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