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Petra Sierwald

TitleLecturer
InstitutionField Museum
DepartmentCommittee on Evolutionary Biology
AddressChicago IL 60637
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    Research: Taxon-oriented research, specializing in the non-Insect terrestrial arthropods. Systematic, biogeographic, and evolutionary research focuses on the various spider families. Work on the class Diplopoda (millipedes) centers on higher classification

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    1. Bieler R, Collins TM, Golding R, Granados-Cifuentes C, Healy JM, Rawlings TA, Sierwald P. Replacing mechanical protection with colorful faces-twice: parallel evolution of the non-operculate marine worm-snail genera Thylacodes (Guettard, 1770) and Cayo n. gen. (Gastropoda: Vermetidae). PeerJ. 2023; 11:e15854. PMID: 37842057; PMCID: PMC10569170.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    2. Nguyen AD, Sierwald P, Ware S. ?First record of the genus Touranella Attems, 1937 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) from Laos, with a description of a new species. Zookeys. 2023; 1145:169-180. PMID: 37215403; PMCID: PMC10193849.
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    3. Rojas-Buffet C, Bouzan RS, Sierwald P, Brescovit AD, Sim M. Sandalodesmus joachimadisi n. sp., the first Chelodesmidae member from Uruguay with an updated key to species of the genus (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). Zootaxa. 2022 Jun 07; 5150(2):260-268. PMID: 36095749.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    4. Zahnle XJ, Sierwald P, Ware S, Bond JE. Genital morphology and the mechanics of copulation in the millipede genus Pseudopolydesmus (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Polydesmidae). Arthropod Struct Dev. 2020 Jan; 54:100913. PMID: 32000010.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    5. Sierwald P, Bueno-Villegas J, DE Ascenção AA. Check list of the Venezuelan millipedes species. Zootaxa. 2019 Oct 15; 4686(2):zootaxa.4686.2.1. PMID: 31719486.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    6. Ball-Damerow JE, Brenskelle L, Barve N, Soltis PS, Sierwald P, LaFrance R, Guralnick RP, Bieler R, Ariño AH. Research applications of primary biodiversity databases in the digital age. PLoS One. 2019; 14(9):e0215794. PMID: 31509534; PMCID: PMC6738577.
      Citations: 26     Fields:    
    7. Rodriguez J, Jones TH, Sierwald P, Marek PE, Shear WA, Brewer MS, Kocot KM, Bond JE. Step-wise evolution of complex chemical defenses in millipedes: a phylogenomic approach. Sci Rep. 2018 02 16; 8(1):3209. PMID: 29453332; PMCID: PMC5816663.
      Citations: 14     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    8. Granados-Cifuentes C, Rawlings TA, Sierwald P, Collins TM, Bieler R. Non-native molluscan colonizers on deliberately placed shipwrecks in the Florida Keys, with description of a new species of potentially invasive worm-snail (Gastropoda: Vermetidae). PeerJ. 2017; 5:e3158. PMID: 28392984; PMCID: PMC5384567.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    
    9. Wheeler WC, Coddington JA, Crowley LM, Dimitrov D, Griswold CE, Prendini L, Sierwald P, Almeida-Silva L, Bond JE, Grismado CJ, Hedin M, Labarque FM, Ledford J, Maddison WP, Miller JA, Piacentini LN, Platnick NI, Polotow D, Scharff N, Ubick D, Vink CJ, Wood HM, Zhang J, Goloboff PA, Hormiga G, Ramírez MJ, Alvarez-Padilla F, Arnedo MA, Benavides Silva LR, Benjamin SP, Hasan E, Izquierdo MA, Lopardo L, Silva-Dávila D, Szuts T. The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics. 2017 Dec; 33(6):574-616. PMID: 34724759.
      Citations: 94     Fields:    
    10. Da Silva EL, Gibbons A, Sierwald P. Description of the male of Dolomedes raptoroides Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004 (Araneae: Lycosoidea: Pisauridae). Zootaxa. 2015 Apr 08; 3946(1):139-45. PMID: 25947679.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    11. Da Silva EL, Sierwald P. Description of the males of Euprosthenops australis Simon, 1898 and Euprosthenopsis pulchella (Pocock, 1902) (Araneae: Pisauridae). Zootaxa. 2014 Aug 28; 3857(1):137-50. PMID: 25283102.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    12. Da Silva EL, Sierwald P. On three monotypic nursery web spider genera from Madagascar with first description of the male of Tallonia picta Simon, 1889 and redescription of the type-species of Paracladycnis Blandin, 1979 and Thalassiopsis Roewer, 1955 (Araneae: Lycosoidea: Pisauridae). Zootaxa. 2013 Dec 19; 3750:277-88. PMID: 25113698.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    13. Wesener T, Sierwald P, Wägele JW. Sternites and spiracles - the unclear homology of ventral sclerites in the basal millipede order Glomeridesmida (Myriapoda, Diplopoda). Arthropod Struct Dev. 2014 Jan; 43(1):87-95. PMID: 24275250.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    14. Brewer MS, Sierwald P, Bond JE. Millipede taxonomy after 250 years: classification and taxonomic practices in a mega-diverse yet understudied arthropod group. PLoS One. 2012; 7(5):e37240. PMID: 22615951; PMCID: PMC3352885.
      Citations: 22     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    15. Pitz KM, Sierwald P. Phylogeny of the millipede order Spirobolida (Arthropoda: Diplopoda: Helminthomorpha). Cladistics. 2010 Oct; 26(5):497-525. PMID: 34875768.
      Citations: 9     Fields:    
    16. Wesener T, Raupach MJ, Sierwald P. The origins of the giant pill-millipedes from Madagascar (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida: Arthrosphaeridae). Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2010 Dec; 57(3):1184-93. PMID: 20813191.
      Citations: 13     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    17. Coddington JA, Maddison WP, Midford PE, Prendini L, Miller J, Griswold CE, Hormiga G, Sierwald P, Scharff N, Benjamin SP, Wheeler WC, Ramírez MJ. Linking of digital images to phylogenetic data matrices using a morphological ontology. Syst Biol. 2007 Apr; 56(2):283-94. PMID: 17464883.
      Citations: 14     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    18. Sierwald P, Bond JE. Current status of the Myriapod class diplopoda (millipedes): taxonomic diversity and phylogeny. Annu Rev Entomol. 2007; 52:401-20. PMID: 17163800.
      Citations: 30     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    19. Baxtrom C, Mongkolpradit T, Kasimos JN, Braune LM, Wise RD, Sierwald P, Ramsey KH. Common house spiders are not likely vectors of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections. J Med Entomol. 2006 Sep; 43(5):962-5. PMID: 17017234.
      Citations: 5     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCellsPHPublic Health
    20. Clark VC, Raxworthy CJ, Sierwald P, Fisher BL, Rakotomalala V. Convergent evolution of chemical defense in poison frogs and arthropod prey between Madagascar and the Neotropics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Aug 16; 102(33):11617-22. PMID: 16087888; PMCID: PMC1187980.
      Citations: 35     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    21. Bond JE, Sierwald P. Cryptic speciation in the Anadenobolus excisus millipede species complex on the Island of Jamaica. Evolution. 2002 Jun; 56(6):1123-35. PMID: 12144014.
      Citations: 14     Fields:    Translation:Animals
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