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List of works by Franco Verni

"Candidatus Cryptoprodotis polytropus," a novel Rickettsia-like organism in the ciliated protist Pseudomicrothorax dubius (Ciliophora, Nassophorea).

scientific article

"Candidatus Defluviella procrastinata" and "Candidatus Cyrtobacter zanobii", two novel ciliate endosymbionts belonging to the "Midichloria clade"

scientific article published on 08 January 2013

"Candidatus Gortzia shahrazadis", a Novel Endosymbiont of Paramecium multimicronucleatum and a Revision of the Biogeographical Distribution of Holospora-Like Bacteria

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

"Candidatus Trichorickettsia mobilis", a Rickettsiales bacterium, can be transiently transferred from the unicellular eukaryote Paramecium to the planarian Dugesia japonica

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

"Candidatus anadelfobacter veles" and "Candidatus cyrtobacter comes," two new rickettsiales species hosted by the protist ciliate Euplotes harpa (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea).

scientific article published on 30 April 2010

'Candidatus Megaira polyxenophila' gen. nov., sp. nov.: considerations on evolutionary history, host range and shift of early divergent rickettsiae

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A House for Two--Double Bacterial Infection in Euplotes woodruffi Sq1 (Ciliophora, Euplotia) Sampled in Southeastern Brazil.

scientific article published on 17 September 2015

A molecular approach to the tangled intrageneric relationships underlying phylogeny in Euplotes (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea).

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A multidisciplinary approach to describe protists: a morphological, ultrastructural, and molecular study on Peritromus kahli Villeneuve-Brachon, 1940 (Ciliophora, Heterotrichea).

scientific article published in January 2004

A short flagella mutant of Dunaliella sallina (Chlorophyta, Cholorophyceae).

scientific article published in January 2004

Action of<i>Litonotus</i>(predator) toxicysts on the electric properties of<i>Euplotes</i>(prey) cell membrane

scientific article published in 2002

An Ultrastructural Analysis of the Ciliated Protozoon Aspidisca sp.

scientific article published in 1987

Apofrontonia dohrni sp. n. and the phylogenetic relationships within Peniculia (Protista, Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea)

scientific article published in July 2006

Bacterial communities in polluted seabed sediments: a molecular biology assay in Leghorn Harbor

scientific article published on 08 October 2013

Betaproteobacterial symbionts of the ciliate Euplotes: origin and tangled evolutionary path of an obligate microbial association

scientific article published on 26 April 2012

Characterization and comparison of bacterial communities selected in conventional activated sludge and membrane bioreactor pilot plants: a focus on Nitrospira and Planctomycetes bacterial phyla.

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Characterization of "Candidatus Nebulobacter yamunensis" from the cytoplasm of Euplotes aediculatus (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea) and emended description of the family Francisellaceae

scientific article published on 29 August 2012

Ciliate communities and hidden biodiversity in freshwater biotopes of the Pistoia province (Tuscany, Italy).

scientific article published on 21 December 2015

Critical revision of the family Plagiopylidae (Ciliophora: Plagiopylea), including the description of two novel species, Plagiopyla ramani and Plagiopyla narasimhamurtii, and redescription of Plagiopyla nasuta Stein, 1860 from India

article by Venkatamahesh Nitla et al published 11 September 2018 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Detection of a novel subspecies of Francisella noatunensis as endosymbiont of the ciliate Euplotes raikovi.

scientific article published on 26 November 2010

Diversity and environmental distribution of the cosmopolitan endosymbiont "Candidatus Megaira"

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Feeding behaviour in ciliated protists

scientific article published in 1997

Focusing on genera to improve species identification: revised systematics of the ciliate Spirostomum

scientific article

Free-living ciliates as potential reservoirs for eukaryotic parasites: occurrence of a trypanosomatid in the macronucleus of Euplotes encysticus

scientific article published on 28 April 2014

Identification of the bacterial endosymbionts of the marine ciliate Euplotes magnicirratus (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) and proposal of 'Candidatus Devosia euplotis'

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Litonotus ? Euplotes (predator ? prey) interaction: ciliary structure modifications of the prey caused by toxicysts of the predator (Protozoa, Ciliata)

scientific article published in 1985

Molecular phylogeny of unculturable Karyorelictea (Alveolata, Ciliophora)

scientific article published in 2009

Molecular systematics and ultrastructural characterization of a forgotten species: Chattonidium setense (Ciliophora, Heterotrichea).

scientific article published on 12 February 2006

Morphological relationship between paraflagellar swelling and paraxial rod in Euglena Gracilis

Morphological, ultrastructural, and molecular characterization of Euplotidium rosati n. sp. (Ciliophora, Euplotida) from Guam

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Morphology, ultrastructure, and molecular phylogeny of the ciliate Sonderia vorax with insights into the systematics of order Plagiopylida

scientific article published in 2013

Morphology, ultrastructure, genomics, and phylogeny of Euplotes vanleeuwenhoeki sp. nov. and its ultra-reduced endosymbiont "Candidatus Pinguicoccus supinus" sp. nov

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Nitrifying biomass characterization and monitoring during bioaugmentation in a membrane bioreactor

scientific article published on 28 May 2015

Polynucleobacter bacteria in the brackish-water species Euplotes harpa (Ciliata Hypotrichia).

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Rediscovering the genus Lyticum, multiflagellated symbionts of the order Rickettsiales

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Role of bacterivorous organisms on fungal-based systems for natural tannin degradation

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Strengths and Biases of High-Throughput Sequencing Data in the Characterization of Freshwater Ciliate Microbiomes.

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Sulphide oxidation to elemental sulphur in a membrane bioreactor: performance and characterization of the selected microbial sulphur-oxidizing community

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Survey of Paramecium duboscqui using three markers and assessment of the molecular variability in the genus Paramecium

scientific article published on 13 September 2012

Symbiont replacement between bacteria of different classes reveals additional layers of complexity in the evolution of symbiosis in the ciliate Euplotes.

scientific article published on 20 December 2017

Tetraflagellochloris mauritanica gen. et sp. nov. (Chlorophyceae), a New Flagellated Alga from the Mauritanian Desert: Morphology, Ultrastructure, and Phylogenetic Framing

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The Killer Trait in<i>Euplotes Crassus</i>(Ciliata, Hypotrichida)

scientific article published in 1976

Ultrastructural features of the peculiar filter-feeding hypotrich ciliate Uronychia transfuga

Well-established mutualistic associations between ciliates and prokaryotes might be more widespread and diversified than so far supposed

scientific article published on 18 August 2005

“Candidatus Intestinibacterium parameciiphilum”—member of the “Candidatus Paracaedibacteraceae” family (Alphaproteobacteria, Holosporales) inhabiting the ciliated protist Paramecium

scientific article published in 2023