Xie, C.; Künzel, S.; Tautz, D.: Fast evolutionary turnover and overlapping variances of sex-biased gene expression patterns defy a simple binary sex-classification of somatic tissues. eLife 13, RP99602 (2025)

Xie, C.; Künzel, S.; Zhang, W.; Hathaway, C. A.; Tworoger, S. S.; Tautz, D.: Patterns of extreme outlier gene expression suggest an edge of chaos effect in transcriptomic networks. Genome Biology 26, 272 (2025)

Mudlaff, C. M.; Weinberger, F.; Düsedau, L.; Ghotbi, M.; Künzel, S.; Bonthond, G.: Seasonal cycles in a seaweed holobiont: a multiyear time series reveals repetitive microbial shifts and core taxa. Environmental Microbiology 27 (3), e70062 (2025)

López-Cortegano, E.; Chebib, J.; Jonas, A.; Vock, A.; Künzel, S.; Keightley, P. D.; Tautz, D.: The rate and spectrum of new mutations in mice inferred by long-read sequencing. Genome Research 35 (1), S. 43 - 54 (2025)

Aldrovandi, S.; Fajardo Castro, J.; Ullrich, K.; Karger, A.; Luria, V.; Tautz, D.: Expression of random sequences and de novo evolved genes from the mouse in human cells reveals functional diversity and specificity. Genome Biology and Evolution 16 (12), evae175 (2024)

Chebib, J.; Jonas, A.; López-Cortegano, E.; Künzel, S.; Tautz, D.; Keightley, P. D.: An estimate of fitness reduction from mutation accumulation in a mammal allows assessment of the consequences of relaxed selection. PLOS Biology 22 (9), e3002795 (2024)

Zhang, W.; Guenther, A.; Gao, Y.; Ullrich, K.; Huettel, B.; Tautz, D.: Full-length RNA transcript sequencing traces brain isoform diversity in house mouse natural populations. Genome Research 34, S. 2118 - 2132 (2024)

López-Cortegano, E.; Chebib, J.; Jonas, A.; Vock, A.; Künzel, S.; Tautz, D.; Keightley, P. D.: Variation in the spectrum of new mutations among inbred strains of mice. Molecular Biology and Evolution 41 (8), msae163 (2024)

Chandler, J. O.; Wilhelmsson, P. K.I.; Fernandez-Pozo, N.; Graeber, K.; Arshad, W.; Pérez, M.; Steinbrecher, T.; Ullrich, K. K.; Nguyen, T.-P.; Mérai, Z. et al.; Mummenhoff, K.; Theißen, G.; Strnad, M.; Scheid, O. M.; Schranz, M. E.; Petřík, I.; Tarkowská, D.; Novák, O.; Rensing, S. A.; Leubner-Metzger, G.: The dimorphic diaspore model Aethionema arabicum (Brassicaceae): Distinct molecular and morphological control of responses to parental and germination temperatures. The Plant Cell 36 (7), S. 2465 - 2490 (2024)

Schmidt, R.; Zummach, C.; Sinai, N.; Sabino-Pinto, J.; Künzel, S.; Dausmann, K. H.; Ruthsatz, K.: Physiological responses to a changing winter climate in an early spring-breeding amphibian. Ecology and Evolution 14 (7), e70042 (2024)

López-Hervas, K.; Santos, J. C.; Ron, S. R.; Betancourth-Cundar, M.; Cannatella, D. C.; Tarvin, R. D.: Deep divergences among inconspicuously colored clades of Epipedobates poison frogs. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 195, 108065 (2024)

Zimmermann, J.; Piecyk, A.; Sieber, M.; Petersen, C.; Johnke, J.; Moitinho-Silva, L.; Künzel, S.; Bluhm, L.; Traulsen, A.; Kaleta, C. et al.; Schulenburg, H.: Gut-associated functions are favored during microbiome assembly across C. elegans life. mBio 15 (5), e00012-24 (2024)

Linnenbrink, M.; Breton, G.; Misra, P.; Pfeifle, C.; Dutheil, J. Y.; Tautz, D.: Experimental evaluation of a direct fitness effect of the de novo evolved mouse gene Pldi. Genome Biology and Evolution 16 (5), evae084 (2024)

Raas, M. W. D.; Dutheil, J. Y.: The rate of adaptive molecular evolution in wild and domesticated Saccharomyces cerevisiae populations. Molecular Ecology 33 (10), e16980 (2024)

Schmidt, R.; Dufresnes, C.; Krištín, A.; Künzel, S.; Vences, M.; Hawlitschek, O.: Phylogenetic insights into Central European Chorthippus and Pseudochorthippus (Orthoptera: Acrididae) species using ddRADseq data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 193, 108012 (2024)

Langebrake, C.; Manthey, G.; Lugo Ramos, J. S.; Dutheil, J. Y.; Chetverikova, R.; Solov'yov, I.; Mouritsen, H.; Liedvogel, M.: Adaptive evolution and loss of a putative magnetoreceptor in passerines. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291 (2016), 0232308 (2024)

Murik, O.; Geffen, O.; Shotland, Y.; Fernandez-Pozo, N.; Ullrich, K. K.; Walther, D.; Rensing, S. A.; Treves, H.: Genomic imprints of unparalleled growth. New Phytologist 241 (3), S. 1144 - 1160 (2024)

Weber, S.; Stothut, M.; Mahla, L.; Kripp, A.; Hirschler, L.; Lenz, N.; Junker, A.; Künzel, S.; Krehenwinkel, H.: Plant‐derived environmental DNA complements diversity estimates from traditional arthropod monitoring methods but outperforms them detecting plant–arthropod interactions. Molecular Ecology Resources 24 (2), e13900 (2024)

Bascón-Cardozo, K.; Bours, A.; Manthey, G.; Pruisscher, P.; Durieux, G.; Dutheil, J. Y.; Odenthal-Hesse, L.; Liedvogel, M.: Fine-scale map reveals highly variable recombination rates associated with genomic features in the European blackcap. Genome Biology and Evolution 16 (1), evad233 (2024)

Efstratiou, A.; Gaigher, A.; Künzel, S.; Teles, A.; Lenz, T. L.: Template‐specific optimization of NGS genotyping pipelines reveals allele‐specific variation in MHC gene expression. Molecular Ecology Resources 24 (4), e13935 (2024)