PUBLICATIONS

 

Peer-reviewed research articles:

Schuster A, Vargas S, Knapp I, Pomponi SA, Toonen RJ, Erpenbeck D, Wörheide G (2017). Divergence times in demosponges (Porifera): first insights from new mitogenomes and the inclusion of fossils in a birth-death clock model. BMC Evolutionary Biology. DOI: doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1230-1).

Schuster A, Pisera A, Kelly M, Bell LJ, Pomponi SA, Wörheide G, Erpenbeck D (2018). New species and a molecular dating analysis of Vetulina Schmidt, 1879 (Porifera: Demospongiae: Sphaerocladina) reveal an ancient relict fauna with Tethys origin. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx114.

Schuster A, Cárdenas P, Pisera A, Pomponi SA, Kelly M, Wörheide G, Erpenbeck D (2018). Seven new deep-water Tetractinellida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the Galápagos Islands –morphological descriptions and DNA barcodes. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx110.

Schuster A, Lopez JV, Becking LE, Kelly M, Pomponi SA, Wörheide G, Erpenbeck D, Cárdenas P (2017). Evolution of group I introns in Porifera: new evidence for intron mobility and implications for DNA barcoding. BMC Evolutionary Biology. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-017-0928-9.

Pisera A, Łukowiak M, Fromont J, Schuster A (2017). First record of the genus Vetulina Schmidt, 1879 (Porifera: Demospongiae: Sphaerocladina) from the Indian Ocean with the description of two new species: biogeographic and evolutionary significance. Marine Biodiversity. DOI: 10.1007/s12526-017-0658-7.

Schuster A, Erpenbeck D, Pisera A, Hooper J, Bryce M, Fromont J, Wörheide G (2015). Desceptive Desmas: Molecular Phylogenetics Suggests a New Classification and Uncovers Convergent Evolution of Lithistid Demosponges. PLoS ONE 10(1): e116038.

Erpenbeck D, Ekins M, Enghuber N, Hooper JNA, Lehnert H, Poliseno A, Schuster A, Setiawan E, de Voogd NJ, Wörheide G, van Soest RWM (2015). Nothing in (sponge) biology makes sense – except when based on holotypes. Journal of the Marine Biological Society of the United Kingdom 96(2): 305-311.

Mayr C, Rebolledo L, Schulte K, Schuster A, Zolitschka B, Försterra G, Häussermann V (2014). Responses of nitrogen and carbon deposition rates in Comau Fjord (42°S, southern Chile) to natural and anthropogenic impacts during the last century. Continental Shelf Research 78: 29-38.

Vargas S, Schuster A, Sacher K, Büttner G, Schätzle S, Läuchli B, Hall K, Hooper JNA, Erpenbeck D, Wörheide G (2012). Barcoding sponges: an overview based on comprehensive sampling. PLoS ONE 7(7): e39345.

Erpenbeck D, Hall K, Alvarez B, Büttner G, Sacher K, Schätzle S, Schuster A, Vargas S, Hooper JNA, Wörheide G (2012). The phylogeny of halichondrid demosponges: Past and present revisited with DNA-Barcoding data. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 12: 57-70.

 

ABSTRACTS

(Oral Presentations and Posters)

Schuster A, Pisera A, Kelly M, Pomponi SA, Wörheide G, Erpenbeck D (2017). The Western Tropical Atlantic “ring” of rock sponges – A molecular phylogenetic approach using four different markers (28S, 18S, ITS and COI). 10th World Sponge Conference, Galway, Ireland (1. Poster prize in category ”Systematics”).

Schuster A, Cárdenas P, Pisera A, Pomponi SA, Kelly M, Wörheide G, Erpenbeck D (2017). Deep-water tetractinellid sponges from the Galápagos Islands: first molecular and morphological analysis reveals seven new species. 10th World Sponge Conference, Galway, Ireland (Poster).

Schuster A, Vargas S, Knapp IS, Pomponi SA, Toonen RJ, Erpenbeck D, Wörheide G (2017). Dating Demosponge Divergences –New Mitogenomes from ezRAD and the Fossilized Birth-Death Clock Model. 10th World Sponge Conference, Galway, Ireland (Poster).

Schuster A, Lopez JV, Becking LE, Shirley AP, Kelly M, Wörheide G, Erpenbeck D, Cárdenas P (2017). Tetractinellida is a hot-spot of Group I Introns: vertical gene transfer, secondary losses and implications for DNA barcoding. 10th World Sponge Conference, Galway, Ireland (Oral Presentation).

Lopez JV, Vijayan N, Cuvelier ML, Easson CG, Blake E, Schuster A, Campbell AM, Blackwelder P, Khan Y, Cárdenas P (2017). Cinachyrella spp. as a model sponge genus for evolution, microbial symbiosis and experimental biology. 10th World Sponge Conference, Galway, Ireland (Poster).

Erpenbeck D, Mai S, Steiner M, Schuster A, Wörheide G (2017). Molecular Taxonomy of African Freshwater Sponges. 10th World Sponge Conference, Galway, Ireland (Poster).

Schuster A, Knapp IS, Pomponi SA, Francis WR, Vargas S, Erpenbeck D, Toonen RJ, Wörheide G (2016). A first evaluation of RAD-Seq to address phylogenetic questions within demosponges. 17th Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik, München, Germany. Zittelina 88: 45 (Poster)

Schuster A, Becking LE, Lopez JV, Pomponi SA, Kelly M, Lavrov DV, Wörheide G, Erpenbeck D, Cárdenas P (2016). Mobile genetic elements in sponge mitochondria: vertical transmission, independent colonization, and consequences for systematics. 17th Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik, München, Germany. Zittelina 88: 44-45 (Oral Presentation)

Schuster A, Erpenbeck D, Pisera A, Wörheide G (2013). Molecular palaeobiology of ‘Lithistid’ demosponges: A new classification. 9th World Sponge Conference, Fremantle, Western Australia ISBN: 978-0-9874158-3-7 p.63-64 (Oral Presentation).

Debitus C, Pisera A, Schuster A, Al Mourabit A, Curvat X, Hertrich L (2013). First record of lithistid sponge from the submarine caves from the Nuku Hiva (Marquesas Islands) and Tahiti Iti (Society Islands), Frensch Polynesia. 9th World Sponge Conference, Fremantle, Western Australia ISBN: 978-0-9874158-3-7 p.109 (Poster).

Schuster A, Erpenbeck D, Pisera A, Wörheide G (2012). New insights into the classification of desma-bearing demosponges (‘Lithistida’) – A combined molecular and morphological study. Centenary Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany. Terra Nostra, Schriften der GeoUnion Alfred-Wegener-Stiftung Vol. 2012/3: 161 (Oral Presentation).

Schuster A, Erpenbeck D, Wörheide G (2011). Molecular phylogeny of lithistid sponges (Porifera: Demospongiae) supports resolution of pattern and timing of demosponge evolution. Deep Metazoan Phylogeny, München, Germany. Zitteliana Series B 30: 46 (Poster).

Vargas S, Erpenbeck S, Schuster A, Sacher K, Büttner G, Schätzle S, Wörheide G (2010). A high-throughput, low-cost Porifera DNA barcoding pipeline. 8th World Sponge Conference, Girona, Spain p.353 (Poster).

Erpenbeck D, Hall K, Schätzle S, Büttner G, Voigt O, Vargas S, Sacher K, Schuster A, Läuchli B, Hooper JNA, Wörheide G (2010). Progress and workflow of the Sponge Barcoding Project. 8th World Sponge Conference, Girona, Spain p.188 (Poster).