Current affiliation:

Dept. of Medical Biology and Center for Electron Microscopy of the Rostock University Medical Center

Strempelstraße 14
18055 Rostock

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Dr. Marie K. Hörnig

Habilitation candidate

Zoological Institute and Museum
Cytology and Evolutionary Biology

Soldmannstr. 23
House 6.1
17489 Greifswald

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Research interests / CV
Stipends
05/2015-12/2017: PhD fellowship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Bogislaw PhD fellowship of the University of Greifswald (declined in favour of Studienstiftung fellowship)
Travel grants of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (390 €, 475 €)
EU-Synthesys grant (AT-TAF-4835) for three weeks at the Natural History Museum Vienna (4900 €)
EU-Synthesys grant (DF-TAF-3895) for two weeks at the Zoological Museum Copenhagen (2600 €)
Travel grant of the GlaxoSmithKline Stiftung (300 €)
Awards
Promotionspreis der Universität Greifswald, gestiftet von der Gesellschaft von Freunde und Förderern der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald e.V., für die Arbeit: „Rekonstruktionen zur Evolution von Fortpflanzungsstrategien und Raubverhalten geflügelter Insekten: Was Fossilien über komplexe Verhaltensweisen verraten.“
3rd Place - Poster Award of the 19. Tagung deutschsprachiger Crustaceologen, München, Germany
3rd Place - Poster Award of the 108. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft (DZG), Graz, Austria.
1st Place - Poster Award of the 87. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Dresden.
Memberships
Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft e.V. (DZG)
International Society for Invertebrate Morphology (ISIM)
Paläontologischen Gesellschaft (PalGes)
Contributions to conferences
Published abstracts

  • Hörnig MK,Haug C & Haug JT (2021). Syninclusions and 'frozen behavior' in amber – what they can tell us about the evolution of insect lifestyles. – In: Stumpf, S., Türtscher, J., Pfaff, C., Jambura, P.L. & Kriwet, J. (Eds.) (2021): Abstracts of the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft – Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, 142, 10, Wien.

  • Kiesmüller C, Haug JT & Hörnig MK (2021). “Camouflage” in immature bark lice in 100 million-year-old amber.    – In: Stumpf, S., Türtscher, J., Pfaff, C., Jambura, P.L. & Kriwet, J. (Eds.) (2021): Abstracts of the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft – Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, 142, 10, Wien.

  • Hörnig MK, Haug JT, Haug C (2019). The evolution of raptorial morphological adaptations within dictyopteran insects. 90. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, München. ISBN 978-3-946705-07-9.
  • Haug JT, Hörnig MK, Haug C (2017). More than just adults – arthropod ontogeny preserved in amber. Mitteilungen der DGaaE.
  • Hörnig MK, Haug C, Haug JT (2017). Multi-methodical documentation of arthropods in amber – squeezing out the last bits of information. Mitteilungen der DGaaE.
  • Izquierdo A, Hörnig MK, Haug C (2017). Convergent evolution of raptorial appendages in insects – clues from the fossil record. DGaaE, Freising.
  • Kiesmüller C, Hörnig MK, Haug JT (2017). Segmental mismatch in a nymphal cockroach: a case of left-right asymmetry. DGaaE, Freising.
  • Hörnig MK, Haug C, Haug JT (2015). Documentation methods for arthropods in amber. Mitteilungen der DGaaE.
  • Hörnig MK, Haug C, Schneider JW, Haug JT (2015). The evolution of ovipositor morphology of dictyopteran insects and the consequences for reproductive strategies. Mitteilungen der DGaaE.
  • Hörnig MK, Sombke A, Haug C, Hädicke CW, Haug JT (2014). Arthropods in Baltic amber – documentation with a multi-methodological approach. In: Mallison, H., Vogel, J. & Belvedere, M. (eds.) 2014. Digital Specimen 2014 - Abstracts of Presentations. Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. 76 p.
  • Hörnig MK, Sombke A, Haug C, Haug JT (2013). The evolution of brood care behaviour in dictyopteran insects and its fossil record. 106th Annual Meeting German Zoological Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Unversität München, Abstracts, 120.
  • Hörnig MK, Sombke A, Haug C, Haug JT (2013). The evolution of brood care behavior in dictyopteran insects and its fossil record. In: Reitner, J., Yang, Q., Wang, Y. & Reich, N. (eds.), Palaeobiology and Geobiology of Fossil Lagerstätten through Earth History. Universitätsdrucke Göttingen, Göttingen, pp. 71-72.
  • Hörnig MK, Sombke A, Haug C, Harzsch S, Haug JT (2013). The deep time aspect of brood care evolution – dictyopteran insects as an example. The Paleontological Newsletter 84, abstract 75.
Talks/Workshops

  • Hörnig MK (2022). Was Insekten in Bernstein über ihre Lebensweise verraten. Sommertagung Verein zur Förderung des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Museums der Universität Hamburg e.V. "Arbeitskreis Bernstein", Ribnitz-Damgarten, Germany.

  • Hörnig MK (2022). ‘Fossil behaviour‘ - Potential and limitations of behavioural reconstructions of extinct organism: Insects as example. Workshop AK Paläobiologie, 93nd Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Stuttgart, Germany.

  • Hörnig MK, Jung SV, Haug C, Haug JT (2022). The evolution of egg-laying strategies in dictyopteran insects – clues from the fossil record. 93nd Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Stuttgart, Germany.

  • Kiesmüller C, Haug GT, Hörnig MK, Haug JT (2022). New findings of nymphs of the orthopteran group Elcanidae in 100 million-year-old amber and a functional-morphological discussion about the potential function of their metatibial spurs. 93nd Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Stuttgart, Germany.

  • Kiesmüller C, Haug JT, Hörnig MK (2022). “Fressen und gefressen werden”: morphologische Spezialisierungen von Räuber-Beute-Interaktionen im Fossilbefund der Insekten". Workshop AK Paläobiologie, 93nd Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Stuttgart, Germany.

  • Kiesmüller C, Haug JT, Hörnig MK (2022). “To Eat or To Be Eaten”: morphological specialisations of predator-prey interactions in the fossil record of insects. 114th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG), Bonn, Germany.

  • Kiesmüller, Stahlecker C, Haug C, Hörnig MK, Haug JT (2022). The raptorial appendages of adult praying mantises and predatory lacewings 100 million years ago and today. 5. International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology (ICIM5), Vienna, Austria.

  • Hörnig MK, Haug C, Haug JT (2021). Syninclusions and 'frozen behavior' in amber – what they can tell us about the evolution of insect lifestyles. 92nd Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Vienna, Austria (virtual event).

  • Kiesmüller C, Haug JT, Hörnig MK (2021). “Camouflage” in immature bark lice in 100 million-year-old amber. 92nd Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Vienna, Austria (virtual event).

  • Hörnig MK, Haug C, Haug JT (2021). Reconstructing aspects of reproduction of extinct insects based on fossils. 113th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (virtual event).

  • Kiesmüller C, Haug JT, Hörnig MK (2021). A case of frozen behaviour: A putative parasitoid flat wasp with a beetle larva in its grasp in 100 million years old amber. 113th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (virtual event).

  • Hörnig MK (2019) Evolutionary reconstructions of predatory behaviour within Dictyoptera. LMU München, Biocenter – Department of Biology II and GeoBio-Center. Invited talk.
  • Hörnig MK (2019). Evolutionary reconstructions of reproductive strategies and predatory behaviour of winged insects. Universität Ulm, Institut für Neurobiologie. Invited talk.
  • Hörnig MK, Haug JT, Haug C (2019). The evolution of raptorial morphological adaptations within dictyopteran insects. 90. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, München.
  • Krieger J, Hörnig MK, Laidre ME (2019). Schalenwahl als Grundlage für Kognitionsexperimente am Pazifischen Landeinsiedler Coenobita compressus H. Milne-Edwards, 1836. 19. Tagung deutschsprachiger Crustaceologen, München, Germany.
  • Hörnig MK, Haug JT, Haug C (2017). Raptorial behaviour of extinct mantids – Clues from Cretaceous fossils. ICIM 4, Moscow, Russia.
  • Starck JM, Mehnert L, Biging A, Bjarsch J, Franz-Guess S, Kleeberger D, Hörnig MK (2017). Morphological responses to feeding in ticks (Ixodes Ricinus). ICIM 4, Moscow, Russia.
  • Hörnig MK (2017). Bildgebende Methoden zur Dokumentation fossiler Arthropoden. 2. Hansetag 2017, Greifswald.
  • Haug JT, Hörnig MK, Haug C (2017). More than just adults – arthropod ontogeny preserved in amber. DGaaE, Freising.
  • Hörnig MK, Haug C, Haug JT (2017). Multi-methodical documentation of arthropods in amber – squeezing out the last bits of information. DGaaE, Freising.
  • Hörng MK (2017). Evolution von Fortpflanzungsstrategien geflügelter Insekten: Was Fossilien über komplexe Verhaltensweisen verraten. Tagung der Doktorandenforen, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Bad Homburg.
  • Hörnig MK, Haug C, Haug JT (2016). Interaction behaviour of extinct arthropods? Approaches for reconstructing the reproductive strategies of fossil arthropods. 87. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Dresden.
  • Hörnig MK (2016). Workshop: Macro- and microphotographic documentation of arthropods. European School on Ostracoda. Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Workshop, Invited speaker.
  • Hörnig MK (2015). Evolution des Ovipositors schabenartiger Insekten und deren Bedeutung für die Rekonstruktion von Eiablageverhalte. Paläoentomologentreffen 2014, Bonn.
  • Hörnig MK (2015). Workshop: Drishti. Micro-CT application on fossil research, Zoologische Staatssammlung, München. Workshop, Invited speaker.
  • Hörnig MK (2015). Documentation of fossils in amber: A multi-methodical approach. Micro-CT application on fossil research, Zoologische Staatssammlung, München. Invited talk.
  • Hörnig MK, Haug C, Schneider JW, Haug JT (2015). The evolution of ovipositor morphology of dictyopteran insects and the consequences for reproductive strategies. DGaaE, Frankfurt a.M.
  • Hörnig MK (2014). Multimethodischer Ansatz zur Dokumentation fossiler Arthropoden. Paläoentomologentreffen 2014, München.
  • Hörnig MK, Haug C, Haug JT (2014). Cockroach-like insects: successful since 300 million years and therefore “living fossils”?. Euro Evo Devo, Wien.
  • Hörnig MK (2013). Hinweise auf Brutpflege bei Schaben in Baltischem Bernstein. 1. Hansetag 2013, Rostock.
  • Hörnig MK, Haug C, Sombke A, Harzsch S, Haug JT (2013). Evolution und erdgeschichtliches Auftreten von Brutpflegeverhalten innerhalb der dictyopteren Insekten. 6. Graduiertenforum Morphologie 2013, Ulm.
Poster

  • Jung SV, Hörnig MK (2022). Cockroach ootheca over time - a proven maternal investment for over 100 million years. 93nd Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Stuttgart, Germany.

  • Paetzel C, Hörnig MK, Schade M (2022). Growth in dwarfs: are ontogenetic changes reflected by isolated braincase elements in Europasaurus? 93nd Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Stuttgart, Germany.

  • Schade M, Hörnig MK, Stumpf S (2019). Emausaurus ernsti - the volatile history of a small thyreophoran dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of eastern North Germany. 90. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, München.
  • Hörnig MK, Harzsch S, Krieger JK (2019). Smarte Reinigungskräfte - Das Gehirn und sensorische Kopfstrukturen der gebänderten Scherengarnele Stenopus hispidus (Olivier, 1811). 19. Tagung deutschsprachiger Crustaceologen, München, Germany.
  • Hörnig MK, Haug C, Fischer TC, Haug JT (2018). Fossil insect eggs in amber. Geobonn 2018, Bonn, Germany.
  • Krieger J, Hörnig MK, Laidre ME (2018). Shell-use as a tool in the Pacific hermit crab Coenobita compressus H. Milne-Edwards, 1836. 111. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, Greifswald, Germany.
  • Hörnig MK, Rath AC, Martin I, Harzsch S, Krieger J (2018). Sensing the environment – an atlas of the malacostracan sensory appendages. 111. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, Greifswald, Germany.
  • Hörnig MK, Haug C, Haug JT (2017). Documentation of amber inclusions: Multimethodical approach for a maximum gain of morphological information. 4. Jenaer µCT-Workshop, Jena.
  • Izquierdo López A, Haug JT, Hörnig MK, Krieger J, Haug C. (2017) Convergent evolution of raptorial appendages in arthropods: first steps towards a quantitative approach. 110th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society, Bielefeld, Germany (Poster).
  • Haug C, Izquierdo López A, Hörnig MK, Krieger J, Haug JT (2017). Convergent evolution of raptorial appendages in arthropods. ICIM 4, Moscow, Russia.
  • Mehnert L, Hörnig MK, Dietze Y, Haug C, Starck JM (2017). Microscopic anatomy of pseudoscorpions reveals new insights in segmental body organisation. ICIM 4, Moscow, Russia.
  • Mehnert L, Hörnig MK, Haug C, Starck JM (2017). Morphology of the rostrosoma and preoral cavity of pseudoscorpions. ICIM 4, Moscow, Russia.
  • Bjarsch J, Kiesmüller C, Kolb T, Biging A, Brück L, Chretien J, Gauweiler J, Kammerer D, Klaffke K, Kraemer P, Nagler C, Wagner P, Richter AC, Hörnig MK, Haug C, Haug JT (2017). Studentische Exkursion mal anders – ab in die Sammlung. 18. Crustaceologen-Tagung, Berlin.
  • Hörnig MK, Izquierdo López A, Krieger J, Haug JT, Haug C (2017). Konvergente Evolution der Raubbeine bei Gespenstkrebsen und Gottesanbeterinnen: ein funktionsmorphologischer Vergleich. 18. Crustaceologen-Tagung, Berlin.
  • Richter AC, Hörnig MK, Martin I, Harzsch S, Kieger J (2017). Sensing the environment – the morphological diversity of first and second antennal appendages in Malacostraca. 18. Crustaceologen-Tagung, Berlin.
  • Izquierdo López A, Hörnig MK, Haug C (2017). Convergent evolution of raptorial appendages in insects – clues from the fossil record. DGaaE, Freising.
  • Kiesmüller C, Hörnig MK, Haug JT (2017). Segmental mismatch in a nymphal cockroach: a case of left-right asymmetry. DGaaE, Freising.
  • Haug C, Hörnig MK, Haug JT (2016). The fossil record of the other end of the size range – tiny predatory arthropods. 60th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association, Lyon.
  • Hörnig MK, Haug C, Haug JT (2016). Palaeo-morphology: extracting the maximum information from extinct arthropods preserved in amber. 109. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, Kiel.
  • Hörnig MK, Haug C, Haug JT (2016). Documentation of amber inclusions: Towards a maximum gain of information from extinct arthropods. 87. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Dresden.
  • Dittmann I, Haug JT, Hörnig MK, Ilic M, Haug C (2015). Early nymphal development of the praying mantis Hierodula cf. grandis. 108. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, Graz, Austria. 
  • Hörnig MK, Haug C, Haug JT (2015). Inferring reproductive mechanisms of extinct organisms: Examples from dictyopteran insects. 108. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, Graz, Austria. 
  • Kiesmüller C, Hörnig MK, Haug C, Haug JT (2015). Evolution of the ontogenetic development of wings: data from supposedly ‘primitive’ flying insects. 108. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, Graz, Austria. 
  • Hörnig MK, Haug C, Haug JT (2015). Documentation methods for arthropods in amber. DGaaE, Frankfurt a.M.
  • Hörnig MK, Sombke A, Harzsch S, Kenning M, Haug C, Haug JT (2015). Isopoden in Baltischem Bernstein – Methoden zur Dokumentation von externen und internen Strukturen. 17. Crustaceologen-Tagung, Bremerhaven, Germany.
  • Hörnig MK, Haug C, Haug JT (2014). The evolution of dictyopteran oothecae and their fossil record. 3rd International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology, Berlin.
  • Hörnig MK, Sombke A, Haug C, Hädicke CW, Haug JT (2014). Arthropods in Baltic amber – documentation with a multi-methodological approach. Digital specimen 2014, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.
  • Hörnig MK, Sombke A, Haug C, Harzsch S, Haug JT (2013). The evolution of brood care behaviour in dictyopteran insects and its fossil record- Brood care behaviour in a 50 million years old cockroach. 106. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, Munich, Germany.
  • Hörnig MK, Sombke A, Haug C, Harzsch S, Haug JT (2013). The evolution of brood care behaviour in dictyopteran insects and its fossil record – Brood care in Eocene and Cretaceous cockroaches. 84. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Göttingen, Germany.
  • Hörnig MK, Sombke A, Haug C, Harzsch S, Haug JT (2013). Nachweis von Brutpflegeverhalten bei 50 Millionen Jahre alten Schaben. 6. Graduiertenforum Morphologie 2013 Ulm, Germany.
  • Hörnig MK, Sombke A, Haug C, Harzsch S, Haug JT (2013). The evolution of oothecae and brood care behaviour in dictyopterans insects and its fossil record. 57th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Publications

2023

  • Haug C, Haug JT, Haug GT, Müller P, Zippel A, Kiesmüller C, Gauweiler J, Hörnig MK (2023***). Fossils from the Myanmar amber forest demonstrate the diversity of anti-predator strategies of holometabolan insect larvae about 100 million years ago. iScience 27(1): 10862. Open Access; ***published online 2023, issue 2024
  • Haug C, Pérez-de la Fuente R, Baranov V, Haug GT, Kiesmüller C, Zippel A, Hörnig MK, Haug JT (2023). The first fossil record of a mantis lacewing pupa, and a review of pupae in mantispidae and their evolutionary significance. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 129(1): 185–205. Open Access

2022

  • Kiesmüller C, Haug JT, Müller P, Hörnig MK (2022). A case of frozen behaviour: A flat wasp female with a beetle larva in its grasp in 100-million-year-old amber. Fossil Record 25(2): 287–305. Open Access
  • Baranov V, Pérez-de la Fuente R, Engel MS, Hammel JU, Kiesmüller C, Hörnig MK, Pazinato PG, Stahlecker C, Haug C, Haug JT (2022). The first adult mantis lacewing from Baltic amber, with an evaluation of the post-Cretaceous loss of morphological diversity of raptorial appendages in Mantispidae. Fossil Record 25(1): 11-24. Open access
  • Haug C, Baranov VA, Hörnig MK, Gauweiler J, Hammel JU, Perkovsky EE & Haug JT (2022). 35 million-year-old solid-wood-borer beetle larvae support the idea of stressed Eocene amber forests. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 1–10. Open access
  • Haug JT, Kiesmüller C,Haug G, Haug C, Hörnig MK (2022). A fossil aphidlion preserved together with its prey in 40 million-year-old Baltic amber. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 103(1): 155–163. Open Access
  • Haug JT, Hörnig MK, Kiesmüller C, Pazinato PG, Baranov V, Haug C (2022). A 100-million-year-old ensiferan with unusual mouthparts and comments on the evolution of raptorial appendages within Polyneoptera. Geodiversitas 44(4). Open access
  • Haug JT, Tun KL, Haug GT, Than KN, Haug C & Hörnig MK (2022). A hatching aphidlion‐like lacewing larva in 100 million years old Kachin amber. Insect Science, 1–7. Open access
  • Hörnig MK, Haug C, Müller P, Haug JT (2022). Not quite social – possible cases of gregarious behaviour of immatures of various lineages of Insecta in 100-million-year-old amber. Bulletin of Geoscience 97 (1), 69 - 87. Open access
  • Kiesmüller C, Haug JT, Müller P, Hörnig MK (2022). Debris-carrying behaviour of bark lice immatures preserved in 100 million years old amber. PalZ, 96(2): 231–258. Open access

  • Schade M, Knötschke N, Hörnig MK, Paetzel C & Stumpf S. (2022). Neurovascular anatomy of dwarf dinosaur implies precociality in sauropods. eLife 11, e82190. Open access

  • Zippel A, Haug C, Gauweiler J, Hörnig MK, Haug GT & Haug JT. 2022. A small beetle larva preserved in 23-million-year-old Mexican amber: possible first fossil record of an immature variegated mud-loving beetle. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 74, A150322. Open access
  • Zippel A, Baranov VA, Hammel JU, Hörnig MK, Haug C, Haug JT (2022).The first fossil immature of Elmidae: an unusual riffle beetle larva preserved in Baltic amber. PeerJ. PeerJ 10, e13025. Open access

2021

  • Baranov VA, Engel MS, Hammel J, Hörnig MK, van de Kamp T, Zuber M, Haug JT (2021). Synchrotron-radiation computed tomography uncovers ecosystem functions of fly larvae in an Eocene forest. Palaeontologia Electronica, 24(1):a07. Open access
  • Melzer RR, Spitzner F, Šargač Z, Hörnig MK, Krieger J, Haug C, Haug JT, Kirchhoff T, Meth R, Torres G, Harzsch S (2021) Methods to study organogenesis in decapod crustacean larvae II: analysing cells and tissues. Helgoland Marine Research 75:2. Open access.
  • Krieger J, Hörnig MK, Kenning M, Hansson BS, Harzsch S (2021) More than one way to smell ashore - Evolution of the olfactory pathway in terrestrial malacostracan crustaceans. Arthropod Structure & Development 60:101022. Open access
  • Schädel M, Hörnig MK, Hyžný M, Haug JT (2021). Mass occurrence of more than 100 small isopodan crustaceans in a single piece of 100 million years old Burmese amber – an extraordinary window into behaviour of fossil organisms. PalZ. Open access
  • Zippel* A, Kiesmüller* C, Haug GT, Müller P, Weiterschan T, Haug C, Hörnig MK, Haug JT (2021). Long-headed predators in Cretaceous amber—fossil findings of an unusual type of lacewing larva. Palaeoentomology, 004 (5): 475–498. Open Access *shared first authorship

2020

  • Hörnig MK, Kiesmüller C, Müller P, Haug C, Haug JT (2020). A new glimpse on trophic interactions of 100-million-year old lacewings. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 65 (4): 777-786,  Open access.

  • Krieger J, Hörnig MK, Laidre ME (2020) Shells as ‘extended architecture’: to escape isolation, social hermit crabs choose shells with the right external architecture. Animal Cognition 23(6):1177-1187. Open access.

  • Krieger J, Hörnig MK, Sandeman RE, Sandeman DC, Harzsch S (2020) Masters of communication: The brain of the banded cleaner shrimp Stenopus hispidus (Olivier, 1811) with an emphasis on sensory processing areas. Journal of Comparative Neurology 528(9): 1561-1587. Open access.

  • Herrera-Flórez AF, Braig F, Haug C, Neumann C, Wunderlich J, Hörnig MK, Haug JT (2020). Identifying the oldest larva of a myrmeleontiformian lacewing – a morphometric approach. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. Open access

2019

  • Hörnig MK, Fischer TC, Haug JT (2019). Caught in the act of hatching – a group of heteropteran nymphs escaping from their eggs preserved in Dominican amber. Palaeodiversity 12(1), 123-134. Open Access.
  • Kiesmüller C, Hörnig MK, Leipner A, Haug C, Haug JT (2019). Palaeozoic palaeodictyopteroidean insect nymphs with prominent ovipositors. Bulletin of Geosciences. Open Access
  • Fischer TC, Hörnig MK (2019). Mating moths (Tineidae, Ditrysia, Lepidoptera) preserved as frozen behavior inclusion in Baltic Amber (Eocene). Palaeontologia Electronica 22.1.7A , 1-11. https://doi.org/10.26879/829      Open Access

2018

  • Hörnig MK, Haug C, Schneider JW, Haug JT (2018). Evolution of reproductive strategies in dictyopteran insects – clues from ovipositor morphology of extinct roachoids. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63(1): 1-24. Open Access
  • Haug JT, Haug C, Neumann C, Sombke A, Hörnig MK (2018). Early post-embryonic bristly millipedes (Myriapoda, Polyxenida) from Saxonian amber (Eocene). Bulletin of Geosciences 93(1). Open Access
  • Mehnert L, Dietze Y, Hörnig MK, Starck JM (2018). Body tagmatization in pseudoscorpions. Zoologischer Anzeiger. doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2017.12.012
  • Bai M, Beutel RG, Zhang W, Wang S, Hörnig MK, Gröhn C, Yan E, Yang X, Wipfler B (2018). A new Cretaceous insect with a unique cephalo-thoracic scissor device. Current Biology 28(3): 438-443. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.12.031
  • Konwert M, Hörnig MK (2018). Grimmenichthys ansorgei, gen. et. sp. nov. (Teleostei, ‘Pholidophoriformes’) and other ‘pholidophoriform’ fishes from the Early Toarcian of Grimmen (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e1451871.
  • Starck JM, Mehnert L, Biging A, Bjarsch J, Franz-Guess S, Kleeberger D, Hörnig MK (2018). Morphological responses to feeding in ticks (Ixodes ricinus). Zoological Letters 4(20). doi.org/10.1186/s40851-018-0104-0

2017

  • Haug JT, Nagler C, Haug C, Hörnig MK (2017). A group assassin fly pupa preserved in single piece of amber. Bulletin of Geosciences 92 (3): 283 – 295. Open Access
  • Schmelzle S, Heethoff M, Heuveline V, Lösel P, Becker J, Beckmann F, Schluenzen F, Hammel JU, Kopmann A, Mexner W, Vogelgesang M, Jerome NT, Betz O, Beutel R, Wipfler B, Blanke A, Harzsch S, Hörnig MK, Baumbach T, van de Kamp T (2017). The NOVA project: maximizing beam time efficiency through synergistic analyses of SRμCT data. Proc. SPIE 10391, Developments in X-Ray Tomography XI, 103910P; doi: 10.1117/12.2275959; dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2275959
  • Hörnig MK, Haug C, Haug JT (2017). An exceptionally preserved 110 million years old praying mantis provides new insights into the predatory behaviour of early mantodeans. PeerJ. Open Access
  • Nagler C, Hörnig MK, Haug J, Noever C, Høeg J, Glenner, H (2017). The bigger, the better? Volume measurements of parasites and hosts: parasitic barnacles (Cirripedia, Rhizocephala) and their decapod hosts. PLoS ONE 12(7): e0179958.
  • Haug JT, Poschmann M, Hörnig MK & Lutz H (2017). A crustacean with eumalacostracan affinities from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (SW Germany). Papers in Palaeontology 3(2): 151-159. https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1070

2016

  • Liu Y, Melzer RR, Haug JT, Haug C, Briggs DEG, Hörnig MK, He Y, Hou X (2016) Three-dimensionally preserved minute larva of a great-appendage arthropod from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota. PNAS 113(20):5542–5546.
  • Hörnig MK, Sombke A, Haug C, Harzsch S, Haug JT (2016). What nymphal morphology can tell us about parental investment - a group of cockroach hatchlings in Baltic amber documented by a multi-method approach. Palaeontologia Electronica 19.1.6A, 1-20. Open Access
  • Lehmann T, Melzer RR, Hörnig MK, Michalik P, Sombke A, Harzsch S (2016). Arachnida (excluding Scorpiones). In: Schmidt-Rhaesa A, Harzsch S, Purschke G. (Eds.) Structure and Evolution of Invertebrate Nervous Systems. pp. 453-477. Oxford University Press.

2015

  • Dittmann IL*, Hörnig MK*, Haug JT, Haug C (2015). Raptoblatta waddingtonae n. gen. et n. sp. – an Early Cretaceous roach-like insect with a mantodean-type raptorial foreleg. Palaeodiversity 8: 103-111. *shared first authorship
  • Haug JT, Hädicke CW, Haug C, Hörnig MK (2015). A possible hatchling of a jumping bristle tail in 50 million years old amber. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie-Abhandlungen, 278(2), 191-199.

2014

  • Hörnig MK, Haug C, Herd KJ, Haug JT (2014). New insights into dictyopteran early development: smallest Palaeozoic roachoid nymph found so far. Palaeodiversity 7:159-165.
  • Hädicke CW, Hörnig MK, Haug C, Haug JT (2014). New data on fossil Archaeognatha from Baltic amber and the origin of the insect ovipositor. Palaeodiversity 7:167-183.

2013

  • Hörnig MK, Haug JT, Haug C (2013). New details of Santanmantis axelrodi and the evolution of the mantodean morphotype. Palaeodiversity 6: 157-168.