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List of works by Sebastian Kvist

A dataset comprising four micro-computed tomography scans of freshly fixed and museum earthworm specimens

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An exceptional case of mitochondrial tRNA duplication-deletion events in blood-feeding leeches

Bacterial endosymbionts of Placobdella (Annelida: Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae): phylogeny, genetic distance, and vertical transmission

Barcoding bamboozled by bacteria: convergence to metazoan mitochondrial primer targets by marine microbes

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Barcoding in the dark?: A critical view of the sufficiency of zoological DNA barcoding databases and a plea for broader integration of taxonomic knowledge

scientific article published on May 28, 2013

Barcoding, types and the Hirudo files: using information content to critically evaluate the identity of DNA barcodes

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Biological introductions or native ranges: two curious cases of new distributional records in the Panama Canal

Broad geographic sampling and DNA barcoding do not support the presence of Helobdella stagnalis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Clitellata: Glossiphoniidae) in North America

scientific article published on 16 September 2019

COI variation in Scandinavian marine species of Tubificoides (Annelida: Clitellata: Tubificidae)

scientific article published in 2007

Caught red handed: iDNA points to wild source for CITES-protected contraband leeches

Comparative Mitogenomics of Leeches (Annelida: Clitellata): Genome Conservation and Placobdella-Specific trnD Gene Duplication

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Comparative Transcriptomic Analyses of Three Species of Placobdella (Rhynchobdellida: Glossiphoniidae) Confirms a Single Origin of Blood Feeding in Leeches

scientific article published on 4 November 2015

DNA barcoding of Iranian leeches (Annelida: Clitellata: Hirudinida)

scientific article published in 2021

DNA barcoding of odonates from the Upper Plata basin: Database creation and genetic diversity estimation

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Description and phylogeny of Namalycastis jaya sp. n. (Polychaeta, Nereididae, Namanereidinae) from the southwest coast of India

scientific article published on 5 November 2012

Diversity and selective pressures of anticoagulants in three medicinal leeches (Hirudinida: Hirudinidae, Macrobdellidae).

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Does a global DNA barcoding gap exist in Annelida?

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Draft genome of the European medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis (Annelida, Clitellata, Hirudiniformes) with emphasis on anticoagulants

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

Estimating the barcoding gap in a global dataset of cox1 sequences for Odonata: close, but no cigar

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Evaluating the Utility of Single-Locus DNA Barcoding for the Identification of Ribbon Worms (Phylum Nemertea).

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Extensive sampling sheds light on species-level diversity in Palearctic Placobdella (Annelida: Clitellata: Glossiphoniiformes)

From the Worm in a Bottle of Mezcal: iDNA Confirmation of a Leech Parasitizing the Antillean Manatee

scientific article published on 8 July 2016

Function of the waterfowl nests as reproduction and living areas for leeches (Annelida: Hirudinea)

Genetic variation and phylogeny of the cosmopolitan marine genus Tubificoides (Annelida: Clitellata: Naididae: Tubificinae).

scientific article published on 27 August 2010

Genetic variation, pseudocryptic diversity, and phylogeny of Erpobdella (Annelida: Hirudinida: Erpobdelliformes), with emphasis on Canadian species

scientific article published on 17 November 2019

Genome-Wide Survey of Gut Fungi (Harpellales) Reveals the First Horizontally Transferred Ubiquitin Gene from a Mosquito Host

scientific article (publication date: October 2016)

Genome-wide search for leech antiplatelet proteins in the non-blood-feeding leech H elobdella robusta (Rhyncobdellida: Glossiphoniidae) reveals evidence of secreted anticoagulants

Improved geographic sampling provides further evidence for the separation of Glossiphonia complanata and Glossiphonia elegans (Annelida: Clitellata: Glossiphoniidae)

scientific article published in 2019

Incipient speciation within the Namalycastis abiuma (Annelida: Nereididae) species group from southern India revealed by combined morphological and molecular data

scientific article published in 2014

Leech Collections from Washington State, with the Description of Two New Species ofPlacobdella(Annelida: Glossiphoniidae)

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Leeches (Annelida: Hirudinea) from the far north of Ontario: distribution, diversity, and diagnostics

scientific article published in 2018

MARINE LEECH ANTICOAGULANT DIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION.

scientific article published on 5 March 2018

Mitogenome of the blood feeding leech (Hirudinida: Glossiphoniidae) from Tabasco, Mexico

Natural occurrence of an experimental developmental phenotype in the leech Erpobdella punctata (Leidy 1870) (Annelida: Clitellata: Hirudinea)

Nemertean taxonomy—Implementing changes in the higher ranks, dismissing Anopla and Enopla

scientific article published in 2018

New insights into the phylogeny, systematics and DNA barcoding of Nemertea

scholarly article by Sebastian Kvist et al published 2014 in Invertebrate Systematics

Phylogenetic Position and Description of a New Species of Medicinal Leech from the Eastern United States

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Phylogenetic analysis of Placobdella (Hirudinea: Rhynchobdellida: Glossiphoniidae) with consideration of COI variation.

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Phylogenomics of Annelida revisited: a cladistic approach using genome-wide expressed sequence tag data mining and examining the effects of missing data

scientific article published in 2013

Phylogenomics of Reichenowia parasitica, an alphaproteobacterial endosymbiont of the freshwater leech Placobdella parasitica

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Phylogeny of Nemertea with special interest in the placement of diversity from Far East Russia and northeast Asia

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Placobdella nabeulensis sp. nov. (Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae), a new glossiphoniiform leech from Palearctic North Africa

scientific article published in 2023

Prey, populations, and the pleistocene: evidence for low COI variation in a widespread North American leech

scientific article published on 04 July 2019

Pyrosequencing the salivary transcriptome ofHaemadipsa interrupta(Annelida: Clitellata: Haemadipsidae): anticoagulant diversity and insight into the evolution of anticoagulation capabilities in leeches

Redescription of Micrura dellechiajei (Hubrecht, 1879) (Nemertea, Pilidiophora, Lineidae), a rare Mediterranean species

scholarly article in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol. 95 no. 6, March 2015

Redescription ofNamalycastis glasbyiFernando & Rajasekaran, 2007 (Annelida, Nereididae, Namanereidinae) from India

scholarly article in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 127 no. 3, October 2014

Sine systemate chaos? A versatile tool for earthworm taxonomy: non-destructive imaging of freshly fixed and museum specimens using micro-computed tomography

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Teaching Biodiversity & Evolutionary Biology in a North American Marine Coastal Environment

The Origin and Evolution of Antistasin-like Proteins in Leeches (Hirudinida, Clitellata)

scientific article published in 2021

The future of nemertean taxonomy (phylum Nemertea) - a proposal

scientific article published in 2016

The potential of aquatic bloodfeeding and nonbloodfeeding leeches as a tool for iDNA characterisation

scientific article published in 2022

The potential of aquatic haematophagous, liquidosomatophagous and macrophagous leeches as a tool for iDNA characterisation

The salivary transcriptome of Limnobdella mexicana (Annelida: Clitellata: Praobdellidae) and orthology determination of major leech anticoagulants

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

Transcriptomics and differential gene expression in (Annelida: Clitellata: Hirudinida: Hirudinidae): Contrasting feeding and fasting modes

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Two new European species of the marine genus Tubificoides (Annelida: Clitellata: Naididae) with notes on the morphology of T. pseudogaster (Dahl, 1960)

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Two new species of Tubificoides (Annelida: Clitellata: Naididae) from the Blake Ridge methane seep in the northwest Atlantic Ocean

scientific article published in December 2008

When predator becomes prey: investigating the salivary transcriptome of the shark-feeding leechPontobdella macrothela(Hirudinea: Piscicolidae)

scholarly article by Sebastian Kvist et al published August 2016 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society