Publikationen
Publications Since Joining JLU
2026
Niess, S., Schneider, F., Pauls, S.U., Schuch, S. & Mehring, M. (2026) Promoting Insect-Friendly Behaviour Through Gardening-Framed Interventions. Biological Conservation 313: 111565
2025
Buchner, D., Sinclair, J.S., Ayasse, M., Beermann, A., Buse, J., Dziock, F., Enss, J., Frenzel, M., Hörren, T., Li, Y., Monaghan, M.T., Morkel, C., Müller, J., Pauls, S.U., Richter, R., Scharnweber, T., Sorg, M., Stoll, S., Twietmeyer, S., Weisser, W., Wiggering, B., Wilmking, M., Zotz, G., Gessner, M.O., Haase, P. & Leese, F. (2025) Upscaling biodiversity monitoring: Metabarcoding estimates 31,846 insect species from Malaise traps across Germany. Molecular Ecology Resources 25: e14023. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.14023
Deng, X., Pauls, S.U., Ryoichi, K., Frandsen, P.B. & Heckenhauer, J. (2025) De Novo Whole Genome Assemblies of Unusual Case-Making Caddisflies (Trichoptera) Highlight Genomic Convergence in the Composition of the Major Silk Gene (h-fibroin). Journal of Experimental Zoology B 344: 442-453. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.b.23301
Kuemmerlen, M., Graf, W., Waringer, J., Vitecek, S., Kučinić, M., Previšić, A., Keresztes, L., Bálint, M. & Pauls, S.U. (2025) Spring-dwellers emerge as indicators of climate change vulnerability. ZooKeys 1263: 289-315.
Letsch, H., Greve, C., Hundsdoerfer, A., Irisarri, I., Moore, J., Arifin, U., Blom, M., Corrales, C., Donath, A., Espeland, M., Fritz, U., Köhler, G., Kück, P., Lemer, S., Mengual, X., Mercado Salas, N., Meusemann, K., Palandačić, A., Sigwart, J.D., Silva-Brandão, K., Simões, M., Stange, M., Suh, A., Szucsich, N., Tilic, E., Töpfer, T., & Böhne, A., Janke, A., Pauls, S.U. (2025) Type genomics: a Framework for integrating Genomic Data into Biodiversity and Taxonomic research. Systematic Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaf040
Rios-Touma, B., Frandsen, P.B., Holzenthal, R.W., Houghton, D.C., Razuri-Gonzales, E., Pauls, S.U. (2025) Preface: Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Trichoptera. ZooKeys 1263: 1–19. 10.3897/zookeys.1263.177866
Sinclair, J.S., Buchner, D., Gessner, M.O., Müller, J., Pauls, S.U., Stoll, S., Welti, E.A.R., Bässler, C., Buse J., Dziock, F., Enss, J., Hörren, T., Künast, R., Li, Y., Marten, A., Morkel, C., Richter, R., Seibold, S., Sorg, M., Twietmeyer, S., Weis, D., Weisser, W., Wiggering, B., Wilmking, M., Zotz, G., Frenzel, M., Leese, F. & Haase, P. (2025) Effects of land cover and protected areas on flying insect diversity. Conservation Biology 39, e14425. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14425
Stark, J.S., Schröder, O., Müller, J., Seifert, L. & Pauls, S.U.* (2025) Temporal monitoring of genetic diversity in aquatic insects: A pilot study in the Bavarian Forest National Park. ZooKeys 1263: 499-518.
2024
Frandsen, P.B., Holzenthal, R.W., Espeland, M., Breinholt, J.W., Thomas Thorpe, J.A., Simon, S., Kawahara, A.Y., Plotkin, D., Hotaling, S., Li, Y.-Y., Nelson, C.R., Niehuis, O., Mayer, C., Podsiadlowski, L., Donath, A., Misof, B., Lemmon, E.M., Lemmon, A., Morse, J.C., Liu, S., Pauls, S.U., Zhou, X. (2024) Phylogenomics recovers multiple origins of portable case-making in caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera), nature’s underwater architects. Proc Roy Soc B 291: 20240514. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.0514
Heckenhauer, J., Plotkin, D., Martinez, J.I., Bethin, J., Pauls, S.U., Frandsen, P.B., Kawahara, A.Y. (2024) Genomic resources of 2 aquatic Lepidoptera, Elophila obliteralis and Hyposmocoma kahamanoa, reveal similarities with Trichoptera in amino acid composition of major silk genes. G3 – Genes, Genomes, Genetics 14(9): jkae093. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkae093
Keye, C., Schmidt, M., Roschak, C., Dorow, W.H.O., Hartung, V., Pauls, S.U., Schneider, A., Ammer, C., Zeller, L. & Meyer, P. (2024) Adaptive monitoring in action – what drives arthropod diversity and composition in central European beech forests? Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-024-12592-4
Rázuri-Gonzales, E., Graf, W., Heckenhauer, J., Schneider, J. & Pauls, S.U. (2024) A new species of Rhyacophila Pictet, 1834 (Trichoptera, Rhyacophilidae) from Corsica with the genomic characterization of the holotype. ZooKeys 1218: 295-314. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1218.132275
Wolf, M., Greve, C., Schell, T., Janke, A., Schmitt, T., Pauls, S.U., Aspöck, H. & Aspöck, U. (2024) The de novo genome of the Black-necked Snakefly (Venustoraphidia nigricollis Albarda, 1891): A resource to study the evolution of living fossils. Journal of Heredity, esad074, doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esad074
2023
Heckenhauer, J., Rázuri-Gonzales, E., Ngera, F.M., Schneider, J. & Pauls, S.U. (2023) Holotype sequencing of Silvatares holzenthali Rázuri-Gonzales, Ngera & Pauls, 2022 (Trichoptera, Pisuliidae). Zookeys, 1159: 1-15. 10.3897/zookeys.1159.98439.
Heckenhauer, J., Stewart, R.J., Rios-Touma, B., Powell, A., Dorji, T., Frandsen, P.B. & Pauls, S.U. (2023) Characterization of the primary structure of the major silk gene, h-fibroin, across caddisfly (Trichoptera) suborders. iScience 26(8): 107253.
Schneider, A., Blick, T., Dorow, W.H.O., Köhler, F., Meyer, P. & Pauls, S.U. (2023) Temporal changes in the beetle and spider communities in a Hessian (German) strict forest reserve. European Journal of Forest Research 143: 45-64. doi.org/10.1007/s10342-023-01607-3
Sproul, J.S., Hotaling, S., Heckenhauer, J., Powell, A., Marshall, D., Larracuente, A.M., Kelley, J.L., Pauls, S.U. & Frandsen, P.B. (2023) Analyses of 600+ insect genomes reveal repetitive element dynamics and highlight biodiversity-scale repeat annotation challenges. Genome Research 33: 1708-1717.
Sylvester, F., Weichert, F.G., Lozano, V.L., Groh, K.J., Bálint, M., Baumann, L., Bässler, C., Brack, W., Brandl, B., Curtius, J., Dierkes, P., Döll, P., Ebersberger, I., Fragkostefanakis, S., Helfrich, E.J.N., Hickler, T., Johann, S., Jourdan, J., Klimpel, S., Kminek, H., Liquin, F., Möllendorf, D., Mueller, T., Oehlmann, J., Ottermanns, R., Pauls, S.U., Piepenbring, M., Pfefferle, J., Schenk, G.J., Scheepens, J.F., Scheringer, M., Schiwy, S., Schlottmann, A., Schneider, F., Schulte, L.M., Schulze-Sylvester, M., Stelzer, E., Strobl, F., Sundermann, A., Tockner, K., Tröger, T., Vilcinskas, A., Völker, C., Winkelmann, R. & Hollert, H. (2023) Better integration of chemical pollution research will further our understanding of biodiversity loss. Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02117-6
2022
Deng, X., Frandsen, P.B., Dikow, R., Favre, A., Narayan Shah, D., Tachamo Shah, R.D., Schneider, J., Heckenhauer, J. & Pauls, S.U. (2022) The impact of sequencing depth and relatedness of the reference genome in population genomic studies: a case study with two caddisfly species (Trichoptera, Rhyacophilidae, Himalopsyche). Ecology and Evolution, e9583.
Heckenhauer, J., Frandsen, P.B., Sproul, J., Li, Z., Paule, J., Larracuente, A.M., Maughan, P.J., Barker, M.S., Schneider, J.V. & Pauls, S.U. (2022) Genome size evolution in the diverse insect order Trichoptera. GigaScience 11, giac011, doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac011.
Kawahara, A., Storer, C.G., Markee, A., Heckenhauer, J., Powell, A., Plotkin, D., Hotaling, S., Cleland, T.P., Dikow, R.B., Dikow, T., Kuranishi, R.B., Messcher, R., Pauls, S.U., Stewart, R.J., Tojo, K. & Frandsen, P.B.* (2022) Long-read HiFi sequencing correctly assembles repetitive heavy fibroin silk genes in new moth and caddisfly genomes. GigaByte https://doi.org/10.46471/gigabyte.64
Maasri, A., Jaehnig, S., Adamescu, M., Adrian, R., Baigun, C., Baird, D., Batista-Morales, A., Bonada, N., Brown, L., Cai, Q., Campos-Silva, J., Clausnitzer, V., Contreras-MacBeath, T., Cooke, S., Datry, T., Delacamara, G., Dijkstra, K.-D., Do, V.T., Domisch, S., Dudgeon, D., Eros, T., Freitag, H., Freyhof, J., Friedrich, J., Friedrichs-Manthey, M., Geist, J., Gessner, M., Goethals, P., Gollock, M., Gordon, C., Grossart, H.-P., Gulemvuga, G., Gutierrez-Fonseca, P., Haase, P., Hering, D., Hahn, H.-J., Hawkins, C., He, F., Heino, J., Hermoso, V., Hogan, Z., Hoelker, F., Jeschke, J., Jiang, M., Johnson, R., Kalinkat, G., Karimov, B., Kasangaki, A., Kimirei, I., Kohlmann, B., Kuemmerlen, M., Kuiper, J., Kupilas, B., Langhans, S., Lansdown, R., Leese, F., De Meetser, L., Magbanua, F., Matsuzaki, S., Monaghan, M., Mumladze, L., Muzon, J., Ndongo, P.M., Nejstgaard, J., Nikitina, O., Ochs, C., Odume, O.N., Opperman, J., Patricio, H., Pauls, S.U., Raghavan, R., Ramirez, A., Rashni, B., Ross-Gillespie, V., Samways, M., Schaefer, R., Schmidt-Kloiber, A., Seehausen, O., Shah, D., Sharma, S., Soininen, J., Sommerwerk, N., Stockwell, J., Suhling, F., Tachamo Shah, R., Tharme, R., Thorp, J., Tickner, D., Tockner, K., Tonkin, J., Valle, M., Vitule, J., Volk, M., Wang, D., Wolter, C., Worischka, S. (2022) A Global Agenda for Advancing Freshwater Biodiversity Research. Ecology Letters 25(2): 255-263. doi.org/10.1111/ele.1393195.
Pauls, S.U., Razuri-Gonzales, E., Thomson, R. (2022) Ralph W. Holzenthal - A mentor and friend retires. Zookeys 1111: 1-41 https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1111.83120
Ríos-Touma, B., Holzenthal, R.W., Rázuri-Gonzales, E., Heckenhauer, J., Pauls, S.U., Storer, C., Frandsen, P.B. (2022) De novo genome assembly and annotation of an Andean caddisfly, Atopsyche davidsoni Sykora, 1991, a model for genome research of high elevation adaptations. Genome Biology and Evolution 14(1): evab286. doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab286
Stewart, R.J., Frandsen, P.B., Pauls, S.U. & Heckenhauer, J. (2022) Conservation of three-dimensional structure in Lepidoptera and Trichoptera L-fibroins for 290 million years. Molecules 27: 5945.
2021
Deng, X., Favre, A., Lemmon, E.M., Lemmon, A. & Pauls, S.U. (2021) Gene flow and diversification in Himalopsyche martynovi species complex (Trichoptera: Rhyacophilidae) in the Hengduan Mountains. Biology 10(8): 816. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology10080816
Hotaling, S., Sproul, J.S., Heckenhauer, J., Powell, A., Larracuente, A.M., Pauls, S.U., Kelley, J.L. & Frandsen, P.B. (2021) Long-reads are revolutionizing 20 years of insect genome sequencing. Genome Biology and Evolution 13(8): evab138.
Ibrahimi H, Bilalli A, Vitecek S, Pauls SU, Erzinger F, Gashi A, Grapci Kotori L, Geci D, Musliu M, Kasumaj E (2021) Potamophylax coronavirus sp. n. (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae), a new species from Bjeshkët e Nemuna National Park in the Republic of Kosovo, with molecular and ecological notes. Biodiversity Data Journal 9: e64486. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e64486
Köhler, G., Khaing, K.P.P., Than, N.L., Baranski, D., Schell, T., Greve, C., Janke, A. & Pauls, S.U. (2021) A new genus and species of mud snake from Myanmar (Reptilia, Squamata, Homalopsidae). Zootaxa 4915 (3): 301-325.
Köhler G, Vargas J, Than NL, Schell T, Janke A, Pauls SU, &Thammachoti P (2021) A taxonomic revision of the genus Phrynoglossus in Indochina with the description of a new species and comments on the classification within Occidozyginae (Amphibia, Anura, Dicroglossidae). Vertebrate Zoology 71: 33-55. https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.71.e60312.
Olsen, L.K., Heckenhauer, J., Sproul, J.S., Dikow, R.B., Gonzalez, V.L., Kweskin, M.P., Taylor, A.M., Wilson, S.B., Stewart, R.J., Zhou, X., Holzenthal, R., Pauls, S.U. & Frandsen, R.B.P. (2021) Draft Genome Assemblies and Annotations of Agrypnia vestita Walker, and Hesperophylax magnus Banks Reveal Substantial Repetitive Element Expansion in Tube Case-making Caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera). Genome Biology and Evolution 13 (3): evab013. doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab013
Schneider, A., Blick, T., Pauls, S.U. & Dorow, W. (2021) The list of forest affinities for animals in Central Europe – A valuable resource for ecological analysis and monitoring in forest animal communities? Forest Ecology and Management 479: 118542.
Schröder, O., Cavanaugh, K., Schneider, J., Schell, T., Bonada, N., Seifert, L. & Pauls, S.U. (2021) Genetic data support local persistence in multiple glacial refugia in the montane net-winged midge Liponeura cinerascens cinerascens (Diptera, Blephariceridae). Freshwater Biology DOI: 10.1111/fwb.13682
2020
Vitecek, S., Graf, W., Martini, J., Zittra, C., Handschuh, S., Kuhlmann, H.C., Vieira, A., Hess, M., Heckes, U., Erzinger, F., Pauls, S.U. & Waringer J. (2020) A new Drusinae species from the western Alps with comments on the subfamily and an updated key to filtering carnivore larvae of Drusinae species (Insecta: Trichoptera: Limnephilidae). Zootaxa 4790 (3): 491–504.
2019
Heckenhauer, J., Frandsen, P.B., Gupta, D.K., Paule, J., Prost, S., Schell, T., Schneider, J., Stewart, R.J., Pauls, S.U. (2019) Annotated draft genomes of two caddisfly larvae Plectrocnemia conspersa CURTIS and Hydropsyche tenuis NAVAS (Insecta: Trichoptera). Genome Biology and Evolution 11: 3445–3451.