Johannes Mueller Laboratory

Publications

2012:

Parham, J. F., Donoghue, P. C. J., Bell, C. J., Calway, T. D., Head, J. J, Holroyd, P. A., Inoue, J. G., Irmis, R. B., Joyce, W. G., Ksepka, D. T., Patané, J. S. L., Smith, N. D., Tarver, J. E., van Tuinen, M., Yang, Z., Angielczyk, K. D., Greenwood, J., Hipsley, C. A. , Jacobs, L., Makovicky, P. J., Müller, J. , Smith, K. T., Theodor, J. M., Warnock, R. C. & Benton, M. J. (2012): Best practices for justifying fossil calibrations. – Systematic Biology (in press)

Danto, M., Witzmann, F. & Müller, J. (2012): Redescription and phylogeny of Solenodonsaurus janenschi from the Upper Carboniferous of Nýrany, Czech Republic. – Fossil Record (in press)

Clack, J. A., Witzmann, F., Müller, J. & Snyder, D. (2012): A colosteid-like early tetrapod from the St Louis Limestone (Early Carboniferous, Meramecian), St Louis, Missouri, USA. – Fieldiana (in press)

Simpson, C. & Müller, J. (2012): Species selection in the molecular age. – In: Asher, R. J. & Müller, J. (Eds.) From Clone to Bone: the Synergy of Morphological and Molecular Tools in Paleobiology. Cambridge University Press. (in press)

Chang, B. S. W., Du, J., Weadick, C. J., Müller, J., Bickelmann, C., Yu, D. & Morrow, J. J. (2012): The Future of Codon Models in Studies of Molecular Function: Ancestral Reconstruction, and Clade Models of Functional Divergence – In: Gina M. Cannarozzi & A. Schneider (Eds.): "Codon Evolution - Mechanisms and Models"; Oxford University Press (in press)

Tsuji, L. A., Müller, J. & Reisz, R. R. (2012): Anatomy of Emeroleter levis and the phylogeny of the nycteroleter parareptiles. – Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32: 45-67.

Maxwell, E. (2012): New Metrics To Differentiate Species of Stenopterygius (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Lower Jurassic of Southwestern Germany. – Journal of Paleontology 86: 105-115.

2011:

Simpson, C., Kiessling, W., Mewis, H., Baron-Szabo, R. C. & Müller, J. (2011): Evolutionary diversification of reef corals: a comparison of the molecular and fossil records. – Evolution 65: 3274–3284.

Ruta, M., Cisneros, J. C., Liebrecht, T., Tsuji, L. A. & Müller, J. (2011): Amniotes through major biological crises: faunal turnover among parareptiles and the end-Permian mass extinction. – Palaeontology 54: 1117-1137.

Müller, J. , Sterli, J. & Anquetin, J. (2011): Carotid circulation in amniotes and its implications for turtle relationships. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 261: DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2011/0157

Müller, J., Hipsley, C. A., Head, J. J., Kardjilov, N., Hilger, A., Wuttke, M. & Reisz, R. R. (2011): Eocene lizard from Germany reveals amphisbaenian origins. – Nature 473 (7347): 364–367. doi:10.1038/nature09919

Reisz, R. R., Liu, J., Li, J.-L. & Müller, J. (2011): A new captorhinid reptile, Gansurhinus qingtoushanensis , gen. et sp. nov., from the Permian of China. – Naturwissenschaften 98 (5): 435–441. doi:10.1007/s00114-011-0793-0

Fröbisch, J., Schoch, R. R., Müller, J. , Schindler, T. & Schweiss, D. (2011): A new basal sphenacodontid synapsid from the Late Carboniferous of the Saar-Nahe Basin, Germany. – Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (1): 113–120. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0039

Müller, J. & Bickelmann, C. (2011): Von Genen und Fossilien – paläobiologische Forschung aus dem Molekularlabor. – DFG-Magazin „forschung“ 2011(4): 22-25.

Secondi, J., Bordas, P., Hipsley, C. & Bensch, S. (2011): Bilateral song convergences in a passerine hybrid zone: genetics contribute in one species only. – Evolutionary Biology 38: 444-452.

2010:

Müller J. , Scheyer T.M., Head J.J., Barrett P.M., Werneburg I., Ericson P.G.P., Pol D. & Sánchez-Villagra M.R. (2010): Homeotic effects, somitogenesis and the evolution of vertebral numbers in recent and fossil amniotes. - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:2118-2123.

Schoch, R. R., Nesbitt, S., Müller, J. , Lucas, S. G., Boy, J. A. (2010): The reptile assemblage from the Moenkopi Formation (Middle Triassic) of New Mexico. - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 255: 345-369.

Tsuji, L. A., Müller, J., Reisz, R. R. (2010): Microleter mckinzieorum gen. et sp. nov. from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma: the basalmost parareptile from Laurasia. - Systematic Palaeontology 8: 245-255.

Witzmann, F., Scholz, H., Müller, J. , Kardjilov, N. (2010): Sculpture and vascularization of dermal bones, and the implications for the physiology of basal tetrapods - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 302–340.

Sterli, J., Müller, J. , Anquetin, J., Hilger, A. (2010): The parabasisphenoid complex in Mesozoic turtles and the evolution of the testudinate basicranium. - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 47: 1337-1346.

Kiessling, W., Nützel, A., Korn, D., Kröger, B., Müller, J. (2010): German Paleontology in the Early 21st Century. - Palaeontologia Electronica 13: 2E. http://palaeo-electronica.org/paleo/2010_1/commentary/german.htm

Müller, J. (2010): Auf Saurierjagd in der Karoo - Die paläontologischen Expeditionen nach Südafrika in den Jahren 1929 und 1932. - In: Klasse, Ordnung, Art - 200 Jahre Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Damaschun, F., Hackethal, S., Landsberg, H., Leinfelder, R., Eds.): 206-207. Basilisken-Presse, Berlin.

Nesbitt, S. J., Sidor, C. A., Irmis, R. B., Angielczyk, K. D., Smith, R. M. H., Tsuji, L. A. (2010): Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira. - Nature 464: 95-98.

Sidor, C. A., Angielczyk, K. D., Weide, M. D., Smith, R. M. H., Nesbitt, S. J., Tsuji, Linda A. (2010): Tetrapod fauna of the lowermost Usili Formation (Songea Group, Ruhuhu Basin) of southern Tanzania, with a new burnetiid record. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30: 696-703.

Hampe, O., Schwarz-Wings, D., Bickelmann, C. , Klein, N. (2010): Fore limb bones of late Pleistocene dwarf hippopotamuses (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla) from Madagascar previously determined as belonging to the crocodylid Voay Brochu, 2007. - Fossil Record 13: 303-307.

Friedman, M., Brazeau, M. D. (2010): A reappraisal of the origin and basal radiation of the Osteichthyes. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30:36-56.

2009:

Tsuji, L. A. & Müller, J. (2009): Assembling the history of the Parareptilia: phylogeny, diversification, and a new definition of the clade. - Fossil Record 12: 71-81.

Cisneros, J. C., & Tsuji, L. A. (2009): Nycteroleter affinities of a Permian parareptile from the South African Karoo Basin. - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54: 165-169.

Bickelmann, C. & Klein, N. (2009): The Late Pleistocene horned crocodile Voay robustus (Grandidier & Vaillant, 1872) from Madagascar in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. - Fossil Record 12: 13 - 21.

Werneburg I., Hugi, J., Müller, J. & Sanchez-Villagra M.R. (2009): Embryogenesis and ossification of Emydura subglobosa (Testudines, Pleurodira, Chelidae) and patterns of turtle development. - Developmental Dynamics 238:2770-2786.

Bickelmann, C., Müller, J. & Reisz, R. R. (2009): The enigmatic diapsid Acerosodontosaurus piveteaui (Reptilia: Neodiapsida) from the Upper Permian of Madagascar and the paraphyly of ‘‘younginiform'' reptiles. - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 46: 651-666.

Hipsley, C.A., Himmelmann L., Metzler D. & Müller, J. (2009): Integration of Bayesian molecular clock methods and fossil-based soft bounds reveals early Cenozoic colonization of African lacertid lizards. - BMC Evolutionary Biology 9:151. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-151.

Lancaster L.T., Hipsley, C.A. & Sinervo B.R. (2009): Female choice for optimal combinations of multiple male display traits improves offspring survival. - Behavioral Ecology 20:993-999.

2008:

Tsuji, L. A. & Müller, J. (2008): A re-evaluation of Parasaurus geinitzi , the first named pareiasaur (Amniota, Parareptilia). - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 45: 1111-1121.

Müller, J. (2008): The imaginary lab. - Zoosystematics & Evolution 84:313-315.

Müller, J., Li, J.-L. & Reisz, R. R. (2008): A new bolosaurid parareptile, Belebey chengi sp. nov., from the Middle Permian of China and its paleogeographic significance. - Naturwissenschaften: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-008-0438-0.

Bickelmann, C. & Sander, P. M. (2008): A partial skeleton and isolated humeri of Nothosaurus (Reptilia: Eosauropterygia) from Winterswijk, The Netherlands. – Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28: 326-338.

2007:

Brooks, D. R., J. Bileweitch, C. Condy, D. E. Evans, K. E. Folinsbee, J. Fröbisch, D. Halas, S. Hill, M. Mattern, L. A. Tsuji , J. Ward, N. Wahlberg, D. Zamparo, & D. Zanatta. (2007): Quantitative Phylogenetic Analysis in the 21st Century. – Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 78: 225-252.

Müller, J. & Tsuji, L. A. (2007): Impedance-matching hearing in Paleozoic reptiles: evidence of advanced sensory perception at an early stage of amniote evolution. PLoS ONE 2(9): e889. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000889.

Reisz, R. R., Müller, J. , Tsuji, L. A. , & Scott, D. (2007): The cranial osteology of Belebey vegrandis (Parareptilia: Bolosauridae) from the Middle Permian of Russia, and its bearing on reptilian evolution. – Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 151: 191-214.

Folinsbee, K. E., Müller, J . , & Reisz, R. R. (2007): Canine grooves: morphology, function, and relevance to venom. – Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27: 547-551.

Chang, B. S. W., Matz, M. V., Field, S. F., Müller, J. , & van Hazel, I. (2007): Dealing with model uncertainty in reconstructing ancestral proteins in the laboratory: Examples from ancestral visual pigments and GFP-like proteins. – in: D. Liberles (Ed.): Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction. Oxford University Press, p. 164-180.

Müller, J. (2007): First record of a thalattosaur from the Upper Triassic of Austria. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27: 236-240.

Modesto, S. P., Scott, D. M., Berman, D. S, Müller, J. , & Reisz, R. R. (2007): The skull and the palaeoecological significance of Labidosaurus hamatus , a captorhinid reptile from the Lower Permian of Texas – Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 149: 237-262.

Folinsbee, K. E., Evans D.C., Fröbisch, J., Tsuji, L. A. , & Brooks, D. R. (2007). Qualitative approaches to phylogenetics. – In: W. Henke, H. Rothe and I. Tattersall (eds). Handbook of Paleoanthropology Vol. 1: Principles, Methods, and Approaches. New York : Springer-Verlag, pp. 167-215.

2006:

Tsuji, L. A. (2006). Cranial anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of the Permian Parareptile Macroleter poezicus . – Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(4): 849-865.

Reisz, R. R., & Tsuji, L. A. (2006). An articulated skeleton of Varanops with bite marks: the oldest known evidence of scavenging among terrestrial vertebrates. – Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(4): 1021-1023.

Van Hazel, I. , Santini, F., Müller, J., & Chang, B. S.W. (2006): Shortwavelength sensitive opsin (SWS1) as a new marker for vertebrate phylogenetics – BMC Evolutionary Biology 6: 97.

Müller, J. & Reisz, R. R. (2006): Constraining calibrations properly: reply to Hedges, Kumar, and van Tuinen. - BioEssays 28: 772-773, Cambridge .

Müller, J. & Reisz, R. R. (2006): The phylogeny of early eureptiles: comparing parsimony and Bayesian approaches in the investigation of a basal fossil clade. – Systematic Biology 55: 503-511, Philadelphia .

Müller, J., Berman, D. S, Henrici, A. C., Sumida, S. S., & Martens, T. (2006): The basal eureptile Thuringothyris mahlendorffae from the Lower Permian of Germany. – Journal of Paleontology 80: 726-739, Lawrence .

Kuch, U., Müller, J., Mödden, C., Mebs, D. (2006): Snake fangs from the Lower Miocene of Germany: evolutionary stability of perfect weapons. – Naturwissenschaften 93: 84-87, Heidelberg .

Paleozoic – 2005:

Rieppel O., Müller, J., & J. Liu (2005): Rostral structure in Thalattosauria (Reptilia, Diapsida). – Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42: 2081-2086, Ottawa .

Müller, J. & Reisz, R. R. (2005): An early captorhinid reptile (Amniota, Eureptilia) from the Upper Carboniferous of Hamilton, Kansas. – Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25: 561-568, Lawrence .

Müller, J. (2005): The anatomy of Askeptosaurus italicus from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio, and the interrelationships of thalattosaurs (Reptilia, Diapsida). – Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42: 1347-1367, Ottawa .

Müller, J., & Reisz, R. R. (2005): Four well-constrained calibration points from the vertebrate fossil record for molecular clock estimates. – BioEssays 27: 1069-1075, Cambridge .

Müller, J., Renesto. S., & Evans, S. E. (2005): The marine diapsid reptile Endennasaurus (Reptilia: Thalattosauriformes) from the Late Triassic of Italy. – Palaeontology 48: 15-30, Oxford .

Reisz, R. R. & Müller, J. (2004): The comparative method for evaluating fossil calibration dates: a reply to Hedges and Kumar. – Trends in Genetics 20(12): 596-597, Oxford .

Müller, J. (2004): The relationships among diapsid reptiles and the influence of taxon selection. – in: Arratia, G., Cloutier, R., & Wilson, V. H. (eds.): Recent Advances in the Origin and Early Radiation of Vertebrates: 379-408, München (Dr. Friedrich Pfeil).

Müller, J. (2004): Cranial Osteology of Dracaenosaurus croizeti , a lacertid lizard from the Oligocene of France (Reptilia, Squamata). – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 232: 101-114, Stuttgart .

Reisz, R. R. & Müller, J. (2004): The fossil record and molecular timescales: a paleontological perspective. – Trends in Genetics 20(5): 237-241, Oxford .

Müller, J. (2003): Early Loss and Multiple Return of the Lower Temporal Arcade in Diapsid Reptiles. – Naturwissenschaften, 90: 473-476, Heidelberg .

Müller, J. (2002): Eolacerta from the Eocene of Prémontré , France (Reptilia, Squamata). – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 2002: 490-500, Stuttgart .

Müller, J. (2002): Skull Osteology of Parvilacerta parva , a small-sized lacertid lizard from Asia Minor . – Journal of Morphology 253(1): 43-50, New York .

Müller, J. (2001): Ursprung und Verwandtschaft der Lacertiden – ein Blick auf den derzeitigen Kenntnisstand. – Die Eidechse 12(3): 71-79, Bonn.

Müller, J. (2001): A new fossil species of Euleptes from the early Miocene of Montaigu , France (Reptilia, Gekkonidae). – Amphibia-Reptilia 22(3): 341-348, Leiden .

Müller, J. & Mödden, C. (2001): A Fossil Leaf-Toed Gecko from the Oppenheim/Nierstein Quarry (Lower Miocene , Germany ). – Journal of Herpetology 35(3): 529-532, St. Louis .

Müller, J. (2001): Osteology and relationships of Eolacerta robusta , a lizard from the middle Eocene of Germany (Reptilia, Squamata). – Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3): 261-278, Lawrence .

Rossmann, T., Müller, J., & Forst, M. (2000): First evidence of an alligatorid from Africa and its implications for crocodilian palaeobiogeography. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 2000(12): 651-668, Stuttgart .

Müller, J. (2000): Zur Schädelosteologie von Lacerta laevis . – Die Eidechse 10(3): 69-77, Bonn.

Bischoff, W., & Müller, J. (1999): Revision des levantinischen Lacerta laevis/kulzeri -Komplexes: 2. Die Petra-Eidechse Lacerta kulzeri petraea ssp. n. – Salamandra 35(4): 243-254, Rheinbach.

Müller, J. (1998): Untermiozäne Kieferfragmente von Schlangen (Reptilia: Serpentes: Erycinae) aus der französischen Lokalität Poncenat. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1998(2): 119-128, Stuttgart.

Müller, J. (1998): Zur besseren Kenntnis von Nucras boulengeri (Neumann, 1900), einer wenig bekannten Eidechse aus Ostafrika. – Die Eidechse 8(3): 88-96, Bonn.

Müller, J. (1996): Eine neue Art der Echten Eidechsen (Reptilia: Lacertilia: Lacertidae) aus dem Unteren Miozän von Poncenat, Frankreich. – Mainzer Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 25: 79-88, Mainz.

Müller, J. (1996): Angaben über einige Amphibien- und Reptilienfunde in Jordanien. – Sauria 18(3): 3-10, Berlin.

Müller, J. (1995): Fund von Testudo graeca ibera auf der Insel Samos (Ostägäis, Griechenland). – Salamandra 31(4): 243-244, Rheinbach.

Müller, J. (1995): Eidechsenbeobachtungen in Jordanien. – Die Eidechse, 14: 17-19, Bonn.

Müller, J. & Bischoff, W. (1994): Bemerkungen zu den Eidechsen von Petra/Jordanien. – Die Eidechse 13: 10-19, Bonn.

Müller, J. (1994): Einige Beobachtungen bei der Nachzucht der häufig gehaltenen Rotwangenschmuckschildkröte Trachemys scripta elegans (Wied 1839). – Elaphe (n.F.) 2(2): 28-32, Rheinbach.

Müller, J. (1994): Zur besseren Kenntnis des Gestreiften Erdleguans Liolaemus lemniscatus Gravenhorst, 1830. – Sauria 16(1): 35-38, Berlin.

Müller, J. (1992): Zur unterschiedlichen Biotopwahl von Podarcis hispanica (Steindachner, 1870) und Psammodromus algirus (Linnaeus, 1758). – Die Eidechse 6: 11-12, Bonn.

Müller, J. (1991): Erfahrungen mit dem Zwergkrallenfrosch, Hymenochirus boettgeri . – Deutsche Aquarien- und Terrarien-Zeitschrift 44(8): 497-499, Stuttgart/Leipzig.