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Oliver Niehuis is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany and is active in research areas spanning agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their research contributions focus on several subfields including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, genetics, insect science, ecology, and molecular biology.

Key topics covered in their work include insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, plant and animal studies, fossil insects in amber, insect and pesticide research, genetic diversity and population structure, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, and insect behavior and control techniques.

Niehuis has published extensively, with some of their recent papers being:

  • Gene content evolution in the arthropods (2020), published in Genome Biology
  • An integrative phylogenomic approach to elucidate the evolutionary history and divergence times of Neuropterida (Insecta: Holometabola) (2020), published in BMC Evolutionary Biology
  • A Plea for Standardized Nuclear Markers in Metazoan DNA Taxonomy (2020), published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Evolutionary history and divergence times of Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) revealed through transcriptomics (2021), published in iScience
  • Beyond Drosophila: resolving the rapid radiation of schizophoran flies with phylotranscriptomics (2021), published in BMC Biology

Their frequent coauthors include Bernhard Misof, Lars Podsiadłowski, Christoph Mayer, Alexander Donath, and Thomas Schmitt.

Niehuis often publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Systematic Entomology, BMC Evolutionary Biology, BMC Biology, and the Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

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

  • Functional and evolutionary insights from the genomes of three parasitoid Nasonia species.

    John H. Werren;Stephen Richards;Christopher A. Desjardins;Oliver Niehuis

  • 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

  • The i5K initiative: Advancing arthropod genomics for knowledge, human health, agriculture, and the environment

    Jay D Evans;Susan J Brown;Kevin J Hackett;Gene Robinson

  • Draft genome of the red harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus

    Chris R. Smith;Christopher D. Smith;Hugh M. Robertson;Martin Helmkampf

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • Hybrid breakdown and mitochondrial dysfunction in hybrids of Nasonia parasitoid wasps.

    C. K. Ellison;O. Niehuis;Juergen Gadau

  • Behavioural and genetic analyses of Nasonia shed light on the evolution of sex pheromones

    Oliver Niehuis;Jan Buellesbach;Jan Buellesbach;Joshua D. Gibson;Daniela Pothmann

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

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

  • Cytonuclear Genic Incompatibilities Cause Increased Mortality in Male F2 Hybrids of Nasonia giraulti and N. vitripennis

    Oliver Niehuis;Andrea K. Judson;Juergen Gadau

  • 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

  • Phylogenetic Origin and Diversification of RNAi Pathway Genes in Insects

    Daniel Dowling;Thomas Pauli;Alexander Donath;Karen Meusemann;Karen Meusemann

  • Transcriptome sequence-based phylogeny of chalcidoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) reveals a history of rapid radiations, convergence, and evolutionary success.

    Ralph S. Peters;Oliver Niehuis;Simon Gunkel;Marcel Bläser

  • Mitochondrial capture enriches mito-DNA 100 fold, enabling PCR-free mitogenomics biodiversity analysis.

    Shanlin Liu;Xin Wang;Lin Xie;Meihua Tan

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernhard Misof
Bernhard Misof Universität Hamburg
Karen Meusemann
Karen Meusemann University of Freiburg
Xin Zhou
Xin Zhou China Agricultural University
Juergen Gadau
Juergen Gadau University of Münster
John H. Werren
John H. Werren University of Rochester
Rolf G. Beutel
Rolf G. Beutel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Evgeny M. Zdobnov
Evgeny M. Zdobnov Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Stephen Richards
Stephen Richards South Australian Museum
Robert M. Waterhouse
Robert M. Waterhouse Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Torsten Wappler
Torsten Wappler Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt

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