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Per Sundberg is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and has contributed research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work encompasses various subfields including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology, and Oceanography.

The research topics addressed by Sundberg focus on Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine Ecology and Invasive Species, Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Sundberg has published papers in a few notable scientific venues with a concentration in Environmental DNA and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. Key recent papers include:

  • Conservation and turnover of miRNAs and their highly complementary targets in early branching animals, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Monitoring of Endangered Freshwater Mussels in Sweden Using Digital PCR, 2024, Environmental DNA
  • Monitoring of the Invasive Round Goby ( Neogobius melanostomus ) in an Estuarine Seascape Based on eDNA, 2025, Environmental DNA

Frequent collaborators include Alizz Axberg and Marina Panova, both having coauthored two publications with Sundberg. Other notable coauthors are Daniela Praher, Bob Zimmermann, and Rohit Dnyansagar.

Sundberg's contributions are published mostly in Environmental DNA and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, reflecting a focus on molecular and ecological approaches to biodiversity monitoring and conservation.

Best Publications

  • Phylogeny and classification of the avian superfamily Sylvioidea

    Per Alström;Per G.P. Ericson;Urban Olsson;Per Sundberg

  • Non-monophyletic taxa and cryptic species—Evidence from a molecular phylogeny of leaf-warblers (Phylloscopus, Aves)

    Urban Olsson;Per Alström;Per Alström;Per G.P. Ericson;Per Sundberg

  • Checklist of Nemertean Genera and Species Published between 1995 and 2007

    Hiroshi Kajihara;Alexei V. Chernyshev;Shi-Chun Sun;Per Sundberg

  • Phylogeny and evolution of reproductive modes in Autolytinae (Syllidae, Annelida).

    Arne Nygren;Per Sundberg

  • Statistical Parsimony Networks and Species Assemblages in Cephalotrichid Nemerteans (Nemertea)

    Haixia Chen;Malin Strand;Jon L. Norenburg;Shichun Sun

  • Phylogenetic analysis of the cytochrome P450 3 (CYP3) gene family.

    Andrew G. McArthur;Tove Hegelund;Rachel L. Cox;John J. Stegeman

  • Phylogeny and classification of the Old World Emberizini (Aves, Passeriformes).

    Per Alström;Urban Olsson;Fumin Lei;Hai-tao Wang;Hai-tao Wang

  • The first comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Bryozoa (Ectoprocta) based on combined analyses of nuclear and mitochondrial genes.

    Judith Fuchs;Matthias Obst;Per Sundberg

  • Phylogenetic classification and the definition of taxon names

    Per Sundberg;Fredrik Pleijel

  • Shape and Size-Constrained Principal Components Analysis

    Per Sundberg

  • Species delimitation based on multiple criteria : the Spotted Bush Warbler Bradypterus thoracicus complex (Aves : Megaluridae)

    Per Alström;Per Alström;Pamela C. Rasmussen;Urban Olsson;Per Sundberg

  • Molecular Phylogeny of the Model Annelid Ophryotrocha

    Thomas G. Dahlgren;Bertil Åkesson;Christoffer Schander;Kenneth M. Halanych

  • A transcriptomic approach to ribbon worm systematics (nemertea): resolving the pilidiophora problem

    Sónia C. S. Andrade;Horácio Montenegro;Malin Strand;Megan L. Schwartz

  • Species identification of bivalve larvae using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD): differentiation between Cerastoderma edule and C. lamarcki

    C. André;M. Lindegarth;P.R. Jonsson;P. Sundberg

  • Delimiting species in the hoplonemertean genus Tetrastemma (phylum Nemertea): morphology is not concordant with phylogeny as evidenced from mtDNA sequences

    Malin Strand;Per Sundberg

  • Morphological and molecular evidence of the phylogeny of Nereidiform polychaetes (Annelida)

    T. G. Dahlgren;J. Lundberg;F. Pleijel;P. Sundberg

  • Phylogeny of Aphroditiformia (Polychaeta) based on molecular and morphological data.

    Helena Wiklund;Arne Nygren;Fredrik Pleijel;Fredrik Pleijel;Per Sundberg

  • PHYLOGENY OF THE NEMERTEAN SUBCLASS PALAEONEMERTEA (ANOPLA, NEMERTEA)

    Per Sundberg;Richard Hylbom

  • Evaluating the Utility of Single-Locus DNA Barcoding for the Identification of Ribbon Worms (Phylum Nemertea).

    Per Sundberg;Sebastian Kvist;Malin Strand

  • Character-matrix based descriptions of two new nemertean (Nemertea) species

    Per Sundberg;Alexey. V. Chernyshev;Hiroshi Kajihara;Tobias Kånneby

  • Microgeographic variation in shell characters of Littorina saxatilis Olivi—a question mainly of size?

    Per Sundberg

  • Non‐monophyly of the avian genus Seicercus (Aves: Sylviidae) revealed by mitochondrial DNA

    Urban Olsson;Per Alström;Per Sundberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Per Alström
Per Alström Uppsala University
Hiroshi Kajihara
Hiroshi Kajihara Hokkaido University
Per G. P. Ericson
Per G. P. Ericson Swedish Museum of Natural History
Gonzalo Giribet
Gonzalo Giribet Harvard University
Kenneth M. Halanych
Kenneth M. Halanych University of North Carolina Wilmington
Ulf Göransson
Ulf Göransson Uppsala University
Annie Machordom
Annie Machordom Spanish National Research Council
Ulrich Technau
Ulrich Technau University of Vienna
Martin Thiel
Martin Thiel Catholic University of the North
Frédérique Viard
Frédérique Viard University of Montpellier

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