Education:

Ph.D., University of Victoria, Canada, 2001
B.S., University of Bielefeld, Germany, 1995

Specialty: Marine Invertebrate Zoology

Research Interests:

I am interested in phylogeny, species delimitation and geographic population structuring of marine invertebrates, focusing on marine annelids. My approaches include morphological, reproductive and developmental studies, genomics and transcriptomics.

Courses Taught:

Marine Invertebrate Zoology (MARB 435/689)   
Evolutionary Biology (MARB 668)

Selected Publications:

• Johnson, N. D., Sanders, C., Maiorova, A. and Schulze, A. 2016. Cryptic speciation in a Pacific sipunculan (Sipuncula: Phascolosomatidae): East-west divergence between non-sister taxa. Zoologica Scripta 45: 455-463. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12158.

• Schulze, A. 2015. Six genetically distinct clades of Palola (Eunicidae, Annelida) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa 4019: 695-706. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.23

• Lucey, N. M., Lombardi, C., De Marchi, L., Schulze, A., Gambi, M. C., Calosi, P. 2015. To brood or not to brood: are marine organisms that protect their offspring more resilient to ocean acidification? Scientific Reports 5: 12009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep12009

• Borda, E., Yañez-Rivera, B., *Ochoa, G., Sánchez-Ortíz, C, Schulze, A. and Rouse, G. W. 2015. Revamping Amphinomidae (Annelida: Amphinomida) with a description of a new species of Notopygos from the Gulf of California. Zoologica Scripta 44: 324-333. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12099

• Ahrens, J. B., Kudenov, J., Marshall,C. M., Schulze, A. 2014. A histological analysis of the bearded fireworm, Hermodice carunculata (Annelida: Amphinomidae): Regeneration of posterior segments and terminal structures. Journal of Morphology 275: 1103-1112.http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmor.20287

• Calosi, P., Rastrick, S. P. S., Lombardi, C., de Guzman, H. J., Davidson, L., Jahnke, M., Giangrande, A., Hardege, J.D., Schulze, A., Spicer, J. I., Gambi, M.C. 2013. Acclimatization to ocean acidification in marine ectotherms: an in situ transplant experiment at a shallow CO2 vent system. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 368, 20120444. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0444

• Carvalho, R. G., Wei, C.-L., Rowe, G. and Schulze, A. 2013. Complex depth-related patterns in the taxonomic and functional diversity of polychaetes in the Gulf of Mexico. Deep Sea Research I 80: 66-77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2013.07.002

• Ahrens, J. B., Borda, E., Barroso, R., Paiva, P. C., Campbell, A. M., Wolf, A., Nugues, M. M., Rouse, G. W. and Schulze, A. 2013. The curious case of Hermodice carunculata: evidence for genetic homogeneity throughout the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent basins. Molecular Ecology 22: 2280-2291. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.12263.