Sebastian Decker, PhD

Publications

2024

Waeschenbach A, Zhoua Z, Schwaha T, Okamura B, Gordon DP, Wood TS,
Ostrovsky AN, Todd JA, Decker SH, Johnson M, Al-Ghanem MM, De Blauwe H, Florence WK, Graham R, Hall A, Hartikainen H, Jenkins HL, Kuklińskim P, Porter JS, Smith AM, Spencer Jones ME (accepted) A genome skimming phylogeny of ctenostome bryozoans. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Decker SH, Aguilera F, Saadi AJ, Schwaha T (2024) First soft body morphological data on the tracemaker of the endolithic bryozoan trace fossil Terebripora ramosa d'Orbigny, 1842. Journal of Morphology, 285, e21770. Open Access

Decker SH, Lemer S, Decker S, Hirose M, Johnson MJ, Schwaha T (2024b) Boring life: early colony formation and growth in the endolithic bryozoan genus Penetrantia Silén, 1946. Zoological Letters, 10(1). Open Access

Decker SH, Saadi AJ, Baranyi C, Hirose M, Lemer S, Sombke A, Aguilera F, Vieira LM, Smith AM, Waeschenbach A, Schwaha T (2024) Boring systematics: A genome skimmed phylogeny of ctenostome bryozoans and their endolithic family Penetrantiidae with the description of one new species. Ecology and Evolution, 14, e11276. Open Access

Johnson MJ, Lemer, S, Hirose M, Decker SH, Schwaha T (2024) Ecology of endolithic bryozoans: colony development, growth rates and interactions of species in the genus Immergentia. Zoological Letters, 10, 23. Open Access

Schwaha T, Decker SH, Baranyi C, Saadi AJ (2024) Rediscovering the unusual, solitary bryozoan Monobryozoon ambulans Remane, 1936: first molecular and new morphological data clarify its phylogenetic position. Frontiers in Zoology 21(1), 5. Open Access

2023

Decker SH, Hirose M, Lemer S, Kuklinski P, Spencer HG, Smith AM, Schwaha T (2023) Boring bryozoans: an investigation into the endolithic bryozoan family Penetrantiidae. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 23, 743–785. Open Access

Key MM, Decker SH (2023) Fouling of the slipper lobster, Scyllarides latus, by cyclostome and ctenostome bryozoans in the Mediterranean Sea off Malta. In Bryozoan Studies 2022, (pp. 47–53). CRC Press. Link

2021

Decker SH, Gordon DP, Spencer Jones ME, Schwaha T (2021) A revision of the ctenostome bryozoan family Pherusellidae, with description of two new species. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 59(5), 963–980. Open Access

2020

Decker SH, Wanninger A, Schwaha T (2020) Morphology and life cycle of an epiphytic pherusellid ctenostome bryozoan from the Mediterranean Sea. Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 20, 417–437. Open Access