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Silvana Kaeser

Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

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Ecology· 2 Evolutionary Biology· 1

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Research Focus:ecology & biodiversity· 3 Approach:experimental assay· 3 Research Focus:development & morphogenesis· 1 Organism:Drosophila· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1

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Piet SpaakiD· 2 shared Amruta RajarajaniD· 1 shared Antonino MalacrinòiD· 1 shared Christine Dambone-Bösch· 1 shared Christoph VorburgeriD· 1 shared Christoph WalcheriD· 1 shared Dieter EbertiD· 1 shared Emanuele GiacomuzzoiD· 1 shared

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Terrestrial herbivory drives adaptive evolution in an aquatic community via indirect effects

Martin K. -H. Schäfer, Antonino Malacrinò, Christoph Walcher, Piet Spaak, Marie Serwaty-Sarazov, Silvana Kaeser, Thea Kozakiewicz, Christine Dambone-Bösch, Eric Dexter, Jürgen W. Hottinger, Laura Böttner, Christoph Vorburger, Dieter Ebert, Shuqing Xu

The paper shows that terrestrial aphid herbivory indirectly drives adaptive evolution in aquatic Daphnia populations by altering macrophyte and phytoplankton dynamics.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Aug 21, 2025Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology

Daphnia-associated bacterial communities correlate with diet quantity, environmental conditions and epidemic size across natural outbreaks

Amruta Rajarajan, Justyna Wolinska, Jean‐Claude Walser, Nadine Tardent, Silvana Kaeser, Esther Keller, Piet Spaak

The paper examines how Daphnia microbiomes vary with diet, environmental conditions, and parasite outbreaks across 13 years of field data.

Limnology and Oceanography · Jun 6, 2025Peer-reviewedEcology

Food-web coupling by mobile consumers has individual to ecosystem level effects

Tianna Peller, Lara Chaouat, Henry Broadbent, Emanuele Giacomuzzo, Silvana Kaeser, George Mueller, Florian Altermatt

This study shows that mobile consumers affect ecosystem biomass and their own fitness, with effects dependent on community composition.

bioRxiv · Mar 25, 2025 · PreprintEcology