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Andreas Hejnol is affiliated with the University of Bergen in Norway. Their research spans biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental science, as evidenced by numerous publications across these fields. Their work particularly focuses on molecular biology, global and planetary change, paleontology, ecology, and the broader category of ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's research covers a wide range of topics including marine ecology and invasive species, marine invertebrate physiology and ecology, genomics and phylogenetic studies, protist diversity and phylogeny, cephalopods and marine biology, neurobiology and insect physiology research, and echinoderm biology and ecology. These topics reflect a multidisciplinary approach to biological and environmental sciences.

Andreas Hejnol has contributed to several recent papers, with notable publications including:

  • Annelid functional genomics reveal the origins of bilaterian life cycles (2023, Nature)
  • Conservative route to genome compaction in a miniature annelid (2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • Molecular evidence for a single origin of ultrafiltration-based excretory organs (2021, Current Biology)
  • Nemertean, Brachiopod, and Phoronid Neuropeptidomics Reveals Ancestral Spiralian Signaling Systems (2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution)
  • Hox gene expression during development of the phoronid Phoronopsis harmeri (2020, EvoDevo)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Regular co-authors include Aina Børve (15 joint publications), José M. Martín-Durán (9), Ludwik Gąsiorowski (9), Daniel Thiel (7), and Carmen Andrikou (7).

Publication venues where Andreas Hejnol's work appears frequently demonstrate an emphasis on preprint and open-access platforms, as well as high-impact journals. These venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Ecology & Evolution, BMC Biology, and Nature.

Best Publications

  • Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

    Casey W. Dunn;Casey W. Dunn;Andreas Hejnol;David Q. Matus;Kevin Pang

  • Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

    Andreas Hejnol;Matthias Obst;Alexandros Stamatakis;Michael Ott

  • Animal Phylogeny and Its Evolutionary Implications

    Casey W. Dunn;Gonzalo Giribet;Gregory D. Edgecombe;Andreas Hejnol

  • Genomic evidence for ameiotic evolution in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga

    Jean François Flot;Boris Hespeels;Xiang Li;Benjamin Noel

  • Xenacoelomorpha is the sister group to Nephrozoa

    Johanna Taylor Cannon;Bruno Cossermelli Vellutini;Julian Smith;Fredrik Ronquist

  • Higher-level metazoan relationships: recent progress and remaining questions

    Gregory D. Edgecombe;Gonzalo Giribet;Casey W. Dunn;Andreas Hejnol

  • Spiralian Phylogeny Informs the Evolution of Microscopic Lineages

    Christopher E. Laumer;Nicolas Bekkouche;Alexandra Kerbl;Freya Goetz

  • Early metazoan cell type diversity and the evolution of multicellular gene regulation

    Arnau Sebé-Pedrós;Elad Chomsky;Kevin Pang;David Lara-Astiaso

  • Convergent evolution of bilaterian nerve cords

    José M. Martín-Durán;Kevin Pang;Aina Børve;Henrike Semmler Lê;Henrike Semmler Lê

  • Nuclear genomic signals of the ‘microturbellarian’ roots of platyhelminth evolutionary innovation

    Christopher E Laumer;Andreas Hejnol;Gonzalo Giribet

  • Acoel development indicates the independent evolution of the bilaterian mouth and anus

    Andreas Hejnol;Mark Q. Martindale

  • A developmental perspective: changes in the position of the blastopore during bilaterian evolution.

    Mark Q. Martindale;Andreas Hejnol

  • Acoel development supports a simple planula-like urbilaterian.

    Andreas Hejnol;Mark Q Martindale

  • Annelid functional genomics reveal the origins of bilaterian life cycles

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  • A Twist in Time—The Evolution of Spiral Cleavage in the Light of Animal Phylogeny

    Andreas Hejnol

  • High-resolution fate map of the snail Crepidula fornicata: the origins of ciliary bands, nervous system, and muscular elements.

    Andreas Hejnol;Mark Q. Martindale;Jonathan Q. Henry

  • Embracing the comparative approach: how robust phylogenies and broader developmental sampling impacts the understanding of nervous system evolution.

    Andreas Hejnol;Christopher J. Lowe

  • The developmental basis for the recurrent evolution of deuterostomy and protostomy.

    José M Martín-Durán;Yale J Passamaneck;Mark Q Martindale;Mark Q Martindale;Andreas Hejnol

  • Development of the larval anterior neurogenic domains of Terebratalia transversa (Brachiopoda) provides insights into the diversification of larval apical organs and the spiralian nervous system

    Scott Santagata;Carlee Resh;Andreas Hejnol;Mark Q Martindale

  • Broad taxon and gene sampling indicate that chaetognaths are protostomes

    David Q. Matus;Richard R. Copley;Casey W. Dunn;Andreas Hejnol

  • Ciliary photoreceptors in the cerebral eyes of a protostome larva.

    Yale J Passamaneck;Nina Furchheim;Andreas Hejnol;Andreas Hejnol;Mark Q Martindale

  • Deuterostomic Development in the Protostome Priapulus caudatus

    José M. Martín-Durán;Ralf Janssen;Sofia Wennberg;Graham E. Budd

  • Author response: Nuclear genomic signals of the ‘microturbellarian’ roots of platyhelminth evolutionary innovation

    Christopher E Laumer;Andreas Hejnol;Gonzalo Giribet

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Q. Martindale
Mark Q. Martindale University of Florida
Gonzalo Giribet
Gonzalo Giribet Harvard University
Boris Lenhard
Boris Lenhard Imperial College London
Gregory D. Edgecombe
Gregory D. Edgecombe Natural History Museum
Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen
Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen University of Copenhagen
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo Pompeu Fabra University
Ralf Schnabel
Ralf Schnabel Technische Universität Braunschweig
Manuel Irimia
Manuel Irimia Pompeu Fabra University
José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta
José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta Spanish National Research Council
Greg W. Rouse
Greg W. Rouse University of California, San Diego

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