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Rudolf Meier is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields including Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The primary subfields of their work include Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, Ecological Modeling, and Insect Science.

Their work extensively focuses on topics such as Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Identification and Quantification in Food, Plant and Animal Studies, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, and Diptera Species Taxonomy and Behavior.

Recent papers by Rudolf Meier include the following:

  • ONTbarcoder and MinION barcodes aid biodiversity discovery and identification by everyone, for everyone (2021), BMC Biology
  • Global population genetic structure and demographic trajectories of the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens (2021), BMC Biology
  • A re-analysis of the data in Sharkey et al.'s (2021) minimalist revision reveals that BINs do not deserve names, but BOLD Systems needs a stronger commitment to open science (2021), Cladistics
  • Towards Large-Scale Integrative Taxonomy (LIT): Resolving the Data Conundrum for Dark Taxa (2022), Systematic Biology
  • Convergence of dominance and neglect in flying insect diversity (2023), Nature Ecology & Evolution

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Rudolf Meier include:

  • Amrita Srivathsan
  • Emily Hartop
  • Darren Yeo
  • Ang Y
  • Leshon Lee

Publication venues where Rudolf Meier has contributed multiple papers are noteworthy for reflecting the areas of expertise. These include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cladistics
  • BMC Biology
  • Molecular Ecology Resources
  • Molecular Ecology

The extensive focus on environmental DNA and biodiversity indicates a commitment to advancing knowledge in understanding ecological systems and the genetic underpinnings of species diversity. Rudolf Meier's work in integrative taxonomy, population genetics, and insect ecology contributes to addressing challenges in species identification and biodiversity conservation in the context of global environmental change.

Best Publications

  • Cryptic species as a window on diversity and conservation

    David Bickford;David J. Lohman;Navjot S. Sodhi;Peter K.L. Ng

  • SequenceMatrix: concatenation software for the fast assembly of multi‐gene datasets with character set and codon information

    Gaurav Vaidya;David J. Lohman;Rudolf Meier

  • DNA barcoding and taxonomy in Diptera: a tale of high intraspecific variability and low identification success.

    Rudolf Meier;Kwong Shiyang;Gaurav Vaidya;Peter K. L. Ng

  • Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life

    Brian M. Wiegmann;Michelle D. Trautwein;Isaac S. Winkler;Norman B. Barr

  • Evolutionary History of the Hymenoptera

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

  • Species concepts and phylogenetic theory : a debate

    Quentin Wheeler;Rudolf Meier

  • The Use of Mean Instead of Smallest Interspecific Distances Exaggerates the Size of the “Barcoding Gap” and Leads to Misidentification

    Rudolf Meier;Guanyang Zhang;Guanyang Zhang;Farhan Ali

  • On the inappropriate use of Kimura-2-parameter (K2P) divergences in the DNA-barcoding literature.

    Amrita Srivathsan;Rudolf Meier

  • Slow Mitochondrial COI Sequence Evolution at the Base of the Metazoan Tree and Its Implications for DNA Barcoding

    Danwei Huang;Danwei Huang;Rudolf Meier;Peter A. Todd;Loke Ming Chou

  • Sepsid even-skipped Enhancers Are Functionally Conserved in Drosophila Despite Lack of Sequence Conservation

    Emily E. Hare;Brant K. Peterson;Venky N. Iyer;Rudolf Meier

  • Determining Species Boundaries in a World Full of Rarity: Singletons, Species Delimitation Methods

    Gwynne S. Lim;Michael Balke;Rudolf Meier

  • Proximate causes of Rensch's rule: does sexual size dimorphism in arthropods result from sex differences in development time?

    Wolf U. Blanckenhorn;Anthony F. G. Dixon;Daphne J. Fairbairn;Matthias W. Foellmer

  • Molecular phylogeny of the Calyptratae (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha) with an emphasis on the superfamily Oestroidea and the position of Mystacinobiidae and McAlpine's fly.

    Sujatha Narayanan Kutty;Thomas Pape;Brian M. Wiegmann;Rudolf Meier

  • Species Concepts and Phylogenetic Theory

    Quentin D. Wheeler;Rudolf Meier

  • A phylogenetic analysis of the fungus‐growing ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Attini) based on morphological characters of the larvae

    Ted R. Schultz;Rudolf Meier

  • Phylogeny and systematics of Diptera: Two decades of progress and prospects

    David K. Yeates;Brian M. Wiegmann;Gregory W. Courtney;Rudolf Meier

  • ONTbarcoder and MinION barcodes aid biodiversity discovery and identification by everyone, for everyone

    Amrita Srivathsan;Leshon Lee;Kazutaka Katoh;Emily Hartop

  • $1 DNA barcodes for reconstructing complex phenomes and finding rare species in specimen-rich samples

    Rudolf Meier;Winghing Wong;Amrita Srivathsan;Maosheng Foo

  • Ovoviviparity and viviparity in the Diptera

    Rudolf Meier;Marion Kotrba;Paul Ferrar

  • Barcoding and border biosecurity: identifying cyprinid fishes in the aquarium trade.

    Rupert A. Collins;Karen F. Armstrong;Rudolf Meier;Youguang Yi

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Danwei Huang
Danwei Huang National University of Singapore
Darren C. J. Yeo
Darren C. J. Yeo National University of Singapore
Thomas Pape
Thomas Pape University of Copenhagen
Karen Meusemann
Karen Meusemann University of Freiburg
Loke Ming Chou
Loke Ming Chou National University of Singapore
Bernhard Misof
Bernhard Misof Universität Hamburg
Oliver Niehuis
Oliver Niehuis University of Freiburg
Wolf U. Blanckenhorn
Wolf U. Blanckenhorn University of Zurich
Alfried P. Vogler
Alfried P. Vogler Imperial College London
Xin Zhou
Xin Zhou China Agricultural University

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