Marine connectivity dynamics: clarifying cosmopolitan distributions of marine interstitial invertebrates and the meiofauna paradox

Cosmopolitan polychaetes – fact or fiction? Personal and historical perspectives

(2018) Pat Hutchings et al.   INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATICS

Species diversity in the marine microturbellarian Astrotorhynchus bifidus sensu lato (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela) from the Northeast Pacific Ocean

(2018) Niels W.L. Van Steenkiste et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Population genetic structure of the intertidal kinorhynch Echinoderes marthae (Kinorhyncha; Cyclorhagida; Echinoderidae) across the São Sebastião Channel, Brazil

(2018) Phillip V. Randsø et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON

Cryptic Species – More Than Terminological Chaos: A Reply to Heethoff

(2018) Torsten H. Struck et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Finding Evolutionary Processes Hidden in Cryptic Species

(2018) Torsten H. Struck et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Microstomum (Platyhelminthes, Macrostomorpha, Microstomidae) from the Swedish west coast: two new species and a population description

(2018) Sarah Atherton et al.   European Journal of Taxonomy

Lack of population genetic structure in the marine nematodes Ptycholaimellus pandispiculatus and Terschellingia longicaudata in beaches of the Persian Gulf, Iran

(2017) Narjes Sahraean et al.   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

Phylogeny of Pseudostomella Swedmark, 1956 (Gastrotricha: Macrodasyida) base on morphological data and first insights on the historical biogeography of Thaumastodermatidae

(2017) Andre Rinaldo Senna Garraffoni et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON

Is the ubiquitous distribution real for marine gastrotrichs? Detection of areas of endemism using Parsimony Analysis of Endemicity (PAE)

(2017) André R. S. Garraffoni et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON

Novel myo-anatomical insights to the Xenotrichula intermedia species complex (Gastrotricha: Paucitubulatina): Implications for a pan-European species and reconsideration of muscle homology among Paucitubulatina

(2017) Lukas Münter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON

Integrative morphological and molecular investigation of Turbanella hyalina Schultze, 1853 (Gastrotricha: Macrodasyida), including a redescription of the species

(2017) Alexander Kieneke et al.   ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER

Two new species in the annelid genus Stygocapitella (Orbiniida, Parergodrilidae) with comments on their biogeography

(2017) TORSTEN H. STRUCK et al.   ZOOTAXA

Morphology disentangles the systematics of a ubiquitous but elusive meiofaunal group (Kinorhyncha: Pycnophyidae)

(2016) Nuria Sánchez et al.   CLADISTICS

Congruence between male upper lip morphology and molecular phylogeny in Parapolycope (Ostracoda), with two new species from Korea

(2016) Ivana Karanovic et al.   INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATICS

Experimental evidence for selective settlement of meiofauna from two distinct environments after sediment suspension

(2016) Lisa Mevenkamp et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Coexisting cryptic species of theLitoditis marinacomplex (Nematoda) show differential resource use and have distinct microbiomes with high intraspecific variability

(2016) S. Derycke et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A synthesis of genetic connectivity in deep-sea fauna and implications for marine reserve design

(2016) Amy R. Baco et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

At least some meiofaunal species are not everywhere. Indication of geographic, ecological and geological barriers affecting the dispersion of species of Ototyphlonemertes (Nemertea, Hoplonemertea)

(2016) Francesca Leasi et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Three routes to crypsis: Stasis, convergence, and parallelism in the Mastigias species complex (Scyphozoa, Rhizostomeae)

(2016) H.F. Swift et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Censusing marine eukaryotic diversity in the twenty-first century

(2016) Matthieu Leray et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Kinorhyncha from Italy, a revision of the current checklist and an account of the recent investigations

(2016) Matteo Dal Zotto et al.   ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER

Records of Normanellidae Lang, 1944 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from Madeira island support the hypothetical role of seamounts and oceanic islands as “stepping stones” in the dispersal of marine meiofauna

(2016) Jana Packmor et al.   Marine Biodiversity

Evolution of Feeding Structures in the Marine Nematode Order Enoplida

(2015) Ashleigh B. Smythe   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

An 18S and 28S-based clock calibration for marine Proseriata (Platyhelminthes)

(2015) Fabio Scarpa et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Antygomonas caeciliae, a new kinorhynch from the Mediterranean Sea, with report of mitochondrial genetic data for the phylum

(2015) Matteo Dal Zotto   Marine Biology Research

Contrasting population genetic structures in Amphipholis squamata, a complex of brooding, self-reproducing sister species sharing life history traits

(2015) E Boissin et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Metagenetic tools for the census of marine meiofaunal biodiversity: An overview

(2015) Laura Carugati et al.   Marine Genomics

Elucidating the phylogenetic position of Gnathostomulida and first mitochondrial genomes of Gnathostomulida, Gastrotricha and Polycladida (Platyhelminthes)

(2015) Anja Golombek et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

DNA barcoding and metabarcoding of standardized samples reveal patterns of marine benthic diversity

(2015) Matthieu Leray et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An inventory of free-living marine nematodes from Asia’s largest coastal lagoon, Chilika, India

(2015) Kapuli Gani Mohamed Thameemul Ansari et al.   WETLANDS ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Trilobodrilus itoisp. nov., with a Re-Description ofT. nipponicus(Annelida: Dinophilidae) and a Molecular Phylogeny of the Genus

(2015) Hiroshi Kajihara et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Contrasting population genetic structures in Amphipholis squamata, a complex of brooding, self-reproducing sister species sharing life history traits

(2015) E Boissin et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Historical biogeography of the genus Polycopissa (Ostracoda: Myodocopa: Cladocopina), with the description and DNA barcode of the second Indo-Pacific species from the Seto Inland Sea

(2015) Hayato Tanaka et al.   Marine Biodiversity

Guidelines for DNA taxonomy, with a focus on the meiofauna

(2015) Diego Fontaneto et al.   Marine Biodiversity

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

(2015) Daniela Zeppilli et al.   Marine Biodiversity

Exploring the Diversity of Mesopsammic Gastropods: How to Collect, Identify, and Delimitate Small and Elusive Sea Slugs?*

(2014) Katharina M. Jörger et al.   AMERICAN MALACOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Animal Phylogeny and Its Evolutionary Implications

(2014) Casey W. Dunn et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

First insights into macro- and meiofaunal colonisation patterns on paired wood/slate substrata at Atlantic deep-sea hydrothermal vents

(2014) Daphne Cuvelier et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Metagenetic analysis of patterns of distribution and diversity of marine meiobenthic eukaryotes

(2014) Vera G. Fonseca et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Molecular examination of kalyptorhynch diversity (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela), including descriptions of five meiofaunal species from the north-eastern Pacific Ocean

(2014) Rebecca J. Rundell et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Molecular and morphological phylogeny of Saccocirridae (Annelida) reveals two cosmopolitan clades with specific habitat preferences

(2014) M. Di Domenico et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Active dispersal is differentially affected by inter- and intraspecific competition in closely related nematode species

(2014) Nele De Meester et al.   OIKOS

Hyper-Cryptic Marine Meiofauna: Species Complexes in Nemertodermatida

(2014) Inga Meyer-Wachsmuth et al.   PLoS One

The Necessity of DNA Taxonomy to Reveal Cryptic Diversity and Spatial Distribution of Meiofauna, with a Focus on Nemertea

(2014) Francesca Leasi et al.   PLoS One

Differences in Life-Histories Refute Ecological Equivalence of Cryptic Species and Provide Clues to the Origin of Bathyal Halomonhystera (Nematoda)

(2014) Jelle Van Campenhout et al.   PLoS One

A new species, genus and family of marine Gastrotricha from Jamaica, with a phylogenetic analysis of Macrodasyida based on molecular data

(2014) M. Antonio Todaro et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Distribution, delimitation and description of species ofArchaphanostoma(Acoela)

(2014) Tobias Kånneby et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Two Kinorhynch Species (Cyclorhagida, Echinoderidae,Echinoderes) Show Different Distribution PatternsAcross Tsugaru Strait, Northern Japan

(2014) Hiroshi Yamasaki et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Dispersal of marine benthic invertebrates through ice rafting

(2013) Colin B. A. Macfarlane et al.   ECOLOGY

At the limits of a successful body plan - 3D microanatomy, histology and evolution of Helminthope (Mollusca: Heterobranchia: Rhodopemorpha), the most worm-like gastropod

(2013) Bastian Brenzinger et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Dispersal and gene flow in free-living marine nematodes

(2013) Sofie Derycke et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

How to describe a cryptic species? Practical challenges of molecular taxonomy

(2013) Katharina M Jörger et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Selective settlement of deep-sea canyon nematodes after resuspension — an experimental approach

(2013) Lidia Lins et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Long-term stasis and short-term divergence in the phenotypes of microsnails on oceanic islands

(2013) Shinichiro Wada et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Mitochondrial genomes to the rescue – Diurodrilidae in the myzostomid trap

(2013) Anja Golombek et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

From microbes to macrofauna: an integrated study of deep benthic communities and their response to environmental variables along the Malta Escarpment (Ionian Sea)

(2013) Elena Manini et al.   SCIENTIA MARINA

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

(2013) Francesca Leasi et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Barcoding against a paradox? Combined molecular species delineations reveal multiple cryptic lineages in elusive meiofaunal sea slugs

(2012) Katharina M Jörger et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

(2012) ALEXANDER KIENEKE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Cryptic diversity of the ‘cosmopolitan’ harpacticoid copepodNannopus palustris: genetic and morphological evidence

(2012) Lesya Garlitska et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Investigating the ecology and evolution of cryptic marine nematode species through quantitative real-time PCR of the ribosomal ITS region

(2012) S. DERYCKE et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Differences in Time until Dispersal between Cryptic Species of a Marine Nematode Species Complex

(2012) Nele De Meester et al.   PLoS One

Low endemism, continued deep-shallow interchanges, and evidence for cosmopolitan distributions in free-living marine nematodes (order Enoplida)

(2011) Holly M Bik et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The temporal dimension of marine speciation

(2011) Richard D. Norris et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Systematics and redescription of the European meiofaunal slug Microhedyle glandulifera (Kowalevsky, 1901) (Heterobranchia: Acochlidia): evidence from molecules and morphology

(2011) B. Eder et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLLUSCAN STUDIES

Harpacticoid copepod colonization of coral fragments in a tropical reef lagoon (Zanzibar, Tanzania)

(2011) M. Callens et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Phylogeography of the marine interstitial nemertean Ototyphlonemertes parmula (Nemertea, Hoplonemertea) reveals cryptic diversity and high dispersal potential

(2011) Alexander Y. Tulchinsky et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Worms without borders: genetic diversity patterns in four Brazilian Ototyphlonemertes species (Nemertea, Hoplonemertea)

(2011) Sónia C. S. Andrade et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Salinity effects on the coexistence of cryptic species: a case study on marine nematodes

(2011) N. De Meester et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Metagenetic community analysis of microbial eukaryotes illuminates biogeographic patterns in deep-sea and shallow water sediments

(2011) HOLLY M. BIK et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Deep-Sea Nematodes Actively Colonise Sediments, Irrespective of the Presence of a Pulse of Organic Matter: Results from an In-Situ Experiment

(2011) Katja Guilini et al.   PLoS One

Cryptic Species in Tropic Sands - Interactive 3D Anatomy, Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Meiofaunal Pseudunelidae (Gastropoda, Acochlidia)

(2011) Timea P. Neusser et al.   PLoS One

Paracatenula, an ancient symbiosis between thiotrophic Alphaproteobacteria and catenulid flatworms

(2011) H. R. Gruber-Vodicka et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A new look into the small-scale dispersal of free-living marine nematodes

(2011) Micheli C Thomas et al.   Zoologia

Cosmopolitanism and Biogeography of the Genus Manganonema (Nematoda: Monhysterida) in the Deep Sea

(2011) Daniela Zeppilli et al.   Animals

Local Adaptation in Marine Invertebrates

(2010) Eric Sanford et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

EVOLUTIONARY CONSTRAINT AND ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES

(2010) Douglas J. Futuyma   EVOLUTION

Systematics of the amphiatlantic Microphthalmus-listensis-species-group (Polychaeta: Hesionidae): Facts and concepts for reconstruction of phylogeny and speciation

(2010) W. WESTHEIDE et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Genetic Structure Among 50 Species of the Northeastern Pacific Rocky Intertidal Community

(2010) Ryan P. Kelly et al.   PLoS One

Gene Flow and Isolation among Populations of Marine Animals

(2009) Michael E. Hellberg   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

An integrative approach to the taxonomy of the pigmented European Pseudomonocelis Meixner, 1943 (Platyhelminthes: Proseriata)

(2009) MARCO CASU et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Tiny but complex - interactive 3D visualization of the interstitial acochlidian gastropod Pseudunela cornuta (Challis, 1970)

(2009) Timea P Neusser et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Meiofaunal cryptic species revealed by confocal microscopy: the case of Xenotrichula intermedia (Gastrotricha)

(2009) Francesca Leasi et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Unexpected panmixia in a long-lived, deep-sea fish with well-defined spawning habitat and relatively low fecundity

(2009) THOMAS A. WHITE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

(2009) Diego Fontaneto et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Genetic differentiation of Atlantic populations of the intertidal copepod Tigriopus brevicornis

(2009) Françoise Denis et al.   SCIENTIA MARINA

The muscular system of Musellifer delamarei (Renaud-Mornant, 1968) and other chaetonotidans with implications for the phylogeny and systematization of the Paucitubulatina (Gastrotricha)

(2008) FRANCESCA LEASI et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Revisiting the meiofauna paradox: dispersal and colonization of nematodes and other meiofaunal organisms in low- and high-energy environments

(2008) Matthew J. Boeckner et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

The generaParotoplanaMeixner, 1938 andParotoplanellaAx, 1956 (Platyhelminthes: Proseriata) in southern Spain

(2008) Valentina Delogu et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY

Active colonisation of disturbed sediments by deep-sea nematodes: evidence for the patch mosaic model

(2008) F Gallucci et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Phylogeography of theRhabditis(Pellioditis)marinaspecies complex: evidence for long-distance dispersal, and for range expansions and restricted gene flow in the northeast Atlantic

(2008) S. DERYCKE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Assessing meiofaunal variation among individuals utilising morphological and molecular approaches: an example using the Tardigrada

(2008) Chester J Sands et al.   BMC ECOLOGY