Nikolaus U. Szucsich

Ecology and temporal dynamics of urban Drosophila species communities as potential indicators of biodiversity decline

This study examines urban Drosophila communities in Vienna, finding a 50% decline in species richness and replacement of native species by neobiots, highlighting their potential as biodiversity indicators.

AmpliPiper: A versatile amplicon-seq analysis tool for multilocus DNA barcoding

AmpliPiper is a software pipeline for analyzing multilocus amplicon-seq data, enabling accurate and sensitive DNA barcoding with Oxford Nanopore sequencing.

Gene Content Evolution in the Arthropods

The paper analyzes gene and protein domain content changes across 76 arthropod genomes to understand evolutionary patterns and their association with phenotypic adaptations.

The genome of the blind soil-dwelling and ancestrally wingless dipluran Campodea augens, a key reference hexapod for studying the emergence of insect innovations

This paper reports the genome of Campodea augens, a dipluran hexapod, and identifies genomic features related to its regenerative abilities and sensory adaptations.