Dr Sophie von der Heyden

RESEARCH OUTPUTS

Publications

von der Heyden S, Lipinski MR, Matthee CA.  Remarkably low mtDNA control region diversity in an abundant demersal fish. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, doi: 10.1016/j.ympev. 2009.09.018

von der Heyden S, Barendse J, Seebregts AJ, Matthee CA (2009) Misleading the masses: detection of mislabeled and substituted frozen fish products in South Africa. ICES Journal of Marine Science 67: 176-185

von der Heyden S (2009) Why do we need to integrate population genetics into South African Marine Protected Area planning? African Journal of Marine Science 31: 263-269

Neethling M, Matthee CA, Bowie RCK,  von der Heyden S (2008) Evidence of successful dispersal across a major oceanographic barrier in the southern African endemic, Caffrogobius caffer (Teleostei: Gobiidae). BMC Evolutionary Biology  8: 325

von der Heyden S, Prochazka K, Bowie RCK (2008) Significant population structure amidst expanding populations of Clinus cottoides (Perciformes, Clinidae): application of molecular tools to marine conservation planning in South Africa. Molecular Ecology 17: 4812-4826

von der Heyden S, Matthee CA (2008) Towards resolving familial relationships within the Gadiformes and the resurrection of the Lyconidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution  48: 764-769

von der Heyden S, Groeneveld JC, Matthee CA (2007) ‘Long current to nowhere?' – genetic connectivity of Jasus tristani in the southern Atlantic Ocean. African Journal of  Marine Science  29: 491-497

Matthee CA, Cockroft AC, Gopal K, von der Heyden S (2007) Mitochondrial DNA variation of the west coast rock lobster, Jasus lalandii: marked genetic diversity differences among sampling sites. Marine Freshwater Research  58: 1130-1135

Cavalier-Smith T,  von der Heyden S (2007) Molecular phylogeny, scale evolution and taxonomy of centrohelid Heliozoa. Molecular Phylogenetics and  Evolution 44: 1186-1203

Moreira D,  von der Heyden S, Bass D, López-García P, Chao E, Cavalier-Smith T (2007) Global eukaryote phylogeny: combined small- and large-subunit ribosomal DNA trees support monophyly of Rhizaria, Retaria and Excavata. Molecular  Phylogenetics and Evolution  44: 255-266

von der Heyden S, Lipinski MR, Matthee CA (2007) Species-specific genetic markers for identification of early life history stages of Cape hakes, Merluccius capensis and M. paradoxus in the southern Benguela Current. Journal of Fish Biology 70: 262-256

von der Heyden S, Lipinski MR, Matthee CA (2007) Mitochondrial DNA analyses of the Cape hakes reveal an expanding, panmictic population for Merluccius capensis and population structuring for mature fish in Merluccius paradoxus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution  42: 517-527

von der Heyden S, Cavalier-Smith T (2005) Culturing and environmental DNA sequence studies uncover hidden kinetoplastid biodiversity and distinct marine and freshwater clades in Neobodo designis. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary  Microbiology 55: 2605-2621

Bass D, Moreira D, López-García P, Polet S, Chao E, von der Heyden S, Pawlowski J, Cavalier-Smith T (2005) Polyubiquitin insertions and the phylogeny of Cercozoa and Rhizaria. Protist 56: 149-161

Stoeck T, Schwarz MVJ, Boenigk J, Schweikert M, von der Heyden S, Behnke A (2005) Cellular identity of a novel 18S rRNA sequence clade within the class Kinetoplastea: the novel genus Actuariola gen. nov. (Neobodonida) with description of the type species Actuariola framii sp. nov. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary  Microbiology 55: 2623-2635

von der Heyden S, Chao E, Vickerman K, Cavalier-Smith T (2004) Ribosomal RNA phylogeny of bodonid and diplonemid flagellates and the evolution of Euglenozoa. Journal of Eukaryotic  Microbiology 51: 402-416

von der Heyden S, Chao E, Cavalier-Smith T (2004) Genetic diversity of goniomonads: an ancient divergence between freshwater and marine species. European Journal of Phycology 39: 343-350