Christoffer Schander
{{Short description|Norwegian marine biologist}}
Carl Fredrik Christoffer Schander (21 May 1960 – 21 February 2012) was a professor in marine biology at the University of Bergen, Norway. He was also a thematic leader at the Centre of Excellence in Geobiology. His doctoral thesis (1997, University of Gothenburg, Sweden) explored the evolutionary relationships of the parasitic marine gastropod family Pyramidellidae. He worked on marine invertebrates, mainly molluscs, and published more than 90 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, 76 are indexed in the Web of Knowledge, and fourteen of them have been cited ten or more times.
According to his web page, he considered the goal of his research to be understanding the roles that evolutionary forces and phylogeny have played in creating organismal diversity. To help develop this understanding, he used phylogenetic analyses that integrated morphological, ultrastructural and molecular data. His research focused on molluscs and more specifically on the ectoparasitic pyramidellid gastropods and the, shell-less, primary deep-sea aplacophorans, the biogeography of these animals, and the relationship between the molluscs and other animal groups.
In addition to taxonomy and systematics, he published several papers on the use of formalin fixed tissue for molecular studies. He was active in the DNA barcoding community.
The World Register of Marine Species mentions 33 new gastropod species named by Schander [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxlist WoRMS: Species named by Schander]
Personal life
Schander was born in Sweden in 1960. He lived in his home town of Borås and became one of the most active Swedish science fiction fans in the 1980s, creating fanzines such as Semikolon A & B and I väntan på PEP and the APA Efterapa, and arranging science fiction conventions such as RegnCon in 1981. He died after a short illness on 21 February 2012.
Partial bibliography
- {{cite journal | last1 = Schander | first1 = C | year = 1993 | title = Bathyarca grenophia (Mollusca, Bivalvia) utilises Astrorhitza arenaria and Rhabdammina abyssorum (Foraminifera) as hard substrate on ooze bottoms | journal = Fauna Norvegica | volume = 14 | issue = 3| pages = 61–62 }}
- {{cite journal | last1 = Warén | first1 = A. | last2 = Gofas | first2 = S. | last3 = Schander | first3 = C. | year = 1993 | title = Systematic position of three European heterobranch Gastropods | journal = Veliger | volume = 36 | issue = 1| pages = 1–15 }}
- {{cite journal | last1 = Nofroni | first1 = I. | last2 = Schander | first2 = C. | year = 1994 | title = Description of three new species of Pyramidellidae (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) from West Africa | journal = Notiziario CISMA | volume = 15 | issue = 1| pages = 1–10 }}
- {{cite journal | last1 = Schander | first1 = C | year = 1994 | title = Twenty-eight new species of Pyramidellidae (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) from West Africa | journal = Notiziario CISMA | volume = 15 | issue = 1| pages = 11–76 }}
- {{cite journal | last1 = Schander | first1 = C | year = 1995 | title = Pyramidellidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) of the Faroe Islands | journal = Sarsia | volume = 80 | pages = 55–65 | doi = 10.1080/00364827.1995.10413580 }}
- {{Cite journal | last1 = Schander | first1 = C. | last2 = Thollesson | first2 = M. | doi = 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1995.tb00404.x | title = Phylogenetic taxonomy-some comments | journal = Zoologica Scripta | volume = 24 | issue = 3 | pages = 263–268 | year = 1995 | s2cid = 84974611 }}
- {{cite journal | last1 = Lundberg | first1 = J. | last2 = Schander | first2 = C. | last3 = Stokland | first3 = Ø. | year = 1996 | title = A preliminary cladistic analysis of North Atlantic Oenopota Moerch, 1852 and Propebela Iredale, 1918 (Gastropoda, Conoidea) | journal = Journal of Molluscan Studies | volume = 62 | issue = 3| pages = 289–298 | doi=10.1093/mollus/62.3.289| doi-access = free }}
- {{cite journal | last1 = Schander | first1 = C | year = 1997 | title = Turbonilla angelinagagiliniae, new name for Turbonilla scrobiculata Schander, 1994 (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Pyramidellidae) | journal = Bolletino Malacologico | volume = 13 | pages = 45–46 }}
- {{cite journal | last1 = Schander | first1 = C. | display-authors = etal | year = 1998 | title = Types, emendations and names - a reply to Lidén et al. | journal = Taxon | volume = 47 | issue = 2| pages = 401–406 | doi=10.2307/1223769| jstor = 1223769 }}
- {{Cite journal
| last1 = Scheltema | first1 = A. H.
| last2 = Schander | first2 = C.
| title = Discrimination and phylogeny of solenogaster species through the morphology of hard parts (Mollusca, Aplacophora, Neomeniomorpha)
| journal = The Biological Bulletin
| volume = 198
| issue = 1
| pages = 121–151
| year = 2000
| pmid = 10707820
| doi=10.2307/1542810
| jstor = 1542810
| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/2449
}}
- {{Cite journal
| last1 = Dahlgren | first1 = T. G.
| last2 = Akesson | first2 = B.
| last3 = Schander | first3 = C.
| last4 = Halanych | first4 = K. M.
| last5 = Sundberg | first5 = P.
| title = Molecular phylogeny of the model annelid Ophryotrocha
| journal = The Biological Bulletin
| volume = 201
| issue = 2
| pages = 193–203
| year = 2001
| pmid = 11687391 | doi=10.2307/1543334
| url = http://gump.auburn.edu/halanych/lab/Pub.pdfs/Dahlgren2001.pdf | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110719141728/http://gump.auburn.edu/halanych/lab/Pub.pdfs/Dahlgren2001.pdf | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2011-07-19 | jstor = 1543334
| s2cid = 24340804
}}
- {{Cite journal
| last1 = Schander | first1 = C.
| last2 = Sundberg | first2 = P.
| title = Useful characters in gastropod phylogeny: Soft information or hard facts?
| journal = Systematic Biology
| volume = 50
| issue = 1
| pages = 136–141
| year = 2001
| pmid = 12116590
| doi = 10.1080/10635150118712
| doi-access = free
}}
- {{Cite journal | last1 = Schander | first1 = C. | title = DNA, PCR and formalinized animal tissue ? A short review and protocols | doi = 10.1078/1439-6092-00071 | journal = Organisms Diversity & Evolution | volume = 3 | issue = 3 | pages = 195–201 | year = 2003 |url = http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/71123.pdf }}
- {{cite journal |author1=Dayrat B. |author2=Schander C. |author3=Angielczyk K. D. | year = 2004 | title = Suggestions for a new species nomenclature | journal = Taxon | volume = 53 | issue = 2 | pages = 485–491 | jstor=4135627 | doi = 10.2307/4135627 | doi-access = free }}
- {{Cite journal
| last1 = Passamaneck | first1 = Y.
| last2 = Schander | first2 = C.
| last3 = Halanych | first3 = K.
| title = Investigation of molluscan phylogeny using large-subunit and small-subunit nuclear rRNA sequences.
| journal = Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution
| volume = 32
| issue = 1
| pages = 25–38
| year = 2004
| pmid = 15186794
| doi = 10.1016/j.ympev.2003.12.016
}}
- {{Cite journal | last1 = Schander | first1 = C. | last2 = Willassen | first2 = E. | doi = 10.1080/17451000510018962 | title = What can biological barcoding do for marine biology? | journal = Marine Biology Research | volume = 1 | pages = 79–83 | year = 2005 | doi-access = free }} [https://web.archive.org/web/20060620165057/http://www.bolinfonet.org/pdf/schander%26willassen_2005.pdf PDF].
- {{Cite journal | last1=Caron | first1=J.-B. |first2=A.| last3= Schander | first3=C. | first4=D.| last4= Rudkin| last2= Scheltema| title = A soft-bodied mollusc with radula from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale| journal = Nature| volume = 442| issue = 7099| pages = 159–163| date=2006 | url=https://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/bitstream/handle/1912/1404/2006-02-01613A.Caron+et+al.+ms.pdf?sequence=1| pmid = 16838013| doi = 10.1038/nature04894|bibcode = 2006Natur.442..159C | hdl=1912/1404 | s2cid=4431853 | hdl-access= free}}
- {{Cite journal
| last1 = Pleijel | first1 = F.
| last2 = Jondelius | first2 = U.
| last3 = Norlinder | first3 = E.
| last4 = Nygren | first4 = A.
| last5 = Oxelman | first5 = B.
| last6 = Schander | first6 = C.
| last7 = Sundberg | first7 = P.
| last8 = Thollesson | first8 = M.
| doi = 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.03.024
| title = Phylogenies without roots? A plea for the use of vouchers in molecular phylogenetic studies
| journal = Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
| volume = 48
| issue = 1
| pages = 369–371
| year = 2008
| pmid = 18424089
}}
- {{Cite journal | last1 = Cárdenas | first1 = P. | last2 = Xavier | first2 = J. R. | last3 = Reveillaud | first3 = J. | last4 = Schander | first4 = C. | last5 = Rapp | first5 = H. T. | title = Molecular Phylogeny of the Astrophorida (Porifera, Demospongiaep) Reveals an Unexpected High Level of Spicule Homoplasy | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0018318 | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 6 | issue = 4 | pages = e18318 | year = 2011 | pmid = 21494664| pmc =3072971 |bibcode = 2011PLoSO...618318C | doi-access = free }}
External links
- [http://www.uib.no/persons/Christoffer.Schander Christoffer Schander]
- [http://www.uib.no/universitetsmuseet/nyheter/2012/02/direktor-ved-universitetsmuseet-christoffer-schander-er-dod "Direktør ved Universitetsmuseet Christoffer Schander er død" Universitetsmuseet i Bergen website; 21 February 2012]
- [http://www.whoi.edu/science/B/aplacophora/C.schander.html The aplacophora homepage ]
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