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66
Citations
15978
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1697
National Ranking
100

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Gert Wörheide is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple specialized subfields including Biotechnology, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Oceanography, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics of Wörheide's work include Marine Sponges and Natural Products, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Marine Ecology and Invasive Species, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis, and Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry.

Wörheide's recent papers reflect a focus on marine biology, genomics, and microbial ecology. Noteworthy examples include:

  • Profiling cellular diversity in sponges informs animal cell type and nervous system evolution, 2021, Science
  • Tracing animal genomic evolution with the chromosomal-level assembly of the freshwater sponge Ephydatia muelleri, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The Fourth Global Coral Bleaching Event: Where do we go from here?, 2024, Coral Reefs
  • Compositional and Quantitative Insights Into Bacterial and Archaeal Communities of South Pacific Deep-Sea Sponges (Demospongiae and Hexactinellida), 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Anaerobic metabolism of Foraminifera thriving below the seafloor, 2020, The ISME Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wörheide include:

  • Sergio Vargas
  • Dirk Erpenbeck
  • Michael Eitel
  • Nicola Conci
  • Warren R. Francis

Much of Wörheide's research output is published in well-known venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zootaxa, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Molecular Ecology Resources, and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

Among distinctions, Wörheide was named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

    Hervé Philippe;Henner Brinkmann;Dennis V. Lavrov;D. Timothy J. Littlewood

  • Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

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

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

    T. L. Shearer;M. J. H. van Oppen;M. J. H. van Oppen;S. L. Romano;G. Wörheide

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

    Paul Simion;Hervé Philippe;Hervé Philippe;Denis Baurain;Muriel Jager

  • The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics.

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  • Improved phylogenomic taxon sampling noticeably affects nonbilaterian relationships.

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

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

    Rachel Przeslawski;Shane Ahyong;Maria Byrne;Gert WÖRheide

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

    Davide Pisani;Walker Pett;Martin Dohrmann;Roberto Feuda

  • Improved Modeling of Compositional Heterogeneity Supports Sponges as Sister to All Other Animals.

    Roberto Feuda;Martin Dohrmann;Walker Pett;Hervé Philippe

  • Deep metazoan phylogeny: When different genes tell different stories

    Tetyana Nosenko;Fabian Schreiber;Maja Adamska;Marcin Adamski

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

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

  • Independent evolution of striated muscles in cnidarians and bilaterians

    Patrick R. H. Steinmetz;Johanna E. M. Kraus;Claire Larroux;Claire Larroux;Jörg U. Hammel

  • Oxygen isotope fractionation in marine aragonite of coralline sponges

    Florian Böhm;Michael M. Joachimski;Wolf-Christian Dullo;Anton Eisenhauer

  • A rapidly evolving secretome builds and patterns a sea shell.

    Daniel J Jackson;Daniel J Jackson;Carmel McDougall;Carmel McDougall;Kathryn Green;Fiona Simpson

  • Profiling cellular diversity in sponges informs animal cell type and nervous system evolution

    Jacob M. Musser;Klaske J. Schippers;Michael Nickel;Michael Nickel;Giulia Mizzon

  • Dating early animal evolution using phylogenomic data.

    Martin Dohrmann;Gert Wörheide

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

    Claire Larroux;Bryony Fahey;Danielle Liubicich;Veronica F. Hinman

  • Deep Phylogeny and Evolution of Sponges (Phylum Porifera)

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

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

    Gert Worheide

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

    Catherine Vogler;John Benzie;Harilaos Lessios;Paul Barber

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

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

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

    Gert Wörheide;Scott A. Nichols;Julia Goldberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk Erpenbeck
Dirk Erpenbeck Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
John N. A. Hooper
John N. A. Hooper Griffith University
Joachim Reitner
Joachim Reitner University of Göttingen
Bernard M. Degnan
Bernard M. Degnan University of Queensland
Hervé Philippe
Hervé Philippe Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Sally P. Leys
Sally P. Leys University of Alberta
Bernd Schierwater
Bernd Schierwater University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation
Helmut Blum
Helmut Blum Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Wolfgang W. Schmahl
Wolfgang W. Schmahl Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Hermann Ehrlich
Hermann Ehrlich TU Bergakademie Freiberg

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