ProfessorRudolf Meier

æ 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

æ 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 (MfN) - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7479/7df5-b402

æ 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

æ 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

æ 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. bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.02.555672

æ 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

æ 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

æ 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

æ 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. bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.29.591578

æ 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. Authorea. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22541/au.172769814.48739807/v1

æ 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

æ 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. PeerJ, 12, e18025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18025

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. 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. 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. Ecology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.07.592951

æ 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

æ 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

æ 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

æ 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

æ 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

æ 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

æ 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

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

æ 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

æ 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. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12609

æ 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. bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.02.680063

æ 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