Günther Osche (also spelled Guenther Osche, born 7 August 1926 in

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, died 2 February 2009 in

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) was a German evolutionary biologist, ecologist and parasitologist. He started his career with a research on nematodes having

Hans-Jürgen Stammer Hans-Jürgen Stammer (born 21 September 1899 in Pötrau near Büchen; died 24 October 1968 in Erlangen) was a German zoologist, ecologist and director of the Zoological Institute of the University Erlangen. biography Stammer was a student of Pa ...

(1899-1968) as his scientific supervisor. He is known to have raised the name '' Rhabditides elegans'' in the subgenus ''

Caenorhabditis ''Caenorhabditis'' is a genus of nematodes which live in bacteria-rich environments like compost piles, decaying dead animals and rotting fruit. The name comes from Greek: caeno- ( () = new, recent); rhabditis = rod-like ( () = rod, wand). The ...

'' in 1952 in the history of the naming of the model worm ''

Caenorhabditis elegans ''Caenorhabditis elegans'' () is a free-living transparent nematode about 1 mm in length that lives in temperate soil environments. It is the type species of its genus. The name is a Hybrid word, blend of the Greek ''caeno-'' (recent), ''r ...

''.

Works

Articles

* Systematik und Phylogenie der Gattung Rhabditis (Nematoda). G. Osche, Zool. Jb. (Abt. 1), 81, pages 190–280, 1952 * Die Bedeutung der Osmoregulation und des Winkverhaltens für freilebende Nematoden. G. Osche, Zoomorphology, 1952 * Bau, Entwicklung und systematische Bedeutung der Cordons der Acuariidae (Nematoda) am Beispiel von Stammerinema soricis (Tiner 1951) gen. nov. G. Osche, Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde, 1955 * Die bursa-und schwanzstrukturen und ihre aberrationen bei den strongylina (Nematoda) morphologische studien zum problem der pluri-und … G. Osche, Zeitschrift für Morphologie und ökologie der Tiere, 1958

Books

* Die Welt der Parasiten. Zur Naturgeschichte des Schmarotzertums. 1966 * Das "Wesen" der biologischen Evolution. 1973 * Evolution. Grundlagen - Erkenntnisse - Entwicklungen der Abstammungslehre. 1979 * with von Arno Bogenrieder, Klaus-Günter Collatz, Hans Kössel : Lexikon der Biologie in acht Bänden. 1985

Tributes

The genus of nematodes ''

Oscheius ''Oscheius'' is a genus of nematode. '' O. tipulae'' is a satellite developmental genetic model organism used to study vulva formation. In phylogenetic studies, based on the analysis of sequences of three nuclear genes, ''Oscheius'' groups with ...

'' is a tribute to Osche.

References

20th-century German zoologists 1926 births 2009 deaths People from Neustadt an der Weinstraße {{Germany-zoologist-stub