Gert Wörheide - Publications#

Complete list of publications

Selected publications:

Pett, W., Adamski, M., Adamska, M., Francis, W.R., Eitel, M., Pisani, D., Wörheide, G., 2019. The role of homology and orthology in the phylogenomic analysis of metazoan gene content. Molecular Biology and Evolution 36, 643–649.

Eitel, M., Francis, W.R., Varoqueaux, F., Daraspe, J., Osigus, H.-J., Krebs, S., Vargas, S., Blum, H., Williams, G.A., Schierwater, B., Wörheide, G., 2018. Comparative genomics and the nature of placozoan species. PLoS Biology 16, e2005359.

Mills, D.B., Francis, W.R., Vargas, S., Larsen, M., Elemans, C.P.H., Canfield, D.E., Wörheide, G., 2018. The last common ancestor of animals lacked the HIF pathway and respired in low-oxygen environments. eLife 7, e31176.

Schuster, A., Vargas, S., Knapp, I.S., Pomponi, S.A., Toonen, R.J., Erpenbeck, D., Wörheide, G., 2018. Divergence times in demosponges (Porifera): first insights from new mitogenomes and the inclusion of fossils in a birth-death clock model. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18, 114.

Dohrmann, M., Wörheide, G., 2017. Dating early animal evolution using phylogenomic data. Scientific Reports 7, 3599.

González-Pech, R., Vargas, S., Francis, W.R., Wörheide, G., 2017. Transcriptomic Resilience of the Montipora digitata Holobiont to Low pH. Frontiers in Marine Science 4, 403.

Feuda, R., Dohrmann, M., Pett, W., Philippe, H., Rota-Stabelli, O., Lartillot, N., Wörheide, G., Pisani, D., 2017. Improved modeling of compositional heterogeneity supports sponges as sister to all other animals. Current Biology 27, 3864–3870.

Simion, P., Philippe, H., Baurain, D., Jager, M., Richter, D.J., Di Franco, A., Roure, B., Satoh, N., Quéinnec, É., Ereskovsky, A., Lapébie, P., Corre, E., Delsuc, F., King, N., Wörheide, G., Manuel, M., 2017. A large and consistent phylogenomic dataset supports sponges as the sister group to all other animals. Current Biology 27, 958–967.

Beaman, R.J., Bridge,T.C.L., Lüter, C., Reitner, J., Wörheide, G., 2016. Spatial patterns in the distribution of benthic assemblages across a large depth gradient in the Coral Sea, Australia. Marine Biodiversity 4:795–808

Erpenbeck, D., Voigt, O., Al-Aidaroos, A.M., Berumen, M.L., Büttner, G., Catania, D., Guirguis, A.N., Paulay, G., Schätzle, S., Wörheide, G., 2016. Molecular biodiversity of Red Sea demosponges. Marine Pollution Bulletin 105:507–514

Germer, J., Mann, K., Wörheide, G., Jackson, D.J., 2015. The Skeleton Forming Proteome of an Early Branching Metazoan: A Molecular Survey of the Biomineralization Components Employed by the Coralline Sponge Vaceletia sp. PLoS ONE 10 (11), e0140100EP

Pisani, D., Pett, W., Dohrmann, M., Feuda, R., Rota-Stabelli, O., Philippe, H., Lartillot, N., Wörheide, G., 2015. Genomic data do not support comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 112, 15402–15407.

Steinmetz, P.R.H., Kraus, J.E.M., Larroux, C., Hammel, J.U., Amon-Hassenzahl, A., Houliston, E., Wörheide, G., Nickel, M., Degnan, B.M., Technau, U., 2012. Independent evolution of striated muscles in cnidarians and bilaterians. Nature 487, 231–234.

Philippe, H., Brinkmann, H., Lavrov, D.V., Littlewood, D.T.J., Manuel, M., Wörheide, G., Baurain, D. 2011. Resolving difficult phylogenetic questions: why more sequences are not enough. PLoS Biology, 9, e1000602.

Pick, K.S., Philippe, H., Schreiber, F., Erpenbeck, D., Jackson, D.J., Wrede, P., Wiens, M., Alié, A., Morgenstern, B., Manuel, M., *Wörheide, G. 2010. Improved phylogenomic taxon sampling noticeably affects non-bilaterian relationships. Molecular Biology and Evolution 27:1983-1987.

Philippe, H., Derelle, R., Lopez, P., Pick, K., Borchiellini, C., Boury-Esnault, N., Vacelet, J., Renard, E., Houliston, E., Quéinnec, E., Da Silva, C., Wincker, P., Le Guyader, H., Leys, S., Jackson, D.J., Schreiber, F., Erpenbeck, D., Morgenstern, B., *Wörheide, G., Manuel, M., 2009. Phylogenomics revives traditional views on deep animal relationships. Current Biology 19, 706–712.

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.