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Dirk Erpenbeck is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. They have a significant focus on subfields such as Biotechnology, Pharmacology, Molecular Biology, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Marine Sponges and Natural Products
  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Synthesis and Biological Activity

Erpenbeck has contributed to numerous publications, appearing frequently in venues such as Wellcome Open Research, Zootaxa, F1000Research, Frontiers in Microbiology, and Marine Drugs.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Dirk Erpenbeck include:

  • Soft sponges with tricky tree: On the phylogeny of dictyoceratid sponges, 2020, Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research
  • Molecular biodiversity of Iranian shallow water sponges, 2020, Systematics and Biodiversity
  • Compositional and Quantitative Insights Into Bacterial and Archaeal Communities of South Pacific Deep-Sea Sponges (Demospongiae and Hexactinellida), 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • A Soft Spot for Chemistry-Current Taxonomic and Evolutionary Implications of Sponge Secondary Metabolite Distribution, 2021, Marine Drugs
  • Antibacterial scalarane from Doriprismatica stellata nudibranchs (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia), egg ribbons, and their dietary sponge Spongia cf. agaricina (Demospongiae, Dictyoceratida), 2020, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

Erpenbeck collaborates regularly with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Gert Wörheide
  • Merrick Ekins
  • Ute Hentschel
  • John N. A. Hooper
  • Adrian Galitz

Best Publications

  • Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

    Hervé Philippe;Romain Derelle;Philippe Lopez;Kerstin Pick;Kerstin Pick

  • Global Diversity of Sponges (Porifera)

    Rob W. M. Van Soest;Nicole Boury-Esnault;Jean Vacelet;Martin Dohrmann

  • Diversity, structure and convergent evolution of the global sponge microbiome

    Torsten Thomas;Lucas Moitinho-Silva;Miguel Lurgi;Johannes R. Björk;Johannes R. Björk

  • Improved phylogenomic taxon sampling noticeably affects nonbilaterian relationships.

    K. S. Pick;Hervé Philippe;F. Schreiber;D. Erpenbeck

  • The HMA-LMA Dichotomy Revisited: an Electron Microscopical Survey of 56 Sponge Species

    Volker Gloeckner;Markus Wehrl;Lucas Moitinho-Silva;Christine Gernert

  • Phylogeography and conservation genetics of endangered European Margaritiferidae (Bivalvia: Unionoidea)

    Annie Machordom;Rafael Araujo;Dirk Erpenbeck;María-Ángeles Ramos

  • Deep Phylogeny and Evolution of Sponges (Phylum Porifera)

    Gert Wörheide;M. Dohrmann;Dirk Erpenbeck;C. Larroux

  • CO1 phylogenies in diploblasts and the 'Barcoding of Life' — are we sequencing a suboptimal partition?

    D. Erpenbeck;J. N. A. Hooper;G. Wörheide

  • The mitochondrial genomes of the iguana (Iguana iguana) and the caiman (Caiman crocodylus): implications for amniote phylogeny

    Axel Janke;Dirk Erpenbeck;Malin Nilsson;Ulfur Arnason

  • Congruence between nuclear and mitochondrial genes in Demospongiae: a new hypothesis for relationships within the G4 clade (Porifera: Demospongiae).

    C.C. Morrow;B.E. Picton;D. Erpenbeck;N. Boury-Esnault

  • Unravelling host and symbiont phylogenies of halichondrid sponges (Demospongiae, Porifera) using a mitochondrial marker

    D.J.G. Erpenbeck;J.A.J. Breeuwer;H.C. van der Velde;R.W.M. van Soest

  • Barcoding sponges: an overview based on comprehensive sampling

    Sergio Vargas;Astrid Schuster;Katharina Sacher;Gabrielle Buttner

  • Status and Perspective of Sponge Chemosystematics

    Dirk Erpenbeck;Dirk Erpenbeck;Rob W.M. van Soest

  • Camouflaged invasion of Lake Malawi by an Oriental gastropod.

    Martin J. Genner;Martin J. Genner;Ellinor Michel;Dirk Erpenbeck;Nicole De Voogd

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

    Dirk Erpenbeck;Dirk Erpenbeck;Kathryn Hall;Belinda Alvarez;Gabriele Büttner

  • On the molecular phylogeny of sponges (Porifera)

    Dirk Erpenbeck;Gert Wörheide

  • Towards an 18S phylogeny of hexapods: Accounting for group-specific character covariance in optimized mixed nucleotide/doublet models

    Bernhard Misof;Oliver Niehuis;Inge Bischoff;Andreas Rickert

  • 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

    Dirk Erpenbeck;Sandra Duran;Klaus Rützler;Valerie Paul

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

    Judith Pöppe;Patricia Sutcliffe;John N. A. Hooper;Gert Wörheide

  • Horny sponges and their affairs: on the phylogenetic relationships of keratose sponges.

    Dirk Erpenbeck;Patricia Sutcliffe;Steve de C. Cook;Andreas Dietzel

Frequent Co-Authors

Gert Wörheide
Gert Wörheide Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
John N. A. Hooper
John N. A. Hooper Griffith University
Bernard M. Degnan
Bernard M. Degnan University of Queensland
Ute Hentschel
Ute Hentschel GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Martin J. Genner
Martin J. Genner University of Bristol
Cécile Debitus
Cécile Debitus University of Western Brittany
Hermann Ehrlich
Hermann Ehrlich TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Burkhard Morgenstern
Burkhard Morgenstern University of Göttingen
Chris M. Ireland
Chris M. Ireland University of Utah

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