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Overview

Stefan Lüpold is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.

Their work centers on topics including Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Plant and animal studies, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Physiological and biochemical adaptations, Insect and Pesticide Research, and Primate Behavior and Ecology.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Stefan Lüpold include:

  • Abhishek Meena
  • Alessio N. De Nardo
  • Sonja H. Sbilordo
  • Wolf U. Blanckenhorn
  • Jhoniel Perdigón Ferreira

Stefan Lüpold has published extensively in several venues, with notable frequent publication sites including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Evolution
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Science Advances
  • Evolution Letters

Notable recent papers authored by Stefan Lüpold include:

  • "How sperm competition shapes the evolution of testes and sperm: a meta-analysis" (2020), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "How female × male and male × male interactions influence competitive fertilization in Drosophila melanogaster" (2020), published in Evolution Letters
  • "Condition-dependent interaction between mating success and competitive fertilization success in Drosophila melanogaster" (2021), published in Evolution

Best Publications

  • Sperm morphology and sperm velocity in passerine birds

    Stefan Lüpold;Sara Calhim;Simone Immler;Tim R Birkhead

  • Male Drosophila melanogaster adjust ejaculate size based on female mating status, fecundity, and age

    Stefan Lüpold;Mollie K. Manier;Outi Ala-Honkola;John M. Belote

  • Sexual selection and the evolution of sperm quality

    John L. Fitzpatrick;Stefan Lüpold

  • Resolving variation in the reproductive tradeoff between sperm size and number.

    Simone Immler;Scott Pitnick;Geoff A. Parker;Kate L. Durrant

  • The Lure Effect, Tadpole Tail Shape, and the Target of Dragonfly Strikes

    Josh Van Buskirk;Pia Anderwald;Stefan Lüpold;Luzian Reinhardt

  • Evolutionary Trade-Off between Secondary Sexual Traits and Ejaculates

    Leigh W. Simmons;Stefan Lüpold;John L. Fitzpatrick

  • Female monopolization mediates the relationship between pre- and postcopulatory sexual traits

    Stefan Lüpold;Joseph L. Tomkins;Leigh W. Simmons;John L. Fitzpatrick

  • How sexual selection can drive the evolution of costly sperm ornamentation

    Stefan Lüpold;Mollie K. Manier;Mollie K. Manier;Nalini Puniamoorthy;Nalini Puniamoorthy;Christopher Schoff

  • How Multivariate Ejaculate Traits Determine Competitive Fertilization Success in Drosophila melanogaster

    Stefan Lüpold;Mollie K. Manier;Kirstin S. Berben;Kyle J. Smith

  • Female mediation of competitive fertilization success in Drosophila melanogaster

    Stefan Lüpold;Scott Pitnick;Kirstin S. Berben;Cecilia S. Blengini;Cecilia S. Blengini

  • How sperm competition shapes the evolution of testes and sperm: a meta-analysis.

    Stefan Lüpold;Raïssa A. de Boer;Jonathan P. Evans;Joseph L. Tomkins

  • Sperm form and function: what do we know about the role of sexual selection?

    Stefan Lüpold;Scott Pitnick

  • Sperm Competition Selects Beyond Relative Testes Size in Birds

    Stefan Lüpold;George M. Linz;James W. Rivers;David F. Westneat

  • Postcopulatory Sexual Selection Generates Speciation Phenotypes in Drosophila

    Mollie K. Manier;Stefan Lüpold;John M. Belote;William T. Starmer

  • Rapid diversification of sperm precedence traits and processes among three sibling Drosophila species.

    Mollie K. Manier;John M. Belote;Kirstin S. Berben;Stefan Lüpold

  • Population density and structure drive differential investment in pre- and postmating sexual traits in frogs.

    Stefan Lüpold;Long Jin;Wen Bo Liao

  • Bat genitalia: allometry, variation and good genes

    S. Lüpold;A. G. Mcelligott;D. J. Hosken

  • Sperm design and variation in the New World blackbirds (Icteridae)

    Stefan Lüpold;Stefan Lüpold;George M. Linz;Tim R. Birkhead

  • The evolution of male-biased sexual size dimorphism is associated with increased body size plasticity in males

    Patrick T. Rohner;Tiit Teder;Tiit Teder;Toomas Esperk;Toomas Esperk;Stefan Lüpold

  • Social interactions among wild female Bechstein's bats (Myotis bechsteinii) living in a maternity colony

    Gerald Kerth;Bettina Almasi;Nina Ribi;Dominik Thiel

  • Altitude underlies variation in the mating system, somatic condition, and investment in reproductive traits in male Asian grass frogs ( Fejervarya limnocharis )

    Long Jin;Sheng Nan Yang;Wen Bo Liao;Stefan Lüpold

  • Sperm design and variation in the New World

    T. R. Birkhead;S. Lüpold;Hickory Comers;G. M. Linz

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott Pitnick
Scott Pitnick Syracuse University
Tim R. Birkhead
Tim R. Birkhead University of Sheffield
John L. Fitzpatrick
John L. Fitzpatrick Stockholm University
Wolf U. Blanckenhorn
Wolf U. Blanckenhorn University of Zurich
Leigh W. Simmons
Leigh W. Simmons University of Western Australia
David F. Westneat
David F. Westneat University of Kentucky
Joseph L. Tomkins
Joseph L. Tomkins University of Western Australia
William T. Starmer
William T. Starmer Syracuse University
Geoff A. Parker
Geoff A. Parker University of Liverpool
Cyril C. Grueter
Cyril C. Grueter University of Western Australia

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