Prof. Dr.Johannes Müller

Scientist / (Senior) Scientist

Johannes.Mueller@mfn.berlin+49 0 30 889 140 - 8805
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Department:
Evolutionary Morphology

My research interests involve the integration of paleontological and neontological approaches to organismic evolution, and the evolution of terrestrial vertebrate communities and ecosystems. My preferred model systems are reptiles, amphibians and mammals. I am also the scientific head of the 3D laboratory.

I work in the laboratories:
3D Laboratory

Publications

Lauer, D.A., Lawing, A.M., Short, R.A., Manthi, F.K., Müller, J., Head, J.J., McGuire, J.L. (2023). Disruption of trait-environment relationships in African megafauna occurred in the middle Pleistocene. Nature Communications, 14(1), 4016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39480-8Open Access

Kirchner, M., Ortega, J., García‐Roa, R., Müller, J., Martı́n, J. (2025). Intrapopulational variation in head shape correlates with soil structure heterogeneity in a head‐first burrowing amphisbaenian, Trogonophis wiegmanni. Journal of Zoology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.70008Open Access

Ramm, T., Gray, J.A., Hipsley, C.A., Hocknull, S., Melville, J., Müller, J. (2024). Are Modern Cryptic Species Detectable in the Fossil Record? A Case Study on Agamid Lizards. Systematic Biology, 74(3), 373-394. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syae067

Parker, A.K., Müller, J., Boisserie, J.R., Head, J.J. (2023). The utility of body size as a functional trait to link the past and present in a diverse reptile clade. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(7), e2201948119. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2201948119Open Access

Salih, K., Müller, J., Eisawi, A., Bibi, F. (2025). A new late Pleistocene fossil crocodile from Sudan reveals hidden diversity of Crocodylus in Africa. Scientific Reports, 15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-08980-6Open Access

Chowdhury, M.A.W., Müller, J., Ghose, A., Amin, R., Sayeed, A.A., Kuch, U., Faiz, M.A. (2024). Combining species distribution models and big datasets may provide finer assessments of snakebite impacts. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 18(5), e0012161. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0012161Open Access

Siciliano‐Martina, L., McGuire, J.L., Hurtado‐Materon, M.A., Short, R.A., Lauer, D.A., Schap, J.A., Müller, J., Manthi, F.K., Head, J.J., Lawing, A.M. (2024). Ecometrics demonstrates that the functional dental traits of carnivoran communities are filtered by climate. Ecology and Evolution, 14(10), e70214. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70214Open Access

Paiva, C.L., Hipsley, C.A., Müller, J., Zaher, H., Costa, H.C. (2024). Comparative skull osteology of Amphisbaena arda and Amphisbaena vermicularis (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae). Journal of Morphology, 285(5), e21702. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21702

Keinath, S., Frisch, J., Müller, J., Mayer, F., Struck, U., Rödel, M. (2023). Species‐ and sex‐dependent changes in body size between 1892 and 2017, and recent biochemical signatures in rural and urban populations of two ground beetle species. Ecology and Evolution, 13(7), e10329. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10329Open Access

Blanco, F., Lazagabaster, I.A., Sanisidro, Ó., Bibi, F., Heckeberg, N., Ríos, M., Mennecart, B., Alberdi, M., Prado, J., Saarinen, J., Silvestro, D., Müller, J., Calatayud, J., Cantalapiedra, J.L. (2025). Two major ecological shifts shaped 60 million years of ungulate faunal evolution. Nature Communications, 16(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59974-xOpen Access

Woodgate, S., Pérez‐Cembranos, A., Pérez-Mellado, V., Müller, J. (2025). Microgeographic diversity does not drive macroevolutionary divergence in bite force of the Ibiza wall lizard, Podarcis pityusensis. Evolution. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf140Open Access

Pacher, K., Breuker, M., Hansen, M.J., Kurvers, R.H.J.M., Häge, J., Dhellemmes, F., Domenici, P., Steffensen, J.F., Krause, S., Hildebrandt, T., Fritsch, G., Bach, P., Sabarros, P.S., Zaslansky, P., Mahlow, K., Müller, J., Armas, R.G., Ortiz, H.V., Galván‐Magaña, F., Krause, J. (2023). The rostral micro‐tooth morphology of blue marlin, Makaira nigricans. Journal of Fish Biology, 104(3), 713-722. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15608Open Access

Clark, G.E., Palci, A., Laver, R.J., Hernandez-Morales, C., Perez-Martinez, C.A., Lewis, P.J., Thies, M.L., Bell, C.J., Hipsley, C.A., Müller, J., Montero, R., Daza, J.D. (2024). The specialized inner ear labyrinth of worm-lizards (Amphisbaenia: Squamata). PLoS ONE, 19(11), e0312086. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312086

Chowdhury, M., Müller, J., Al Haidar, I., Rahman, M., Noman, M., Ghose, A., Abu Sayeed, A., Amin, R., Sanz, L., Faiz, A., Kuch, U., Calvete, J. (2025). Interspecific and intraspecific variability in venom composition of Naja naja and Naja kaouthia (Reptilia: Elapidae) populations from different habitats in Bangladesh. Journal of Proteomics, 322, 105544. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jprot.2025.105544Open Access

Freisem, L.S., Müller, J., Sues, H.D., Sobral, G. (2024). A new sphenodontian (Diapsida: Lepidosauria) from the Upper Triassic (Norian) of Germany and its implications for the mode of sphenodontian evolution. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 24(1), 35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-024-02218-1Open Access

Ramm, T., Roycroft, E., Gray, J., Hipsley, C., Hocknull, S., Müller, J., Melville, J. (2025). Climate change predicts Quaternary extinctions and extant genetic diversity in a threatened Australian lizard. Current Biology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.09.067Open Access