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Charlotta Kvarnemo

Charlotta Kvarnemo

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
5642
World Ranking
6169
National Ranking
154

Overview

Charlotta Kvarnemo is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and specializes in research primarily within agricultural and biological sciences, environmental science, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their work largely focuses on the subfields of ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics; nature and landscape conservation; ecology; genetics; and physiology. The main topics of investigation include animal behavior and reproduction, fish ecology and management studies, plant and animal studies, reproductive biology with impacts on aquatic species, avian ecology and behavior, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, and genetic diversity and population structure.

Charlotta Kvarnemo's recent publications include the following papers:

  • The definition of sexual selection, 2021, Behavioral Ecology
  • Post-glacial establishment of locally adapted fish populations over a steep salinity gradient, 2020, Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Sperm performance limits the reproduction of an invasive fish in novel salinities, 2021, Diversity and Distributions
  • How sexual and natural selection interact and shape the evolution of nests and nesting behaviour in fishes, 2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Ancestral Sperm Ecotypes Reveal Multiple Invasions of a Non-Native Fish in Northern Europe, 2021, Cells

Collaborations have often involved notable coauthors, including Erica H. Leder, Ola Svensson, Jonathan N. Havenhand, León Green, and David M. Shuker.

The venues where Charlotta Kvarnemo has most frequently published are:

  • Behavioral Ecology
  • Evolutionary Applications
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Best Publications

  • The dynamics of operational sex ratios and competition for mates.

    Charlotta Kvarnemo;Ingrid Ahnesjo

  • Polyandry as a mediator of sexual selection before and after mating

    Charlotta Kvarnemo;Leigh W. Simmons

  • Female sand gobies gain direct benefits by choosing males with eggs in their nests

    Elisabet Forsgren;Anna Karlsson;Charlotta Kvarnemo

  • How cuckoldry can decrease the opportunity for sexual selection: data and theory from a genetic parentage analysis of the sand goby, Pomatoschistus minutus.

    Adam G. Jones;DeEtte Walker;Charlotta Kvarnemo;Kai Lindström

  • Sexual conflict and life histories

    Nina Wedell;Charlotta Kvarnemo;C(Kate). M. Lessells;Tom Tregenza

  • MODE OF SEXUAL SELECTION DETERMINED BY RESOURCE ABUNDANCE IN TWO SAND GOBY POPULATIONS.

    Elisabet Forsgren;Charlotta Kvarnemo;Kai Lindström

  • Effects of sex ratio on intra- and inter-sexual behaviour in sand gobies

    Charlotta Kvarnemo;Elisabet Forsgren;Carin Magnhagen

  • Using potential reproductive rates to predict mating competition among individuals qualified to mate

    Ingrid Ahnesjö;Charlotta Kvarnemo;Sami Merilaita

  • Microsatellite evidence for monogamy and sex‐biased recombination in the Western Australian seahorse Hippocampus angustus

    Adam G. Jones;Charlotta Kvarnemo;Glenn I. Moore;Leigh W. Simmons

  • Parental behaviour in relation to food availability in the common goby.

    Charlotta Kvarnemo;Ola Svensson;Ola Svensson;Elisabet Forsgren;Elisabet Forsgren

  • Monogamous pair bonds and mate switching in the Western Australian seahorse Hippocampus subelongatus

    C. Kvarnemo;C. Kvarnemo;G. I. Moore;A. G. Jones;A. G. Jones;W. S. Nelson

  • Sympatric speciation as a consequence of male pregnancy in seahorses.

    Adam G. Jones;Glenn I. Moore;Charlotta Kvarnemo;DeEtte Walker

  • Why do some animals mate with one partner rather than many? A review of causes and consequences of monogamy.

    Charlotta Kvarnemo

  • The definition of sexual selection.

    David M Shuker;Charlotta Kvarnemo

  • Variance in female quality, operational sex ratio and male mate choice in a bushcricket

    Charlotta Kvarnemo;Leigh W. Simmons

  • Ventilation or nest defense—parental care trade-offs in a fish with male care

    Maria Lissåker;Charlotta Kvarnemo;Charlotta Kvarnemo

  • Temperature Differentially Affects Male and Female Reproductive Rates in the Sand Goby: Consequences for Operational Sex Ratio

    Charlotta Kvarnemo

  • Sex Ratios: Operational sex ratios and mating competition

    Charlotta Kvarnemo;Ingrid Ahnesjö

  • Ejaculate expenditure by malebush crickets decreases with sperm competition intensity

    Leigh W. Simmons;Charlotta Kvarnemo

  • Evolution and maintenance of male care: is increased paternity a neglected benefit of care?

    Charlotta Kvarnemo

  • Surprising similarity of sneaking rates and genetic mating patterns in two populations of sand goby experiencing disparate sexual selection regimes.

    Adam G. Jones;Deette Walker;Kai Lindström;Charlotta Kvarnemo

  • Effects of a low oxygen environment on parental effort and filial cannibalism in the male sand goby, Pomatoschistus minutus

    Maria Lissåker;Charlotta Kvarnemo;Ola Svensson

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam Jones
Adam Jones University of Idaho
Kai Lindström
Kai Lindström Åbo Akademi University
Elisabet Forsgren
Elisabet Forsgren Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Leigh W. Simmons
Leigh W. Simmons University of Western Australia
John C. Avise
John C. Avise University of California, Irvine
Kerstin Johannesson
Kerstin Johannesson University of Gothenburg
Sami Merilaita
Sami Merilaita University of Turku
Carl André
Carl André University of Gothenburg
Carin Magnhagen
Carin Magnhagen Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Axel Temming
Axel Temming Universität Hamburg

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