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List of works by Francesco Mastrototaro

A Newly Discovered Forest of the Whip Coral Viminella flagellum (Anthozoa, Alcyonacea) in the Mediterranean Sea: A Non-Invasive Method to Assess Its Population Structure

scientific article published on 28 December 2021

A mesophotic black coral forest in the Adriatic Sea

scientific article published on 22 May 2020

AfaciesofKophobelemnon(Cnidaria, Octocorallia) from Santa Maria di Leuca coral province (Mediterranean Sea)

scientific article published in 2013

Alien species along the Italian coasts: an overview

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An elongated COI fragment to discriminate botryllid species and as an improved ascidian DNA barcode

scientific article published on 20 February 2021

An integrative taxonomic framework for the study of the genus Ciona (Ascidiacea) and description of a new species, Ciona intermedia

scientific article published in 2020

Ascidian Mitogenomics: Comparison of Evolutionary Rates in Closely Related Taxa Provides Evidence of Ongoing Speciation Events

scientific article published on 21 April 2014

Ascidian mitogenomics: comparison of evolutionary rates in closely related taxa provides evidence of ongoing speciation events

scientific article published on March 2014

Climate-induced changes in the suitable habitat of cold-water corals and commercially important deep-sea fishes in the North Atlantic

scientific article published on 20 February 2020

Cryptic speciation in a model invertebrate chordate

scientific article

DNA adducts, benzo(a)pyrene monooxygenase activity, and lysosomal membrane stability in Mytilus galloprovincialis from different areas in Taranto coastal waters (Italy).

scientific article

Deep sequencing of mixed total DNA without barcodes allows efficient assembly of highly plastic ascidian mitochondrial genomes

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Ecosystem vulnerability to alien and invasive species: a case study on marine habitats along the Italian coast

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Effects of global warming on Mediterranean coral forests

scientific article published on 19 October 2021

Erratum to: Alien species along the Italian coasts: an overview

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Exploring composition and behaviour of fish fauna byin situobservations in the Bari Canyon (Southern Adriatic Sea, Central Mediterranean)

scientific article published in 2014

First geo-marine survey of living cold-water Lophelia reefs in the Ionian Sea (Mediterranean basin)

article by Marco Taviani et al published 7 December 2004 in Facies

Fixation, description and DNA barcode of a neotype for <i>Botryllus schlosseri </i>(Pallas, 1766) (Tunicata, Ascidiacea).

scientific article published on 22 November 2017

Growth and population dynamics of the non-indigenous speciesBranchiomma luctuosumGrube (Annelida, Sabellidae) in the Ionian Sea (Mediterranean Sea)

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Habitat Suitability Models of a Critically Endangered Cold-water Coral, Isidella Elongata, in the Mallorca Channel

scientific article published in 2023

Hypervariability of Ascidian Mitochondrial Gene Order: Exposing the Myth of Deuterostome Organelle Genome Stability

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Know the distribution to assess the changes: Mediterranean cold-water coral bioconstructions

article by Giovanni Chimienti et al published 28 May 2018 in Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Atti. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali. Rendiconti

Mediterranean Bioconstructions Along the Italian Coast

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Non indigenous species settle down in the Taranto Seas

scientific article published on 10 January 2017

Nonindigenous species along the Apulian coast, Italy

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Novel budding mode in : a model for comparative studies on asexual development and whole body regeneration

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Observations on the recruitment of <i>Musculista senhousia</i> (Mollusca, Bivalvia) in the Taranto seas (Eastern-Central Mediterranean Sea)

scientific article published in 2004

Occurrence of Paraleucilla magna (Porifera: Calcarea) in the Mediterranean Sea

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Polyclinum constellatum (Tunicata, Ascidiacea), an emerging non-indigenous species of the Mediterranean Sea: integrated taxonomy and the importance of reliable DNA barcode data

scientific article published on 27 January 2022

Project “Biodiversity MARE Tricase”: biodiversity research, monitoring and promotion at MARE Outpost (Apulia, Italy)

scientific article published on 19 June 2018

Salinity as a Key Factor in Structuring Macrophyte Assemblages in Transitional Water Bodies: The Case of the Apulian Coastal Lagoons (Southern Italy)

scientific article published in 2023

Seafloor integrity of the Mar Piccolo Basin (Southern Italy): quantifying anthropogenic impact

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Spatial and seasonal distribution of ascidians in a semi-enclosed basin of the Mediterranean Sea

scholarly article in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol. 88 no. 5, July 2008

Spatial distribution of ascidians in two Tunisian lagoons of the Mediterranean Sea

scientific article published in 2010

Sponge fauna associated with a Mediterranean deep-sea coral bank

scholarly article in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol. 85 no. 6, November 2005

Spread of the non-indigenous ascidian Aplidium accarense (Millar, 1953) in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: morphological and molecular tools for an accurate identification

scientific article published on 01 April 2021

The new Checklist of the Italian Fauna: Ascidiacea

scientific article published in 2022

The non-indigenous stolidobranch ascidian Polyandrocarpa zorritensis in the Mediterranean: description, larval morphology and pattern of vascular budding

scientific article (publication date: 27 May 2004)

The power of combined molecular and morphological analyses for the genus Botrylloides: identification of a potentially global invasive ascidian and description of a new species

scientific article published on 4 July 2019

Toward a resolution of the cosmopolitan Botryllus schlosseri species complex (Ascidiacea, Styelidae): mitogenomics and morphology of clade E (Botryllus gaiae)

scientific article published in 2020

Towards Non-Invasive Methods to Assess Population Structure and Biomass in Vulnerable Sea Pen Fields

scientific article published on 15 May 2019

Withdrawal behaviour of the red sea pen Pennatula rubra (Cnidaria: Pennatulacea)

article by Giovanni Chimienti et al published January 2018 in The European Zoological Journal