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Gert Wörheide
@gwoerhe.bsky.social
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Professor (Chair) of Paleontology & Geobiology @ LMU Munich. Evolution, genomics and biomineralization of spineless organisms. 🪸 Coral reef & Stoner/Doom aficionado. 🤘 Views are my own. www.geobiology.eu
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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · 29d
🧪Discovery of calcarins in @elife.bsky.social, a protein family in the sponge Sycon ciliatum, clarifies spicule formation and suggests parallel evolution of carbonate biomineralization in sponges & corals—key for animals as ecosystem engineers of reefs.
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Genetic parallels in biomineralization of the calcareous sponge Sycon ciliatum and stony corals
Discovery of calcarins in calcareous sponges highlights gene duplication and neofunctionalization as drivers of parallel biomineralization, offering insight into the independent evolution of calcifica...
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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · 29d
🧪 associated press release by @lmumuenchen.bsky.social

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Biomineralization: how sponges form their calcite spicules
LMU researchers identify key proteins for biomineralization in calcareous sponges and find evidence for the convergent evolution in sponges and corals.
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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · 29d
🧪Discovery of calcarins in @elife.bsky.social, a protein family in the sponge Sycon ciliatum, clarifies spicule formation and suggests parallel evolution of carbonate biomineralization in sponges & corals—key for animals as ecosystem engineers of reefs.
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social
#molpalmuc
Genetic parallels in biomineralization of the calcareous sponge Sycon ciliatum and stony corals
Discovery of calcarins in calcareous sponges highlights gene duplication and neofunctionalization as drivers of parallel biomineralization, offering insight into the independent evolution of calcifica...
elifesciences.org
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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · Aug 29
🧪 Unravelling sponge evolution: we used Clade-Specific Elements to probe 199 Haplosclerida specimens (22/28 genera, 105 types, 42 holotypes) spanning 200+ years of collections — incl. treasures from the legendary HMS Challenger Expedition.
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out of @SPP_TaxonOmics
Moving Beyond Morphology: Genomic Insights Into Evolutionary Histories of Haplosclerid Sponges
Accurate taxonomic identification is essential for defining species boundaries and understanding biodiversity. However, this remains challenging for groups where morphological character evolution is ...
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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · May 22
also many thanks to @fonamental.bsky.social for handling the nice and enjoyable review process at @peercommunityin.bsky.social #pcigenomics!
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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · May 22
peer-reviewed and recommended
genomics.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
Exploring the correlation between speciation and genome rearrang...
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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · May 22
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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · May 22
We just published our first paper in the Peer Community Journal - diamond open access, no APCs!
Awesome experience, with less than a week from submission after receommendation by #pcigenomics.
Highly recommended!
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Genomic changes are varied across congeneric species pairs of animals
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PCI Genomics @genomics.peercommunityin.org · May 15
A recommendation of the preprint "Genomic changes are varied across congeneric species pairs of animals" by Warren Francis, Sergio Vargas, and Gert Wörheide: tinyurl.com/y82japny
Genomic changes are varied across congeneric species pairs of animals
Synteny, the shared arrangement of genes on chromosomes between related species, is a marker of shared ancestry, and synteny-breaking events can result in genomic incompatibilities between…
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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · May 10
New contribution in @elife.bsky.social: Genetic parallels in biomineralization of the calcareous sponge Sycon ciliatum and stony corals doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

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Genetic parallels in biomineralization of the calcareous sponge Sycon ciliatum and stony corals
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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · Apr 26
Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June
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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · Mar 6
New preprint version of

"rRNA depletion for holobiont metatranscriptome profiling across demosponges"

Project lead and pushed through by Sergio

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rRNA depletion for holobiont metatranscriptome profiling across demosponges
Despite the extensive knowledge of sponge microbiome diversity, a critical knowledge gap persists concerning the molecular mechanisms that govern host-symbiont interactions. Deciphering these mechanis...
www.biorxiv.org
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Astrid Schuster @paleobiodiv.bsky.social · Jan 28
in case you are into sponge research and paleobiodiversity, checkout our latest preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Decoding Demosponge Diversity: Bayesian Analysis of Biodiversity, Extinction Events and Environmental Influences throughout the Phanerozoic
Sponges (phylum Porifera) have been essential to marine ecosystems for over 600 million years, contributing to nutrient cycling, reef building, and ecological stability. Despite their evolutionary imp...
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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · Jan 12
🧪 🧬 New preprint alert:
The largest molecular biodiversity study of sponges to date across the Indo-Pacific (>1900 samples) reveals high levels of regional demosponge endemism.
A long time in the making, w/ many lovely international collaborators 😀
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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Jaccard dissimilarities between the samples of the twelve Indo-Pacific marine provinces, including singletons. Tropical and subtropical marine province areas and boundaries are shaded in white, temperate in light blue. Colour and thickness of the connecting lines between tropical and subtropical marine provinces indicate their dissimilarity levels.
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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · Dec 27
revised version here (27-12-2024)
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · Dec 27
Revised version of our preprint
«Genomic changes are varied across congeneric species pairs»
published - enjoy 😀
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Genomic changes are varied across congeneric species pairs
Synteny, the shared arrangement of genes on chromosomes between related species, is a marker of shared ancestry, and synteny-breaking events can result in genomic incompatibilities between populations...
www.biorxiv.org
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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · Dec 9
the foundation of biodiversity research - natural history collections
#biodiversity
a natural history collection with rows of cupboards and specimen jars
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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · Dec 8
looks like fun, can you add me please?

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Gert Wörheide
‪LMU München, Professor (Chair) of Geobiology & Paleontology‬ - ‪‪16.295-mal zitiert‬‬ - ‪Molecular Geobiology & Palaeobiology‬ - ‪Phylogenomics‬ - ‪Molecular Systematics‬ - ‪Comparative Genomics‬
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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · Nov 24
nice one, pls add me, thanks
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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · Nov 22
please add me to the feed
my labs website, we are studying the evolution of coral reef organisms
www.geobiology.eu
google scholar
scholar.google.de/citations?us...

thanks!
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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · Nov 21
sponge, coral, and echinoderm systematics and taxonomy - feel free to add me 🙂
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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · Nov 10
Open position in my lab at LMU München – please distribute widely to potential applicants.
Application deadline 30 November 2024.
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Scientific Assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent/Akademischer Rat auf Zeit) (m/f/x)
job-portal.lmu.de
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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · Sep 6
Genomic changes are varied across congeneric species pairs
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great collab with Warren Francis and @sevragorgia.bsky.social
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Genomic changes are varied across congeneric species pairs
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
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Dr Verena Schoepf (she/her) @verenaschoepf.bsky.social · May 31
📣 Excited to share our new Editorial led by James Reimer and @reefgenomics.bsky.social!

"The Fourth Global Coral Bleaching Event: Where do we go from here?"

Open access: shorturl.at/BCYU9

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@daviesswphd.bsky.social
@markeakin.bsky.social
@gwoerhe.bsky.social and many others

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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · Apr 11
Beauty in the beast – Placozoan biodiversity explored through molluscan predator genomics

new paper

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

associated press release

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Beauty in the beast – Placozoan biodiversity explored through molluscan predator genomics
Ecology & Evolution is a broad open access journal welcoming research in ecology, evolution, and conservation science, and providing a forum for evidence-based views.
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Gert Wörheide @gwoerhe.bsky.social · Feb 14
Molecular and mineral responses of corals grown under artificial Calcite Sea conditions

New paper out in Geobiology

doi.org/10.1111/gbi....
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