Nico Franz

O'Brien, K.M. et al. (22 co-authors, including N.M. Franz). 2022. The time is right for an Antarctic Biorepository Network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 199(50): e2212800119 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2212800119

Johnston, M.A., Smith, A.D., Kanda, K., Kamiński, M.J., Navarette, P., Sanchez, L.A., Aalbu, R.L., Miller, K.B., Wheeler, Q.D. & N.M. Franz NM. 2022. Testing the taxonomy of Amphidorini LeConte (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae): a molecular phylogeny leveraging museum sequencing. Annales Zoologici 72(1): 49-68. DOI: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2022.72.1.003

Jansen, M.A., Niverty, S., Chawla. N. & N.M. Franz. 2021. Reducing the risk of rostral bending failure. Acta Biomaterialia 126: 350-371. DOI 10.1016/j.actbio.2021.03.029

Sterner, B.W., Gilbert E.E. & N.M. Franz. 2020. Decentralized but globally coordinated biodiversity data. Frontiers in Big Data 3: 519133. DOI 10.3389/fdata.2020.519133 

Anzaldo, S.S., J.S. Wilson & N.M. Franz. 2020. Phenotypic analysis of aposematic conoderine weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Conoderinae) supports the existence of three large mimicry complexes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, blz205. DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz205

Jansen, M.A., J. Williams, N. Chawla & N.M. Franz. 2019. Avoidance of catastrophic structural failure as an evolutionary constraint: Biomechanics of the acorn weevil rostrum. Advanced Materials 31(41): 1903526. DOI: 10.1002/adma.20190352

Franz, N.M., L.J. Musher, J.W. Brown, S. Yu & B. Ludäscher. 2019. Verbalizing phylogenomic conflict: representation of node congruence across competing reconstructions of the neoavian explosion" PLoS Computational Biology 15(2): e1006493. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006493

Franz, N.M., C. Zhang & J. Lee. 2018. A logic approach to modeling nomenclatural change. Cladistics 34(3): 336–357. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12201

Franz, N.M. & B.W. Sterner. 2018. To increase trust, change the social design behind aggregated biodiversity data. Database, Volume 2018, 01 January 2018, bax100. DOI: 10.1093/database/bax100

Zhang, G., U. Basharat, N. Matzke & N.M. Franz. 2017. Model selection in the historical biogeography of Neotropical weevils – the Exophthalmus genus complex (Insecta: Curculionidae: Entiminae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 109 (April 2017): 226–239. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.12.039

Franz, N.M, N.M. Pier, D.M. Reeder, M. Chen, S. Yu, P. Kianmajd, S. Bowers & B. Ludäscher. 2016. Two influential primate classifications logically aligned. Systematic Biology 65(4): 561–582. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syw023

Jansen, M.A. & N.M. Franz. 2015. Phylogenetic revision of Minyomerus Horn, 1876 sec. Jansen & Franz, 2015 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) using taxonomic concept annotations and alignments. ZooKeys 528: 1–133. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.528.6001

Franz, N.M., M. Chen, S. Yu, P. Kianmajd, S. Bowers & B. Ludäscher. 2015. Reasoning over taxonomic change: exploring alignments for the Perelleschus use case. PLoS ONE 10(2): e0118247. (34 pages) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118247

Deans, A.R. et al. (73 co-authors, including N.M. Franz). 2015. Finding our way through phenotypes. PLoS Biology 13(1): e1002033. (9 pages) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002033

Gries, C., E.E. Gilbert & N.M. Franz. 2014. Symbiota – a virtual platform for creating voucher-based biodiversity information communities. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e1114. (24  pages) DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e1114

Franz, N.M. 2014. Anatomy of a cladistic analysis. Cladistics 30(3): 294–321. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12042

Franz, N.M. 2012. Phylogenetic reassessment of the Exophthalmus genus complex (Curculionidae: Entiminae: Eustylini, Geonemini). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 164(3): 510–557. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00774.x

Franz, N.M. & D. Thau. 2010. Biological taxonomy and ontology development: scope and limitations. Biodiversity Informatics 7(1): 45–66. DOI: 10.17161/bi.v7i1.3927

Franz, N.M. & R.K. Peet. 2009. Towards a language for mapping relationships among taxonomic concepts. Systematics and Biodiversity 7(1): 5–20. DOI: 10.1017/S147720000800282X

Franz, N.M. 2006. Towards a phylogenetic system of derelomine flower weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Systematic Entomology 31(2): 220–287. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2005.00308.x

Franz, N.M. & R.M. Valente. 2005. Evolutionary trends in derelomine flower weevils: from associations to homology. Invertebrate Systematics 19(6): 499–530. DOI: 10.1071/IS05026

Franz, N.M. 2005. On the lack of good scientific reasons for the growing phylogeny/classification gap. Cladistics 21(5): 495–500. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2005.00080.x

Franz, N.M. 2005. Outline of an explanatory account of cladistic practice. Biology and Philosophy 20(2): 489–515. DOI: 10.1007/s10539-004-0757-2

Franz, N.M. 2003. Systematics of Cyclanthura, a new genus of Derelomini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 34(2): 153–198. DOI: 10.1163/187631203788964818