ProfessorRudolf Meier

Höpel, C.G., Yeo, D., Ahyong, S.T., Meier, R., Richter, S. (2023). First mitochondrial genomes of Anaspidacea (Malacostraca, Crustacea) and the phylogenetic relationships of mountain shrimps ( Anaspides Thomson, 1894) and their relatives within Anaspidesidae. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 43(2), ruad028. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruad028

Hoffmann, J., Quaisser, C., Hoffmann, A., Blessing, A., Freyhof, J., Fröbisch, J., Fröbisch, N., Frommolt, K.H., Giere, P., Greshake, A., Hecht, L., Heumann, I., Knörnschild, M., Mayer, F., Meier, R., Nadim, T., von Rintelen, T., Rödel, M.O., Schmitt, R.T., Sommerwerk, N. (2023). Forschungscluster für Sammlungserschließung am Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Museum für Naturkunde Berlin - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7479/7df5-b402

Ip, Y.C.A., Chang, J.J.M., Tun, K.P.P., Meier, R., Huang, D. (2023). Multispecies environmental DNA metabarcoding sheds light on annual coral spawning events. Molecular Ecology, 32(23), 6474-6488. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16621

Srivathsan, A., Loh, R.K., Ong, E.J., Lee, L., Ang, Y., Kutty, S.N., Meier, R. (2023). Network analysis with either Illumina or MinION reveals that detecting vertebrate species requires metabarcoding of iDNA from a diverse fly community. Molecular Ecology, 32(23), 6418-6435. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16767

Rajaratnam, G., Lui, G., Su, K.F.Y., Chew, M.S.J., Ang, Y., Puniamoorthy, N., Rohner, P.T., Blanckenhorn, W.U., Meier, R. (2023). Size rather than complexity of sexual ornaments prolongs male metamorphosis and explains sexual size dimorphism in sepsid flies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(1998), 20222531. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2531

Amorim, D.D.S., Oliveira, S.S., Balbi, M.I.P.A., Ang, Y., Torres, A., Yeo, D., Srivathsan, A., Meier, R. (2023). An integrative taxonomic treatment of the Mycetophilidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha) from Singapore reveals 115 new species on 730km2 [Preprint]. bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.02.555672

Srivathsan, A., Feng, V., Suárez, D., Emerson, B., Meier, R. (2023). ONTbarcoder 2.0: rapid species discovery and identification with real-time barcoding facilitated by Oxford Nanopore R10.4. Cladistics, 40(2), 192-203. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12566

French, C.M., Bertola, L.D., Carnaval, A.C., Economo, E.P., Kass, J.M., Lohman, D.J., Marske, K.A., Meier, R., Overcast, I., Rominger, A.J., Staniczenko, P.P.A., Hickerson, M.J. (2023). Global determinants of insect mitochondrial genetic diversity. Nature Communications, 14(1), 5276. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40936-0

Srivathsan, A., Ang, Y., Heraty, J.M., Hwang, W.S., Jusoh, W.F.A., Kutty, S.N., Puniamoorthy, J., Yeo, D., Roslin, T., Meier, R. (2023). Convergence of dominance and neglect in flying insect diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7(7), 1012-1021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02066-0

Chua, P.Y., Bourlat, S.J., Ferguson, C., Korlevic, P., Zhao, L., Ekrem, T., Meier, R., Lawniczak, M.K. (2023). Future of DNA-based insect monitoring. Trends in Genetics, 39(7), 531-544. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2023.02.012

Chisholm, R.A., Kristensen, N.P., Rheindt, F.E., Chong, K.Y., Ascher, J.S., Lim, K.K.P., Ng, P.K.L., Yeo, D.C.J., Meier, R., Tan, H.H., Giam, X., Yeoh, Y.S., Seah, W.W., Berman, L.M., Tan, H.Z., Sadanandan, K.R., Theng, M., Jusoh, W.F.A., Jain, A., Huertas, B., Tan, D.J.X., Ng, A.C.R., Teo, A., Yiwen, Z., Cho, T.J.Y., Sin, Y.C.K. (2023). Two centuries of biodiversity discovery and loss in Singapore. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(51), e2309034120. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2309034120

Pei, W., Feng, V., Hansen, A.K., Yan, L., Srivathsan, A., Xu, W., Sun, H., Yang, J., Zhang, X., Yang, N., Yuan, Q., Zhang, D., Meier, R. (2024). Megabarcoding reveals a tale of two very different dark taxa along the same elevational gradient [Preprint]. bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.29.591578

Ascenzi, A., Wührl, L., Feng, V., Klug, N., Pylatiuk, C., Cerretti, P., Meier, R. (2024). EntoSieve: automated size-sorting of insect bulk samples to aid accurate megabarcoding and metabarcoding [Preprint]. Authorea. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22541/au.172769814.48739807/v1

Suárez, D., Arribas, P., Srivathsan, A., Meier, R., Emerson, B.C. (2024). Environmental heterogeneity, rather than stability, explains spider assemblage differences between ecosystems. Ecography, 2025(1), e07454. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.07454

Klug, N., Kramer, M., Mazrek, F., Wührl, L., Shirali, H., Meier, R., Pylatiuk, C. (2024). Automated Photogrammetric Close-Range Imaging System for Small Invertebrates Using Acoustic Levitation [Preprint]. TechRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.172651022.21831566/v1

Srivathsan, A., Meier, R. (2024). Scalable, Cost-Effective, and Decentralized DNA Barcoding with Oxford Nanopore Sequencing. In DeSalle, R. (Hrsg.), DNA Barcoding (223-238). New York, NY: Springer Nature. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3581-0_14

Andriienko, V., Buczek, M., Meier, R., Srivathsan, A., Łukasik, P., Kolasa, M.R. (2024). Implementing high-throughput insect barcoding in microbiome studies: impact of non-destructive DNA extraction on microbiome reconstruction [Preprint]. Microbiology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.30.591865

Hartop, E., Lee, L., Srivathsan, A., Jones, M., Peña-Aguilera, P., Ovaskainen, O., Roslin, T., Meier, R. (2024). Resolving Biology’s Dark Matter: Species richness, spatiotemporal distribution, and community composition of a dark taxon [Preprint]. Ecology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.07.592951

Wührl, L., Rettenberger, L., Meier, R., Hartop, E., Graf, J., Pylatiuk, C. (2024). Entomoscope: An Open-Source Photomicroscope for Biodiversity Discovery. IEEE Access, 12, 11785-11794. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3355272

Hartop, E., Lee, L., Srivathsan, A., Jones, M., Peña-Aguilera, P., Ovaskainen, O., Roslin, T., Meier, R. (2024). Resolving biology’s dark matter: species richness, spatiotemporal distribution, and community composition of a dark taxon. BMC Biology, 22(1), 215. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-02010-z

Vasilita, C., Feng, V., Hansen, A.K., Hartop, E., Srivathsan, A., Struijk, R., Meier, R. (2024). Express barcoding with NextGenPCR and MinION for species-level sorting of ecological samples. Molecular Ecology Resources, 24(3), e13922. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13922

Brydegaard, M., Pedales, R.D., Feng, V., Yamoa, A.S.D., Kouakou, B., Månefjord, H., Wührl, L., Pylatiuk, C., Amorim, D.D.S., Meier, R. (2024). Towards global insect biomonitoring with frugal methods. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379(1904), 20230103. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0103

Meier, R., Lawniczak, M.K., Srivathsan, A. (2024). Illuminating Entomological Dark Matter with DNA Barcodes in an Era of Insect Decline, Deep Learning, and Genomics. Annual Review of Entomology, 70(2025), 185-204. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-040124-014001

Meier, R., Hartop, E., Pylatiuk, C., Srivathsan, A. (2024). Towards holistic insect monitoring: species discovery, description, identification and traits for all insects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379(1904), 20230120. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0120

Wührl, L., Keller, L., Klug, N., Shirali, H., Meier, R., Pylatiuk, C. (2024). Automated handling of biological objects with a flexible gripper for biodiversity research. at - Automatisierungstechnik, 72(7), 672-678. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/auto-2023-0238

Torres, A., Lee, L., Srivathsan, A., Meier, R. (2025). UITOTO: a software for generating molecular diagnoses for species descriptions. Cladistics, n/a(n/a), cla.70023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.70023

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.S., Flocco, C.G., Grossart, H.P., 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. (2025). Unknown Germany - An integrative biodiversity discovery program. npj Biodiversity, 4(1), 41. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44185-025-00108-3

Meier, R., Srivathsan, A., Oliveira, S., Balbi, M., Y, A., Yeo, D., Kjærandsen, J., de Souza Amorim, D. (2025). “Dark taxonomy”: A new protocol for overcoming the taxonomic impediments for dark taxa and broadening the taxon base for biodiversity assessment. Cladistics, 223–238. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12609

Lee, L., Oboňa, J., Lee, Y.X., Lee, K.T., Puniamoorthy, J., Tan, L.Y.K., Choo, R., Tan, D.J.X., Kwak, M., Ang, Y., Meier, R. (2025). Avian Afterlives: Integrative Taxonomy of Hippoboscid Flies (Diptera) From Citizen‐Reported Bird Carcasses Reveals a New Species and Host–Parasite Diversity in Singapore. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 2025(1), 8819646. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/jzs/8819646

Shirali, H., Wührl, L., Lee, L., Klug, N., Meier, R., Pylatiuk, C., Hartop, E. (2025). Automated Specimen Triage for Dark Taxa: Deep Learning Enables Orientation, Sex Identification, and Anatomical Segmentation from Robotic Imaging [Preprint]. bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.02.680063

Ascenzi, A., Wührl, L., Feng, V., Klug, N., Pylatiuk, C., Cerretti, P., Meier, R. (2025). EntoSieve: Automated Size‐Sorting of Insect Bulk Samples to Aid Accurate Megabarcoding and Metabarcoding. Molecular Ecology Resources, 25(6), e14097. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.14097

Cerretti, P., Nania, D., Di Marco, M., Meier, R., Ascenzi, A., Evenhuis, N., Pape, T. (2025). Declining rates of species description call for improved taxonomic strategies: Insights from a megadiverse insect order. Systematic Entomology, e70019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.70019