Evolution of Annelida with a special emphasis on interstitial organisms

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Torsten H. Struck
• Subject Area: Systematics and Morphology (Zoology) ; Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions
• Term: from 2011 to 2015
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 190892265

• Final Report Year: 2017

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Publications

• Phylogenomic analyses unravel annelid evolution. Nature, Vol. 471. 2011, pp. 95–98.
  Struck, Torsten H.; Paul, Christiane; Hill, Natascha; Hartmann, Stefanie; Hösel, Christoph; Kube, Michael; Lieb, Bernhard; Meyer, Achim; Tiedemann, Ralph; Purschke, Günter & Bleidorn, Christoph
  
• The impact of paralogy on phylogenomic studies – A case study on annelid relationships. PLoS One, Vol. 8. 2013, Issue 5: e62892
  Struck, Torsten H.
  
• BaCoCa - A heuristic software tool for the parallel assessment of sequence biases in hundreds of gene and taxon partitions. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Vol. 70. 2014, pp. 94-98.
  Kück, Patrick & Struck, Torsten H.
  
• Illuminating the base of the annelid tree using transcriptomics. Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol. 31. 2014, Issue 6, pp. 1391–1401.
  Weigert, Anne; Helm, Conrad; Meyer, Matthias; Nickel, Birgit; Arendt, Detlev; Hausdorf, Bernhard; Santos, Scott R.; Halanych, Kenneth M.; Purschke, Günter; Bleidorn, Christoph & Struck, Torsten H.
  
• Platyzoan paraphyly based on phylogenomic data supports a non-coelomate ancestry of Spiralia. Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol. 31. 2014, Issue 7, pp. 1833–1849.
  Struck, Torsten H.; Wey-Fabrizius, Alexandra R.; Golombek, Anja; Hering, Lars; Weigert, Anne; Bleidorn, Christoph; Klebow, Sabrina; Iakovenko, Nataliia; Hausdorf, Bernhard; Petersen, Malte; Kück, Patrick; Herlyn, Holger & Hankeln, Thomas
  
• TreSpEx – Detection of misleading signal in phylogenetic reconstructions based on tree information. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Vol. 10. 2014, pp. 51-67.
  Struck, Torsten H.
  
• Elucidating the phylogenetic position of Gnathostomulida and first mitochondrial genomes of Gnathostomulida, Gastrotricha and Polycladida (Platyhelminthes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Vol. 86. 2015, pp. 49-63.
  Golombek, Anja; Tobergte, Sarah & Struck, Torsten H.
  
• The evolution of annelids reveals two adaptive routes to the Interstitial realm. Current Biology, Vol. 25. 2015, Issue 15, pp. 1993-1999.
  Struck, Torsten Hugo; Golombek, Anja; Weigert, Anne; Franke, Franziska Anni; Westheide, Wilfried; Purschke, Günter; Bleidorn, Christoph & Halanych, Kenneth Michael