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Overview

Lukas Schärer is affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland and focuses their research on a range of fields within biological sciences. Their primary areas of study include biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with notable contributions also in agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science.

Their work spans several specialized subfields, including molecular biology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, genetics, ecology, and global and planetary change. Schärer's research topics cover diverse biological subjects such as planarian biology and electrostimulation, animal behavior and reproduction, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, parasite biology and host interactions, marine ecology and invasive species, marine biology and ecology research, and plant and biological electrophysiology studies.

Schärer has published extensively, with a total of 44 publications in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, and considerable research output in related disciplines. Among the recurring venues for their publications are Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 14 papers, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 7 papers, Evolution Letters with 2, BMC Biology with 2, and Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution with 2.

Recent research papers by Lukas Schärer include the following:

  • The free-living flatworm Macrostomum lignano, 2020, EvoDevo
  • Large-scale phylogenomics of the genus Macrostomum (Platyhelminthes) reveals cryptic diversity and novel sexual traits, 2021, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Frequent origins of traumatic insemination involve convergent shifts in sperm and genital morphology, 2021, Evolution Letters
  • Genome and Karyotype Reorganization after Whole Genome Duplication in Free-Living Flatworms of the Genus Macrostomum, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • The repeatable opportunity for selection differs between pre- and postcopulatory fitness components, 2020, Evolution Letters

Collaboration figures indicate frequent co-authorship with researchers such as Jeremias N. Brand (20 publications), R. Axel W. Wiberg (15 publications), Gudrun Viktorin (10 publications), Pragya Singh (9 publications), and Christian Beisel (6 publications).

Best Publications

  • Tests of sex allocation theory in simultaneously hermaphroditic animals

    Lukas Schärer

  • A new model organism among the lower Bilateria and the use of digital microscopy in taxonomy of meiobenthic Platyhelminthes: Macrostomum lignano ,n . sp. (Rhabditophora, Macrostomorpha)

    P. Ladurner;Lukas Schärer;Lukas Schärer;W. Salvenmoser;Reinhard M. Rieger

  • Anisogamy, chance and the evolution of sex roles

    Lukas Schärer;Locke Rowe;Göran Arnqvist

  • Phenotypically plastic adjustment of sex allocation in a simultaneous hermaphrodite

    Lukas Schärer;Lukas Schärer;Peter Ladurner

  • Mating behavior and the evolution of sperm design

    L. Schärer;D. T. J. Littlewood;A. Waeschenbach;W. Yoshida

  • Sexual Conflict in Hermaphrodites

    Lukas Schärer;Tim Janicke;Steven A. Ramm

  • Sperm competition and the evolution of spermatogenesis

    Steven A. Ramm;Lukas Schärer;Jens Ehmcke;Joachim Wistuba

  • Genome and transcriptome of the regeneration-competent flatworm, Macrostomum lignano

    Kaja A. Wasik;James Gurtowski;Xin Zhou;Xin Zhou;Olivia Mendivil Ramos

  • Why anisogamy drives ancestral sex roles.

    Jussi Lehtonen;Jussi Lehtonen;Geoff A. Parker;Lukas Schärer

  • Bigger testes do work more: experimental evidence that testis size reflects testicular cell proliferation activity in the marine invertebrate, the free-living flatworm Macrostomum sp.

    Lukas Schärer;Lukas Schärer;Peter Ladurner;Reinhard M. Rieger

  • The evolutionary ecology of testicular function: size isn't everything.

    Steven A. Ramm;Lukas Schärer

  • Mating behaviour of the marine turbellarian Macrostomum sp.: these worms suck

    Lukas Schärer;Lukas Schärer;Greg Joss;Peter Sandner

  • Bateman Gradients in Hermaphrodites: An Extended Approach to Quantify Sexual Selection

    Nils Anthes;Patrice David;Josh R. Auld;Jeroen N. A. Hoffer

  • Trade-off between male and female allocation in the simultaneously hermaphroditic flatworm Macrostomum sp.

    Lukas Schärer;Peter Sandner;Nico K. Michiels

  • Phenotypic plasticity in sperm production rate: there's more to it than testis size

    Lukas Schärer;Dita Brígida Vizoso

  • Resource-dependent sex-allocation in a simultaneous hermaphrodite.

    Dita Brígida Vizoso;Lukas Schärer;Lukas Schärer

  • Size‐dependent sex allocation in a simultaneous hermaphrodite parasite

    Lukas Schärer;Lars M. Karlsson;Mira Christen;Claus Wedekind;Claus Wedekind

  • Sex allocation adjustment to mating group size in a simultaneous hermaphrodite

    Tim Janicke;Lucas Marie-Orleach;Katrien De Mulder;Eugene Berezikov;Eugene Berezikov

  • Evidence for strategic egg production in a hermaphroditic cestode

    Claus Wedekind;Dora Strahm;Lukas Schärer

  • Goings‐on inside a worm: functional hypotheses derived from sexual conflict thinking

    Dita B. Vizoso;Gunde Rieger;Lukas Schärer

Frequent Co-Authors

Claus Wedekind
Claus Wedekind University of Lausanne
Eugene Berezikov
Eugene Berezikov University Medical Center Groningen
Reinhard M. Rieger
Reinhard M. Rieger University of Innsbruck
D. Timothy J. Littlewood
D. Timothy J. Littlewood Natural History Museum
Victor Guryev
Victor Guryev University Medical Center Groningen
Patrice David
Patrice David University of Montpellier
Gregory J. Hannon
Gregory J. Hannon University of Cambridge
Nico K. Michiels
Nico K. Michiels University of Tübingen
Ido Pen
Ido Pen University of Groningen

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