Torsten Hugo Struck

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Visiting address Sars gate 1 Colletts hus 0318 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1172 0316 Oslo

Background

Since 2015 Professor in Evolutionary Genomics & Curator of the Helminth collections 2015
2011-2015 Heisenberg fellow, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn Germany
2005-2011 Researcher, Deep Metazoan Phylogeny - Priority Programm, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Since 2009 Affiliated Assistant Professor, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
Since 2008 Privatdozent, University of Osnabrück, Germany
2003-2005 PostDoctoral fellow, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
1999-2003 PhD in Biology, University of Osnabrück, Germany with fellowships from Episcopalian Cusanuswerk & the State of Lower Saxonia, Germany
1993-1999 Diploma in Biology, University of Osnabrück & Max Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany

Teaching and tutoring

2016 (spring): BIO4240 - Evolution and Systematics in Selected Taxa: Kingdom Animalia.

I also supervise Master and PhD  candidates in Genomics, Phylogenomics, Phylogeography, Taxonomy, and Bioinformatics.

Fields of interest

My research encompasses different aspects of the evolution and biodiversity of marine spiralians at all taxonomic levels with an emphasis on annelids. My group thereby employs evolutionary genomic, phylogenomic, phylogeographic, population genetic and bioinformatic approaches to address questions in the evolution of these taxa.

For further information please look at: www.annelida.de or www.researchgate.net/profile/Torsten_Struck

Tags: Bioinformatics, Evolution, Genome evolution, Molecular evolution, Phylogeny, Phylogenomics, Phylogeography, Population genetics, Systematics, Zoology

Publications

  • Struck, T. H., Wey-Fabrizius, A. R., Golombek, A., Hering, L., Weigert, A., Bleidorn, C., Klebow, S., Iakovenko, N., Hausdorf, B., Petersen, M., Kück, P., Herlyn, H. & Hankeln, T. (2014). Platyzoan paraphyly based on phylogenomic data supports a non-coelomate ancestry of Spiralia. Molecular Biology and Evolution 31: 1833-1849.
  • Weigert, A., Helm, C., Meyer, M., Nickel, B., Arendt, D., Hausdorf, B., Santos, S. R., Halanych, K. M., Purschke, G., Bleidorn, C. & Struck, T. H. (2014). Illuminating the base of the annelid tree using transcriptomics. Molecular Biology and Evolution 31: 1391-1401.
  • Struck, T. H. (2014). TreSpEx – Detection of misleading signal in phylogenetic reconstructions based on tree information. Evolutionary Bioinformatics 10: 51-67.
  • Struck, T. H. (2013). The impact of paralogy on phylogenomic studies – a case study on annelid relationships. PLoS ONE 8: e62892.
  • Thornhill, D. J., Struck, T. H., Ebbe, B., Lee, R. W., Mendoza, G. F., Levin, L. A. & Halanych, K. M. (2012). Adaptive Radiation in Extremophilic Dorvilleids: Diversification of a Single Colonizer or Multiple Independent Lineages? Ecology & Evolution 2: 1958–1970.
  • Struck, T. H., Paul, C., Hill, N., Hösel, C., Kube, M., Lieb, B., Meyer, A., Tiedemann, R., Purschke, G. & Bleidorn, C. (2011). Phylogenomic analyses unravel annelid evolution. Nature 471: 95-98.
  • Struck, T. H. & Fisse, F. (2008). Phylogenetic position of Nemertea derived from phylogenomic data. Molecular Biology and Evolution 25: 728–736.
  • Struck, T. H. (2007). Data congruence, paedomorphosis and salamanders. Frontiers in Zoology 4: 22.
  • Struck, T. H., Schult, N., Kusen, T., Hickman, E., Bleidorn, C., McHugh, D. & Halanych, K. M. (2007). Annelida phylogeny and the status of Sipuncula and Echiura. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7:57.
  • Haugen, Marianne Nilsen; Gusarov, Vladimir & Struck, Torsten H (2024). The complete mitochondrial genome of Aegialites californicus (Motchoulsky, 1845) (insecta: coleoptera: salpingidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources. ISSN 2380-2359. 9(1), p. 214–218. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2024.2309255.
  • Pazoki, Samaneh; Rahimian, Hassan; Naderloo, Reza; Kupriyanova, Elena & Struck, Torsten H (2023). Intertidal calcareous tubeworms (Annelida: Serpulidae) of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. Regional Studies in Marine Science. ISSN 2352-4855. 67. doi: 10.1016/j.rsma.2023.103184.
  • Cerca Monteiro De Oliveira, José Pedro; Cotoras, Darko; Santander, Cindy G.; Bieker, Vanessa Carina; Hutchins, Leke & Morin Lagos, Jaime Gerardo [Show all 14 contributors for this article] (2023). Multiple paths toward repeated phenotypic evolution in the spiny-leg adaptive radiation (Tetragnatha; Hawai'i). Molecular Ecology. ISSN 0962-1083. 32(18), p. 4971–4985. doi: 10.1111/mec.17082. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fleming, James Frederick; Eriksen, Pia Merete & Struck, Torsten H (2023). Scoutknife: A naïve, whole genome informed phylogenetic robusticity metric [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. F1000 Research. ISSN 2046-1402. 12(945). doi: 10.12688/f1000research.139356.1.
  • Struck, Torsten H; Golombek, Anja; Hoesel, Christoph; Dimitrov, Dimitar & Elgetany, Asmaa Haris (2023). Mitochondrial Genome Evolution in Annelida—A Systematic Study on Conservative and Variable Gene Orders and the Factors Influencing its Evolution . Systematic Biology. ISSN 1063-5157. 72(4), p. 925–945. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syad023. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fleming, James Frederick & Struck, Torsten H (2023). nRCFV: a new, dataset-size-independent metric to quantify compositional heterogeneity in nucleotide and amino acid datasets. BMC Bioinformatics. ISSN 1471-2105. 24. doi: 10.1186/s12859-023-05270-8. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fleming, James Frederick; Valero Gracia, Alberto & Struck, Torsten H (2023). Identifying and addressing methodological incongruence in phylogenomics: A review. Evolutionary Applications. ISSN 1752-4571. 16(6), p. 1087–1104. doi: 10.1111/eva.13565. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bachmann, Lutz; Beermann, Jan; Brey, Thomas; de Boer, Hugo; Dannheim, Jennifer & Edvardsen, Bente [Show all 20 contributors for this article] (2023). The role of systematics for understanding ecosystem functions: Proceedings of the Zoologica Scripta Symposium, Oslo, Norway, 25 August 2022. Zoologica Scripta. ISSN 0300-3256. 52(3), p. 187–214. doi: 10.1111/zsc.12593.
  • Fleming, James Frederick & Struck, Torsten H (2022). nRCFV: A new, dataset-size-independent metric to quantify compositional heterogeneity in nucleotide and amino acid datasets. Research Square. ISSN 2693-5015. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2354937/v1.
  • Elgetany, Asmaa Haris; Struck, Torsten H & Glasby, Christopher J. (2022). Three new species of the genus Perinereis (Annelida, Nereididae) from Egyptian coasts. ZooKeys. ISSN 1313-2989. 1132, p. 163–188. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1132.87629. Full text in Research Archive
  • Struck, Torsten H & Cerca, José (2022). Connecting micro- and macro-evolutionary research – extant cryptic species as systems to understand macro-evolutionary stasis. In Monro, Alexandre K. & Mayo, Simon J. (Ed.), Cryptic species - Morphological Stasis, Circumscription, and Hidden Diversity. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781316513644. p. 143–168. doi: doi:10.1017/9781009070553.006.
  • Radashevsky, Vasily; Pankova, Victoria V.; Malyar, Vasily; Cerca, José & Struck, Torsten H (2021). A review of the worldwide distribution of Marenzelleria viridis, with new records for M. viridis, M. neglecta and Marenzelleria sp. (Annelida: Spionidae). Zootaxa. ISSN 1175-5326. 5081(3), p. 353–372. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5081.3.3.
  • Pazoki, Samaneh; Rahimian, Hassan & Struck, Torsten H (2021). Genetic diversity and population structure of three Hydroides species (Sedentaria, Serpulidae) in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, with the possible indication of heteroplasmy. Systematics and Biodiversity. ISSN 1477-2000. 19(8), p. 993–1011. doi: 10.1080/14772000.2021.1965668.
  • Magnussen, Trude; Johnsen, Arild; Kjærandsen, Jostein; Struck, Torsten H & Søli, Geir Einar Ellefsen (2021). Molecular phylogeny of Allodia (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) constructed using genome skimming. Systematic Entomology. ISSN 0307-6970. p. 1–15. doi: 10.1111/syen.12529. Full text in Research Archive
  • Cerca, José; Colon, Angel G. Rivera; Ferreira, Mafalda S.; Ravinet, Mark; Nowak, Michael & Catchen, Julian M. [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2021). Incomplete lineage sorting and ancient admixture, and speciation without morphological change in ghost-worm cryptic species. PeerJ. ISSN 2167-8359. 9. doi: 10.7717/peerj.10896. Full text in Research Archive
  • Cerca, José; Maurstad, Marius Filomeno; Rochette, Nicolas C.; Rivera-Colón, Angel G.; Rayamajhi, Niraj & Catchen, Julian M. [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2021). Removing the bad apples: A simple bioinformatic method to improve loci-recovery in de novo RADseq data for non-model organisms. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. ISSN 2041-210X. 12(5), p. 805–817. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13562. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jimenez, Miguel Angel Meca; Zhadan, Anna & Struck, Torsten H (2021). The early branching group of orbiniida sensu struck et al., 2015: Parergodrilidae and orbiniidae. Diversity. ISSN 1424-2818. 13:29(1), p. 1–31. doi: 10.3390/d13010029. Full text in Research Archive

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