Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Vogler, C., Benzie, J., Lessios, H., Barber, P., Wörheide, G., 2008. A threat to coral reefs multiplied? Four species of crown-of-thorns starfish. Biology Letters FirstCite.

Hagemann, A., Voigt, O., Wörheide, G., Thiel, V., 2008. The sterols of calcareous sponges (Calcarea, Porifera). Chemistry and Physics of Lipids in press.

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. 14: 1-23.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lüter, C., Wörheide, G. & Reitner, J. (2003): Ospreyella depressa gen.n. sp.n., a new thecideid brachiopod from submarine caves of Osprey Reef (Queensland Plateau, Coral Sea, Australia). Journal of Natural History. 37, 1423-1432.

Wörheide, G. & Hooper, J.N.A. (2003): New species of Calcaronea (Porifera: Calcarea) from cryptic habitats of the southern Great Barrier Reef (Heron Island and Wistari Reef, Capricorn-Bunker Group, Australia). Journal of Natural History. 37(1): 1-47.

Wörheide, G., Degnan B.M., Hooper J.N.A. & Reitner J. (2002): Phylogeography and taxonomy of the Indo-Pacific reef cave dwelling coralline demosponge Astrosclera willeyana - new data from nuclear internal transcribed spacer sequences. In: K Moosa (Ed.). Proceedings of the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium, Bali, Vol 1, pp. 339-346. PDF

van Oppen, M.J.H., Wörheide, G. & Takabayashi, M. (2002): Nuclear markers in evolutionary and population genetic studies of scleractinian corals and sponges. In: K Moosa (Ed.). Proceedings of the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium, Bali, Vol 1, pp. 131-138. PDF

Shearer, T. L., van Oppen, M. J. H., Romano, S. L. & Wörheide, G. (2002): Slow rate of sequence evolution in anthozoan (Cnidaria) mitochondrial DNA. Invited review, Molecular Ecology 11 (12): 2475-2487

Wörheide G., Hooper, J.N.A & Degnan, B.M. (2002): Phylogeography of western Pacific Leucetta "chagosensis" (Porifera: Calcarea) from ribosomal DNA sequences: implications for population history and conservation of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (Australia). Molecular Ecology 11 (9): 1753-1768.

Gross, H., Kehrhaus, S., König, G.M., Wörheide, G. & Wright, A.D. (2002): New and Biologically Active Imidazole Alkaloids from Two Sponges of the Genus Leucetta. Journal of Natural Products 65: 1190-1193.

Kehrhaus, S., König, G.M., Wright, A.D., Wörheide, G (2002): Leucamide A: A New Cytotoxic Heptapeptide from the Australian Sponge Leucetta microraphis. Journal of Organic Chemistry 67 (14): 4989-4992.

Thiel V., Blumenberg, M., Hefter, J., Pape, T., Pomponi, S., Reed, J., Reitner, J., Wörheide, G. & Michaelis, W. (2002): A chemical view on the most ancestral Metazoa - lipid chemotaxonomy of glass sponges (Hexactinellida, Porifera).
Naturwissenschaften 89(2): 60-66.

Reitner J., Wörheide, G., Lange, R. & Schumann-Kindel, G. (2001): Coralline Demosponges - A geobiological portrait. In, Mori, K., Ezaki, Y. & Sorauf, J., eds., Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, September 1999, Sendai. Bulletin of the Tohoku University Museum, 1: 219-235. PDF

Böhm, F., Joachimski, M.M., Dullo, W.-C., Eisenhauer, A., Lehnert, H., Reitner, J., & Wörheide, G. (2000): Oxygen Isotope Fractionation in Marine Aragonite of Coralline Sponges. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 64(10): 1695-1703.

Wörheide, G. & Hooper, J.N.A (1999): Calcarea from the Great Barrier Reef (Australia). 1: Cryptic Calcinea from Heron Island and Wistari Reef (Capricorn-Bunker Group). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 43(1):246-282. PDF

Thiel, V., Jenisch, A., Wörheide, G., Löwenberg, A., Reitner, J. & Michaelis, W. (1999): Mid-chain branched alkanoic acids from "living fossil" demosponges: a link to ancient sedimentary lipid assemblages? Organic Geochemistry 30: 1-14.

Wörheide, G. (1998): The reef cave dwelling ultraconservative coralline demosponge Astrosclera willeyana LISTER 1900 from the Indo-Pacific - Micromorphology, Ultrastructure, Biocalcification, Isotope Record, Taxonomy, Biogeography, Phylogeny. Facies 38: 1-88. PDF

Reitner, J., Wörheide, G., Lange, R. & Thiel, V. (1997): Biomineralization of calcified skeletons in three Pacific coralline demosponges - an approach to the evolution of basal skeletons. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 201: 371-383. PDF

Jahn, T., König, G.M., Wright, A.D., Wörheide, G. & Reitner, J. (1997): Manzacidin D: An unprecedented secondary metabolite from the "living fossil" sponge Astrosclera willeyana. Tetrahedron Letters, 38(22): 3883-3884.

Wörheide, G., Reitner, J. & Gautret, P. (1997): Comparison of biocalcification processes in the two coralline demosponges Astrosclera willeyana LISTER and Acanthochaetetes wellsi HARTMAN & GOREAU. Proceedings of the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium, 2: 1427-1432. PDF

Wörheide, G., Gautret, P., Reitner, J., Böhm, F., Joachimski, M. M., Thiel, V., Michaelis, W. & Massault, M. (1997): Basal skeletal formation, role and preservation of intracrystalline organic matrices, and isotopic record in the coralline sponge Astrosclera willeyana LISTER 1900. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, Madrid 1995. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia natural, (Section Geologia) 91: 355-374. PDF