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Rolf G Oberprieler

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Hsiao Y, Oberprieler R
Invertebr Syst . 2025 Feb; 39. PMID: 39964798
Australia is a main centre of diversity for extant cycads (Cycadophyta), harbouring 4 genera and 85 named species and subspecies. Three cycad genera, Bowenia , Lepidozamia and Macrozamia , serve...
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Li X, Marvaldi A, Oberprieler R, Clarke D, Farrell B, Sequeira A, et al.
Elife . 2024 Dec; 13. PMID: 39665616
The rise of angiosperms to ecological dominance and the breakup of Gondwana during the Mesozoic marked major transitions in the evolutionary history of insect-plant interactions. To elucidate how contemporary trophic...
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Prena J, Hsiao Y, Oberprieler R
Zootaxa . 2024 Jan; 5380(1):26-36. PMID: 38220793
In preparation for a future taxonomic revision, we explore provenance, collectors, original owners and current repositories of the type material for three available genus-group names, Lyterius Schnherr, 1844, Barisoma Motschulsky,...
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Hsiao Y, Oberprieler R, Zwick A, Zhou Y, Slipinski A
Proc Biol Sci . 2023 Oct; 290(2008):20231385. PMID: 37788699
Weevils have been shown to play significant roles in the obligate pollination of Australian cycads. In this study, we apply museomics to produce a first molecular phylogeny estimate of the...
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Smit S, Allsopp E, Nethavhani Z, Caleca V, Oberprieler R, van Asch B
Insects . 2022 Jul; 13(7). PMID: 35886783
Marshall (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) is a seed-feeding weevil native to southern Africa; its larvae are known to develop in the fruits of the African Wild Olive and, more rarely, cultivated olives....
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Hsiao Y, Oberprieler R
Insects . 2022 May; 13(5). PMID: 35621791
The Australian endemic weevils of the genus Zimmerman, 1994 (Curculionidae: Molytinae: group), comprising two species, (Lea, 1929) and (Lea, 1929), are highly host-specific and the only known pollinators of cycads,...
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Nethavhani Z, Straeuli R, Hiscock K, Veldtman R, Morton A, Oberprieler R, et al.
PeerJ . 2022 Apr; 10:e13275. PMID: 35462770
African Saturniidae (Lepidoptera) include numerous species consumed at the caterpillar stage throughout the continent, and their importance to local communities as a source of nutrition and seasonal income cannot be...
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Escalona H, Oberprieler R
Zootaxa . 2021 Nov; 5023(2):207-222. PMID: 34810968
Undarobius gen. n., a new genus of cavernicolous weevils with two new species, U. howarthi sp. n. and U. irvini sp. n., is described from the Undara Lava Cave system...
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Baird H, Shin S, Oberprieler R, Hulle M, Vernon P, Moon K, et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A . 2021 Jun; 118(24). PMID: 34108239
Global cooling and glacial-interglacial cycles since Antarctica's isolation have been responsible for the diversification of the region's marine fauna. By contrast, these same Earth system processes are thought to have...
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Shin S, Clarke D, Lemmon A, Moriarty Lemmon E, Aitken A, Haddad S, et al.
Mol Biol Evol . 2018 Jan; 35(4):823-836. PMID: 29294021
The phylogeny and evolution of weevils (the beetle superfamily Curculionoidea) has been extensively studied, but many relationships, especially in the large family Curculionidae (true weevils; > 50,000 species), remain uncertain....