Ap. Prof. Dr. Karin Gross

Gross, K. (2026). Digest: Modelling autopolyploid establishment in a novel habitat. Evolution, 80(3): 687-689. doi:  10.1093/evolut/qpaf258

Schlager, E., Dötterl, S., Thompson, J. N., Friberg, M. & Gross, K. (2025). Direct effects of polyploidization on floral scent. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 51(5): 89. doi:  10.1007/s10886-025-01641-y

Gross, K., Yazdi, H. P., Schlager, E., Lilley, J., Romero-Bravo, A., Runemark, A., Thompson, J. N. & Friberg, M. (2025). Repeated polyploidization shapes divergence in floral morphology in Lithophragma bolanderi (Saxifragaceae). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 122(33): e2505119122. doi:  10.1073/pnas.2505119122

Etl, C., Etl, F., Guilhot, R., Braunschmid, H., Gross, K. & Dötterl, S. (2025). Deceptive Cypripedium calceolus shares more floral scent compounds with co-flowering rewarding species than those species share among each other. Frontiers in Plant Science, 16: 1627890. doi:  10.3389/fpls.2025.1627890

Gross, K. (2025). Digest: Scarce pollen resources and asymmetric reproductive isolation. Evolution, 79(1): 153-154. doi:  10.1093/evolut/qpae156

Gross, K. (2023). Digest: Recreating ancestral trait variation to understand adaptation. Evolution, 77(6): 1488-1489. doi:  10.1093/evolut/qpad055

Gross, K., Undin, M., Thompson, J. N. & Friberg, M. (2023). Components of local adaptation and divergence in pollination efficacy in a coevolving species interaction. Ecology, 104(6): e4043. doi:  10.1002/ecy.4043

Opedal, Ø. H., Gross, K., Chapurlat, E., Parachnowitsch, A., Joffard, N., Sletvold, N., Ovaskainen, O. & Friberg, M. (2022). Measuring, comparing and interpreting phenotypic selection on floral scent. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 35(11): 1432-1441. doi:  10.1111/jeb.14103

Gross, K., Sun, M. & Schiestl, F.P. (2016). Why do floral perfumes become different? Region-specific selection on floral scent in a terrestrial orchid. PLoS ONE, 11(2): e0147975. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0147975.

Gross, K. & Schiestl, F.P. (2015). Are tetraploids more successful? Floral signals, reproductive success, and floral isolation in mixed-ploidy populations of a terrestrial orchid. Annals of Botany, 115(2): 263-273.

Sun, M., Schlüter, P.M., Gross, K. & Schiestl, F.P. (2015). Floral isolation is the major reproductive barrier between a pair of rewarding orchid sister species. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 28: 117-129.

Sun, M., Gross, K. & Schiestl, F.P. (2014). Floral adaptation to local pollinator guilds in a terrestrial orchid. Annals of Botany, 113: 289-300.

Xu, S., Schlüter, P.M., Scopece, G., Breitkopf, H., Gross, K., Cozzolino, S. & Schiestl, F.P. (2011). Floral isolation is the main reproductive barrier among closely related sexually deceptive orchids. Evolution, 65(9): 2606-2620.

Gross, K., Pasinelli, G. & Kunc, H. P. (2010). Behavioral plasticity allows short-term adjustment to a novel environment. The American Naturalist, 176(4): 456-464.