biologist

My ORCID is 0000-0001-8523-6888.

My Google Scholar Profile is here.

peer-reviewed

  1. Fior, S., Luqman, H., Scharmann, M., Pålsson, A., de Jonge, J., Zoller, S., Zemp, N., Gargano, D., Wegmann, D., & Widmer, A. (2025). Ancient alleles drive contemporary climate adaptation in an alpine plant. Science 390, 59-64. doi:10.1126/science.adp5717

  2. De Luca, Y., Cristaudo, A., Cozzolino, S., Scharmann, M., & Cafasso, D. (2025). A reduced-representation sequencing method for identifying sex-specific molecular markers in plants with large genomes. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology, 1–10. doi: 10.1080/11263504.2025.2541732

  3. Jeffries, D., Benvenuto, C., Böhne, A., Fraïsse, C., Garcia, S., Jay, P., et al. (2025). The Tree of Sex consortium: a global initiative for studying the evolution of reproduction in eukaryotes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, voaf053. doi: 10.1093/jeb/voaf053

  4. Gilbert, K. J., Armitage, D., Bauer, U., Fukushima, K., Gaume, L., Love, R., Lin, Q., Liu, S., Martin-Eberhardt, S., Millett, J., Renner, T., Scharmann, M., Thorogood, C. (2025). Construction costs and tradeoffs in carnivorous pitcher plant leaves: towards a pitcher leaf economic spectrum. Annals of Botany mcaf024. doi:10.1093/aob/mcaf024

  5. Saul, F.*, Scharmann, M.*, Wakatake, T., Rajaraman, S., Marques, A., Freund, M., Bringmann, G., Channon, L., Becker, D., Carroll, E., Low, Y. W., Lindqvist, C., Gilbert, K. J., Renner, T., Masuda, S., Richter, M., Vogg, G., Shirasu, K., . . . Albert, V. & Fukushima, K. (2023). Subgenome dominance shapes novel gene evolution in the decaploid pitcher plant Nepenthes gracilis. Nature Plants https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01562-2 *co-first authorship

  6. Florez-Rueda, A. M.*, Scharmann, M.*, Roth, M., & Städler, T. (2021). Population genomics of the ’Arcanum’ species group in wild tomatoes: Evidence for separate origins of two self-compatible lineages. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.624442 *co-first authorship

  7. Jeffries, D. L., Gerchen, J. F., Scharmann, M., & Pannell, J. R. (2021). A neutral model for the loss of recombination on sex chromosomes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376(1832), 20200096. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0096

  8. Scharmann, M., Rebelo, A. G., & Pannell, J. R. (2021). High rates of evolution preceded shifts to sex-biased gene expression in Leucadendron, the most sexually dimorphic angiosperms. eLife, 10, e67485. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.67485

  9. Scharmann, M., Wistuba, A., & Widmer, A. (2021). Introgression is widespread in the radiation of carnivorous Nepenthes pitcher plants. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 107214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107214

  10. Wolf, E., Gaquerel, E., Scharmann, M., Yant, L., & Koch, M. A. (2021). Evolutionary footprints of a cold relic in a rapidly warming world. eLife, 10, e71572. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.71572

  11. Morgan, E. J., Kaiser-Bunbury, C. N., Edwards, P. J., Scharmann, M., Widmer, A., Fleischer- Dogley, F., & Kettle, C. J. (2020). Identification of sex-linked markers in the sexually cryptic coco de mer: Are males and females produced in equal proportions? AoB PLANTS, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plz079

  12. Scharmann, M., Grafe, T. U., Metali, F., & Widmer, A. (2019). Sex is determined by XY chromosomes across the radiation of dioecious Nepenthes pitcher plants. Evolution Letters, 3(6), 586-597. https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.142

  13. Lim, Y. S., Schöner, C. R., Schöner, M. G., Kerth, G., Thornham, D. G., Scharmann, M., & Grafe, T. U. (2015). How a pitcher plant facilitates roosting of mutualistic woolly bats. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 16(7), 581-591.

  14. Bauer, U., Scharmann, M., Skepper, J., & Federle, W. (2013). ’Insect aquaplaning’ on a superhydrophilic hairy surface: How Heliamphora nutans Benth. pitcher plants capture prey. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280(1753), 20122569. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.2569

  15. Scharmann, M., & Grafe, T. U. (2013). Reinstatement of Nepenthes hemsleyana (Nepenthaceae), an endemic pitcher plant from Borneo, with a discussion of associated Nepenthes taxa. Blumea, 58, 8-12. https://doi.org/10.3767/000651913X668465

  16. Scharmann, M., Thornham, D. G., Grafe, T. U., & Federle, W. (2013). A novel type of nutritional ant-plant interaction: Ant partners of carnivorous pitcher plants prevent nutrient export by dipteran pitcher infauna. PLOS ONE, 8(5), e63556. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063556

other publications and preprints

  1. Scharmann, M. & Lenhard, M. (2024). Quick Guide: Heterostyly. Current Biology 34, R181-R183. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.072

  2. Scharmann, M., Metali, F., Grafe, T. U., & Widmer, A. (2023). Adaptive evolution of carnivory in Nepenthes pitcher plants: a comparative transcriptomics and proteomics perspective. bioRxiv preprint, 2023.01.07.523112. doi: 10.1101/2023.01.07.523112

  3. Scharmann, M., Metali, F., Grafe, T. U., & Widmer, A. (2023). Genomic evidence for rapid speciation and gene flow between sympatric carnivorous Nepenthes pitcher plants. bioRxiv preprint, 2023.01.07.522986. doi: 10.1101/2023.01.07.522986

  4. Poppinga, S., Alamsyah, F., Bauer, U., Fleischmann, A., Horstmann, M., Klink, S., Kruppert, S., Lin, Q., Muller, U., Northrop, A., Płachno, B. J., Prins, A., Scharmann, M., Sirova, D., Skates, L., Westermeier, A. & Ellison, A. M. (2018). What’s new in the world of carnivorous plants? The Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 47, 18–27.

  5. Scharmann, M. (2014). Special among a special flora - the carnivore Nepenthes pervillei. Kapisen 17, 18-19.

  6. Grafe, T. U., Goutte, S., Ahmadsah, H. H., Konopik, O., Scharmann, M., & Bauer, U. (2010). Updated check list of the amphibians of the Ulu Temburong National Park and Brunei Darus- salam. Scientia Bruneiana, 11, 53–59.

  7. Scharmann, M. (2010). Der Pulong Tau Nationalpark - Reise ins Herz von Borneo. Das Taublatt 67 & 68, 52-77 & 40-65.

coming soon …

  • Leucadendron genomics
  • Amsinckia genomics
  • Turnera genomics (with Joel Shore, York University)