Claus Rueffler

This study shows that sex-specific dominance can maintain genetic polymorphism across multiple loci and reduce within-sex phenotypic variance, resolving sexual conflict.

The paper shows that composite fitness functions are flawed in variable environments by ignoring the distinct environmental dependence of underlying life-history processes, using empirical data from seed beetles.

This study shows that heterozygote advantage can maintain over 100 alleles at MHC loci if pathogens are lethal without immune defense and their impact depends on host condition.

The paper develops a mathematical model to show how behavioral niche partitioning enables coexistence of seabird species through prey depletion halos and ideal free foraging.

The paper models how sex-specific dominance and allelic diversity coevolve at sexually antagonistic loci, showing that weak selection can lead to polyallelic polymorphism and reduced segregation load.