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Karen Meusemann is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

Their work covers several subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Insect Science, and Ecology. The main research topics explored by Meusemann encompass Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant and Animal Studies, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Fossil Insects in Amber, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Meusemann has published in a variety of journals and platforms. Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • BMC Evolutionary Biology
  • NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics
  • BMC Biology

The scientist has collaborated repeatedly with several co-authors, notably:

  • Bernhard Misof
  • Alexander Donath
  • Oliver Niehuis
  • Christoph Mayer
  • Lars Podsiadłowski

Selected recent papers by Karen Meusemann include:

  • "An integrative phylogenomic approach to elucidate the evolutionary history and divergence times of Neuropterida (Insecta: Holometabola)" (2020, BMC Evolutionary Biology)
  • "Comparative transcriptomic analysis of the mechanisms underpinning ageing and fecundity in social insects" (2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • "Oxidative stress and senescence in social insects: a significant but inconsistent link?" (2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • "A minimum reporting standard for multiple sequence alignments" (2020, NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics)
  • "Beyond Drosophila: resolving the rapid radiation of schizophoran flies with phylotranscriptomics" (2021, BMC 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

  • FASconCAT: Convenient handling of data matrices.

    Patrick Kück;Karen Meusemann

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

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

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

  • 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

  • Can comprehensive background knowledge be incorporated into substitution models to improve phylogenetic analyses? A case study on major arthropod relationships.

    Björn M von Reumont;Karen Meusemann;Nikolaus U Szucsich;Emiliano Dell'Ampio

  • Dating the arthropod tree based on large-scale transcriptome data.

    Peter Rehm;Janus Borner;Karen Meusemann;Björn M. von Reumont

  • Decisive Data Sets in Phylogenomics: Lessons from Studies on the Phylogenetic Relationships of Primarily Wingless Insects

    Emiliano Dell’Ampio;Karen Meusemann;Nikolaus U. Szucsich;Ralph S. Peters

  • Signatures of DNA Methylation across Insects Suggest Reduced DNA Methylation Levels in Holometabola.

    Panagiotis Provataris;Karen Meusemann;Karen Meusemann;Oliver Niehuis;Sonja Grath

  • 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

  • Selecting informative subsets of sparse supermatrices increases the chance to find correct trees

    Bernhard Misof;Benjamin Meyer;Björn Marcus von Reumont;Patrick Kück

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernhard Misof
Bernhard Misof Universität Hamburg
Xin Zhou
Xin Zhou China Agricultural University
Oliver Niehuis
Oliver Niehuis University of Freiburg
David K. Yeates
David K. Yeates Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Rolf G. Beutel
Rolf G. Beutel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Alexandros Stamatakis
Alexandros Stamatakis Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Thomas R. Buckley
Thomas R. Buckley Landcare Research
Judith Korb
Judith Korb University of Freiburg
Rudolf Meier
Rudolf Meier Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Torsten Wappler
Torsten Wappler Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt

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