PD Dr. Carsten Lüter
Address
Museum für Naturkunde
Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity
Invalidenstrasse 43
10115 Berlin
Germany
Phone +49 (0)30 2093 8529
Fax +49 (0)30 2093 8868
E-Mail carsten.lueter(at)mfn-berlin.de
Tasks
- Curator of Marine Invertebrates
- Coordinator morphology labs
- Manager SYNTHESYS DE-TAF
Research interests
- Biomineralisation of the Brachiopod shell
- Evolution and phylogenetic systematics of Brachiopoda with morphological and molecular methods
- Taxonomy of brachiopods
- Biogeography and diversity of thecideoid brachiopods
- Species catalogue of recent brachiopods (worldwide)
- Type catalogues of the collection Marine Invertebrates
- History of the collection Marine Invertebrates
Selected papers
Passamaneck, Y.; Furchheim, N.; Hejnol, A.; Martindale, M.Q. & Lüter, C. (2011): Ciliary photoreceptors in the cerebral eyes of a protostome larva. EvoDevo 2, 6. Open Access: doi:10.1186/2041-9139-2-6 PDF
Hoffmann, J. & Lüter, C. (2010): Shell development in thecidellinine brachiopods with description of a new Recent genus. Special Papers in Palaeontology 84, 137-160.
Meixner, M.J.; Lüter, C.; Eckert, C.; Itskovich, V.; Janussen, D.; von Rintelen, T.; Bohne, A.V.; Meixner, J.M. & Hess, W.R. (2007): Phylogenetic analysis of freshwater sponges provide evidence for endemism and radiation in ancient lakes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45, 875-886.
Lüter, C. (2007) Anatomy. In: Selden, P.A. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, part H: Brachiopoda, revised, Vol. 6 . The Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Boulder and Lawrence. pp. 2321-2355.
Lüter, C. (2004): How brachiopods get covered with nanometric silicon chips. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B Suppl. 6 (Biology Letters), S465-S467.
