Gert Wörheide

Gert Wörheide
Scientific career
Fields	marine invertebrates biodiversity evolution taxonomy genomics
Institutions	Queensland Museum Georg-August-Universität Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

Gert Wörheide is a German marine biologist who works mainly on marine invertebrates. He earned his doctorate in geobiology from Georg-August-Universität, following this with a post-doctorate at Queensland Museum (1998-2002),^[1] where he worked with John Hooper on sponges,^{[2][3][4][5][6]} a collaboration which continues.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12]}

Following his postdoctorate in Queensland, Wörheide returned to Germany to become a junior professor in molecular geobiology at Georg-August-Universität (2002-2008),^[1] and in October 2008 was appointed Chair of Geobiology & Paleontology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (University of Munich) (his current position),^[1] where he continues to work on evolution and genomics,^{[13][14][15][16]} and all things pertaining to marine invertebrates.^[17][18][19] His most cited paper with 559 citations (at 2020-09-29) is "Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough".^[20]

See also

Taxa named by Gert Wörheide

References

1. ORCID. "Gert Wörheide (0000-0002-6380-7421)". orcid.org. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
2. 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: 1–47. doi:10.1080/713834391. S2CID 84884129.
3. Worheide, 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. doi:10.1046/j.1365-294X.2002.01570.x. ISSN 0962-1083. PMID 12207725. S2CID 24400688.
4. Worheide, G. & Hooper, J.N.A. (1999). "Calcarea from the Great Barrier Reef. 1: Cryptic Calcinea from Heron Island and Wistari Reef (Capricorn Bunker Group)". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 43 (2): 859–891.
5. Reitner, J., Wörheide, G., Hooper, J., & van Soest, R. (2002). Systema Porifera: A guide to the Classification of Sponges. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. pp. 52–68.
6. Reitner, J., WORHEIDE, G., Arp, G., REIMER, A., & HOOPER, J. (1999). "An unusual suberitid demosponge from a marine alkaline crater lake (Satonda Island, Indonesia)". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 44: 407–.
7. Erpenbeck, D.; Hooper, J. N. A.; Worheide, G. (2006). "CO1 phylogenies in diploblasts and the 'Barcoding of Life' - are we sequencing a suboptimal partition?". Molecular Ecology Notes. 6 (2): 550–553. doi:10.1111/j.1471-8286.2005.01259.x. ISSN 1471-8278.
8. Worheide, G. (1 April 2005). "Biodiversity, molecular ecology and phylogeography of marine sponges: patterns, implications and outlooks". Integrative and Comparative Biology. 45 (2): 377–385. doi:10.1093/icb/45.2.377. ISSN 1540-7063. PMID 21676783. S2CID 15714479.
9. Vargas, S.; Schuster, A.; Sacher, K.; Büttner, G.; Schätzle, S.; Läuchli, B.; Hall, K.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Erpenbeck, D.; Wörheide, G. (3 July 2012). "Barcoding Sponges: An Overview Based on Comprehensive Sampling". PLOS ONE. 7 (7): e39345. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...739345V. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039345. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3389008. PMID 22802937.
10. Erpenbeck, D.; Hall, K.; Alvarez, B.; Büttner, G.; Sacher, K.; Schätzle, S.; Schuster, A.; Vargas, S.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Wörheide, G. (2012). "The phylogeny of halichondrid demosponges: past and present re-visited with DNA-barcoding data". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 12 (1): 57–70. doi:10.1007/s13127-011-0068-9. ISSN 1439-6092. S2CID 18383116.
11. 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 (6): 1563–1570. doi:10.1017/S0025315407058195. ISSN 0025-3154. S2CID 84922126.
12. Erpenbeck, D.; Sutcliffe, P.; Cook, S..de C.; Dietzel, A.; Maldonado, M.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J. N.A.; Wörheide, G. (2012). "Horny sponges and their affairs: On the phylogenetic relationships of keratose sponges". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 63 (3): 809–816. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.02.024. PMID 22406528.
13. Kenny, N.J.; Francis, W.R.; Rivera-Vicéns, R.E.; Juravel, K.; de Mendoza, A.; Díez-Vives, C.; Lister, R.; Bezares-Calderón, L.A.; Grombacher, L.; Roller, M.; Barlow, L.D., Camilli, S., Ryan, J.F., Wörheide G., Hill, A.L., Riesgo, A. & Leys, S.P. (2020). "Tracing animal genomic evolution with the chromosomal-level assembly of the freshwater sponge Ephydatia muelleri". Nature Communications. 11 (1): 3676. Bibcode:2020NatCo..11.3676K. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17397-w. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 7385117. PMID 32719321.
14. Conci, N.; Wörheide, G.; Vargas, S. (1 November 2019). Lavrov, Dennis (ed.). "New Non-Bilaterian Transcriptomes Provide Novel Insights into the Evolution of Coral Skeletomes". Genome Biology and Evolution. 11 (11): 3068–3081. doi:10.1093/gbe/evz199. ISSN 1759-6653. PMC 6824150. PMID 31518412.
15. Francis, W.R.; Wörheide, G. (2017). "Similar Ratios of Introns to Intergenic Sequence across Animal Genomes". Genome Biology and Evolution. 9 (6): 1582–1598. doi:10.1093/gbe/evx103. ISSN 1759-6653. PMC 5534336. PMID 28633296.
16. Jackson, D.J.; Mann, K.; Häussermann, V.; Schilhabel, M.B.; Lüter, C.; Griesshaber, E.; Schmahl, W.; Wörheide, G. (2015). "The Magellania venosa Biomineralizing Proteome: A Window into Brachiopod Shell Evolution". Genome Biology and Evolution. 7 (5): 1349–1362. doi:10.1093/gbe/evv074. ISSN 1759-6653. PMC 4453069. PMID 25912046.
17. Vargas, S.; Leiva, L.; Wörheide, G. (7 August 2020). "Short-Term Exposure to High-Temperature Water Causes a Shift in the Microbiome of the Common Aquarium Sponge Lendenfeldia chondrodes". Microbial Ecology. 81 (1): 213–222. doi:10.1007/s00248-020-01556-z. ISSN 0095-3628. PMC 7794106. PMID 32767091. S2CID 221018923.
18. Orsi, W.D.; Morard, R.; Vuillemin, A.; Eitel, M.; Wörheide, G.; Milucka, J.; Kucera, M. (2020). "Anaerobic metabolism of Foraminifera thriving below the seafloor". The ISME Journal. 14 (10): 2580–2594. doi:10.1038/s41396-020-0708-1. ISSN 1751-7362. PMC 7490399. PMID 32641728. S2CID 220417939.
19. Hertzer, C.; Kehraus, S.; Böhringer, N.; Kaligis, F.; Bara, R.; Erpenbeck, D.; Wörheide, G.; Schäberle, T.F; Wägele, H.; König, G.M (3 July 2020). "Antibacterial scalarane from Doriprismatica stellata nudibranchs (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia), egg ribbons, and their dietary sponge Spongia cf. agaricina (Demospongiae, Dictyoceratida)". Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 16: 1596–1605. doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.132. ISSN 1860-5397. PMC 7356558. PMID 32704326.
20. Philippe, H.; Brinkmann, H.; Lavrov, D.V.; Littlewood, D.T.J.; Manuel, M.; Wörheide, G.; Baurain, D. (15 March 2011). Penny, D. (ed.). "Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough". PLOS Biology. 9 (3): e1000602. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000602. ISSN 1545-7885. PMC 3057953. PMID 21423652.