Bernd Schierwater

Bernd Schierwater, German zoologist (Placozoa).

• Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, United States
• Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, United States
• Institute of Animal Ecology, Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Taxon names authored

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• 9 taxon names authored by Bernd Schierwater

Publications

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2000s

• Ender, A. & Schierwater, B. 2003. Placozoa are not derived cnidarians: evidence from molecular morphology. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20(1): 130–134. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg018 . Reference page. 
• Voigt, O., Collins, A.G., Pearse, V.B., Pearse, J.S., Ender, A., Hadrys, H. & Schierwater, B. 2004. Placozoa – no longer a phylum of one. Current Biology 14(22): R944-R945. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.10.036 . hdl: 10088/6257 . Reference page. 
• Dellaporta, S.L., Xu, A., Sagasser, S., Jakob, W., Moreno, M.A., Buss, L.W. & Schierwater, B. 2006. Mitochondrial genome of Trichoplax adhaerens supports Placozoa as the basal lower metazoan phylum. PNAS 103(23): 8751–8756. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0602076103 . PDF Reference page. 
• Schierwater, B. & DeSalle, R. 2007. Can we ever identify the Urmetazoan? Integrative and Comparative Biology 47(5): 670–676. DOI: 10.1093/icb/icm040 . Reference page. 
• DeSalle, R. & Schierwater, B. 2008. An even "newer" animal phylogeny. BioEssays 30(11–12): 1043–1047. DOI: 10.1002/bies.20842 . Reference page. 
• Schierwater, B., Kamm, K., Srivastava, M., Rokhsar, D., Rosengarten, R.D. & Dellaporta, S.L. 2008. The early ANTP gene repertoire: insights from the placozoan genome. PLoS ONE 3(8): e2457. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002457 . Reference page. 
• Srivastava, M., Begovic, E., Chapman, J., Putnam, N.H., Hellsten, U., Kawashima, T., Kuo, A., Mitros, T., Salamov, A., Carpenter, M.L., Signorovitch, A.Y., Moreno, M.A., Kamm, K., Grimwood, J., Schmutz, J., Shapiro, H., Grigoriev, I.V., Buss, L.W., Schierwater, B., Dellaporta, S.L. & Rokhsar, D.S. 2008. The Trichoplax genome and the nature of placozoans. Nature 454: 955–960. DOI: 10.1038/nature07191 . Reference page. 
• Schierwater, B., de Jong, D. & DeSalle, R. 2009. Placozoa and the evolution of Metazoa and intrasomatic cell differentiation. International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology 41(2): 370–379. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2008.09.023 . Reference page. 
• Schierwater, B., Eitel, M., Jakob, W., Osigus, H.-J., Hadrys, H., Dellaporta, S.L., Kolokotronis, S.-O., DeSalle, R. 2009. Concatenated Analysis Sheds Light on Early Metazoan Evolution and Fuels a Modern “Urmetazoon” Hypothesis. PLOS Biology 7(1): e1000020. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000020 . Reference page. 

2010s

• Eitel, M. & Schierwater, B. 2010. The phylogeography of the Placozoa suggests a taxon-rich phylum in tropical and subtropical waters. Molecular Ecology 19(11): 2315–2327. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04617.x . Reference page. 
• Eitel, M., Osigus, H.-J., DeSalle, R. & Schierwater, B. 2013. Global diversity of the Placozoa. PLoS One 8(4): ee57131. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057131 . Reference page. 
• Eitel, M., Francis, W.R., Varoqueaux, F., Daraspe, J., Osigus, H.-J., Krebs, S., Vargas, S., Blum, H., Williams, G.A., Schierwater, B. & Wörheide, G. 2018. Comparative genomics and the nature of placozoan species. PLoS Biology 16(7): e2005359. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2005359 . [Correction: 16(9): e3000032. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000032 .] Reference page. 

2020s

• Tessler, M., Neumann, J.S., Kamm, K., Osigus, H.-J., Eshel, G., Narechania, A., Burns, J.A., DeSalle, R. & Schierwater, B. 2022. Phylogenomics and the first higher taxonomy of Placozoa, an ancient and enigmatic animal phylum. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10: 1016357. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.1016357 . Reference page.