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Dr Andrea Waeschenbach

Dr Andrea Waeschenbach

Researcher, Molecular systematics

Department: Life Sciences
Division: LS Invertebrates Division
Phone: +44 (0) 207 942 6114
ResearchGate

Specialisms

Bryozoa, Phylogenetics, Platyhelminthes, bird strike identification, invasive species, mitogenomics, molecular systematics

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

Highlighted publications

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

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 relationshi 1C6A ps. International Journal for Parasitology, 44 (1) : 55 - 73. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2013.10.004

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

Scharer 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

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

Additional links

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

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 (2017) 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 bow 5B40 els of the earth., Caira JN, Jensen K (Eds). null : Lawrence, Kansas.

Scholz T, De ChambrierA, 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 :

Waeschenbach A, Foster P, Stalteri M, 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 (2016) 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 MauroD, Day JJ, Littlewood DTJ, Foster PG, Nussbaum RA, Gower DJ (2016) 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

De ChambrierA, Waeschenbach A, Fisseha M, Scholz T, Mariaux J (2015) 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

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 Parasites Monobothrium Diesing, 1863 and Promonobothrium Mackiewicz, 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 cosmopolitan Bugula neritina complex (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata). Zoologica Scripta, 43 (2) : 193 - 205. doi: 10.1111/zsc.12042

Bray RA, Waeschenbach A, Dyal P, Littlewood DTJ, Morand S (2014) New digeneans (Opecoelidae) from hydrothermal vent fishes in the south eastern Pacific Ocean, including one new genus and five new species. 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 ALAINDE, Kuchta ROMAN, Littlewood DTIMOTHYJ, Waeschenbach ANDREA (2013) Macrobothriotaenia ficta (Cestoda: Proteocephalidea), a parasite of sunbeam snake (Xenopeltis unicolor): 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 (2011) Phylogenetic position and systematics of the bryozoan Tennysonia: further evidence for convergence and plasticity in skeletal morphology among cyclostome bryozoans. ZOOTAXA, 58 - 68.

Scharer 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 WykJA, 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) : 79 - 79. 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 (2008) 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

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.

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

Highlighted publications

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

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

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

Scharer 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

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

Additional links

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,

Intern 04C0 ational 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 Ph 6000 ylogenetics and Evolution, (Journal), Anonymous peer review,

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

Publications

Publications

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 (2017) 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 ChambrierA, 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 :

Waeschenbach A, Foster P, Stalteri M, 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 (2016) 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 MauroD, Day JJ, Littlewood DTJ, Foster PG, Nussbaum RA, Gower DJ (2016) 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

De ChambrierA, Waeschenbach A, Fisseha M, Scholz T, Mariaux J (2015) 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

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 Parasites Monobothrium Diesing, 1863 and Promonobothrium Mackiewicz, 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 cosmopolitan Bugula neritina complex (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata). Zoologica Scripta, 43 (2) : 193 - 205. doi: 10.1111/zsc.12042

Bray RA, Waeschenbach A, Dyal P, Littlewood DTJ, Morand S (2014) New digeneans (Opecoelidae) from hydrothermal vent fishes in the south eastern Pacific Ocean, including one new genus and five new species. 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 ALAINDE, Kuchta ROMAN, Littlewood DTIMOTHYJ, Waeschenbach ANDREA (2013) Macrobothriotaenia ficta (Cestoda: Proteocephalidea), a parasite of sunbeam snake (Xenopeltis unicolor): 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 (2011) Phylogenetic position and systematics of the bryozoan Tennysonia: further evidence for convergence and plasticity in skeletal morphology among cyclostome bryozoans. ZOOTAXA, 58 - 68.

Scharer 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 WykJA, 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) : 79 - 79. 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 (2008) 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

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.

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