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| Lukas ScharerSummaryAffiliation: University of Basel Country: Switzerland Publications
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Sex allocation and investment into pre- and post-copulatory traits in simultaneous hermaphrodites: the role of polyandry and local sperm competitionLukas Scharer
Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Vesalgasse 1, 4051 Basel, Switzerland
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 368:20120052. 2013..Future work should therefore aim at quantifying sexual selection and identifying the underlying traits along the pre- to post-copulatory axis...
Anisogamy, chance and the evolution of sex rolesLukas Scharer
Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Vesalgasse 1, CH 4051 Basel, Switzerland
Trends Ecol Evol 27:260-4. 2012..To understand sex roles, one should ask how environmental variation and female-male coevolution cause variation in sex-specific selection in the light of anisogamy...- Evolution of testicular architecture in the Drosophilidae: a role for sperm lengthLukas Scharer
Division of Ultrastructural Research and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Zoology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
BMC Evol Biol 8:143. 2008..Specifically, we collect published information on the number of first (or primary) spermatocytes in spermatogenesis, which allows to infer an important aspect of testicular architecture... - Tests of sex allocation theory in simultaneously hermaphroditic animalsLukas Scharer
University of Basel, Zoological Institute, Evolutionary Biology, Vesalgasse 1, 4051 Basel, Switzerland
Evolution 63:1377-405. 2009..I identify the main questions that need to be addressed and point to promising avenues for future research... - Sex allocation and sexual conflict in simultaneously hermaphroditic animalsLukas Scharer
Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Vesalgasse 1, 4051 Basel, Switzerland
Biol Lett 5:705-8. 2009..The link between SA and sexual conflict is an interesting field for future empirical and theoretical research... - Mating behavior and the evolution of sperm designLukas Scharer
Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, University of Basel, 4051 Basel, Switzerland
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:1490-5. 2011..Our study documents that a shift in the mating behavior may alter fundamentally the conditions under which sperm compete and thereby lead to a drastic change in sperm design... - Sex allocation predicts mating rate in a simultaneous hermaphroditeTim Janicke
Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Vesalgasse 1, Basel 4051, Switzerland
Proc Biol Sci 276:4247-53. 2009..e. relatively small testes and large ovaries). We argue that this pattern is comparable to conventional gender roles in separate-sexed organisms... - Phenotypic engineering of sperm-production rate confirms evolutionary predictions of sperm competition theoryKiyono Sekii
Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Proc Biol Sci 280:20122711. 2013..Our study clearly documents the potential of phenotypic engineering via dose-dependent RNAi to test quantitative predictions of evolutionary theory... - Melav2, an elav-like gene, is essential for spermatid differentiation in the flatworm Macrostomum lignanoKiyono Sekii
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
BMC Dev Biol 9:62. 2009..Studying genes involved in such processes can thus provide important information for a better understanding of spermatogenesis, which might be universally applied to many other organisms... 
Production and characterisation of cell- and tissue-specific monoclonal antibodies for the flatworm Macrostomum spPeter Ladurner
Institute of Zoology and Limnology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Histochem Cell Biol 123:89-104. 2005..as a suitable model organism for comparative analyses within Platyhelminthes and to Drosophila and C. elegans...