Schwander Tanja
Assistant Professor in PTC
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
University of Lausanne
Switzerland
Biography
Schwander Tanja of the Master of Science in Medical Biology hosted by the University of Lausanne.Faculty of Biology and Medicine. Ludwig Lausanne Branch Function (s): Assistant Professor .
Research Interest
My research focuses on the diversity of reproductive systems in animals, ranging from sexual reproduction with two different sexes, various types of parthenogenesis, systems with partial genome elimination, to systems with more than two sexes. A remarkable range of genetic systems is found within insects and the purpose of my research is to understand this diversity and to characterize proximate and ultimate mechanisms leading to transitions from one genetic system to another.
Publications
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Bast J, Schaefer I, Schwander T, Maraun M, Scheu S, et al., (2017). No accumulation of transposable elements in asexual arthropods. Molecular biology and evolution. 2015 Nov 11;33(3):697-706.
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Ma WJ, Schwander T. (2017). Patterns and mechanisms in instances of endosymbiontâ€induced parthenogenesis. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 2017 Mar 1.
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Besides the evolution of reproductive systems I have also been studying alternative phenotypes, especially cases where similar alternative phenotypes can be cued either genetically or by environmental factors.
