Jon L. NorenburgChair & Research Zoologist

• Phone: 202-633-1783
• Fax: 202-633-0182
• E-mail: norenburgj@si.edu


• Mailing Address:
  Smithsonian Institution
  PO Box 37012, MRC 163
  Washington, DC 20013-7012
  


• Courier Delivery Address:
  Smithsonian Institution
  National Museum of Natural History
  10th and Constitution Ave, NW
  Washington, DC 20560-0163
  

Responsibilities: Departmental Chair, Research Zoologist and Curator of Nemertea

Education: B.A. (1973), M.S. (1976) Acadia University; Ph.D. (1983) Northeastern University.

Research Interests: Nemertean worms, worldwide – morphological and molecular phylogeny, taxonomy, phylogeography, biogeography and functional anatomy; soft‐bodied marine interstitial fauna, worldwide – biology, taxonomy and zoogeography.

Professional Activities:
Editor, Nemertea Lifedesk for Encyclopedia of Life
Editor, Nemertea for World Register of Marine Species

Recent Publications:

Martínez, Alejandro, Di Domenico, Maikon, Jörger, Katharina, Norenburg, Jon and Worsaae, Katrine 2013. Description of three new species of Protodrilus (Annelida, Protodrilidae) from Central America. Marine Biology Research, 9(7): 676-691. doi:10.1080/17451000.2013.765574

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(1) doi:10.1186/1471-2148-12-245

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 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-13-139

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. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00376.x

Appeltans, Ward, Ahyong, Shane T, Anderson, Gary, Angel, Martin V, Artois, Tom, Bailly, Nicolas, Bamber, Roger, Barber, Anthony, Bartsch, Ilse, Berta, Annalisa, Blazewicz-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 G, 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. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.036

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. doi:10.1007/s00227-011-1718-3

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. doi:10.1007/s00227-011-1844-y

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

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. doi:10.1007/s00300-009-0696-0

Norenburg, Jon L. 2009. Nemertea of the Gulf of Mexico. In: Felder, Darryl L. and Camp, David K., Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters and Biota Vol. 1, Biodiversity. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, pp.553-558.

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.



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