Support for a radiation of free-living flatworms in the African Great Lakes region and the description of five new Macrostomum species

Mating behavior and reproductive morphology predict macroevolution of sex allocation in hermaphroditic flatworms

(2022) Jeremias N. Brand et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Somewhere I belong: phylogeny and morphological evolution in a species‐rich lineage of ectoparasitic flatworms infecting cichlid fishes

(2022) Armando J. Cruz‐Laufer et al.   CLADISTICS

Explosive networking: The role of adaptive host radiations and ecological opportunity in a species‐rich host–parasite assembly

(2022) Armando J. Cruz‐Laufer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Faster rates of molecular sequence evolution in reproduction-related genes and in species with hypodermic sperm morphologies

(2021) R Axel W Wiberg et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Large-scale phylogenomics of the genus Macrostomum (Platyhelminthes) reveals cryptic diversity and novel sexual traits

(2021) Jeremias N. Brand et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Frequent origins of traumatic insemination involve convergent shifts in sperm and genital morphology

(2021) Jeremias N. Brand et al.   Evolution Letters

The free-living flatworm Macrostomum lignano

(2020) Jakub Wudarski et al.   EvoDevo

RNA-Seq of three free-living flatworm species suggests rapid evolution of reproduction-related genes

(2020) Jeremias N. Brand et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Macrostomum shenda and M. spiriger, two new brackish-water species of Macrostomum (Platyhelminthes: Macrostomorpha) from China

(2019) FAN XIN et al.   ZOOTAXA

Comparing Adaptive Radiations Across Space, Time, and Taxa

(2019) Rosemary G Gillespie et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Understanding explosive diversification through cichlid fish genomics

(2018) Walter Salzburger   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Indirect genetic effects and sexual conflicts: Partner genotype influences multiple morphological and behavioral reproductive traits in a flatworm

(2017) Lucas Marie-Orleach et al.   EVOLUTION

Two new species and the molecular phylogeny of eight species of Macrostomum (Platyhelminthes: Macrostomorpha) from southern China

(2017) YI-TAO LIN et al.   ZOOTAXA

Efficient transgenesis and annotated genome sequence of the regenerative flatworm model Macrostomum lignano

(2017) Jakub Wudarski et al.   Nature Communications

Quantifying episodes of sexual selection: Insights from a transparent worm with fluorescent sperm

(2016) Lucas Marie-Orleach et al.   EVOLUTION

Fast and accurate detection of evolutionary shifts in Ornstein-Uhlenbeck models

(2016) Mohammad Khabbazian et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The first multi-gene phylogeny of the Macrostomorpha sheds light on the evolution of sexual and asexual reproduction in basal Platyhelminthes

(2015) Toon Janssen et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Genome and transcriptome of the regeneration-competent flatworm,Macrostomum lignano

(2015) Kaja Wasik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hypodermic self-insemination as a reproductive assurance strategy

(2015) Steven A. Ramm et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Hidden biodiversity in an ancient lake: phylogenetic congruence between Lake Tanganyika tropheine cichlids and their monogenean flatworm parasites

(2015) Maarten P. M. Vanhove et al.   Scientific Reports

Ecology and Evolution of the African Great Lakes and Their Faunas

(2014) Walter Salzburger et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Sexual Conflict in Hermaphrodites

(2014) Lukas Schärer et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Effects of mating status on copulatory and postcopulatory behaviour in a simultaneous hermaphrodite

(2013) Lucas Marie-Orleach et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

SEX ALLOCATION ADJUSTMENT TO MATING GROUP SIZE IN A SIMULTANEOUS HERMAPHRODITE

(2013) Tim Janicke et al.   EVOLUTION

Exceptional Convergence on the Macroevolutionary Landscape in Island Lizard Radiations

(2013) D. L. Mahler et al.   SCIENCE

Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

(2012) Johannes Schindelin et al.   NATURE METHODS

Insights into the evolution of freshwater sponges (Porifera: Demospongiae: Spongillina): Barcoding and phylogenetic data from Lake Tanganyika endemics indicate multiple invasions and unsettle existing taxonomy

(2011) Dirk Erpenbeck et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Mating behavior and the evolution of sperm design

(2011) L. Scharer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sperm competition affects sex allocation but not sperm morphology in a flatworm

(2010) Tim Janicke et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Goings-on inside a worm: functional hypotheses derived from sexual conflict thinking

(2010) DITA B. VIZOSO et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Phylogenetic and ecological relationships of the Hawaiian Drosophila inferred by mitochondrial DNA analysis

(2010) Patrick M. O’Grady et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS ON SHELL-RICH FACIES IN TROPICAL LACUSTRINE RIFTS: A VIEW FROM LAKE TANGANYIKA'S LITTORAL

(2010) M. M. MCGLUE et al.   PALAIOS

Adaptive Radiation: Contrasting Theory with Data

(2009) S. Gavrilets et al.   SCIENCE