JProf. Dr. Hans Recknagel

Publications:

  1. Saccò, M., Elmasri, A., Tawal, M., Alther, R., Altermatt, F., Martínez, A., Mammola, S., Zagmajster, M., Saenz‐Agudelo, P., Takahashi, M., Thornhill, J., Andouche, A., Baratti, M., Bilal, M., Bilandžija, H., Bolpagni, R., Boulamail, S., Celico, F., Chauveau, C. A., ... Guzik, M. T. (2025). Advancing subterranean conservation through Global Research on eDNA in Groundwaters (GReG). Subterranean biology, 53, 31-40.
  2. Roitberg, E. S., Recknagel, H., Elmer, K. R., Braña, F., Rodríguez Díaz, T., Žagar, A., Kuranova, V. N., Epova, L. A., Bauwens, D., Giovine, G., Orlova, V. F., Bulakhova, N. A., Eplanova, G. V., & Arribas, O. J. (2025). Viviparity is associated with larger female size and higher sexual size dimorphism in a reproductively bimodal lizard. Journal of Animal Ecology, 94, 244–258.
  3. Recknagel, H., Močivnik, L., Zakšek, V., Luo, Y., Kostanjšek, R., Trontelj, P. (2024). Generation of genome-wide SNP markers from minimally invasive sampling in endangered animals and applications in species ecology and conservation. Molecular Ecology Resources, e13995.
  4. Recknagel, H., Leitão, H. G., Elmer, K. R. (2024). Genetic basis and expression of ventral colour in polymorphic common lizards. Molecular Ecology, 33, e17278.
  5. Recknagel, H., Zakšek, V., Delić, T., Gorički, Š., Trontelj, P. (2024). Multiple transitions between realms shape relict lineages of Proteus cave salamanders. Molecular Ecology, 33, e16868.
  6. Sánchez, K. I., Recknagel, H., Elmer, K. R., Avila, L. J., Morando, M. (2024). Tracing evolutionary trajectories in the presence of gene flow in South American temperate lizards (Squamata: Liolaemus kingii group). Evolution, 78, 716–733.
  7. Recknagel, H., Harvey, W. T., Layton, M., Elmer, K. R. (2023). Common lizard microhabitat selection varies by sex, parity mode, and colouration. BMC Ecology and Evolution 23, 47.
  8. San-José, L. M., Bestion, E., Pellerin, F., Richard, M., Di Gesu, L., Salmona, J., Winandy, L., Legrand, D., Bonneaud, C., Guillaume, O., Calvez, O., Elmer, K. R., Yurchenko, A. A., Recknagel, H., Clobert, J., Cote, J. (2023). Investigating the genetic basis of vertebrate dispersal combining RNA-seq, RAD-seq and quantitative genetics. Molecular Ecology, 32, 3060-3075.
  9. Recknagel, H., Premate E., Zakšek, V. (2022). First sighting of ‘white’ and ‘black’ olms (Proteus anguinus) in the same spring. Natura Sloveniae24, 39–41.
  10. Migniani, G., Smout, J. L., Recknagel, H., Elmer, K. R. (2022). A hypomelanistic common lizard (Zootoca vivipara) from the Alps. Herpetology Notes 15, 447–451.
  11. Recknagel, H., Premate E., Zakšek, V., Aljančič, G., Kostanjšek, R., Trontelj, P. (2022). Oviparity, viviparity or plasticity in reproductive mode of the olm Proteus anguinus: an epic misunderstanding caused by prey regurgitation? Contributions to Zoology, 91, 153-165.
  12. Recknagel, H., Trontelj, P. (2022). From cave dragons to genomics: advancements in the study of subterranean tetrapods. BioScience, 72, 254–266.
  13. Kostanjšek, R., Diderichsen, B., Recknagel, H., Gunde-Cimerman, N., Gostinčar, C., Fan, G., Kordiš, D., Trontelj, P., Jiang, H., Bolund, L., Luo, Y. (2022). Toward the massive genome of Proteus anguinus — illuminating longevity, regeneration, convergent evolution, and metabolic disorders. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1507, 5–11.
  14. Recknagel, H., Carruthers, M., Yurchenko, A. A., Nokhbatolfoghahai, M., Kamenos, N. A., Bain, M. M., Elmer, K. R. (2021). The functional genetic architecture of egg-laying and live-bearing reproduction in common lizards. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5, 1546–1556.
  15. Recknagel, H., Kamenos, N. A., Elmer, K. R. (2021). Evolutionary origins of viviparity consistent with palaeoclimate and lineage diversification. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 34, 1167–1176.
  16. Yurchenko, A. A., Recknagel, H., Elmer, K. R. (2020). Chromosome-level assembly of the common lizard (Zootoca vivipara) genome. Genome Biology and Evolution, 12, 1953–1960.
  17. McLennan, D.*, Recknagel, H.*, Elmer, K. R., Monaghan, P. (2019). Distinct telomere differences within a reproductively bimodal common lizard population. Functional Ecology, 33, 1917–1927.
  18. Recknagel, H., Elmer, K. R. (2019). Differential reproductive investment in co-occurring oviparous and viviparous common lizards (Zootoca vivipara) and implications for life-history trade-offs with viviparity. Oecologia, 190, 85–98.
  19. Hume, J. B.*, Recknagel, H.*, Bean, C. W., Adams, C. E., Mable, B. K. (2018). RADseq and mate choice assays reveal unidirectional gene flow among three lamprey ecotypes despite weak assortative mating: insights into the formation and stability of multiple ecotypes in sympatry. Molecular Ecology, 27, 4572–4590.
  20. Recknagel, H., Layton, M., Carey, R., Leitão, H., Sutherland, M., Elmer, K. R. (2018). Melanism in common lizards (Squamata: Lacertidae: Zootoca vivipara): new evidence for a rare but widespread ancestral polymorphism. Herpetology Notes, 11, 607–612.
  21. Recknagel, H., Kamenos, N., Elmer, K. R. (2018). Common lizards break Dollo’s law of irreversibility: genome-wide phylogenomics support a single origin of viviparity and re-evolution of oviparity. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution,127, 579–588. Covered by New Scientist.
  22. Recknagel, H., Hooker, O. E., Adams, C. E., Elmer, K. R. (2017). Ecosystem size predicts eco‐morphological variability in a postglacial diversification. Ecology and Evolution, 7, 5560–5570.
  23. Recknagel, H., Jacobs, A., Herzyk, P., Elmer, K. R. (2015). Double‐digest RAD sequencing using Ion Proton semiconductor platform (ddRADseq‐ion) with nonmodel organisms. Molecular Ecology Resources, 15, 1316–1329.
  24. Recknagel, H., Amos, A., Elmer, K. R. (2015). Morphological and ecological variation among populations and subspecies of Burbot (Lota lota [L, 1758]) from the Mackenzie River Delta, Canada. The Canadian Field-Naturalist, 128, 377–384.
  25. Recknagel, H., Elmer, K. R., Meyer, A. (2014). Crater lake habitat predicts morphological diversity in adaptive radiations of cichlid fishes. Evolution, 68, 2145–2155.
  26. Kusche, H., Recknagel, H., Elmer, K. R., Meyer, A. (2014). Crater lake cichlids individually specialize along the benthic–limnetic axis. Ecology and Evolution, 4, 1127–1139.
  27. Recknagel, H., Kusche, H., Elmer, K. R., Meyer, A., (2013) Two new endemic species in the Midas cichlid species complex from Nicaraguan crater lakes: Amphilophus tolteca and Amphilophus viridis (Perciformes: Cichlidae). Aqua, 19.
  28. Recknagel, H., Elmer, K. R., Noonan, B., Raselimanana, A., Meyer, A., Vences, M., (2013). Multi-gene phylogeny of Madagascar’s plated lizards, Zonosaurus and Tracheloptychus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 69, 1215–1221.
  29. Recknagel, H., Elmer, K. R., Meyer, A., (2013). A hybrid genetic linkage map of two ecologically and morphologically divergent Midas cichlid fishes (Amphilophus spp.) obtained by massively parallel DNA sequencing (ddRADSeq). G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 3, 65–74.
  30. Elmer, K. R., Recknagel, H., Thompson, A., Meyer, A., (2012). Asymmetric admixture and morphological differentiation at a suture zone: parapatric burbot subspecies in the Mackenzie River Delta, Canada. Hydrobiologia, 683, 217–229.

*contributed equally.

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