Dr Andrea Waeschenbach

Dr Andrea Waeschenbach

Senior Researcher

Department: Life Sciences
Division: LS Invertebrates Division
Specialisms: Bryozoa, Phylogenetics, Platyhelminthes, bird strike identification, invasive species, mitogenomics, molecular systematics
Phone: +44 (0) 207 942 6114

Summary

I'm a molecular systematist with a particular interest in Bryozoa and Platyhelminthes. I am interested in how we can use phylogenies to study patterns of diversification and their underlying triggers. As such, my research aims to identify the, often repeated, innovation of key morphological and life history traits and the evolutionary importance of host-parasite interactions. In order to build well-resolved phylogenies, I frequently use complete mitochondrial genome data, generated using next-generation sequencing technology. A further part of my work involves the molecular identification of aviation bird strike victims.

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • PhD, Swansea University, United Kingdom, 1999 - 2003
  • BSc Marine Biology, Swansea University, United Kingdom, 1996 - 1999

Grants

Molecules meet fossils – an integrated approach to studying palaeodiversity
Role: Principal investigator
Co-investigator: Taylor P
Funding: Leverhulme Trust
Total value £350,090 (to Museum £350,090)
Dates: 2017 - 2020

Molecular systematics of Great Barrier Reef bryozoans
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: Systematics Association
Total value £1,100 (to Museum £1,100)
Dates: 2016 - 2017

Evolution of viviparity and polyembryony in cyclostome bryozoans
Funding: Austrian Science Fund
Total value £352,665 (to Museum £11,010)
Dates: 2015 - 2018

Untangling ribbon worm diversity through mitogenomics
Role: Principal investigatorLittlewood T
Role: Co-investigator
Funding: Centre for Ecology and Evolution
Total value £4,100 (to Museum £4,100)
Dates: 2012 - 2013

Fellowships

Fellow of the Linnean Society, 2016 - on going.

Committees

Member, Ray Society, 2015 - on going.

Member, International Bryozoology Association, 2010 - 2016.

Editorships

Subject editor, Marine Biodiversity, Springer, 2016 - 2016.

Associate editor, Systematics and Biodiversity, Cambridge University Press, 2014 - on going.

Reviewer / referee

Publications

Parasitology International, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Molecular Ecology Resources, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

International Journal for Parasitology, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

PLoS ONE, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Marine Biology, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Journal of Parasitology, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Molecular Biology and Evolution, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

BMC Genomics, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

BMC Evolutionary Biology, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Molecular Biology Reports, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Scientific Reports, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

BMC Research Notes, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Invertebrate Biology, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Infection, Genetics and Evolution, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Hydrobiologia, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Zootaxa, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Parasites & Vectors, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Folia Parasitologica, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Myxozoan Evolution, Ecology and Development, (Book Chapter), Anonymous peer review, 2013 - on going.

Publications

Jenkins HL, Graham R, Porter JS, Vieira LM, de Almeida ACS, Hall A, O’Dea A, Coppard SE, Waeschenbach A (null) Unprecedented frequency of mitochondrial introns in colonial bilaterians. Scientific Reports, 12 (1) : doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-14477-3

Orr RJS, Di Martino E, Ramsfjell MH, Gordon DP, Berning B, Chowdhury I, Craig S, Cumming RL, Figuerola B, Florence W, Harmelin J-G, Hirose M, Huang D, Jain SS, Jenkins HL, Kotenko ON, Kuklinski P, Lee HE, Madurell T, McCann L, Mello HL, Obst M, Ostrovsky AN, Paulay G, Porter JS, Shunatova NN, Smith AM, Souto-Derungs J, Vieira LM, Voje KL, Waeschenbach A, Zágoršek K, Warnock RCM, Liow LH (2022) Paleozoic origins of cheilostome bryozoans and their parental care inferred by a new genome-skimmed phylogeny. Science Advances, 8 (13) : doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abm7452

Diard L, de Chambrier A, Waeschenbach A, Scholz T (2022) A new tapeworm from Compsophis infralineatus (Pseudoxyrhophiidae), an endemic snake of Madagascar: Scratching the surface of undiscovered reptilian parasite diversity. Parasitology International, 88 : 102538 - 102538. doi: 10.1016/j.parint.2022.102538

Moharrek F, Taylor PD, Silvestro D, Jenkins HL, Gordon DP, Waeschenbach A (2022) Diversification dynamics of cheilostome bryozoans based on a Bayesian analysis of the fossil record. Palaeontology, 65 (1) : doi: 10.1111/pala.12586

Mugnai F, Meglécz E, Abbiati M, Bavestrello G, Bertasi F, Bo M, Capa M, Chenuil A, Colangelo MA, De Clerck O, Gutiérrez JM, Lattanzi L, Leduc M, Martin D, Matterson KO, Mikac B, Plaisance L, Ponti M, Riesgo A, Rossi V, Turicchia E, Waeschenbach A, Wangensteen OS, Costantini F (2021) Are well-studied marine biodiversity hotspots still blackspots for animal barcoding?. Global Ecology and Conservation, 32 : e01909 - e01909. doi: 10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01909

Fraija-Fernández N, Waeschenbach A, Briscoe AG, Hocking S, Kuchta R, Nyman T, Littlewood DTJ (2021) Evolutionary transitions in broad tapeworms (Cestoda: Diphyllobothriidea) revealed by mitogenome and nuclear ribosomal operon phylogenetics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 163 : 107262 - 107262. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107262

Taylor PD, Harmelin J-G, Waeschenbach A, Bouchon C (null) Disporella guada sp. nov., an erect-ramose rectangulate cyclostome (Bryozoa, Stenolaemata) from the Caribbean Sea: convergent evolution in bryozoan colony morphology. European Journal of Taxonomy, 773 : doi: 10.5852/ejt.2021.773.1507

Scholz T, Waeschenbach A, Oros M, Brabec J, Littlewood DTJ (2021) Phylogenetic reconstruction of early diverging tapeworms (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea) reveals ancient radiations in vertebrate hosts and biogeographic regions. International Journal for Parasitology, 51 (4) : 263 - 277. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2020.09.009

Bray RA, Waeschenbach A (2020) Steringophorus merretti n. sp. (Digenea: Fellodistomidae) from the deep-sea fish Cataetyx laticeps Koefoed (Ophidiiformes: Bythitidae) from the Goban Spur, Northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Systematic Parasitology, 97 (4) : 321 - 334. doi: 10.1007/s11230-020-09919-3

Bray RA, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DTJ, Halvorsen O, Olson PD (2020) Molecular circumscription of new species of Gyrocotyle Diesing, 1850 (Cestoda) from deep-sea chimaeriform holocephalans in the North Atlantic. Systematic Parasitology, 97 (3) : 285 - 296. doi: 10.1007/s11230-020-09912-w

Dick MH, Waeschenbach A, Trott TJ, Onishi T, Beveridge C, Bishop JD, Ito M, Ostrovsky AN (2020) Global Distribution and Variation of the Invasive Cheilostome Bryozoan Cribrilina mutabilis. Zoological Science, 37 (3) : 217 - 217. doi: 10.2108/zs190142

Gordon DP, Sutherland JE, Perez BA, Waeschenbach A, Taylor PD, Di Martino E (2020) The bryozoan genus Conopeum (Electridae) in New Zealand, with description of a new species and discussion of the morphological and genetic characters of Conopeum seurati (Canu, 1928). Journal of Natural History, 54 (15-16) : 947 - 970. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1771452

Ciavatta ML, Lefranc F, Vieira LM, Kiss R, Carbone M, van Otterlo WAL, Lopanik NB, Waeschenbach A (null) The Phylum Bryozoa: From Biology to Biomedical Potential. Marine Drugs, 18 (4) : 200 - 200. doi: 10.3390/md18040200

Scholz T, Barčák D, Waeschenbach A, McAllister CT, Choudhury A (2020) Tapeworms (Cestoda) of Ictalurid Catfishes (Siluriformes) in North America: Redescription of Type Species of Two Genera and Proposal of Essexiellinae N. Subfam.. Journal of Parasitology, 106 (4) : 444 - 444. doi: 10.1645/20-12

Janssen T, Vizoso DB, Schulte G, J. Littlewood DT, Waeschenbach A, Schärer L (2020) Corrigendum to “The first multi-gene phylogeny of the Macrostomorpha sheds light on the evolution of sexual and asexual reproduction in basal Platyhelminthes”. [Mol. Phylogen. Evol. 92 (2015) 82–107]. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 146 : 106708 - 106708. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106708

Jenkins H, Graham R, Hall A, Taylor P, Gordon DP, Moharrek F, Spencer Jones M, Kukliński P, Vieira LM, Porter JS, Almeida AC, Berning B, Florence W, Smith AM, Ostrovsky AN, Souto Derungs J, Krzemińska M, Di Martino E, Håkansson E, Waeschenbach A (2020) A family-level molecular phylogeny of cheilostome bryozoans.. Presented at The Larwood symposium.

Orr RJS, Haugen MN, Berning B, Bock P, Cumming RL, Florence WK, Hirose M, Di Martino E, Ramsfjell MH, Sannum MM, Smith AM, Vieira LM, Waeschenbach A, Liow LH (2019) A genome-skimmed phylogeny of a widespread bryozoan family, Adeonidae. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19 (1) : doi: 10.1186/s12862-019-1563-4

Waeschenbach A, Brabec J, Scholz T, Littlewood DTJ, Kuchta R (2017) The catholic taste of broad tapeworms – multiple routes to human infection. International Journal for Parasitology, 47 (13) : 831 - 843. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2017.06.004

Caira JN, Jensen K, Georgiev BB, Kuchta R, Littlewood DT, Mariaux J, Scholz T, Tkach VV, Waeschenbach A (2017) An overview of the tapeworms of vertebrate bowels of the earth, In: Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008-2016): Tapeworms from Vertebrate Bowels of the Earth, Caira JN, Jensen K (Eds). null : Lawrence, Kansas.

Jenkins HL, Waeschenbach A, Okamura B, Hughes RN, Bishop JDD (null) Phylogenetically Widespread Polyembryony in Cyclostome Bryozoans and the Protracted Asynchronous Release of Clonal Brood-Mates. PLOS ONE, 12 (1) : e0170010 - e0170010. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170010

Mariaux J, Tkach VV, Vasileva GP, Waeschenbach A, Beveridge I, Dimitrova Y, Haukisalmi V, Greiman SE, Littlewood DT, Makarikov AA, Phillips AJ, Razafiarisolo T, Widmer V, Georgiev BB (2017) Cyclophyllidea, In: Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008-2016): Tapeworms from Vertebrate Bowels of the Earth., Caira JN, Jensen K (Eds). null : Lawrence, Kansas.

Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DT (2017) A molecular framework for the Cestoda, In: Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008-2016): Tapeworms from vertebrate bowels of the earth., Caira JN, Jensen K (Eds). null : Lawrence, Kansas.

Scholz T, de Chambrier A, Shimazu T, Ermolenko A, Waeschenbach A (2017) Proteocephalid tapeworms (Cestoda: Onchoproteocephalidea) of loaches (Cobitoidea): Evidence for monophyly and high endemism of parasites in the Far East. Parasitology International, 66 (1) : 871 - 883. doi: 10.1016/j.parint.2016.09.016

Briscoe AG, Waeschenbach A (2016) High-throughput sequencing of complete mitochondrial genomes, In: Marine Genomics Methods and Protocols, Bourlat S (Eds). Springer :

Foster P, Stalteri M, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DT (2016) High-throughput multiplexed mitogenomics for Metazoa: prospects and limitations, In: Next Generation Systematics, Olson P, Hughes J, Cotton JA (Eds). Cambridge University Press :

Jensen K, Caira JN, Cielocha JJ, Littlewood DTJ, Waeschenbach A (2016) When proglottids and scoleces conflict: phylogenetic relationships and a family-level classification of the Lecanicephalidea (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda). International Journal for Parasitology, 46 (5-6) : 291 - 310. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2016.02.002

Bray RA, Cribb TH, Littlewood DTJ, Waeschenbach A (null) The molecular phylogeny of the digenean family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925 and the value of morphological characters, with the erection of a new subfamily. Folia Parasitologica, 63 : doi: 10.14411/fp.2016.013

Maddock ST, Briscoe AG, Wilkinson M, Waeschenbach A, San Mauro D, Day JJ, Littlewood DTJ, Foster PG, Nussbaum RA, Gower DJ (null) Next-Generation Mitogenomics: A Comparison of Approaches Applied to Caecilian Amphibian Phylogeny. PLOS ONE, 11 (6) : e0156757 - e0156757. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156757

Waeschenbach A, Vieira LM, Reverter-Gil O, Souto-Derungs J, Nascimento KB, Fehlauer-Ale KH (2015) A phylogeny of Vesiculariidae (Bryozoa, Ctenostomata) supports synonymization of three genera and reveals possible cryptic diversity. Zoologica Scripta, 44 (6) : 667 - 683. doi: 10.1111/zsc.12130

Brabec J, Waeschenbach A, Scholz T, Littlewood DTJ, Kuchta R (2015) Molecular phylogeny of the Bothriocephalidea (Cestoda): molecular data challenge morphological classification. International Journal for Parasitology, 45 (12) : 761 - 771. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2015.05.006

Mariaux J, de Chambrier A, Waeschenbach A, Fisseha M, Scholz T (null) A large 28S rDNA-based phylogeny confirms the limitations of established morphological characters for classification of proteocephalidean tapeworms (Platyhelminthes, Cestoda). ZooKeys, 500 : 25 - 59. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.500.9360

Taylor PD, Waeschenbach A, Smith AM, Gordon DP (2015) In search of phylogenetic congruence between molecular and morphological data in bryozoans with extreme adult skeletal heteromorphy. Systematics and Biodiversity, 13 (6) : 525 - 544. doi: 10.1080/14772000.2015.1049673

Taylor PD, Waeschenbach A (2015) Phylogeny and diversification of bryozoans. Palaeontology, 58 (4) : 585 - 599. doi: 10.1111/pala.12170

Littlewood DTJ, Waeschenbach A (2015) Evolution: A Turn Up for the Worms. Current Biology, 25 (13) : 1798 - 1798. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.011

Janssen T, Vizoso DB, Schulte G, Littlewood DTJ, Waeschenbach A, Schärer L (2015) The first multi-gene phylogeny of the Macrostomorpha sheds light on the evolution of sexual and asexual reproduction in basal Platyhelminthes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 92 : 82 - 107. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.06.004

Littlewood DTJ, Waeschenbach A (2015) Evolution: A Turn Up for the Worms. Current Biology, 25 (11) : R457 - R460. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.04.012

Littlewood DTJ, Bray RA, Waeschenbach A (2015) Phylogenetic patterns of diversity in cestodes and trematodes, In: Parasite Diversity and Diversification, Morand S, Krasnov BR, Littlewood DTJ (Eds). Cambridge University Press : 488.

Scholz T, Oros M, Choudhury A, Brabec J, Waeschenbach A (2015) New Circumscription Of Freshwater Fish ParasitesMonobothriumDiesing, 1863 andPromonobothriumMackiewicz, 1968 (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea) Using Morphological and Molecular Evidence. Journal of Parasitology, 101 (1) : 29 - 36. doi: 10.1645/14-610.1

Phillips AJ, Georgiev BB, Waeschenbach A, Mariaux J (2014) Two new and two redescribed species of Anonchotaenia (Cestoda: Paruterinidae) from South American birds. Folia Parasitologica, 61 (5) : 441 - 461. doi: 10.14411/fp.2014.058

Bray RA, Cribb TH, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DTJ (2014) Molecular evidence that the genus Cadenatella Dollfus, 1946 (Digenea: Plagiorchiida) belongs in the superfamily Haploporoidea Nicoll, 1914. Systematic Parasitology, 89 (1) : 15 - 21. doi: 10.1007/s11230-014-9504-5

Scholz T, Oros M, Bazsalovicsová E, Brabec J, Waeschenbach A, Xi B-W, Aydoğdu A, Besprozvannykh V, Shimazu T, Králová-Hromadová I, Littlewood DTJ (2014) Molecular evidence of cryptic diversity in Paracaryophyllaeus (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea), parasites of loaches (Cobitidae) in Eurasia, including description of P. vladkae n. sp.. Parasitology International, 63 (6) : 841 - 850. doi: 10.1016/j.parint.2014.07.015

Caira JN, Jensen K, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DTJ (2014) An enigmatic new tapeworm, Litobothrium aenigmaticum, sp. nov. (Platyhelminthes : Cestoda : Litobothriidea), from the pelagic thresher shark with comments on development of known Litobothrium species. Invertebrate Systematics, 28 (3) : 231 - 231. doi: 10.1071/is13047

Fehlauer-Ale KH, Mackie JA, Lim-Fong GE, Ale E, Pie MR, Waeschenbach A (2014) Cryptic species in the cosmopolitanBugula neritinacomplex (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata). Zoologica Scripta, 43 (2) : 193 - 205. doi: 10.1111/zsc.12042

BRAY RA, WAESCHENBACH A, DYAL P, LITTLEWOOD DTJ, MORAND S (null) <strong>New digeneans (Opecoelidae) from hydrothermal vent fishes in the south eastern Pacific Ocean, including one new genus and five new species</strong>. Zootaxa, 3768 (1) : 73 - 73. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3768.1.5

Caira JN, Jensen K, Waeschenbach A, Olson PD, Littlewood DTJ (2014) Orders out of chaos – molecular phylogenetics reveals the complexity of shark and stingray tapeworm relationships. International Journal for Parasitology, 44 (1) : 55 - 73. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2013.10.004

Hartikainen H, Waeschenbach A, Wöss E, Wood T, Okamura B (2013) Divergence and species discrimination in freshwater bryozoans (Bryozoa: Phylactolaemata). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 168 (1) : 61 - 80. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12025

SCHOLZ T, CHAMBRIER AD, KUCHTA R, LITTLEWOOD DTJ, WAESCHENBACH A (null) <i>Macrobothriotaenia ficta</i> (Cestoda: Proteocephalidea), a parasite of sunbeam snake (<i>Xenopeltis unicolor</i>): example of convergent evolution. Zootaxa, 3640 (3) : 485 - 485. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3640.3.12

Bray RA, Foster GN, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DTJ (2012) The discovery of progenetic Allocreadium neotenicum Peters, 1957 (Digenea: Allocreadiidae) in water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) in Great Britain. ZOOTAXA, 58 - 70.

Waeschenbach A, Porter JS, Hughes RN (2012) Molecular variability in the Celleporella hyalina (Bryozoa; Cheilostomata) species complex: evidence for cryptic speciation from complete mitochondrial genomes. Molecular Biology Reports, 39 (9) : 8601 - 8614. doi: 10.1007/s11033-012-1714-9

Waeschenbach A, Webster BL, Littlewood DTJ (2012) Adding resolution to ordinal level relationships of tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda) with large fragments of mtDNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 63 (3) : 834 - 847. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.02.020

Waeschenbach A, Taylor PD, Littlewood DTJ (2012) A molecular phylogeny of bryozoans. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 62 (2) : 718 - 735. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.11.011

TAYLOR PD, WAESCHENBACH A, FLORENCE WK (null) Phylogenetic position and systematics of the bryozoan Tennysonia: further evidence for convergence and plasticity in skeletal morphology among cyclostome bryozoans. Zootaxa, 3010 (1) : 58 - 58. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3010.1.5

Schärer L, Littlewood DTJ, Waeschenbach A, Yoshida W, Vizoso DB (2011) Mating behavior and the evolution of sperm design. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108 (4) : 1490 - 1495. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1013892108

Bray R, Waeschenbach A, Cribb T, Weedall G, Dyal P, Littlewood D (2009) The phylogeny of the Lepocreadioidea (Platyhelminthes, Digenea) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial genes: Implications for their systematics and evolution. Acta Parasitologica, 54 (4) : doi: 10.2478/s11686-009-0045-z

Palm HW, Waeschenbach A, Olson PD, Littlewood DTJ (2009) Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the Trypanorhyncha Diesing, 1863 (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 52 (2) : 351 - 367. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.01.019

Waeschenbach A, Cox CJ, Littlewood DTJ, Porter JS, Taylor PD (2009) First molecular estimate of cyclostome bryozoan phylogeny confirms extensive homoplasy among skeletal characters used in traditional taxonomy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 52 (1) : 241 - 251. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.02.002

Jex AR, Waeschenbach A, Hu M, van Wyk JA, Beveridge I, Littlewood DTJ, Gasser RB (2009) The mitochondrial genomes of Ancylostoma caninum and Bunostomum phlebotomum – two hookworms of animal health and zoonotic importance. BMC Genomics, 10 (1) : doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-79

Littlewood D, Waeschenbach A, Nikolov P (2008) In search of mitochondrial markers for resolving the phylogeny of cyclophyllidean tapeworms (Platyhelminthes, Cestoda) — a test study with Davaineidae. Acta Parasitologica, 53 (2) : doi: 10.2478/s11686-008-0029-4

Jex AR, Hu M, Littlewood DTJ, Waeschenbach A, Gasser RB (2008) Using 454 technology for long-PCR based sequencing of the complete mitochondrial genome from single Haemonchus contortus (Nematoda). BMC Genomics, 9 (1) : 11 - 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-9-11

Jex AR, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DTJ, Hu M, Gasser RB (null) The Mitochondrial Genome of Toxocara canis. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2 (8) : e273 - e273. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000273

Waeschenbach A, Webster BL, Bray RA, Littlewood DTJ (2007) Added resolution among ordinal level relationships of tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda) with complete small and large subunit nuclear ribosomal RNA genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 45 (1) : 311 - 325. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.03.019

Bray R, Cribb T, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood D (2007) A new species of Stephanostomum Looss, 1899 (Digenea, Acanthocolpidae) with a bizarre oral sucker: S. adlardi sp. nov. from the common coral trout Plectropomus leopardus (Lacepède, 1802) (Perciformes, Serranidae) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. Acta Parasitologica, 52 (3) : doi: 10.2478/s11686-007-0025-0

Palm HW, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DTJ (2007) Genetic diversity in the trypanorhynch cestode Tentacularia coryphaenae Bosc, 1797: evidence for a cosmopolitan distribution and low host specificity in the teleost intermediate host. Parasitology Research, 101 (1) : 153 - 159. doi: 10.1007/s00436-006-0435-1

Waeschenbach A, Telford MJ, Porter JS, Littlewood DTJ (2006) The complete mitochondrial genome of Flustrellidra hispida and the phylogenetic position of Bryozoa among the Metazoa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 40 (1) : 195 - 207. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.03.007

Briscoe AG, Hopkins KP, Waeschenbach A (2016) High-Throughput Sequencing of Complete Mitochondrial Genomes, In: Methods in Molecular Biology, Springer New York : 45 - 64.

Hoch Fehlauer-Ale K, Mackie JA, Lim-Fong G, Ale E, WAESCHENBACH A (null) Molecular phylogeny of the bryozoan complex Bugula neritina and global phylogeography of a dominant cryptic lineage. PLOS ONE,

Orr RJS, Waeschenbach A, Enevoldsen ELG, Boeve JP, Haugen MN, Voje KL, Porter JS, Zágoršek K, Smith AM, Gordon DP (null) Bryozoan genera Fenestrulina and Microporella no longer confamilial; multi-gene phylogeny supports separation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society,

Orr RJS, Waeschenbach A, Enevoldsen ELG, Boeve JP, Haugen MN, Voje KL, Porter J, Zágoršek K, Smith AM, Gordon DP, Liow LH (2019) Bryozoan genera Fenestrulina and Microporella no longer confamilial; multi-gene phylogeny supports separation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 186 (1) : 190 - 199. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly055

Courses taught

Short course: Integrating molecules with taxonomy and systematics
, London
5/2018.

Short course: Molecular diagnostics for species identification and evolutionary analysis
Natural History Museum, London
2/2018.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy and Biodiversity
Imperial College
Natural History Museum

Supervision

Master's Joint supervisor to Thanoosing C
Co supervisor(s): Williams PH
Status of Bombus kluanensis and close relatives adding nuclear markers
, London, United Kingdom
Funding: Thai Government

Master's Lead supervisor to Grant H
Co supervisor(s): Waeschenbach A
Transitions of reproductive strategies in the Cheilostomatida: repeated evolution or loss of embryonic incubation?

20/2/2017 - 5/6/2017.

Doctorate (PhD) Adviser to Jenkins H
Co supervisor(s): Bishop JDD
Polyembryony, brood chamber initiation and sperm utilization in cyclostome bryozoans
Bangor University, Bangor
Marine Biological Association of the UK, Plymouth
Natural History Museum, London
Funding: NERC
5/10/2009 - 1/10/2012.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Jenkins H
Co supervisor(s): Okamura B
Polyembryony, brood-chamber initiation and sperm utilization in cyclostome bryozoans
Bangor University, Bangor, Bangor, United Kingdom
Funding: NERC
1/10/2009 - 1/4/2013.

Master's Lead supervisor to Jenkins H
Co supervisor(s): Waeschenbach A
Developing novel molecular markers for the phylum Bryozoa for application in phylogenetic studies

2/6/2008 - 22/9/2008.

Invited and keynote speaker

Cheilostome bryozoan evolution through time - insights from a time-calibrated family-level phylogeny., 18th International Bryozoology Association Conference: Technicka Univerzita v Liberci, Liberec, Czech Republic, 21/6/2019.

CURRENT DIVERSITY OF BRYOZOANS IN THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT OF THE ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO - SVALBARD, 18th International Bryozoology Association Conference: Technical University of Liberec, Liberec, Czechia, 2019.

Current diversity of bryozoans in the changing environment of the Arctic Archipelago - Svalbard, 18th International Bryozoology Association: Technicka Univerzita v Liberci, Liberec, Czech Republic,

Introduction

Summary

I'm a molecular systematist with a particular interest in Bryozoa and Platyhelminthes. I am interested in how we can use phylogenies to study patterns of diversification and their underlying triggers. As such, my research aims to identify the, often repeated, innovation of key morphological and life history traits and the evolutionary importance of host-parasite interactions. In order to build well-resolved phylogenies, I frequently use complete mitochondrial genome data, generated using next-generation sequencing technology. A further part of my work involves the molecular identification of aviation bird strike victims.

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • PhD, Swansea University, United Kingdom, 1999 - 2003
  • BSc Marine Biology, Swansea University, United Kingdom, 1996 - 1999
Projects

Grants

Molecules meet fossils – an integrated approach to studying palaeodiversity
Role: Principal investigator
Co-investigator: Taylor P
Funding: Leverhulme Trust
Total value £350,090 (to Museum £350,090)
Dates: 2017 - 2020

Molecular systematics of Great Barrier Reef bryozoans
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: Systematics Association
Total value £1,100 (to Museum £1,100)
Dates: 2016 - 2017

Evolution of viviparity and polyembryony in cyclostome bryozoans
Funding: Austrian Science Fund
Total value £352,665 (to Museum £11,010)
Dates: 2015 - 2018

Untangling ribbon worm diversity through mitogenomics
Role: Principal investigatorLittlewood T
Role: Co-investigator
Funding: Centre for Ecology and Evolution
Total value £4,100 (to Museum £4,100)
Dates: 2012 - 2013

Professional activities

Fellowships

Fellow of the Linnean Society, 2016 - on going.

Committees

Member, Ray Society, 2015 - on going.

Member, International Bryozoology Association, 2010 - 2016.

Editorships

Subject editor, Marine Biodiversity, Springer, 2016 - 2016.

Associate editor, Systematics and Biodiversity, Cambridge University Press, 2014 - on going.

Reviewer / referee

Publications

Parasitology International, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Molecular Ecology Resources, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

International Journal for Parasitology, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

PLoS ONE, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Marine Biology, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Journal of Parasitology, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Molecular Biology and Evolution, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

BMC Genomics, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

BMC Evolutionary Biology, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Molecular Biology Reports, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Scientific Reports, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

BMC Research Notes, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Invertebrate Biology, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Infection, Genetics and Evolution, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Hydrobiologia, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Zootaxa, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Parasites & Vectors, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Folia Parasitologica, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

Myxozoan Evolution, Ecology and Development, (Book Chapter), Anonymous peer review, 2013 - on going.

Publications

Publications

Jenkins HL, Graham R, Porter JS, Vieira LM, de Almeida ACS, Hall A, O’Dea A, Coppard SE, Waeschenbach A (null) Unprecedented frequency of mitochondrial introns in colonial bilaterians. Scientific Reports, 12 (1) : doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-14477-3

Orr RJS, Di Martino E, Ramsfjell MH, Gordon DP, Berning B, Chowdhury I, Craig S, Cumming RL, Figuerola B, Florence W, Harmelin J-G, Hirose M, Huang D, Jain SS, Jenkins HL, Kotenko ON, Kuklinski P, Lee HE, Madurell T, McCann L, Mello HL, Obst M, Ostrovsky AN, Paulay G, Porter JS, Shunatova NN, Smith AM, Souto-Derungs J, Vieira LM, Voje KL, Waeschenbach A, Zágoršek K, Warnock RCM, Liow LH (2022) Paleozoic origins of cheilostome bryozoans and their parental care inferred by a new genome-skimmed phylogeny. Science Advances, 8 (13) : doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abm7452

Diard L, de Chambrier A, Waeschenbach A, Scholz T (2022) A new tapeworm from Compsophis infralineatus (Pseudoxyrhophiidae), an endemic snake of Madagascar: Scratching the surface of undiscovered reptilian parasite diversity. Parasitology International, 88 : 102538 - 102538. doi: 10.1016/j.parint.2022.102538

Moharrek F, Taylor PD, Silvestro D, Jenkins HL, Gordon DP, Waeschenbach A (2022) Diversification dynamics of cheilostome bryozoans based on a Bayesian analysis of the fossil record. Palaeontology, 65 (1) : doi: 10.1111/pala.12586

Mugnai F, Meglécz E, Abbiati M, Bavestrello G, Bertasi F, Bo M, Capa M, Chenuil A, Colangelo MA, De Clerck O, Gutiérrez JM, Lattanzi L, Leduc M, Martin D, Matterson KO, Mikac B, Plaisance L, Ponti M, Riesgo A, Rossi V, Turicchia E, Waeschenbach A, Wangensteen OS, Costantini F (2021) Are well-studied marine biodiversity hotspots still blackspots for animal barcoding?. Global Ecology and Conservation, 32 : e01909 - e01909. doi: 10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01909

Fraija-Fernández N, Waeschenbach A, Briscoe AG, Hocking S, Kuchta R, Nyman T, Littlewood DTJ (2021) Evolutionary transitions in broad tapeworms (Cestoda: Diphyllobothriidea) revealed by mitogenome and nuclear ribosomal operon phylogenetics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 163 : 107262 - 107262. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107262

Taylor PD, Harmelin J-G, Waeschenbach A, Bouchon C (null) Disporella guada sp. nov., an erect-ramose rectangulate cyclostome (Bryozoa, Stenolaemata) from the Caribbean Sea: convergent evolution in bryozoan colony morphology. European Journal of Taxonomy, 773 : doi: 10.5852/ejt.2021.773.1507

Scholz T, Waeschenbach A, Oros M, Brabec J, Littlewood DTJ (2021) Phylogenetic reconstruction of early diverging tapeworms (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea) reveals ancient radiations in vertebrate hosts and biogeographic regions. International Journal for Parasitology, 51 (4) : 263 - 277. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2020.09.009

Bray RA, Waeschenbach A (2020) Steringophorus merretti n. sp. (Digenea: Fellodistomidae) from the deep-sea fish Cataetyx laticeps Koefoed (Ophidiiformes: Bythitidae) from the Goban Spur, Northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Systematic Parasitology, 97 (4) : 321 - 334. doi: 10.1007/s11230-020-09919-3

Bray RA, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DTJ, Halvorsen O, Olson PD (2020) Molecular circumscription of new species of Gyrocotyle Diesing, 1850 (Cestoda) from deep-sea chimaeriform holocephalans in the North Atlantic. Systematic Parasitology, 97 (3) : 285 - 296. doi: 10.1007/s11230-020-09912-w

Dick MH, Waeschenbach A, Trott TJ, Onishi T, Beveridge C, Bishop JD, Ito M, Ostrovsky AN (2020) Global Distribution and Variation of the Invasive Cheilostome Bryozoan Cribrilina mutabilis. Zoological Science, 37 (3) : 217 - 217. doi: 10.2108/zs190142

Gordon DP, Sutherland JE, Perez BA, Waeschenbach A, Taylor PD, Di Martino E (2020) The bryozoan genus Conopeum (Electridae) in New Zealand, with description of a new species and discussion of the morphological and genetic characters of Conopeum seurati (Canu, 1928). Journal of Natural History, 54 (15-16) : 947 - 970. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1771452

Ciavatta ML, Lefranc F, Vieira LM, Kiss R, Carbone M, van Otterlo WAL, Lopanik NB, Waeschenbach A (null) The Phylum Bryozoa: From Biology to Biomedical Potential. Marine Drugs, 18 (4) : 200 - 200. doi: 10.3390/md18040200

Scholz T, Barčák D, Waeschenbach A, McAllister CT, Choudhury A (2020) Tapeworms (Cestoda) of Ictalurid Catfishes (Siluriformes) in North America: Redescription of Type Species of Two Genera and Proposal of Essexiellinae N. Subfam.. Journal of Parasitology, 106 (4) : 444 - 444. doi: 10.1645/20-12

Janssen T, Vizoso DB, Schulte G, J. Littlewood DT, Waeschenbach A, Schärer L (2020) Corrigendum to “The first multi-gene phylogeny of the Macrostomorpha sheds light on the evolution of sexual and asexual reproduction in basal Platyhelminthes”. [Mol. Phylogen. Evol. 92 (2015) 82–107]. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 146 : 106708 - 106708. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106708

Jenkins H, Graham R, Hall A, Taylor P, Gordon DP, Moharrek F, Spencer Jones M, Kukliński P, Vieira LM, Porter JS, Almeida AC, Berning B, Florence W, Smith AM, Ostrovsky AN, Souto Derungs J, Krzemińska M, Di Martino E, Håkansson E, Waeschenbach A (2020) A family-level molecular phylogeny of cheilostome bryozoans.. Presented at The Larwood symposium.

Orr RJS, Haugen MN, Berning B, Bock P, Cumming RL, Florence WK, Hirose M, Di Martino E, Ramsfjell MH, Sannum MM, Smith AM, Vieira LM, Waeschenbach A, Liow LH (2019) A genome-skimmed phylogeny of a widespread bryozoan family, Adeonidae. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19 (1) : doi: 10.1186/s12862-019-1563-4

Waeschenbach A, Brabec J, Scholz T, Littlewood DTJ, Kuchta R (2017) The catholic taste of broad tapeworms – multiple routes to human infection. International Journal for Parasitology, 47 (13) : 831 - 843. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2017.06.004

Caira JN, Jensen K, Georgiev BB, Kuchta R, Littlewood DT, Mariaux J, Scholz T, Tkach VV, Waeschenbach A (2017) An overview of the tapeworms of vertebrate bowels of the earth, In: Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008-2016): Tapeworms from Vertebrate Bowels of the Earth, Caira JN, Jensen K (Eds). null : Lawrence, Kansas.

Jenkins HL, Waeschenbach A, Okamura B, Hughes RN, Bishop JDD (null) Phylogenetically Widespread Polyembryony in Cyclostome Bryozoans and the Protracted Asynchronous Release of Clonal Brood-Mates. PLOS ONE, 12 (1) : e0170010 - e0170010. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170010

Mariaux J, Tkach VV, Vasileva GP, Waeschenbach A, Beveridge I, Dimitrova Y, Haukisalmi V, Greiman SE, Littlewood DT, Makarikov AA, Phillips AJ, Razafiarisolo T, Widmer V, Georgiev BB (2017) Cyclophyllidea, In: Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008-2016): Tapeworms from Vertebrate Bowels of the Earth., Caira JN, Jensen K (Eds). null : Lawrence, Kansas.

Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DT (2017) A molecular framework for the Cestoda, In: Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008-2016): Tapeworms from vertebrate bowels of the earth., Caira JN, Jensen K (Eds). null : Lawrence, Kansas.

Scholz T, de Chambrier A, Shimazu T, Ermolenko A, Waeschenbach A (2017) Proteocephalid tapeworms (Cestoda: Onchoproteocephalidea) of loaches (Cobitoidea): Evidence for monophyly and high endemism of parasites in the Far East. Parasitology International, 66 (1) : 871 - 883. doi: 10.1016/j.parint.2016.09.016

Briscoe AG, Waeschenbach A (2016) High-throughput sequencing of complete mitochondrial genomes, In: Marine Genomics Methods and Protocols, Bourlat S (Eds). Springer :

Foster P, Stalteri M, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DT (2016) High-throughput multiplexed mitogenomics for Metazoa: prospects and limitations, In: Next Generation Systematics, Olson P, Hughes J, Cotton JA (Eds). Cambridge University Press :

Jensen K, Caira JN, Cielocha JJ, Littlewood DTJ, Waeschenbach A (2016) When proglottids and scoleces conflict: phylogenetic relationships and a family-level classification of the Lecanicephalidea (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda). International Journal for Parasitology, 46 (5-6) : 291 - 310. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2016.02.002

Bray RA, Cribb TH, Littlewood DTJ, Waeschenbach A (null) The molecular phylogeny of the digenean family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925 and the value of morphological characters, with the erection of a new subfamily. Folia Parasitologica, 63 : doi: 10.14411/fp.2016.013

Maddock ST, Briscoe AG, Wilkinson M, Waeschenbach A, San Mauro D, Day JJ, Littlewood DTJ, Foster PG, Nussbaum RA, Gower DJ (null) Next-Generation Mitogenomics: A Comparison of Approaches Applied to Caecilian Amphibian Phylogeny. PLOS ONE, 11 (6) : e0156757 - e0156757. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156757

Waeschenbach A, Vieira LM, Reverter-Gil O, Souto-Derungs J, Nascimento KB, Fehlauer-Ale KH (2015) A phylogeny of Vesiculariidae (Bryozoa, Ctenostomata) supports synonymization of three genera and reveals possible cryptic diversity. Zoologica Scripta, 44 (6) : 667 - 683. doi: 10.1111/zsc.12130

Brabec J, Waeschenbach A, Scholz T, Littlewood DTJ, Kuchta R (2015) Molecular phylogeny of the Bothriocephalidea (Cestoda): molecular data challenge morphological classification. International Journal for Parasitology, 45 (12) : 761 - 771. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2015.05.006

Mariaux J, de Chambrier A, Waeschenbach A, Fisseha M, Scholz T (null) A large 28S rDNA-based phylogeny confirms the limitations of established morphological characters for classification of proteocephalidean tapeworms (Platyhelminthes, Cestoda). ZooKeys, 500 : 25 - 59. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.500.9360

Taylor PD, Waeschenbach A, Smith AM, Gordon DP (2015) In search of phylogenetic congruence between molecular and morphological data in bryozoans with extreme adult skeletal heteromorphy. Systematics and Biodiversity, 13 (6) : 525 - 544. doi: 10.1080/14772000.2015.1049673

Taylor PD, Waeschenbach A (2015) Phylogeny and diversification of bryozoans. Palaeontology, 58 (4) : 585 - 599. doi: 10.1111/pala.12170

Littlewood DTJ, Waeschenbach A (2015) Evolution: A Turn Up for the Worms. Current Biology, 25 (13) : 1798 - 1798. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.011

Janssen T, Vizoso DB, Schulte G, Littlewood DTJ, Waeschenbach A, Schärer L (2015) The first multi-gene phylogeny of the Macrostomorpha sheds light on the evolution of sexual and asexual reproduction in basal Platyhelminthes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 92 : 82 - 107. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.06.004

Littlewood DTJ, Waeschenbach A (2015) Evolution: A Turn Up for the Worms. Current Biology, 25 (11) : R457 - R460. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.04.012

Littlewood DTJ, Bray RA, Waeschenbach A (2015) Phylogenetic patterns of diversity in cestodes and trematodes, In: Parasite Diversity and Diversification, Morand S, Krasnov BR, Littlewood DTJ (Eds). Cambridge University Press : 488.

Scholz T, Oros M, Choudhury A, Brabec J, Waeschenbach A (2015) New Circumscription Of Freshwater Fish ParasitesMonobothriumDiesing, 1863 andPromonobothriumMackiewicz, 1968 (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea) Using Morphological and Molecular Evidence. Journal of Parasitology, 101 (1) : 29 - 36. doi: 10.1645/14-610.1

Phillips AJ, Georgiev BB, Waeschenbach A, Mariaux J (2014) Two new and two redescribed species of Anonchotaenia (Cestoda: Paruterinidae) from South American birds. Folia Parasitologica, 61 (5) : 441 - 461. doi: 10.14411/fp.2014.058

Bray RA, Cribb TH, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DTJ (2014) Molecular evidence that the genus Cadenatella Dollfus, 1946 (Digenea: Plagiorchiida) belongs in the superfamily Haploporoidea Nicoll, 1914. Systematic Parasitology, 89 (1) : 15 - 21. doi: 10.1007/s11230-014-9504-5

Scholz T, Oros M, Bazsalovicsová E, Brabec J, Waeschenbach A, Xi B-W, Aydoğdu A, Besprozvannykh V, Shimazu T, Králová-Hromadová I, Littlewood DTJ (2014) Molecular evidence of cryptic diversity in Paracaryophyllaeus (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea), parasites of loaches (Cobitidae) in Eurasia, including description of P. vladkae n. sp.. Parasitology International, 63 (6) : 841 - 850. doi: 10.1016/j.parint.2014.07.015

Caira JN, Jensen K, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DTJ (2014) An enigmatic new tapeworm, Litobothrium aenigmaticum, sp. nov. (Platyhelminthes : Cestoda : Litobothriidea), from the pelagic thresher shark with comments on development of known Litobothrium species. Invertebrate Systematics, 28 (3) : 231 - 231. doi: 10.1071/is13047

Fehlauer-Ale KH, Mackie JA, Lim-Fong GE, Ale E, Pie MR, Waeschenbach A (2014) Cryptic species in the cosmopolitanBugula neritinacomplex (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata). Zoologica Scripta, 43 (2) : 193 - 205. doi: 10.1111/zsc.12042

BRAY RA, WAESCHENBACH A, DYAL P, LITTLEWOOD DTJ, MORAND S (null) <strong>New digeneans (Opecoelidae) from hydrothermal vent fishes in the south eastern Pacific Ocean, including one new genus and five new species</strong>. Zootaxa, 3768 (1) : 73 - 73. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3768.1.5

Caira JN, Jensen K, Waeschenbach A, Olson PD, Littlewood DTJ (2014) Orders out of chaos – molecular phylogenetics reveals the complexity of shark and stingray tapeworm relationships. International Journal for Parasitology, 44 (1) : 55 - 73. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2013.10.004

Hartikainen H, Waeschenbach A, Wöss E, Wood T, Okamura B (2013) Divergence and species discrimination in freshwater bryozoans (Bryozoa: Phylactolaemata). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 168 (1) : 61 - 80. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12025

SCHOLZ T, CHAMBRIER AD, KUCHTA R, LITTLEWOOD DTJ, WAESCHENBACH A (null) <i>Macrobothriotaenia ficta</i> (Cestoda: Proteocephalidea), a parasite of sunbeam snake (<i>Xenopeltis unicolor</i>): example of convergent evolution. Zootaxa, 3640 (3) : 485 - 485. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3640.3.12

Bray RA, Foster GN, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DTJ (2012) The discovery of progenetic Allocreadium neotenicum Peters, 1957 (Digenea: Allocreadiidae) in water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) in Great Britain. ZOOTAXA, 58 - 70.

Waeschenbach A, Porter JS, Hughes RN (2012) Molecular variability in the Celleporella hyalina (Bryozoa; Cheilostomata) species complex: evidence for cryptic speciation from complete mitochondrial genomes. Molecular Biology Reports, 39 (9) : 8601 - 8614. doi: 10.1007/s11033-012-1714-9

Waeschenbach A, Webster BL, Littlewood DTJ (2012) Adding resolution to ordinal level relationships of tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda) with large fragments of mtDNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 63 (3) : 834 - 847. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.02.020

Waeschenbach A, Taylor PD, Littlewood DTJ (2012) A molecular phylogeny of bryozoans. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 62 (2) : 718 - 735. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.11.011

TAYLOR PD, WAESCHENBACH A, FLORENCE WK (null) Phylogenetic position and systematics of the bryozoan Tennysonia: further evidence for convergence and plasticity in skeletal morphology among cyclostome bryozoans. Zootaxa, 3010 (1) : 58 - 58. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3010.1.5

Schärer L, Littlewood DTJ, Waeschenbach A, Yoshida W, Vizoso DB (2011) Mating behavior and the evolution of sperm design. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108 (4) : 1490 - 1495. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1013892108

Bray R, Waeschenbach A, Cribb T, Weedall G, Dyal P, Littlewood D (2009) The phylogeny of the Lepocreadioidea (Platyhelminthes, Digenea) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial genes: Implications for their systematics and evolution. Acta Parasitologica, 54 (4) : doi: 10.2478/s11686-009-0045-z

Palm HW, Waeschenbach A, Olson PD, Littlewood DTJ (2009) Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the Trypanorhyncha Diesing, 1863 (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 52 (2) : 351 - 367. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.01.019

Waeschenbach A, Cox CJ, Littlewood DTJ, Porter JS, Taylor PD (2009) First molecular estimate of cyclostome bryozoan phylogeny confirms extensive homoplasy among skeletal characters used in traditional taxonomy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 52 (1) : 241 - 251. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.02.002

Jex AR, Waeschenbach A, Hu M, van Wyk JA, Beveridge I, Littlewood DTJ, Gasser RB (2009) The mitochondrial genomes of Ancylostoma caninum and Bunostomum phlebotomum – two hookworms of animal health and zoonotic importance. BMC Genomics, 10 (1) : doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-79

Littlewood D, Waeschenbach A, Nikolov P (2008) In search of mitochondrial markers for resolving the phylogeny of cyclophyllidean tapeworms (Platyhelminthes, Cestoda) — a test study with Davaineidae. Acta Parasitologica, 53 (2) : doi: 10.2478/s11686-008-0029-4

Jex AR, Hu M, Littlewood DTJ, Waeschenbach A, Gasser RB (2008) Using 454 technology for long-PCR based sequencing of the complete mitochondrial genome from single Haemonchus contortus (Nematoda). BMC Genomics, 9 (1) : 11 - 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-9-11

Jex AR, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DTJ, Hu M, Gasser RB (null) The Mitochondrial Genome of Toxocara canis. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2 (8) : e273 - e273. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000273

Waeschenbach A, Webster BL, Bray RA, Littlewood DTJ (2007) Added resolution among ordinal level relationships of tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda) with complete small and large subunit nuclear ribosomal RNA genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 45 (1) : 311 - 325. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.03.019

Bray R, Cribb T, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood D (2007) A new species of Stephanostomum Looss, 1899 (Digenea, Acanthocolpidae) with a bizarre oral sucker: S. adlardi sp. nov. from the common coral trout Plectropomus leopardus (Lacepède, 1802) (Perciformes, Serranidae) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. Acta Parasitologica, 52 (3) : doi: 10.2478/s11686-007-0025-0

Palm HW, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DTJ (2007) Genetic diversity in the trypanorhynch cestode Tentacularia coryphaenae Bosc, 1797: evidence for a cosmopolitan distribution and low host specificity in the teleost intermediate host. Parasitology Research, 101 (1) : 153 - 159. doi: 10.1007/s00436-006-0435-1

Waeschenbach A, Telford MJ, Porter JS, Littlewood DTJ (2006) The complete mitochondrial genome of Flustrellidra hispida and the phylogenetic position of Bryozoa among the Metazoa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 40 (1) : 195 - 207. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.03.007

Briscoe AG, Hopkins KP, Waeschenbach A (2016) High-Throughput Sequencing of Complete Mitochondrial Genomes, In: Methods in Molecular Biology, Springer New York : 45 - 64.

Hoch Fehlauer-Ale K, Mackie JA, Lim-Fong G, Ale E, WAESCHENBACH A (null) Molecular phylogeny of the bryozoan complex Bugula neritina and global phylogeography of a dominant cryptic lineage. PLOS ONE,

Orr RJS, Waeschenbach A, Enevoldsen ELG, Boeve JP, Haugen MN, Voje KL, Porter JS, Zágoršek K, Smith AM, Gordon DP (null) Bryozoan genera Fenestrulina and Microporella no longer confamilial; multi-gene phylogeny supports separation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society,

Orr RJS, Waeschenbach A, Enevoldsen ELG, Boeve JP, Haugen MN, Voje KL, Porter J, Zágoršek K, Smith AM, Gordon DP, Liow LH (2019) Bryozoan genera Fenestrulina and Microporella no longer confamilial; multi-gene phylogeny supports separation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 186 (1) : 190 - 199. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly055

Teaching and students

Courses taught

Short course: Integrating molecules with taxonomy and systematics
, London
5/2018.

Short course: Molecular diagnostics for species identification and evolutionary analysis
Natural History Museum, London
2/2018.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy and Biodiversity
Imperial College
Natural History Museum

Supervision

Master's Joint supervisor to Thanoosing C
Co supervisor(s): Williams PH
Status of Bombus kluanensis and close relatives adding nuclear markers
, London, United Kingdom
Funding: Thai Government

Master's Lead supervisor to Grant H
Co supervisor(s): Waeschenbach A
Transitions of reproductive strategies in the Cheilostomatida: repeated evolution or loss of embryonic incubation?

20/2/2017 - 5/6/2017.

Doctorate (PhD) Adviser to Jenkins H
Co supervisor(s): Bishop JDD
Polyembryony, brood chamber initiation and sperm utilization in cyclostome bryozoans
Bangor University, Bangor
Marine Biological Association of the UK, Plymouth
Natural History Museum, London
Funding: NERC
5/10/2009 - 1/10/2012.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Jenkins H
Co supervisor(s): Okamura B
Polyembryony, brood-chamber initiation and sperm utilization in cyclostome bryozoans
Bangor University, Bangor, Bangor, United Kingdom
Funding: NERC
1/10/2009 - 1/4/2013.

Master's Lead supervisor to Jenkins H
Co supervisor(s): Waeschenbach A
Developing novel molecular markers for the phylum Bryozoa for application in phylogenetic studies

2/6/2008 - 22/9/2008.

Impact and outreach

Invited and keynote speaker

Cheilostome bryozoan evolution through time - insights from a time-calibrated family-level phylogeny., 18th International Bryozoology Association Conference: Technicka Univerzita v Liberci, Liberec, Czech Republic, 21/6/2019.

CURRENT DIVERSITY OF BRYOZOANS IN THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT OF THE ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO - SVALBARD, 18th International Bryozoology Association Conference: Technical University of Liberec, Liberec, Czechia, 2019.

Current diversity of bryozoans in the changing environment of the Arctic Archipelago - Svalbard, 18th International Bryozoology Association: Technicka Univerzita v Liberci, Liberec, Czech Republic,