Dipl. Biol. Karen MeusemannDoktorandin
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Publikationen (Auswahl)
von Reumont BM,
Jenner RA, Wills MA, Dell´Ampio E, Pass G, Ebersberger I, Meyer B, Koenemann S, Iliffe TM, Stamatakis A, Niehuis O,
Meusemann K, Misof B (2011): Pancrustacean phylogeny in the light of new phylogenomic data: support for Remipedia as the possible sister group of Hexapoda.
Mol Biol Evol (in press). DOI:
10.1093/molbev/msr270
Rehm P, Borner J,
Meusemann K, von Reumont BM, Simon S, Hadrys H, Misof B, Burmester T (2011): Dating the arthropod tree based on large-scale transcriptome data. Mol Phylogenet Evol (in press). DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.09.003
Peters RS, Meyer B, Krogmann L, Borner J,
Meusemann K, Schütte K, Niehuis O, Misof B (2011): The taming of an impossible child - a standardized all-in approach to the phylogeny of Hymenoptera using public database sequences. BMC Biol 9:55. DOI:
10.1186/1741-7007-9-55
Kück P, Hita Garcia F, Misof B,
Meusemann K (2011): Improved phylogenetic analyses corroborate a plausible position of
Martialis heureka in the ant tree of life. PLoS ONE 6(6): e21031. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0021031.
Kück P,
Meusemann K (2010): FASconCAT: Convenient handling of data matrices. Mol Phylogenet Evol 56:1115-1118. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.04.024.
Meusemann K, von Reumont, BM, Simon S, Roeding F, Kück P, Strauss S, Ebersberger I, Walzl M, Pass G, Breuers S, Achter V, von Haeseler A, Burmester T, Hadrys H, Wägele J, Misof B (2010). A phylogenomic approach to resolve the arthropod tree of life. Mol Biol Evol 27:2451-2464. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq130.
Kück P,
Meusemann K, Dambach J, Thormann B, von Reumont B, Wägele W, Misof B (2010): Parametric and non-parametric masking of randomness in sequence alignments can be improved and leads to better resolved trees. Front Zool 7:10. DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-7-10.
von Reumont BM,
Meusemann K, Szucsich NU, Dell'Ampio E, Gowri-Shankar V, Bartel D, Simon S, Letsch HO, Stocsits RR, Luan Y, Wägele J-W, Pass G, Hadrys H, Misof B (2009). Can comprehensive background knowledge be incorporated into substitution models to improve phylogenetic analyses? A case study on major arthropod relationships. BMC Evol Biol 9:119. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-119.
Lukhtanov VA, Wiemers M &
Meusemann, K. (2003): Description of a new species of the "brown"
Agrodiaetus complex from South-East Turkey (Lycaenidae). Nota lepidopterologica 26 (1/2):65-71.
Boye C, Boye P, Eiden K,
Meusemann K, Meyer-Cords C, von Reumont B, Schweitzer U. (2002): Die Ofenkaulen im Siebengebirge als Fledermausquartier: Die aktuell vorkommenden Arten, Bestände und Gefährdungen. Decheniana (Bonn) 155:81-103.
Populärwissenschaftliche Paper (Auswahl)
Königsmark, A., Meinig, H.,
Meusemann, K., Meyer-Cords, C. (2006): Fledermäuse (Microchiroptera). In: Brockhaus-Redaktion (ed.) Faszination Natur: Tiere: Wirbeltiere VIII. Brockhaus, Mannheim.
Vorträge (Auswahl)
10/2011
Deep Metazoan Phylogeny 2011 - new data, new challenges, Munich, Germany
K. Meusemann*, E. Dell'Ampio§, N Szucsich§, B. Meyer#, J. Borner+, G. Pass§, B. Misof*: Phylogeny of primary wingless hexapods: chances, challenges and pitfalls of phylogenomic approaches.
02/2011
Biosystematics Berlin 2011, Berlin, Germany
K. Meusemann*, B. Meyer+, P. Kück$, B. von Reumont$, J. W. Wägele$ & B. Misof*: MARE (Matrix REduction): A tool to select optimal data subsets with high information content for phylogenomic tree inference.
09/2010
DZG 2010, Hamburg, Germany
K. Meusemann*, B. Meyer+, P. Kück$, J. Dambach$ & B. Misof*: Phylogeny of primary wingless hexapods: a phylogenomic approach.
09/2010
Graduate meeting Systematics in the age of Genomics, DZG 2010, Hamburg, Germany
K. Meusemann*, B. Meyer+ & B. Misof*: MARE - A tool to select optimal data subsets for phylogenomic tree inference.
09/2010
VIII International Seminar on Apterygota, Siena, Italy
K. Meusemann*, B. Meyer+, P. Kück$, J. Dambach$ & B. Misof*: First phylogenomic approach addressing relationships of apterygote hexapods
08/2009
Systematics 2009: 11th GfBS Meeting / 1st meeting of Biosyst EU, Leiden, Netherlands
K. Meusemann*, B. von Reumont$, J. Dambach$, J. W. Wägele$, B. Misof* et al.: Arthropod phylogeny: a phylogenomic approach (Preisträger "Beste Vorträge")
03/2009
Celebrating Darwin: From The Origin of Species to Deep Metazoan Phylogeny: 1st International Congress on Deep Metazoan Phylogeny (SPP 1174), Berlin, Germany
K. Meusemann*, B. von Reumont$, J. Dambach$, J. W. Wägele$ & B. Misof*: Inferring arthropod phylogeny from EST data: improvements, difficulties, prospects
06/2008
SSE Evolution 2008 Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
K. Meusemann*, B. v. Reumont$, J.-W. Wägele$, F. Roeding+, T. Burmester+ & B. Misof*: Insights from EST-data for phylogenetic reconstruction of arthropod relationships
02/2007
9. GfBS Meeting, Vienna, Austria
K. Meusemann*, J. Dambach$ & B. Misof*: The Atelocerata - A vanishing hypothesis? Approaches of molecular phylogenetic reconstruction of basal hexapods (Preisträger "Beste Vorträge")
11/2006
DFG DMP meeting, Göttingen, Germany
K. Meusemann*, J. Dambach$, B. Misof*: The "Atelocerata" - a vanishing hypothesis? Molecular Phylogeny of Basal Hexapods: status report.
Poster (Auswahl)
04/2008
10th GfBS meeting, Göttingen, Germany
K. Meusemann*, B. Misof*, B. v. Reumont$, J.-W. Wägele$: The Atelocerata - A vanishing hypothesis? Molecular phylogeny of basal hexapods within arthropods - insights from EST-data
09/2007
3rd Dresden Meeting on Insect Phylogeny, Dresden, Germany
K. Meusemann*, J. Dambach$, B. Misof*: Molecular phylogeny of basal hexapods within arthropods - new insights from EST-data
* Zentrum für Molekulare Biodiversitätsforschung am ZFMK, Bonn, Deutschland
$ Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Deutschland
+ Biozentrum Grindel & Zoologisches Museum, Universität Hamburg, Deutschland
§ Department für Evolutionsbiologie, Universität Wien, Österreich
# Universitätsklinikum HAmburg Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Deutschland


