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  1. Biogeographical patterns of the genus Plectostoma H. Adams, 1865 (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in Sundaland’s limestone ecosystems

    Article • Frontiers of Biogeography, March 2026, Pensoft Publishers

    Menno Schilthuizen

  2. Resampling a carrion beetle fauna after 40 years (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Silphinae, and Leiodidae, Cholevinae)

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, March 2025, Pensoft Publishers

    Menno Schilthuizen

  3. 3D X-ray microscopy (Micro-CT) and SEM reveal Zospeum troglobalcanicum Absolon, 1916 and allied species from the Western Balkans (Ellobioidea: Carychiidae)

    Article • European Journal of Taxonomy, March 2024, Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle

    Menno Schilthuizen

  4. Fine mapping of the Cepaea nemoralis shell colour and mid-banded loci using a high-density linkage map

    Article • Heredity, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Menno Schilthuizen

  5. New records of moth flies (Diptera, Psychodidae) for the Dutch Fauna

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, September 2023, Pensoft Publishers

    Menno Schilthuizen

  6. Variation in mycorrhizal communities and the level of mycoheterotrophy in grassland and Forest populations of Neottia ovata (Orchidaceae)

    Article • Functional Ecology, May 2023, Wiley

    Menno Schilthuizen

  7. Fine mapping of the Cepaea nemoralis shell colour and mid-banded loci using a high-density linkage map

    Article • April 2023, Research Square

    Menno Schilthuizen

  8. A new semi-slug of the genus Microparmarion from Brunei, discovered, described and DNA-barcoded on citizen-science 'taxon expeditions' (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Ariophantidae)

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, April 2023, Pensoft Publishers

    Menno Schilthuizen

  9. Animals in Fashion: Portrayal of Animal Biodiversity on Children’s Clothing

    Article • Society and Animals, November 2022, Brill

    Michiel Hooykaas, Menno Schilthuizen

  10. A new giant keelback slug of the genus Limax from the Balkans, described by citizen scientists

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, June 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Menno Schilthuizen

  11. Species identification skills predict in-depth knowledge about species

    Article • PLOS One, April 2022, PLOS

    Menno Schilthuizen, Michiel Hooykaas

  12. Zoogeographic patterns on very small spatial scales in rock-dwelling Plectostoma snails from Borneo (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Diplommatinidae)

    Article • February 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Menno Schilthuizen

  13. The world’s tiniest land snails from Laos and Vietnam (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Hypselostomatidae)

    Article • Contributions to Zoology, January 2022, De Gruyter

    Barna Páll-Gergely, Menno Schilthuizen

  14. Children’s Species Literacy as Estimated and Desired by Biodiversity Communicators: a Mismatch with the Actual Level

    Article • November 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Menno Schilthuizen

  15. Birds using artificial plants as nesting material

    Article • Behaviour, September 2021, De Gruyter

    Menno Schilthuizen

  16. Ptomaphagus thebeatles n. sp., a previously unrecognized beetle from Europe, with remarks on urban taxonomy and recent range expansion (Coleoptera: Leiodidae)

    Article • Contributions to Zoology, January 2021, Brill

    Menno Schilthuizen

  17. On the Fly: Tritrophic Associations of Bats, Bat Flies, and Fungi

    Article • Journal of Fungi, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Menno Schilthuizen

  18. Molecular phylogenetics and evolutionary history of the endemic land snail genus Everettia in northern Borneo

    Article • PeerJ, July 2020, PeerJ

    Menno Schilthuizen

  19. A transplantation experiment yields no evidence for phenotypic plasticity in shell band width in Cepaea nemoralis

    Article • June 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Menno Schilthuizen

  20. Expanding the Role of Biodiversity in Laypeople’s Lives: The View of Communicators

    Article • Sustainability, April 2020, MDPI AG

    Menno Schilthuizen

  21. Corrigendum to "A new parasitoid wasp, Aphaereta vondelparkensis sp. n. (Braconidae, Alysiinae), from a city park in the centre of Amsterdam"

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, February 2020, Pensoft Publishers

    Menno Schilthuizen

  22. Craspedotropis gretathunbergae, a new species of Cyclophoridae (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda), discovered and described on a field course to Kuala Belalong rainforest, Brunei

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, February 2020, Pensoft Publishers

    Menno Schilthuizen

  23. Morphological parallelism of sympatric cave‐dwelling microsnails of the genus Georissa at Mount Silabur, Borneo (Gastropoda, Neritimorpha, Hydrocenidae)

    Article • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, December 2019, Wiley

    Menno Schilthuizen

  24. The effects of spatial and temporal replicate sampling on eDNA metabarcoding

    Article • PeerJ, July 2019, PeerJ

    Menno Schilthuizen

  25. Snail shell colour evolution in urban heat islands detected via citizen science

    Article • Communications Biology, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Menno Schilthuizen

  26. A Rapid and Accurate MinION-Based Workflow for Tracking Species Biodiversity in the Field

    Article • Genes, June 2019, MDPI AG

    Menno Schilthuizen

  27. Phylogeography of Bornean land snails suggests long‐distance dispersal as a cause of endemism

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, March 2019, Wiley

    Menno Schilthuizen

  28. Snail shell colour evolution in urban heat islands detected via citizen science

    Article • September 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Menno Schilthuizen

  29. Dispatch from the field II: the mystery of the red and blue Opadometa male (Araneae, Tetragnathidae, Opadometa sarawakensis)

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, April 2018, Pensoft Publishers

    Menno Schilthuizen

  30. Three new minute leaf litter beetles discovered by citizen scientists in Maliau Basin, Malaysian Borneo (Coleoptera: Leiodidae, Chrysomelidae)

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, December 2017, Pensoft Publishers

    Menno Schilthuizen

  31. Candidate genes for shell colour polymorphism in Cepaea nemoralis

    Article • April 2017, PeerJ

    Menno Schilthuizen

  32. Candidate genes for shell colour polymorphism in Cepaea nemoralis

    Article • April 2017, PeerJ

    Menno Schilthuizen

  33. Comment on Falade et al. (2016) DNA-barcoding of Clarias gariepinus, Coptedon zillii and Sarotherodon melanotheron from Southwestern Nigeria

    Article • F1000Research, November 2016, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Menno Schilthuizen

  34. The evolution of asymmetric genitalia in Coleoptera

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, November 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Menno Schilthuizen

  35. The origin and diversity ofDrilusOlivier, 1790 (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) in Crete based on mitochondrial phylogeny

    Article • Systematics and Biodiversity, November 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Menno Schilthuizen

  36. Dispatch from the field: ecology of ground-web-building spiders with description of a new species (Araneae, Symphytognathidae)

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, March 2014, Pensoft Publishers

    Menno Schilthuizen

  37. Hybrid zones, barrier loci and the ‘rare allele phenomenon’

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, January 2013, Wiley

    Menno Schilthuizen

  38. Something gone awry: unsolved mysteries in the evolution of asymmetric animal genitalia

    Article • Animal Biology, January 2013, De Gruyter

    Menno Schilthuizen

  39. Phylogenetic reconstruction and shell evolution of the Diplommatinidae (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda)

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, June 2012, Elsevier

    Menno Schilthuizen

  40. Small-scale genetic structuring in a tropical cave snail and admixture with its above-ground sister species†

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, February 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Menno Schilthuizen

  41. What do we need to know about speciation?

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, January 2012, Elsevier

    Constantino Macías Garcia, Dr Elina Immonen, Dr Venera I. Tyukmaeva, Menno Schilthuizen

  42. The complete mitogenome of Cylindrus obtusus (Helicidae, Ariantinae) using Illumina next generation sequencing

    Article • BMC Genomics, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Menno Schilthuizen

  43. Dextral and sinistral Amphidromus inversus (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Camaenidae) produce dextral sperm

    Article • Zoomorphology, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Menno Schilthuizen

  44. Scrutinising snail shells

    Article • Heredity, September 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Menno Schilthuizen

  45. Evolutionary change inCepaea nemoralisshell colour over 43 years

    Article • Global Change Biology, September 2011, Wiley

    Menno Schilthuizen

  46. Using DNA-barcoding to make the necrobiont beetle family Cholevidae accessible for forensic entomology

    Article • Forensic Science International, July 2011, Elsevier

    Menno Schilthuizen

  47. How the daddy-longlegs spider got its pedipalps

    Article • The New Scientist, June 2011, Elsevier

    Menno Schilthuizen

  48. Phylogenetic relationships between isolated populations of the limestone‐dwelling microsnail Gyliotrachela hungerfordiana (Gastropoda: Vertiginidae)

    Article • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, May 2011, Wiley

    Menno Schilthuizen

  49. Citizen Science Reveals Unexpected Continental-Scale Evolutionary Change in a Model Organism

    Article • PLOS One, April 2011, PLOS

    Menno Schilthuizen

  50. Haldane's rule in the 21st century

    Article • Heredity, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Menno Schilthuizen

  51. Disentangling true shape differences and experimenter bias: are dextral and sinistral snail shells exact mirror images?

    Article • Journal of Zoology, July 2010, Wiley

    Menno Schilthuizen

  52. Frontispiece

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, February 2010, Wiley

    Menno Schilthuizen

  53. The determinants of land snail diversity along a tropical elevational gradient: insularity, geometry and niches

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, December 2009, Wiley

    Menno Schilthuizen

  54. Systematic revision of the genus Everettia Godwin-Austen, 1891 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Dyakiidae) in Sabah, northern Borneo

    Article • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, October 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Menno Schilthuizen

  55. The Sexology of the Chirally Dimorphic Snail SpeciesAmphidromus inversus(Gastropoda: Camaenidae)

    Article • Malacologia, August 2009, Institute of Malacology

    Menno Schilthuizen

  56. Using biogeographical patterns of endemic land snails to improve conservation planning for limestone karsts

    Article • Biological Conservation, November 2008, Elsevier

    Menno Schilthuizen, Professor Corey J. A. Bradshaw

  57. Further twists in gastropod shell evolution

    Article • Biology Letters, January 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    Menno Schilthuizen

  58. The Loom of Life

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Menno Schilthuizen

  59. Impacts of habitat fragmentation on genetic diversity in a tropical forest butterfly on Borneo

    Article • Journal of Tropical Ecology, October 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Menno Schilthuizen

  60. A new Georissa (Gastropoda: Neritopsina: Hydrocenidae) from a limestone cave in Malaysian Borneo

    Article • Journal of Molluscan Studies, July 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Menno Schilthuizen

  61. Sexual selection maintains whole-body chiral dimorphism in snails

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, June 2007, Wiley

    Menno Schilthuizen

  62. MICROGEOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION OF SNAIL SHELL SHAPE AND PREDATOR BEHAVIOR

    Article • Evolution, September 2006, Wiley

    Menno Schilthuizen

  63. Impacts of rain forest fragmentation on butterflies in northern Borneo: species richness, turnover and the value of small fragments

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, August 2006, Wiley

    Menno Schilthuizen

  64. Opposite shell‐coiling morphs of the tropical land snail Amphidromus martensi show no spatial‐scale effects

    Article • Ecography, August 2006, Wiley

    Menno Schilthuizen

  65. Limestone Karsts of Southeast Asia: Imperiled Arks of Biodiversity

    Article • BioScience, January 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Menno Schilthuizen

  66. The darting game in snails and slugs

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, November 2005, Elsevier

    Menno Schilthuizen

  67. The convoluted evolution of snail chirality

    Article • The Science of Nature, October 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Menno Schilthuizen

  68. Prevalence and penetrance variation of male-killing Wolbachia across Indo-Pacific populations of the butterfly Hypolimnas bolina

    Article • Molecular Ecology, October 2005, Wiley

    Menno Schilthuizen

  69. Population structure and coil dimorphism in a tropical land snail

    Article • Heredity, August 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Menno Schilthuizen

  70. Book review: Speciation

    Article • BioEssays, May 2005, Wiley

    Menno Schilthuizen

  71. Possible speciation with gene flow in tropical cave snails

    Article • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, May 2005, Wiley

    Menno Schilthuizen

  72. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the white-crowned forktailEnicurus leschenaultiin Borneo

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, February 2005, Wiley

    Menno Schilthuizen

  73. Phylogeography of the land snail Albinaria hippolyti (Pulmonata: Clausiliidae) from Crete, inferred from ITS-1 sequences

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, October 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Menno Schilthuizen

  74. Hybridization, rare alleles and adaptive radiation

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, August 2004, Elsevier

    Menno Schilthuizen

  75. Southwood's Kaleidoscope

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, July 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Menno Schilthuizen

  76. Sexual selection on land snail shell ornamentation: a hypothesis that may explain shell diversity

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, June 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Menno Schilthuizen

  77. MICROSNAILS AT MICROSCALES IN BORNEO: DISTRIBUTIONS OF PROSOBRANCHIA VERSUS PULMONATA

    Article • Journal of Molluscan Studies, August 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Menno Schilthuizen

  78. EVOLUTION: A Grand Old Synthesizer's Overview

    Article • Science, January 2002, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Menno Schilthuizen

  79. Mollusca: an evolutionary Cornucopia

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, January 2002, Elsevier

    Menno Schilthuizen

  80. The 'rare allele phenomenon' in a ribosomal spacer

    Article • Molecular Ecology, May 2001, Wiley

    Menno Schilthuizen

  81. Dualism and conflicts in understanding speciation

    Article • BioEssays, November 2000, Wiley

    Menno Schilthuizen

  82. Bimodal hybrid zones and the scale of a snail

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, November 2000, Elsevier

    Menno Schilthuizen

  83. Ecotone: speciation-prone

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, April 2000, Elsevier

    Menno Schilthuizen

  84. Cloning Odysseus and the seed of speciation

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, March 1999, Elsevier

    Menno Schilthuizen

  85. Distribution of Wolbachia among the guild associated with the parthenogenetic gall wasp Diplolepis rosae

    Article • Heredity, September 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Menno Schilthuizen

  86. Distribution of Wolbachia among the guild associated with the parthenogenetic gall wasp Diplolepis rosae

    Article • Heredity, September 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Menno Schilthuizen

  87. Morphological and molecular phylogenetics in the genus Leptopilina (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Eucoilidae)

    Article • Systematic Entomology, July 1998, Wiley

    Menno Schilthuizen

  88. Screening Mollusks forWolbachiaInfection

    Article • Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, May 1998, Elsevier

    Menno Schilthuizen

  89. Selfish genetic elements and speciation

    Article • Heredity, January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Menno Schilthuizen

  90. Selfish genetic elements and speciation

    Article • Heredity, January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Menno Schilthuizen

  91. Phylogenetic Relationships Inferred from the Sequence and Secondary Structure of ITS1 rRNA in Albinaria and Putative Isabellaria Species (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae)

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, December 1995, Elsevier

    Menno Schilthuizen

  92. Life on the edge: a hybrid zone inAlbinaria hippolyti(Gastropoda: Clausiliidae) from Crete

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, February 1995, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Menno Schilthuizen

  93. Parallel evolution of an sAat-‘hybrizyme’ in hybrid zones in Albinaria hippolyti (Boettger)

    Article • Heredity, September 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Menno Schilthuizen

  94. Reproductive isolation in snails of the genus Albinaria (Gastropoda: Clausiliidae)

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, August 1994, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Menno Schilthuizen

  95. Reproductive isolation in snails of the genus Albinaria (Gastropoda: Clausiliidae)

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, August 1994, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Menno Schilthuizen

  96. Population Structure and Levels of Gene Flow in the Mediterranean Land Snail Albinaria corrugata (Pulmonata: Clausiliidae)

    Article • Evolution, June 1994, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Menno Schilthuizen