Short Communications & Book Reviews
2022
58. Weigel, A., C. Caldas, A. Meyer, A. and S.A. Morris. 2022. The impact of AI on research. Leading Edge Voices. Cell 185: 2621-2622. View PDF
2021
57. Meyer, A. and J. Mittelstraß. 2021. Hubert Simon (Jim) Markl. 17 August 1938 - 8 January 2015. Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society 71: 362-373. View PDF
56. Schartl, M. and A. Meyer. 2021. Genome of the month. Neoceratodus forsteri Australian Lungfish. Trends in Genetics 37: 600-601. View PDF
2019
55. Kratochwil, C. F. and A. Meyer. 2019. Fragile DNA contributes to repeated evolution. Genome Biology 20: 39. View PDF
2018
54. Meyer, A. 2018. Our Inheritance. A fascinating history of heredity research reveals the field’s highs and lows. Review of "She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity" by Carl Zimmer - Science aat3786. View Online PDF View PDF
2016
53. Verheyen, E. et al. 2016. Oil extraction imperils Africa’s Great Lakes. Science 354: 561–562. View PDF
supplementary material
2015
52. Kratochwil, C.F. and A. Meyer. 2015. Evolution: Tinkering with Gene Regulatory Landscapes. Current Biology 25: R285–R288. View PDF
51. Meyer, A. 2015. Extreme Evolution. Scientific American 312: 70-75. View PDF
50. Huete-Pérez, J.A, A. Meyer, and P.J Alvarez. 2015. Rethink the Nicaragua Canal. Science 347: 355. View PDF
2014
49. Meyer, A. and J.A. Huete-Pérez. 2014. Nicaragua Canal could wreak environmental ruin. Nature 20: 287-289. View PDF
2013
48. Gunter, H. and A. Meyer. 2013. Trade-offs in cavefish sensory capacity. BMC Biology 11: 5. View PDF
2012
47. Elmer, K.R., Lehtonen, T.K., Kautt, A.F., Harrod, C. and A. Meyer. 2012. Correction: Rapid sympatric ecological differentiation of crater lake cichlid fishes within historic times. BMC Biology 10:70 View PDF
2011
46. Meyer A. 2011. On the Nature of Scientific Progress: Anarchistic Theory Says ‘‘Anything Goes’’—But I Don’t Think So. PLoS Biology 9(10): e1001165. View PDF
2010
45. Meyer A. 2010. George C. Williams (1926-2010) Incisive thinker who influenced a genaration of evolutionary biologists. Nature 467:790. View PDF
44. Elmer, K., R. and A. Meyer. 2010. Sympatric speciation without borders? Molecular Ecology 19: 1991–1993. View PDF
43. Van de Peer, Y., Maere, S. and A. Meyer. 2R or not 2R is not the question anymore. Nature Reviews Genetics, doi:10.1038/nrg2600-c2 View PDF
2009
42. Meyer, A. 2009. Charles Darwin’s reception in Germany and what followed. PLoS Biology 7: e1000162 View PDF
2008
41. Jones, J.C., Gunter, H.M. and A. Meyer. 2008. Will he still look good with the lights on? Spectral tuning of visual pigments in fish. Journal of Biology, 7:26 View PDF
40. Meyer, A. 2008. Genomes evolve, but how? Review of "The Origin of Genome Architecture" by Michael Lynch - Nature 451: 771-772. View PDF
2007
39. Meyer, A. 2007. Question of the year – the $1,000 genome. Nature Genetics (posted online Feb. 1st).
2006
38. Barluenga, M., Stoelting, K., Salzburger, W., Muschick, M. and A. Meyer. 2006. Evidence for sympatric speciation (reply). Brief Communication arising. Nature 444: E13 View PDF
37. Meyer, A. 2006 Repeating Patterns of Mimicry. PLoS Biology 4 (10): 1675-1677 (e341) View PDF
2005
36. Meyer, A. 2005. On the importance of being Ernst Mayr. (obituary) PLOS-Biology. 3: 750-752. View PDF
2004
35. Meyer, A. 2004. "Genetic Markers, Natural History and Evolution" 2nd ed. by J.C. Avise. Quarterly Review of Biology. 79: 414-415.
34. Meyer, A. 2004. A duet on speciation: A synthesis of ideas about how species arise hits the right note. Review of "Speciation" by Jerry A. Coyne & H. Allen Orr. Nature 431: 399-400. View PDF
33. Verheyen, E., Salzburger, W., Snoeks, J., and A. Meyer. 2004. Response to Comment on “Origin of the superflock of cichlid fishes from Lake Victoria, East Africa”. Science 304: 963c. View PDF
32. Meyer, A. 2004. Learning from the Altmeister: How reading Ernst Mayr’s books (in his bathtub) changed my research. Nature 428: 897. View PDF
2003
31. Meyer, A. 2003. There and back again: A review of "The development of animal form: ontogeny, morphology and evolution" by Alessandro Minelli. Nature 424: 255. View PDF
30. Meyer, A. 2003. C'est la vie? The Delphic Boat: What genomes tell us. by Antoine Danchin. Nature 422: 564-565. View PDF
29. Meyer, A. 2003. Die Entstehung der Arten - neue Theorien und Methoden. In: Evolution, E.-P. Fischer (ed.) Uhlstein. 76-83.
28. Meyer, A. 2003. Duplication, duplication. Nature News and Views 421: 31-32. View PDF
2002
27. Salzburger, W. and A. Meyer. 2002. Darwins Traumseen - Die Aufklärung der Evolution der Buntbarsche mit Hilfe molekularbiologischer Methoden. Praxis der Naturwissenschaften Biologie in der Schule 51: 9-14.
26. Meyer, A. 2002. Viewing life as cooperation. Review of "Acquiring genomes: a theory of the origin of species". By Lynn Margulis & Dorian Sagan. Nature 418: 275-276. View PDF
2001
25. Meyer, A. 2001. Growing trees from molecular data. Review of "Phylogenetic trees made easy -a how-to manual for molecular biologists". By Barry Hall. Science 294: 2297-2298.
24. Meyer, A. 2001. Whither devo-evo? Review of "From DNA to diversity". By S.B. Carroll, J.K. Grenier and S.D. Weatherbee. Nature 413: 455-457. View PDF
23. Meyer, A. 2001. Explaining exuberant diversification. Review of "The ecology of adaptive radiation" by D. Schluter. Science 294: 64-65. View PDF
22. Meyer, A. 2001. Evolutionary celebrities. Review of "The Cichlid Fishes: Nature's Grand Experiment" by G.W. Barlow. Nature 410: 17-18. View PDF
21. Meyer, A. and A.B. Wilson 2001. New takes on old lakes: Review of "Ancient Lakes: Biodiversity, ecology and evolution". Rossiter, A. and H Kawanabe, eds. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16: 109. View PDF
2000
20. Meyer, A. 2000. From donkey and cows to whales: Review of "Marine Mammals, Evolutionary Biology". By A. Berta and J.L. Sumich. Academic Press. Nature 406: 677-678. View PDF
19. Meyer, A. 2000. Fishing stories. Review of "A fish caught in time: the story of the coelacanth" by Samantha Weinberg, Harper and Collins. Science 288: 61-62.
18. Meyer, A. 2000. EDB grows up. Review of "Evolutionary developmental biology" 2nd edition by Brian K. Hall. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15: 172-173. View PDF
1998
17. Meyer, A. 1998. "Avian molecular evolution and systematics" edited by David P. Mindell. Quarterly Review of Biology 73: 363-364.
1996
16. Meyer, A. 1996. Evolution in the past tense. Review of "Darwin's Dreampond: Drama in Lake Victoria" by Tijs Goldschmidt. Nature 383: 590-591.
15. Meyer, A. 1996. "Molecular Systematics" (2nd ed.) D. Hillis, C. Moritz, B. Marble (eds.) Trends in Genetics 12: 534-535. View PDF
14. Meyer, A. 1996. "The Impact of Species Changes in African Lakes" T.J. Pitcher and P.J.B. Hart (eds.) Quarterly Review of Biology 71: 591-592. View PDF
1995
13. Meyer, A. 1995. " Evolutionary Biology", Vol. 28 edited by M.K. Hecht, R.J. MacIntyre, and M.T. Clegg. Quarterly Review of Biology 70: 510-511. View PDF
12. Meyer, A. 1995. "MacVector and AssemblyLIGN Version 4.1.0" Sequence Analysis and Sequence Assembly Software for the MacIntosh. Quarterly Review of Biology 70: 128-129. View PDF
1994
11. Meyer, A. 1994. "Genetic Markers, Natural History and Evolution" by J.C. Avise. Quarterly Review of Biology 69: 395-396. View PDF
10. Meyer, A. 1994. "MacClade: Analysis of Phylogeny and Character Evolution" Version 3.0 by W.P. Maddison and D.R. Maddison. Quarterly Review of Biology 69: 439-440. View PDF
9. Meyer, A. 1994. "Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution" Quarterly Review of Biology 69: 268-269. View PDF
8. Meyer, A. 1994. "Classification, Evolution and the Nature of Biology" by A.L. Panchen. Quarterly Review of Biology 69: 87-88. View PDF
1993
7. Meyer, A. 1993. Coelacanth Controversy. American Scientist 81: 209-210.
6. Meyer, A. 1993. "The Biology of Latimeria chalumnae and Evolution of Coelacanths" by J.A. Musick, M.N. Bruton, & E.K. Balon eds. Quarterly Review of Biology 68: 444-445. View PDF
1992
5. Sturmbauer, C. and A. Meyer. 1992. "Lake Tanganyika and its Life" by G.W. Coulter ed. Quarterly Review of Biology 67:540-541. View PDF
4. Meyer, A. 1992. "Gene jockey" Sequence Processor Software by P.L. Taylor. Quarterly Review of Biolgy 67: 423-424. View PDF
3. Meyer, A. 1992. "Cichlid fishes: Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution" by M.H.A. Keenleyside ed. Quarterly Review of Biology 67: 221-222. View PDF
2. Meyer, A. 1992. "Living Fossil: The Story of the Coelacanth" by K.S. Thomson. Quarterly Review of Biology 67: 71-72. View PDF
1991
1. Meyer, A. 1991. "Molecular Systematics" by D. Hillis and C. Moritz. Quarterly Review of Biology 66: 206. View PDF
58. Weigel, A., C. Caldas, A. Meyer, A. and S.A. Morris. 2022. The impact of AI on research. Leading Edge Voices. Cell 185: 2621-2622. View PDF
2021
57. Meyer, A. and J. Mittelstraß. 2021. Hubert Simon (Jim) Markl. 17 August 1938 - 8 January 2015. Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society 71: 362-373. View PDF
56. Schartl, M. and A. Meyer. 2021. Genome of the month. Neoceratodus forsteri Australian Lungfish. Trends in Genetics 37: 600-601. View PDF
2019
55. Kratochwil, C. F. and A. Meyer. 2019. Fragile DNA contributes to repeated evolution. Genome Biology 20: 39. View PDF
2018
54. Meyer, A. 2018. Our Inheritance. A fascinating history of heredity research reveals the field’s highs and lows. Review of "She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity" by Carl Zimmer - Science aat3786. View Online PDF View PDF
2016
53. Verheyen, E. et al. 2016. Oil extraction imperils Africa’s Great Lakes. Science 354: 561–562. View PDF
supplementary material
2015
52. Kratochwil, C.F. and A. Meyer. 2015. Evolution: Tinkering with Gene Regulatory Landscapes. Current Biology 25: R285–R288. View PDF
51. Meyer, A. 2015. Extreme Evolution. Scientific American 312: 70-75. View PDF
50. Huete-Pérez, J.A, A. Meyer, and P.J Alvarez. 2015. Rethink the Nicaragua Canal. Science 347: 355. View PDF
2014
49. Meyer, A. and J.A. Huete-Pérez. 2014. Nicaragua Canal could wreak environmental ruin. Nature 20: 287-289. View PDF
2013
48. Gunter, H. and A. Meyer. 2013. Trade-offs in cavefish sensory capacity. BMC Biology 11: 5. View PDF
2012
47. Elmer, K.R., Lehtonen, T.K., Kautt, A.F., Harrod, C. and A. Meyer. 2012. Correction: Rapid sympatric ecological differentiation of crater lake cichlid fishes within historic times. BMC Biology 10:70 View PDF
2011
46. Meyer A. 2011. On the Nature of Scientific Progress: Anarchistic Theory Says ‘‘Anything Goes’’—But I Don’t Think So. PLoS Biology 9(10): e1001165. View PDF
2010
45. Meyer A. 2010. George C. Williams (1926-2010) Incisive thinker who influenced a genaration of evolutionary biologists. Nature 467:790. View PDF
44. Elmer, K., R. and A. Meyer. 2010. Sympatric speciation without borders? Molecular Ecology 19: 1991–1993. View PDF
43. Van de Peer, Y., Maere, S. and A. Meyer. 2R or not 2R is not the question anymore. Nature Reviews Genetics, doi:10.1038/nrg2600-c2 View PDF
2009
42. Meyer, A. 2009. Charles Darwin’s reception in Germany and what followed. PLoS Biology 7: e1000162 View PDF
2008
41. Jones, J.C., Gunter, H.M. and A. Meyer. 2008. Will he still look good with the lights on? Spectral tuning of visual pigments in fish. Journal of Biology, 7:26 View PDF
40. Meyer, A. 2008. Genomes evolve, but how? Review of "The Origin of Genome Architecture" by Michael Lynch - Nature 451: 771-772. View PDF
2007
39. Meyer, A. 2007. Question of the year – the $1,000 genome. Nature Genetics (posted online Feb. 1st).
2006
38. Barluenga, M., Stoelting, K., Salzburger, W., Muschick, M. and A. Meyer. 2006. Evidence for sympatric speciation (reply). Brief Communication arising. Nature 444: E13 View PDF
37. Meyer, A. 2006 Repeating Patterns of Mimicry. PLoS Biology 4 (10): 1675-1677 (e341) View PDF
2005
36. Meyer, A. 2005. On the importance of being Ernst Mayr. (obituary) PLOS-Biology. 3: 750-752. View PDF
2004
35. Meyer, A. 2004. "Genetic Markers, Natural History and Evolution" 2nd ed. by J.C. Avise. Quarterly Review of Biology. 79: 414-415.
34. Meyer, A. 2004. A duet on speciation: A synthesis of ideas about how species arise hits the right note. Review of "Speciation" by Jerry A. Coyne & H. Allen Orr. Nature 431: 399-400. View PDF
33. Verheyen, E., Salzburger, W., Snoeks, J., and A. Meyer. 2004. Response to Comment on “Origin of the superflock of cichlid fishes from Lake Victoria, East Africa”. Science 304: 963c. View PDF
32. Meyer, A. 2004. Learning from the Altmeister: How reading Ernst Mayr’s books (in his bathtub) changed my research. Nature 428: 897. View PDF
2003
31. Meyer, A. 2003. There and back again: A review of "The development of animal form: ontogeny, morphology and evolution" by Alessandro Minelli. Nature 424: 255. View PDF
30. Meyer, A. 2003. C'est la vie? The Delphic Boat: What genomes tell us. by Antoine Danchin. Nature 422: 564-565. View PDF
29. Meyer, A. 2003. Die Entstehung der Arten - neue Theorien und Methoden. In: Evolution, E.-P. Fischer (ed.) Uhlstein. 76-83.
28. Meyer, A. 2003. Duplication, duplication. Nature News and Views 421: 31-32. View PDF
2002
27. Salzburger, W. and A. Meyer. 2002. Darwins Traumseen - Die Aufklärung der Evolution der Buntbarsche mit Hilfe molekularbiologischer Methoden. Praxis der Naturwissenschaften Biologie in der Schule 51: 9-14.
26. Meyer, A. 2002. Viewing life as cooperation. Review of "Acquiring genomes: a theory of the origin of species". By Lynn Margulis & Dorian Sagan. Nature 418: 275-276. View PDF
2001
25. Meyer, A. 2001. Growing trees from molecular data. Review of "Phylogenetic trees made easy -a how-to manual for molecular biologists". By Barry Hall. Science 294: 2297-2298.
24. Meyer, A. 2001. Whither devo-evo? Review of "From DNA to diversity". By S.B. Carroll, J.K. Grenier and S.D. Weatherbee. Nature 413: 455-457. View PDF
23. Meyer, A. 2001. Explaining exuberant diversification. Review of "The ecology of adaptive radiation" by D. Schluter. Science 294: 64-65. View PDF
22. Meyer, A. 2001. Evolutionary celebrities. Review of "The Cichlid Fishes: Nature's Grand Experiment" by G.W. Barlow. Nature 410: 17-18. View PDF
21. Meyer, A. and A.B. Wilson 2001. New takes on old lakes: Review of "Ancient Lakes: Biodiversity, ecology and evolution". Rossiter, A. and H Kawanabe, eds. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16: 109. View PDF
2000
20. Meyer, A. 2000. From donkey and cows to whales: Review of "Marine Mammals, Evolutionary Biology". By A. Berta and J.L. Sumich. Academic Press. Nature 406: 677-678. View PDF
19. Meyer, A. 2000. Fishing stories. Review of "A fish caught in time: the story of the coelacanth" by Samantha Weinberg, Harper and Collins. Science 288: 61-62.
18. Meyer, A. 2000. EDB grows up. Review of "Evolutionary developmental biology" 2nd edition by Brian K. Hall. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15: 172-173. View PDF
1998
17. Meyer, A. 1998. "Avian molecular evolution and systematics" edited by David P. Mindell. Quarterly Review of Biology 73: 363-364.
1996
16. Meyer, A. 1996. Evolution in the past tense. Review of "Darwin's Dreampond: Drama in Lake Victoria" by Tijs Goldschmidt. Nature 383: 590-591.
15. Meyer, A. 1996. "Molecular Systematics" (2nd ed.) D. Hillis, C. Moritz, B. Marble (eds.) Trends in Genetics 12: 534-535. View PDF
14. Meyer, A. 1996. "The Impact of Species Changes in African Lakes" T.J. Pitcher and P.J.B. Hart (eds.) Quarterly Review of Biology 71: 591-592. View PDF
1995
13. Meyer, A. 1995. " Evolutionary Biology", Vol. 28 edited by M.K. Hecht, R.J. MacIntyre, and M.T. Clegg. Quarterly Review of Biology 70: 510-511. View PDF
12. Meyer, A. 1995. "MacVector and AssemblyLIGN Version 4.1.0" Sequence Analysis and Sequence Assembly Software for the MacIntosh. Quarterly Review of Biology 70: 128-129. View PDF
1994
11. Meyer, A. 1994. "Genetic Markers, Natural History and Evolution" by J.C. Avise. Quarterly Review of Biology 69: 395-396. View PDF
10. Meyer, A. 1994. "MacClade: Analysis of Phylogeny and Character Evolution" Version 3.0 by W.P. Maddison and D.R. Maddison. Quarterly Review of Biology 69: 439-440. View PDF
9. Meyer, A. 1994. "Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution" Quarterly Review of Biology 69: 268-269. View PDF
8. Meyer, A. 1994. "Classification, Evolution and the Nature of Biology" by A.L. Panchen. Quarterly Review of Biology 69: 87-88. View PDF
1993
7. Meyer, A. 1993. Coelacanth Controversy. American Scientist 81: 209-210.
6. Meyer, A. 1993. "The Biology of Latimeria chalumnae and Evolution of Coelacanths" by J.A. Musick, M.N. Bruton, & E.K. Balon eds. Quarterly Review of Biology 68: 444-445. View PDF
1992
5. Sturmbauer, C. and A. Meyer. 1992. "Lake Tanganyika and its Life" by G.W. Coulter ed. Quarterly Review of Biology 67:540-541. View PDF
4. Meyer, A. 1992. "Gene jockey" Sequence Processor Software by P.L. Taylor. Quarterly Review of Biolgy 67: 423-424. View PDF
3. Meyer, A. 1992. "Cichlid fishes: Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution" by M.H.A. Keenleyside ed. Quarterly Review of Biology 67: 221-222. View PDF
2. Meyer, A. 1992. "Living Fossil: The Story of the Coelacanth" by K.S. Thomson. Quarterly Review of Biology 67: 71-72. View PDF
1991
1. Meyer, A. 1991. "Molecular Systematics" by D. Hillis and C. Moritz. Quarterly Review of Biology 66: 206. View PDF