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Last updated on 17.12.2014

Voigt, O., Erpenbeck, D. Wörheide, G. 2008. A fragmented metazoan organellar genome: the two mitochondrial chromosomes of Hydra magnipapillata. BMC Genomics 9:350. Open Access.

Dohrmann, M., Janussen, D., Reitner, J., Collins, A. G., Wörheide, G.. 2008. Phylogeny and Evolution of Glass Sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida). Systematic Biology, 57(3):388—405. Open access

Przeslawski, R., Ahyong, S., Byrne, M., Wörheide, G., Hutchings, P. 2008. Beyond corals and fish: the effects of climate change on non-coral benthic invertebrates of tropical reefs. Global Change Biology. in press.

Reiswig, H.M., Dohrmann, M., Pomponi, S.A., Wörheide, G., 2008. Two new tretodictyids (Hexactinellida: Hexactinosida: Tretodictyidae) from the coasts of North America. Zootaxa 1721, 53–64. Open Access

Wörheide, G., 2008. A hypercalcified sponge with soft relatives: Vaceletia is a keratose demosponge. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47, 433–438.

Sethmann, I., Wörheide, G. (2008): Structure and composition of calcareous sponge spicules: A review and comparison to structurally related biominerals. Micron. Invited review. 39(3):209-228. Featured on cover page.

Voigt, O., Erpenbeck, D., Wörheide, G. (2008): Molecular evolution of rDNA in early diverging Metazoa: First comparative analysis and phylogenetic application of complete SSU rRNA secondary structure in Porifera. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8: 69. See also 'Data' page on the left.

Wörheide, G., Epp. L., Macis, L. (2008): Deep genetic divergences among Indo-Pacific populations of the coral reef sponge Leucetta chagosensis (Leucettidae): founder effects, vicariance, or both? BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:24.

Erpenbeck, D., List-Armitage, S., Alvarez, B., Degnan, B.M., Wörheide, G., Hooper, J.N. (2007): The systematics of Raspailiidae (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida: Microcionina) re-analysed with a ribosomal marker. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK 87: 1571-1576.

Solé-Cava A., Wörheide, G. (2007): The perils and merits (or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) of DNA barcoding of sponges – a controversial discussion. In: Custódio MR, Lôbo-Hajdu G, Hajdu E, Muricy G (eds) Porifera Research: Biodiversity, Innovation & Sustainability. pp 603–612. Museu Nacional, Série livros 28, Rio de Janeiro.

Wörheide, G., Erpenbeck D., Menke C. (2007): The Sponge Barcoding Project – aiding in the identification and description of poriferan taxa. In: Custódio MR, Lôbo-Hajdu G, Hajdu E, Muricy G (eds) Porifera Research: Biodiversity, Innovation & Sustainability., pp 123–128. Museu Nacional, Série livros 28, Rio de Janeiro.

Erpenbeck, D., Wörheide, G. (2007): On the molecular phylogeny of sponges (Porifera). Linnaeus Tercentenary: Progress in Invertebrate Taxonomy. Zootaxa 1668, 107–126. OPEN ACCESS.

Erpenbeck, D., Cleary, D.F.R., Voigt, O., Nichols, S.A., Degnan, B.M., Hooper, J.N.A., Wörheide, G. (2007): Analysis of evolutionary, biogeographical and taxonomic patterns of nucleotide composition in demosponge rRNA. Journal of the Marine Biological Society of the United Kingdom. 87:1607-1614.

Sethmann, I. Helbig, U. & Wörheide, G. (2007): Octocoral sclerite ultrastructures and experimental approach to underlying biomineralisation principles. Special issue on Biomineralisation. CrystEngComm. 9:1262–1268.

Hutchings, P., Ahyong, S., Byrne, M., Przeslawski, R., Wörheide, G. (2007): Vulnerability of benthic invertebrates of the Great Barrier Reef to climate change. Chapter 11. In: Johnson, J. and Marshall, P. (Eds.). Climate Change and the Great Barrier Reef: A Vulnerability Assessment. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, Queensland. pp. 309-356. Free access at GBRMPA book site.

Jackson, D., Wörheide, G., Degnan, B.M. (2007): Developmental gene expression during ecological changes in the mollusc shell: insights into the evolution of ontogenetic shell types. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 7: 160. Open access.

Erpenbeck, D., Duran, S., Rützler, K., Paul, V., Hooper, J.N.A., Wörheide, G. (2007): Towards a DNA taxonomy of Caribbean demosponges: a gene tree reconstructed from partial mitochondrial CO1 gene sequences supports previous rDNA phylogenies and provides a new perspective on the systematics of Demospongiae. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 87: 1563-1570.

Wörheide, G. & Erpenbeck, D. (2007): DNA taxonomy of sponges – progress and perspectives. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 87:1629-1633.

Bentlage, B. & Wörheide, G. (2007): Low genetic structuring among Pericharax heteroraphis (Porifera: Calcarea) populations from the Great Barrier Reef (Australia), revealed by analysis of nrDNA and nuclear intron sequences. Coral reefs, 26: 807-816.

Jackson, D. J., Macis, L., Reitner, J., Degnan, B. M., & Wörheide, G. (2007): Sponge Paleogenomics Reveals an Ancient Role for Carbonic Anhydrase in Skeletogenesis. Science 316(5833): 1893-1895 Abstract. Free PDF reprint. Faculty of 1000 Biology MUST READ.

Erpenbeck, D., Hooper, J. N. A., List-Armitage, S. E., Degnan, B. M., Wörheide, G., van Soest, R. W. M. (2007): Affinities of the family Sollasellidae (Porifera, Demospongiae). II. Molecular evidence. Contributions to Zooology. 76(2) 95-102.

Erpenbeck, D., Nichols, S.A., Voigt, O., Dohrmann, M., Degnan, B.M., Hooper, J.N.A., Wörheide, G. (2007): Phylogenetic analyses under secondary structure-specific substitution models outperform traditional approaches - case studies with diploblast LSU. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 64(5): 543-557.

Erpenbeck, D., Voigt, O., Adamski, M., Adamska, M., Hooper, J.N.A.,Wörheide, G., Degnan, B.M. (2007): Mitochondrial diversity of early branching Metazoa is revealed by the complete mt genome of a haplosclerid demosponge. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24(1): 19-22.

Jackson, D.J., McDougall, C., Green, K., Simpson, F., Wörheide, G., Degnan, B.M. (2006): A rapidly evolving secretome builds and patterns a sea shell. BMC Biology. 40: 4. Open Access. Featured in ABC Science News. See BMC's press release.

Schreiber, A., Wörheide, G., Thiel, V. (2006) The fatty acids of calcareous sponges (Calcarea, Porifera). Chemistry and Physics of Lipids. 143(1-2), 29-37.

Dohrmann, M., Voigt, O., Erpenbeck, D., Wörheide, G., (2006): Non-monophyly of most supraspecific taxa of calcareous sponges (Porifera, Calcarea) revealed by increased taxon sampling and partitioned Bayesian analysis of ribosomal DNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 40(3), 830-843.

Erpenbeck, D., Hooper, J.N.A., Wörheide, G., (2006): CO1 phylogenies in diploblasts and the "Barcoding of Life" - are we sequencing a suboptimal partition? Molecular Ecology Notes 6(2): 550-553.

Sethmann, I., Hinrichs, R., Wörheide, G., Putnis, A. (2006) Nano-cluster composite structure of calcitic sponge spicules – A showcase study of basic characteristics of biominerals. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 100(1), 88-96.

Larroux C., Fahey B., Liubicich D., Hinman V.F., Gauthier M., Gongora M., Wörheide G., Leys S.P., Degnan B.M. (2006) Developmental gene expression in a sponge: insights into the last common ancestor of all metazoans. Evolution & Development. 8(2), 150-173.

Wörheide, G. (2006) Low variation in partial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) mitochondrial sequences in the coralline demosponge Astrosclera willeyana across the Indo-Pacific. Marine Biology. 148(5), 907-912.

Gussone, N., Böhm, F., Eisenhauer, A., Dietzel, M., Heuser, A., Teichert, B.M.A., Reitner, J., Wörheide, G., Dullo, W.-C. (2005): Calcium Isotope Fractionation in Calcite and Aragonite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 69(18): 4485-4494.

Nichols S. & Wörheide, G. (2005) Sponges: New views of old animals. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 45(2): 333-334.

Wörheide, G., Solé-Cava, A.M., Hooper, J.N.A. (2005): Biodiversity, molecular ecology and phylogeography of marine sponges: patterns, implications and outlooks. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 45(2): 377-385.

Wörheide, G., Nichols, S., Goldberg, J. (2004) Intragenomic variation of the rDNA internal transcribed spacers in sponges (Phylum Porifera): implications for phylogenetic studies. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 33(3): 816-830.

Wörheide, G., Solé-Cava, A.M., Fromont, J. (2004): Population genetics and phylogeography of sponges - a workshop synthesis. Bollettino dei Musei e degli Istituti biologici dell Università di Genova 68: 683-688.

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