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Bernhard Misof

Bernhard Misof

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
71
Citations
17624
World Ranking
1316
National Ranking
82

Overview

Bernhard Misof is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Ecology, Molecular Biology, and Insect Science.

The primary topics of Bernhard Misof's work include:

  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Fossil Insects in Amber
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

The scientist's recent publications reflect a range of investigations across evolutionary biology and molecular ecology:

  • "Gene content evolution in the arthropods", 2020, Genome Biology
  • "Phylogenomic analysis sheds light on the evolutionary pathways towards acoustic communication in Orthoptera", 2020, Nature Communications
  • "An integrative phylogenomic approach to elucidate the evolutionary history and divergence times of Neuropterida (Insecta: Holometabola)", 2020, BMC Evolutionary Biology
  • "A Plea for Standardized Nuclear Markers in Metazoan DNA Taxonomy", 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Comparing diversity levels in environmental samples: DNA sequence capture and metabarcoding approaches using 18S and COI genes", 2020, Molecular Ecology Resources

Collaborative efforts have included frequent partnerships with other researchers such as Oliver Niehuis, Lars Podsiadłowski, Christoph Mayer, Alexander Donath, and Karen Meusemann, indicating sustained scientific cooperation over numerous publications.

Scientific contributions have been disseminated through several publication venues with multiple entries in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Systematic Entomology, Nature Communications, and BMC Evolutionary Biology.

Best Publications

  • Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

    Bernhard Misof;Shanlin Liu;Karen Meusemann;Ralph S. Peters

  • Evolutionary History of the Hymenoptera

    Ralph S. Peters;Lars Krogmann;Christoph Mayer;Alexander Donath

  • The evolution and genomic basis of beetle diversity.

    Duane D. McKenna;Seunggwan Shin;Dirk Ahrens;Michael Balke

  • A Monte Carlo approach successfully identifies randomness in multiple sequence alignments: a more objective means of data exclusion.

    Bernhard Misof;Katharina Misof

  • Phylogenomics Reveals the Evolutionary Timing and Pattern of Butterflies and Moths

    Akito Y Kawahara;David Plotkin;Marianne Espeland;Karen Meusemann;Karen Meusemann

  • A Phylogenomic Approach to Resolve the Arthropod Tree of Life

    Karen Meusemann;Björn M. von Reumont;Sabrina Simon;Falko Roeding

  • Phylogenomics and the evolution of hemipteroid insects.

    Kevin P. Johnson;Christopher H. Dietrich;Frank Friedrich;Rolf G. Beutel

  • Surveys of gene families using polymerase chain reaction: PCR selection and PCR drift

    Andreas Wagner;Neil Blackstone;Paulyn Cartwright;Matthew Dick

  • Pancrustacean Phylogeny in the Light of New Phylogenomic Data: Support for Remipedia as the Possible Sister Group of Hexapoda

    Bjoern M von Reumont;Ronald A Jenner;Matthew A Wills;Emiliano Dell'ampio

  • Molecular phylogeny of symbiotic dinoflagellates inferred from partial chloroplast large subunit (23S)-rDNA sequences.

    Scott R Santos;Derek J Taylor;Robert A Kinzie;Michio Hidaka

  • Parametric and non-parametric masking of randomness in sequence alignments can be improved and leads to better resolved trees.

    Patrick Kück;Karen Meusemann;Johannes Dambach;Birthe Thormann

  • A comprehensive analysis of bilaterian mitochondrial genomes and phylogeny.

    Matthias Bernt;Christoph Bleidorn;Anke Braband;Johannes Dambach

  • Gene Content Evolution in the Arthropods

    Gregg W.C. Thomas;Elias Dohmen;Elias Dohmen;Daniel S.T. Hughes;Daniel S.T. Hughes;Shwetha C. Murali;Shwetha C. Murali

  • An integrative phylogenomic approach illuminates the evolutionary history of cockroaches and termites (Blattodea).

    Dominic A. Evangelista;Benjamin Wipfler;Benjamin Wipfler;Olivier Béthoux;Alexander Donath

  • Diversity and evolution of the transposable element repertoire in arthropods with particular reference to insects

    Malte Petersen;David Armisén;Richard A. Gibbs;Lars Hering

  • Morphological and molecular evidence converge upon a robust phylogeny of the megadiverse Holometabola

    Rolf G. Beutel;Frank Friedrich;Thomas Hörnschemeyer;Hans Pohl

  • Phylogenomic analysis of Apoidea sheds new light on the sister group of bees

    Manuela Sann;Manuela Sann;Oliver Niehuis;Ralph S. Peters;Christoph Mayer

  • Evolutionary history of Polyneoptera and its implications for our understanding of early winged insects.

    Benjamin Wipfler;Harald Letsch;Paul B Frandsen;Paschalia Kapli

  • The evolutionary history of holometabolous insects inferred from transcriptome-based phylogeny and comprehensive morphological data

    Ralph S Peters;Karen Meusemann;Malte Petersen;Christoph Mayer

  • Genomic and Morphological Evidence Converge to Resolve the Enigma of Strepsiptera

    Oliver Niehuis;Gerrit Hartig;Sonja Grath;Hans Pohl

  • Orthograph: a versatile tool for mapping coding nucleotide sequences to clusters of orthologous genes

    Malte Petersen;Karen Meusemann;Karen Meusemann;Alexander Donath;Daniel Dowling

  • Molecular systematics of armadillos (Xenarthra, Dasypodidae): contribution of maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear genes.

    Frédéric Delsuc;Michael J Stanhope;Emmanuel J.P Douzery

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen Meusemann
Karen Meusemann University of Freiburg
Oliver Niehuis
Oliver Niehuis University of Freiburg
Xin Zhou
Xin Zhou China Agricultural University
Rolf G. Beutel
Rolf G. Beutel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Robert M. Waterhouse
Robert M. Waterhouse Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
David K. Yeates
David K. Yeates Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Alexandros Stamatakis
Alexandros Stamatakis Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Martin Haase
Martin Haase University of Greifswald
Evgeny M. Zdobnov
Evgeny M. Zdobnov Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Lars S. Jermiin
Lars S. Jermiin Australian National University

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