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Overview

Thorsten B.H. Reusch is affiliated with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines within environmental and marine sciences, with a focus on genetic diversity, ecology, and oceanographic processes.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these broader fields, their subfields of expertise cover:

  • Oceanography
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics

The primary research topics they have addressed include:

  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Science
  • Science Advances
  • Nature Plants

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Post-2020 goals overlook genetic diversity" (2020), published in Science
  • "The blue carbon wealth of nations" (2021), published in Nature Climate Change
  • "Somatic genetic drift and multilevel selection in a clonal seagrass" (2020), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Two different epigenetic information channels in wild three-spined sticklebacks are involved in salinity adaptation" (2020), published in Science Advances
  • "Evolution of male pregnancy associated with remodeling of canonical vertebrate immunity in seahorses and pipefishes" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist regularly collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Till Bayer
  • Marina Khachaturyan
  • Lei Yu
  • Angela Stevenson
  • Tal Dagan

Best Publications

  • Ecosystem recovery after climatic extremes enhanced by genotypic diversity

    Thorsten B. H. Reusch;Anneli Ehlers;August Hämmerli;Boris Worm

  • Adaptive evolution of a key phytoplankton species to ocean acidification

    Kai T. Lohbeck;Ulf Riebesell;Thorsten B. H. Reusch

  • The genome of the seagrass Zostera marina reveals angiosperm adaptation to the sea

    Jeanine L. Olsen;Pierre Rouzé;Bram Verhelst;Yao-Cheng Lin

  • Female sticklebacks count alleles in a strategy of sexual selection explaining MHC polymorphism

    Thorsten B. H. Reusch;Michael A. Häberli;Peter B. Aeschlimann;Manfred Milinski

  • The Baltic Sea as a time machine for the future coastal ocean

    Thorsten B. H. Reusch;Jan Dierking;Helen C. Andersson;Erik Bonsdorff

  • Mate choice decisions of stickleback females predictably modified by MHC peptide ligands

    Manfred Milinski;Sian Wyn Griffiths;K. Mathias Wegner;Thorsten B. H. Reusch

  • Evolution in an acidifying ocean

    Jennifer M. Sunday;Jennifer M. Sunday;Piero Calosi;Sam Dupont;Philip L. Munday

  • Parasite selection for immunogenetic optimality

    K. Mathias Wegner;Martin Kalbe;Joachim Kurtz;Thorsten B. H. Reusch

  • Multiple parasites are driving major histocompatibility complex polymorphism in the wild

    K. M. Wegner;T. B. H. Reusch;M. Kalbe

  • Climate change in the oceans: evolutionary versus phenotypically plastic responses of marine animals and plants.

    Thorsten B. H. Reusch

  • Importance of genetic diversity in eelgrass Zostera marina for its resilience to global warming

    Anneli Ehlers;Boris Worm;Thorsten B. H. Reusch

  • Molecular ecology of global change.

    Thorsten B. H. Reusch;Troy E. Wood;Troy E. Wood

  • Severe tissue damage in Atlantic cod larvae under increasing ocean acidification

    Andrea Y. Frommel;Rommel Maneja;Rommel Maneja;David Lowe;Arne M. Malzahn

  • North Atlantic phylogeography and large‐scale population differentiation of the seagrass Zostera marina L.

    Jeanine L. Olsen;Wytze T. Stam;James A. Coyer;Thorsten B. H. Reusch

  • Female sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculeatus use self-reference to optimize MHC allele number during mate selection

    P. B. Aeschlimann;M. A. Häberli;T. B. H. Reusch;Thomas Boehm

  • Major histocompatibility complex diversity influences parasite resistance and innate immunity in sticklebacks.

    Joachim Kurtz;Martin Kalbe;Peter B. Aeschlimann;Michael A. Häberli

  • Adaptation of a globally important coccolithophore to ocean warming and acidification

    Lothar Schlüter;Kai T. Lohbeck;Magdalena A. Gutowska;Magdalena A. Gutowska;Joachim Paul Gröger

  • Post-2020 goals overlook genetic diversity

    Linda Laikre;Linda Laikre;Sean Hoban;Sean Hoban;Michael W. Bruford;Michael W. Bruford;Gernot Segelbacher;Gernot Segelbacher

  • Microbial contributions to the persistence of coral reefs.

    Nicole S Webster;Nicole S Webster;Thorsten B H Reusch

  • Comparative analysis of amplicon and metagenomic sequencing methods reveals key features in the evolution of animal metaorganisms

    Philipp Rausch;Malte Rühlemann;Britt M. Hermes;Britt M. Hermes;Britt M. Hermes;Shauni Doms;Shauni Doms

  • A microsatellite‐based estimation of clonal diversity and population subdivision in Zostera marina, a marine flowering plant

    T. B. H. Reusch;W. T. Stam;J. L. Olsen

  • Chlorobiphenyls: Model Compounds for Metabolism in Food Chain Organisms and Their Potential Use as Ecotoxicological Stress Indicators by Application of the Metabolic Slope Concept

    Narayanan Kannan;Thorsten B.H. Reusch;Detlef E. Schulz-Bull;Gert Petrick

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Kalbe
Martin Kalbe Max Planck Society
Catriona Clemmesen
Catriona Clemmesen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Ulf Riebesell
Ulf Riebesell GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Erich Bornberg-Bauer
Erich Bornberg-Bauer University of Münster
Manfred Milinski
Manfred Milinski Max Planck Society
Christophe Eizaguirre
Christophe Eizaguirre Queen Mary University of London
Philip Rosenstiel
Philip Rosenstiel Kiel University
Jeanine L. Olsen
Jeanine L. Olsen University of Groningen
Gabriele Procaccini
Gabriele Procaccini Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Joachim Kurtz
Joachim Kurtz University of Münster

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