Sylvia Schäffer

Extracting the invisible: obtaining high quality DNA is a challenging task in small arthropods

Andrea Lienhard, Sylvia Schäffer · PeerJ · 2019 · 46 citations · Full text

Phylogenetic analysis of European Scutovertex mites (Acari, Oribatida, Scutoverticidae) reveals paraphyly and cryptic diversity: A molecular genetic and morphological approach

Sylvia Schäffer, Tobias Pfingstl, Stephan Koblmüller et al. · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 2009 · 42 citations · Full text

Biology, Phylogenetics, Molecular Ecology +11

Multiple new species: Cryptic diversity in the widespread mite species Cymbaeremaeus cymba (Oribatida, Cymbaeremaeidae)

Sylvia Schäffer, Michaela Kerschbaumer, Stephan Koblmüller · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 2019 · 39 citations

Biology, Biodiversity, Arthropod Taxonomy +8

Ancestral state reconstruction reveals multiple independent evolution of diagnostic morphological characters in the "Higher Oribatida" (Acari), conflicting with current classification schemes

Sylvia Schäffer, Stephan Koblmüller, Tobias Pfingstl et al. · BMC Evolutionary Biology · 2010 · 34 citations · Full text

The mitochondrial genome of the oribatid mite Paraleius leontonychus: new insights into tRNA evolution and phylogenetic relationships in acariform mites

Sylvia Schäffer, Stephan Koblmüller, Ingeborg Klymiuk et al. · Scientific Reports · 2018 · 30 citations · Full text