| The widely used small subunit 18S rDNA molecule greatly underestimates true diversity in biodiversity surveys of the meiofauna CQ Tang, F Leasi, U Obertegger, A Kieneke, TG Barraclough, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (40), 16208-16212, 2012 | 386 | 2012 |
| Fifteen species in one: deciphering the Brachionus plicatilis species complex (Rotifera, Monogononta) through DNA taxonomy S Mills, JA Alcántara-Rodríguez, J Ciros-Pérez, A Gómez, A Hagiwara, ... Hydrobiologia 796, 39-58, 2017 | 268 | 2017 |
| Patterns of diversity in soft-bodied meiofauna: dispersal ability and body size matter M Curini-Galletti, T Artois, V Delogu, WH De Smet, D Fontaneto, ... PloS one 7 (3), e33801, 2012 | 157 | 2012 |
| The necessity of DNA taxonomy to reveal cryptic diversity and spatial distribution of meiofauna, with a focus on Nemertea F Leasi, JL Norenburg PLoS one 9 (8), e104385, 2014 | 79 | 2014 |
| Biodiversity estimates and ecological interpretations of meiofaunal communities are biased by the taxonomic approach F Leasi, JL Sevigny, EM Laflamme, T Artois, M Curini-Galletti, ... Communications Biology 1 (1), 112, 2018 | 70 | 2018 |
| Meiofauna densities and gastrotrich community composition in a Mediterranean sea cave MA Todaro, F Leasi, N Bizzarri, P Tongiorgi Marine Biology 149, 1079-1091, 2006 | 66 | 2006 |
| The muscular system of Musellifer delamarei (Renaud-Mornant, 1968) and other chaetonotidans with implications for the phylogeny and systematization of the … F Leasi, MA Todaro Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 94 (2), 379-398, 2008 | 65 | 2008 |
| At least some meiofaunal species are not everywhere. Indication of geographic, ecological and geological barriers affecting the dispersion of species of Ototyphlonemertes … F Leasi, S Andrade, JL Norenburg Molecular ecology, 2016 | 57 | 2016 |
| Meiofaunal cryptic species revealed by confocal microscopy: the case of Xenotrichula intermedia (Gastrotricha) F Leasi, MA Todaro Marine Biology 156, 1335-1346, 2009 | 56 | 2009 |
| Cryptic diversity with wide salinity tolerance in the putative euryhaline Testudinella clypeata (Rotifera, Monogononta) F Leasi, CQ Tang, WH De Smet, D Fontaneto Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168 (1), 17-28, 2013 | 54 | 2013 |
| Dry and survive: morphological changes during anhydrobiosis in a bdelloid rotifer R Marotta, F Leasi, A Uggetti, C Ricci, G Melone Journal of structural biology 171 (1), 11-17, 2010 | 50 | 2010 |
| Different diversification rates between sexual and asexual organisms D Fontaneto, CQ Tang, U Obertegger, F Leasi, TG Barraclough Evolutionary Biology 39, 262-270, 2012 | 46 | 2012 |
| An integrated morphological and molecular approach to the description and systematisation of a novel genus and species of Macrodasyida (Gastrotricha) MA Todaro, M Dal Zotto, F Leasi Plos one 10 (7), e0130278, 2015 | 42 | 2015 |
| A new species, genus and family of marine Gastrotricha from Jamaica, with a phylogenetic analysis of Macrodasyida based on molecular data MA Todaro, F Leasi, R Hochberg Systematics and Biodiversity 12 (4), 473-488, 2014 | 39 | 2014 |
| A complete three-dimensional reconstruction of the myoanatomy of Loricifera: comparative morphology of an adult and a Higgins larva stage RC Neves, X Bailly, F Leasi, H Reichert, MV Sørensen, RM Kristensen Frontiers in zoology 10, 1-21, 2013 | 32 | 2013 |
| Patterns of diversity and endemism of soft-bodied meiofauna in an oceanic island, Lanzarote, Canary Islands A Martinez, M Di Domenico, F Leasi, M Curini-Galletti, MA Todaro, ... Marine Biodiversity 49, 2033-2055, 2019 | 31 | 2019 |
| Morphology of Xenodasys (Gastrotricha): the first species from the Mediterranean Sea and the establishment of Chordodasiopsis gen. nov. and Xenodasyidae fam. nov. MA Todaro, L Guidi, F Leasi, P Tongiorgi Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 86 (5 …, 2006 | 29 | 2006 |
| Molecular support for morphology‐based family‐rank taxa: The contrasting cases of two families of Proseriata (Platyhelminthes) F Scarpa, P Cossu, V Delogu, T Lai, D Sanna, F Leasi, JL Norenburg, ... Zoologica scripta 46 (6), 753-766, 2017 | 28 | 2017 |
| First description of the serotonergic nervous system in a bdelloid rotifer: Macrotrachela quadricornifera Milne 1886 (Philodinidae) F Leasi, R Pennati, C Ricci Zoologischer Anzeiger-A Journal of Comparative Zoology 248 (1), 47-55, 2009 | 28 | 2009 |
| Target enrichment of metazoan mitochondrial DNA with hybridization capture probes J Sevigny, F Leasi, S Simpson, M Di Domenico, KM Jörger, JL Norenburg, ... Ecological Indicators 121, 106973, 2021 | 25 | 2021 |
M. Antonio TodaroAssociate Professor of Zoology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, ItalyVerificeret mail på unimore.it
