Dr. Markus Lambertz

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Herpetology

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My primary research interests span across the evolutionary and functional morphology of vertebrates. Although I have no taxonomic restrictions, my main focus lies on amphibians and especially reptiles. Particularly the respiratory apparatus and its evolution is the central theme of my research in these various taxa. The main questions I am interested in concern the origin, development, anatomical diversity and function of gas exchangers (mainly lungs), as well as ventilatory mechanisms. The phylogenetic history and relationships of the organisms in question always provides the framework for all of these considerations and my research involves the extant and the extinct diversity of organisms. I routinely employ traditional gross anatomical dissections and embryology, various histological and morphometric approaches, modern digital imaging procedures, phylogenetic reconstructions, and different modeling approaches to address these questions at a comparative level. The current lead of my research is aimed at expanding the developmental aspects and at the integration of morphological and genetic data.
I am furthermore highly interested in fundamental faunistic issues such as the distribution, ecological interactions, and general phylogeny of a wide variety of organisms, including but not limited to all sorts of vertebrates, odonates and parasites. My interests in nomenclatural theory and application combine well with my interests in the history of science and early scientific literature.

Publications

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Markus LAMBERTZ (in press): Craniota vs. Craniata: arguments towards nomenclatural consistency. – Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research

Markus LAMBERTZ (in press): Die Lunge des Quastenflossers Latimeria chalumnae. – Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau

Markus LAMBERTZ (in press): Verheerende Katastrophe am Rio Doce (Brasilien). – DATZ 1/2016: 8-9.

Markus LAMBERTZ (in press): Troschel, Franz Hermann. in: HISTORISCHE KOMMISSION BEI DER BAYERISCHEN AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN (Hrsg.): Neue Deutsche Biographie, Sechsundzwanzigster Band. – Duncker & Humblot, Berlin.

Markus LAMBERTZ (in press): Franz Hermann Troschel als Herpetologe unter besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Beiträge zur Kenntnis der neotropischen Fauna. In: Axel KWET, Manfred NIEKISCH (Hrsg.): Die Entdeckung der neotropischen Herpetofauna - Deutschsprachige Forscher in Süd- und Mittelamerika. – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde, Mannheim.

Markus LAMBERTZ (in press): Im Auftrag der preußischen und britischen Krone unterwegs in Südamerika: Die Gebrüder Robert und Richard Schomburgk. in: Axel KWET, Manfred NIEKISCH (Hrsg.): Die Entdeckung der neotropischen Herpetofauna - Deutschsprachige Forscher in Süd- und Mittelamerika. – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde, Mannheim.

2015

34. Markus LAMBERTZ, Jorge A. DERGAM (2015) Mining disaster: huge species impact. – Nature 528(7580): 39.

33. Markus LAMBERTZ, Steven F. PERRY (2015, “2016”): The Lung-Swimbladder Issue: A Simple Case of Homology – Or Not?. pp. 201-211 in: Giacomo ZACCONE, Konrad DABROWSKI, Michael S. HEDRICK, Jorge M. DE OLIVEIRA FERNANDES, José M. ICARDO (Eds): Phylogeny, Anatomy and Physiology of Ancient Fishes. – CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

32. Markus LAMBERTZ (2015): Zur ursprünglichen Lungenstruktur der Amnioten. – Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau 68(5): 229-232 + cover.

31. Markus LAMBERTZ, Steven F. PERRY (2015): Chordate phylogeny and the meaning of categorial ranks in modern evolutionary biology. – Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 282(1807): 20142327.

30. Markus LAMBERTZ, Steven F. PERRY (2015): Remarks on the evolution of the avian sternum, dinosaur gastralia, and their functional significance for the respiratory apparatus. – Zoologischer Anzeiger 255: 80-84.

29. Markus LAMBERTZ, Kristina GROMMES, Tiana KOHLSDORF, Steven F. PERRY (2015): Lungs of the first amniotes: why simple if they can be complex?. – Biology Letters 11(1): 20140848.

2014

28. Marie-Claire KOSCHOWITZ, Markus LAMBERTZ, Christian FISCHER, P. Martin SANDER (2014): On the origin of feathers—Response. – Science 346(6216): 1466-1467.

27. Tyler R. LYSON, Emma R. SCHACHNER, Jennifer BOTHA-BRINK, Torsten M. SCHEYER, Markus LAMBERTZ, G.S. BEVER, Bruce S. RUBIDGE, Kevin DE QUEIROZ (2014): Origin of the unique ventilatory apparatus of turtles. – Nature Communications 5: 5211.

26. Markus LAMBERTZ, Timo HARTMANN, Shannon WALSH, Peter GEISSLER, David S. MCLEOD (2014): Anatomy, histology and systematic implications of the head ornamentation in the males of four species of Limnonectes (Anura: Dicroglossidae). – Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172(1): 117-132.

25. Markus LAMBERTZ, Kristina GROMMES, Steven F. PERRY (Eds.) (2014): Abstracts of the Third International Congress of Respiratory Science. Verlag Franzbecker, Hildesheim. 136 S.

24. Markus LAMBERTZ (2014): Die verlorene Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Poppelsdorf und ein erwähnenswerter historischer Winterfund vom Kammmolch (Triturus cristatus) in Bonn. – Feldherpetologisches Magazin 1: 29-32.

2013

23. Markus LAMBERTZ (2013): On the date and organ of publication for the endemic Galápagos scorpion Centruroides exsul (Scorpiones: Buthidae) by Wilhelm Meise, with a revision of its distribution and type material. – The Journal of Arachnology 41(3): 412-414.

22. Markus LAMBERTZ, Peter GEISSLER (2013): Zum Vorkommen des Großen Granatauges, Erythromma najas (HANSEMANN, 1823) (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae), an Mittelrhein und Siegmündung bei Bonn. – Decheniana 166: 73-77.

21. Markus LAMBERTZ (2013): Notes on the original description of the maned three-toed sloth, Bradypus torquatus (Mammalia, Pilosa, Bradypodidae), by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger in 1811. – Bionomina 6: 49-51.

20. Markus LAMBERTZ, Maik DOBIEY (2013): When a sophisticated feeding apparatus fails: A remarkable case of fatality in a juvenile Crotalus atrox Baird & Girard, 1853 (Squamata: Viperidae). – North-Western Journal of Zoology 9(1): 206-209.

19. Connie C.W. HSIA, Anke SCHMITZ, Markus LAMBERTZ, Steven F. PERRY, John N. MAINA (2013): Evolution of Air Breathing: Oxygen Homeostasis and the Transitions from Water to Land and Sky. – Comprehensive Physiology 3(2): 849-915.

18. Heiko SCHMIED, Markus LAMBERTZ, Peter GEISSLER (2013): New case of true mimicry in cockroaches (Blattodea). – Entomological Science 16(1): 119-121.

2012

17. Markus LAMBERTZ, Tiana KOHLSDORF, Steven F. PERRY, Robson W. ÁVILA, Reinaldo J. DA SILVA (2012): First assessment of the endoparasitic nematode fauna of four psammophilous species of Tropiduridae (Squamata: Iguania) endemic to north-eastern Brazil. – Acta Herpetologica 7(2): 315-323.

16. Markus LAMBERTZ (2102): Berichtigungen zur Nomenklatur von Lonesome George. – Sacalia 37: 25-26.

15. Nina S. SVERDLOVA, Markus LAMBERTZ, Ulrich WITZEL, Steven F. PERRY (2012): Boundary Conditions for Heat Transfer and Evaporative Cooling in the Trachea and Air Sac System of the Domestic Fowl: A Two-Dimensional CFD Analysis. – PLOS ONE 7(9): e45315.

14. Markus LAMBERTZ (2102): Lonesome George - Nekrolog für eine gesamte Art. – Sacalia 36: 35-36.

2011

13. Markus LAMBERTZ, Kerstin GRABA (2011): Remarks on the northeasternmost distribution of Elgaria coerulea principis Baird & Girard, 1852 (Squamata: Anguidae) in British Columbia. – Bonn zoological Bulletin 60(2): 229-231.

12. Markus LAMBERTZ, Heiko SCHMIED (2011): Records of the exotic damselfly Ischnura senegalensis (Rambur, 1842) from Bonn (Germany). – Bonn zoological Bulletin 60(2): 211-213.

11. Markus LAMBERTZ, Volker SPIETH, Judith DENKINGER, Walter TRAUNSPURGER (2011): On dragonfly nymphs (Insecta: Odonata: Anisoptera) from the caldera of the Cerro Azul volcano, Isla Isabela (Galápagos Archipelago, Ecuador). – Bonn zoological Bulletin 60(2): 207-210.

10. Markus LAMBERTZ (2011): Schutzmaßnahmen für die bedrohten Galápagos-Riesenschildkröten der Insel San Cristóbal. – Marginata 32: 48-51.

9. Markus LAMBERTZ, Steven F. PERRY (2011): Die dorsalen Mesopneumonia der Buchstaben-Schmuckschildkröte Trachemys scripta (THUNBERG in SCHOEPFF, 1792) (Cryptodira: Emydidae). – Radiata 20(4): 30-32.

8. Markus LAMBERTZ (2011): Tomas Sigrist: Avifauna Brasileira: Guia de Campo Avis Brasilis / The Avis Brasilis Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil. – Vogelwarte 49(1): 59-60.

7. Markus LAMBERTZ (2011): Taxonomy, ecology and evolution of the San Cristóbal lava lizard. – Reptilia (GB) 74: 62-68.

2010

6. Markus LAMBERTZ (2010): Kommentierte Liste der squamaten Reptilien des Sanddünengebietes am mittleren Rio São Francisco (Bahia, Brasilien) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung endemischer Faunenelemente. – Ophidia 4(2): 2-17.

5. Markus LAMBERTZ, Heiko SCHMIED (2010): An ingrown ground beetle in the middle ear cavity of a North American bullfrog, Lithobates catesbeianus. – Salamandra 46(3): 185-186.

4. Markus LAMBERTZ, Wolfgang BÖHME, Steven F. PERRY (2010): The anatomy of the respiratory system in Platysternon megacephalum Gray, 1831 (Testudines: Cryptodira) and related species, and its phylogenetic implications. – Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 156(3): 330-336.

2009

3. Steven F. PERRY, Steve MORRIS, Thomas BREUER, Nadine PAJOR, Markus LAMBERTZ (Eds.) (2009): 2nd International Congress of Respiratory Science 2009 - Abstracts & Scientific Program. Verlag Tharax / Franzbecker, Hildesheim - Berlin. 249 S.

2. Markus LAMBERTZ (2009): Der Atmungsapparat der Schildkröten – Hilfreich für Taxonomie und Systematik? – Marginata 22: 54-56.

1. Markus LAMBERTZ, Steven F. PERRY (2009): Ein Aufbau zur Situspräparation von Schildkröten. – Radiata 18(1): 59-60.

Published in

2022

Ewart, H. E., Tickle, P. G., Sellers, W. I., Lambertz, M., Crossley II, D. A., Codd, J. R. (2022): The metabolic cost of turning right side up in the Mediterranean spur‑thighed tortoise (Testudo graeca). - Scientific Reports | (2022) 12: 431; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04273-w

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Lambertz, M. (2022): Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus and the anatomy of the European pond turtle: Facts, fiction, and future. - The Anatomical Record, 1– 11; https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25108

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2021

Schucht, P. J., Klein, N., Lambertz, M. (2021): What's my age again? On the What's my age again? On the ambiguity of histology-based skeletochronology of histology-based skeletochronology. - Proceedings of the Royal Society, London / B, 288 (1955); https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1166

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2020

Kocsis, L., Botfalvai, G., Qamarina, Q., Razak, H., Király, E., Lugli, F., Wings, O., Lambertz, M., et al. (2020): Geochemical analyses suggest stratigraphic origin and late Miocene age of reworked vertebrate remains from Penanjong Beach in Brunei Darussalam (Borneo). - Historical Biology, DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2020.1819999

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Schucht, P. J., Rühr, P. T., Geier, B., Glaw, F., Lambertz, M. (2020): Armored with skin and bone: A combined histological and μCT ‐study of the exceptional integument of the Antsingy leaf chameleon Brookesia perarmata (Angel, 1933). Journal of Morphology (Early View).

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2019

do Amaral-Silva, L., Lambertz, M., Zara, F. J., Klein, W., Gargaglioni, L. H., Cardoso Bícego, K. (2019): Parabronchial remodeling in chicks in response to embryonic hypoxia. - Journal of Experimental Biology Journal of Experimental Biology 2019 222: jeb197970; doi: 10.1242/jeb.197970

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Lambertz, M., Klein, W. (2019): Functional morphology and ventilatory implications of the intracoelomic organization of three-toed sloths. - Mammalian Biology 97, July 2019: 36-40; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mambio.2019.04.010

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Perry, S. F., Lambertz, M., Schmitz, A. (2019): Respiratory Biology of Animals: Evolutionary and Functional Morphology. - Oxford University Press (Oxford, UK). 256 pp.

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Rühr, P. T., Lambertz, M. (2019): Surface contrast enhancement of integumentary structures in X‐ray tomography. - Journal of Anatomy 235 (2): 379-385; https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13008

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2018

Lambertz, M. (2018): Karl Ernst von Baer (1792 -1876). - In: Bischoff, W. (ed.): Die Geschichte der Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde im deutschsprachigen Raum - II. - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde e.V., (Mannheim), Mertensiella 27: 147-150.

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Lambertz, M. (2018): Robert Hermann (1804 – 1865) und Moritz Richard Schomburgk (1811 – 1891). - In: Bischoff, W. (ed.): Die Geschichte der Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde im deutschsprachigen Raum - II. - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde e.V., (Mannheim), Mertensiella 27: 327-329.

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Lambertz, M. (2018): Beiträge zur Kenntnis der funktionellen und evolutionären Morphologie des Atemapparates der Amnioten. - Mitteilungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft "Zoologie" 2018: 9-20.

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Lambertz, M. (2018): Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold (1804 – 1885). - In: Bischoff, W. (ed.): Die Geschichte der Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde im deutschsprachigen Raum - II. - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde e.V., (Mannheim), Mertensiella 27: 333-336.

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Lambertz, M. (2018): Friedrich Tiedemann (1781 – 1861). - In: Bischoff, W. (ed.): Die Geschichte der Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde im deutschsprachigen Raum - II. - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde (Mannheim), Mertensiella 27: 348-353.

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Lambertz, M. (2018): At the interplay of developmental conservativeness and adaptive plasticity: Form and function in chelonian lungs and their value for phylogenetic considerations. – 6th Turtle Evolution Symposium, 27.-28. Mai 2015, Tokio, Japan. - In: Hirayama, R., Kuratani, S., Takahashi, A., Nakajima, Y., Sonoda, T., Nishioka, Y., Yoshida, M. (eds.): Turtle Evolution Symposium 2018 Japan(Eds.): Turtle Evolution Symposium 2018 Japan. Scidinge Hall, Tübingen, pp. 62 - 65.

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Lambertz, M. (2018): Johannes Peter Müller (1801 – 1858). - In: Bischoff, W. (ed.): Die Geschichte der Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde im deutschsprachigen Raum - II. - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde e.V., (Mannheim), Mertensiella 27: 278-283.

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Lambertz, M., Arenz, N., Grommes, K. (2018): Variability in pulmonary reduction and asymmetry in a serpentiform lizard: The sheltopusik, Pseudopus apodus (Pallas, 1775). - Vertebrate Zoology 68 (1): 21– 26.

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Lambertz, M., Bertozzo, F., Sander, P. M. (2018): Bone histological correlates for air sacs and their implications for understanding the origin of the dinosaurian respiratory System. - Biology Letters; doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0514

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Lambertz, M., Zuber, M., van de Kamp, T., Baumbach, T., Rühr, P. T. (2018): High-resolution x-ray tomography of large chelonians: A case study on Rafetus swinhoei (Gray, 1873). – 6th Turtle Evolution Symposium, 27.-28. Mai 2015, Tokio, Japan. - In: Hirayama, R., Kuratani, S., Takahashi, A., Nakajima, Y., Sonoda, T., Nishioka, Y., Yoshida, M. (eds.): Turtle Evolution Symposium 2018 Japan. Scidinge Hall, Tübingen, pp. 66 - 68.

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Lambertz, M. (2018): August Franz Josef Carl Mayer (1787 – 1865). - In: Bischoff, W. (ed.): Die Geschichte der Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde im deutschsprachigen Raum - II. - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde e.V., (Mannheim), Mertensiella 27: 250-253.

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Teaching

Beginners' courses (B), subsidiary courses (Su), advanced courses (A), seminars (Se), field trips (F)

Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil:

Introduction to the comparative anatomy and functional morphology of the tetrapod respiratory apparatus' (B, November 2015, CUR-552/2015)

Practical introduction to the comparative anatomy and functional morphology of the tetrapod respiratory apparatus' (B, November 2015, CUR-553/2015)

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany:

Ökologie Westkanadas (Se + F, SS 2015: 8332 + 8255)

Vertebrate comparative anatomy and functional morphology (A, WS 2014/15: 63260209)

Fauna des nordatlantischen Watts mit Geländeübungen in der Bretagne (A + F, SS 2014: 63260222)

Neurobiology of sensory motor systems (A, SS 2014: 63260216)

Neurobiologie: Schwerpunkt B: Sensomotorik der Arthropoden (A, WS 2013/14: 632101022)

Additional (most frequently multiple) experience as teaching assistant in:

Morphologie und Evolution der Tiere (B)
Tierphysiologie (B)
Zoologische Bestimmungsübungen (B)
Neurophysiologie (B)
Biologie für Geowissenschaftler: Zoologie (Su)
Biologie für Mediziner: Zoologischer Teil (Su)
Vergleichende und funktionelle Anatomie der Wirbeltiere (A)
Evolution des Wirbeltierkopfes (A)
Atmungsbiologie (Se + A)
Ecology of Western Canada (Se + F)

Students (co-)supervised:

1. Filippo BERTOZZO (2015): Histological detection of postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in Sauropodomorpha: Implications for the evolution of the dinosaurian respiratory system. Master of Science in Organismic Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Paleobiology program – Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany (M.Sc. thesis, co-supervised)

November 2015: visiting lecturer, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa - MG, Brazil

since October 2015: postdoctoral research associate, Sektion Herpetologie, Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn, Germany

09 October 2015: doctorate in biology: Dr. rer. nat. (“summa cum laude”, 0.0). Title of dissertation: “Beiträge zur Kenntnis der funktionellen und evolutionären Morphologie des Atemapparates der Amnioten” (supervisor: Prof. Steven F. Perry)

November 2011 – September 2015: doctoral studies in biology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany

September 2010 – September 2015: acting curator, Institut für Zoologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany

September 2010 – October 2011: teaching assistant, Institut für Zoologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany

June 2010 – August 2010: visiting scientist, Laboratório de Evolução e Ecofisiologia de Tétrapodes (Profa. Tiana Kohlsdorf), Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciêncas e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto - SP, Brazil

28 May 2010: graduation in biology: Dipl.-Biol. (“sehr gut”, 1.1). Title of diploma thesis: “The lungs of Platysternon megacephalum Gray, 1831 (Testudines: Cryptodira) and their phylogenetic implications” (supervisor: Prof. Steven F. Perry)

October 2004 – May 2010: studies in biology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany. Major subjects: Zoology, Paleontology, Geology

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