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:

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

Chen, Hai-Xia, Sun, Shi-Chun, Sundberg, Per, Ren, Wei-Cheng and Norenburg, Jon 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., 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

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

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

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.

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.

Collins, Allen G., 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.

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.

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.

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.



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