Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Oliver Vöcking; Harald Hausen (2016). The larval photoreceptors of the mollusk Leptochiton asellus. (external link)
• Suman Kumar; Harald Hausen (2019). Evolutionary and developmental perspective on annelid eye and nervous system: Insights from Malacoceros fuliginosus. (external link)

Academic article

• Anne-Christin Zakrzewski; Anne Weigert; Conrad Helm et al. (2014). Early divergence, broad distribution, and high diversity of animal chitin synthases. (external link)
• Conrad Helm; Anett Karl; Patrick Beckers et al. (2017). Early evolution of radial glial cells in Bilateria. (external link)
• Fatemeh Mazloumi Gavgani; Johanna Kraus; Layla Al-Shaer et al. (2025). Ectopic head regeneration after nervous system ablation in a sea anemone. (external link)
• Johanna Kraus; Henriette Busengdal; Yulia Kraus et al. (2024). Doublecortin-like kinase is required for cnidocyte development in Nematostella vectensis. (external link)
• Carmen Döring; Jasmin Gosda; Kristin Tessmar-Raible et al. (2013). Evolution of clitellate phaosomes from rhabdomeric photoreceptor cells of polychaetes - a study in the leech Helobdella robusta (Annelida, Sedentaria, Clitellata). (external link)
• Conrad Helm; Oliver Vöcking; Ioannis Kourtesis et al. (2016). Owenia fusiformis - A basally branching annelid suitable for studying ancestral features of annelid neural development. (external link)
• Oliver Vöcking; Ioannis Kourtesis; Harald Hausen (2015). Posterior eyespots in larval chitons have a molecular identity similar to anterior cerebral eyes in other bilaterians. (external link)
• Suman Kumar; Sharat Chandra Tumu; Conrad Helm et al. (2020). The development of early pioneer neurons in the annelid Malacoceros fuliginosus. (external link)
• Lisbeth Charlotte Olsen; Ioannis Or John Kourtesis; Henriette Busengdal et al. (2018). Evidence for a centrosome-attracting body like structure in germ-soma segregation during early development, in the urochordate Oikopleura dioica. (external link)
• Anne Weigert; Conrad Helm; Harald Hausen et al. (2013). Expression pattern of Piwi-like genes in adult Myzostoma cirriferum (Annelida). (external link)
• Anna Cosima Seybold; Suman Kumar; Sharat Chandra Tumu et al. (2024). Neurons with larval synaptic targets pioneer the later nervous system in the annelid Malacoceros fuliginosus. (external link)
• Oliver Vöcking; Ioannis Kourtesis; Sharat Chandra Tumu et al. (2017). Co-expression of xenopsin and rhabdomeric opsin in photoreceptors bearing microvilli and cilia. (external link)
• Ester M Ullrich-Luter; Sam Dupont; Enrique Arboleda et al. (2011). Unique system of photoreceptors in sea urchin tube feet. (external link)
• Jan Inge Øvrebø; Coen Campsteijn; Ioannis Kourtesis et al. (2015). Functional specialization of chordate cdk1 paralogs during oogenic meiosis. (external link)
• Harald Hausen; Clemens Döring; Suman Kumar et al. (2020). The visual pigment xenopsin is widespread in protostome eyes and impacts the view on eye evolution. (external link)
• Ekin Tilic; Harald Hausen; Thomas Bartolomaeus (2014). Chaetal arrangement and chaetogenesis of hooded hooks in Lumbrineris (Scoletoma) fragilis and Lumbrineris tetraura (Eunicida, Annelida). (external link)
• Mowgli Dandamudi; Harald Hausen; Timothy Peter Lynagh (2022). Comparative analysis defines a broader FMRFamide-gated sodium channel family and determinants of neuropeptide sensitivity. (external link)
• Oliver Vöcking; Lucas Leclère; Harald Hausen (2021). The rhodopsin-retinochrome system for retinal re-isomerization predates the origin of cephalopod eyes. (external link)

Conference abstract

• Mowgli Dandamudi; Harald Hausen; Timothy Peter Lynagh (2023). FMRFamide-gated sodium channel diversity relationship to other DEG/ENaC channels, and the molecular basis for neuropeptide activity. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Selected Publications

 

• Kumar S, Tumu SC, Helm C, Hausen H. (2020) The development of early pioneer neurons in the annelid Malacocerosfuliginosus. BMC Evol Biol, 20(1):117. doi:10.1186/s12862-020-01680-x.

• Döring CC, Kumar S, Tumu SC, Kourtesis I, Hausen H. (2020) The visual pigment xenopsin is widespread in protostome eyes and impacts the view on eye evolution. eLife doi:10.7554/eLife.55193

• Olsen LC, Kourtesis I, Busengdal H, Jensen MF, Hausen H, Chourrout D. (2018) Evidence for a centrosome-attracting body like structure in germ-soma segregation duringearly development, in the urochordate Oikopleura dioica. BMC Dev Biol. 18(1):4. doi: 10.1186/s12861-018-0165-5.

• Vöcking O, Kourtesis I, Tumu S C, Hausen H (2017). Co-expression of xenopsin and rhabdomeric opsin in photoreceptors bearing microvilli and cilia. eLife doi: 10.7554/eLife.23435
   
• Helm C, Karl A, Beckers P, Kaul-Strehlow S, Ulbricht E, Kourtesis I, Kuhrt H,  Hausen H, Bartolomaeus T, Reichenbach A, Bleidorn C. (2017) Early evolution of radialglial cells in Bilateria. Proc Biol Sci. 284(1859). pii: 20170743.doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0743. 
   
• Helm C, Vöcking O, Kourtesis I and Hausen H (2016). Owenia fusiformis – a basally branching annelid suitable for studying ancestral features of annelid neural development. BMC Evol Biol, 16(1), 129. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0690-4
   
• Vöcking O, Kourtesis I and Hausen H (2015).  Posterior eyespots in larval chitons have a molecular identity similar to anterior cerebral eyes in other bilaterians. EvoDevo 6:40 DOI 10.1186/s13227-015-0036-0.
   
• Zakrzewski A-C, Weigert A, Helm C, Adamski M, Adamska M, Bleidorn C, Raible F and Hausen H (2014). Early divergence, broad distribution and high diversity of animal chitin synthases. Genome Biol Evol 6(2):316-325.
   
• Weigert A, Helm C, Hausen H, Zakrzewski A-C, Bleidorn C (2013). Expression pattern of Piwi-like genes in adult Myzostoma cirriferum (Annelida). Dev Genes Evol (doi:10.1007/s00427-013-0444-x).
   
• Zakrzewski A-C, Suh A, Lüter C. (2012).  New insights into the larval development of Macandrevia cranium (Müller, 1776) (Brachiopoda: Rhynchonelliformea).  Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology. (251): 263-269.
   
• Ullrich-Lüter EM, Dupont S, Arbodela E, Hausen H, Arnone MI (2011). Unique system of photoreceptors in sea urchin tube feet. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108(20): 8367-8372.

Prior to arrival at the Sars Centre

• Arendt, D., Hausen & Purschke, G. (2009). The 'division of labour' model of eye evolution. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B 364 (1531): 2809-2817.
• Jékely G., Colombelli, J., Hausen, H., Guy, K., Stelzer, E., Nédélec, F.& Arendt, D (2008). Mechanism of phototaxis in marine zooplankton. Nature 456(20): 396-400.
• Kieselbach, D. & Hausen, H. (2008). Chaetal Arrangement Provides No Support for a Close Relationship of Sabellidae and Sabellariidae (Annelida). Journal of Morphology 269(1): 104-117.
• Meyer, A., Bleidorn, C., Rouse, G.W., Hausen, H. (2008). Morphological and molecular data suggests a cosmopolitan distribution of the polychaete Proscoloplos cygnochaetus Day, 1954 (Annelida, Orbiniidae). Marine Biology 153(5): 879-889.
• Tessmar-Raible, K., Raible, F., Christodoulou, F., Guy, K., Rembold, M., Hausen, H. & Arendt, D. (2007). Conserved sensory-neurosecretory cell types in annelid and fish forebrain: insights into hypothalamus evolution.Cell 129(7): 1389-1400.
• Hausen, H (2007). Ultrastructure of presumptive light sensitive ciliary organs in larvae of Poecilochaetidae, Trochochaetidae, Spionidae, Magelonidae (Annelida) and its phylogenetic significance. Zoomorphology 126 (3): 185-201.
• Hoffmann, S. & Hausen, H. (2007). Chaetal arrangement in Orbiniidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) and its significance for systematics. Zoomorphology 126(4): 215-227.
• Purschke, G. & Hausen, H (2007). Lateral organs in sedentary polychaetes (Annelida) – Ultrastructure and phylogenetic significance of an insufficiently known sense organ. Acta Zoologica 88: 23-39.
• Hausen, H. & Bleidorn, C. (2006). Significance of chaetal arrangement for maldanid systematics (Annelida, Maldanidae). Scientia Marina 70S3: 75-79.
• Purschke, G., Arendt, D., Hausen, H. Müller, M.C.M. (2006). Photoreceptor cells and eyes in Annelida. Arthropod Structure and Development 35: 211-230.
• Hausen, H. (2005). Comparative structure of the epidermis in polychaetes (Annelida). In: T. Bartolomaeus & G. Purschke (eds.) Morphology, Molecules, Evolution and Phylogeny in Polychaeta and related Taxa. Hydrobiologia535/536: 25-35.
• Hausen, H. (2005). Chaetae and chaetogenesis in polychaetes (Annelida). In: T. Bartolomaeus & G. Purschke (eds.) Morphology, Molecules, Evolution and Phylogeny in Polychaeta and related Taxa. Hydrobiologia 535/536: 37-52.