Alexandra Schrempf
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Recent Articles
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Vidal M, Konigseder F, Giehr J, Schrempf A, Lucas C, Heinze J
Commun Biol
. 2021 May;
4(1):515.
PMID: 33941829
Choosing the right mating partner is one of the most critical decisions in the life of a sexually reproducing organism and is the basis of sexual selection. This choice is...
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Heinze J, Hanoeffner M, Delabie J, Schrempf A
Ecol Evol
. 2019 Jan;
8(23):12066-12072.
PMID: 30598800
Male age may directly or indirectly affect the fitness of their female mating partners and their joint progeny. While in some taxa of insects, old males make better mates and...
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Metzler S, Schrempf A, Heinze J
J Insect Physiol
. 2017 Dec;
107:284-290.
PMID: 29273326
Sperm cells are the most morphologically diverse cells across animal taxa. Within species, sperm and ejaculate traits have been suggested to vary with the male's competitive environment, e.g., level of...
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Giehr J, Grasse A, Cremer S, Heinze J, Schrempf A
R Soc Open Sci
. 2017 Aug;
4(7):170547.
PMID: 28791176
Infections with potentially lethal pathogens may negatively affect an individual's lifespan and decrease its reproductive value. The terminal investment hypothesis predicts that individuals faced with a reduced survival should invest...
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Giehr J, Heinze J, Schrempf A
BMC Evol Biol
. 2017 Aug;
17(1):173.
PMID: 28764664
Background: The performance and fitness of social societies mainly depends on the efficiency of interactions between reproductive individuals and helpers. Helpers need to react to the group's requirements and to...
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Schrempf A, Giehr J, Rohrl R, Steigleder S, Heinze J
Am Nat
. 2017 Mar;
189(4):436-442.
PMID: 28350504
One of the central tenets of life-history theory is that organisms cannot simultaneously maximize all fitness components. This results in the fundamental trade-off between reproduction and life span known from...
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Metzler S, Heinze J, Schrempf A
Ecol Evol
. 2016 Dec;
6(24):8903-8906.
PMID: 28035278
Across multicellular organisms, the costs of reproduction and self-maintenance result in a life history trade-off between fecundity and longevity. Queens of perennial social Hymenoptera are both highly fertile and long-lived,...
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Oettler J, Schrempf A
Curr Opin Insect Sci
. 2016 Oct;
16:58-63.
PMID: 27720051
Easy maintenance, controlled mating and short generation time make Cardiocondyla obscurior an interesting model for social insect aging research. Using this ant we have begun to study the proximate genomic...
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Schmidt C, Schrempf A, Trindl A, Heinze J
J Genet
. 2016 Apr;
95(1):e1-4.
PMID: 27029964
No abstract available.
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Schrempf A, Moser A, Delabie J, Heinze J
Integr Zool
. 2016 Feb;
11(6):427-432.
PMID: 26853089
Size and shape of sperm cells vary tremendously throughout the animal kingdom. The adaptive significance of this variation is not fully understood. In addition to sperm-female interactions and the environmental...