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  1. Divergence times in demosponges (Porifera): first insights from new mitogenomes and the inclusion of fossils in a birth-death clock model

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  2. The role of homology and orthology in the phylogenomic analysis of metazoan gene content

    Article • June 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  3. A 16S rRNA gene sequencing and analysis protocol for the Illumina MiniSeq platform

    Article • MicrobiologyOpen, March 2018, Wiley

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  4. The last common ancestor of animals lacked the HIF pathway and respired in low-oxygen environments

    Article • eLife, February 2018, eLife

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  5. A taxogenomics approach uncovers a new genus in the phylum Placozoa

    Article • October 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  6. Divergence times in demosponges (Porifera): first insights from new mitogenomes and the inclusion of fossils in a birth-death clock model

    Article • July 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  7. Transcriptomic Resilience of a Coral Holobiont to Low pH

    Article • June 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  8. Mitochondrial RNA processing in absence of tRNA punctuations in octocorals

    Article • BMC Molecular Biology, June 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  9. Dating early animal evolution using phylogenomic data

    Article • Scientific Reports, June 2017, Nature

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  10. Similar Ratios of Introns to Intergenic Sequence across Animal Genomes

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, June 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  11. Persistent Gaps of Knowledge for Naming and Distinguishing Multiple Species of Crown-of-Thorns-Seastar in the Acanthaster planci Species Complex

    Article • Diversity, May 2017, MDPI AG

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  12. Spicule formation in calcareous sponges: Coordinated expression of biomineralization genes and spicule-type specific genes

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2017, Nature

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  13. A Large and Consistent Phylogenomic Dataset Supports Sponges as the Sister Group to All Other Animals

    Article • Current Biology, April 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  14. The Genome Of The Contractile Demosponge Tethya wilhelma And The Evolution Of Metazoan Neural Signalling Pathways

    Article • March 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  15. Evolution of group I introns in Porifera: new evidence for intron mobility and implications for DNA barcoding

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  16. Volcanic ash supports a diverse bacterial community in a marine mesocosm

    Article • Geobiology, March 2017, Wiley

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  17. Historical biogeography and mitogenomics of two endemic Mediterranean gorgonians (Holaxonia, Plexauridae)

    Article • Organisms Diversity & Evolution, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  18. Advancing genomics through the Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA)

    Article • Invertebrate Systematics, January 2017, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide, Professor Keith A Crandall

  19. Evaluation and validation of reference genes for qPCR analysis to study climate change-induced stresses in Sinularia cf. cruciata (Octocorallia: Alcyonidae)

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, October 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  20. New cervid cytochrome b sequences, new conundrums in cervid systematics

    Article • Mammalian Biology, September 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  21. Similar ratios of introns to intergenic sequence across animal genomes

    Article • August 2016, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  22. Systematic relationships of five newly sequenced cervid species

    Article • PeerJ, August 2016, PeerJ

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  23. A new species of lithistid sponge hiding within the Isabella mirabilis species complex (Porifera: Demospongiae: Tetractinellida) from seamounts of the Norfolk Ridge

    Article • Zootaxa, July 2016, Magnolia Press

    Dr Merrick Grindon Ekins, Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  24. Bottomless barrel-sponge species in the Indo-Pacific?

    Article • Zootaxa, July 2016, Magnolia Press

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  25. Molecular paleobiology — Progress and perspectives

    Article • Palaeoworld, June 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  26. Genetic structure of the crown-of-thorns seastar in the Pacific Ocean, with focus on Guam

    Article • PeerJ, May 2016, PeerJ

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  27. Homoplasious colony morphology and mito-nuclear phylogenetic discordance among Eastern Pacific octocorals

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, May 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  28. Molecular biodiversity of Red Sea demosponges

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, April 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  29. Complete mitochondrial genome of Muricea crassa and Muricea purpurea (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from the eastern tropical Pacific

    Article • March 2016, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  30. Reply to Halanych et al.: Ctenophore misplacement is corroborated by independent datasets

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  31. Never Ending Analysis of a Century Old Evolutionary Debate: “Unringing” the Urmetazoon Bell

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, February 2016, Frontiers

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  32. Nuclear and mitochondrial phylogeny of Rossella (Hexactinellida: Lyssacinosida, Rossellidae): a species and a species flock in the Southern Ocean

    Article • January 2016, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  33. Spatial patterns in the distribution of benthic assemblages across a large depth gradient in the Coral Sea, Australia

    Article • Marine Biodiversity, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  34. Mitochondrial genomes of the freshwater sponges Spongilla lacustris and Ephydatia cf. muelleri

    Article • Mitochondrial DNA Part B, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  35. Genomic data do not support comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  36. A short LSU rRNA fragment as a standard marker for integrative taxonomy in calcareous sponges (Porifera: Calcarea)

    Article • Organisms Diversity & Evolution, November 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  37. The lysidyl aminoacyl transfer RNA synthetase intron, a new marker for demosponge phylogeographics – case study on Neopetrosia

    Article • Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, November 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  38. The Skeleton Forming Proteome of an Early Branching Metazoan: A Molecular Survey of the Biomineralization Components Employed by the Coralline Sponge Vaceletia Sp.

    Article • PLoS ONE, November 2015, PLOS

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  39. MtDNA diversity of the Indonesian giant barrel sponge Xestospongia testudinaria (Porifera: Haplosclerida) – implications from partial cytochrome oxidase 1 sequences

    Article • Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, September 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  40. New insights into the vertebralHoxcode of archosaurs

    Article • Evolution & Development, September 2015, Wiley

    Dr Christine Böhmer, Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  41. Correction: Diversity in a Cold Hot-Spot: DNA-Barcoding Reveals Patterns of Evolution among Antarctic Demosponges (Class Demospongiae, Phylum Porifera)

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2015, PLOS

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  42. Population genetics and gene flow between isolated deep sea sponge populations

    Article • Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, June 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Merrick Grindon Ekins, Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  43. Diversity in a Cold Hot-Spot: DNA-Barcoding Reveals Patterns of Evolution among Antarctic Demosponges (Class Demospongiae, Phylum Porifera)

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2015, PLOS

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  44. Correlation betweenHoxcode and vertebral morphology in archosaurs

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Christine Böhmer, Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  45. Nothing in (sponge) biology makes sense – except when based on holotypes

    Article • Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, May 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Merrick Grindon Ekins, Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  46. The Magellania venosa Biomineralizing Proteome: A Window into Brachiopod Shell Evolution

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, April 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  47. Spatial variability of microbial communities of the coralline demosponge Astrosclera willeyana across the Indo-Pacific

    Article • Aquatic Microbial Ecology, February 2015, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  48. Deceptive Desmas: Molecular Phylogenetics Suggests a New Classification and Uncovers Convergent Evolution of Lithistid Demosponges

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2015, PLOS

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  49. A Mitochondrial Intron in a Verongid Sponge

    Article • Journal of Molecular Evolution, November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  50. Proteins of calcified endoskeletons

    Article • PROTEOMICS, October 2014, Wiley

    Dr Azizur Rahman, Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  51. Revision of the brachiopod genus Amphithyris (Rhynchonelliformea: Platidiidae) with descriptions of two new species

    Article • Zootaxa, August 2014, Magnolia Press

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  52. Private collections of fossils are a plus

    Article • Nature, August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Oliver W. M. Rauhut, Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  53. Molecular phylogeny and DNA barcoding of tropical eastern Pacific shallow-water gorgonian octocorals

    Article • Marine Biology, February 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  54. Return of the ghosts of dispersal past: historical spread and contemporary gene flow in the blue sea star Linckia laevigata

    Article • Bulletin of Marine Science, January 2014, Bulletin of Marine Science

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  55. Symbiophagy and biomineralization in the “living fossil”Astrosclera willeyana

    Article • Autophagy, December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  56. The Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA): Developing Community Resources to Study Diverse Invertebrate Genomes

    Article • Journal of Heredity, December 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide, William Browne

  57. A morphometric and genetic framework for the genusGazellade Blainville, 1816 (Ruminantia: Bovidae) with special focus on Arabian and Levantine mountain gazelles

    Article • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, October 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  58. Lock, Stock and Two Different Barrels: Comparing the Genetic Composition of Morphotypes of the Indo-Pacific Sponge Xestospongia testudinaria

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2013, PLOS

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  59. Identification and first insights into the structure and biosynthesis of chitin from the freshwater sponge Spongilla lacustris

    Article • Journal of Structural Biology, September 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide, Sergei Belikov

  60. First report on chitinous holdfast in sponges (Porifera)

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide, Sergei Belikov

  61. Managing and Sharing the Escalating Number of Sponge "Unknowns": The SpongeMaps Project

    Article • Integrative and Comparative Biology, May 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  62. Phylogeny of Tetillidae (Porifera, Demospongiae, Spirophorida) based on three molecular markers

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, May 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  63. A revised phylogeny of Antilopini (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) using combined mitochondrial and nuclear genes

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, May 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  64. The curious case of Gazella arabica

    Article • Mammalian Biology, April 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  65. Deep metazoan phylogeny: When different genes tell different stories

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, April 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  66. Novel Scenarios of Early Animal Evolution--Is It Time to Rewrite Textbooks?

    Article • Integrative and Comparative Biology, March 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  67. Phylogenetic Diversity and Community Structure of the Symbionts Associated with the Coralline Sponge Astrosclera willeyana of the Great Barrier Reef

    Article • Microbial Ecology, March 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  68. Analysis of the Proteinaceous Components of the Organic Matrix of Calcitic Sclerites from the Soft Coral Sinularia sp.

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2013, PLOS

    Dr Azizur Rahman, Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  69. Microbial diversity in the coralline sponge Vaceletia crypta

    Article • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  70. Phylogeography of the crown-of-thorns starfish: genetic structure within the Pacific species

    Article • Coral Reefs, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  71. Molecular paleobiology of early-branching animals: integrating DNA and fossils elucidates the evolutionary history of hexactinellid sponges

    Article • Paleobiology, January 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  72. British Indian Ocean Territory (the Chagos Archipelago): Setting, Connections and the Marine Protected Area

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  73. Mitochondrial DNA of Clathrina clathrus (Calcarea, Calcinea): Six Linear Chromosomes, Fragmented rRNAs, tRNA Editing, and a Novel Genetic Code

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, December 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  74. Development of microsatellite loci in the common reef starfish Linckia laevigata and Linckia multifora

    Article • Ecological Research, September 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  75. Phylogeography of the Crown-of-Thorns Starfish in the Indian Ocean

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2012, PLOS

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  76. Molecular phylogeny ofAbyssocladia(Cladorhizidae: Poecilosclerida) andPhelloderma(Phellodermidae: Poecilosclerida) suggests a diversification of chelae microscleres in cladorhizid sponges

    Article • Zoologica Scripta, August 2012, Wiley

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  77. Cell death and renewal during prey capture and digestion in the carnivorous sponge Asbestopluma hypogea (Porifera: Poecilosclerida)

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, August 2012, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  78. Barcoding Sponges: An Overview Based on Comprehensive Sampling

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2012, PLOS

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  79. Independent evolution of striated muscles in cnidarians and bilaterians

    Article • Nature, June 2012, Nature

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  80. ALG11 – A new variable DNA marker for sponge phylogeny: Comparison of phylogenetic performances with the 18S rDNA and the COI gene

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, June 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  81. Horny sponges and their affairs: On the phylogenetic relationships of keratose sponges

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, June 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  82. Molecular Phylogenetic Evaluation of Classification and Scenarios of Character Evolution in Calcareous Sponges (Porifera, Class Calcarea)

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2012, PLOS

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  83. The phylogeny of halichondrid demosponges: past and present re-visited with DNA-barcoding data

    Article • Organisms Diversity & Evolution, March 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  84. Evolution, radiation and chemotaxonomy of Lamellodysidea, a demosponge genus with anti-plasmodial metabolites

    Article • Marine Biology, February 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  85. DNA-Barcoding — Schlüssel zu den Geheimnissen der Schwämme

    Article • BIOspektrum, February 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  86. Cloning, characterization and sulfonamide inhibition studies of an α-carbonic anhydrase from the living fossil sponge Astrosclera willeyana

    Article • Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, February 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  87. Anion inhibition studies of an α-carbonic anhydrase from the living fossil Astrosclera willeyana

    Article • Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, February 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  88. Deep Phylogeny and Evolution of Sponges (Phylum Porifera)

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  89. Systematics and spicule evolution in dictyonal sponges (Hexactinellida: Sceptrulophora) with description of two new species

    Article • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, November 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  90. Erratum to: Precious coral and rock sponge gardens on the deep aphotic fore-reef of Osprey Reef (Coral Sea, Australia)

    Article • Coral Reefs, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  91. Insights into the evolution of freshwater sponges (Porifera: Demospongiae: Spongillina): Barcoding and phylogenetic data from Lake Tanganyika endemics indicate multiple invasions and unsettle existing taxonomy

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, October 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  92. A horizontal gene transfer supported the evolution of an early metazoan biomineralization strategy

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, August 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  93. Precious coral and rock sponge gardens on the deep aphotic fore-reef of Osprey Reef (Coral Sea, Australia)

    Article • Coral Reefs, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  94. Calcite Formation in Soft Coral Sclerites Is Determined by a Single Reactive Extracellular Protein

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, July 2011, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Dr Azizur Rahman, Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  95. First evaluation of mitochondrial DNA as a marker for phylogeographic studies of Calcarea: a case study from Leucetta chagosensis

    Article • Hydrobiologia, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  96. First evaluation of mitochondrial DNA as a marker for phylogeographic studies of Calcarea: a case study from Leucetta chagosensis

    Article • July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  97. Molecular phylogeny of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida): increased taxon sampling and inclusion of the mitochondrial protein-coding gene, cytochrome oxidase subunit I

    Article • Hydrobiologia, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  98. First evidence of miniature transposable elements in sponges (Porifera)

    Article • Hydrobiologia, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  99. Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

    Article • PLoS Biology, March 2011, PLOS

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  100. RNA interference in marine and freshwater sponges: actin knockdown in Tethya wilhelma and Ephydatia muelleri by ingested dsRNA expressing bacteria

    Article • BMC Biotechnology, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  101. Challenges for biodiversity research in Europe

    Article • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, January 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  102. Animal Biocalcification, Evolution

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  103. First evidence of miniature transposable elements in sponges (Porifera)

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  104. Molecular phylogeny of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida): increased taxon sampling and inclusion of the mitochondrial protein-coding gene, cytochrome oxidase subunit I

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  105. Mineralization of the metre-long biosilica structures of glass sponges is templated on hydroxylated collagen

    Article • Nature Chemistry, November 2010, Nature

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  106. NUMTs in the Sponge Genome Reveal Conserved Transposition Mechanisms in Metazoans

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, August 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  107. ChemInform Abstract: Manzacidin D: An Unprecedented Secondary Metabolite from the “Living Fossil” Sponge Astrosclera willeyana.

    Article • ChemInform, August 2010, Wiley

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  108. Poriferan survivin exhibits a conserved regulatory role in the interconnected pathways of cell cycle and apoptosis

    Article • Cell Death and Differentiation, July 2010, Nature

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  109. Two Pione species (Hadromerida, Clionaidae) from the Red Sea: a taxonomical challenge

    Article • Organisms Diversity & Evolution, June 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  110. ChemInform Abstract: Leucamide A: A New Cytotoxic Heptapeptide from the Australian Sponge Leucetta microraphis.

    Article • ChemInform, May 2010, Wiley

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  111. Improved Phylogenomic Taxon Sampling Noticeably Affects Nonbilaterian Relationships

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, April 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  112. CO I Barcoding Reveals New Clades and Radiation Patterns of Indo-Pacific Sponges of the Family Irciniidae (Demospongiae: Dictyoceratida)

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2010, PLOS

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  113. An evolutionary fast-track to biocalcification

    Article • Geobiology, March 2010, Wiley

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  114. Unsuspected diversity of Niphargus amphipods in the chemoautotrophic cave ecosystem of Frasassi, central Italy

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  115. New insights into the phylogeny of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida): Monophyly of Lyssacinosida and Euplectellinae, and the phylogenetic position of Euretidae

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, July 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  116. OrthoSelect: a web server for selecting orthologous gene alignments from EST sequences

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, June 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  117. Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

    Article • Current Biology, April 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  118. OrthoSelect: a protocol for selecting orthologous groups in phylogenomics

    Article • BMC Bioinformatics, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  119. The mitochondrial genomes of sponges provide evidence for multiple invasions by Repetitive Hairpin-forming Elements (RHE)

    Article • BMC Genomics, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  120. A threat to coral reefs multiplied? Four species of crown-of-thorns starfish

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  121. Beyond corals and fish: the effects of climate change on noncoral benthic invertebrates of tropical reefs

    Article • Global Change Biology, December 2008, Wiley

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  122. The sterols of calcareous sponges (Calcarea, Porifera)

    Article • Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, November 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  123. Phylogeny and Evolution of Glass Sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida)

    Article • Systematic Biology, June 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  124. Structure and composition of calcareous sponge spicules: A review and comparison to structurally related biominerals

    Article • Micron, April 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  125. A hypercalcified sponge with soft relatives: Vaceletia is a keratose demosponge

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, April 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  126. Molecular evolution of rDNA in early diverging Metazoa: First comparative analysis and phylogenetic application of complete SSU rRNA secondary structures in Porifera

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  127. Deep genetic divergences among Indo-Pacific populations of the coral reef sponge Leucetta chagosensis (Leucettidae): Founder effects, vicariance, or both?

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  128. A fragmented metazoan organellar genome: the two mitochondrial chromosomes of Hydra magnipapillata

    Article • BMC Genomics, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  129. DNA taxonomy of sponges—progress and perspectives

    Article • Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, December 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  130. 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

    Article • Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, December 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  131. The systematics of Raspailiidae (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida: Microcionina) re-analysed with a ribosomal marker

    Article • Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, December 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  132. Analysis of evolutionary, biogeographical and taxonomic patterns of nucleotide composition in demosponge rRNA

    Article • Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, December 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  133. Low genetic structuring among Pericharax heteroraphis (Porifera: Calcarea) populations from the Great Barrier Reef (Australia), revealed by analysis of nrDNA and nuclear intron sequences

    Article • Coral Reefs, July 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  134. Sponge Paleogenomics Reveals an Ancient Role for Carbonic Anhydrase in Skeletogenesis

    Article • Science, June 2007, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  135. Phylogenetic Analyses Under Secondary Structure-Specific Substitution Models Outperform Traditional Approaches: Case Studies with Diploblast LSU

    Article • Journal of Molecular Evolution, April 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  136. Octocoral sclerite ultrastructures and experimental approach to underlying biomineralisation principles

    Article • CrystEngComm, January 2007, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  137. Dynamic expression of ancient and novel molluscan shell genes during ecological transitions

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  138. Mitochondrial Diversity of Early-Branching Metazoa Is Revealed by the Complete mt Genome of a Haplosclerid Demosponge

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, October 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  139. The fatty acids of calcareous sponges (Calcarea, Porifera)

    Article • Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, September 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  140. Non-monophyly of most supraspecific taxa of calcareous sponges (Porifera, Calcarea) revealed by increased taxon sampling and partitioned Bayesian analysis of ribosomal DNA

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, September 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  141. CO1 phylogenies in diploblasts and the 'Barcoding of Life' - are we sequencing a suboptimal partition?

    Article • Molecular Ecology Notes, June 2006, Wiley

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  142. Developmental expression of transcription factor genes in a demosponge: insights into the origin of metazoan multicellularity

    Article • Evolution & Development, March 2006, Wiley

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  143. Nano-cluster composite structure of calcitic sponge spicules—A case study of basic characteristics of biominerals

    Article • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  144. Article • BMC Biology, January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  145. Low variation in partial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) mitochondrial sequences in the coralline demosponge Astrosclera willeyana across the Indo-Pacific

    Article • Marine Biology, November 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  146. Calcium isotope fractionation in calcite and aragonite

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, September 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  147. Biodiversity, molecular ecology and phylogeography of marine sponges: patterns, implications and outlooks

    Article • Integrative and Comparative Biology, April 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  148. Intragenomic variation of the rDNA internal transcribed spacers in sponges (Phylum Porifera): implications for phylogenetic studies

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, December 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  149. A new thecideid genus and species (Brachiopoda, Recent) from submarine caves of Osprey Reef (Queensland Plateau, Coral Sea, Australia)

    Article • Journal of Natural History, June 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  150. New species of Calcaronea (Porifera: Calcarea) from cryptic habitats of the southern Great Barrier Reef (Heron Island and Wistari Reef, Capricorn-Bunker Group, Australia)

    Article • Journal of Natural History, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  151. Slow mitochondrial DNA sequence evolution in the Anthozoa (Cnidaria)

    Article • Molecular Ecology, December 2002, Wiley

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  152. 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)

    Article • Molecular Ecology, September 2002, Wiley

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  153. New and Biologically Active Imidazole Alkaloids from Two Sponges of the Genus Leucetta

    Article • Journal of Natural Products, August 2002, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  154. Leucamide A:  A New Cytotoxic Heptapeptide from the Australian Sponge Leucetta microraphis

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, July 2002, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  155. A chemical view of the most ancient metazoa - biomarker chemotaxonomy of hexactinellid sponges

    Article • The Science of Nature, May 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  156. A chemical view of the most ancient metazoa – biomarker chemotaxonomy of hexactinellid sponges

    Article • The Science of Nature, January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  157. Non-Lithistid Fossil Demospongiae — Origins of their Palaeobiodiversity and Highlights in History of Preservation

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  158. Oxygen isotope fractionation in marine aragonite of coralline sponges

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, May 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  159. Organic and Biogeochemical Patterns in Cryptic Microbialites

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  160. Mid-chain branched alkanoic acids from “living fossil” demosponges: a link to ancient sedimentary lipids?

    Article • Organic Geochemistry, January 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  161. The reef cave dwelling ultraconservative coralline demospongeAstrosclera willeyana Lister 1900 from the Indo-Pacific

    Article • Facies, December 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  162. Manzacidin D: An unprecedented secondary metabolite from the “living fossil” sponge Astrosclera willeyana

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, June 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  163. 2 Progress and perspectives of the deep nonbilaterian phylogeny, with focus on sponges (Phylum Porifera)

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

  164. Porifera

    Article • ScienceOpen

    Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide