Publications 2025

In 2025, researchers at the Museum of Evolution published one book and 38 articles (seven of which were not peer-reviewed). The names of museum staff members are highlighted in bold.

Botany (15)

• Ekman, S., Svensson, M. & Westberg, M. (2025) Phylogeny, species delimitation and machine learning bridge the gap between DNA sequences and morphology in the lichen genus Arctomia (Arctomiaceae, Ascomycota). Taxon, https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.70082
• Isaksson, R., Kinnerbäck, K.S., Andreasen, M., Sivula, S., Bergström, S.P., Westberg, M. & Lönnell, N. (2025) Ascomycota new to Sweden, including species new to Lule lappmark and Padjelanta National Park. Ascomycete.org 17(4): 81–99. https://doi.org/10.25664/ART-0418
• Knudsen, K., Kocourková, J., Kondrysová, E., Pušová, T., Hollinger, J., Leavitt, S., McCarthy, J., Jedličková, L. & Westberg, M. (2025) Discovering the diversity of Acarosporaceae (Acarosporales, Lecanoromycetes) with carbonized epihymenial accretions in North America. MycoKeys 122: 123–148. https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.122.162675
• Millanes, A.M., Tuovinen Nogerius, V., Freire-Rallo, S., Diederich, P., Periáñez, J., Westberg, M., Merinero, S., Johannesson, H. & Wedin, M. (2025) Different patterns of frequency, lichen specificity and thallus location between the yeasts and filamentous phases of two lichen-inhabiting Basidiomycetes. Environmental Microbiology https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.70203
• Olariaga I, Parra LA, Laessoe T, Velasco JM, Kautmanova I, Kruys Å, Salcedo I. (2025) Disentangling a complex of violet, endangered species of Clavaria subsumed under the misapplied name Clavaria zollingeri Lév. (Clavariaceae, Fungi). Journal of Fungi 11:482 https://doi.org/10.3390/jof11070482
• Perlmutter, G.B. & Westberg, M. (2025) The identity of Caloplaca quercicola. Evansia 42: 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1639/0747-9859-42.1.1
• Svensson, M., Ekman, S. & Westberg, M. (2025) An improved phylogeny and revised taxonomy of Catillariaceae (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota). Taxon, https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.70069
• Svensson, M. & Westberg, M. (2025) Notes on the distribution and taxonomy of Parainoa subconcolor (Baeomycetaceae, Ostropomycetidae). Graphis Scripta 37: 10–18.https://nhm2.uio.no/botanisk/lav/Graphis/37_3/GS_37_10.pdf
• Van der Kolk, H-J., Westberg, M. & Maliček, J. (2025) Morphological and molecular data support the distinction of four sorediate corticolous Candelariella species in Europe. Lichenologist 57: 144–165. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0024282925101059
• Westberg, M., Isaksson, R. & Frisch, A. (2025) Two new lichenicolous Arthonia species from Scandinavia. Phytotaxa 682: 68–80. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.682.1.4

Popular science, reports etc. (not peer-reviewed)

• Björkén, C., Aronsson, G. & Westberg, M. (2025) Ladparasitspik Sphinctrina anglica på tallrötter vid Nedre Dalälven. Lavbulletinen 2025(1): 29–35.
• Dietrich, M., Blaise, P., Keller, C., Lebreton, E., Scheidegger, von Hirschheydt, G., Vust, M., Westberg, M. (2025) Beiträge zur lichenologischen Erforschung der Schweiz – Folge 7. Meylania 76: 5–20.
• Esseen, P.-A., Ingelsbo, L. & Westberg, M. (2025) SLFs höstexkursion till Skuleskogen 2024. Lavbulletinen 2025(1): 11–21.
• Westberg, M. (2025) Fennoskandiska knagglavar Thalloidima. Achariana 6.0.0: 1–5.

Book

• Moberg, R., Thor, G. & Hultengren, S. (2025) Lavar, en fältguide. Naturcentrum. 365 pp. https://naturcentrum.se/2025/06/lavar-en-faltguide

Zoology (10)

• Cárdenas P., Chenesseau S., Drewery J. and Ereskovsky A. (2025) Direct Development of Golf Ball Sponges, Genus Craniella (Demospongiae, Tetractinellida) From the Northeast Atlantic Ocean. Molecular Reproduction and Development, 92(10), e70059. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrd.70059
• Cárdenas P. and Meister M. (2025) The Schmidt collection of envelopes in the Musée Zoologique in Strasbourg. Journal of the History of Collections. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhaf008
• Dell M., Kogawa M., Streiff A.B., Shiraishi T., Lotti A., Meier C.M., Schorn M.A., Field C., Cahn J.K.B., Yokoyama H., Yamada Y., Peters E., Egami Y., Nakashima Y., Tan K.C., Rückert C., Alanjary M., Kalinowski J., Kuzuyama T., Cárdenas P., Pomponi S., Sipkema D., Wright A., Takada K., Abe I., Wakimoto T., Takeyama H. and Piel J. (2025) Chemical richness and diversity of uncultivated ‘Entotheonella’ symbionts in marine sponges. Nature Chemical Biology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-025-02066-0
• Díaz, J. A., de la Torriente, A., Zumberge, A., Taboada, S., Serrano, A., Rios, P., Cristobo, J., Gracia, C., Ana Riesgo, Love, G. D., Massutí, E. & Cárdenas, P. (2025) Vilesida, a new order of demosponges revealed by molecular phylogeny and abundant 24-isopropylcholesterols (24-ipc sterols). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 205(3). https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf163
• Kosgahakumbura, L., Gamage, J., Hettiarachchi, C. M., Cárdenas, P. & Gunasekera, S. (2025) Ribosomally synthesised and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) from marine demosponges and their microsymbionts. Australian Journal of Chemistry, 78, CH25100. https://doi.org/10.1071/CH25100
• Krecsák, L., Golay, P., Åhlander, E. & Cárdenas, P. (2025) Taxonomic detectives: unravelling the origins of Linnaeus’s Aspic viper (Vipera aspis). Zootaxa, 5653, 080–096. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5653.1.4
• Pereira R., Larsson M., Cárdenas P. and Thollesson M. (2025) Swedish marine demosponge fauna (Porifera: Demospongiae) sampled 80 years after Jägerskiöld’s inventory. European Journal of Taxonomy, 983, 1–64. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.983.2835
• Shawar, L., Love, G. D., Uveges, B. T., Zumberge, J. A., Cárdenas, P., Giner, J.-L., et al. (2025) Chemical characterization of C31 sterols from sponges and Neoproterozoic fossil sterane counterparts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122, e2503009122. https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2503009122
• Taboada, S., Diez-Vives, C., Turon, M., Belen Arias, M., Galia-Camps, C., Cárdenas, P., et al. (2025) Connectivity and Adaptation Patterns of the Deep-Sea Ground-Forming Sponge Geodia hentscheli Across Its Entire Distribution. Mol Biol Evol, 42, 1-27. https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/42/7/msaf145/8157728
• Voronkina A., Cárdenas P., Adam J., Meissner H., Nowacki K., Joseph Y., Tabachnick K.R. and Ehrlich H. (2025) Biosilica 3D Micromorphology of Geodiidae Sponge Spicules Is Patterned by F-Actin. Microscopy Research & Technique, 88(6), 1701-1711. https://doi.org/10.1002/jemt.24798

Palaeontology (14)

• Cowen M.B., de Rafélis M., Ségalen L., Kear B.P., Dumont M. and Žigaitė Ž. (2025) Visualizing and quantifying biomineral preservation in fossil vertebrate dental remains. PeerJ, 13, e18763.
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• Ebbestad, J.O.R. & Vajda, V. (2025) Ordovicium–ett myller av mångfald i haven. In Vajda, V. & Wohlfarth, B. (eds), Sveriges geologi: en resa i tid och rum. Daidalos, Göteborg, 278-301.
• Ebbestad, J.O.R. & Vajda, V. (2025) Silur – varma hav ochväxternas koloniseringav land. In Vajda, V. & Wohlfarth, B. (eds), Sveriges geologi: en resa i tid och rum. Daidalos, Göteborg, 304-325.
• Ebbestad, J.O.R. & Zhang, Y. (2025) Carl Wiman, the founder of the Swedish Paleontological Temple. In Special Issue on the China-Sweden Scientific Cooperation. Enduring and Everlasting: Geological Scientific Cooperation between China and Sweden. Evolution 73, 29-35. [På kinesiska]
• Ebbestad, J.O.R., Pärnaste, H., Høyberget, M., Thorshøj Nielsen, A., & Rojo, M.A. (2025) Two early cheirurine trilobites and their later relatives in the Ordovician of Baltoscandia. Norwegian Journal of Geology, 105, 1-46. https://dx.doi.org/10.17850/njg105-2-3
• Kear, B.P. (2025) A landmark synopsis of Australian Mesozoic marine macroinvertebrates. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 49(2), 111–113. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2025.2467039 (Editorial)
• Marx M., Sjövall P., Kear B.P., Jarenmark M., Eriksson M.E., Sachs S., Nilkens K., Op De Beeck M. and Lindgren J. (2025) Skin, scales, and cells in a Jurassic plesiosaur. Current Biology, 35(5), 1113-1120.e1113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.01.001
• Marx M., Sachs S., Kear B.P., Eriksson M.E., Nilkens K. and Lindgren J. (2025) A new specimen of Plesiopterys wildi reveals the diversification of cryptoclidian precursors and possible endemism within European Early Jurassic plesiosaur assemblages. PeerJ, 13, e18960. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18960
• Meyerkort R.D., Kear B.P., Everhart M.J. and Siversson M. (2025) Youngest fossil occurrence of ichthyosaurs from the Southern Hemisphere. Cretaceous Research, 168, 106071. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2024.106071
• Polechová, M., Ebbestad, J. O. R., & Kröger, B. (2025). Molluscs of the Lower Ordovician Cabrières Lagerstätte, France – diversity and distribution. Lethaia, 59(2), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.18261/let.59.2.1
• Romero, S, Gutiérrez-Marco, J.C., Storch, P., Perrier, V, Rábano, I, Ebbestad, J.O.R. & Zamora, S. (2025) An upper Gorstian non-graptolite fauna from the El Pintado 1 Reference Section, Sierra Morena De Sevilla Unesco Global Geopark, Sw Spain. In Advances in Silurian chronostratigraphy and high-resolution correlation: ISSS Meeting 2025, Sociedad Espanola de Paleontologia, 89-100.
• Sachs S., Madzia D., Marx M., Roberts A.J., Hampe O. and Kear B.P. (2025) The osteology, taxonomy, and phylogenetic placement of Seeleyosaurus guilelmiimperatoris (Plesiosauroidea, Microcleididae) from the Lower Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Germany. The Anatomical Record, 308(9), 2283-2346. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25620

Popular science, reports etc. (not peer-reviewed)

• Högström, A.E.S. & Ebbestad, J.O.R. (2025) Elsa Warburg. Sveriges första kvinnliga paleontolog. Geologiskt Forum 128, 5-8.
• Rojo, M.A., Ebbestad, J.O.R., Funke, B., Bang, A. & Hoebeke, P. (2025) Pal-Venns besøk til de fossilrike lagene i Nordøst-Marokko. Stein 1:2025, 3-9.