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Austria
2024

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86
Citations
30424
World Ranking
1249
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Austria Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Christian Schlötterer is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria. Their research focus lies primarily within the domain of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with additional work in Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The main subfields of study in their work include:

  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecology
  • Insect Science

The topics frequently addressed by Schlötterer span various aspects of evolutionary biology and genetics, such as:

  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Some of the recent papers published include:

  • Polygenic adaptation: a unifying framework to understand positive selection, 2020, Nature Reviews Genetics
  • Next-generation biological control: the need for integrating genetics and genomics, 2020, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • The Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity in Response to Temperature Stress, 2020, Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Rapid sex-specific adaptation to high temperature in Drosophila, 2020, eLife
  • Neuronal Function and Dopamine Signaling Evolve at High Temperature in Drosophila, 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution

Frequent collaborators in Schlötterer's research include:

  • Viola Nolte
  • Wei-Yun Lai
  • Claire Burny
  • Sheng-Kai Hsu
  • Marlies Dolezal

The venues where Schlötterer has most often published comprise:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Genome biology

Best Publications

  • microsatellite analyser (MSA): a platform independent analysis tool for large microsatellite data sets

    Daniel Dieringer;Christian Schlötterer

  • Slippage synthesis of simple sequence DNA

    Christian Schlötterer;Diethard Tautz

  • Microsatellites: Evolution and Applications

    David B. Goldstein;Christian Schlötterer

  • The evolution of molecular markers — just a matter of fashion?

    Christian Schlötterer

  • Evolutionary dynamics of microsatellite DNA

    Christian Schlötterer

  • PoPoolation2: identifying differentiation between populations using sequencing of pooled DNA samples (Pool-Seq)

    Robert Kofler;Ram Vinay Pandey;Christian Schlötterer

  • Sequencing pools of individuals — mining genome-wide polymorphism data without big funding

    Christian Schlötterer;Raymond Tobler;Robert Kofler;Viola Nolte

  • PoPoolation: A Toolbox for Population Genetic Analysis of Next Generation Sequencing Data from Pooled Individuals

    Robert Kofler;Pablo Orozco-terWengel;Nicola De Maio;Ram Vinay Pandey

  • Conservation of polymorphic simple sequence loci in cetacean species

    C. Schlötterer;B. Amos;B. Amos;D. Tautz

  • Social structure of pilot whales revealed by analytical DNA profiling

    Bill Amos;Christian Schlötterer;Diethard Tautz

  • Polygenic adaptation: a unifying framework to understand positive selection

    Neda Barghi;Joachim Hermisson;Christian Schlötterer

  • Diversity in a hidden world: potential and limitation of next‐generation sequencing for surveys of molecular diversity of eukaryotic microorganisms

    Ralph Medinger;Ralph Medinger;Viola Nolte;Ram Vinay Pandey;Steffen Jost

  • SciRoKo: a new tool for whole genome microsatellite search and investigation.

    Robert Kofler;Christian Schlötterer;Tamas Lelley

  • Comparative evolutionary analysis of rDNA ITS regions in Drosophila.

    C Schlötterer;M T Hauser;A von Haeseler;D Tautz

  • The Next Generation of Molecular Markers From Massively Parallel Sequencing of Pooled DNA Samples

    Andreas Futschik;Christian Schlötterer

  • Isolation of simple‐sequence loci for use in polymerase chain reaction‐based DNA fingerprinting

    Kornelia Rassmann;Christian Schlötterer;Diethard Tautz

  • Fitness effects of advantageous mutations in evolving Escherichia coli populations

    Marianne Imhof;Christian Schlötterer

  • Amplification of hypervariable simple sequence repeats (microsatellites) from excremental DNA of wild living bonobos (Pan paniscus)

    U. Gerloff;C. Schlotterer;K. Rassmann;I. Rambold

  • Hitchhiking mapping--functional genomics from the population genetics perspective.

    Christian Schlötterer

  • Genes from scratch – the evolutionary fate of de novo genes

    Christian Schlötterer

Frequent Co-Authors

Diethard Tautz
Diethard Tautz Max Planck Society
Gottfried Brem
Gottfried Brem University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Thomas Flatt
Thomas Flatt University of Fribourg
Joachim Hermisson
Joachim Hermisson University of Vienna
Jens Tetens
Jens Tetens University of Göttingen
Christian Sturmbauer
Christian Sturmbauer University of Graz
Michael Hess
Michael Hess University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Ruedi Fries
Ruedi Fries Technical University of Munich
Tosso Leeb
Tosso Leeb University of Bern
Leif Andersson
Leif Andersson Texas A&M University

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