Prof. Dr. Jes Rust

Malekhosseini, M., Ensikat, H., McCoy, V.E., Wappler, T., Weigend, M., Kunzmann, L. and Rust, J. 2022. „Traces of calcium oxalate biomineralization in fossil leaves from late Oligocene maar deposits from Germany“. Scientific Reports. 12(1): 15959.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20144-4

Mähler, B., Janssen, K., Tahoun, M., Tomaschek, F., Schellhorn, R., Müller, C.E., Bierbaum, G. and Rust, J. 2022. „Adipocere formation in biofilms as a first step in soft tissue preservation“. Scientific Reports. 12(1): 10122.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14119-8

Jiang, H., Tomaschek, F., Drew Muscente, A., Niu, C., Nyunt, T.T., Fang, Y., Schmidt, U., Chen, J., Lönartz, M., Mähler, B., Wappler, T., Jarzembowski, E.A., Szwedo, J., Zhang, H., Rust, J. and Wang, B. 2022. „Widespread mineralization of soft‐bodied insects in Cretaceous amber“. Geobiology. 20(3): 363-376.
https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12488

BARTHEL, H.J., MCCOY, V.E., RUST, J. 2021. „From ultrastructure to biomolecular composition: Taphonomic patterns of tissue preservation in arthropod inclusions in amber.“. In: Fossilization: Understanding the Material Nature of Ancient Plants and Animals. GEE C.T., MCCOY V.E., SANDER P.M. (eds.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press..

Stinnesbeck, E.S., Stinnesbeck, W., Herder, F. and Rust, J. 2020. „Taphonomy and paleobiology of the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) pachyrhizodont Goulmimichthys roberti from Vallecillo and Múzquiz, northeastern Mexico“. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 543: 109607.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109607

Barthel, H.J., Fougerouse, D., Geisler, T. and Rust, J. 2020. „Fluoridation of a lizard bone embedded in Dominican amber suggests open-system behavior“. PLOS ONE. 15(2): e0228843.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228843

Mähler, B., Janssen, K., Menneken, M., Tahoun, M., Lagos, M., Bierbaum, G., Müller, C. and Rust, J. 2020. „Calcite precipitation forms crystal clusters and muscle mineralization during the decomposition of Cambarellus diminutus (Decapoda: Cambaridae) in freshwater“. Palaeontologia Electronica.
https://doi.org/10.26879/992

Vasilikopoulos, A., Misof, B., Meusemann, K., Lieberz, D., Flouri, T., Beutel, R.G., Niehuis, O., Wappler, T., Rust, J., Peters, R.S., Donath, A., Podsiadlowski, L., Mayer, C., Bartel, D., Böhm, A., Liu, S., Kapli, P., Greve, C., Jepson, J.E., Liu, X., Zhou, X., Aspöck, H. and Aspöck, U. 2020. „An integrative phylogenomic approach to elucidate the evolutionary history and divergence times of Neuropterida (Insecta: Holometabola)“. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 20(1):
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-020-01631-6

Peris, D., Kundrata, R., Delclòs, X., Mähler, B., Ivie, M.A., Rust, J. and Labandeira, C.C. 2020. „Unlocking the mystery of the mid-Cretaceous Mysteriomorphidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) and modalities in transiting from gymnosperms to angiosperms“. Scientific Reports. 10(1):
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73724-7

Peris, D., Janssen, K., Barthel, H.J., Bierbaum, G., Delclòs, X., Peñalver, E., Solórzano-Kraemer, M.M., Jordal, B.H. and Rust, J. 2020. „DNA from resin-embedded organisms: Past, present and future“. PLOS ONE. 15(9): e0239521.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239521

Peris, D., Labandeira, C.C., Barrón, E., Delclòs, X., Rust, J. and Wang, B. 2020. „Generalist Pollen-Feeding Beetles during the Mid-Cretaceous“. iScience. 23(3): 100913.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.100913

Peris, D. and Rust, J. 2020. „Cretaceous beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) in amber: the palaeoecology of this most diverse group of insects“. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 189(4): 1085-1104.
https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz118

Evangelista, D.A., Wipfler, B., Béthoux, O., Donath, A., Fujita, M., Kohli, M.K., Legendre, F., Liu, S., Machida, R., Misof, B., Peters, R.S., Podsiadlowski, L., Rust, J., Schuette, K., Tollenaar, W., Ware, J.L., Wappler, T., Zhou, X., Meusemann, K. and Simon, S. 2019. „An integrative phylogenomic approach illuminates the evolutionary history of cockroaches and termites (Blattodea)“. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286(1895): 20182076.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2076

Stinnesbeck, E.S., Rust, J. and Herder, F. 2019. „Paleobiology and taphonomy of the pycnodont fish Nursallia gutturosum, based on material from the Latest-Cenomanian-middle Turonian Vallecillo platy limestone, Mexico“. PalZ. 93(4): 659-668.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-019-00461-2

Bao, T., Zhang, X., Walczyńska, K.S., Wang, B. and Rust, J. 2019. „Earliest mordellid-like beetles from the Jurassic of Kazakhstan and China (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea)“. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 130(2): 247-256.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2019.02.002

Bao, T., Walczyńska, K.S., Bojarski, B., Jarzembowski, E., Wang, B. and Rust, J. 2019. „A new species of tumbling flower beetle (Coleoptera: Mordellidae) from Baltic amber“. PalZ. 93(1): 31-36.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-018-0434-4

van de Kamp, T., Schwermann, A.H., dos Santos Rolo, T., Lösel, P.D., Engler, T., Etter, W., Faragó, T., Göttlicher, J., Heuveline, V., Kopmann, A., Mähler, B., Mörs, T., Odar, J., Rust, J., Tan Jerome, N., Vogelgesang, M., Baumbach, T. and Krogmann, L. 2018. „Parasitoid biology preserved in mineralized fossils“. Nature Communications. 9(1):
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05654-y

Bao, T., Rust, J. and Wang, B. 2018. „Systematics, phylogeny and taphonomy of Cretaceous Psephenidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Burmese amber“. Palaeontographica Abteilung A. 310(3-6): 131-159.
https://doi.org/10.1127/0375-0442/2018/0086

Bao, T., Walczyńska, K.S., Moody, S., Wang, B. and Rust, J. 2018. „New family Apotomouridae fam. nov. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from lower Cenomanian amber of Myanmar“. Cretaceous Research. 91: 14-19.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2018.05.007

Stebner, F., Singh, H., Rust, J. and Grimaldi, D.A. 2017. „Lygistorrhinidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha: Sciaroidea) in early Eocene Cambay amber“. PeerJ. 5: e3313.
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3313

Peters, R.S., Krogmann, L., Mayer, C., Donath, A., Gunkel, S., Meusemann, K., Kozlov, A., Podsiadlowski, L., Petersen, M., Lanfear, R., Diez, P.A., Heraty, J., Kjer, K.M., Klopfstein, S., Meier, R., Polidori, C., Schmitt, T., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Wappler, T., Rust, J., Misof, B. and Niehuis, O. 2017. „Evolutionary History of the Hymenoptera“. Current Biology. 27(7): 1013-1018.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.01.027

Stebner, F., Szadziewski, R., Singh, H., Gunkel, S. and Rust, J. 2017. „Biting Midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Cambay Amber Indicate that the Eocene Fauna of the Indian Subcontinent Was Not Isolated“. PLOS ONE. 12(1): e0169144.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0169144

Stebner, F., Szadziewski, R., Rühr, P.T., Singh, H., Hammel, J.U., Kvifte, G.M. and Rust, J. 2016. „A fossil biting midge (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from early Eocene Indian amber with a complex pheromone evaporator“. Scientific Reports. 6(1):
https://doi.org/10.1038/srep34352

Wang, B., Xia, F., Engel, M.S., Perrichot, V., Shi, G., Zhang, H., Chen, J., Jarzembowski, E.A., Wappler, T. and Rust, J. 2016. „Debris-carrying camouflage among diverse lineages of Cretaceous insects“. Science Advances. 2(6):
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501918

Rust, J. and Wappler, T. 2016. „Palaeontology: The Point of No Return in the Fossil Record of Eusociality“. Current Biology. 26(4): R159-R161.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.038

Rust, J., Bergmann, A., Bartels, C., Schoenemann, B., Sedlmeier, S. and Kühl, G. 2016. „The Hunsrück biota: A unique window into the ecology of Lower Devonian arthropods“. Arthropod Structure & Development. 45(2): 140-151.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2016.01.004

Solórzano Kraemer, M.M., Kraemer, A.S., Stebner, F., Bickel, D.J. and Rust, J. 2015. „Entrapment Bias of Arthropods in Miocene Amber Revealed by Trapping Experiments in a Tropical Forest in Chiapas, Mexico“. PLOS ONE. 10(3): e0118820.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118820

Kjer, K.M., Ware, J.L., Rust, J., Wappler, T., Lanfear, R., Jermiin, L.S., Zhou, X., Aspöck, H., Aspöck, U., Beutel, R.G., Blanke, A., Donath, A., Flouri, T., Frandsen, P.B., Kapli, P., Kawahara, A.Y., Letsch, H., Mayer, C., McKenna, D.D., Meusemann, K., Niehuis, O., Peters, R.S., Wiegmann, B.M., Yeates, D.K., von Reumont, B.M., Stamatakis, A. and Misof, B. 2015. „Response to Comment on “Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution”“. Science. 349(6247): 487-487.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa7136

Misof, B., Liu, S., Meusemann, K., Peters, R.S., Donath, A., Mayer, C., Frandsen, P.B., Ware, J., Flouri, T., Beutel, R.G., Niehuis, O., Petersen, M., Izquierdo-Carrasco, F., Wappler, T., Rust, J., Aberer, A.J., Aspöck, U., Aspöck, H., Bartel, D., Blanke, A., Berger, S., Böhm, A., Buckley, T.R., Calcott, B., Chen, J., Friedrich, F., Fukui, M., Fujita, M., Greve, C., Grobe, P., Gu, S., Huang, Y., Jermiin, L.S., Kawahara, A.Y., Krogmann, L., Kubiak, M., Lanfear, R., Letsch, H., Li, Y., Li, Z., Li, J., Lu, H., Machida, R., Mashimo, Y., Kapli, P., McKenna, D.D., Meng, G., Nakagaki, Y., Navarrete-Heredia, J.L., Ott, M., Ou, Y., Pass, G., Podsiadlowski, L., Pohl, H., von Reumont, B.M., Schütte, K., Sekiya, K., Shimizu, S., Slipinski, A., Stamatakis, A., Song, W., Su, X., Szucsich, N.U., Tan, M., Tan, X., Tang, M., Tang, J., Timelthaler, G., Tomizuka, S., Trautwein, M., Tong, X., Uchifune, T., Walzl, M.G., Wiegmann, B.M., Wilbrandt, J., Wipfler, B., Wong, T.K.F., Wu, Q., Wu, G., Xie, Y., Yang, S., Yang, Q., Yeates, D.K., Yoshizawa, K., Zhang, Q., Zhang, R., Zhang, W., Zhang, Y., Zhao, J., Zhou, C., Zhou, L., Ziesmann, T., Zou, S., Li, Y., Xu, X., Zhang, Y., Yang, H., Wang, J., Wang, J., Kjer, K.M. and Zhou, X. 2014. „Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution“. Science. 346(6210): 763-767.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1257570

RUST, J. 2014. „8. Jes Rust“. In: Issues in Palaeobiology: A Global View. Interviews and Essays. 95-107. Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. & MacLeod, N. (Eds). Scidinge Hall Verlag Zürich..

Mazur, N. 2012. „The extraction of fossil arthropods from Lower Eocene Cambay amber“. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
https://doi.org/10.4202/app.2012.0018

Wang, B., Rust, J., Engel, M.S., Szwedo, J., Dutta, S., Nel, A., Fan, Y., Meng, F., Shi, G., Jarzembowski, E.A., Wappler, T., Stebner, F., Fang, Y., Mao, L., Zheng, D. and Zhang, H. 2014. „A Diverse Paleobiota in Early Eocene Fushun Amber from China“. Current Biology. 24(14): 1606-1610.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.05.048

Chen, J., Wang, B., Engel, M.S., Wappler, T., Jarzembowski, E.A., Zhang, H., Wang, X., Zheng, X. and Rust, J. 2014. „Extreme adaptations for aquatic ectoparasitism in a Jurassic fly larva“. eLife. 3: e02844.
https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.02844

GREENWALT, D.E. and RUST, J. 2014. „A new species of Pseudotettigonia Zeuner (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) with an intact stridulatory field and reexamination of the subfamily Pseudotettigoniinae“. Systematic Entomology. 39(2): 256-263.
https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12050

Bergmann, A. and Rust, J. 2014. „Morphology, palaeobiology and phylogeny of Oryctocaris balssi gen. nov. (Arthropoda), a phyllocarid from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Germany)“. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 12(4): 427-444.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2012.750630

Hörnschemeyer, T., Haug, J.T., Bethoux, O., Beutel, R.G., Charbonnier, S., Hegna, T.A., Koch, M., Rust, J., Wedmann, S., Bradler, S. and Willmann, R. 2013. „Is Strudiella a Devonian insect?“. Nature. 494(7437): E3-E4.
https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11887

Strelow, J., Solórzano Kraemer, M.M., Ibáñez-Bernal, S. and Rust, J. 2013. „First fossil horsefly (Diptera: Tabanidae) in Miocene Mexican amber“. Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 87(3): 437-444.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-013-0171-7

KÜHL, G., POSCHMANN, M. and RUST, J. 2013. „A ten-legged sea spider (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Germany)“. Geological Magazine. 150(3): 556-564.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756812001033

Kühl, G. and Rust, J. 2012. „Captopodus poschmanni gen. et sp. nov. a new stem-group arthropod from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Germany)“. Arthropod Structure & Development. 41(6): 609-622.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2012.06.004

Wappler, T., Labandeira, C.C., Rust, J., Frankenhäuser, H. and Wilde, V. 2012. „Testing for the Effects and Consequences of Mid Paleogene Climate Change on Insect Herbivory“. PLoS ONE. 7(7): e40744.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0040744

MARTIN TH., V. KOENIGSWALD, W., RADTKE, G., RUST, J.. 2012. 100 Jahre Paläontologischen Gesellschaft. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München..

KÜHL, G., BERGMANN, A., DUNLOP, J., GARWOOD, R.J. and RUST, J. 2012. „Redescription and palaeobiology of Palaeoscorpius devonicus Lehmann, 1944 from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate of Germany“. Palaeontology. 55(4): 775-787.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01152.x

Rust, J. 2012. „Choristers of the Jurassic“. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(10): 3606-3607.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201447109

KÜHL, G., BARTELS, C., BRIGGS, D.E.G. AND RUST, J.. 2012. Visions of a Vanished World: The Extraordinary Fossils of the Hunsrück Slate.. Yale University Press, New Haven and London..

Krarup Pedersen ,G., Schack Pedersen, S., Bonde, N., Heilmann-Clausen, C., Melchior Larsen, L., Lindow, B., Madsen, H., Pedersen, A.K., Rust, J., Schultz, B.P., Storey, M. and Willumsen, P.S. 2011. „Molerområdets geologi ─ geologiske landvindinger opnået gennem studier af Fur Formationen og de over- og underliggende sedimenter i den vestlige del af Limfjorden, Danmark“. Geologisk Tidsskrift. 2011: 41-135.

Wappler, T., Petrulevičius, J.F., Nel, A. and Rust, J. 2011. „The diversity of Odonata and their endophytic ovipositions from the Upper Oligocene Fossillagerstätte of Rott (Rhineland, Germany)“. ZooKeys. 130: 67-89.
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.130.1441

KÜHL, G., BARTELS, C., BRIGGS, D. E. G. & RUST, J.. 2011. Fossilien im Hunsrück-Schiefer. Einzigartige Fossilien aus einer einzigartigen Region.. Edition Goldschneck, Quelle & Meyer Verlag GmbH & Co, Wiebelsheim..

Neiber, M.T., Hartke, T.R., Stemme, T., Bergmann, A., Rust, J., Iliffe, T.M. and Koenemann, S. 2011. „Global Biodiversity and Phylogenetic Evaluation of Remipedia (Crustacea)“. PLoS ONE. 6(5): e19627.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019627

Hartkopf-Fröder, C., Rust, J., Wappler, T., Friis, E.M. and Viehofen, A. 2012. „Mid-Cretaceous charred fossil flowers reveal direct observation of arthropod feeding strategies“. Biology Letters. 8(2): 295-298.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0696

Rust, J.. 2011. Fossilien - Meilensteine der Evolution.. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, Primus Verlag Darmstadt..

Kühl, G. and Rust, J. 2010. „Re-investigation of Mimetaster hexagonalis: a marrellomorph arthropod from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Germany)“. Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 84(3): 397-411.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-009-0049-x

Rust, J., Singh, H., Rana, R.S., McCann, T., Singh, L., Anderson, K., Sarkar, N., Nascimbene, P.C., Stebner, F., Thomas, J.C., Solórzano Kraemer, M., Williams, C.J., Engel, M.S., Sahni, A. and Grimaldi, D. 2010. „Biogeographic and evolutionary implications of a diverse paleobiota in amber from the early Eocene of India“. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(43): 18360-18365.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1007407107

WANG, B., ZHANG, H., WAPPLER, T. and RUST, J. 2010. „Palaeontinidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha) from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of Germany and their phylogenetic significance“. Geological Magazine. 147(4): 570-580.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756809990896

Kühl, G., Briggs, D.E.G. and Rust, J. 2009. „A Great-Appendage Arthropod with a Radial Mouth from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate, Germany“. Science. 323(5915): 771-773.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1166586

Wappler, T., Currano, E.D., Wilf, P., Rust, J. and Labandeira, C.C. 2009. „No post-Cretaceous ecosystem depression in European forests? Rich insect-feeding damage on diverse middle Palaeocene plants, Menat, France“. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 276(1677): 4271-4277.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.1255

Kühl, G. and Rust, J. 2009. „Devonohexapodus bocksbergensis is a synonym of Wingertshellicus backesi (Euarthropoda) – no evidence for marine hexapods living in the Devonian Hunsrück Sea“. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 9(3): 215-231.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ode.2009.03.002

Petrulevičius, J.F., Wappler, T., Wedmann, S., Rust, J. and Nel, A. 2008. „New megapodagrionid damselflies (Odonata: Zygoptera) from the Paleogene of Europe“. Journal of Paleontology. 82(6): 1173-1181.
https://doi.org/10.1666/07-091.1

Kühl, G., Bergström, J. and Rust, J. 2008. „Morphology, Palaeobiology and Phylogenetic Position of Vachonisia rogeri (Arthropoda) from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Germany)“. Palaeontographica Abteilung A. 286(4-6): 123-157.
https://doi.org/10.1127/pala/286/2008/123

RUST, J., PETRULEVIČIUS, J.F. and NEL, A. 2008. „THE FIRST DAMSELFLIES FROM THE LOWERMOST EOCENE OF DENMARK, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SUBFAMILY (ODONATA, ZYGOPTERA: DYSAGRIONIDAE)“. Palaeontology. 51(3): 709-713.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00780.x

RUST, J. 2007. „Die Bedeutung von Fossilien für phylogenetische Rekonstruktionen.“. Species, Phylogeny and Evolution. 1: 75-87.

Wedmann, S., Bradler, S. and Rust, J. 2007. „The first fossil leaf insect: 47 million years of specialized cryptic morphology and behavior“. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(2): 565-569.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0606937104

RUST, J. 2007. „Aspekte der Entwicklung der Paläontologie in Deutschland während der letzten 100 Jahre.“. In: Höhepunkte der zoologischen Forschung (Festschrift zur 100. Jahresversammlung der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft in Köln. S. 337-357. Hrsg. J. W. Wägele. Basilisken-Presse, Marburg.

WILLMANN, R. & RUST, J. 2001. „Die zoologische und botanische Sammlung Albertus Seba's“. In: Das Naturalienkabinett. Vollständige Ausgabe der kolorierten Tafeln. S. 26-39. Seba, A. (ed.). Köln, London, Madrid (Taschen).

Rust, J. 2000. „Fossil record of mass moth migration“. Nature. 405(6786): 530-531.
https://doi.org/10.1038/35014733

RUST, J. and ANDERSEN, N.M. 1999. „Giant ants from the Paleogene of Denmark with a discussion of the fossil history and early evolution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)“. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 125(3): 331-348.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1999.tb00596.x

Rust, J., Stumpner, A. and Gottwald, J. 1999. „Singing and hearing in a Tertiary bushcricket“. Nature. 399(6737): 650-650.
https://doi.org/10.1038/21356