About schweizeri - it's a bit of a big document and my German is not all that fluent, so can please someone explain to me
(a) why and how shared haplotypes warrant any
specific taxonomic level (i.c. subspecies) and (b) if this is only based on mtDNA.
In theory, the thesis is what you get a degree for - the scientific content is all that matters.
Sure.
That publish or perish thing is, in some cases, even forbidden.
Weird... I've never heard any biologist mention something like that.
Well, imho it's logical that there's a sort of unwritten rule around that you show that you are able to write stuff that can pass the test of peer review. "Publish or perish" is the exponent of that, not the prime goal. If your explanation would stand (which I doubt to be the case for any European biology university course), it is even more regrettable that this ms is in German.