Norenburg, Jon
Research Zoologist and Curator of Nemertea, Echinodermata, meiofaunal and other phyla
Norenburg, Jon
Research Zoologist and Curator of Nemertea, Echinodermata, meiofaunal and other phyla
Curator for Nemertea and Meiofauna. Morphological and molecular phylogeny, phylogeography, biogeography and functional anatomy of nemertean worms, worldwide; biology and zoogeography of soft-bodied marine interstitial fauna, worldwide
Positions
- Research Zoologist, National Museum of Natural History 1988 -
Geographic Focus
- Global Transnational Region
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.A., Acadia University
- M.S., Acadia University
- Ph.D., Northeastern University
International Audience Summary Of Expertise
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Inventory, biology and genetic study of Nemertea.
Organizer of marine meiofauna workshops.
Research And Grants
Investigator On
- Archiving and Managing the Natural Products Voucher Collection awarded by Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.
- Archiving and Managing the Natural Products Voucher Collection Proposal for FY 2010 Funding - Renewal awarded by SAIC-Frederick, Inc
- Archiving of Outer Continental Shelf Invertebrates by the Smithsonian Institute National Museum of Natural History awarded by DOI/Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
- Curation and Management of the NCI Natural Products Voucher Specimens awarded by SAIC-Frederick, Inc
- Curation and Management of the NCI Natural Products Voucher Specimens awarded by SAIC-Frederick, Inc
- Curation and Management of the NCI Natural Products Voucher Specimens awarded by SAIC-Frederick, Inc
- Curation and Management of the NCI Natural Products Voucher Specimens - Renewal (FY 2011) awarded by National Institutes of Health
- Parasitology Research and Long-Term Preservation of the U.S. National Parasite Collection awarded by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Has Expertise In Technique
- Histology Technique
- Micro-anatomy Technique
- Molecular systematics Technique
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Chernyshev, Alexei V., Alfaya, Jose E. Fernandez, Anadon, Nuria, Andrade, Sonia C. S., Bartolomaeus, Thomas, von Dohren, Jorn, Fernandez-Alvarez, Fernando Angel, Giribet, Gonzalo, Junoy, Juan, Kajihara, Hiroshi, Kem, William R., Kuris, Armand, Kvist, Sebastian, Machordom, Annie, Mcevoy, Eric G., Norenburg, Jon L., Okazaki, Robert K., Rogers, Alex D., Strand, Malin, Sun, Shi-Chun, Sundberg, Per, and Thiel, Martin. 2023. "Raymond Gibson (1938-2023): in memoriam." Zootaxa, 5311, (4) 596–599. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5311.4.7. 2023
- Maslakova, Svetlana, Ellison, Christina I., Hiebert, Terra C., Conable, Frances, Heaphy, Maureen C., Venera-Pontón, Dagoberto E., Norenburg, Jon L., Schwartz, Megan L., Moss, Nicole D., Boyle, Michael J., Driskell, Amy C., MacDonald, Kenneth S., III, Zattara, Eduardo E., and Collin, Rachel. 2022. "Sampling multiple life stages significantly increases estimates of marine biodiversity." Biology Letters, 18, (4). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0596. 2022
- Chernyshev, Alexei V., Polyakova, Neonila E., Norenburg, Jon L., and Kajihara, Hiroshi. 2021. "A molecular phylogeny of Tetrastemma and its allies (Nemertea, Monostilifera)." Zoologica Scripta, https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12511. 2021
- Norenburg, Jon L., Cherneva, Irina A., Ellison, Christina I., and Goetz, Freya E. 2021. "First report of Mesopsammic Nemertea from the Azores." Açoreana, (Suplemento 11) 141–150. 2021
- Gerdes, Klaas, Kihara, Terue Cristina, Arbizu, Pedro Martinez, Kuhn, Thomas, Schwarz-Schampera, Ulrich, Mah, Christopher L., Norenburg, Jon L., Linley, Thomas, Shalaeva, Kate, Macpherson, Enrique, Gordon, Dennis, Stoehr, Sabine, Messing, Charles G., Bober, Simon, Guggolz, Theresa, Christodoulou, Magdalini, Gebruk, Andrey, Kremenetskaia, Antonina, Kroh, Andreas, Sanamyan, Karen, Bolstad, Kathrin, Hoffman, Leon, Gooday, Andrew J., and Molodtsova, Tina. 2021. "Megafauna of the German exploration licence area for seafloor massive sulphides along the Central and South East Indian Ridge (Indian Ocean)." Biodiversity Data Journal, 9. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e69955. 2021
- Jörger, K. and Norenburg, Jon L. 2021. "Meiozores 2019 - Exploring the marine meiofauna of the Azores." Açoreana, (Suplemento 11) 17–41. 2021
- Mendes, Cecili B., Norenburg, Jon L., and Andrade, Sonia C. S. 2021. "Species delimitation integrative approach reveals three new species in the Nemertopsis bivittata complex." Invertebrate Systematics, https://doi.org/10.1071/IS20048. 2021
- Sevigny, Joseph, Leasi, Francesca, Simpson, Stephen, Di Domenico, Maikon, Joerger, Katharina M., Norenburg, Jon L., and Thomas, W. Kelley. 2021. "Target enrichment of metazoan mitochondrial DNA with hybridization capture probes." Ecological Indicators, 121 106973–106973. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106973. 2021
- Chernyshev, Alexei, V., Polyakova, Neonila E., Vignesh, Mohandhas S., Jain, Ruchi P., Sanjeevi, Prakash, Norenburg, Jon L., and Rajesh, Rajaian P. 2020. "A histology-free description of a new species of the genus Tetrastemma (Nemertea: Hoplonemertea: Monostilifera) from Hawaii and India." Zootaxa, 4808, (2) 379–383. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4808.2.10. 2020
- Sorensen, Martin, V., Goetz, Freya E., Herranz, Maria, Chang, Cheon Young, Chatterjee, Tapas, Durucan, Furkan, Neves, Ricardo C., Yildiz, N. Ozlem, Norenburg, Jon, and Yamasaki, Hiroshi. 2020. "Description, redescription and revision of sixteen putatively closely related species of Echinoderes (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida), with the proposition of a new species group - the Echinoderes dujardinii group." European Journal of Taxonomy, 730 1–101. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.730.1197. 2020
- Egger, Christina, Neusser, Timea P., Norenburg, Jon, Leasi, Francesca, Buge, Barbara, Vannozzi, Angelo, Cunha, Regina L., Cox, Cymon J., and Joerger, Katharina M. 2020. "Uncovering the shell game with barcodes: diversity of meiofaunal Caecidae snails (Truncatelloidea, Caenogastropoda) from Central America." Zookeys, (968) 1–42. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.968.52986. 2020
- Zattara, Eduardo E., Fernández-Álvarez, Fernando A., Hiebert, Terra C., Bely, Alexandra E., and Norenburg, Jon L. 2019. "A phylum-wide survey reveals multiple independent gains of head regeneration in Nemertea." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286, (1898). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2524. 2019
- Hookabe, Natsumi, Schwartz, Megan L., Kajihara, Hiroshi, and Norenburg, Jon L. 2019. "Molecular systematics of the heteronemertean genus Dushia (Nemertea, Pilidiophora), with descriptions of D. wijnhoffae sp. nov. and D. nigra species complex comb. nov." Zootaxa, 4691, (4) 333–358. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4691.4.2. 2019
- Strand, Malin, Norenburg, Jon, Alfaya, José E., Fernández‐Álvarez, Fernando Ángel, Andersson, Hå, Andrade, Sonia C. S., Bartolomaeus, Thomas, Beckers, Patrick, Bigatti, Gregorio, Cherneva, Irina, Chernyshev, Alexey, Chung, Brian M., Döhren, Jörn von, Giribet, Gonzalo, Gonzalez‐Cueto, Jaime, Herrera‐Bachiller, Alfonso, Hiebert, Terra, Hookabe, Natsumi, Junoy, Juan, Kajihara, Hiroshi, Krämer, Daria, Kvist, Sebastian, Magarlamov, Timur Yu, Maslakova, Svetlana, Mendes, Cecili B. et al. 2019. "Nemertean taxonomy—Implementing changes in the higher ranks, dismissing Anopla and Enopla." Zoologica Scripta, 48, (1) 118–119. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12317. 2019
- Curini-Galletti, Marco, Stocchino, Giacinta A., and Norenburg, Jon L. 2019. "New species of Duplominona Karling, 1966 and Pseudominona Karling, 1978 (Platyhelminthes: Proseriata) from the Caribbean." Zootaxa, 4657, (1) 127–147. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4657.1.5. 2019
- Martínez, Alejandro, Di Domenico, Maikon, Leasi, Francesca, Curini-Galletti, Marco, Todaro, M. Antonio, Zotto, Matteo Dal, Gobert, Stefan, Artois, Tom, Norenburg, Jon, Jörger, Katharina M., Núñez, Jorge, Fontaneto, Diego, and Worsaae, Katrine. 2019. "Patterns of diversity and endemism of soft-bodied meiofauna in an oceanic island, Lanzarote, Canary Islands." Marine Biodiversity, 49, (5) 2033–2055. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-019-01007-0. 2019
- Leasi, Francesca, Sevigny, Joseph L., Laflamme, Eric M., Artois, Tom, Curini-Galletti, Marco, Navarrete de Jesus, Alberto, Di Domenico, Maikon, Goetz, Freya, Hall, Jeffrey A., Hochberg, Rick, Jörger, Katharina M., Jondelius, Ulf, Todaro, M. Antonio, Wirshing, Herman H., Norenburg, Jon L., and Thomas, W. Kelley. 2018. "Biodiversity estimates and ecological interpretations of meiofaunal communities are biased by the taxonomic approach." Communications Biology, 1 112. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0119-2. 2018
- Mendes, Cecili B., Norenburg, Jon L., Solferini, Vera N., and Andrade, Sónia C. S. 2018. "Hidden diversity: Phylogeography of genus Ototyphlonemertes Diesing, 1863 (Ototyphlonemertidae: Hoplonemertea) reveals cryptic species and high diversity in Chilean populations." PloS One, 13, (4) 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195833. 2018
- Scarpa, Fabio, Cossu, Piero, Delogu, Valentina, Lai, Tiziana, Sanna, Daria, Leasi, Francesca, Norenburg, Jon L., Curini-Galletti, Marco, and Casu, Marco. 2017. "Molecular support for morphology-based family-rank taxa: The contrasting cases of two families of Proseriata (Platyhelminthes)." Zoologica Scripta, 46, (6) 753–766. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12251. 2017
- Leasi, Francesca, da Silva Andrade, Sonia C., and Norenburg, Jon L. 2016. "At least some meiofaunal species are not everywhere. Indication of geographic, ecological and geological barriers affecting the dispersion of species of Ototyphlonemertes (Nemertea, Hoplonemertea)." Molecular Ecology, 25 1381–1397. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13568. 2016
- Mendes, Cecili B., Matthews-Cascon, Helena, and Norenburg, Jon L. 2016. "New records of ribbon worms (Nemertea) from Ceará, Northeast Brazil." Zootaxa, 4061, (2) 146–156. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4061.2.4. 2016
- Ament-Velásquez, S. L., Figuet, E., Ballenghien, M., Zattara, Eduardo E., Norenburg, Jon L., Fernández-Álvarez, F. A., Bierne, J., Bierne, N., and Galtier, N. 2016. "Population genomics of sexual and asexual lineages in fissiparous ribbon worms (Lineus, Nemertea): hybridization, polyploidy and the Meselson effect." Molecular ecology, 25, (14) 3356–3369. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13717. 2016
- Leasi, Francesca, Gaynus, Camille, Mahardini, Angka, Moore, Tiara N., Norenburg, Jon L., and Barber, Paul H. 2016. "Spatial and ecologic distribution of neglected microinvertebrate communities across endangered ecosystems: meiofauna in Bali (Indonesia)." Marine Ecology-an Evolutionary Perspective, 37, (5) 970–987. https://doi.org/10.1111/maec.12305. 2016
- Scarpa, Fabio, Cossu, Piero, Sanna, Daria, Lai, Tiziana, Norenburg, Jon L., Curini-Galletti, Marco, and Casu, Marco. 2015. "An 18S and 28S-based clock calibration for marine Proseriata (Platyhelminthes)." Journal of experimental marine biology and ecology, 463 22–31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2014.10.020. 2015
- Gonzalez-Cueto, Jaime, Quiroga, Sigmer, and Norenburg, Jon L. 2014. "A shore-based preliminary survey of marine ribbon worms (Nemertea) from the Caribbean coast of Colombia." Zookeys, (439) 83–108. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.439.5965. 2014
- Andrade, Sonia C. S., Montenegro, Horácio, Strand, Malin, Schwartz, Megan, Kajihara, Hiroshi, Norenburg, Jon L., Turbeville, James M., Sundberg, Per, and Giribet, Gonzalo. 2014. "A transcriptomic approach to ribbon worm systematics (Nemertea): resolving the Pilidiophora problem." Molecular biology and evolution, 31, (12) 3206–3215. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msu253. 2014
- Fonseca, Gustavo, Norenburg, Jon L., and Domenico, Maikon Di. 2014. "Editorial: diversity of marine meiofauna on the coast of Brazil." Marine Biodiversity, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-014-0261-0. 2014
- Chen, Haixia, Sun, Shichun, Norenburg, Jon L., and Sundberg, Per. 2014. "Mutation and selection cause codon usage and bias in mitochondrial genomes of ribbon worms." PLoS One, 9, (1) 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0085631. 2014
- Leasi, Francesca and Norenburg, Jon L. 2014. "The Necessity of DNA Taxonomy to Reveal Cryptic Diversity and Spatial Distribution of Meiofauna, with a Focus on Nemertea." PLoS ONE, 9, (8) 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0104385. 2014
- Martínez, Alejandro, Di Domenico, Maikon, Jörger, Katharina, Norenburg, Jon L., and Worsaae, Katrine. 2013. "Description of three new species of Protodrilus (Annelida, Protodrilidae) from Central America." Marine Biology Research, 9, (7) 676–691. https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2013.765574. 2013
- Kajihara, Hiroshi, Sun, Shi-Chun, Chernyshev, Alexei V., Chen, Hai-Xia, Ito, Katsutoshi, Asakawa, Manabu, Maslakova, Svetlana A., Norenburg, Jon L., Strand, Malin, Sundberg, Per, and Iwata, Fumio. 2013. "Taxonomic Identity of a Tetrodotoxin-Accumulating Ribbon-worm Cephalothrix simula (Nemertea: Palaeonemertea): A Species Artificially Introduced from the Pacific to Europe." Zoological Science, 30, (11) 985–997. https://doi.org/10.2108/zsj.30.985. 2013
- Chen, Hai-Xia, Sun, Shi-Chun, Sundberg, Per, Ren, Wei-Cheng, and Norenburg, Jon L. 2012. "A comparative study of nemertean complete mitochondrial genomes, including two new ones for Nectonemertes cf. mirabilis and Zygeupolia rubens, may elucidate the fundamental pattern for the phylum Nemertea." BMC Genomics, 13, (1) 139–139. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-13-139. 2012
- Jörger, Katharina,M., Norenburg, Jon L., Wilson, Nerida G., and Schrödl, Michael. 2012. "Barcoding against a paradox? Combined molecular species delineations reveal multiple cryptic lineages in elusive meiofaunal sea slugs." BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12 245. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-12-245. 2012
- Andrade, Sónia C. S., Strand, Malin, Schwartz, Megan, Chen, Haixia, Kajihara, Hiroshi, von Döhren, Jörn, Sun, Shichun, Junoy, Juan, Thiel, Martin, Norenburg, Jon L., Turbeville, James M., Giribet, Gonzalo, and Sundberg, Per. 2012. "Disentangling ribbon worm relationships: multi‐locus analysis supports traditional classification of the phylum Nemertea." Cladistics, 28, (2) 141–159. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00376.x. 2012
- Appeltans, Ward, Ahyong, Shane T, Anderson, Gary, Angel, Martin V, Artois, Tom, Bailly, Nicolas, Bamber, Roger, Barber, Anthony, Bartsch, Ilse, Berta, Annalisa, Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, Magdalena, Bock, Phil, Boxshall, Geoff, Boyko, Christopher B, Brandão, Simone Nunes, Bray, Rod A, Bruce, Niel L, Cairns, Stephen D., Chan, Tin-Yam, Cheng, Lanna, Collins, Allen Gilbert, Cribb, Thomas, Curini-Galletti, Marco, Dahdouh-Guebas, Farid, Davie, Peter J F. et al. 2012. "The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity." Current Biology, 22, (23) 2189–2202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.036. 2012
- Tulchinsky, Alexander Y., Norenburg, Jon L., and Turbeville, James M. 2011. "Phylogeography of the marine interstitial nemertean Ototyphlonemertes parmula (Nemertea, Hoplonemertea) reveals cryptic diversity and high dispersal potential." Marine Biology, 159, (3) 661–674. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-011-1844-y. 2011
- Andrade, Sónia C. S., Norenburg, Jon L., and Solferini, Vera N. 2011. "Worms without borders: genetic diversity patterns in four Brazilian Ototyphlonemertes species (Nemertea, Hoplonemertea)." Marine Biology, 158, (9) 2109–2124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-011-1718-3. 2011
- Mahon, Andrew R., Thornhill, Daniel J., Norenburg, Jon L., and Halanych, Kenneth M. 2010. "DNA uncovers Antarctic nemertean biodiversity and exposes a decades-old cold case of asymmetric inventory." Polar Biology, 33, (2) 193–202. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-009-0696-0. 2010
- Chen, Haixia, Strand, Malin, Norenburg, Jon L., Sun, Shichun, Kajihara, Hiroshi, Chernyshev, Alexey V., Maslakova, Svetlana A., and Sundberg, Per. 2010. "Statistical Parsimony Networks and Species Assemblages in Cephalotrichid Nemerteans (Nemertea)." PLoS ONE, 5, (9) e12885. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012885. 2010
- Chen, Hai-Xia, Sundberg, Per, Norenburg, Jon L., and Sun, Shi-Chun. 2009. "The complete mitochondrial genome of Cephalothrix simula (Iwata) (Nemertea: Palaeonemertea)." Gene, 442, (1-2) 8–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2009.04.015. 2009
- Thornhill, Daniel J., Mahon, Andrew R., Norenburg, Jon L., and Halanych, Kenneth M. 2008. "Open-ocean barriers to dispersal: a test case with the Antarctic Polar Front and the ribbon worm Parborlasia corrugatus (Nemertea: Lineidae)." Molecular ecology, 17, (23) 5104–5117. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03970.x. 2008
- Collins, Allen Gilbert, Bentlage, Bastian, Lindner, Alberto, Lindsay, Dhugal, Haddock, Steven H. D., Jarms, Gerhard, Norenburg, Jon L., Jankowski, Thomas, and Cartwright, Paulyn. 2008. "Phylogenetics of Trachylina (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) with new insights on the evolution of some problematical taxa." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 88 1673–1685. 2008
- Maslakova, S. A. and Norenburg, Jon L. 2008. "Revision of the smiling worms, genera Prosadenoporus Burger, 1890 and Pantinonemertes Moore and Gibson, 1981 and description of a new species Prosadenoporus floridensis sp nov (Prosorhochmidae; Hoplonemertea; Nemertea) from Florida and Belize." Journal of Natural History, 42, (25-26) 1689–1727. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930802130286. 2008
- Maslakova, S. A. and Norenburg, Jon L. 2008. "Revision of the smiling worms, genus Prosorhochmus Keferstein, 1862, and description of a new species, Prosorhochmus belizeanus sp nov (Prosorhochmidae, Hoplonemertea, Nemertea) from Florida and Belize." Journal of Natural History, 42, (17-20) 1219–1260. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930801995747. 2008
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Chapter
- Norenburg, Jon L. 2009. "Nemertea of the Gulf of Mexico." In Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters and Biota Vol. 1, Biodiversity. Felder, Darryl L. and Camp, David K., editors. 553–558. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press. 2009
Activities
Responsible Collections Areas
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Nemertea
Meiofauna phyla
Affiliation
Member Of
Contact
Location
- National Museum of Natural History Academic Department
