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A (very) brief vademecum on biological nomenclature

A combination of host ecology and habitat but not evolutionary history explains differences in the microbiomes associated with rotifers

scientific article published in 2022

A critique of Rossberg et al.: Noise obscures the genetic signal of meiobiotal ecospecies in ecogenomic datasets.

scientific article published on 26 March 2014

A faunistic survey of bdelloid rotifers in Turkey

scientific article published in 2009

A geographic distribution data set of biodiversity in Italian freshwaters

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A georeferenced dataset of Italian occurrence records of the phylum Rotifera

A multi-scale study of Orthoptera species richness and human population size controlling for sampling effort

scientific article published on 23 December 2009

A test of the species-people correlation for stream macro-invertebrates in European countries

scientific article

Addressing biodiversity shortfalls in meiofauna

scientific article published in 2018

Anophthalmia and elongation of body appendages in cave scale worms (Annelida: Aphroditiformia)

scholarly article by Brett C. Gonzalez published in October 2017

Antarctic coastal nanoplankton dynamics revealed by metabarcoding of desalination plant filters: Detection of short-term events and implications for routine monitoring

scientific article published on 19 November 2020

Antibiotic disturbance affects aquatic microbial community composition and food web interactions but not community resilience

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Are generic early-warning signals reliable indicators of population collapse in rotifers?

Assessing antimicrobial resistance gene load in vegan, vegetarian and omnivore human gut microbiota

scientific article published on 03 August 2018

At least some protist species are not ubiquitous

scientific article

Barcoding of Chrysomelidae of Euro-Mediterranean area: efficiency and problematic species

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Bdelloid Rotifers Recorded from Australia with Description of Philodinavus aussiensis n.sp.

scientific article published in January 2003

Bdelloid Rotifers from Lakes above 1700 m in Western Italian Alps, with Taxonomic Notes onDissotrocha macrostyla

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Biodiversity analyses in freshwater meiofauna through DNA sequence data

Biodiversity analyses: are aquatic ecologists doing any better and differently than terrestrial ecologists?

Biodiversity of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in different habitats of the Italian Po lowland

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Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities

scientific article published in Nature

Brachionus rotundiformis Tschugunoff, 1921 from the Brachionus plicatilis species complex (Rotifera: Monogononta): A new record from Galápagos Archipelago, Ecuador

scientific article published in 2019

Broad taxonomic sampling of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I does not solve the relationships between Rotifera and Acanthocephala

scientific article published in 2011

Carabid beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) richness and functional traits in relation to differently managed grasslands in the Alps

scholarly article by Mauro Gobbi published in January 2015

Characteristics of meiofauna in extreme marine ecosystems: a review

Climate-induced forest dieback drives compositional changes in insect communities that are more pronounced for rare species

scientific article published on 18 January 2022

Combination of flow cytometry and molecular analysis to monitor the effect of UVC/H2O2 vs UVC/H2O2/Cu-IDS processes on pathogens and antibiotic resistant genes in secondary wastewater effluents

scientific article published on 16 July 2020

Comparative genomics of bdelloid rotifers: Insights from desiccating and nondesiccating species

scientific article published on 24 April 2018

Connectivity and nestedness of the meta-community structure of moss dwelling bdelloid rotifers along a stream

Constitutive presence of antibiotic resistance genes within the bacterial community of a large subalpine lake

scientific article published on 17 July 2015

Contribution of soft-bodied meiofaunal taxa to Italian marine biodiversity

scientific article published in January 2020

Correction to: Effects of Ailanthus altissima Invasion and Removal on High-Biodiversity Mediterranean Grasslands

scientific article published in 2021

Cryptic diversification in ancient asexuals: evidence from the bdelloid rotifer Philodina flaviceps

scientific article published on 13 December 2007

Cryptic diversity in the genus Adineta Hudson & Gosse, 1886 (Rotifera: Bdelloidea: Adinetidae): a DNA taxonomy approach

article published in 2010

Cryptic diversity with wide salinity tolerance in the putative euryhalineTestudinella clypeata(Rotifera, Monogononta)

scientific article published in 2013

Cryptic diversity within the rotiferPolyarthra dolichopteraalong an altitudinal gradient

Cryptic diversity, niche displacement and our poor understanding of taxonomy and ecology of aquatic microorganisms

scientific article published in 2022

DNAqua-Net: Developing new genetic tools for bioassessment and monitoring of aquatic ecosystems in Europe

scientific article (publication date: 29 November 2016)

Daphnia as a refuge for an antibiotic resistance gene in an experimental freshwater community

scientific article published on 23 July 2016

Defence strategies and antibiotic resistance gene abundance in enterococci under stress by exposure to low doses of peracetic acid

scientific article

Demographic cost and mechanisms of adaptation to environmental stress in resurrected Daphnia

Demographic processes underlying fitness restoration in bdelloid rotifers emerging from dehydration

scientific article published on 17 April 2019

Differences in fatty acid composition between aquatic and terrestrial insects used as food in human nutrition

scientific article

Different Diversification Rates Between Sexual and Asexual Organisms

Disentangling the morphological stasis in two rotifer species of the Brachionus plicatilis species complex

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Disinfection of urban wastewater by a new photo-Fenton like process using Cu-iminodisuccinic acid complex as catalyst at neutral pH

scientific article published on 13 August 2018

Distribution and Genetic Lineages of the Craspedacusta sowerbii Species Complex (Cnidaria, Olindiidae) in Italy

scientific article published on 22 March 2024

Distribution patterns and environmental correlates of Thaumarchaeota abundance in six deep subalpine lakes

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Diversity gradients of rotifer species richness in Antarctica

Diversity of the rotiferBrachionus plicatilisspecies complex (Rotifera: Monogononta) in Iran through integrative taxonomy

scientific article published in 2014

Do Rotifer Jaws Grow After Hatching?

Do Species Exist in Asexuals? Theory and Evidence from Bdelloid Rotifers

scientific article

Does a barcoding gap exist in prokaryotes? Evidences from species delimitation in cyanobacteria

scientific article

Dynamics of Ecological Communities Following Current Retreat of Glaciers

scientific article published on 31 August 2021

Dynamics of rotifer and cladoceran resting stages during copper pollution and recovery in a subalpine lake

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Ecology and trophic role of Oncholaimus dyvae sp. nov. (Nematoda: Oncholaimidae) from the lucky strike hydrothermal vent field (Mid-Atlantic Ridge) ⬇️

scientific article published on 26 July 2019

Effects of Ailanthus altissima Invasion and Removal on High-Biodiversity Mediterranean Grasslands

scientific article published in 2021

Effects of phylogenetic reconstruction method on the robustness of species delimitation using single-locus data

scientific article

Effluents of wastewater treatment plants promote the rapid stabilization of the antibiotic resistome in receiving freshwater bodies

scientific article published on 15 April 2019

Emilio Corti's ‘Limnofauna Italica’ and the origins of limnology in Italy in comparison with the current scientific scenario

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Environmental filtering and phylogenetic clustering correlate with the distribution patterns of cryptic protist species.

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

Estimating the magnitude of morphoscapes: how to measure the morphological component of biodiversity in relation to habitats using geometric morphometrics.

scientific article published on 22 June 2017

Evaluation of water quality and ecological system conditions through macrophytes

Every fifth published metagenome is not available to science

scientific article published on 03 April 2020

Evidence for inefficient selection against deleterious mutations in cytochrome oxidase I of asexual bdelloid rotifers

scientific article published on 14 June 2007

Evidence of weak habitat specialisation in microscopic animals

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Evolutionary dynamics of transposable elements in bdelloid rotifers ⬇️

scientific article

Evolutionary dynamics of transposable elements in bdelloid rotifers

External Morphology and Muscle Arrangement of Brachionus urceolaris, Floscularia ringens, Hexarthra mira and Notommata glyphura (Rotifera, Monogononta)

Extreme levels of hidden diversity in microscopic animals (Rotifera) revealed by DNA taxonomy

scientific article

Facing Adversity: Dormant Embryos in Rotifers

scientific article published on 25 October 2019

Factors affecting the efficiency of molecular species delimitation in a species‐rich insect family

scientific article published in 2021

Fifteen species in one: deciphering the Brachionus plicatilis species complex (Rotifera, Monogononta) through DNA taxonomy

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Fine-scale spatial heterogeneity of invertebrates within cryoconite holes

scientific article published on 11 March 2019

Fitness and Recovery of Bacterial Communities and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Urban Wastewaters Exposed to Classical Disinfection Treatments

scientific article published on 22 August 2016

Freshwater zooplankton microbiome composition is highly flexible and strongly influenced by the environment

scientific article published in 2021

Genetic Exchange among Bdelloid Rotifers Is More Likely Due to Horizontal Gene Transfer Than to Meiotic Sex.

scientific article

Genetic spatial structure of an anchialine cave annelid indicates connectivity within - but not between - islands of the Great Bahama Bank

scientific article (publication date: April 2017)

Geographical and seasonal evidence of cryptic diversity in the Baetis rhodani complex (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae) revealed by means of DNA taxonomy

Global correlates of diversity in aquatic subterranean fauna

Guidelines for DNA taxonomy, with a focus on the meiofauna

Habitat differences filter functional diversity of low dispersive microscopic animals (Acari, Halacaridae)

scientific article published on 05 May 2021

Happy birthday Hydrobiologia! 70 years young and still growing…

Horizontal gene transfer in bdelloid rotifers is ancient, ongoing and more frequent in species from desiccating habitats.

scientific article published on 4 November 2015

Human access impacts biodiversity of microscopic animals in sandy beaches

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Impact of industrial wastewater on the dynamics of antibiotic resistance genes in a full-scale urban wastewater treatment plant

scientific article published on 27 July 2018

Inconsistent estimates of diversity between traditional and DNA taxonomy in bdelloid rotifers

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Independently evolving species in asexual bdelloid rotifers

scientific article published in April 2007

Integrative Taxonomy Recognizes Evolutionary Units Despite Widespread Mitonuclear Discordance: Evidence from a Rotifer Cryptic Species Complex

scientific article

Integrative taxonomy does not support the occurrence of two species of the Squalius squalus complex (Actinopterygii, Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae) in Italy

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Is the meiofauna a good indicator for climate change and anthropogenic impacts?

scholarly article by Daniela Zeppilli published in July 2015

LIFE PREDATOR: Prevent, detect, combat the spread of Silurus glanis in south European lakes to protect biodiversity

scientific article published on 13 June 2024

Lack of host specificity of copepod crustaceans associated with mushroom corals in the Red Sea

scientific article published on 15 June 2018

Life-history responses of a freshwater rotifer to copper pollution

scientific article published in 2021

Life-history responses to environmental change revealed by resurrected rotifers from a historically polluted lake

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Life-history strategies in zooplankton promote coexistence of competitors in extreme environments with high metal content

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Limnology in the 21st century: the importance of freshwater ecosystems as model systems in ecology and evolution

scientific article published on 8 April 2014

List of Available Names in Zoology, Candidate Part Phylum Rotifera, genus-group names established before 1 January 2000 ⬇️

List of Available Names in Zoology, Candidate Part Phylum Rotifera, species-group names established before 1 January 2000 ⬇️

Long-distance passive dispersal in microscopic aquatic animals

scientific article published on 26 March 2019

Long-term survival of microscopic animals under desiccation is not so long

scientific article

Marine rotifers from the Northern Adriatic Sea, with description of Lecane insulaconae sp. nov. (Rotifera: Monogononta: Lecanidae)

scholarly article in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol. 88 no. 2, March 2008

Meiofauna as a model to test paradigms of ecological metacommunity theory

scientific article

Metabarcoding to monitor the crustacean zooplankton of a lake improves when using a reference DNA library from local samples

scientific article published in 2023

Microbiomes of gall-inducing copepod crustaceans from the corals Stylophora pistillata (Scleractinia) and Gorgonia ventalina (Alcyonacea)

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Microplastics increase impact of treated wastewater on freshwater microbial community

scientific article

Mitochondrial genome of Esox flaviae (Southern pike): announcement and comparison with other Esocidae

scientific article

Mitonuclear discordance as a confounding factor in the DNA taxonomy of monogonont rotifers

scientific article published in 2017

Molecular and phenotypic evidence of a new species of genus Esox (Esocidae, Esociformes, Actinopterygii): the southern pike, Esox flaviae

scientific article published in 2011

Molecular evidence for broad-scale distributions in bdelloid rotifers: everything is not everywhere but most things are very widespread

scientific article

Molecular phylogenies as a tool to understand diversity in rotifers

scholarly article by Diego Fontaneto published 19 February 2014 in International Review of Hydrobiology

Molecular taxonomy confirms morphological classification of deep-sea hydrothermal vent copepods (Dirivultidae) and suggests broad physiological tolerance of species and frequent dispersal along ridges

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Multiple functionally divergent and conserved copies of alpha tubulin in bdelloid rotifers

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On the reality and recognisability of asexual organisms: morphological analysis of the masticatory apparatus of bdelloid rotifers

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Patterns of diversity and endemism of soft-bodied meiofauna in an oceanic island, Lanzarote, Canary Islands

scientific article published in October 2019

Patterns of diversity in microscopic animals: are they comparable to those in protists or in larger animals?

scientific article published in 2006

Patterns of diversity in soft-bodied meiofauna: dispersal ability and body size matter

scientific article

Period of public commentary begins on the revised proposal of species-group level names, and on the proposal of genus-group level names of the Candidate Part of List of Available Names (LAN) in the phylum Rotifera

scientific article

Period of public commentary begins on the revised proposal of species-group level names, and on the proposal of genus-group level names of the Candidate Part of List of Available Names (LAN) in the phylum Rotifera

scientific article published on 17 December 2015

Phylogenetic constraints in the muscular system of rotifer males: investigation on the musculature of males versus females of Brachionus manjavacas and Epiphanes senta (Rotifera, Monogononta)

scholarly article by Francesca Leasi et al published 17 June 2010 in Journal of Zoology

Planktonic and periphytic bdelloid rotifers from Thailand reveal a species assemblage with a combination of cosmopolitan and tropical species

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Postembryonic development of hard jaws (trophi) in a species belonging to the Brachionus plicatilis complex (Rotifera, Monogononta): a morphometric analysis

scientific article published in April 2006

Potential niche displacement in species of aquatic bdelloid rotifers between temperate and tropical areas

scientific article published on 24 August 2021

Preface: Biology of the Ross Sea and surrounding areas in Antarctica

Preface: Emerging trends in aquatic ecology II

Preface: Emerging trends in aquatic ecology III

Preface: Emerging trends in aquatic ecology IV

Preface: Georeferenced Freshwater Biodiversity Data

scientific article published in 2023

Preface: evolving rotifers, evolving science

Rotifers from inland water bodies of continental Ecuador and Galápagos Islands: An updated checklist

scientific article published on 5 May 2020

Rotifers in Lake Orta: a potential ecological and evolutionary model system

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Scale-dependence of the correlation between human population and the species richness of stream macro-invertebrates

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Sexual species are separated by larger genetic gaps than asexual species in rotifers

scientific article

Spatial distribution of antibiotic and heavy metal resistance genes in the Black Sea

scientific article published on 09 September 2020

Spatial gradients in species diversity of microscopic animals: the case of bdelloid rotifers at high altitude

Spatial niche partitioning in epibiont rotifers on the waterlouse Asellus aquaticus

Spatially explicit genetic structure in the freshwater sponge Ephydatia fluviatilis (Linnaeus, 1759) within the framework of the monopolisation hypothesis

Spatially structured populations with a low level of cryptic diversity in European marine Gastrotricha

scientific article

Speciation in the Brachionus plicatilis Species Complex

Species and hybrids in the genus Diaphanosoma Fischer, 1850 (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Cladocera).

scientific article

Stress and fitness in parthenogens: is dormancy a key feature for bdelloid rotifers?

scientific article

Survey of moss-dwelling bdelloid rotifers from middle Arctic Spitsbergen (Svalbard)

Tardigrada and Rotifera from moss microhabitats on a disappearing Ugandan glacier, with the description of a new species of water bear

scientific article

Testing for evidence of inefficient selection in bdelloid rotifers: do sample size and habitat differences matter?

The development of terrestrial ecosystems emerging after glacier retreat

scientific article published on 31 July 2024

The evolutionary nature of diversification in sexuals and asexuals

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The importance of being a bdelloid: Ecological and evolutionary consequences of dormancy

scientific article published in 2009

The influence of environmental variables on freshwater rotifers of the family Brachionidae and Lecanidae in Thailand

scholarly article by Phannee Sa-ardrit et al published 2 January 2017 in Tropical Zoology

The use of the term ‘limnology’ and its scientometrics consequences for limnologists

scientific article published in 2021

The widely used small subunit 18S rDNA molecule greatly underestimates true diversity in biodiversity surveys of the meiofauna

scientific article

The ‘rotiferologist’ effect and other global correlates of species richness in monogonont rotifers

scientific article published in 2012

Tossed 'good luck' coins as vectors for anthropogenic pollution into aquatic environment

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) are driven by chlorophyll a and mainly confined to the euphotic zone in a deep subalpine lake

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Trophi Structure in Bdelloid Rotifers

Two celebrations and the Sustainable Development Goals

Ubiquity of microscopic animals? Evidence from the morphological approach in species identification

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Urbanization drives cross-taxon declines in abundance and diversity at multiple spatial scales

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Using DNA taxonomy to investigate the ecological determinants of plankton diversity: explaining the occurrence of Synchaeta spp. (Rotifera, Monogononta) in mountain lakes

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Volume and morphology changes of a bdelloid rotifer species (Macrotrachela quadricornifera) during anhydrobiosis

scientific article published on 01 February 2008

Weak effects of habitat type on susceptibility to invasive freshwater species: an Italian case study

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Why We Need Sustainable Networks Bridging Countries, Disciplines, Cultures and Generations for Aquatic Biomonitoring 2.0: A Perspective Derived From the DNAqua-Net COST Action

scientific article published in 2018

ddPCR applied on archived Continuous Plankton Recorder samples reveals long-term occurrence of class 1 integrons and a sulphonamide resistance gene in marine plankton communities

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