Hermes, R.

Appeltant, R.; Hermes, R.; Holtze, S.; Hildebrandt, T.B.; Williams, S.A. 2024. Follicle-like and other novel structures found in ovaries of aged white rhinoceroses and their potential impact on oocyte recovery rate. Theriogenology Wild 5 (100096): 1-12. doi.org/10.1016/j.therwi.2024.100096

Schwarzenberger, F.; Hermes, R. 2023. Comparative analysis of gestation in three rhinoceros species (Diceros bicornis; Ceratotherium simum; Rhinoceros unicornis). General and Comparative Endocrinology 334 (13 Jan 2023) 114214: 1-11, with supplementary material. doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2023.114214

Appeltant, R.; Hermes, R.; Holtze, S.; Modina, S.C.; Galli, C.; Bjarkadottir, B.D.; Adeniran, B.V.; Xi Wei; Swegen, A.; Hildebrandt, T.B.; Williams, S.A. 2023. The neonatal southern white rhinoceros ovary contains oogonia in germ cell nests. Communications Biology 6, Article number: 1049: 1-12. doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05256-5

Hildebrandt, T.B.; Holtze, S.; Colleoni, S.; Hermes, R.; Stejskal, J.; Lekolool, I.; Ndeereh, D.; Omondi, P.; Kariuki, L.; Mijele, D. 2023. In vitro fertilization program in white rhinoceros. Reproduction 166: 383–399. doi.org/10.1530/REP-23-0087

Rickard, J.P.; Pool, K.; Graaf, S.P. de; Portas, T.; Rourke, N.; Wiesner, M.; Hildebrandt, T.B.; Goeritz, F.; Hermes, R. 2022. Increasing the yield and cryosurvival of spermatozoa from rhinoceros ejaculates using the enzyme Papain. Biology 11 (154): 1-16. doi.org/10.3390/biology11020154

Biasetti, P.; Hildebrandt, T.B.; Goeritz, F.; Hermes, R.; Holtze, S.; Galli, C.; Lazzari, G.; Colleoni, S; Pollastri, I.; Spiriti, M.M. 2022. Ethical analysis of the application of assisted reproduction technologies in biodiversity conservation and the case of white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) ovum pick-up procedures. Frontiers in Veterinary Science 9: 1-15.

Knauf-Witzens, T.; Hermes, R.; Schwarzenberger, F.; Roller, M. 2022. Endometrial adenocarcinoma in a one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) – diagnostic and therapeutical approaches. Zoos and Wildlife Health Conference (Emmen, The Netherlands). 46 (abstract).

Hildebrandt, T.B.; Goeritz, F.; Hermes, R.; Holtze, S.; Seet, S.; Zwilling, J.; Diecke, S.; Zywitza, V.; Hayashi, M.; Lazzari, G. 2022. BioRescue – New conservation strategy to save critically endangered species. BIAZA Research Committee Conference July 2021: Book of Abstracts: p. 29-30.

Hayashi, M.; Zywitza, V.; Naitou, Y.; Hamazaki, N.; Goeritz, F.; Hermes, R.; Holtze, S.; Lazzari, G.; Galli, C.; Stejskal, J. 2022. Robust induction of primordial germ cells of white rhinoceros on the brink of extinction. Science Advances 8 (49) eabp9683: 1-19. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abp9683

Zywitza, V.; Frahm, S.; Krueger, N.; Drukker, M.; Hildebrandt, T.B.; Diecke, S.; Weise, A.; Goeritz, F.; Hermes, R.; Holtze, S.; Colleoni, S. 2022. Induced pluripotent stem cells and cerebral organoids from the critically endangered Sumatran rhinoceros. iScience 25, 105414 Nov 18, 2022: 1-16, 3 figures with supplementary material. doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105414

Seth, J. von; Dussex, N.,; Díez-del-Molino, D.; Valk, T. van der; Kutschera, V.E.; Kierczak, M.; Steiner, C.C.; Liu, S.; Gilbert, M.T.P.; Probst, C.; Hermes, R.; (and many others) 2021. Genomic insights into the conservation status of the world’s last remaining Sumatran rhinoceros populations. Nature Communications 12 (2393): 1-11. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22386-8

Hermes, R.; Balfanz, F.; Haderthauer, S.; Dungl, E.; Hildebrandt, T.B.; Schwarzenberger, F. 2021. Case report: Ovulation induction in greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis). Frontiers in Veterinary Science 8:657284: 1-6. doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2021.657284

Mori, B. de; Spiriti, M.M.; Pollastri, I.; Normando, S.; Biasetti, P.; Florio, D.; Andreucci, F.; Colleoni, S.; Galli, C.; Goeritz, F.; Hermes, R.; (and many others) 2021. An Ethical Assessment Tool (ETHAS) to evaluate the application of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in mammals’ conservation: the case of the Northern White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni). Animals 11 (312): 1-21. doi.org/10.3390/ani11020312

Hildebrandt, T.B.; Hermes, R.; Goeritz, F.; Appeltant, R.; Colleoni, S.; Mori, B. de; Diecke, S; Drukker, M.; Galli, C.; Hayashi, K.; Lazzari, G.; Payne, J.; Renfree, M.; Seet, S.; Stejskal, J. 2021. The ART of bringing extinction to a freeze – history and future of species conservation, exemplified by rhinos. Theriogenology 169: 76-88. doi.org/10.1016/j.theriogenology.2021.04.006

Hermes, R.; Goeritz, F.; Wiesner, M.; Richter, N.; Mulot, B.; Alerte, V.; Smith, S.; Bouts, T.; Hildebrandt, T.B. 2020. Parturition in white rhinoceros. Theriogenology 156: 181-188. doi.org/10.1016/j.theriogenology.2020.06.035

Hermes, R.; Hildebrandt, T.B.; Goeritz, F. 2018. Cryopreservation in rhinoceros—Setting a new benchmark for sperm cryosurvival. PLoS One 13 (7): e0200154. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200154.

Hildebrandt, T.B.; Hermes, R.; Colleoni, S.; Diecke, S.; Holtze, S.; Renfree, M.B.; Stejskal, J.; Hayashi, K.; Drukker, M.; Loi, P., Loring, J. F., Okita, K., Renfree, M. B., Seet, S., Voracek, T., Stejskal, J., Ryder, O. A., Hildebrandt, T. B.; Goeritz, F.; Lazzari, G.; Galli, C. 2018. Embryos and embryonic stem cells from the white rhinoceros. Nature Communications 9:2589 : 1-10. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04959-2

Moodley, Y.; Russo, I-R.M.; Robovsky, J.; Dalton, D.L.; Kotze, A.; Smith, S.; Stejskal, J.; Ryder, O.A.; Hermes, R.; Walzer, C.; Bruford, M.W. 2018. Contrasting evolutionary history, anthropogenic declines and genetic contact in the northern and southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). Proceedings B of the Royal Society of London 285: 1-9.

Hermes, R.; Saragusty, J.; Moser, I.; Barth, S.A.; Holtze, S.; Lecu, A.; Cracknell, J.; Williams, D.; Goeritz, F. 2018. Differential detection of tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobacteria by qPCR in lavage fluids of tuberculosis-suspicious white rhinoceros. PlosONE 13(11): e0207365: 1-15. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207365

Balfanz, F.; Dungl, E.; Haderthauer, S.; Schwarzenberger, F.; Vielgrader, H.; Voracek, T.; Hildebrandt, T.B.; Hermes, R. 2018. Ovulation induction in anoestrus greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros bicornis) [R.unicornis]. Proceedings of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians (AAZV) 2018: 131.

Kretzschmar, P.; Kramerschadt, S.; Ambu, L.N.; Bender, J.; Bohm, T.; Ernsing, M.; Goeritz, F.; Hermes, R.; Payne, J.; Schaffer, N.E. 2016. Lessons learned from the decline of the Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni) in Sabah (abstract). In: Scientific program of the 15th International Elephant & Rhino conservation and research symposium, Singapore, November 14-18, 2016. pp. 59-60.

Hermes, R.; Schwarzenberger, F.; Goeritz, F.; Oh, S.; Fernandes, T.; Bernardino, R.; Leclerc, A.; Greunz, E.; Mathew, A.; Forsyth, S.; Spindler, R.E., Saragusty, J., Kaandorp, S., Hildebrandt, T.B.; Saragusty, J.; Hildebrandt, T.B. 2016. Ovarian down regulation by GnRF vaccination decreases reproductive tract tumor size in female white and greater one-horned rhinoceroses (abstract). In: Scientific program of the 15th International Elephant & Rhino conservation and research symposium, Singapore, November 14-18, 2016. p. 52.

Galli, C.; Hermes, R.; Goeritz, F.; Colleoni, S.; Diecke, S., Drukker, M., Durrant, B., Friedrich Ben-Nun, I., Galli, C., Göritz, F., Hayashi, K., Hermes, R., Holtze, S., Johnson, S., Lazzari, G.; Drukker, M.; Hayashi, K.; Holtze, S.; Lazzari, G.; Payne, J. 2016. First results of oocyte maturation and In-Vitro-Fertilisation (IVF) in Sumatran and northern white rhinoceroses (abstract). In: Scientific program of the 15th International Elephant & Rhino conservation and research symposium, Singapore, November 14-18, 2016. p. 51.

Goeritz, F.; Hermes, R.; Walzer, C.; Zainuddin, Zainal Zahari; Payne, J.; Hildebrandt, T.B. 2016. Etorphine free anesthesia protocols optimized for frequent reproductive interventions ranging from semen collection, artificial insemination to Ovum-Pick-Up (OPU) in four rhino species (abstract). In: Scientific program of the 15th International Elephant & Rhino conservation and research symposium, Singapore, November 14-18, 2016. pp. 50-51.

Hermes, R.; Saragusty, J.; Moser, I.; Barth, S.A.; Holtze, S.; Lecu, A.; Cracknell, J.; Williams, D.; Goeritz, F. 2016. Ovarian down regulation by GnRF vaccination decreases reproductive tract tumour size in female white and greater one-horned rhinoceroses. PlosONE 13 (11): e0207365: 1-15. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207365