Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.soci
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Biodiversity science in the 21st century: Diptera, Natural History, Phylogenetics, Oxford Nanopore, genomics, metagenomics, NGS barcoding, metabarcoding
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Joined February 2018
The top 10 flying insect clades rule the skies—but defy the rules. Weak or inverted latitudinal diversity gradients leave biogeographers puzzled. Entomologists? Mildly amused.
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RT @CladisticsAlert: ⚠️#NewPaperAlert🦐.Hunting the ghost: phylogenomic analyses reveal divergence, habitat transitions & character evolutio….
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RT @CladisticsAlert: ⚠️#NewPaperAlert🌟.𝙈𝒐𝙧𝒑𝙝𝒐𝙡𝒐𝙜𝒊𝙘𝒂𝙡 𝙙𝒂𝙩𝒂, 𝙥𝒉𝙮𝒍𝙤𝒈𝙚𝒏𝙤𝒎𝙞𝒄𝙨 𝙖𝒏𝙙 𝙧𝒆𝙘𝒂𝙡𝒄𝙞𝒕𝙧𝒂𝙣𝒕 𝒏𝙤𝒅𝙚𝒔.By DeSalle & Tessler. .
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RT @CladisticsAlert: ⚠️#NewPaperAlert🖥️.𝗢𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲.By Goloboff, & Mor….
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RT @CladisticsAlert: ⚠️#NewPaperAlert🦀.A new morphological phylogeny of Malacostraca comparing the application of character dependencies an….
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🚫 Farewell to species descriptions with consensus barcodes.✨ Hello to Diagnostic Molecular Combinations (DMCs) .✅ State-specific.✅ Contrastive.✅Publication-ready.Now even easier with the latest UITOTO, our updated user-friendly software; Preprint:
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RT @CladisticsAlert: ⚠️#NewPaperAlert❗.Phylogenetic analysis and biogeography of 𝙎𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙖 (Hymenoptera, Scoliidae, Scoliinae): implications f….
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RT @WilliHennigSoc: ⚠️ #WorkshopUpdate 🧬. Spots still available for our #HennigMeeting2025 workshop in #HongKong 🇭🇰this July! . High-throu….
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UITOTO for taxonomy. Get your molecular diagnoses right without coding or breaking a sweat! Use state-specific, contrastive DMCs instead of fuzzy consensus barcodes! .🪰🦋🪱🦎🦀🐌🦉.
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RT @CladisticsAlert: ⚠️#NewPaperAlert🚨.#MachineLearning models accurately predict clades of proteocephalidean tapeworms (Onchoproteocephali….
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🚨 EntoSieve is now published in Molecular Ecology Resources: Fast and accurate size-sorting of bulk insect samples! Perfect for boosting DNA megabarcoding & metabarcoding projects. 🧬🔬 DIY low-cost device, gentle on specimens and yet efficient 🦋🐞 here:
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🚨 EntoSieve now published in Molecular Ecology Resources: Fast and accurate size-sorting of bulk insect samples. Perfect for boosting DNA megabarcoding & metabarcoding projects. 🧬🔬 DIY low-cost device, gentle on specimens and yet efficient 🦋🐞 here:
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RT @CladisticsAlert: ⚠️#NewPaperAlert⚠️.Revisiting the backbone phylogeny and inferring the evolutionary trends in inflorescence of Elsholt….
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Species- versus specimen-level congruence between DNA barcodes and morphology. Species-level dominates papers but specimen-level matters more for sample evaluation. Read more in "Illuminating Entomological Dark Matter with DNA Barcodes. " in Ann Rev Ent:
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Dark Taxonomy: From unknown to ready for biomonitoring in 5 steps. By describing 120 species, most species of fungus gnats routinely caught in Singaporean Malaise traps now have names. Bees, butterflies and birds, make room for your new friends. Read here:
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RT @CladisticsAlert: ⚠️ #NewPaperAlert🚨.Accuracy of phylogenetic reconstructions from continuous characters analysed under parsimony and it….
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RT @PalaeoPittman: Delighted to share 2nd Special Issue @CladisticsAlert on ‘Analysing Datasets in Palaeontology’ guested edited by me, #S….
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RT @CladisticsAlert: 🚨 #NewIssueAlert of #Cladistics ⚠️. 📣(𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞: 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝟐. Volume 41 — Issue 1, Feb.….
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RT @CladisticsAlert: ⚠️ #NewPaperAlert🖥️ .𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐍𝐓.By Pol &….
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Malaise Trap Polka Dots vs. Biodiversity Smudge: Similar latitudinal data deficiency gradients for DNA barcodes and all data. Read more in "Illuminating Entomological Dark Matter with DNA Barcodes in an Era of Insect Decline, Deep Learning, and Genomics"
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