Genetic identification of forensically important flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)
- R. Zehner, J. Amendt, Svenja Schütt, Jan Sauer, R. Krettek, D. Povolný
- BiologyZeitschrift für Rechtsmedizin
- 24 April 2004
Sequence data of selected regions of the CO I and ND 5 genes of the most important European flesh fly taxa associated with cadavers are presented, which can act as reference standards for species determination.
Cryptic biodiversity loss linked to global climate change
- Miklós Bálint, S. Domisch, C. Nowak
- Environmental Science
- 1 September 2011
An analysis of the distribution and mitochondrial DNA variability of nine montane aquatic insect species in Europe suggests range contractions will be accompanied by severe loss of genetic diversity, implying morphospecies-scale assessments may greatly underestimate potential biodiversity losses from climate change.
Low mountain ranges: summit traps for montane freshwater species under climate change
- Jan Sauer, S. Domisch, C. Nowak, P. Haase
- Environmental ScienceBiodiversity and Conservation
- 23 August 2011
It is proposed that GCC will lead to the extinction of several species and unique genetic lineages of postglacial relict species, resulting in a significant decline in Central European fauna.
Circumantarctic distribution in Southern Ocean benthos? A genetic test using the genus Macroscapha (Crustacea, Ostracoda) as a model.
- S. Brandão, Jan Sauer, I. Schön
- Environmental Science, BiologyMolecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
- 1 June 2010
Sexual Selection is Involved in Speciation in a Land Snail Radiation on Crete
- Jan Sauer, B. Hausdorf
- BiologyEvolution; international journal of organic…
- 1 October 2009
There is no evidence for the hypothesis that the differences in the genitalia of the Cretan Xerocrassa species can be explained by natural selection against hybrids under the assumption that this is more likely in geographically overlapping species pairs and clades, and it is shown that there is a positive scaling between male and female spermatophore-producing organs indicating sexual coevolution.
Revision of the Helicellinae of Crete (Gastropoda: Hygromiidae)
- B. Hausdorf, Jan Sauer
- Environmental Science
- 1 October 2009
The distribution patterns of the endemic Xerocrassa and Pseudoxerophila species do not provide evidence for the hypothesis that these radiations were caused by the fragmentation of the region of present-day Crete into several palaeoislands in the late Miocene and Pliocene.
A comparison of DNA‐based methods for delimiting species in a Cretan land snail radiation reveals shortcomings of exclusively molecular taxonomy
- Jan Sauer, B. Hausdorf
- Biology
- 1 June 2012
Gaussian clustering produced the classifications with the highest concordance with the morphological classification of all approaches applied in this study, both with single‐locus sequences and with binary multilocus data.
Reconstructing the evolutionary history of the radiation of the land snail genus Xerocrassa on Crete based on mitochondrial sequences and AFLP markers
- Jan Sauer, B. Hausdorf
- BiologyBMC Evolutionary Biology
- 4 October 2010
The most likely causes for the nonmonophyly of species in the mitochondrial gene tree of the Xerocrassa radiation on Crete could be inferred using AFLP data by a combination of several criteria, namely the depth of the coalescences in the gene tree, the geographical distribution of shared genetic markers, and concordance with results of admixture analyses of nuclear multilocus markers.
Population Structure and Distribution Patterns of the Sibling Mosquito Species Culex pipiens and Culex torrentium (Diptera: Culicidae) Reveal Different Evolutionary Paths
- A. Werblow, S. Klimpel, Sarah Bolius, A. Dorresteijn, Jan Sauer, C. Melaun
- BiologyPLoS ONE
- 21 July 2014
Nowadays a number of endemic mosquito species are known to possess vector abilities for various diseases, as e.g. the sibling species Culex pipiens and Culex torrentium. Due to their morphological…
Family matters: skin microbiome reflects the social group and spatial proximity in wild zebra finches
- Kathrin Engel, Helga Pankoke, B. Caspers
- BiologyBMC Ecology
- 29 April 2020
The skin microbiome of wild zebra finches is characterised and it is found that animals of social groups (families) harbour highly similar bacterial communities on their skin with respect to community composition, and that spatial proximity of nest sites, and therefore individuals, correlated with the skin microbiota similarity.
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