Gert Wörheide is a German marine biologist who works mainly on marine invertebrates. He earned his doctorate in geobiology from Georg-August-Universität, following this with a post-doctorate at Queensland Museum (1998-2002),[1] where he worked with John Hooper on sponges,[2][3][4][5][6] a collaboration which continues.[7][8][9][10][11][12]
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Following his postdoctorate in Queensland, Wörheide returned to Germany to become a junior professor in molecular geobiology at Georg-August-Universität (2002-2008),[1] and in October 2008 was appointed Chair of Geobiology & Paleontology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (University of Munich) (his current position),[1] where he continues to work on evolution and genomics,[13][14][15][16] and all things pertaining to marine invertebrates.[17][18][19] His most cited paper with 559 citations (at 2020-09-29) is "Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough".[20]
Wörheide, G. & Hooper, J.N.A. (2003). "New species of Calcaronea (Porifera: Calcarea) from cryptic habitats of the southern Great Barrier Reef (Heron Island and Wistari Reef, Capricorn-Bunker Group, Australia)". Journal of Natural History. 37: 1–47. doi:10.1080/713834391. S2CID 84884129.{{cite journal}}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Reitner, J., Wörheide, G., Hooper, J., & van Soest, R. (2002). Systema Porifera: A guide to the Classification of Sponges. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. pp. 52–68.{{cite book}}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Reitner, J., WORHEIDE, G., Arp, G., REIMER, A., & HOOPER, J. (1999). "An unusual suberitid demosponge from a marine alkaline crater lake (Satonda Island, Indonesia)". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 44: 407–.{{cite journal}}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Vargas, S.; Schuster, A.; Sacher, K.; Büttner, G.; Schätzle, S.; Läuchli, B.; Hall, K.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Erpenbeck, D.; Wörheide, G. (3 July 2012). "Barcoding Sponges: An Overview Based on Comprehensive Sampling". PLOS ONE. 7 (7): e39345. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...739345V. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039345. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3389008. PMID 22802937. Erpenbeck, D.; Hall, K.; Alvarez, B.; Büttner, G.; Sacher, K.; Schätzle, S.; Schuster, A.; Vargas, S.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Wörheide, G. (2012). "The phylogeny of halichondrid demosponges: past and present re-visited with DNA-barcoding data". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 12 (1): 57–70. doi:10.1007/s13127-011-0068-9. ISSN 1439-6092. S2CID 18383116. Kenny, N.J.; Francis, W.R.; Rivera-Vicéns, R.E.; Juravel, K.; de Mendoza, A.; Díez-Vives, C.; Lister, R.; Bezares-Calderón, L.A.; Grombacher, L.; Roller, M.; Barlow, L.D., Camilli, S., Ryan, J.F., Wörheide G., Hill, A.L., Riesgo, A. & Leys, S.P. (2020). "Tracing animal genomic evolution with the chromosomal-level assembly of the freshwater sponge Ephydatia muelleri". Nature Communications. 11 (1): 3676. Bibcode:2020NatCo..11.3676K. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17397-w. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 7385117. PMID 32719321.{{cite journal}}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Hertzer, C.; Kehraus, S.; Böhringer, N.; Kaligis, F.; Bara, R.; Erpenbeck, D.; Wörheide, G.; Schäberle, T.F; Wägele, H.; König, G.M (3 July 2020). "Antibacterial scalarane from Doriprismatica stellata nudibranchs (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia), egg ribbons, and their dietary sponge Spongia cf. agaricina (Demospongiae, Dictyoceratida)". Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 16: 1596–1605. doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.132. ISSN 1860-5397. PMC 7356558. PMID 32704326.