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2022
Leif Moritz, Elena Borisova, Jörg U. Hammel, Alexander Blanke, Thomas Wesener (2022): A previously unknown feeding mode in millipedes and the convergence of fluid feeding across arthropods. – Science Advances 8, eabm0577. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abm0577
2021
Ana-Sofia P. S. Reboleira, Leif Moritz, Sergi Santamaria & Henrik Enghoff (2021): Penetrative and non-penetrative interaction between Laboulbeniales fungi and their arthropod hosts. – Scientific Reports 11: 22170. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-01729-x
Leif Moritz & Thomas Wesener (2021): A tarsal spinning organ in glomeridesmid millipedes (Diplopoda, Pentazonia, Glomeridesmida). – Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 79: 555–567. doi: 10.3897/asp.79.e70002
Trine Rosenmejer, Henrik Enghoff, Leif Moritz & Thomas Wesener (2021): Integrative description of new giant pill-millipedes from southern Thailand (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae). – European Journal of Taxonomy 762 (1): 108–132. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2021.762.1457
Leif Moritz & Thomas Wesener (2021): Electrocambalidae fam. nov., a new family of Cambalidea from Creatceous Burmese amber (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida). – European Journal of Taxonomy 755 (1): 22-46. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2021.755.1397
Thomas Wesener, Nattarin Wongthamwanich & Leif Moritz (2021): Description of the first species of Glomeridesmida from Thailand (Diplopoda, Glomeridesmida, Glomeridesmidae). – ZooKeys 1024: 137–156. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1024.63678
Johannes Strauß, Leif Moritz & Peter Rühr (2021): The Subgenual Organ Complex in Stick Insects: Functional Morphology and Mechanical Coupling of a Complex Mechanosensory Organ. – Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9:632493. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2021.632493
Leif Moritz, Alexander Blanke, Jörg U. Hammel & Thomas Wesener (2021): First steps towards suctorial feeding in millipedes: Comparative moprhology oft he head oft he Platydesmida (Diplopoda: Colobognatha. – Invertebrate Biology 2021;00: e12312. doi: 0.1111/ivb.12312
2020
Leif Moritz & Markus Koch (2020): No Tömösváry organ in flat backed millipedes (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). In: Korsós Z, Dányi L (Eds) Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Myriapodology, Budapest, Hungary. – ZooKeys 930: 103–115. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.930.48438
Karin Voigtländer, Dieter Barndt, Ulrich Burkhardt, Tim Dannenfeld, Sebastian Heynen, E. Norman Lindner, Leif Moritz, Benjamin Naumann, Reinhard Orsakowsky, Andy Sombke & Hans S. Reip (2020): The millipedes and centipedes (Diplopoda, Chilopoda) of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Schorfheide-Chorin in Brandenburg (Germany). – Schubartiana 9: 13–37.
2019
Leif Moritz & Thomas Wesener (2019): The first known fossils of the Platydesmida—an extant American genus in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Diplopoda: Platydesmida: Andrognathidae). – Organisms Diversity & Evolution 19 (3): 423–433. doi: 10.1007/s13127-019-00408-0
Pavel Stoev, Leif Moritz & Thomas Wesener (2019): Dwarfs under dinosaur legs: a new millipede of the order Callipodida (Diplopoda) from Cretaceous amber of Burma. – ZooKeys 841: 79–96. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.841.34991
Thomas Wesener, Nils Behr & Leif Moritz (2019) The first record of the dwarf pill millipede Geoglomeris subterranea Verhoeff, 1908 in western Germany (Diplopoda, Glomerida) and the associated Myriapoda fauna of the Quirrenbach (Siebengebirge, NRW). – Bulletin of the British Myriapod & Isopod Group 31: 9–15.
2018
Thomas Wesener & Leif Moritz (2018): Checklist of the Myriapoda in Cretaceous Burmese amber and a correction of the Myriapoda identified by Zhang (2017). – Check List 14 (6):1131–1140. doi: 10.15560/14.6.1131
Leif Moritz, Thomas Wesener & Markus Koch (2018): An apparently non-swinging tentorium in the Diplopoda (Myriapoda): comparative morphology of the tentorial complex in giant pill-millipedes (Sphaerotheriida). – Zookeys 721: 7791. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.741.21909
Leif Moritz & Thomas Wesener (2018): Symphylella patrickmuelleri sp. nov. (Myriapoda: Symphyla): The oldest known Symphyla and first fossil record of Scolopendrellidae from Cretaceous Burmese amber. – Cretaceous Research 84: 258–263. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2017.11.018.
2017
Leif Moritz & Thomas Wesener (2017): Integrative description of two new species of chirping giant pill-millipedes from Madagascar, genus Sphaeromimus (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida: Arthrosphaeridae)”. – European Journal of Taxonomy 381: 1–25. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2017.381
Elise M. Laetz, Victoria C. Moris, Leif Moritz, Andre N. Haubrich & Heike Wägele (2017): Photosynthate accumulation in solar-powered sea slugs – starving slugs survive due to accumulated starch reserves. – Frontiers in Zoology 14 (4): 1–9. doi: 10.1186/s12983-016-0186-5
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Vita
seit 2019
Doktorand am Zoologischen Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK, Bonn) und am Institut für Evolutionsbiologie und Zooökologie der Universität Bonn. Thema: „Morphological evolution and phylogeny of millipedes (Diplopoda)
2017 – 2019
Studentische/Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft in der Sektion Myriapoda am Zoologischen Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK, Bonn)
2015 – 2017
Master of Science Organismic biology, Evolutionary biology and Paleobiology an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
2012 – 2015
Bachelor of Science Biologie an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn