimorphism in a wasp sheds light on hydrocarbon biosynthesis genes in Hymenoptera

  Communications Biology, 1, 6

  https://doi.org/

2022

• 2022/01

  Rola, M., Frankenbach, S., Bleidissel, S., Sickinger, C., Donath, A., Frommlet, J.C., Greve, C., Serôdio, J., Preisfeld, A., Melo Clavijo, J., Christa, G.

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  Cladobranchia (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia) as a Promising Model to Understand the Molecular Evolution of Photosymbiosis in Animals

  Frontiers in Marine Science, 8

  https://doi.org/

2021

• 2021/12

  Karmeinski, D., Meusemann, K., Goodheart, J.A., Schroedl, M., Martynov, A., Korshunova, T., Wägele, H., Donath, A.

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  Transcriptomics provides a robust framework for the relationships of the major clades of cladobranch sea slugs (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Heterobranchia), but fails to resolve the …

  BMC ecology and evolution, 21

  https://doi.org/

• 2021/08

  Melo Clavijo, J., Drews, F., Pirritano, M., Simon, M., Salhab, A., Donath, A., Frankenbach, S., Serôdio, J., Bleidißel, S., Preisfeld, A., Christa, G.

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  The complete mitochondrial genome of the photosymbiotic sea slug Berghia stephanieae (Valdés, 2005) (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia)

  Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 8, 6

  https://doi.org/

• 2021/06

  Jasso-Martínez, J.M., Donath, A., Schulten, D., Zaldívar-Riverón, A., Sann, M.

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  Midgut transcriptome assessment of the cockroach-hunting wasp Ampulex compressa (Apoidea: Ampulicidae)

  PloS one, 6, 16

  https://doi.org/

• 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)

  Insect Systematics and Diversity, 1, 5

  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

  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/

• 2020/11

  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/

• 2020/10

  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/

• 2020/10

  Melo Clavijo, J., Frankenbach, S., Fidalgo, C., Serôdio, J., Donath, A., Preisfeld, A., Christa, G.

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  Identification of scavenger receptors and thrombospondin‐type‐1 repeat proteins potentially relevant for plastid recognition in Sacoglossa

  Ecology and Evolution, 21, 10

  https://doi.org/

• 2020/09

  Kowalski, P., Baum, M., Körten, M., Donath, A., Dobler, S.

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  ABCB transporters in a leaf beetle respond to sequestered plant toxins

  Proceedings - Royal Society. Biological sciences/Proceedings - Royal Society. Biological Sciences, 1934, 287

  https://doi.org/

• 2020/07

  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/

• 2020/05

  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

  https://doi.org/

• 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

  https://doi.org/

2019

• 2019/08

  Meinzer, F., Dobler, S., Donath, A., Lohr, J.N.

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  Robust reference gene design and validation for expression studies in the large milkweed bug, Oncopeltus fasciatus, upon cardiac glycoside stress

  Gene, 710

  https://doi.org/

• 2019/03

  Brandt, A., Bast, J., Scheu, S., Meusemann, K., Donath, A., Schütte, K., Machida, R., Kraaijeveld, K.

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  No signal of deleterious mutation accumulation in conserved gene sequences of extant asexual hexapods

  Scientific reports, 1, 9

2018

• 2018/12

  Donath, A., Stadler, P.F.

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  Split-inducing indels in phylogenomic analysis

  Algorithms for Molecular Biology, 1, 13

  https://doi.org/

2017

• 2017/01

  Greve, C., Lui, M.R., Sivalingam, S., Ludwig, K.U., Wägele, H., Donath, A.

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  The complete mitochondrial genome of the ‘solar-powered’ sea slug Plakobranchus cf. ocellatus (Heterobranchia: Panpulmonata: Sacoglossa)

  Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 1, 2

  https://doi.org/

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/

• 2016/09

  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)

• 2016/09

  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

2015

• 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

  https://doi.org/

2014

• 2014/01

  Donath, A., Stadler, P.F.

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  25 Molecular morphology: Higher order characters derivable from sequence information

  https://doi.org/

2012

• 2012/04

  Jühling, F., Pütz, J., Bernt, M., Donath, A., Middendorf, M., Florentz, C., Stadler, P.F.

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  Improved systematic tRNA gene annotation allows new insights into the evolution of mitochondrial tRNA structures and into the mechanisms of mitochondrial genome rearrangements

  Nucleic acids research, 7, 40

  https://doi.org/

2011

• 2011/07

  Donath, A.

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  Molecular Morphology: Phylogenetically Informative Characters Derived from Sequence Data

• 2011/03

  Tramontano, A., Donath, A., Bernhart, S.H., Reiche, K., Böhmdorfer, G., Stadler, P.F., Bachmair, A.

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  Deletion analysis of the 3′ long terminal repeat sequence of plant retrotransposon Tto1 identifies 125 base pairs redundancy as sufficient for first strand transfer

  Virology, 1, 412

  https://doi.org/

2010

• 2010/03

  Donath, A., Findeiß, S., Hertel, J., Otto, W., Schulz, C., Stadler, P.F., Wirth, S.

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  Noncoding RNA

  https://doi.org/

2009

• 2009/12

  Marz, M., Donath, A., Verstraete, N., Nguyen, V.T., Stadler, P.F., Bensaude, O.

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  Evolution of 7SK RNA and Its Protein Partners in Metazoa

  Molecular biology and evolution, 12, 26

  https://doi.org/