under review

  • Goldenberg, J., Bisschop, K., Dehaven, R., Feiner, N. (Under Review) BioPatternNet: a scalable pipeline for quantifying biological pattern variation.
  • Coreelman, H., Decorte, R., Bisschop, K., Coeman, C., Vanpaemel, S., Decaestecker, E., Claerhout, S., (Under Review). From fathers to forebears: benchmarking Y-chromosomal short tandem repeat haplogroup predictors to infer biogeographical roots for forensics.
  • Mahefarisoa, K. L., Aerts, R., Irwind, M., Bisschop, K., Rakotondrainibe, H., Rasambainarivo, F., Van De Moortel, B., Greffe, A., Vanoverberghe, I., Matthijnssens, J., André, E., Donfa, K. C. M., Greene, L., Jungen, R., Maes, P., Huyse, T., Brendonck, L., Williams, C., Antoine-Moussiaux, N., Decaestecker, E. (In Preparation) Contrasting anthropogenic pressures reshape endangered lemur microbiomes in different ways from a One Health perspective.
  • Goldenberg, J., Bisschop, K., Massetti, F., Mader, S., D'Alba, L., Star, B., Etienne, R. S., Clusella-Trullas, S., Shawkey, M. (Under Review). Mediating effects of climate extremes and morphological traits on thermal physiology.
  • Bisschop, K., Wortel, M. T., Kraaijeveld, K., Mariën, J, Rathmann, I., Bonte, D., Declerck, S. A. J., de Vos, M., Etienne, R. S., Goossens, S., Kammenga, J. E., Mortier, F., Riksen, J., van der Zee, M., Verhoeven, K., Wiezer, S., Zandbergen, L. E., Egas, M., Ellers, J., Groot, A. T., Visser, M. E., Blankers, T. (Under Review). Additive effects of environmental and demographic variation shape the repeatability of evolution across replicated experiments, bioRxiv preprint

peer reviewed

  1. Bisschop, K.*, Goel, N.*, Coone, M., Vanoverberghe, I., Greffe, A., Asselman, J., Decaestecker, E. (2025) Host-microbiota matching and epigenetic modulation drive Daphnia magna responses to cyanobacterial stress, The ISME Journal, wraf247, PDF
  2. Schols, R., Hammoud, C., Bisschop, K., Vanoverberghe, I., Huyse, T., Decaestecker, E. (2025) Schistosome species, parasite development, and co-infection combinations determine microbiome dynamics in the snail Biomphalaria glabrata, Animal Microbiome, 7, 101, PDF
  3. Goldenberg, J., Bisschop, K., Lambert, J., Nicolaï, M.P., Rampal, E., Shawkey M. (2025). Habitat openness and squamate color evolution over deep time, Nature Communications, 16:2625 PDF
  4. Goldenberg, J., Bisschop, K., Bruni, G., Di Nicola, M., Banfi, F., Faraone, F.P. (2024) Melanin-based color variation in response to changing climates in snakes, Ecology and Evolution, 14:e11627 PDF
  5. Coone, M.*, Bisschop, K.*, Vanoverberghe, I., Verslype, C., Decaestecker, E. (2023) Genotype specific and microbiome effects of hypoxia in the model organism Daphnia, Journal in Evolutionary Biology, 36(12):1669-1683 PDF
  6. Wortel, M. T., Agashe, D., Bailey, S. F., Bank, C., Bisschop, K., Blankers, T., Cairns, J., Colizzi, E. S., Cusseddu, D., Desai, M. M., van Dijk, B., Egas, M., Ellers, J., Groot, A. T., Heckel, D. G., Johnson, M. L., Kraaijeveld, K., Krug, J., Laan, L., Laessig, M., Lind, P. A., Meijer, J., Noble, L. M., Okasha, S., Rainey, P. B., Rozen, D. E., Shitut, S., Tans, S. J., Tenaillon, O., Teotonio, H., de Visser, J. A. G. M., Visser, M. E., Vroomans, R. M. A., Werner, G. D. A., Wertheim, B., Pennings, P. S. (2023) Towards evolutionary predictions: current promises and challenges, Evolutionary Applications, 16(1):3–21. PDF
  7. Bisschop, K., Alzate, A., Bonte, D., Etienne, R. S. (2022) The demographic consequences of adaptation: evidence from experimental evolution, The American Naturalist, 199(6): 729-742 PDF (with honorable mention of the American Naturalist Student Paper award 2023
  8. Bisschop, K.*, Blankers, T.*, Mariën, J., Wortel, M. T., Egas, M., Groot, A. T., Visser, M. E., Ellers, J. (2022) Population bottleneck has only marginal effect on fitness evolution and its repeatability in dioecious C. elegans, Evolution, 76:8, 1896-1904 PDF
  9. Bisschop, K.*, Kortenbosch, H. H.*, Van Eldijk, T. J., Mallon, C. A., Salles, J. F., Bonte, D., Etienne, R. S. (2022) Microbiome heritability and its role in adaptation of hosts to novel resources, Frontiers in Microbiology, 13:703183 PDF
  10. Goldenberg, J., Bisschop, K., D'Alba, L., Shawkey, M. (2022) The link between body size, colouration and thermoregulation and their integration into ecogeographical rules: a critical appraisal in light of climate change, Oikos, e09152 PDF
  11. Mader, S., Goldenberg, J., Massetti, F., Bisschop, K., D'Alba, L., Etienne, R.S., Clusella-Trullas, S., Shawkey, M. (2022) How melanism affects the sensitivity of lizards to climate change, Functional Ecology, 36:4, 812-825 PDF
  12. Hendriks, K. P.*, Bisschop, K.*, Kavanagh, J. C.†, Kortenbosch, H. H., Larue, A. E. A., Bonte, D., Duijm, E. J., Salles, J. F., Richter Mendoza, F. J., Schilthuizen, M., Etienne, R. S. (2021) Plant diets of land snail community members are similar in composition but differ in richness, Journal of Molluscan Studies, 87(4): eyab041 PDF
  13. Goldenberg, J., D'Alba, L., Bisschop, K., Vanthournout, B., Shawkey, M. (2021) Substrate thermal properties influence ventral brightness evolution in ectotherms, Communications Biology, 4:26 PDF 
  14. Hendriks, K. P.*, Bisschop, K.*, Kortenbosch, H. H., Kavanagh, J. C., Larue, A. E. A., Phung, C.-C., Bonte, D., Duijm, E. J., Salles, J. F., Pigot, A. L., Richter Mendoza, F. J., Schilthuizen, M., Anderson, M. J., Speksnijder, A. G. C. L., Etienne, R. S. (2021) Microbiome and environment explain the absence of correlations between consumers and their diet in Bornean microsnails, Ecology, 102(2): e03237 PDF
  15. van Eldijk, T., J. B., Bisschop, K., Etienne, R. S. (2020) Uniting community ecology and evolutionary rescue theory: Community-Wide Rescue leads to a rapid loss of rare species, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8: 552268 PDF
  16. Bisschop, K., Mortier, F., Bonte, D., Etienne, R. S. (2020) Performance in a novel environment subject to ghost competition, PeerJ, 8: e8931 PDF
  17. Bisschop, K., Mortier, F., Etienne, R. S., Bonte, D. (2019) Transient local adaptation and source­ sink dynamics in experimental populations experiencing spatially heterogeneous environments, Proc. R. Soc., 8, 286: 20190738 PDF
  18. Hendriks, K. P., Bisschop, K., Kavanagh, J.C., Kortenbosch, H. H., Larue, A. E. A., Richter Mendoza, F. J., Schilthuizen, M., Etienne, R. S. (2019) Fieldwork to sample microsnails for diet and microbiome studies along the Kinabatangan river, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, The Malacologist, 72: 33-38 PDF
  19. Alzate, A.*, Bisschop, K.*, Etienne, R. S., Bonte, D. (2017) lnterspecific competition counteracts negative effects of dispersal on adaptation of an arthropod herbivore to a new host, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 30(11), 1966-1977 PDF


popular science publications

  • Hillaert, J., Van Ransbeeck, H., Strubbe, D., Bisschop, K., Bonte, D., Dermout, W., Neukermans, A., Schamp, K., Huybrechts, R., Desmet, P., Devisscher, S., Delva, S., Peiten, C., Pardon, N., Adriaens, T. (14-03-2025) Vespa velutina in Flanders: trends, management and research. Research Institute for Nature and Forest, PDF
  • Pardon, N., Bisschop, K., Hillaert, J. (01-02-2025) Aziatische hoornaar - selectieve vallen. Research Institute for Nature and Forest, PDF
  • Idereen Wetenschapper (15-03-2024) Op zoek naar de spintmijt, PDF
  • Draulans, D. (25-10-2023) Dirk Draulans' Beestenboel: Waarom de bonenspintmijt een evolutionair succes is. Knack, PDF
  • Buitenleven. (11-10-2023) Spintmijt: tips en methoden om spint te vookomen en te bestrijden, PDF
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