Dr. Daniela Winkler

Aktuelle Forschungsprojekte

  • Funktionsgradienten in der Sauropodendentition, in Kooperation mit Dr. Emanuel Tschopp, FU Berlin
  • Nahrungsrekonstruktion der sympatrischen Krokodilfaunen der Messel und Geiseltal Ökosysteme, in Kooperation mit Prof. Thomas Tütken, Dr. Katrin Weber, JGU Mainz

Lebenslauf

seit Oktober 2025 Vertretungsprofessorin für Paläozoologie an der Universität Bonn
2022-2025 Postdoc (Assistenz, Habilitationsstelle)
in der AG Prof. Christine Böhmer an der Christian-Albrechts-Unviersität zu Kiel
2020-2022 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
in der AG Dr. Mugino O. Kubo an der Universität Tokio (Japan)
2016-2020 Postdoc
in der AG Prof. Thomas Tütken, Universität Mainz im ERC Projekt "Vertebrate Herbivory"
Kooperation mit Prof. Marcus Clauss, Vetsuisse Faculty, Tierspital, Universität Zürich
April 2016 Verteidigung der Doktorarbeit
Thema: "Functional and constructional morphology of molars in herbivorous ungulates" (magna cum laude)
2011-2015 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Promotion)
in der AG Prof. Thomas M. Kaiser, Universität Hamburg
2005-2010 Studium der Biologie (B.Sc., M.Sc.)
an der Universität Hamburg

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Dr. Daniela E. Winkler , Vertretungsprof. Paläozoologie

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Expo (Weltausstellung) Osaka, Japan (08.10.2025) Vortrag im Deutschen Pavillon zu wissenschaftlicher Kollaboration zwischen Japan und Deutschland „Excavating Dinosaurs (and more) in Kuji, Iwate“ 

RTL Nord (HH/SH) (04.12.2024) Beitrag zur Forschung im Regionalmagazin

Bericht im Spiegel online (06.10.2024) und im DER SPIEGEL 41/2024

Bericht in den Kieler Nachrichten online (24.10.2024) und in der gedruckten Ausgabe vom 24.10.2024.

Publikationsliste (begutachtete Artikel in Fachzeitschriften)

2025

  • Winkler, D.E., Tschopp, E., Saleiro, A. Wiesinger, R. & Kaiser, T.M. (2025) Dental microwear texture analysis reveals behavioural, ecological and habitat signals in Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur faunas. Nature Ecology & Evolution (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02794-5
  • Kubo, T., Usami , K., Hirayama , R., Iijima, M., Winkler, D.E., Ito, A., Uno, H., Miyata, S., Kubo, M.O. (2025). Crocodyliform remains from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Tamagawa Formation, northeastern Japan with preliminary dietary reconstruction through dental microwear texture analysis. Cretaceaous Research. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106197
  • Hansen, L., Winkler, D.E., Günther, A. & Böhmer, C. (in press). Effects of diet quality on the musculoskeletal system of the masticatory apparatus in Mus musculus domesticus. Journal of Experimental Biology. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.249735 
  • Winkler, D.E. & Kubo, M. O. (2025). Inter-microscope comparability of dental microwear texture data obtained from different optical profilometers: Part I Reproducibility of diet inference using different instruments. The Anatomical Record, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25685
  • Kubo, M.O., Araki, K., Winkler, D.E., Kondo, K. & Hayashi, S. (in press). Feeding ecology of the Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi) and the Ryukyu long-furred rat (Diplothrix legata) inferred from dental microwear texture analysis. Mammal Study 50.
  • Kubo, M.O., Kubo, T., Schulz-Kornas, E., Kaiser, T. M. & Winkler, D.E. (in press.) Inter-microscope comparability of dental microwear texture data obtained from different optical profilometers: Part II Deriving instrument-specific correction equations for meta-analyses using published data. The Anatomical Record.
  • Reynard, L.M., Leichliter, J.N., Winkler, D.E., Clauss, M. & Tütken, T. 2025. Hydrogen and oxygen isotopes in vertebrate tissues vary by diet type. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 13:1516786. https://10.3389/fevo.2025.1516786
  • Weber, M., Weber, K., Winkler, D.E. & Tütken, T. 2025. Calcium and strontium isotopes in extant diapsid reptiles reflect dietary tendencies - a reference frame for diet reconstructions in the fossil record. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences :29220242002. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2002

2024

  • Saleiro, A., Tschopp, E., Daash, A., Kaiser, T.M., Wiesinger, R. & Winkler, D.E. 2024. Acquisition of a dataset for dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) of sauropod teeth: pre-analytical and post-processing steps for quality assessment. Preprint PaleorXiv Papers , https://osf.io/preprints/paleorxiv/8uhsp_v1
  • Winkler, D.E., Bernetière, I. & Böhmer, C. 2024. Tooth eruption status and bite force determine dental microwear texture gradients in albino rats (Rattus norvegicus forma domestica). The Anatomical Record, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25595
  • Bourgon, N., Tacail, T., Jaouen, K., Leichliter, J.N., McCormack, J., Winkler, D.E., Clauss, M. & Tütken, T. 2024. Dietary and homeostatic controls of Zn isotopes in rats: A controlled-feeding experiment and modelling approach, Metallomics: mfae026, https://doi.org/10.1093/mtomcs/mfae026
  • Winkler, D.E., Seike, H., Nagata, S. & Kubo, M. 2024. Mandible microwear texture analysis of crickets raised on diets of different abrasiveness reveals universality of diet-induced wear. Interface Focus, 14:20230065, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2023.0065

2023

  • Kubo, T., Kubo, M.O., Sakamoto, M., Winkler, D.E., Shibata, M., Zheng, W., Jin, X. & You, H.-L. 2023. Dental microwear texture analysis reveals a likely dietary shift within Late Cretaceous ornithopod dinosaurs. Palaeontology, 66: e12681. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12681
  • Green, D.R., Winkler, D.E., Leichliter, J.N., Harms, G.D., Hatt, J-M., Clauss, M. and Tütken, T., 2023. Formation and replacement of bone and tooth mineralized tissues in green iguanas (Iguana iguana) revealed by in-vivo fluorescence marking. Integrative and Comparative Biology: icad089. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icad089
  • Martin, L.F., Codron, D., Winkler, D.E., Tütken, T., Hatt, J.M. and Clauss, M., 2023. Macroscopic dental measures in guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) fed natural and pelleted diets of different abrasiveness: implications for wear and compensatory growth in a hypselodont species. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 20(202): p.20230012. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2023.0012

2022

  • Winkler, D.E., Kubo, T., Kubo, M.O., Kaiser, T.M. & Tütken, T. First application of dental microwear texture analysis to infer theropod feeding ecology. Palaeontology 65: e12632. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12632
  • Calandra, I., Bob, K., Merceron, G., Blateyron, F., Hildebrandt, A., Schulz-Kornas, E., Souron, A. & Winkler, D.E., 2022. Surface texture analysis in Toothfrax and MountainsMap® SSFA module: Different software packages, different results?. Peer Community Journal 2: e77. https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.204
  • Winkler, D.E., Iijima, M., Blob, R.W., Kubo, T. & Kubo, M.O., 2022. Controlled feeding experiments with juvenile alligators reveal microscopic dental wear texture patterns associated with hard-object feeding. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10: 957725. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.957725
  • Winkler, D.E., Clauss, M., Kubo, M.O., Schulz-Kornas, E., Kaiser, T.M., Tschudin, A., De Cuyper, A., Kubo, T. & Tütken, T., 2022. Microwear textures associated with experimental near-natural diets suggest that seeds and hard insect body-parts cause high enamel surface complexity in small mammals. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10: 957427. https://doi.org.10.3389/fevo.2022.957427
  • Martin, L.F., Winkler, D.E., Ackermans, N.L., Müller, J., Tütken, T., Kaiser, T.M., Codron, D., Schulz-Kornas, E., Hatt, J.M. & Clauss, M., 2022. Dental microwear texture analysis correlations in guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) and sheep (Ovis aries) suggest that dental microwear texture signal consistency is species-specific. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10: 958576. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.958576
  • Fischer, V.L., Winkler, D.E., Głogowski, R., Attin, T., Hatt, J.-M., Clauss, M. & Wegehaupt, F., 2022. Species-specific enamel differences in hardness and abrasion resistance between the permanent incisors of cattle (Bos primigenius taurus) and the ever-growing incisors of nutria (Myocastor coypus). PLoS ONE 17(3): e0265237. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265237
  • Sakaki, H., Winkler, D.E., Kubo, T., Hirayama, R., Uno, H., Miyata, S., Endo, H., Sasaki, K., Takisawa, T. & Kubo, M.O., 2022. Non-occlusal dental microwear texture analysis of a titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Tamagawa Formation, northeastern Japan. Cretaceous Research 136: 105218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105218
  • Weber, K., Winkler, D.E., Schulz-Kornas, E., Kaiser, T.M. & Tütken ,T., 2022. Post-mortem enamel surface texture alteration during taphonomic processes—do experimental approaches reflect natural phenomena? PeerJ 10: e12635 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12635
  • Green, D.R., Olack, G., Tütken, T., Leichliter, J., Winkler, D.E., Clauss, M., Vonhof, H. & Colman, A.S., 2022. A simple CO2 equilibration method for measuring blood oxygen isotope compositions. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom. 36(7): e9256. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.9256

2021

  • Winkler, D.E., Clauss, M., Rölle, M., Schulz-Kornas, E., Codron, D., Kaiser, T.M. & Tütken, T., 2021. Dental microwear texture gradients in guinea pigs reveal that material properties of the diet affect chewing behaviour. Journal of Experimental Biology 224: jeb242446. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.242446
  • De Cuyper, A., Winkler, D.E., Tütken, T., Bosch, G., Hummel, J., Kreuzer, M., Muñoz Saravia, A., Janssens, G. P. J. & Clauss, M., 2021. Digestion of bamboo compared to grass and lucerne in a small hindgut fermenting herbivore, the guinea pig (Cavia porcellus). Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology 337: 1– 13. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.2538
  • Frei, J., Clauss, M., Winkler, D.E., Tütken, T. & Martin, L.F., 2021. Use of running plates by floor housed rats: A pilot study. Laboratory Animals 55: 521-530. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00236772211036572
  • Ackermans, N.L., Winkler, D.E., Schulz-Kornas, E., Kaiser, T.M., Martin, L.F., Hatt, J-M. & Clauss, M., 2021. Dental wear proxy correlation in a long-term feeding experiment on sheep (Ovis aries). Journal of the Royal Society Interface 18 (180): 20210139. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2021.0139
  • Weber, K., Winkler, D.E., Schulz-Kornas, E., Kaiser, T.M. & Tütken, T., 2021. The good, the bad and the ugly – A visual guide for common post-mortem wear patterns in vertebrate teeth. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 578: 110577. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110577
  • Leichliter, J.N., Lüdecke, T., Foreman, A.D., Duprey, N.N., Winkler, D.E., Kast, E.R., Vonhof, HG., Sigman, D.M., Haug, G.H., Clauss, M., Tütken, T. & Martínez-García, A., 2021. Nitrogen isotopes in tooth enamel record diet and trophic level enrichment: Results from a controlled feeding experiment. Chemical Geology 563: 120047. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.120047
  • Weber, K., Winkler, D.E., Kaiser, T.M., Žigaitė, Ž. & Tütken, T., 2021. Dental microwear texture analysis on extant and extinct sharks: Ante-or post-mortem tooth wear? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 562: 110147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110147

2020

  • Winkler, D.E., Schulz-Kornas, E., Kaiser, T.M., Codron, D., Leichliter, L., Hummel, J., Martin, L.F., Clauss, M. & Tütken, T., 2020. The turnover of dental microwear texture: testing the” last supper” effect in small mammals in a controlled feeding experiment. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 557: 109930. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109930
  • Winkler, D.E., Tütken, T., Schulz-Kornas, E., Kaiser, T.M., Müller, J., Leichliter, J., Weber, K., Hatt, J-M. & Clauss, M., 2020. Shape, size, and quantity of ingested external abrasives influence dental microwear texture formation in guinea pigs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (36): 22264-22273. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2008149117
  • Martin, L.F., Krause, L., Ulbricht, A., Winkler, D.E., Codron, D., Kaiser, T.M., Müller, J., Hummel, J., Clauss, M., Hatt, J-M. & Schulz-Kornas, E., 2020. Dental wear at macro-and microscopic scale in rabbits fed diets of different abrasiveness: A pilot investigation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 556: 109886. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109886
  • Schulz-Kornas, E., Winkler, D.E., Clauss, M., Carlsson, J., Ackermans, N.L., Martin, L.F., Hummel, J., Müller, D.W.H., Hatt, J-M. & Kaiser, T.M., 2020. Everything matters: Molar microwear texture in goats (Capra aegagrus hircus) fed diets of different abrasiveness. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 552: 109783. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109783
  • De Cuyper, A., Winkler, D.E., Tütken, T., Janssens, G.P.J. & Clauss, M., 2020. Fatty Acids of Microbial Origin in the Perirenal Fat of Rats (Rattus norvegicus domestica) and Guinea Pigs (Cavia porcellus) Fed Various Diets. Lipids 55 (4): 341-351. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lipd.12240
  • Ackermans, N.L., Winkler, D.E., Martin, L.F., Kaiser, T.M., Clauss, M. & Hatt, J-M., 2020. Dust and grit matter: abrasives of different size lead to opposing dental microwear textures in experimentally fed sheep (Ovis aries). Journal of Experimental Biology 223 (3): jeb220442. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.220442
  • Weber, M., Tacail, T., Lugli, F., Clauss, M., Weber, K., Leichliter, J., Winkler, D.E., Mertz-Kraus, R. & Tütken, T., 2020. Strontium uptake and intra-population 87Sr/86Sr variability of bones and teeth—controlled feeding experiments with rodents (Rattus norvegicus, Cavia porcellus). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8: 569940. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.569940

2019

  • Bethune, E., Kaiser, T.M., Schulz-Kornas E. & Winkler, D.E., 2019. Multiproxy dietary trait reconstruction in Pleistocene Hippopotamidae from the Mediterranean islands. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 533: 109210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.05.032
  • Winkler, D.E., Schulz-Kornas, E., Kaiser, T.M. & Tütken, T., 2019. Dental microwear texture reflects dietary tendencies in extant Lepidosauria despite their limited use of oral food processing. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286: e:20190544. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0544
  • Winkler, D.E., Schulz-Kornas, E., Kaiser, T.M., De Cuyper, A., Clauss, M. & Tütken, T., 2019. Forage silica and water content control dental surface texture in guinea pigs and provide implications for dietary reconstruction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116: 1325-1330. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1814081116
  • Martin, L.F., Winkler, D.E., Tütken, T., Codron, D., De Cuyper, A., Hatt, J-M. & Clauss M., 2019. The way wear goes: phytolith-based wear on the dentine–enamel system in guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286 (1912): 20191921. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1921
  • Zhou, Z., Winkler, D.E., Fortuny, J., Kaiser, T.M. & Marcé-Nogue, J., 2019. Why ruminants chew sloppily: Biomechanics discern a phylogenetic pattern. PLoS ONE 14(4): e0214510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214510
  • Ackermans, N. L., Clauss, M., Winkler, D.E., Schulz-Kornas, E., Kaiser, T.M., Muller, D.W.H., Kircher, P.R., Hummel, J. & Hatt, J-M., 2019. Root growth compensates for molar wear in adult goats (Capra aegagrus hircus). Journal of Experimental Zoology Part a - Ecological and Integrative Physiology 331: 139-148. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jez.2248
  • Böhm, K., Winkler, D.E., Kaiser, T.M., & Tütken, T., 2019. Post-mortem alteration of diet-related enamel surface textures through artificial biostratinomy: A tumbling experiment using mammal teeth. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 518: 215-231. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.01.008

2018

  • Ackermans, N. L., Winkler, D.E., Schulz-Kornas, E., Kaiser, T.M., Muller, D.W.H., Kircher, P. R., Hummel, J., Clauss, M. & Hatt, J-M., 2018. Controlled feeding experiments with diets of different abrasiveness reveal slow development of mesowear signal in goats (Capra aegagrus hircus). Journal of Experimental Biology 221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.186411

2017

  • Schulz-Kornas, E., Braune, C., Winkler, D.E., Kaiser, T.M., 2017. Does silica concentration and phytolith ultrastructure relate to phytolith hardness? Biosurface and Biotribology 3(4): 135-143. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bsbt.2017.12.004
  • Schultz, J.A., Menz, U., Winkler, D.E., Schulz-Kornas, E., Engels, S., Kalthoff, D.C., von Koenigswald, W., Ruf, I., Kaiser, T.M., Kullmer, O., Südekum K-H & Martin, T., 2017. Modular Wear Facet Nomenclature for mammalian post-canine dentitions. Historical Biology 30(1-2): 30-41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2017.1302442

2016

  • Winkler, D.E., Andrianasolo T.H., Andriamandimbiarisoa, L., Ganzhorn, J.U., Rakotondranary, J., Kaiser, T.M. & Schulz- Kornas, E., 2016. Tooth wear patterns in black rats (Rattus rattus) of Madagascar differ more in relation to human impact than to differences in natural habitats. Ecology & Evolution 6: 2205-2215. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2048

2015

2013

  • Rozzi, R., Winkler, D.E., de Vos, J., Schulz, E.  & Palombo, M.R., 2013. The enigmatic bovid Duboisia santeng (Dubois, 1891) from the Early–Middle Pleistocene of Java: A multiproxy approach to its paleoecology. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 377: 73-85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.03.012
  • Winkler, D.E., Van den Hoek Ostende, L.W., Schulz, E., Calandra, I., Gailer, J-P., Landwehr, C. & Kaiser, T.M., 2013. Dietary divergence in space and time - Lessons from the dwarf-goat Myotragus balearicus (Pleisto-Holocene, Mallorca, Spain). Mammalian Biology 78: 430-437. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mambio.2013.08.003
  • Winkler, D.E., Schulz, E., Calandra, I., Gailer, J-P., Landwehr, C. & Kaiser, T.M., 2013. Indications for a dietary change in the extinct Bovid genus Myotragus (Plio-Holocene, Mallorca, Spain). Geobios 46(1-2): 143-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2012.10.010

2011

  • Winkler, D.E & Kaiser, T.M., 2011. A case study of seasonal, sexual and ontogenetic divergence in the feeding behaviour of the moose (Alces alces LINNÈ, 1758). Verhandlungen des naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins Hamburg 46: 331-348.

Publikationsliste (begutachtete Buchkapitel)

  • Winkler, D.E., Marcé-Nogué, J. & Kaiser, T.M., 2020. Enamel ridge alignments in ungulates: a cut above.     In: Mammalian Teeth - Form and Function (Eds: T. Martin & W. v. Koenigswald), Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München, Germany, pp. 125-170. http://dx.doi.org/10.23788/mammteeth.08
  • Schulz-Kornas, E., Kaiser, T.M., Calandra, I. & Winkler, D.E., 2020. A brief history of quantitative wear analyses with an appeal for a holistic view on dental wear processes. In: Mammalian Teeth - Form and Function (Eds: T. Martin & W. v. Koenigswald), Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München, Germany, pp. 44-53. http://dx.doi.org/10.23788/mammteeth.03
  • Schultz, J.A., Braune, C., Brinkkötter, J.J., Anders, U., Calandra, I., Engels, S., ... Winkler, D.E. & Martin, T., 2020. A new wear facet terminology for mammalian dentitions. In: Mammalian Teeth - Form and Function (Eds: T. Martin & W. v. Koenigswald), Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München, Germany, pp. 11-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.23788/mammteeth.01
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