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Dr Helena Wiklund
Postdoctoral Researcher,Seabed Resources
Division: LS Invertebrates Division
Team: Helena Wiklund, Madeleine Brasier, Regan Drennan
Summary
I am a postdoctoral research assistant working with taxonomy and molecular systematics. My main interest is in the marine segmented worms, Polychaeta, although in the project I am currently involved in I also work with molecular identification of other marine invertebrate taxa, e.g. corals, echinoderms and molluscs.
Qualifications
- PhD, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2005 - 2009
Degrees
Employment history
- Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Natural History Museum, Department of Life Sciences, United Kingdom, 2013 - ongoing
- Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology, United Kingdom, 2011 - 2013
- Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology, United Kingdom, 2010 - 2010
Academic
Grants
Systematics of Antarctic scaleworms: adaptive radiation in an extreme environment
Role: Principal investigatorGlover A
Co-investigator: Neal L
Funding: SYNTAX
Total value £26,423 (to Museum £26,423)
Dates: 2012 - 2013
Dispersal in the deep: molecular systematics and population connectivity of deep-sea annelids
Role: Principal investigatorGlover A
Co-investigator: Dahlgren T
Funding: SYNTAX
Total value £26,486 (to Museum £26,486)
Dates: 2010 - 2011
Publications
Glover A, Dahlgren T, Wiklund H, Mohrbeck I, Smith C (null) An End-to-End DNA Taxonomy Methodology for Benthic Biodiversity Survey in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, Central Pacific Abyss. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 4 (1) : 2 - 2. doi: 10.3390/jmse4010002
Georgieva MN, Wiklund H, Bell JB, Eilertsen MH, Mills RA, Little CTS, Glover AG (2015) A chemosynthetic weed: the tubeworm Sclerolinum contortum is a bipolar, cosmopolitan species. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15 (1) : doi: 10.1186/s12862-015-0559-y
Dahlgren T, Glover A, Wiklund H, Rabone M, Amon D, Smith C, O'Hara T, Mah C (null) Abyssal fauna of the UK-1 polymetallic nodule exploration claim, Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Echinodermata. Biodiversity Data Journal, 4 : e7251 - e7251. doi: 10.3897/bdj.4.e7251
Ravara A, Marçal AR, Wiklund H, Hilário A (2015) First account on the diversity ofOphryotrocha(Annelida, Dorvilleidae) from a mammal-fall in the deep-Atlantic Ocean with the description of three new species. Systematics and Biodiversity, 13 (6) : 555 - 570. doi: 10.1080/14772000.2015.1047428
Hilario A, Cunha MR, Génio L, Marçal AR, Ravara A, Rodrigues CF, Wiklund H (2015) First clues on the ecology of whale falls in the deep Atlantic Ocean: results from an experiment using cow carcasses. Marine Ecology, 36 : 82 - 90. doi: 10.1111/maec.12246
SALVO F, WIKLUND H, DUFOUR SC, HAMOUTENE D, POHLE G, WORSAAE K (null) <strong>A new annelid species from whalebones in Greenland and aquaculture sites in Newfoundland: <em>Ophryotrocha</em> <em>cyclops</em>, sp. nov. (Eunicida: Dorvilleidae)</strong>. Zootaxa, 3887 (5) : 555 - 555. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3887.5.3
Amon DJ, Wiklund H, Dahlgren TG, Copley JT, Smith CR, Jamieson AJ, Glover AG (2014) Molecular taxonomy ofOsedax(Annelida: Siboglinidae) in the Southern Ocean. Zoologica Scripta, 43 (4) : 405 - 417. doi: 10.1111/zsc.12057
Glover AG, Wiklund H, Taboada S, Avila C, Cristobo J, Smith CR, Kemp KM, Jamieson AJ, Dahlgren TG (2013) Bone-eating worms from the Antarctic: the contrasting fate of whale and wood remains on the Southern Ocean seafloor. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280 (1768) : 20131390 - 20131390. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1390
Amon DJ, Glover AG, Wiklund H, Marsh L, Linse K, Rogers AD, Copley JT (2013) The discovery of a natural whale fall in the Antarctic deep sea. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 92 : 87 - 96. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.01.028
Taboada S, Wiklund H, Glover AG, Dahlgren TG, Cristobo J, Avila C (2013) Two new Antarctic Ophryotrocha (Annelida: Dorvilleidae) described from shallow-water whale bones. Polar Biology, 36 (7) : 1031 - 1045. doi: 10.1007/s00300-013-1326-4
Shields MA, Glover AG, Wiklund H (2013) Polynoid polychaetes of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and a new holothurian association. Marine Biology Research, 9 (5-6) : 547 - 553. doi: 10.1080/17451000.2012.749992
Neal L, Barnich R, Wiklund H, Glover AG (2012) A new genus and species of Polynoidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Pine Island Bay, Amundsen Sea, Southern Ocean-a region of high taxonomic novelty. ZOOTAXA, 80 - 88.
Norlinder E, Nygren A, Wiklund H, Pleijel F (2012) Phylogeny of scale-worms (Aphroditiformia, Annelida), assessed from 18SrRNA, 28SrRNA, 16SrRNA, mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI), and morphology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 65 (2) : 490 - 500. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.07.002
Wiklund H, Altamira IV, Glover AG, Smith CR, Baco AR, Dahlgren TG (2012) Systematics and biodiversity ofOphryotrocha(Annelida, Dorvilleidae) with descriptions of six new species from deep-sea whale-fall and wood-fall habitats in the north-east Pacific. Systematics and Biodiversity, 10 (2) : 243 - 259. doi: 10.1080/14772000.2012.693970
Verna C, Ramette A, Wiklund H, Dahlgren TG, Glover AG, Gaill F, Dubilier N (2010) High symbiont diversity in the bone-eating worm Osedax mucofloris from shallow whale-falls in the North Atlantic. Environmental Microbiology, 12 (8) : 2355 - 2370. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02299.x
Thurber AR, Kröger K, Neira C, Wiklund H, Levin LA (2010) Stable isotope signatures and methane use by New Zealand cold seep benthos. Marine Geology, 272 (1-4) : 260 - 269. doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.06.001
Ravara A, Wiklund H, Cunha MR, Pleijel F (null) Phylogenetic relationships within Nephtyidae (Polychaeta, Annelida). Zoologica Scripta, 39 (4) : 394 - 405. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2010.00424.x
WIKLUND H, GLOVER AG, DAHLGREN TG (null) Three new species of Ophryotrocha (Annelida: Dorvilleidae) from a whale-fall in the North-East Atlantic. Zootaxa, 2228 (1) : 43 - 56. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2228.1.3
WIKLUND H, GLOVER AG, JOHANNESSEN PJ, DAHLGREN TG (2009) Cryptic speciation at organic-rich marine habitats: a new bacteriovore annelid from whale-fall and fish farms in the North-East Atlantic. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 155 (4) : 774 - 785. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00469.x
Wiklund H, Nygren A, Pleijel F, Sundberg P (2008) The phylogenetic relationships between Amphinomidae, Archinomidae and Euphrosinidae (Amphinomida: Aciculata: Polychaeta), inferred from molecular data. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 88 (3) : 509 - 513. doi: 10.1017/s0025315408000982
PLEIJEL F, ROUSE GW, RUTA C, WIKLUND H, NYGREN A (2008) Vrijenhoekia balaenophila, a new hesionid polychaete from a whale fall off California. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 152 (4) : 625 - 634. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00360.x
Ruta C, Nygren A, Rousset V, Sundberg P, Tillier A, Wiklund H, Pleijel F (2007) Phylogeny of Hesionidae (Aciculata, Polychaeta), assessed from morphology, 18S rDNA, 28S rDNA, 16S rDNA and COI. Zoologica Scripta, 36 (1) : 99 - 107. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00255.x
Dahlgren TG, Wiklund H, Kallstrom B, Lundalv T, Smith CR, Glover AG (2006) A shallow-water whale-fall experiment in the north Atlantic. CAHIERS DE BIOLOGIE MARINE 47 (4) : 385 - 389.
Wiklund H, Nygren A, Pleijel F, Sundberg P (2005) Phylogeny of Aphroditiformia (Polychaeta) based on molecular and morphological data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 37 (2) : 494 - 502. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.07.005