• Evolutionsbiologie & Populationsgenetik
• Marine Genomik
• Biologische Effekte des Globalen Wandels
• Marine Invasionsbiologie
• Wirt-Parasiten-Interaktionen
  
  
  Modellarten
  • Dorsch  Gadus morhua
  • Riffbildende Korallen und Neseltiere cnidarians
  • Seegras Zostera marina
  • Rippenquallen Ctenophora

Übersicht aller Publikationen
Google scholar profile https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=ux41yIwAAAAJ&hl=en

• Han KY, Brennan RS, Monk CT, Jentoft S, Helmerson C, Dierking J, Hüssy K, Kokubun ÉE, Fuss J, Krause-Kyora B, Thomsen TB, Heredia BD, Reusch TBH (2025) Genomic evidence for fisheries-induced evolution in Eastern Baltic cod. Sci Adv 11: eadr9889 doi 10.1126/sciadv.adr9889 –study provides the first evidence that overfishing has altered the genetic composition in a marine fish population. Wide attention in global media, highlighted by 138 media outlets, including Guardian, New York Times, The Telegraph, Boston Globe. Germany: Spiegel, N-TV, Tagesschau. Altmetric score 1040
   
• Yu L, Renton J, Burian A, Khachaturyan, Bayer T, Kotta J, Stachowitz JJ, DuBois K, Baums IB, Werner B, Reusch TBH (2024) A somatic genetic clock for clonal species. Nature ecology & evolution, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02439-z see also: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02439-z
  – Introduces the somatic genetic clock as novel tool to age modular species, including a test of assumptions via modeling. Wide attention in global media, picked up by 38 news outlets; Altmetric score 295

• Yu L, Khachaturyan M, Matschiner M, Healey A, Bauer D, Cameron B, Cusson M, Emmett Duffy J, Joel Fodrie F, Gill D, Grimwood J, Hori M, Hovel K, Hughes AR, Jahnke M, Jenkins J, Keymanesh K, Kruschel C, Mamidi S, Menning DM, Moksnes P-O, Nakaoka M, Pennacchio C, Reiss K, Rossi F, Ruesink JL, Schultz ST, Talbot S, Unsworth R, Ward DH, Dagan T, Schmutz J, Eisen JA, Stachowicz JJ, Van De Peer Y, Olsen JL, Reusch TBH (2023) Ocean current patterns drive the worldwide colonization of eelgrass (Zostera marina). Nature Plants online early, doi 10.1038/s41477-023-01464-3
  
  See also related research briefing: Reusch TBH, Olsen JL (2023) Reconstructing the worldwide colonization history of the world’s most widespread marine plant. Nature Plants online early doi 10.1038/s41477-023-01465-2

• Reusch, TBH, Baums IB, Werner B (2021) Evolution via somatic genetic variation in modular species. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36: 1083-1092

• Jaspers C, Ehrlich M, Pujolar JM, Künzel S, Bayer T, Limborg MT, Lombard F, Browne WE, Stefanova K, Reusch TBH (2021) Invasion genomics uncover contrasting scenarios of genetic diversity in a widespread marine invader. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118: e2116211118 doi 10.1073/pnas.2116211118

• Yu, L., C. Boström, S. Franzenburg, T. Bayer, T. Dagan, and T. B. H. Reusch. 2020. Somatic genetic drift and multilevel selection in a clonal seagrass. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4:952–962. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1196-4
  https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/the-evolving-clone"

• Roth O, Solbakken MH, Tørresen OK, Bayer T, Matschiner M, Baalsrud HT, Hoff SNK, Brieuc MSO, D. Haase D, Hanel R, Reusch TBH*, Jentoft S* (2020). Evolution of male pregnancy associated with remodeling of canonical vertebrate immunity in seahorses and pipefishes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, online early: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1916251117. *equal contrib

• Heckwolf MJ, Meyer BS, Häsler R, Höppner MP, Eizaguirre C, Reusch TBH (2020) Two different epigenetic information channels in wild three-spined sticklebacks are involved in salinity adaptation. Science Advances 6:eaaz1138 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/12/eaaz1138
   
• Laikre, L., S. Hoban, M. W. Bruford, G. Segelbacher, F. W. Allendorf, G. Gajardo, A. G. Rodríguez, P. W. Hedrick, M. Heuertz, P. A. Hohenlohe, R. Jaffé, K. Johannesson, L. Liggins, A. J. MacDonald, P. OrozcoterWengel, TBH Reusch, H. Rodríguez-Correa, I.-R. M. Russo, N. Ryman, and C. Vernesi. 2020. Post-2020 goalsoverlookgeneticdiversity. Science 367:1083
   
• Reusch TBH, Dierking J, Andersson HC, Bonsdorff E, Carstensen J, Casini M, Czajkowski M, Hasler B, Hinsby K, Hyytiäinen K, Johannesson K, Jomaa S, Jormalainen V, Kuosa H, Kurland S, Laikre L, MacKenzie BR, Margonski P, Melzner F, Oesterwind D, Ojaveer H, Refsgaard JC, Sandström A, Schwarz G, Tonderski K, Winder M, Zandersen M (2018) The Baltic Sea as a time machine for the future coastal ocean. Science Advances 4:eaar8195
   
• Breusing C, Biastoch A, Drews A, Metaxas A, Jollivet D, Vrijenhoek RC, Bayer T, Melzner F, Sayavedra L, Petersen JM, Dubilier N, Schilhabel MB, Rosenstiel P, Reusch TBH (2016) Biophysical and population genetic models predict presence of "phantom" stepping stones connecting Mid-Atlantic Ridge vent ecosystems. Current Biology 26:2257–2267
   
• Olsen JL*, Rouzé P, Verhelst B, Lin Y-C, Bayer T, Collén J, Dattolo E, De Paoli E, Dittami S, Maumus F, Michel G, Kersting A, Lauritano C, Lohaus R, Töpel M, Tonon T, Vanneste K, Amirebrahimi M, Brakel J, Boström C, Chovatia M, Grimwood J, Jenkins J, Jüterbock A, Mraz A, Stam WT, Tice H, Bornberg-Bauer E, Green P, Pearson G, Procaccini G, Duarte C, Schmutz J, Reusch TBH*, Van de Peer Y* (2016) The genome of the seagrass Zostera marina reveals angiosperm adaptation to the sea. Nature 530: 331-335 doi: 10.1038/nature16548  *equal contribution (cover story) – Highlighted in Williams, S: From Sea to Sea (doi.org/10.1038/nature16869)
   
• Schlüter L, Lohbeck KT, Gutowska MA, Gröger JP, Riebesell U, Reusch TBH (2014) Adaptation of a globally important coccolithophore to ocean warming and acidification. Nature Climate Change 4:1024–1030, doi:10.1038/nclimate2379
   
• Sunday JM, Calosi P, Dupont S, Munday PL, Stillman JH, Reusch TBH (2014) Evolution in an acidifying ocean. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 29:117-125
   
• Lohbeck, KT, Riebesell U, Reusch TBH (2012) Adaptive evolution of a key phytoplankton species to ocean acidification. Nature Geoscience 5:346-351 [article]
   
• Frommel AY, Maneja R, Lowe D, Malzahn AM, Geffen AJ, Folkvord A, Piatkowski U, Reusch TBH, Clemmesen C (2012) Severe tissue damage in Atlantic cod larvae under increasing ocean acidification. Nature Climate Change 2: 42-46
   
• Franssen SU, Gu J, Bergmann N, Winters G, Klostermeyer UC, Rosenstiel P, Bornberg-Bauer E, Reusch TBH (2011) Transcriptomic resilience to global warming in the seagrass Zostera marina, a marine foundation species. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108:19276-19281
   
• Reusch, TBH, A Ehlers, A Hämmerli, B Worm (2005) Ecosystem recovery after climatic extremes enhanced by genotypic diversity. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102: 2826-2831
   
• Wegner KM, Kalbe M, Kurtz J, Reusch TBH, Milinski M (2003) Parasite selection for immunogenetic optimality. Science 301: 1343.
   
• Reusch TBH, Häberli MA, Aeschlimann PB, Milinski M (2001) Female sticklebacks count alleles in a strategy of sexual selection explaining MHC polymorphism. Nature 414: 300-302.

• ZOBLUC: Seegras-Zostera marina als Blue Carbon- Kohlenstoffspeicher in der Ostsee", Ministerium für Energiewende, Klimaschutz, Umwelt und Natur Schleswig Holstein MEKUN, project period 01/2025-09/2030. Coordination Thorsten Reusch; together with State Agency for the Environment (LfU), Kiel University (co-PIs Prof. Natascha Oppelt; Dr. Jens Schneider), total amount €6.020 Mio

• "Endophytes and local adaptation modulate aquatic plant responses to warming and anoxia stress", funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft within Kiel University Research Group PlantCoChallenge (coordionation Prof Eva Stukenbrock), Co-PI Prof Sabine Hilt, IGB Berlin,  2024-2028

• "SeaStore 2 - Diversity Enhancement through Seagrass Restoration", funded by BMBF Mare: N programme, coordinator Dr. Maike Paul, LUFI Univ Hannover, 2024-2027, see www.seegraswiesen.de

• “Fisheries induced evolution“, funded by DFG-funded Research Training Group Translational Evolutionary Research TransEvo (coordinator Hinrich Schulenburg, U Kiel); Co-PI Martin Quaas, iDIV, 2020-2023, second phase 2023-2026 (doctoral student Lingfeng Meng).

Kürzlich beendete Projekte
 

• "Upscaling Biodiversity Enhancement and Blue Carbon through Seagrass Restoration – UpBlueSea"", Ministerium für Energiewende, Klimaschutz, Umwelt und Natur Schleswig Holstein, project period 04/2024-06/2025
• “Adaptive asexual evolution in corals, cancer and seagrasses – AdaptAsex“, funded by Human Frontiers of Science Programme (HFSP). Co-PIs Iliana Baums, Penn State Univ, USA; Benjamin Werner, Queen Mary Univ London, 2020-2023
• "SeaStore - Diversity Enhancement through Seagrass Restoration", funded by BMBF Mare: N program, coordinator Dr. Maike Paul. LUFI University Hannover, 2020-2023,  www.seegraswiesen.de (in German);see first key publication: Reusch TBH, Baums IB, Werner B (2021) Evolution via somatic genetic variation in modular species. Trends in Ecology and Evolution online early doi https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.08.011;see press release: https://www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/news/215-reusch-tree
• "Microbiota – host interactions at the base of the metazoan tree",  funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft within Collaborative Research Center 1182 Origin and Function of the Metaorganism, Co-PI Ruth Schmitz-Streit, U Kiel,  2020-2023
• "IMMUBASE - Comparative Immunogenomics of basal marine metazoans", funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft within Sequencing Initative Programme, Co-PIs Lucia Pita Galan GEOMAR, Ruth Schmitz-Streit, U Kiel, 2019-2022
• "Seagrass Blue Carbon", funded by Helmholtz-Society Climate Initiative Germany Net Zero 2050, work package 4 natural carbon storage systems,  2019-2021, with postdoctoral researcher Dr. Angela Stevenson
• "MARES Multi-method Assessment for Resilient Ecosystem Services and human-nature system integration", funded by EU-BONUS: (coordinator Dr. Maurizio Sajeva, Pellervo Economic Research, Finland), 2018-2020
• "BIO-C3 Biodiversity changes-causes, consequences and management implications", funded by European Union /BONUS programme, Coordinator Thorsten Reusch, 13 partners in total, 2014-2017; see key publication: Reusch TBH, Dierking J, Andersson HC, Bonsdorff E, Carstensen J, Casini M, Czajkowski M, Hasler B, Hinsby K, Hyytiäinen K, Johannesson K, Jomaa S, Jormalainen V, Kuosa H, Kurland S, Laikre L, MacKenzie BR, Margonski P, Melzner F, Oesterwind D, Ojaveer H, Refsgaard JC, Sandström A, Schwarz G, Tonderski K, Winder M, Zandersen M (2018) The Baltic Sea as a time machine for the future coastal ocean. Science Advances 4:eaar8195

• Steering Committee Kiel Plant Centre  https://www.plant-center.uni-kiel.de/en/kiel-plant-science-1)  2019 -

• Seit 2017 Mitglied des Lenkungsausschusses der ISOS (Integrated School of Ocean Science) graduate school

• Mitherausgeber von "Marine Biology" und  "Science Advances"
• Koordination von "Evolving Ocean" im Exzellenzcluster Future Ocean
• Lenkungsausschuss Kiel Evolution Centre
• Lenkungsausschuss International Max-Planck School for Evolutionary Biology IMPRS
• Lenkungsausschuss, Helmholtz-Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity Research (HIFMB), Oldenburg, Germany

• Leiter der Arbeitsgruppe Marine Evolutionary Ecology
• Seit Januar 2012 Leiter des Forschungsbereichs 3  Marine Ökologie
• September 2008 Leiter der Forschungseinheit Marine Evolutionsökologie & Professur für Marine Ökologie am Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften (IFM-GEOMAR) in Kiel
• 2005 Professur für Evolutionsökologie der Pflanzen an der Westfälischen Wilhelmsuniversität Münster, Institut für Evolution & Biodiversität
• 2002-2005 Heisenberg-Stipendiat der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft am Max-Planck-Institut für Limnologie, Plön
• 1999-2001 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Max-Planck-Institut für Limnologie, Plön
• 1997-1999  Marie-Curie-Stipendiat an der Universität Groningen, Niederlande
• 1994-1997  DAAD, dann DFG Forschungsstipendium am Coastal Marine Institute San Diego, USA
• 1994 Promotion am institut für Meereskunde IFM Kiel