Schärer Group
Evolutionary Biology
Zoological Institute
University of Basel
Vesalgasse 1
CH-4051 Basel
Switzerland

Publications (see bottom of page for corrections and additions)

36. Schärer, L., Rowe, L. & Arnqvist, G. (2012). Anisogamy, chance and the evolution of sex roles.Trends in Ecology and Evolution 27: 260-264 (pdf)

35. Janicke, T., Kesselring, H. & Schärer, L. (2012). Strategic mating effort in a simultaneous hermaphrodite: the role of the partner's feeding status. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 66:593-601 (pdf)

34. Schärer, L., Littlewood, D. T. J., Waeschenbach, A., Yoshida, W. & Vizoso, D. B. (2011). Mating behaviour and the evolution of sperm design. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 108:1490-1495 (pdf) (supplementary information) (images and videos for the press)

33. Janicke, T., Sandner, P. & Schärer, L. (2011). Determinants of female fecundity in a simultaneous hermaphrodite: the role of polyandry and food availability. Evolutionary Ecolology 25: 203-218 (pdf)

32. Anthes, N., David, P., Auld, J. R., Hoffer, J. N. A., Jarne, P., Koene, J. M., Kokko, H., Lorenzi, M. C., Pelissié, B., Sprenger, D., Staikou, A. & Schärer, L. (2010). Bateman gradients in hermaphrodites: An extended approach to quantify sexual selection. American Naturalist 276: 249-263 (pdf)

31. Janicke, T. & Schärer, L. (2010). Sperm competition affects sex allocation but not sperm morphology in a flatworm. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 64: 1367-1375 (pdf)

30. Sandner, P. & Schärer, L. (2010). No plastic responses to experimental manipulation of sperm competition in a free-living flatworm. Ethology 116: 292-299 (pdf).

29. Vizoso, D. B., Rieger, G. & Schärer, L. (2010). Goings-on inside a worm: functional hypotheses derived from sexual conflict thinking. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 99:370-383 (pdf).

28. Sekii, K., Salvenmoser, W., De Mulder, K., Schärer, L. & Ladurner, P. (2009). Melav2, an elav-like gene involved in spermatid differentiation in the flatworm Macrostomum lignano. BMC Developmental Biology 9:62 (pdf)

27. Janicke, T. & Schärer, L. (2009b). Sex allocation predicts mating rate in a simultaneous hermaphrodite. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 276: 4247-4253 (pdf)

26. Van Velzen, E., Schärer, L. & Pen, I. (2009). The effect of cryptic female choice on sex allocation in simultaneous hermaphrodites. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 276: 3123-3131 (pdf)

25. Schärer, L. (2009). Tests of sex allocation theory in simultaneously hermaphroditic animals. Evolution 63: 1377-1405 (pdf)

24. Schärer, L. & Janicke T. (2009). Sex allocation and sexual conflict in simultaneously hermaphroditic animals. Biology Letters 5: 705-708 (pdf) (entire special issue)

23. Janicke, T. & Schärer, L. (2009a). Determinants of mating and sperm-transfer success in a simultaneous hermaphrodite. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 405-415 (pdf)

22. Mouton, S., Willems, M., Braeckman, B. P., Egger, B., Ladurner, P., Schärer, L. & Borgonie, G. (2009). The free-living flatworm Macrostomum lignano: a new model organism for ageing research. Experimental Gerontology 44: 243-249 (pdf)

21. Ladurner, P., Egger, B., De Mulder, K., Pfister, D., Kuales, G., Salvenmoser, W. & Schärer, L. (2008). The stem cell system of the basal flatworm Macrostomum lignano in T. C. G. Bosch, ed. Stem Cells: from Hydra to Man. Springer, Berlin (pdf)

20. Schärer, L., Da Lage, J.-L. & Joly, D. (2008). Evolution of testicular architecture in the Drosophilidae: a role for sperm length. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8: 143 (pdf)

19. Schärer, L., Vizoso, D. B., Rieger, G. & Peintner, U. (2007). Thraustochytrids as novel parasitic protists of marine free-living flatworms: Thraustochytrium caudivorum sp. nov. parasitizes Macrostomum lignano. Marine Biology 152: 1095–1104 (pdf)

18. Vizoso, D. B. & Schärer, L. (2007). Resource-dependent sex allocation in a simultaneous hermaphrodite. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 1046-1055 (pdf)

17. Brauer, V., Schärer, L. & Michiels, N. K. (2007). Phenotypically flexible sex allocation in a simultaneous hermaphrodite. Evolution 61: 216-222 (pdf)

16. Schärer, L., Zaubzer, J., Salvenmoser, W., Seifarth, C. & Ladurner, P. (2007). Tracking sperm of a donor in a recipient: an immunocytochemical approach. Animal Biology 57: 121-136 (pdf)

15. Schärer, L. & Vizoso, D. B. (2007). Phenotypic plasticity in sperm production rate: there's more to it than testis size. Evolutionary Ecology 21: 295-306 (pdf)

14. Ladurner, P., Schärer, L., Salvenmoser, W. & Rieger, R. M. (2005). 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). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 43: 114-126 (pdf)

13. Ladurner, P., Pfister, D., Seifarth, C., Schärer, L., Mahlknecht, M., Salvenmoser, W., Gerth, R. & Rieger, R. (2005). Production of cell- and tissue-specific monoclonal antibodies for the flatworm Macrostomum sp. Histochemistry and Cell Biology 123: 89-104 (pdf)

12. Schärer, L., Sandner, P. and Michiels, N. K. (2005). Trade-off between male and female allocation in the simultaneously hermaphroditic flatworm Macrostomum sp. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18: 396-404 (pdf)

11. Schärer, L., Ladurner, P. & Rieger, R. M. (2004). 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.. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 56: 420-425 (pdf)

10. Schärer, L., Joss, G., & Sandner, P. (2004). Mating behaviour of the marine turbellarian Macrostomum sp.: these worms suck. Marine Biology 145: 373-380 (pdf)

9. Schärer, L. & Vizoso, D. B. (2003). Earlier sex change in infected individuals of the protogynous reef fish Thalassoma bifasciatum. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 55: 137-143 (pdf)

8. Schärer, L. & Ladurner, P. (2003). Phenotypically plastic adjustment of sex allocation in a simultaneous hermaphrodite. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 270: 935–941 (pdf)

7. Schärer, L., Karlsson, L. M., Christen, M. & Wedekind, C. (2001). Size-dependent sex allocation in a simultaneous hermaphrodite parasite. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14: 55-67 (pdf)

6. Schärer, L. & Wedekind, C. (2001). Social situation, sperm competition and sex allocation in a simultaneous hermaphrodite parasite, Schistocephalus solidus. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14: 942-953 (pdf)

5. Binz, T., Reusch, T. B. H., Wedekind, C., Schärer, L., Sternberg, J. M., & Milinski, M. (2000). Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci from the tapeworm Schistocephalus solidus. Molecular Ecology 11: 1926-1927 (pdf)

4. Wedekind, C., Christen, M., Schärer, L. & Treichel, N. (2000). Relative helminth size in crustacean hosts: in vivo determination, and effects of host gender and within-host competition in a copepod infected by a cestode. Aquatic Ecology 34: 279-285 (pdf)

3. Schärer, L. & Robertson D. R. (1999). Sperm and milt characteristics and male versus female gametic investment in the Caribbean reef fish, Thalassoma bifasciatum. Journal of Fish Biology 55: 329-343 (pdf)

2. Schärer, L. & Wedekind, C. (1999). Lifetime reproductive output in a hermaphrodite cestode when reproducing alone or in pairs: a time cost of pairing. Evolutionary Ecology 13: 381-394 (pdf)

1. Wedekind, C., Strahm, D. & Schärer, L. (1998). Evidence for strategic egg production in a hermaphroditic cestode. Parasitology 117: 373-382 (pdf)

Corrections and additions

A continuously updated list of corrections, and changes in the taxonomic status of species which are relevant for publications of our group. If you identify any further problems, please report them to lukas.scharer@unibas.ch.

Paper

29. Vizoso, Rieger & Schärer (2010)

23. Janicke & Schärer (2009a)

16. Schärer, Zaubzer, Salvenmoser, Seifarth & Ladurner (2007).

14. Ladurner, Schärer, Salvenmoser & Rieger (2005).

See map in Figure 1 for correct locations

13. Ladurner, Pfister, Seifarth, Schärer, Mahlknecht, Salvenmoser, Gerth & Rieger (2005)

12. Schärer, Sandner & Michiels (2005)

11. Schärer, Ladurner & Rieger (2004)

11. Schärer, Ladurner & Rieger (2004)

10. Schärer Joss & Sandner (2004)

8. Schärer & Ladurner (2003)