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RAMS: De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2024). Register of Antarctic Marine Species. Accessed at https://www.marinespecies.org/rams on yyyy-mm-dd, more
Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2024). World Nemertea Database. Accessed at https://www.marinespecies.org/nemertea on yyyy-mm-dd, more
Tom Artois; Ernest Schockaert (2005-2017). World database of Proseriata and Kalyptorhynchia. Consulted on yyyy-mm-dd, more
Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2024). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Accessed at https://www.marinespecies.org/turbellarians on yyyy-mm-dd, more
Diez, Y.L.; Monnens, M.; Wuyts, A.; Brendonck, L.; Reygel, P.; Schmidt-Rhaesa, A.; Artois, T. (2023). Taxonomy and phylogeny of Dalytyphloplanida Willems et al., 2006 (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela), with the description of a new family, a new genus, and sixteen new species from Cuba and Panama. Org. Divers. Evol. 23(4): 631-681. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13127-023-00623-w
Diez, Y.L.; Sanjuan, C.; Monnens, M.; Artois, T. (2023). New species of Polycystididae (Platyhelminthes: Kalyptorhynchia) from Cuba and the Pacific coast of Panama. Eur. J. Taxon. 856: 67-86. https://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.856.2029
Diez, Y.L.; Sanjuan, C.; Bosch, C.; Catalá, A.; Monnens, M.; Curini-Galletti, M.; Artois, T. (2023). Diversity of free-living flatworms (Platyhelminthes) in Cuba. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 140(3): 423-433. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blad041
Monnens, M.; Halajian, A.; Littlewood, D.T.J.; Briscoe, A.G.; Artois, T.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2023). Can avian flyways reflect dispersal barriers of clinostomid parasites? First evidence from the mitogenome of Clinostomum complanatum. Gene 851: 146952. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2022.146952
Cruz-Laufer, A.J.; Artois, T.; Koblmüller, S.; Pariselle, A.; Smeets, K.; Van Steenberge, M.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2022). Explosive networking: The role of adaptive host radiations and ecological opportunity in a species‐rich host–parasite assembly. Ecol. Lett. 25(8): 1795-1812. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.14059
Cruz-Laufer, A.J.; Pariselle, A.; Jorissen, M.W.P.; Muterezi Bukinga, F.; Al Assadi, A.; Van Steenberge, M.; Koblmüller, S.; Sturmbauer, C.; Smeets, K.; Huyse, T.; Artois, T.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2022). Somewhere I belong: phylogeny and morphological evolution in a species‐rich lineage of ectoparasitic flatworms infecting cichlid fishes. Cladistics (Print) 38(4): 465-512. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cla.12506
Geraerts, M.; Huyse, T.; Barson, M.; Bassirou, H.; Bilong Bilong, C.F.; Bitja Nyom, A.R.; Chocha Manda, A.; Cruz-Laufer, A.J.; Kalombo Kabalika, C.; Kapepula Kasembele, G.; Muterezi Bukinga, F.; Njom, S.; Artois, T.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2022). Mosaic or melting pot: The use of monogeneans as a biological tag and magnifying glass to discriminate introduced populations of Nile tilapia in sub-Saharan Africa. Genomics (S. Diego Calif.) 114(3): 110328. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ygeno.2022.110328
Geraerts, M.; Vangestel, C.; Artois, T.; de Oliveira Fernandes, J.M.; Jorissen, M.W.P.; Chocha Manda, A.; Danadu Mizani, C.; Smeets, K.; Snoeks, J.; Sonet, G.; Tingbao, Y.; Van Steenberge, M.; Vreven, E.; Lunkayilakio Wamuini, S.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Huyse, T. (2022). Population genomics of introduced Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Repeated introductions since colonial times with multiple sources. Mol. Ecol. 31(12): 3304-3322. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.16479
Gobert, S.; Armonies, W.; Diez, Y.L.; Jouk, P.E.H.; Monnens, M.; Revis, N.; Reygel, P.; Smith, J.; Van Steenkiste, N.; Artois, T. (2022). Orostylis gen. nov., a new genus of Dalytyphloplanida with seven new species (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela). Zootaxa 5115(1): 29-46. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5115.1.2
Houben, A.M.; Monnens, M.; Proesmans, W.; Artois, T. (2022). Limnoterrestrial ‘Typhloplanidae’ (Rhabdocoela, Platyhelminthes), with the description of four new species and a new genus. Eur. J. Taxon. 798: 70–102. https://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.798.1671
Jorissen, M.W.P.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Pariselle, A.; Snoeks, J.; Vreven, E.; Simková, A.; Wamuini Lunkayilakio, S.; Manda, A.C.; Kapepula Kasembele, G.; Muterezi Bukinga, F.; Artois, T.; Huyse, T. (2022). Molecular footprint of parasite co-introduction with Nile tilapia in the Congo Basin. Org. Divers. Evol. 22: 1003-1019. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13127-022-00563-x
Bijnens, K.; Jaenen, V.; Wouters, A.; Leynen, N.; Pirotte, N.; Artois, T.; Smeets, K. (2021). A spatiotemporal characterisation of redox molecules in planarians, with a focus on the role of glutathione during regeneration. Biomolecules 11(5): 714. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom11050714
Bijnens, K.; Thijs, S.; Leynen, N.; Stevens, V.; McAmmond, B.; Van Hamme, J.; Vangronsveld, J.; Artois, T.; Smeets, K. (2021). Differential effect of silver nanoparticles on the microbiome of adult and developing planaria. Aquat. Toxicol. 230: 105672. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2020.105672
Cruz-Laufer, A.J.; Artois, T.; Smeets, K.; Pariselle, A.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2021). The cichlid–Cichlidogyrus network: a blueprint for a model system of parasite evolution. Hydrobiologia 848(16): 3847-3863. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-020-04426-4
Gobert, S.; Diez, Y.L.; Monnens, M.; Reygel, P.; Van Steenkiste, N.W.L.; Leander, B.S.; Artois, T. (2021). A revision of the genus Cheliplana de Beauchamp, 1927 (Rhabdocoela: Schizorhynchia), with the description of six new species. Zootaxa 4970(3): 453-494. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4970.3.2
Hermans, R.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Ditrich, O.; Tyml, T.; Gelnar, M.; Artois, T.J.; Kmentová, N. (2021). Parasitic flatworms infecting thorny skate, Amblyraja radiata: infection by the monogeneans Acanthocotyle verrilli and Rajonchocotyle emarginata in Svalbard. Parasitol. Int. 81: 102261. https://hdl.handle.net/10.1016/j.parint.2020.102261
Jaenen, V.; Fraguas, S.; Bijnens, K.; Heleven, M.; Artois, T.; Romero, R.; Smeets, K.; Cebrià, F. (2021). Reactive oxygen species rescue regeneration after silencing the MAPK–ERK signaling pathway in Schmidtea mediterranea. NPG Scientific Reports 11(1): 881. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79588-1
Kmentová, N.; Hahn, C.; Koblmüller, S.; Zimmermann, H.; Vorel, J.; Artois, T.; Gelnar, M.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2021). Contrasting host-parasite population structure: Morphology and mitogenomics of a parasitic flatworm on pelagic deepwater cichlid fishes from Lake Tanganyika. Biology-Basel 10(8): 797. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology10080797
Tessens, B.; Monnens, M.; Backeljau, T.; Jordaens, K.; Van Steenkiste, N.W.L.; Breman, F.C.; Smeets, K.; Artois, T.J.; Breman, F.C. (2021). Is 'everything everywhere'? Unprecedented cryptic diversity in the cosmopolitan flatworm Gyratrix hermaphroditus. Zoologica Scri. 50(6): 837-851. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12507
Vanhove, M.P.M.; Hermans, R.; Artois, T.; Kmentová, N. (2021). From the Atlantic coast to Lake Tanganyika: Gill-infecting flatworms of freshwater Pellonuline clupeid fishes in West and Central Africa, with description of eleven new species and key to Kapentagyrus (Monogenea, Dactylogyridae). Animals 11(12): 3578. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11123578
Wevers, J.; Beenaerts, N.; Casaer, J.; Zimmermann, F.; Artois, T.; Fattebert, J. (2021). Modelling species distribution from camera trap by‐catch using a scale‐optimized occupancy approach. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation 7(3): 534-549. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rse2.207
Balsamo, M.; Artois, T.; Smith, J.P.S.; Todaro, M.A.; Guidi, L.; Leander, B.S.; Van Steenkiste, N.W.L.. (2020). The curious and neglected soft-bodied meiofauna: Rouphozoa (Gastrotricha and Platyhelminthes). Hydrobiologia 847(12): 2613-2644. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-020-04287-x
Curini-Galletti, M.; Artois, T.; Di Domênico, M.; Fontaneto, D.; Jondelius, U.; Jörger, K.M.; Leasi, F.; Martinez, A.; Norenburg, J.L.; Sterrer, W.; Todaro, M.A. (2020). Contribution of soft-bodied meiofaunal taxa to Italian marine biodiversity. The European Zoological Journal 87(1): 369-384. https://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/24750263.2020.1786607
Diez, Y.L.; Monnens, M.; Aguirre, R.I.; Yurduseven, R.; Jouk, P.E.H.; Van Steenkiste, N.W.L.; Leander, B.S.; Schockaert, E.; Reygel, P.; Smeets, K.; Artois, T.J. (2020). Taxonomy and phylogeny of Koinocystididae (Platyhelminthes, Kalyptorhynchia), with the description of three new genera and twelve new species. Zootaxa 4948(4): 451-500. https://hdl.handle.net/10.11646/zootaxa.4948.4.1
Geraerts, M.; Muterezi Bukinga, F.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Pariselle, A.; Chocha Manda, A.; Vreven, E.; Huyse, T.; Artois, T. (2020). Six new species of Cichlidogyrus Paperna, 1960 (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea) from the gills of cichlids (Teleostei: Cichliformes) from the Lomami River Basin (DRC: Middle Congo). Parasites & Vectors 13(1): 187. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-3927-4
Gobert, S.; Monnens, M.; Eerdekens, L.; Schockaert, E.; Reygel, P.; Artois, T. (2020). Schizorhynchia Meixner, 1928 (Platyhelminthes, Rhabdocoela) of the Iberian Peninsula, with a description of four new species from Portugal. Eur. J. Taxon. 595: 1-17. https://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.595
Jorissen, M.W.P.; Huyse, T.; Wamuini Lunkayilakio, S.; Muterezi Bukinga, F.; Chocha Manda, A.; Kapepula Kasembele, G.; Vreven, E.J.; Snoeks, J.; Decru, E.; Artois, T.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2020). Historical museum collections help detect parasite species jumps after tilapia introductions in the Congo Basin. Biological Invasions 22(9): 2825-2844. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-020-02288-4
Kmentová, N.; Koblmüller, S.; Van Steenberge, M.; Raeymaekers, J.A.M.; Artois, T.; De Keyzer, E.L.S.; Milec, L.; Muterezi Bukinga, F.; Mulimbwa N'sibula, T.; Masilya Mulungula, P.; Ntakimazi, G.; Volckaert, F.A.M.; Gelnar, M.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2020). Weak population structure and recent demographic expansion of the monogenean parasite Kapentagyrus spp. infecting clupeid fishes of Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. Int. J. Parasitol. 50(6-7): 471-486. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2020.02.002
Kmentová, N.; Koblmüller, S.; Van Steenberge, M.; Artois, T.; Muterezi Bukinga, F.; Mulimbwa N'sibula, T.; Muzumani Risasi, D.; Masilya Mulungula, P.; Gelnar, M.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2020). Failure to diverge in African Great Lakes: The case of Dolicirroplectanum lacustre gen. nov. comb. nov. (Monogenea, Diplectanidae) infecting latid hosts. J. Great Lakes Res. 46(5): 1113-1130. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2019.09.022
Martínez, A.; Eckert, E.M.; Artois, T.; Careddu, G.; Casu, M.; Curini-Galletti, M.; Gazale, V.; Gobert, S.; Ivanenko, V.N.; Jondelius, U.; Marzano, M.; Pesole, G.; Zanello, A.; Todaro, M.A.; Fontaneto, D. (2020). Human access impacts biodiversity of microscopic animals in sandy beaches. Communications Biology 3(1): 175. https://hdl.handle.net/10.1038/s42003-020-0912-6
Monnens, M.; Thijs, S.; Briscoe, A.G.; Clark, M.; Frost, E.J.; Littlewood, D.T.J.; Sewell, M.; Smeets, K.; Artois, T.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2020). The first mitochondrial genomes of endosymbiotic rhabdocoels illustrate evolutionary relaxation of atp8 and genome plasticity in flatworms. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 162: 454-469. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.06.025
Wevers, J.; Fattebert, J.; Casaer, J.; Artois, T.; Beenaerts, N. (2020). Trading fear for food in the Anthropocene: How ungulates cope with human disturbance in a multi-use, suburban ecosystem. Sci. Total Environ. 741: 140369. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140369
Diez, Y.L.; Reygel, P.; Artois, T. (2019). Schizorhynchia (Platyhelminthes, Rhabdocoela) from eastern Cuba, with the description of fifteen new species. Zootaxa 4646(1): 1-30. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4646.1.1
Gobert, S.; Reygel, P.; Artois, T. (2019). Schizorhynchia (Platyhelminthes Rhabdocoela) of Lanzarote (Canary Islands), with the description of eight new species. Mar. Biodiv. 49(5): 2089-2107. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0736-x
Jouk, P.E.H.; Revis, N.J.P.; Artois, T. (2019). Coelogynopora schockaerti n. sp. (Proseriata: Coelogynoporidae), a remnant of a platyhelminth coldwater fauna in the northwestern Mediterranean? Zootaxa 4686(3): 409-418. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4686.3.6
Lin, Y.; Reygel, P.; Feng, W.; Chen, J.; Tessens, B.; Van Steenkiste, N.W.L.; Schockaert, E.R.; Artois, T.J.; Wang, A. (2019). Four new species of the genus Paraustrorhynchus (Rhabdocoela: Kalyptorhynchia: Polycystididae). Zootaxa 4550(3): 357-373. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4550.3.4
Martínez, A.; Di Domênico, M.; Leasi, F.; Curini-Galletti, M.; Todaro, M.A.; Dal Zotto, M.; Gobert, S.; Artois, T.; Norenburg, J.; Jörger, K.M.; Núñez, J.; Fontaneto, D.; Worsaae, K. (2019). Patterns of diversity and endemism of soft-bodied meiofauna in an oceanic island, Lanzarote, Canary Islands. Mar. Biodiv. 49(5): 2033-2055. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12526-019-01007-0
Monnens, M.; Frost, E.J.; Clark, M.; Sewell, M.A.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Artois, T. (2019). Description and ecophysiology of a new species of Syndesmis Silliman, 1881 (Rhabdocoela: Umagillidae) from the sea urchin Evechinus chloroticus (Valenciennes, 1846) Mortensen, 1943 in New Zealand. IJP 10: 71-82. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2019.07.005
Schockaert, E.R.; Moons, P.; Janssen, T.; Tessens, B.S.; Reygel, P.C.; Revis, N.; Jouk, P.E.H.; Willems, W.R.; Artois, T.J. (2019). On the genus Typhlopolycystis Karling, 1956 (Platyhelminthes, Kalyptorhynchia, Polycystididae), with data on the five known species and the description of eleven new species. Zootaxa 4603(1): 81-104. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4603.1.4
Diez, Y.L.; Hernandez, C.S.; Reygel, P.; Roosen, P.; Artois, T. (2018). First record of Polycystididae (Platyhelminthes, Kalyptorhynchia) from Cuba, with the description of a new genus and five new species, and remarks and the description of one new species from Panama. Zootaxa 4514(1): 107-125. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4514.1.9
Diez, Y.L.; Reygel, P.; Artois, T. (2018). Parapharyngiella caribbaea n. sp., a new species of Trigonostomidae (Rhabdocoela; Platyhelminthes) from Cuba, with a taxonomical reassessment of the genus. Trop. Zool. 31(1): 34-43. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03946975.2017.1395258
Jorissen, M.W.P.; Pariselle, A.; Huyse, T.; Vreven, E.J.; Snoeks, J.; Decru, E.; Kusters, T.; Lunkayilakio, S.W.; Bukinga, F.M.; Artois, T.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2018). Six new dactylogyrid species (Platyhelminthes, Monogenea) from the gills of cichlids (Teleostei, Cichliformes) from the Lower Congo Basin. Parasite 25: 64. https://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2018059
Leasi, F.; Sevigny, J.L.; Laflamme, E.M.; Artois, T.; Curini-Galletti, M.; de Jesús-Navarrete, A.; Di Domênico, M.; Goetz, F.; Hall, J.A.; Hochberg, R.; Jörger, K.M.; Jondelius, U.; Todaro, M.A.; Wirshing, H.H.; Norenburg, J.L.; Thomas, W.K. (2018). Biodiversity estimates and ecological interpretations of meiofaunal communities are biased by the taxonomic approach. Communications Biology 1(1): 112. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0119-2
Monnens, M.; Artois, T.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2017). Syndesmis aethopharynx (Umagillidae, Rhabdocoela, Platyhelminthes) from the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus: first record from the Eastern Mediterranean, phylogenetic position and intraspecific morphological variation. Parasitol. Int. 66(6): 848-858. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.parint.2017.07.006
Schockaert, E.; Tessens, B.; Gobert, S.; Revis, N.; Artois, T.J. (2017). On the genus Gallorhynchus Schockaert & Brunet, 1971 (Platyhelminthes, Kalyptorhynchia, Polycystididae) with the description of four new species. Zootaxa 4227(1): 61-74. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4227.1.3
Willems, W.R.; Reygel, P.; Van Steenkiste, N.; Tessens, B.; Artois, T.J. (2017). Kalyptorhynchia (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela) from KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), with the description of six new species. Zootaxa 4242(3): 441-466. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4242.3.2
Plusquin, M.; De Mulder, K.; Van Belleghem, F.; DeGheselle, O.; Pirotte, N.; Willems, M.; Cuypers, A.; Salvenmoser, W.; Ladurner, P.; Artois, T.; Smeets, K. (2016). Toxic effects of cadmium on flatworm stem cell dynamics: a transcriptomic and ultrastructural elucidation of underlying mechanisms. Environ. Toxicol. 31(10): 1217-1228. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tox.22129
Houben, A.M.; Proesmans, W.; Bert, W.; Artois, T.J. (2014). Revision of Acrochordonoposthia Reisinger, 1924 (Rhabditophora, Typhloplanidae, Protoplanellinae) with the description of one new species. Zootaxa 3790(1): 36-50
Reygel, P.; Schockaert, E.; Janssen, T.; Artois, T. (2014). Two new species of Carcharodorhynchus Meixner, 1938 (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela: Schizorhynchidae) from Brazil and Lanzarote. Mar. Biodiv. 44(3): 279-285. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12526-014-0205-8
Schockaert, E.R.; Martens, P.; Revis, N.; Janssen, T.; Willems, W.; Artois, T.J. (2014). A new genus with six new species of Typhlopolycystidinae Evdonin, 1977 (Platyhelminthes, Kalyptorhynchia, Polycystididae). Zootaxa 3755(3): 259-272. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3755.3.4
Tessens, B.; Janssen, T.; Artois, T. (2014). Molecular phylogeny of Kalyptorhynchia (Rhabdocoela, Platyhelminthes) inferred from ribosomal sequence data. Zoologica Scri. 43(5): 519-530. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12066
Artois, T.; Schockaert, E.; Beenaerts, N.; Reygel, P. (2013). Trigonostomum vanmecheleni sp. nov., a new species of Trigonostomidae (Rhabdocoela: Dalytyphloplanida) from the channels of Venice (Italy), with a discussion on the T. lilliei species group. Ital. J. Zoolog. 80(1): 46-51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/11250003.2012.754058
Artois, T.; Willems, W.; Reygel, P.; Schockaert, E. (2013). Brachyrhynchus n. gen. n. sp., a new genus of Polycystididae Graff, 1905 (Rhabdocoela: Kalyptorhynchia), with the description of three new species from the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. Zootaxa 3635(2): 127-136. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3635.2.3
Artois, T.; Willems, W.; Reygel, P.; Schockaert, E. (2013). Brachyrhynchoides nom. nov Artois & Schockaert, 2013: a replaced name for Brachyrhynchus Artois & Schockaert, 2013. Zootaxa 3686(1): 94-94
Van Steenkiste, N.; Tessens, B.; Willems, W.; Backeljau, T.; Jondelius, U.; Artois, T. (2013). A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Dalytyphloplanida (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela) reveals multiple escapes from the marine environment and origins of symbiotic relationships. PLoS One 8(3): 1-13. dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059917
Van Steenkiste, N.; Artois, T. (2013). Paleovarsoviella and Paleovarsoviellinae, new names for the foraminiferal genus Varsoviella Gawor-Biedowa, 1987, and subfamily Varsoviellinae Gawor-Biedowa, 1987. J. Foramin. Res. 43(4): 464-464. https://dx.doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.43.4.464
Vanhove, M.P.M.; Tessens, B.; Schoelinck, C.; Jondelius, U.; Littlewood, D.T.J.; Artois, T.; Huyse, T. (2013). Problematic barcoding in flatworms: a case-study on monogeneans and rhabdocoels (Platyhelminthes). ZooKeys 365: 355-379. https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.365.5776
Artois, T.; Willems, W.; Revis, N.; Martens, P.; Schockaert, E. (2012). New species of Limipolycystis Schilke, 1970 (Rhabdocoela: Kalyptorhynchia: Polycystididae) from the Western Mediterranean. Zootaxa 3325(3325): 26-36
Curini-Galletti, M.; Artois, T.; Delogu, V.; De Smet, W.H.; Fontaneto, D.; Jondelius, U.; Leasi, F.; Martínez, A.; Meyer-Wachsmuth, I.; Nilsson, K.S.; Tongiorgi, P.; Worsaae, K.; Todaro, M.A. (2012). Patterns of diversity in soft-bodied meiofauna: dispersal ability and body size matter. PLoS One 7(3): e33801. dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033801
Van Steenkiste, N.; Tessens, B.; Willems, W.; Van Mulken, E.; Artois, T. (2012). The "Falcatae", a new Gondwanan species group of Gieysztoria (Platyhelminthes: Dalyelliidae), with the description of five new species. Zool. Anz. 251(4): 344-356. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2011.12.001
Boone, M.; Willems, M.; Claeys, M.; Artois, T. (2011). Spermatogenesis and the structure of the testes in Isodiametra pulchra (Isodiametridae, Acoela). Acta Zool. (Stockh.) 92(2): 101-108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6395.2010.00481.x
Boone, M.; Houthoofd, W.; Bert, W.; Artois, T. (2011). First record of Nemertodermatida from Belgian marine waters. Belg. J. Zool. 141(1): 62-64
Boone, M.; Bert, W.; Claeys, M.; Houthoofd, W.; Artois, T. (2011). Spermatogenesis and the structure of the testes in Nemertodermatida. Zoomorphology 130(4): 273-282. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00435-011-0137-9
Reygel, P.C.; Willems, W.R.; Artois, T.J. (2011). Koinocystididae and Gnathorhynchidae (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela: Kalyptorhynchia) from the Galapagos, with the description of three new species. Zootaxa 3096: 27-40
Schockaert, E.R.; Curini-Galletti, M.; De Ridder, W.; Artois, T. (2011). On the Calviriidae Martens and Curini-Galletti, 1993 (Platyhelminthes, Proseriata), with the description of three new species. Zootaxa 3034(3034): 32-46
Van Steenkiste, N.; Tessens, B.; Krznaric, K.; Artois, T. (2011). Dalytyphloplanida (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela) from Andalusia, Spain, with the description of four new species. Zootaxa 2791: 1-29
Curini-Galletti, M.; Webster, B.L.; Huyse, T.; Casu, M.; Schockaert, E.R.; Artois, T.J.; Littlewood, T.J. (2010). New insights on the phylogenetic relationships of the Proseriata (Platyhelminthes), with proposal of a new genus of the family Coelogynoporidae. Zootaxa 2537: 1-18
Willems, M.; Couvreur, M.; Boone, M.; Houthoofd, W.; Artois, T. (2010). Distribution of proliferating cells and vasa-positive cells in the embryo of Macrostomum lignano (Rhabditophora, Platyhelminthes). Belg. J. Zool. 140(Suppl.): 149-153
Schockaert, E.R.; Curini-Galletti, M.C.; De Ridder, W; Volonterio, O.; Artois, T. (2009). A new family of lithophoran Proseriata (Platyhelminthes), with the description of seven new species from the Indo-Pacific and South America, and the proposal of three new genera. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 155(4): 759-773. dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00463.x
Willems, M.; Egger, B.; Wolff, C.; Mouton, S.; Houthoofd, W.; Fonderie, P.; Couvreur, M.; Artois, T.; Borgonie, G. (2009). Embryonic origins of hull cells in the flatworm Macrostomum lignano through cell lineage analysis: developmental and phylogenetic implications. Dev. Genes Evol. 219(8): 409-417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00427-009-0304-x
Willems, M.; Boone, M.; Couvreur, M.; De Mulder, K.; Van Ranst, J.; Artois, T.; Borgonie, G. (2009). Use of freeze-cracking in ontogenetic research in Macrostomum lignano (Macrostomida, Rhabditophora). Dev. Genes Evol. 219(5): 273-279. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00427-009-0284-x
Willems, M.; Leroux, F.; Claeys, M.; Boone, M.; Mouton, S.; Artois, T.; Borgonie, G. (2009). Ontogeny of the complex sperm in the macrostomid flatworm Macrostomum lignano (Macrostomorpha, Rhabditophora). J. Morphol. 270(2): 162-174. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmor.10675
Artois, T.J. (2008). Revision of Rogneda Uljanin, 1870 (Rhabditophora, Eukalyptorhynchia, Polycystididae) with the description of seven new species. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 153(1): 1-28. dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00384.x
Artois, T.J.; Tessens, B.S. (2008). Polycystididae (Rhabditophora: Rhabdocoela: Kalyptorhynchia) from the Indian Ocean, with the description of twelve new species. Zootaxa 1849(1849): 1-27
Schockaert, E.R.; Hooge, M.; Sluys, R.; Schilling, S.; Tyler, S.; Artois, T. (2008). Global diversity of free living flatworms (Platyhelminthes, “Turbellaria”) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 41-48. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-007-9002-8
Van Steenkiste, N.; Volonterio, O.; Schockaert, E.; Artois, T. (2008). Marine Rhabdocoela (Platyhelminthes, Rhabditophora) from Uruguay, with the description of eight new species and two new genera. Zootaxa 1914(1914): 1-33
Willems, M.; Leroux, F.; Huysentruyt, F.; Adriaens, D.; Claeys, M.; Artois, T.; Borgonie, G. (2008). From stem cell to complex sperm in the Rhabditophoran Macrostomum lignano. J. Morphol. 269(12): 1481. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmor.10683
Doignon, G.; Artois, T. (2006). Annotated checklist of the umagillid turbellarians infesting echinoids (Echinodermata). Belg. J. Zool. 136(1): 101-106
Willems, W.R.; Schockaert, E.R.; Artois, T.J. (2006). Report on the Polycystididae (Rhabdocoela, Kalyptorhynchia) from Australia, with the description of twelve new species and six new genera. Hydrobiologia 563(1): 329-355. dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-006-0041-3
Willems, W.R.; Wallberg, A.; Jondelius, U.; Littlewood, D.T.J.; Backeljau, T.; Schockaert, E.R.; Artois, T. (2006). Filling a gap in the phylogeny of flatworms: relationships within the Rhabdocoela (Platyhelminthes), inferred from 18S ribosomal DNA sequences. Zoologica Scri. 35(1): 1-17
Artois, T.J.; Schockaert, E.R. (2005). Primary homology assessment of structures in the female atrial system among species of the Polycystididae (Rhabditophora, Eukalyptorhynchia). Invertebr. Biol. 124(2): 109-118. dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7410.2005.00013.x, more
De Roeck, E.R.M.; Artois, T.; Brendonck, L. (2005). Consumptive and non-consumptive effects of turbellarian (Mesostoma sp.) predation on anostracans. Hydrobiologia 542(1): 103-111. dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-004-2411-z
Willems, W.; Artois, T.; Vermin, W.; Backeljau, T.; Schockaert, E. (2005). “Typhloplanoida” (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela) from the Indian Ocean, with the description of six new taxa. J. Nat. Hist. 39(19): 1561-1582
Willems, W.R.; Artois, T.J.; Backeljau, T.; Schockaert, E.R. (2005). Typhloplanoida (Platyhelminthes, Rhabdocoela) from New Caledonia and eastern Australia, with the description of six new taxa. N.Z. J. Zool. 32: 79-98, more
Willems, W.; Artois, T.; Vermin, W.; Backeljau, T.; Schockaert, E. (2004). Reports on the free-living Platyhelminthes from Australia: Typhloplanoida, with the description of three new taxa. Zool. Sci. 21: 333-341
Willems, W.R.; Artois, T.J.; Vermin, W.A.; Schockaert, E.R. (2004). Revision of Trigonostomum Schmidt, 1852 (Platyhelminthes, Typhloplanoida, Trigonostomidae) with the description of seven new species. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 141(2): 271-296. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00124.x
Artois, T.; Schockaert, E.R. (2003). Primary homology assessment in the male atrial system of the Polycystididae (Platyhelminthes: Eukalyptorhynchia). Zool. Anz. 242(2): 179-190
Doignon, G.; Artois, T.; Deheyn, D. (2003). Discoplana malagasensis sp. nov., a new turbellarian (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida: Leptoplanidae) symbiotic in an ophiuroid (Echinodermata), with a cladistic analysis of the Discoplana/ Euplana species. Zool. Sci. 20: 357-369. https://dx.doi.org/10.2108/zsj.20.357
Artois, T. (2001). Phylogenetic nomenclatura: the end of binominal nomenclatura? Belg. J. Zool. 131(1): 87-89
Artois, T.; Vermin, W.; Schockaert, E. (2000). Rhabdocoela (Platyhelminthes) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica) with the description of eight new species. Belg. J. Zool. 130(2): 103-110
Artois, T.J.; Schockaert, E.R. (2000). Interstitial fauna of the Galapagos: Typhlopolycystidinae (Platyhelminthes Polycystididae). Trop. Zool. 13: 141-158, more
Artois, T.; Schockaert, E. (1999). Two new species of the genus Duplacrorhynchus Schockaert & Karling, 1970, with remarks on relationships within the genus and on the Duplacrorhynchinae (Platyhelminthes, Polycystididae). Belg. J. Zool. 129(1): 235-244
Artois, T.J.; Schockaert, E.R. (1998). A cladistic re-assessment of the Polycystis species complex (Polycystididae, Eukalyptorhynchia). Hydrobiologia 383: 97-102. https://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1003435727011
Conix, S.; Artois, T.; De Block, A. (2020). Onenigheid over soorten: Het bijna onoplosbare probleem van taxonomische wanorde. Natuur.Focus 19(3): 116-123
Artois, T. (2018). How unknown is the world's biodiversity? Free-living flatworms as an example. Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University: Hasselt.
Artois, T. (2001). Cladistic analysis of the Polycystididae (Platyhelminthes Kalyptorhynchia), with application of phylogenetic nomenclature = Cladistische analyse van de Polycystididae (Platyhelminthes Kalyptorhynchia), met toepassing van de fylogenetische nomenclatuur. PhD Thesis. Limburgs Universitair Centrum: Diepenbeek. [1: Text, 2: Figures] pp.
Artois, T. (1995). De Polycystididae (Kalyptorhynchia, Plathelminthes) van de Middellandse Zee. MSc Thesis. Universiteit Gent: Gent. 63, figures pp.
Monnissen, J.; Thijs, S.; Artois, T.; van de Reydt, E.; Van Dijck, T.; Monnens, M. (2024). Where meiofauna? An assessment of interstitial fauna at a Belgian beach, in: Mees, J. et al.Book of abstracts – VLIZ Marine Science Day, 6 March 2024, Oostende. VLIZ Special Publication, 91: pp. 93
Monnens, M.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Artois, T. (2020). Assembling mitochondrial genomes from small worms: a combined approach, in: Mees, J. et al.Book of abstracts – VLIZ Marine Science Day. Oostende, Belgium, 18 March 2020. VLIZ Special Publication, 84: pp. 9
Deprez, T.; Artois, T.; Bossier, P.; Cattrijsse, A.; Chiers, K.; De Clerck, O.; Decostere, A.; Deneudt, K.; De Troch, M.; Hernandez, F.; Mascart, T.; Moens, T.; Plovie, A.; tkint, T.; Van Stappen, G.; Verstraeten, T.; Willems, A.; Vanreusel, A. (2016). EMBRC.be – The Belgian node of the European Marine Biological Resource Centre, in: Degraer, S. et al. (Ed.) North Sea Open Science Conference 7-10/11/2016. Abstract Booklet. pp. 129
Boone, M.; Claeys, M.; Borgonie, G.; Artois, T. (2009). Morphological studies on Nemertodermatida sampled in the Belgian part of the North Sea, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) VLIZ Young Scientists' Day, Brugge, Belgium 6 March 2009: book of abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 41: pp. 26
Plusquin, M.; Smeets, K.; Geerdens, E.; Cuypers, A.; Artois, T. (2009). Stem cell activity and oxidative stress as response to cadmium and hexavalent chromium in M. lignano, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) VLIZ Young Scientists' Day, Brugge, Belgium 6 March 2009: book of abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 41: pp. 58
Tessens, B.; Artois, T. (2008). First molecular evidence from the existence of cryptic species in the cosmopolitan, euryhaline flatworm Gyratrix hermaphroditus (Rhabdocoela, Kalyptorhynchia), in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) VLIZ Young Scientists' Day, Brugge, Belgium, 29 February 2008: book of abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 40: pp. 66
Cruz-Laufer, A.J.; Artois, T.; Koblmüller, S.; Pariselle, A.; Smeets, K.; Van Steenberge, M.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2022). The role of phylogeny and ecological opportunity in host-parasite interactions: network metrics, host repertoire, and network link prediction. Authorea (Preprints) September 27. https://dx.doi.org/10.22541/au.163274253.31016446/v1
Wevers, J. (2021). Living in the Anthropocene: wild boar and roe deer ecology in a human-dominated landscape. PhD Thesis. UHasselt, Faculty of Sciences: Hasselt. 199 pp.
Degheselle, O. (2007). Het effect van cadmiumtoxiciteit op stamcellen in M. lignano. MSc Thesis. Universiteit Hasselt: Hasselt. 43 pp.
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