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Christian Lexer

Christian Lexer

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
62
Citations
13491
World Ranking
10820
National Ranking
100

Overview

Christian Lexer was affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria. Their research primarily focused on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions to Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work also engaged deeply with subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Plant Science.

Lexer contributed extensively to topics including Plant and animal studies, Fern and Epiphyte Biology, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Genetic diversity and population structure, Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Their recent publications spanned several prominent journals. Notable papers included:

  • Taxon-specific or universal? Using target capture to study the evolutionary history of rapid radiations (2021, Molecular Ecology Resources)
  • Estimating and accounting for genotyping errors in RAD-seq experiments (2020, Molecular Ecology Resources)
  • Adaptive Introgression Facilitates Adaptation to High Latitudes in European Aspen (Populus tremula L.) (2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution)
  • Genome Skimming Reveals Widespread Hybridization in a Neotropical Flowering Plant Radiation (2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)
  • Drivers of genomic landscapes of differentiation across a Populus divergence gradient (2023, Molecular Ecology)

Throughout their career, Lexer frequently collaborated with several researchers. Frequent co-authors included Ovidiu Paun, Michael H. J. Barfuss, Walter Till, Thibault Leroy, and Jaqueline Hess.

Christian Lexer published regularly in venues that included bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Ecology Resources, Molecular Biology and Evolution, BMC Plant Biology, and Molecular Ecology.

Best Publications

  • Major Ecological Transitions in Wild Sunflowers Facilitated by Hybridization

    Loren H. Rieseberg;Olivier Raymond;David M. Rosenthal;Zhao Lai

  • Sympatric speciation in palms on an oceanic island

    Vincent Savolainen;Marie-Charlotte Anstett;Christian Lexer;Ian Hutton

  • Cross-species transfer of nuclear microsatellite markers: potential and limitations.

    Thelma Barbará;Clarisse Palma-Silva;Gecele M. Paggi;Fernanda Bered

  • Identification and characterization of (GA/CT)n-microsatellite loci from Quercus petraea.

    H. Steinkellner;S. Fluch;E. Turetschek;C. Lexer

  • Evolution of reproductive isolation in plants.

    A Widmer;C Lexer;S Cozzolino

  • Adaptive introgression: a plant perspective.

    Adriana Suarez-Gonzalez;Christian Lexer;Quentin C. B. Cronk

  • Barrier to gene flow between two ecologically divergent Populus species, P. alba (white poplar) and P. tremula (European aspen): the role of ecology and life history in gene introgression.

    C. Lexer;M. F. Fay;J. A. Joseph;M.-S. Nica

  • Glacial refugia: sanctuaries for allelic richness, but not for gene diversity

    Alex Widmer;Christian Lexer

  • Characterization of (GA)n Microsatellite Loci from Quercus Robur

    Susanne Kampfer;Christian Lexer;Josef Glössl;Herta Steinkellner

  • A genetic linkage map of Quercus robur L. (pedunculate oak) based on RAPD, SCAR, microsatellite, minisatellite, isozyme and 5S rDNA markers.

    T. Barreneche;C. Bodenes;C. Lexer;J.-F. Trontin

  • Natural selection for salt tolerance quantitative trait loci (QTLs) in wild sunflower hybrids: implications for the origin of Helianthus paradoxus, a diploid hybrid species.

    C. Lexer;M. E. Welch;J. L. Durphy;L. H. Rieseberg

  • THE ORIGIN OF ECOLOGICAL DIVERGENCE IN HELIANTHUS PARADOXUS (ASTERACEAE): SELECTION ON TRANSGRESSIVE CHARACTERS IN A NOVEL HYBRID HABITAT

    Christian Lexer;Mark E. Welch;Olivier Raymond;Loren H. Rieseberg

  • Conservation of (GA)n microsatellite loci between Quercus species

    H. Steinkellner;C. Lexer;E. Turetschek;J. Glössl

  • Admixture as the basis for genetic mapping

    C. Alex Buerkle;Christian Lexer;Christian Lexer

  • Population differentiation and species cohesion in two closely related plants adapted to neotropical high-altitude 'inselbergs', Alcantarea imperialis and Alcantarea geniculata (Bromeliaceae).

    T. Barbará;G. Martinelli;M. F. Fay;S. J. Mayo

  • Sympatric bromeliad species (Pitcairnia spp.) facilitate tests of mechanisms involved in species cohesion and reproductive isolation in Neotropical inselbergs.

    Clarisse Palma-Silva;T. Wendt;Fábio Pinheiro;Thelma Barbará;Thelma Barbará

  • The genic view of plant speciation: recent progress and emerging questions

    Christian Lexer;Alex Widmer

  • Genomic scan for single nucleotide polymorphisms reveals patterns of divergence and gene flow between ecologically divergent species

    Kai N. Stölting;Rick Nipper;Dorothea Lindtke;Celine Caseys

  • Range-wide patterns of nuclear and chloroplast DNA diversity in Vriesea gigantea (Bromeliaceae), a neotropical forest species

    Clarisse Palma-Silva;Clarisse Palma-Silva;Clarisse Palma-Silva;Christian Lexer;Christian Lexer;G. M. Paggi;Thelma Barbará;Thelma Barbará

  • Admixture facilitates adaptation from standing variation in the European aspen (Populus tremula L.), a widespread forest tree

    Dulcineia De Carvalho;Pär K. Ingvarsson;Jeffrey Joseph;Leonie Suter

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael F. Fay
Michael F. Fay Royal Botanic Gardens
Nicolas Salamin
Nicolas Salamin University of Lausanne
Loren H. Rieseberg
Loren H. Rieseberg University of British Columbia
Salvatore Cozzolino
Salvatore Cozzolino University of Naples Federico II
Herta Steinkellner
Herta Steinkellner BOKU University
Josef Glössl
Josef Glössl BOKU University
Peter B. Pearman
Peter B. Pearman University of the Basque Country
Alex Widmer
Alex Widmer ETH Zurich
C. Alex Buerkle
C. Alex Buerkle University of Wyoming
Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Niklaus E. Zimmermann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

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