Studies in biology and geography at the university of Basel . The main focus in biology was on animal and plant population biology, biology of vertebrates and plant physiological ecology. In geography, the emphasis was on physical geography and landscape ecology. Working for the governmental nature conservation agency of Kanton Basel-Landschaft. Ph.D. thesis under the supervision of Josh Van Buskirk .
Hybridogenetic frogs are hybrid frogs with a weird genetic system.
During gametogenesis, they exclude the parental L genome and transmit the R genome clonally. Hybridogenesis is a way of being asexual while still being sexual. The mechanism is clearly unfair and creates an evolutionary conflict. The maintenance of variation . Phenotypic plasticity and induced responses .