TAXON-OMICS

New approaches to discovering and naming biodiversity

WHY TAXONOMY?

We use standardized conventions to name newly discovered species, and link this new information to existing knowledge. Hierarchical classifications within these conventions (ex: Family → Genus → Species) facilitate effective communication with other researchers and extrapolation of findings to other disciplines at the Thoiry Zoo.

Taxonomy is the basis for documenting, quantifying, and understanding changes in biodiversity.

WHAT IS TAXON-OMICS?

Taxon-omics researchers combine “taxonomy,” the process of discovering and naming new species, with exciting 21st century “-omics’”methodologies, like genomics and transcriptomics.

WHO WE ARE


We are a German network of 27 research projects that are focused on combining taxonomy using natural history museum specimens with new approaches for discovering and naming biodiversity. We are funded under DFG priority program SPP 1991.

WHAT DO WE DO?

Taxon-omics researchers combine “taxonomy,” the process of discovering and naming new species, with exciting 21st century “-omics’”methodologies, like genomics and transcriptomics. See an overview of the project below.

Many of the 27 Taxon-omics projects are working on different taxa (groups of organisms), but many project members are collaborating with each other and applying their methods to multiple groups simultaneously. See the collaborations between project members working on different taxa below.

Taxon-omics researchers are employing new methodologies to bring taxonomy into the 21st century. See examples of the methods used below.

Projects

TAXON-OMICS RESEARCH PROJECTS - SECOND PHASE (2020-2023)

APPLYING INTEGRATIVE MULTISPECIES COALESCENT MODELS TO TACKLE THE LONG-STANDING PROBLEM OF SPECIES DELIMITATION IN ALLOPATRICALLY DISTRIBUTED POPULATIONS
Prof. Dr. Axel Meyer, Dr. Julián Torres-Dowdall

COMPARATIVE AND EXPERIMENTAL WING PATTERN GENOMICS IN LEPIDOPTERA
Dr. Marianne Espeland, Dr. Anna K. Hundsdörfer

CONCEPTS, TOOLS AND SUPPORT FOR MANAGING, ARCHIVING, MOBILIZING AND INTEGRATING TAXONOMIC DATA IN THE FRAMEWORK OF SPP 1991
Dr. Ivaylo Kostadinov, Prof. Dr. Miguel Vences

DIE CARRARA-PIPELINE: NUTZUNG VON MACHINE-LEARNING METHODEN FÜR DIE AUTOMATISCHE ARTABGRENZUNG IN INTENSIV HYBRIDISIERENDEN PFLANZENGATTUNGEN ANHAND VON HERBARBELEGEN
Prof. Dr. Christoph Oberprieler, Prof. Dr. Frank Hellwig, Dr. Robert Vogt

EFFICIENT USE OF HERBARIUM MATERIAL - HYBRIDS IN VERONICA AS CASE EXAMPLE
Prof. Dr. Dirk Albach

ELEVATIONAL REPLACEMENT, HIGHER TROPICAL MOUNTAIN PASSES AND ISOLATED SKY ISLANDS: UNTANGLING NEUTRAL AND ADAPTIVE PROCESSES DRIVING RADIATION OF ANDEAN APOCYNACEAE (LI 496/33-1, NU 292/4-1)
Prof. Dr. Sigrid Liede-Schumann, Dr. Nicolai M. Nürk

ESTABLISHING A STANDARDIZED AND UNIVERSALLY APPLICABLE SET OF NUCLEAR-­ENCODED MARKERS FOR GENOME-­WIDE MULTI-­LOCUS SPECIES DELIMITATION OF METAZOANS
Prof. Dr. Oliver Niehuis, Dr. Dirk Ahrens, Dr. Lars Podsiadlowski

EXPLORING GENOMIC METHODS FOR DELIMITING SPECIES IN RADIATIONS OF TERRESTRIAL SNAILS
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hausdorf

EXPLORING THE HIDDEN DIVERSITY OF WIDESPREAD PREDATORY AMOEBAE OF THE ORDER VAMPYRELLIDA (RHIZARIA)
Dr. Sebastian Hess

FORTSETZUNG DER MOLEKULAREN CHARAKTERISIERUNG DER DIVERSITÄT MIKROBIELLER EUKARYOTEN IN WALDBÖDEN UND IM KRONENRAUM UNTER VERWENDUNG EINES METATRANSKRIPTOM-ANSATZES (MICDIV II)
Prof. Dr. Michael Bonkowski, Dr. Kenneth Dumack, Prof. Dr. Martin Schlegel

FROGCAP FOR THE TAXONOMIC GAP: HARNESSING HYBRID-ENRICHMENT FOR NEXT-GENERATION TAXONOMY
Dr. Mark D. Scherz

FROM FIELD TO MUSEUM: HARNESSING THE POWER OF THIRD GENERATION SEQUENCING TO ESTABLISH A SIMPLE AND COST-EFFECTIVE MULTIPLEX APPROACH FOR SPIDER TAXONOMY
Dr. Susan Kennedy, Dr. Stefan Prost

GENOMICS OF HYBRIDIZATION AND SPECIES DELIMITATION IN CICHLID FISHES
Prof. Dr. Axel Meyer, Dr. Darrin Hulsey

INTEGRATED APPROACHES TO ADDRESS TAXONOMIC PROBLEMS IN THE PRASIOLACEAE (TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE, CHLOROPHYTA)
Dr. Svenja Heesch

JUNGLE GENOMICS - OVERCOMING THE LINNEAN SHORTFALL WITH NANOPORE SEQUENCING IN BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS
Prof. Dr. Hanno Schaefer

MOLECULAR EVIDENCE FOR SECTIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF SHRUB WILLOWS (SALIX L. SUBG. CHAMAETIA/VETRIX) BASED ON RAD SEQUENCING DATA
Dr. Natascha Wagner

MOLECULAR TAXONOMY OF AQUATIC HYPHOMYCETES BY SAFEGUARDING OF HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
PD Dr. Christiane Baschien

NEW APPROACHES FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT SPECIES DISCOVERY AND DELIMITATION WITHIN UNICELLULAR EUKARYOTES, EXEMPLIFIED ON CHOANOFLAGELLATES
Dr. Frank Nitsche

NEW APPROACHES FOR SPECIES DELIMITATION FROM GENOME DATA WITH EXAMPLES TO TWO WIDESPREAD FIREFLIES (LAMPROHIZA SPLENDIDULA AND PHOTINUS PYRALIS)
Dr. Ana Catalán, Dr. Sebastian Höhna

OPHIUROID PHYLOGENOMICS: ILLUMINATING “DARK” ABYSSAL BIODIVERSITY
Prof. Dr. Pedro Martínez Arbizu, Dr. Magdalini Christodoulou, Dr. Tim O’Hara

PHYLOGENOMICS OF THE GENUS HYPOXYLON BASED ON 50 NEW HIGH QUALITY GENOMES AND WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE H. RUBIGINOSUM COMPLEX
Prof. Dr. Jörn Kalinowski, Prof. Dr. Marc Stadler, Prof. Dr. Russell Cox

PROTEOMIC FINGERPRINTING FOR SPECIES IDENTIFICATION – DISCRIMINATORY POWER AND OPTIMAL ANALYSES PROCEDURES FOR INTEGRATED MOLECULAR AND MORPHOLOGICAL DATASETS IN ZOOPLANKTON BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENTS
Dr. Jasmin Renz-Gehnke, Dr. Janna Peters

RESOLVING INTRICATE TAXONOMIES BY USING TYPE MATERIAL, HYBSEQ AND GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS – A PROOF-OF-CONCEPT FROM THE NASTY XANTHIUM L. (ASTERACEAE)
Dr. Salvatore Tomasello

SPECIES DELIMITATION IN THE APOMICTIC POLYPLOID RANUNCULUS AURICOMUS COMPLEX USING AN INTEGRATIVE TAXONOMICS APPROACH
Prof. Dr. Elvira Hörandl

SPONGE TAXONOMICS V2
Prof. Dr. Dirk Erpenbeck, Dr. Sergio Vargas, Prof. Dr. Gert Wörheide

TAXONOMICS OF AUSTRALIAN CHENOPODIACEAE
Prof. Dr. Gudrun Kadereit

THE GENOMIC BASIS OF HOST SPECIFICITY AS TOOL FOR SPECIES RECOGNITION AND DELIMITATIONS IN USTILAGINALES - A PARASITE GROUP WITH HIGH GENE FLOW
Prof. Dr. Dominik Begerow, Dr. Martin Kemler

HYBRID ZONES AMONG PALEARCTIC AMPHIBIAN LINEAGES AS A MODEL TO UNDERSTAND TEMPORAL PATTERNS OF SPECIES FORMATION AND REFINE METHODS OF SPECIES DELIMITATION
Prof. Dr. Miguel Vences, Dr. Christophe Dufresnes

TAXON-OMICS RESEARCH PROJECTS - FIRST PHASE (2017-2020)
USING HERBARIUM SPECIMENS TO STUDY EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE RELATED TO CLIMATE WARMING - NOVEL USES OF NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS THROUGH SPECIMEN AND LABEL IMAGES
Professor Dr. Susanne S. Renner

ZOOPLANKTON BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENT BY AN INTEGRATED MORPHOLOGICAL AND GENETIC TAXONOMY COMPLEMENTED BY PROTEOMIC FINGERPRINTING AS A NEW AND PROMISING TOOL
Dr. Jasmin Renz-Gehnke

BIOLOGICAL SOIL CRUSTS AS UNIQUE MICROECOSYSTEM REPRESENT A SUITABLE MODEL SYSTEM TO ADDRESS TAXONOMY AND CRYPTIC DIVERSITY OF MICROALGAL KEY PLAYERS
Dr. Karin Glaser

EXPLORING GENOMIC METHODS FOR DELIMITING SPECIES IN RADIATIONS OF TERRESTRIAL SNAILS
Professor Dr. Bernhard Hausdorf

NEXT GENERATION TAXONOMY OF BLUEBUSH (CHENOPODIACEAE): MAXIMISING THE VALUE OF COLLECTIONS THROUGH INTEGRATED MORPHOLOGY, GENOMICS AND IMAGE ANALYSIS
Adjunct Professor Dr. Gudrun Kadereit

SETTING-UP A METHODOLOGICAL PIPELINE FOR SPECIES DELIMITATION AND SPECIES NETWORK RECONSTRUCTION IN POLYPLOID COMPLEXES
Professor Dr. Christoph Oberprieler & Dr. Robert Vogt

LECANOMICS: NEW WAYS OF SPECIES DETECTION AND RECOGNITION IN A UBIQUITOUS GROUP OF LICHENS
Dr. Christian Printzen

THE INFLUENCE OF SECONDARY METABOLITE GENES TOWARDS THE SPECIATION OF XYLARIACEAE (ASCOMYCOTA)
Professor Dr. Russell J. Cox & Professor Dr. Marc Stadler

DEVELOPING, CALIBRATING AND APPLYING A GENOMIC TOOLBOX FOR SPECIES DELIMITATION IN PALEARCTIC AND TROPICAL AMPHIBIANS
Professor Dr. Michael Hofreiter & Professor Dr. Miguel Vences

ESTABLISHING A STANDARDIZED AND UNIVERSALLY APPLICABLE SET OF NUCLEAR-ENCODED MARKERS FOR GENOME-WIDE MULTI-LOCUS SPECIES DELIMITATION OF METAZOANS
Dr. Dirk Ahrens, Professor Dr. Bernhard Misof & Professor Dr. Oliver Niehuis

DEEP MOBILIZATION OF NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS OF MICROSCOPIC ORGANISMS USING HIGH THROUGHPUT IMAGE ANALYSES AND INTERLINKING WITH MOLECULAR DATA (MOBIDIC - MOBILIZATION OF A DIATOM COLLECTION)
Dr. Bánk Beszteri & Professor Dr.-Ing. Tim Nattkemper

MICROGASTROPOD TAXON-OMICS: TOWARDS A PROBABILISTIC AND AUTOMATED SPECIES-DISCOVERY SYSTEM
Professor Dr. Thomas Wilke

A MUSEOMICS APPROACH TO SCRUTINISE DNA BARCODE FAILURE: TESTING THE CAUSES FOR TAXONOMIC INCONGRUENCE PATTERNS IN PHYTOPHAGOUS HYMENOPTERA AND ORTHOPTERA THROUGH HYBRIDIZATION CAPTURE USING RAD PROBES
Dr. Oliver Hawlitschek & Dr. Stefan Schmidt

DEEP MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF EUKARYOTIC MICROORGANISMS´ DIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY COMPOSITION IN FOREST SOILS AND THE CANOPY REGION ACROSS BIOMES USING A MULTIPLE BARCODING APPROACH - MICDIV
Professor Dr. Michael Bonkowski & Professor Dr. Martin Schlegel

THE BIODIVERSITY OF APOMICTIC POLYPLOID PLANTS: THE RANUNCULUS AURICOMUS COMPLEX
Professor Dr. Elvira Hörandl

SPONGE TAXONOMICS
Dr. Dirk Erpenbeck, Dr. Sergio Vargas Ramírez & Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

SPECIATION THROUGH HYBRIDIZATION: SPECIES CONCEPTS IN SMUT LINEAGES WITH COMMON HYBRIDIZATION
Professor Dr. Dominik Begerow

PHYLOGENOMIC ANALYSES FROM ARCHIVAL DNA
Professor Dr. Michael Hofreiter & Dr. Nicolas Straube

TYPES AND GENOMES - SOLVING A CONFLICT IN FREQUENTLY HYBRIDIZING TAXA OF VERONICA
Professor Dr. Dirk Albach

CHEAP AND EFFICIENT MUSEOMICS-BASED MONOGRAPH: A TEST WITH MELONS AND CUCUMBERS
Professor Dr. Hanno Schaefer

MARINE HETEROTROPHIC ALVEOLATES: A GENOMIC AND MORPHOMETRIC SINGLE CELL APPROACH
Dr. Uwe John

RE-EVALUATING TAXONOMY AND DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS OF THE XANTHOPHYCEAE (STRAMENOPILES)
Dr. Nataliya Rybalka

INNOVATIVE INTEGRATION OF HIGH-THROUGHPUT DNA BARCODING, TRANSCRIPTOME-BASED CONSTRAINED PHYLOGENETICS, HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING, AND MORPHOLOGY TO ASSESS AND CHARACTERIZE A POORLY KNOWN FAUNA
Adjunct Professor Dr. Steffen U. Pauls

MAPPING SEQUENCES TO PROTIST MORPHOSPECIES
Dr. Frank Nitsche

HYBRID SPECIES RECOGNITION USING “NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING” (NGS) OF MUSEUM SPECIMENS
Dr. Anna K. Hundsdoerfer

ANALYZING HISTORICAL PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTIONS BY CONDUCTING POLLEN METABARCODING ON MUSEUM SPECIMENS OF GERMAN BUMBLEBEE SPECIES
Professor Dr. Birgit Gemeinholzer, Privatdozent Dr. Alexander Keller, Adjunct Professor Dr. Michael Ohl, Professor Dr. Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter

SPECIES DELIMITATION IN EAST AFRICAN CICHLID FISH ADAPTIVE RADIATIONS
Professor Dr. Axel Meyer

Project Members

TAXON-OMICS PROJECT MEMBERS (FIRST AND SECOND PHASE)
PROF. DR. DIRK ALBACH
dirk.albach@uni-oldenburg.de

+49 441 798-3339

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DR. DIRK AHRENS
d.ahrens@zfmk.de

+49 228 9122-286

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SONJA BAMBERGER
sonja.bamberger@uni-hamburg.de

+49 40 42 838 3876

ResearchGate

PD DR. CHRISTIANE BASCHIEN
christiane.baschien@dsmz.de

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PROF. DR. DOMINIK BEGEROW
dominik.begerow@rub.de

+49 234 32-27212

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DR. BÁNK BESZTERI
bank.beszteri@awi.de

+49 471 4831-1530

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PROF. DR. MICHAEL BONKOWSKI
m.bonkowski@uni-koeln.de

+49 221 470-3152

ResearchGate

DR. ANA CATALÁN
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

catalan@bio.lmu.de

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PROF. DR. RUSSELL J. COX
russell.cox@oci.uni-hannover.de

+49 511 762-16301

DR. MAGDALINI CHRISTODOULOU
magdalini.christodoulou@senckenberg.de

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DR. HANA DANECK
hana.daneck@senckenberg.de

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DR. LARS DIETZE
L.Dietz@leibniz-zfmk.de

ResearchGate

DR. KENNETH DUMACK
kenneth.dumack@uni-koeln.de

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M.SC. ANGELINA EICHSTELLER
angelina.eichsteller@gmail.com

ResearchGate

ADJ. PROF. DR. DIRK ERPENBECK
erpenbeck@lmu.de

+49 89 2180-6615

ResearchGate

DR. MARIANNE ESPELAND
m.espeland@leibniz-zfmk.de

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M.SC. JULE FREUDENTHAL
jfreude1@smail.uni-koeln.de

PROF. DR. BIRGIT GEMEINHOLZER
birgit.gemeinholzer@bot1.bio.uni-giessen.de

+49 641-9935173

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DR. KARIN GLASER
karin.glaser@uni-rostock.de

+49 381-4986093

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TORSTEN HAUFFE
torsten.hauffe@bio.uni-giessen.de

+49 641 99-35733

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PROF. DR. BERNHARD HAUSDORF
hausdorf@zoologie.uni-hamburg.de

+49 40 42838-2284

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DR. OLIVER HAWLITSCHEK
oliver.hawlitschek@gmx.de

+49 89 8107-115

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DR. SVENJA HEESCH
svenja.heesch@uni-rostock.de

+49 381 498 6101

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PROF. DR. FRANK HELLWIG
frank.hellwig@uni-jena.de

DR. SEBASTIAN HESS
sebastian.hess@uni-koeln.de

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PROF. DR. MICHAEL HOFREITER
michael.hofreiter@uni-potsdam.de

+49 331 977-6321

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DR. SEBASTIAN HÖHNA
hoehna@lmu.de

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PROF. DR. ELVIRA HÖRANDL
elvira.hoerandl@biologie.uni-goettingen.de

+49 551 39-7843

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PHILLIP HÜHN
huehn@uni-mainz.de

+49 6131 39-22627

DR. DARRIN HULSEY
darrin.hulsey@uni-konstanz.de

+49 7531 88-5470

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DR. ANNA K. HUNDSDÖRFER
anna.hundsdoerfer@senckenberg.de

+49 351 795841-4437

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DR. UWE JOHN
uwe.john@awi.de

+49 471 4831-1841

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PROF. DR. GUDRUN KADEREIT
clausing@uni-mainz.de

+49 6131 39-22537

PROF. DR. JÖRN KALINOWSKI
joern@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de

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KEVIN KARBSTEIN
kevin.karbstein@uni-goettingen.de

ADJ. PROF. DR. ALEXANDER KELLER
a.keller@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

+49 931 31-84427

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DR. MARTIN KEMLER
martin.kemler@rub.de

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DR. SUSAN KENNEDY
kennedy@uni-trier.de

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MICHAEL KLOSTER
michael.kloster@awi.de

+49 471 4831-1532

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ANDREAS KOLTER
andreas.kolter@bot1.bio.uni-giessen.de

+49 641 99-35196

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DR. IVAYLO KOSTADINOV
ikostadi@gfbio.org

PROF. DR. SIGRID LIEDE-SCHUMANN
sigrid.liede@uni-bayreuth.de

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PROF. DR. PEDRO MARTÍNEZ ARBIZU
pmartinez@senckenberg.de

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DR. PAUL MASONIK
Universität Konstanz

PROF. DR. AXEL MEYER
axel.meyer@uni-konstanz.de

+49 7531 88-4163, -3069

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PROF. DR. BERNHARD MISOF
b.misof@leibniz-zfmk.de

+49 228 9122-289

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DR. ALEXANDER NATER
alexander.nater@uni-konstanz.de

+49 7531 88-4583

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PROF. DR.-ING. TIM NATTKEMPER
tim.nattkemper@uni-bielefeld.de

+49 521 106-6059

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PROF. DR. OLIVER NIEHUIS
oliver.niehuis@biologie.uni-freiburg.de

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DR. FRANK NITSCHE
fnitsche@uni-koeln.de

+49 221 470-3143

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DR. NICOLAI M. NÜRK
nuerk@uni-bayreuth.de

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DR. TIM O’HARA
tohara@museum.vic.gov.au

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ADJ. PROF. DR. MICHAEL OHL
michael.ohl@mfn-berlin.de

+49 30 2093-8507

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PROF. DR. CHRISTOPH OBERPRIELER
christoph.oberprieler@ur.de

+49 941 943-3129

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DR. EDGARDO ORTIZ
edgardo.ortiz@tum.de

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FRANZISKA PATZOLD
franziska.patzold@senckenberg.de

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DR. STEFFEN U. PAULS
steffen.pauls@senckenberg.de

+49 69 7542-1884

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DR. JANNA PETERS
janna.peters@uni-hamburg.de

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DR. LARS PODSIADLOWSKI
l.podsiadlowski@leibniz-zfmk.de

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DR. CHRISTIAN PRINTZEN
christian.printzen@senckenberg.de

+49 69 7542-1154

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DR. STEFAN PROST
stefanprost.research@protonmail.com

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PROF. DR. SUSANNE S. RENNER
+49 89 17861-250

renner@lmu.de

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DR. JASMIN RENZ-GEHNKE
jrenz@senckenberg.de

+49 40 42838-2294

DR. JACOBO REYES
Universität Konstanz

DR. ALEXANDER ROCKINGER
+49 89 17861-251

a.rockinger@gmail.com

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DR. NATALIYA RYBALKA
nrybalk@uni-goettingen.de

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DR. MARK D. SCHERZ
mark.scherz@gmail.com

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DR. SABINE SCHIWITZA
sabine.schiwitza@uni-koeln.de

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PROF. DR. MARTIN SCHLEGEL
schlegel@rz.uni-leipzig.de

+49 341 97 36718

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PROF. DR. HANNO SCHÄFER
hanno.schaefer@tum.de

+49 8161 71-5884

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DR. STEFAN SCHMIDT
hymenoptera@zsm.mwn.de

+49 89 8107-159

DR. TANJA M. SCHUSTER
schuster.tanja@bio.lmu.de

+49 89 17861-251

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PROF. DR. MARC STADLER
marc.stadler@helmholtz-hzi.de

+49 531 6181-4240

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PROF. DR. INGOLF STEFFAN-DEWENTER
ingolf.steffan@uni-wuerzburg.de

+49 931 31-86947

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LENA STEINS
lena.steins@rub.de

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DR. NICOLAS STRAUBE
straube@zsm.mwn.de

+49 89 8107-107

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M.SC. ANDREAS SUTHAUS
Universität zu Köln

DR. SALVATORE TOMASELLO
salvatore.tomasello@uni-goettingen.de

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DR. JULIÁN TORRES-DOWDALL
julian.torres-dowdall@uni-konstanz.de

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AHN TU VAN
anh.van@uni-rostock.de

+49 381 498 6095

DR. SERGIO VARGAS
s.vargas@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

+49 89 2180-6706

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PROF. DR. MIGUEL VENCES
m.vences@tu-braunschweig.de

+49 531 391-3237

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DR. ROBERT VOGT
r.vogt@bgbm.org

+49 30 838-50123

DR. NATASCHA WAGNER
natascha.wagner@uni-goettingen.de

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LUCILE WENDT
lucile.wendt@helmholtz-hzi.de

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PROF. DR. THOMAS WILKE
tom.wilke@allzool.bio.uni-giessen.de

+49 641 99-35720

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PROF. DR. GERT WÖRHEIDE
+49 89 2180-6718

woerheide@lmu.de

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DR. CONSTANTIN M. ZOHNER
constantin.zohner@t-online.de

+49 89 17861-285

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

See selected project-related publications below. Taxon-omics members are shown in bold.

2021
Buono D., Khan G., von Hagen K.B., Kosachev P. A., Mayland-Quellhorst E., Mosyakin S.L. and D.C. Albach (2021): Comparative Phylogeography of Veronica spicata and V. longifolia (Plantaginaceae) Across Europe: Integrating Hybridization and Polyploidy in Phylogeography. Frontiers in Plant Science. [DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.588354]

Miralles A., Bruy T., Crottini A., Rakotoarison A., Ratsoavina F.N., Scherz M.D., Schmidt R., Köhler J., Glaw F. and M. Vences (2021): Completing a taxonomic puzzle: integrative review of geckos of the Paroedura bastardi species complex (Squamata, Gekkonidae). Vertebrate Zoology. [DOI: 10.3897/vertebrate-zoology.71.e59495]

2020
Bamberger S., Duda M., Tribsch A., Haring E., Sattmann H., Macek O., Affenzeller M. and L. Kruckenhauser (2020): Genome-wide nuclear data confirm two species in the Alpine endemic land snail Noricella oreinos s.l. (Gastropoda, Hygromiidae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. [DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12362]

Bellot, S., Mitchell, T.C. and H. Schaefer (2020): Phylogenetic informativeness analyses to clarify past diversification processes in Cucurbitaceae. Scientific Reports 10: 488. [DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-57249-2]

Borsch T., Stevens A.-D., Häffner E., Güntsch A., Berendsohn W.G., Appelhans M.S., Barilaro C., Beszteri B., Blattner F.R., Bossdorf O., Dalitz H., Dressler S., Duque-Thüs R., Esser H.-J., Franzke A., Goetze D., Grein M., Grünert U., Hellwig F., Hentschel J., Hörandl E., Janßen T., Jürgens N., Kadereit G., Karisch T., Koch M.A., Müller F., Müller J., Ober D., Porembski S., Poschlod P., Printzen C., Röser M., Sack P., Schlüter P., Schmidt M., Schnittler M., Scholler M., Schultz M., Seeber E., Simmel J., Stiller M., Thiv M., Thüs H., Tkach N., Triebel D., Warnke U., Weibulat T., Wesche K., Yurkov A. and G. Zizka (2020): A complete digitization of German herbaria is possible, sensible and should be started now. Research Ideas and Outcomes 6: e50675. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.6.e50675]

Bungartz F., Elix J.A. and C. Printzen (2020): Lecanoroid lichens in the Galapagos Islands: the genera Lecanora, Protoparmeliopsis, and Vainionora (Lecanoraceae, Lecanoromycetes). Phytotaxa 431(1): 1 - 85. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.431.1.1]

Dufresnes C., Pribille M., Alard B., Gonçalves H., Amat F., Crochet P.A., Dubey S., Perrin N., Fumagalli L., Vences M. and I. Martínez-Solano (2020): Integrating hybrid zone analyses in species delimitation: lessons from two anuran radiations of the Western Mediterranean. Heredity, [DOI: 10.1038/s41437-020-0294-z]

Eberle J., Ahrens D., Mayer C., Niehuis O. and B. Misof. (2020): A Plea for standardized nuclear markers in Metazoan DNA taxonomy. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.12.003]

Gemeinholzer B., Vences M., Beszteri B., Bruy T., Felden J., Kostadinov I., Miralles A., Nattkemper T.W., Printzen C., Renz J., Rybalka N., Schuster T., Weibulat T., Wilke T. and S.S. Renner (2020): Data storage and data re-use in taxonomy—the need for improved storage and accessibility of heterogeneous data. Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 20: 1-8. [DOI:10.1007/s13127-019-00428-w]

Hartmann A., Glaser K., Holzinger A., Ganzera M. and U. Karsten (2020): Klebsormidin A and B, two new UV-sunscreen compounds in green microalgal Interfilum and Klebsormidium species (Streptophyta) from terrestrial habitats. Frontiers in Microbiology 11:499. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00499]

Hausdorf B. and C. Hennig (2020): Species delimitation and geography. Molecular Ecology Resources 20: 950–960. [DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13184]

Hausdorf B., Bamberger S. and F. Walther (2020): A Sicilian–Cretan biogeographical disjunction in the land snail genus Cornu (Gastropoda: Helicidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. [DOI:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa111]

Jauss R.-T., Walden S., Fiore-Donno A.M., Dumack K., Schaffer S., Wolf R., Schlegel M. and M. Bonkowski (2020): From forest soil to the canopy: increased habitat diversity does not increase species richness of Cercozoa and Oomycota in tree canopies. Authorea (under review in
Molecular Evolution). [DOI: https://doi.org/10.22541/au.158679920.02842084]

Karbstein K., Tomasello S., Hodač L., Dunkel F.G., Daubert M. and E. Hörandl (2020): Phylogenomics supported by geometric morphometrics reveals delimitation of sexual species within the polyploid apomictic Ranunculus auricomus complex (Ranunculaceae). BioRxiv (under review in
Taxon). [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.07.896902]

Keller A., Hohlfeld S., Kolter A., Schultz J., Gemeinholzer B. and M. Ankenbrand (2020): BCdatabaser: on-the-fly reference database creation for (meta-)barcoding. Bioinformatics: btz960. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btz960]

Klinkenbuß D., Metz O., Reichert J., Hauffe T., Neubauer T.A., Wesselingh F.P. and T. Wilke (2020): Performance of 3D morphological methods in the machine learning assisted classification of closely related fossil bivalve species of the genus Dreissena. Malacologia, accepted 07 April 2020.

Mikhailyuk T., Holzinger A., Tsarenko P., Glaser K., Demchenko E. and U. Karsten (2020): Dictyosphaerium-like morphotype in terrestrial algae: what is Xerochlorella (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta)? Journal of Phycology [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.12974]

Miralles A., Bruy T., Wolcott K., Scherz M.D., Begerow D., Beszteri B., Bonkowski M., Felden J., Gemeinholzer B., Glaw F., Glöckner F.O., Hawlitschek O., Kostadinov I., Nattkemper T.W., Printzen C., Renz J., Rybalka N., Stadler M., Weibulat T., Wilke T., Renner S.S. [co-corresponding author] and M. Vences (2020): Repositories for taxonomic data: Where we are and what is missing. Systematic Biology, accepted 24 March. [DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syaa026]

Patzold F., Zilli A., & A.K. Hundsdoerfer (2020) Advantages of an easy-to-use DNA extraction method for minimal-destructive analysis of collection specimens. PloS one, 15(7), e0235222. [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0235222]

Pippel M., Jebb D., Patzold F., Winkler S., Hiller M. and A. K. Hundsdoerfer (2020): A highly contiguous genome assembly of the bat hawkmoth Hyles vespertilio (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Gigascience 9: 1-10. [DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giaa001]

Rancilhac L., Bruy T., Scherz M.D., Almeida Pereira E., Preick M., Straube N., Lyra M.L., Ohler A., Streicher J.W., Andreone F., Crottini A., Hutter C.R., Randrianantoandro J.C., Rakotoarison A., Glaw F., Hofreiter M. and M. Vences (2020): Target-enriched DNA sequencing from historical type material enables a partial revision of the Madagascar giant stream frogs (genus Mantidactylus). Journal of Natural History. [DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1748243]

Renner S.S. and C. Zohner (2020): Further analysis of 1532 deciduous woody species from North America, Europe, and Asia supports continental-scale differences in red fall colouration - reply to Peña-Novas and Archetti. New Phytologist 224(4): 00-00. [DOI: 10.1111/nph.15900]

Scheunert A., Dorfner M., Lingl T. and C. Oberprieler 2020. Can we use it? On the utility of de novo and reference-based assembly of Nanopore data for plant plastome sequencing. – PLoS ONE 15(3): e0226234. [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226234]

Schiwitza S., Lisson H., Arndt H. and F. Nitsche (2020): Morphological and molecular investigation on freshwater choanoflagellates (Craspedida, Salpingoecidae) from the River Rhine at Cologne (Germany). European Journal of Protistology 73. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2020.125687]

Stadler M., Lambert C., Wibberg D., Kalinowski J., Cox R.J., Kolařík M. and E. Kuhnert (2020): Intragenomic polymorphisms in the ITS region of high-quality genomes of the Hypoxylaceae (Xylariales, Ascomycota). Morphological Progress 19: 235 – 245. [DOI: 10.1007/s11557-019-01552-9]

Tomasello S., Karbstein K., Hodač L., Paetzold C. and E. Hörandl (2020): Phylogenomics unravels speciation patterns in temperate-montane plant species: a case study on the recently radiating Ranunculus auricomusspecies complex. BioRxiv (under review in Molecular Ecology).
[DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.06.895904]

Vences M. (2020): The promise of next-generation taxonomy. Megataxa 001(1): 035–038. [DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.1.1.6]

Wagner F., Ott T., Schall M., Lautenschlager U., Vogt R. and C. Oberprieler (2020): Taming the Red Bastards: Hybridisation and species delimitation in the Rhodanthemum arundanum-group (Compositae, Anthemideae). - Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. [DOI: 10.1016/ympev.2019.106702]

Wang C., Becker K., Pfütze S., Kuhnert E., Stadler M., Cox R.J. and E. Skellam (2020): Investigating the Function of Cryptic Cytochalasan Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenases Using Combinatorial Biosynthesis. Organic Letters [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03372]

Wilke T., Renz J., Hauffe T., Delicado D. and J. Peters (2020): Proteomic fingerprinting discriminates cryptic gastropod species. Malacologia 63:1 (in press).

Wolff C., Albrecht C. and T. Wilke (2020): Recovery from interglacial-related bottleneck likely triggered diversification of Lake Titicaca gastropod species flock. Journal of Great Lakes Research (in
press). [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2019.08.006]

Zhang Y.Y., Wang X.Y., Li L.J., Printzen C., Timdal E., Niu D.L., Yin A.C., Wang S.Q. and L.S. Wang (2020): Squamarina (lichenized fungi) species described from China belong to at least three unrelated genera. Mycokeys 66: 135–157. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.66.39057]

2019
Beszteri B., Allen C., Almandoz G.O., Armand L., Barcena M.A., Cantzler H., Crosta X., Esper O., Jordan R.W., Kauer G., Klaas C., Kloster M., Leventer A., Pike J. and A.S. Rigual Hernández (2018): Quantitative comparison of taxa and taxon concepts in the diatom genus
Fragilariopsis: a case study on using slide scanning, multiexpert image annotation, and image analysis in taxonomy. Journal of Phycology 54 (5): 703 – 719. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.12767]

Chomicki G., Schaefer H. and S.S. Renner (2019): Origin and domestication of Cucurbitaceae crops: Insights from phylogenies, genomics and archaeology. New Phytologist. Online early. [DOI: 10.1111/nph.16015]

Eberle J., Bazzato E., Fabrizi S., Rossiini M., Colomba M., Cillo D., Uliana M., Sparacio I., Sabatinelli G., Warnock R.C.M., Carpaneto G.M. and D. Ahrens (2019): Sex-Biased dispersal obscures species boundaries in integrative species delimitation approaches. Systematic Biology 68:
441 – 459. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syy072]

Garcia-Porta J.P., Irisarri I., … Rancilhac L., … Vences M. and K. Wollenberg Valero (2019): Environmental temperatures shape thermal physiology as well as diversification and genome-wide substitution rates in lizards. Nature Communications 10, Article number: 4077. [DOI: nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11943-x]

Hulsey C.D., Alfaro M.E., Zheng J., Meyer A. and R. Holzman (2019): Pleiotropic jaw morphology links the evolution of mechanical modularity and functional feeding convergence in Lake Malawi cichlids. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B. 286: 20182358. [DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2358]

Koch E.L., Neiber M.T., Walther F. and B. Hausdorf (2019): Patterns and processes in a non-adaptive radiation: Alopia (Gastropoda, Clausiliidae) in the Bucegi Mountains. – Zoologica Scripta. [DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12406]

Laakmann S., E.L. Markhaseva, and J. Renz (2019): Do molecular phylogenies unravel the relationships among the evolutionary young “Brafordian” families (Copepoda; Calanoida)? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 130: 330 – 345. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.028]

Mikhailyuk T., Vinogradova O., Holzinger A., Glaser K., Samolov E. and U. Karsten (2019): New record of the rare genus Crinalium Crow (Oscillatoriales, Cyanobacteria) from sand dunes of the Baltic Sea, Germany: epitypification and emendation of Crinalium magnum Fritsch et John based on an integrative approach. Phytotaxa 400: 165. [DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.400.3.4]

Neiber M.T., Helfenrath K., Walther F. and B. Hausdorf (2019): Ecological specialization resulting in restricted gene flow promotes differentiation in door snails. – Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 141. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106608]

Nurinsiyah A.S., Neiber M.T. and B. Hausdorf (2019): Systematic revision of the genus Landouria Godwin-Austen, 1918 (Gastropoda, Camaenidae) from Java. – European Journal of Taxonomy 526: 1–73. [DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.526]

Oberprieler C., Schinhärl L., Wagner F., Hugot L. and R. Vogt (2019): Karyological and molecular analysis of Leucanthemum Mill. (Compositae, Anthemideae) in Corsica. – Willdenowia 49: 411-420.

Rancilhac L., Goudarzi F., Gehara M., Hemami M.-R., Elmer K.R., Vences M. and S. Steinfarz (2019): Phylogeny and species delimitation of near Eastern Neurergus newts (Salamandridae) based on genome-wide RADseq data analysis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.01.003]

Renner S.S. and C. Zohner (2019): The occurrence of red and yellow autumn leaves explained by regional differences in insolation and temperature. New Phytologist Tansley Review 224: 1464-1471. [DOI: 10.1111/nph.15900]

Samolov E., Mikhailyuk T., Lukešová A., Glaser K., Büdel B. and U. Karsten (2019): Usual alga from unusual habitats: Biodiversity of Klebsormidium (Klebsormidiophyceae, Streptophyta) from the phylogenetic superclade G isolated from biological soil crusts. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 133: 236 – 255. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.12.018]

Scherz M., Hutter C., Rakotoarison A., Riemann J., Rödel M.-O., Ndriantsoa S., Glos J., Roberts S., Crottini A., Vences M. and F. Glaw (2019): Morphological and ecological convergence at the lower size limit for vertebrates highlighted by five new miniaturised microhylid frog species from three different Madagascan genera. PLoS ONE 14(3): e0213314. [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213314]

Schiwitza S., Arndt H. and F. Nitsche (2019): First description of an euryoecious acanthoecid choanoflagellate species, Enibas tolerabilis gen. et sp. nov. from a salar in the Chilean Andes based on morphological and transcriptomic data. European Journal of Protistology 67: 106 – 113. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2018.11.004]

Vandendorpe J., van Baak C.G.C., Stelbrink B., Delicado D., Albrecht C. and T. Wilke (2019): Historical faunal exchange between the Pontocaspian Basin and North America. Ecology and Evolution 9: 10816 – 10827. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5602]

Wagner F., T. Ott, C. Zimmer, V. Reichart, R. Vogt and C. Oberprieler (2019): At the crossroads towards polyploidy’: Genomic divergence and extent of homoploid hybridisation are drivers for the formation of the ox-eye daisy polyploid complex (Leucanthemum Mill., Compositae-Anthemideae). New Phytologist. [DOI: 10.1111/nph.15784]

Yakovchenko L.S., Davydov E.A., Ohmura Y. and C. Printzen (2019): The phylogenetic position of species of Lecanora s. lat. containing calycin and usnic acid, with the description of Lecanora solaris Yakovchenko & Davydov sp. nov. Lichenologist 51: 147 – 156. [DOI: 10.1017/S0024282919000045]

Zhao G., Lian Q., Zhang Z., … Schaefer H., Fan W., Bendahmane A., Fei Z., Pitrat M., Gabaldon T., Lin T., Garcia-Mas J., Xu Y. and S. Huang (2019): A comprehensive genome variation map of melon identifies multiple domestication events and loci influencing agronomic traits. Nature Genetics 51: 1607-1615. [DOI: 10.1038/s41588-019-0522-8]

Zohner C. and S.S. Renner (2019): Ongoing seasonally uneven climate warming leads to earlier autumn growth cessation in deciduous trees. Oecologia 189: 549-561. [DOI: 10.1007/s00442-019-04339-7]

Zohner C., Ramm E., and S.S. Renner (2019): Examining the support-supply and bud-packing hypotheses for the increase in toothed leaf margins in northern deciduous floras. American Journal of Botany 106(11): 1404-1411. [DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1379]

Zohner C., Mo L-D., Sebald V. and S.S. Renner (2019): Increasing winter duration decreases degree-day requirements in northern tree ecotypes, enhancing the risk of spring frost damage at cold range limits. Global Ecology and Biogeography. [DOI: 10.1111/geb.13088] Early online version available 10 March 2020

2018
Glemser B., Kloster M., Esper O., Eggers S.L., Kauer G. and B. Beszteri (2019): Biogeographic differentiation between two morphotypes of the Southern Ocean diatom Fragilariopsis kerguelensis. Polar Biology 42: 1369 – 1376. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-019-02525-0]

Hodač L., Barke B.H. and E. Hörandl (2018): Mendelian segregation of leaf phenotypes in experimental F2 hybrids elucidates origin of morphological diversity of the apomictic Ranunculus auricomus complex. Taxon 67(6): 1082 – 1092. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.12705/676.6]

Höpke J., Brewer G., Dodsworth S., Ortiz E. and D. Albach (2018): DNA extraction from old herbarium material of Veronica subgen. Pseudolysimachium (Plantaginaceae). Ukrainian Botanical Journal 75: 564 – 575. [DOI: 10.15407/ukrbotj75.06.564]

Hörandl E. (2018): The classification of asexual organisms: Old myths, new facts, and a novel pluralistic approach. Taxon 67(6): 1066 – 1081. [DOI: 10.12705/676.5]

Mikhailyuk T., Lukesová A., Glaser K., Holzinger A., Obwegeser S., Nyporko S., Friedl T. and U Karsten. (2018): New Taxa of Streptophyte Algae (Streptophyta) from terrestrial habitats revealed using an integrative approach Protist, Vol. 169: 406 – 431. [DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2018.03.002]

Pierangelini M., Glaser K., Mikhailyuk T., Karsten U. and Holzinger A. [submitted]: Light and dehydration but not temperature drive photosynthetic adaptations of basal streptophytes (Hormidiella, Streptosarcina and Streptofilum) living in terrestrial habitats. Microbial Ecology. [DOI: 10.1007/s00248-018-1225-x]

Renard E., Leys S., Wörheide G. and Borchiellini C. (2018): Understanding animal evolution: The added value of sponge transcriptomics and genomics: The disconnect between gene content and body plan evolution. BioEssays: 1700237. [DOI: 10.1002/bies.201700237, PDF]

Renz J., E.L. Markhaseva, and S. Laakmann (2018): The phylogeny of Ryocalanoidea (Copepoda, Calanoida) based on morphology and a multi-gene analysis with a description of new ryocalanoidean species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society XX: 1 – 33. [DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly069]

Schiwitza S., Arndt H., Nitsche F. (2018): Four new choanoflagellate species from extreme saline environments: Indication for isolation-driven speciation exemplified by highly adapted Craspedida from salt flats in the Atacama Desert (Northern Chile). European Journal of Protistology 66: 86 – 96. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2018.08.001, PDF]

Surup F., Narmani A., Wendt L., Pfütze S., Kretz R., Becker K., Menbrivès C., Giosa A., Elliott M., Petit C., Rohde M. and M. Stadler (2018): Identification of fungal fossils and novel azaphilone pigments in ancient carbonised specimens of Hypoxylon fragiforme from forest soils of Châtillon-sur-Seine (Burgundy). Fungal Diversity 92: 345 – 356. [DOI: 10.1007/s13225-018-0412-x]

Wasil Z., Kuhnert E., Simpson T.J. and R.J. Cox (2018): Oryzines A & B, Maleidride Congeners from Aspergillus oryzae and Their Putative Biosynthesis. Journal of Fungi 4(3): 96. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/jof4030096]

Zohner C., Mo L-D., and S.S. Renner (2018): Global warming reduces leaf-out and flowering synchrony among individuals. eLife. [DOI: 10.7554/eLife.40214]

Zohner C., Rockinger A., and S.S. Renner (2018): Increased autumn productivity permits temperate trees to compensate for spring frost damage. New Phytologist 221: 789-795. [DOI: 10.1111/nph.15445]

2017
Albach D.C., Pifkó D. and Z. Barina (2017): Typifications and taxonomic notes for Veronica subgen. Pseudolysimachium (Plantaginaceae) based on material from the Hungarian Natural History Museum Budapest (BP). Phytotaxa 331(1): 035–050 [DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.331.1.2]

Zohner C.M., Benito B.M., Fridley J.D., Svenning J.-C. and S.S. Renner (2017): Spring predictability explains different leaf-out strategies in the woody floras of North America, Europe and East Asia. Ecology Letters. Wiley-Blackwell 20(4): 452 – 460. [DOI: 10.1111/ele.12746]

PRESS RELEASES

See press releases (in print and online) about Taxon-omics projects below.

ONLINE
Universität Regensburg (2019): Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot: Zwei Margeriten-Gattungen auf unterschiedlichen evolutionären Wegen. Regensburg, 2019-04-30.

Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (2019): Uni-Info Hochschulzeitung, Das Geheimnis der blauen Blumen. Oldenburg, 2019-04.

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (2019): Neue Mini-Frösche in Madagaskar entdeckt. Munich, 2019-03-28.

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (2016): New DFG Priority Program. Assessing levels of biodiversity. Munich, 2016-03-29.

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2016): Priority Programme “Taxon-Omics: New Approaches for Discovering and Naming Biodiversity” (SPP 1991). Information für die Wissenschaft Nr. 22, 2016-05-11.

IN PRINT
Thomas Wilke (2018): A novel tool to better understand the diversity of life. www.scientia.global. [PDF]

Juliet Merz (2017): Frisch gefördert. DFG II. Schneller, besser, einfacher – Taxonomie. LaborJournal 10/2017: 12.

POSTERS

See our project-related posters below. Taxon-omics members are shown in bold.

POSTERS FROM TAXON-OMICS MEETINGS
2019

GfBS meeting February 2019

Dorfner M., Scheunert A. and Ch. Oberprieler: Next-Generation-Sequencing of chloroplast genomes in Leucanthemum (Compositae, Anthemideae) using long-range PCR. 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Biological Systematics (GfBS), 24–27 June 2019, Munich, Germany.

2018

SPP 1991 2nd annual meeting August 2018

Bamberger S., Tribsch A., Duda M., Macek O., Affenzeller M., Haring E., Sattmann H. and L. Kruckenhauser: Species delimitation in an Austrian endemic land snail: The case of Trochulus oreinos (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Hygromiidae). Poster presentation at 2nd Annual Meeting of the DFG Priority Program SPP 1991 “Taxon-Omics: New approaches for discovering and naming biodiversity”, 20–21 August 2018, Montpellier, France.

Daubert M., Hodač L., Karbstein K. and E. Hörandl: Understanding the diversity of sexual species in the Ranunculus auricomus complex (Ranunculaceae): evidence from geometric morphometrics. 20–21 August 2018, Montpellier, France. [PDF]

Hauffe T., Schauer J. and T. Wilke: Microgastropod Taxon-Omics: Towards a probabalistic and automated species-discovery-system. 20–21 August 2018, Montpellier, France. [PDF]

Höpke J. and D.C. Albach: The intricate species boundary between Veronica spicata and V. orchidea (Plantaginaceae). 20–21 August 2018, Montpellier, France.

Hühn P. and G. Kadereit: ddRADseq and data analysis for inferring phylogenetics of the rapidly radiated Australian Camphorosmeae. 20–21 August 2018, Montpellier, France. [PDF]

Li R., Neundorf I., Nitsche F.: First efficient siRNA transfection in choanoflagellates using cell-penetrating peptides. Poster presentation at 2nd Annual Meeting of the DFG Priority Program SPP 1991 “Taxon-Omics: New approaches for discovering and naming biodiversity”, 20–21 August 2018, Montpellier, France.

Karbstein K. and E. Hörandl: Unraveling biodiversity in the apomictic polyploid Ranunculus auricomus plant complex with genomic, karyological and morphometric data. Poster presentation at II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, 19–22 August 2018, Montpellier, France.

Karbstein K., Hodac L., Tomasello S., Daubert M. and E. Hörandl: ʿWhat is a species?ʾ Unraveling biodiversity in the large apomictic polyploid Ranunculus auricomus plant complex in Europe with RADseq data. 20–21 August 2018, Montpellier, France. [PDF]

Kolter A., Ankenbrand M., Keller A., Ohl M., Steffan-Dewenter I. and B. Gemeinholzer: Analyzing historical plant-pollinator interactions by conducting pollen metabarcoding on natural history collections of German bumblebee species. Poster presentation at 2nd Annual Meeting of the DFG Priority Program SPP 1991 “Taxon-Omics: New approaches for discovering and naming biodiversity”, 20–21 August 2018, Montpellier, France.

Kuhnert E., Cox R.J., Becker K. and M. Stadler: The Influence of Secondary Metabolite Genes Towards the Speciation of Hypoxylaceae (Ascomycota). 20–21 August 2018, Montpellier, France. [PDF]

Schiwitza S., Arndt H. and F. Nitsche: Morphology, systematics and autecology of choanoflagellates from the Atacama Desert. Poster presentation at 2nd Annual Meeting of the DFG Priority Program SPP 1991 “Taxon-Omics: New approaches for discovering and naming biodiversity”, 20–21 August 2018, Montpellier, France. [PDF]

Straube N. and M. Hofreiter: Phylogenomics of archival DNA. Poster presentation at Symposium "S-31 New approaches to phylogenomics” at II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, 19–22 August 2018, Montpellier, France.

Wagner F., Ott T., Vogt R. and Ch. Oberprieler: At the crossroads towards polyploidy: A multi-loci, coalescence-based comparison of Leucanthemum and Rhodanthemum (Compositae, Anthemideae) on the roles of age and porosity of genomes. 20–21 August 2018, Montpellier, France.

Walden S., Schlegel M. and M. Bonkowski: Deep molecular characterization of Cercozoan diversity and community composition in the canopy region of a floodplain forest. 20–21 August 2018, Montpellier, France. [PDF]

Walden S.: Deep molecular characterization of cercozoan diversity and community composition in the canopy region of a floodplain forest using Illumina high-throughput sequencing. Poster presentation at Symposium “S-78 Open symposium” at II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, 19–22 August 2018, Montpellier, France.

POSTERS FROM OTHER MEETINGS
2020

Kalita S.N. and U. John: Ciliates in the Arctic Ocean: Molecular and morphological methods for species delimitation. Poster presentation at 39th annual Meeting of the German Society for Protozoology University of Kaiserslautern, 4–6 Mar. 2020, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Kolter A. and B. Gemeinholzer: Historic pollen-metabarcoding on rare bumblebee species to investigate the role of floral resource availability upon rarity in Germany. Poster presentation at 4th Annual Meeting in Conservation Genetics, 25–27 Feb. 2020, Frankfurt, Germany.

2019

Kalita S.N., Edvardsen B., Kohli G., Janouškovec J., Šupraha L., Hansen P.J. and U. John: Capturing the diversity of marine heterotrophic protists via single-cell transcriptomics. Poster presentation at 1st International Conference for Young MArine REsearchers (ICYMARE), 24–27
Sep. 2019, Bremen, Germany.

Kolter A. and B. Gemeinholzer: Pollen-metabarcoding on bumble bees to investigate the role of floral resource availability upon rarity. Poster presentation at 8th International Barcode of Life Conference, 17–20 Jun. 2019, Trondheim, Norway.

Kolter A., Swenson S., Wisseman V. and B. Gemeinholzer: Pollen Metabarcoding. Poster presentation at Landesnaturschutztagung Hessen, 6 Nov. 2019, Wetzlar, Germany.

2018 and earlier

Hühn P. and G. Kadereit: Exploring the capacity of RADseq for inferring phylogenetic signals of the rapidly radiated and diversified Australian Camphorosmeae (Chenopodiaceae). Poster presentation at Sektionstagung Klagenfurt, September 2018, Klagenfurt, Austria.

Hundsdörfer A., Renz J., Pauls S. and C. Printzen: Taxon-OMICS: Neue Ansätze zur Erfassung und Beschreibung biologischer Diversität. Poster presentation at Audit Senckenberg, 12–13 March 2018, Frankfurt, Germany.

Hundsdörfer A., Mutanen M. and K.M. Lee: A genomic insight on the species boundaries in Hyles euphorbiae spurge hawkmoths. Evolution Montpellier 2018, 18–22 August 2018, Montpellier, France.

Kloster M., Nattkemper T. and B. Beszteri: MobiDiC – MOBIlization of a DIatom Collection. Poster presentation at 25th International Diatom Symposium, 25–30 June 2018, Berlin, Germany.

Kolter A. and B. Gemeinholzer: Pollen Metabarcoding von naturkundlichen Sammlungen ermöglicht historische Betrachtungen der Bestäubernetzwerke deutscher Hummelarten. Poster presentation at 5th Austrian Barcode of Life (ABOL) Meeting, 7 Dec. 2018, Vienna, Austria.

Pauls S.: AfriTTax: Innovative integration of high-throughput DNA barcoding, transcriptome-based constrained phylogenetics, hyperspectral imaging, and morphology to assess and characterize a poorly known fauna. Poster presentation at 16th International Symposium on Trichoptera, 3–9 June 2018, Surat Thani, Thailand.

Printzen C.: The Lecanomics-portal: Molecular systematics for amateurs and specialists. Poster presentation at Europas Kryptogamenflora im Wandel – 50 Jahre Erforschung und Schutz von Moosen und Flechten in Mitteleuropa, Abstracts: 16, 20–22 April 2018, Frankfurt, Germany.

Rybalka N., Andersen R.A. and A. Tzvetkova: The Xanthophyceae – a well-studied algal group on the road to molecular oblivion? Poster presentation at 17th Scientific Conference of the Phycology Section of the German Botanical Society, 11–14 March 2018, Berchtesgaden, Germany.

Schlegel M., Schaffer S., Walden S., Wolf R. and M. Bonkowski: Eukaryotic microorganisms’ diversity and community composition in forest soils and the canopy region. Poster presentation at iDiv-Jahreskonferenz, 19–20 September 2017, and at Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Proptozoologie, 27 February–2 March 2018, Köln, Germany.

Schlegel M., Schaffer S., Walden S., Wolf R., M. Bonkowski: Deep molecular characterization of eukaryotic microorganisms’ diversity and community composition in forest soils and the canopy region across biomes using a multiple barcoding approach. Poster presentation at 2018 Conference of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Parasitologie.

TALKS

See our project-related talks below. Taxon-omics members are shown in bold.

2020

Bamberger S. and B. Hausdorf (2020). Exploring species delimitation methods in a Cretan door snail species complex based on RADseq data. Talk at the 21th Annual Meeting of the Society for Biological Systematics (GfBS), 12-15 Feb 2020, Hamburg, Germany.

Dietz L., Eberle J., Misof B., Mayer C., Podsiadlowski L., Niehuis O., Peters R.S., Mengual X., Huber B., Espeland M., Wesener T. and D. Ahrens (2020). Universal single-copy orthologs (USCOS) as markers for species-level taxonomy. 21st Annual Meeting of the Society for Biological Systematics (GfBS), 12–15 Feb. 2020, Hamburg, Germany.

Hausdorf B. and C. Hennig (2020). Species delimitation and geography. Talk at the 21th Annual Meeting of the Society for Biological Systematics (GfBS), 12-15 Feb 2020, Hamburg, Germany.

2019

Bamberger S. and B. Hausdorf (2019). One (un)like the other? Species delimitation in the Cretan Albinaria cretensis complex (Gastropoda, Clausiliidae). Talk at the Network of Biological Systematics Austria (NOBIS) Meeting, 29. November 2019, Salzburg, Austria.

Bamberger S. and B. Hausdorf (2019). Exploring species delimitation methods in the Albinaria cretensis complex on Crete based on RADseq data. Talk at the World Congress of Malacology (WCM), 11-16 August 2019, Monterey, CA, USA.

Hawlitschek O., Argudo C., Querejeta M., Ortiz E., Pereira R. and S. Schmidt (2019). Admixture and fast speciation in species complexes of Acrididae: A MuseOMICS approach. Talk at the 13th International Congress of Orthopterology, 24–28 Mar 2019, Agadir, Morocco.

Kalita S.N., Edvardsen B., Kohli G.S., Janouškovec J., Šupraha L., Hansen P.J. and U. John (2019). Bridging functional and phylogenetic diversity of marine heterotrophic protists via single-cell transcriptomics. Talk on the 7th European Phycological Congress, 25-30 August 2019, Zagreb, Croatia.

Nitsche F. (2019). Further evidence for phylogenetic and morphological discrepancies within the genus Acanthocorbis. Talk at the 7th Choanoflagellates & Friends Meeting, 24-27 May 2019, Barcelona, Spain.

Nitsche F. (2019). Mutation rates of choanoflagellate and ciliate species from the Atacama Desert based on molecular clock analysis. Talk at the 7th European Congress of Protistology – ISOP Joint Meeting, 28 July-02 August 2019, Rome, Italy.

Patzold F. and A.K. Hundsdoerfer (2019). Hybrid species recognition using ‘Next Generation Sequencing’ (NGS) of museum specimens. 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Biological Systematics (GfBS), 24–27 Feb 2019, Munich, Germany.

Schiwitza S. (2019). Spotlight on nudiform choanoflagellates – an evolutionary paradox. Talk at the 7th European Congress of Protistology – ISOP Joint Meeting, 28 July-02 August 2019, Rome, Italy.

Schiwitza S. (2019). Spotlight on nudiform choanoflagellates – an evolutionary paradox. Talk at the 7th Choanoflagellates & Friends Meeting, 24-27 May 2019, Barcelona, Spain.

2018 and earlier

Beszteri B., Kloster M. and T. Nattkemper (2018). Combining slide scanning microscopy, web-based virtual slide annotation and machine learning for diatom collection mobilization. Symposium talk at the 25th International Diatom Symposium, 25–30 June 2018, Berlin, Germany.

Eberle J., Ahrens D., Mayer C., Niehuis O. and B. Misof (2018). Prospects of universal nuclear markers for species delimitation. Meeting of the DFG Priority Program “Taxon-Omics: New Approaches for Discovering and Naming Biodiversity” (SPP 1991), 20–21 August 2018, Montpellier, France.

Lautenschlager U., Wagner F., Vogt R. and Ch. Oberprieler (2018). Species delimitation in polyploid complexes. 20–21 August 2018, Montpellier, France.

Oberprieler Ch. and R. Vogt (2017). Setting up a methodological pipeline for species delimitation and species network reconstruction in polyploid complexes. Taxon-Omics, 1st Annual Meeting of the DFG Priority Program SPP 1991 “Taxon-Omics: New approaches for discovering and naming biodiversity”, 19 - 20 Oct. 2017, Munich, Germany.

Patzold F. and A.K. Hundsdoerfer (2018). Hybrid species recognition using ‘Next Generation Sequencing’ (NGS) of museum specimens. Meeting of the DFG Priority Program “Taxon-Omics: New Approaches for Discovering and Naming Biodiversity” (SPP 1991), 20–21 August 2018, Montpellier, France.

Awards

First prize for best symposium talk

Schiwitza S., Arndt H., Nitsche F.: Hidden diversity of choanoflagellates from extreme saline environments – Investigation of new species originating from the Atacama Desert. Symposium talk at the 38th Meeting of the German Society for Protozoology (DGP), 20-22 February 2019, Vienna, Austria.

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10. NOV 2020 - RENEWED FUNDING FOR PHASE 2 OF TAXON-OMICS
The DFG approved funding for Phase 2 of Taxon-Omics Priority Program SPP 1991! Visit Projects and Project Members to see new and familiar faces for our next phase of cutting-edge research to bring taxonomy into the 21st century with new technology for discovering and naming biodiversity.

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10. NOV 2020 - RENEWED FUNDING FOR PHASE 2 OF TAXON-OMICS
The DFG approved funding for Phase 2 of Taxon-Omics Priority Program SPP 1991! Visit Projects and Project Members to see new and familiar faces for our next phase of cutting-edge research to bring taxonomy into the 21st century with new technology for discovering and naming biodiversity.

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[ARCHIVE] 2.-7. AUG 2020 - 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON INVERTEBRATE MORPHOLOGY
Announcement of the upcoming 5th International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology. ICIM-5: 5th International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology, August 2-7, 2020. You can follow ICIM-5 on Twitter @5Icim and download the poster here.

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[ARCHIVE] 28.-29. NOV 2019 - APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING IN TAXONOMY
The workshop aims to provide a hands-on introduction into important Machine Learning (ML) techniques with the opportunity to discuss their applicability in the context of participants’ data. Biologists with interest in data analysis and little or no prior knowledge of machine learning are encouraged to attend. Basic programming skills (e.g. in Python or R) will be helpful, but are not required.

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[ARCHIVE] 22.-24. NOV 2019 - 61ST PHYLOGENETIC SYMPOSIUM FOCUSED ON RETICULATE EVOLUTION
Ever since Darwin’s theory of evolution suggested a common ancestry of all life on earth phylogenetic trees have been used to visualize its relationships. However, evolutionary histories cannot always be adequately represented as bifurcating phylogenetic trees. The 61st Phylogenetic Symposium will focus on Reticulate Evolution and will take place at the Department of Animal Evolution and Biodiversity of the University of Göttingen. Join us as we bring together experts in the field to explore this exciting topic. Registration for the conference is free, but we ask for a 10 € donation to contribute toward the coffee breaks.

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[ARCHIVE] 15.-19. SEP 2019 - BOTANIKERTAGUNG 2019 INTERNATIONAL PLANT SCIENCE CONFERENCE
Announcement for the Botanikertagung 2019 International Plant Science Conference, which will be held in Rostock from 15-19 September 2019 (botanikertagung2019.de). Early-bird registration fees end on 30 May.

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[ARCHIVE] 27.-29. SEP 2019 - BIOINFORMATICS FOR RADSEQ DATA
The focus will be on downstream analyses for species delimitation, detecting hybridization, dealing with polyploidy, and using RAD data. Participants should be familiar with basics of NGS and assembly of RAD data. Block sessions will provide introductions and time for hands-on analysis of data on HPC cluster (Göttingen). Registration is now closed. Please send last minute requests to Claudia Pätzold (claudia.paetzold@uni-goettingen.de).

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[ARCHIVE] 28.-29. JUN 2019 - TAXON-OMICS ANNUAL MEETING - UPDATED SCHEDULE
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[ARCHIVE] 26.-27. JUN 2019 - WORKSHOP “HYBRIDIZATION CAPTURE, HYRAD, AND TARGETED CAPTURE: WORKFLOWS IN THE WET AND DRY LAB”
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[ARCHIVE] 24.-27. FEB 2019 - 20TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS
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[ARCHIVE] 18.-21. FEB 2019 - WORKSHOP “THE BACKGROUND AND APPLICATION OF DDRAD”
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Contact Us

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Prof. Dr. Dominik Begerow, Taxon-Omics Speaker

Ruhr-University Bochum

Evolution of Plants and Fungi - ND 03/174

44780 Bochum, Germany

Phone: +49 234 32 27212

Fax: +49 234 32 14434

Email: dominik.begerow@rub.de

Website

Other Taxon-Omics Steering Committee Members

Elvira Hoerandel, University of Göttingen

Gudrun Kadereit, University of Mainz

Miguel Vences, Braunschweig University of Technology

Microgastropod Taxon-Omics:TAXXONOMtaxon t-omicsJUSTUS-LIEBIG-UNIVERSITATTowards a Probabilistic and AutomatedGIESSENSpecies-Discovery SystemTorsten Hauffe’, Jens Schauer1,2, Thomas Wilke!1 Systematic & Biodiversity Group, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany 2 Bioinformatic & Systems Biology, Justus Liebig University Gießen, GermanyCurrent state of TaxonomyDescribedFig. 1: Over the past 260ConservativeUndescribedyears, taxonomy yieldedca. 1.8 million validlyLiberaldescribed extant species’.However, a high number of0 20 40 60 80 100species remains undescribed?.Mio. described speciesReducing the share of undocumented species conflicts with the two main interests oftaxonomy – quality and speed of species delimitation/description.Performance evaluation of novel approaches is challenging because insufficient statisticalrobustness may result from an ill-defined method and/or inconsistencies in the input data(e.g., wrongly determined specimens). We therefore used simulated data of knownproperties and illustrated the use of proSDS on the two model microgastropod generaPseudamnicola and Corrosella.Literature dataIntraspecific variationSimulated dataSpecies treeSpeciation andextinction ratesKnown species identityFig. 5: Simulation pipe-line. Based on evo-lutionary parameterscompiled from literature,we simulated sequenceand morphological/eco-logical traits along speciesphylogenies and addedpopulation variability.Quality >SpeedSubstitution modeland parameters> We address both aspects by developing a probabilistic species-discovery system (proSDS)and applying it to a newly compiled reference database for microgastropods.A 20ITUITRandom base exchangeSimulated TTTCCGAAGTTC/CCGAAGIndividualsTTTCTGAGGSample normal distributionaround simulated species traitsC2GTrait valueIIIMicrogastropodsThe aquatic family Hydrobiidae (Stimpson, 1865) comprises > 900 described extant species,occurring mainly in springs and lakes of the northern hemisphere (Fig. 2). Their typicallysmall (ca. 2 mm) and featureless shells, simple anatomy, and varying evolutionary rates(Fig. 3) require sophisticated integrative taxonomic approaches.Fig. 2: (a) Described800-species through time.(b) Spatial distributionRichnessof species richness.8 400-128IIIBrownian motion ratefor drift-likecontinuous traitevolutionTransition rates fordiscrete trait evolution(e.g., biogeography)IndividualII 11IIRandom trait change0BhyŞimulateddistributionHydrobiidaeA=AB=®Individuals AB ® ® AB ®Ooiduals la ir iş hd 39 25 2e 20ExceptionGinaiamundackgroundOhridopyrgulamacedonicaChilopyrgulasturanyinchmarkingMajorityPersipyrgulasaboori Pseudamnicolaartanensis Radomaniolacurta Species 1 Species 21800 1900 2000Individuals la lb 1c ld 2a 2b 2c 2dhigh At a glanceTrainReducing the number of unde-proSDSscribed species is not trivial due to conflictsin quality and speed of species delimitation.Predictla 2dWe address both aspects by developing a probabili-P (Species 1) 0.91 0.09 Classification performance?stic species-discovery system (proSDS). UsingP (Species 2) 0.23 0.77Fig. 3: (a) Examples of shell diversity. (b) Diversification rates.machine learning, it groups specimens into speciesbased on genetic, morphological, and ecological data.We evaluated the performance using simulatedThe benchmarking results suggest a generally gooddata and a reference database for microgastropods.performance of proSDS in both real and simulated data,with high rates of correct species classification with fairProSDS showed high accuracy in speciesprobabilities over a wide range of intra/interspecificQuery specimendelimitation across simulation scenarios and variation (Figs. 6, 7).- genetic information- habitat informationfor the microgastropods. Our approach3D-morphometry- geographic coordinatesFractal Dimensionmight facilitate taxonomic- anatomyGenetic only Integrated GIS3D ToolboxApplydecisions.- ecoregion- fractal dimension D- elevation- log® log(V) curve050Integrate - bioclimatePlemReCorrect classification (%)specimenReference datasetFig. 6: Performance of proSDS exemplified on two micrograstropod genera. Ratio of correct- genetic informationIntegratespecies classification varies slightly by machine learning algorithm and utilized data types.Train - habitat informationClassification rulesspecimenb 100 EURO SOBRE LA- anatomy- derived by machine learning- 3D-morphometry- reiterate upon each update- ecoregionInforms about of the reference dataset- elevationtrait weight- bioclimateCurationData needed Obtain- Species- more traitsdescription- more specimens- Approval byProbabilities oftaxonomicspecies-membershipadvisory boardOISSNDSICCovery systTraits onlyo Neural networkSupport vector machine=Genetic + traits100Results &Intraspecific genetic variationGenetic + traitsGenetic onlyNo traitsEvolutionary rate of continuous traitsCorrect classification (%)Correct classification (%)Intraspecific trait variationNumber of individualsKnown species07TUndetermined species0.20.40.60.81.0Novel speciesIntraspecific genetic raw distance (%)Fig. 4: Workflow of the probabilistic species-delimitation system. Supervised machinelearning derives rules for classifying specimens into species utilizing a taxonomist’s curatedreference dataset of genetic, morphological, and ecological traits. Querying the speciesidentity of an unknown specimen by applying the classification rules results in a probabilityfor belonging to a species not included in the reference dataset (‘novel species’). Next, foreach species in the reference dataset a probability for the query specimen to be a member ofthat species is obtained (known species’). In case of throughout low probabilities perreference species, more data need to be collected ‘undetermined species’).0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 0 1. 0 6 12 18 24 30Decrease in predicting performanceEvolutionary rate of continuous traitsFig. 7: Robustness and limits of proSDS inferred by regression analyses. (a) Decrease in explaining correctclassification ratio upon omitting explanatory simulation features. (b) Decrease of correct classification powerwith increasing intraspecific variation is mitigated by morphological and ecological traits. © Rapid traitdivergence limits performance.Our simulations comprise simple evolutionary scenarios. We will benchmark proSDS against(i) convergent evolution and (ii) speciation with gene flow and trait evolution along theresulting phylogenetic networks"; scenarios identified in our previous Taxon-Omics meetingsas major obstacles to species delimitation.In the long run, our approach might assist scientists in making taxonomic decisions byestimating the probability for a query specimen to belong to a known or novel species.1 Costello et al. Predicting total global species richness using rates of species description and estimates of taxonomic effort 20122 Mora et al. Comment on 'Can we name earth’s species before they go extinct? 20133 Miller et al. Global species richness of hydrobïid snails determined by climate and evolutionary history 20184 Delicado et al. Ecological opportunity may facilitate diversification in Palearctic freshwater organisms: a case study on hydrobiid gastropods 20185 Mahler et al. Exceptional convergence on the macroevolutionary landscape of island lizard radiations 20136 Bastide et al. Phylogenetic comparative methods on phylogenetic networks with reticulations 2018Acknowledgments: We thank the Bioinformatic and Systems Biology group (Justus LiebigUniversity, Germany) for access to high-performance computation and the DFG program SPP1991 for funding.