Prof. Dr.Johannes Müller

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/s41467-023-39480-8

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.70008

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.2201948119

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/s41598-025-08980-6

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.0012161

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/ece3.70214

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/ece3.10329

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-x

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/qpaf140

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.15608

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.2025.105544

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/s12862-024-02218-1

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.2025.09.067