Evolution, Biodiversität und molekulare Systematik aquatischer Anneliden u. a. Metazoa
Publikationen: Evo, Bio & molek.System.
- Kutschera, U. (2007) Leeches underline the need for Linnaean taxonomy. Nature 447, 775.
- Kutschera, U., Pfeiffer, I., Ebermann, E. (2007) The European land leech: biology and DNA-based taxonomy of a rare species that is threatened by climate warming. Naturwissenschaften 94, 967 – 974.
- Kutschera, U., Burghagen, H., Ewert, J.-P. (2008) Prey-catching behaviour in mudskippers and toads: A comparative analysis. OnLine J. Biol. Sci. 8, 41 – 43.
- Kutschera, U., Roth, M., Ewert, J.-P. (2010) Feeding on Bufoid toads and occurrence of hyperparasitism in a population of the medicinal leech (Hirudo verbana). Res. J. Fisheries & Hydrobiol. 5, 9 − 13.
- Hoppe, T., Kutschera, U. (2010) In the shadow of Darwin: Anton de Bary’s origin of myxomycetology and a molecular phylogeny of the plasmodial slime molds. Theory Biosci. 129, 15 − 23.
- Hoppe, T., Müller, H., Kutschera, U. (2010) A new species of Physarum (Myxomycetes) from a boreal pine forest in Thuringia (Germany). Mycotaxon 114, 7 – 14.
- Kutschera, U. (2010) A new leech species from Southern Germany, Trocheta intermedia sp. nov. (Hirudinea: Erpobdellidae). Lauterbornia. 10, 1 – 9.
- Kutschera, U. (2011) The Golden Gate Leech Helobdellacalifornica (Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae): Occurrence and DNA-based taxonomy of a species restricted to San Francisco. Internat. Rev. Hydrobiol. 96, 286 − 295.
- Elliott, J.M., Kutschera, U. (2011) Medicinal leeches: Historical use, ecology, genetics and conservation. Freshwater Reviews. 4, 21 − 41.
- Kutschera, U. (2012) The Hirudo medicinalis species complex. Naturwissenschaften 99, 433 − 434.
- Kutschera, U., Langguth, H., Kuo, D.-H., Weisblat, D. A., Shankland, M. (2013) Description of a new leech species from North America, Helobdella austinensis n. sp. (Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae), with observations on its feeding behaviour. Zoosyst. Evol. 89, 239-246.