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, T.H., Paul, C., Hill, N., Hartmann, S., et al.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09864)
• The impact of paralogy on phylogenomic studies – A case study on annelid relationships. PLoS One, Vol. 8. 2013, Issue 5: e62892
  Struck, T.H.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0062892)
• 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, P., Struck, T.H.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2013.09.011)
• Illuminating the base of the annelid tree using transcriptomics. Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol. 31. 2014, Issue 6, pp. 1391–1401.
  Weigert, A., Helm, C., Meyer, M., Nickel, B., Arendt, D., Hausdorf, B., Santos, S.R., Halanych, K.M., Purschke, G., Bleidorn, C., Struck, T.H.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msu080)
• 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, T.H., Wey-Fabrizius, A.R., Golombek, A., et al.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msu143)
• TreSpEx – Detection of misleading signal in phylogenetic reconstructions based on tree information. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Vol. 10. 2014, pp. 51-67.
  Struck, T.H.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.4137/EBO.S14239)
• 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, A., Tobergte, S., Struck, T. H.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2015.02.013)
• The evolution of annelids reveals two adaptive routes to the Interstitial realm. Current Biology, Vol. 25. 2015, Issue 15, pp. 1993-1999.
  Struck, T.H., Golombek, A., Weigert, A., Franke, F. A., Westheide, W., Purschke, G., Bleidorn, C., Halanych, M.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.007)