Publications

Valentina Costa and Teresa Romeo. 2026. Low-Cost Technologies for Marine Habitat Monitoring: A Case Study on Seagrass Meadows. Marine Science and Engineering

Ludovica De Vincenzis, Pietro Battaglia, Valeria Palummo, Giacomo Milisenda, Simonepietro Canese, Frine Cardone, Daniela Pica, Eva Salvati, Francesco Stenico, Pierpaolo Consoli, Valentina Costa, Antonio Giova, Silvestro Greco, Teresa Romeo. 2026. No place to hide: Assessing habitat shifts of Benthocometes robustus from Cold-Water Corals to marine litter in the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Environmental Research

Pierpaolo Consoli, Gaia Grasso, Danilo Malara, Valentina Costa, Valentina Sciutteri, Cristina Pedà, Fabio Figurella, Ian Campbell, Emily Deery, Franco Andaloro. 2026. A Continental-Scale Analysis of Benthic Litter in Marine and Freshwater Habitats of the Americas Using Standardized Citizen Science Data. Ocean and Coastal Management

Francesca Gaia Bitetto, Nadia Ruocco, Carola Murano, Francesco Manfellotto, Paolo D’Ambrosio, Mirko Mutalipassi, Antonio Terlizzi. 2026. Aphaniidae as ecological models: an analysis of biodiversity and environmental resilience. Biodiversity and Conservation

Marika Luci, Filomena De Leo, Mirko Mutalipassi, Teresa Romeo, Silvestro Greco, Chiara Giommi, Lorenzo Evola, Mauro Francesco La Russa, Michela Ricca, Donatella de Pascale, Clara Enza Urzì, Sandra lo Schiavo, Christian Galasso, Nadia Ruocco, Silvestro Antonio Ruffolo. 2026. Underwater Performance of Eco-Friendly Choline-Based Ionic Liquid Coatings Applied on Stone Surfaces. Coatings

Federica Spani, Alessandra Riccieri, Lucrezia Spagoni, Tilo Nadler, Monica Carosi. 2025. The Presence of and Morphological Variation in the Baculum in the Northern Pygmy Loris (Xanthonycticebus intermedius). International Journal of Primatology

Federica Rescio, Claudia Scianna, Antonio Di Franco, Giacomo Milisenda, Simone Bava, Claudia Bommarito, Gaia Grasso, Paolo Guidetti, Gabriella La Manna, Mariangela Moro Merella, Antonio Calò. 2025. Increasing occurrence of the bearded fireworm (Hermodice carunculata) poses a threat for small-scale fisheries in the central Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Environmental Management

Antonio Giova, Cristina Pedà, Daniela Pica, Silvestro Greco, Teresa Romeo, Nunziacarla Spanò. 2025. Identifying a suitable digestion protocol for microplastic extraction from Isidella elongata (Esper, 1788): New insights for cold-water corals. Journal of Hazardous Materials: Plastics

Daniela Pica, Claudio Pica, Claudia F. Vaga. 2025. The first mitochondrial genomes of stylasterid corals (Hydrozoa; Stylasteridae) and their phylogenetic position. Molecular Biology Reports

Lucia Rizzo, Andrea Picciolo, Giulio Tarantino, Luciana Muscogiuri, Simonetta Fraschetti, Antonio Terlizzi , Paolo D’Ambrosio. 2025. Subtidal benthic assemblages in a mediterranean bank along a depth gradient: Conservation perspectives of a vulnerable marine ecosystem. Ocean & Coastal Management

Gabriella Licata, Christian Galasso, Fortunato Palma Esposito, Antonio Palumbo Piccionello, Valeria Villanova. 2025. Mixotrophy in Marine Microalgae to Enhance Their Bioactivity. Microorganisms

Costanza Ragozzino, Vincenza Casella, Alessandro Coppola, Silvia Scarpato, Carmine Buonocore, Antonella Consiglio, Fortunato Palma Esposito, Christian Galasso, Pietro Tedesco, Gerardo Della Sala, Donatella de Pascale, Laura Vitale, Daniela Coppola. 2025. Last Decade Insights in Exploiting Marine Microorganisms as Sources of New Bioactive Natural Products. Marine Drugs

Fortunato Palma Esposito, Andrea López-Mobilia, Michael Tangherlini, Vincenza Casella, Alessandro Coppola, Giulia Varola, Laura Vitale, Gerardo Della Sala, Pietro Tedesco, Simone Montano, Davide Seveso, Paolo Galli, Daniela Coppola, Donatella de Pascale, Christian Galasso. 2025. Novel Insights and Genomic Characterization of Coral-Associated Microorganisms from Maldives Displaying Antimicrobial, Antioxidant, and UV-Protectant Activities. Biology

Laura Vitale, Carmine Buonocore, Virginia Venezia, Christian Galasso, Fortunato Palma Esposito, Daniela Coppola, Gerardo Della Sala, Luciana Mantovani, Daniele Moro, Gianfranco Ulian, Giovanni Valdrè, Donatella de Pascale, Giuseppe Vitiello, Valerio Funari, Pietro Tedesco. 2025. Genomic and functional characterization of the novel marine bacterial isolate Lysinibacillus sphaericus PG22 highlights the potential for metals biomineralization via urease activity. Environmental Technology & Innovation

Laura Vitale, Pietro Tedesco, Christian Galasso, Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Giulia Varola, Gerardo Della Sala, Fortunato Palma Esposito, Sergio Balzano, Junaid Ghani, Donatella de Pascale, Enrico Dinelli, Thomas C. Meisel, Daniela Coppola, Valerio Funari. 2025. Biotechnological valorisation of Spent Automotive Catalytic Converters: Marine microorganisms in PGE leaching and recovery

Alessandro Coppola, Maria Oliviero, Noemi De Cesare, Nello Russo, Noemi Nappo, Carmine Buonocore, Gerardo Della Sala, Pietro Tedesco, Fortunato Palma Esposito, Christian Galasso, Donatella de Pascale, Ugo D'Amora, Daniela Coppola. 2025. Marine Collagen from European Sea Bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) Waste for the Development of Chitosan/Collagen Scaffolds in Skin Tissue Engineering. Marine Drugs

Marta L. Lopes, Daniel Crespo, Valentina Costa, Paulo Rainha, Ana I. Sousa, Ana I. Lillebø. 2025. Effects of the native-invasive/alien substitution of ecosystem engineers on sediment reworking and nutrient cycling. Frontiers in Marine Science

Valeria Palummo, Giacomo Milisenda, Daniela Pica, Simonepietro Canese, Eva Salvati, Ludovica De Vincenzis, Pietro Battaglia, Nunziacarla Spanò, Teresa Romeo, Silvestro Greco. 2025. Ecological role of benthic Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs) indicator taxa on soft bottoms. Scientific Reports

Vittorio Sansone, Francesca Macedonio, Teresa Poerio, Giuseppe Vitola, Leonardo Bruno, Antonella Piscioneri, Mirko Frappa, Silvestro Greco, Teresa Romeo, Carmen Rizzo, Lidietta Giorno, Rosalinda Mazzei. 2025. Biofunctionalized and bioluminescent PVA membrane for ATP detection. Journal of Membrane Science

Chiara Molino, Ines Lacchetti, Walter Cristiano, Kevin di Domenico, Mario Carere, Dario Angeletti. 2025. Zebrafish Embryo Model as a Tool for Ecotoxicological Studies in Central Italy’s Transitional Waters. Enviromental Management

Sebastiano Scibelli, Mirko Mutalipassi, Iole Di Capua, Nadia Ruocco, Geoffrey A. Boxshall, Maria Costantini, Antonio Terlizzi, Valerio Zupo. 2025. Parasitic Pachypygus gibber poses a silent threat to reproduction and development in Ciona robusta. Scientific Reports

Emanuele Somma, Maria Costantini, Mirko Mutalipassi, Nadia Ruocco, Antonio Terlizzi, Franco Iamunno, Jérémy Carlot, Valerio Zupo. 2025. Ocean Acidification Influences Strain Selection and Metabolism of the Benthic Diatom Cocconeis neothumensis var. marina. Ecosystems

Emanuele Somma, Maria Costantini, Chiara Pennesi, Nadia Ruocco, Olga De Castro, Antonio Terlizzi, Valerio Zupo. 2025. Identification of Cocconeis neothumensis var. marina using a polyphasic approach including ultrastructure and gene annotation. Plos One

Cristina Andolina, Giovanna Cilluffo, Vincenzo Zammuto, Geraldina Signa, Maria Papale, Angelina Lo Giudice, Rossella Di Leonardo, Valentina Costa, Laura Ciriminna, Agostino Tomasello, Concetta Gugliandolo, Salavatrice Vizzini. 2025. Extreme abiotics drive sediment biocomplexity along pH gradients in a shallow submarine volcanic event. Marine Pollution Bulletin

Bruno Pinto, Davide Bonsignori, Francesco Aliberti, Elvira Brunelli, Federica Carraturo, Maria Carmela Cerra, Paolo D'Ambrosio, Anna Di Cosmo, Alfonsina Gattuso, Marco Guida, Maria Assunta Iovine, Giovanni Libralato, Marialuisa Lusito, Valeria Maselli, Antonio Nappo, Paola Nieri, Gianluca Polese, Giuseppe Trotta, Maria Costantini, Valerio Zupo. 2024. Trophic organization of the benthic communities off the South Italian coasts: A review with a modelistic approach. Science of The Total Environment

Giulio Tarantino, Gregorio Motta, Paolo D’Ambrosio, Serena Felline, Valerio Sbragaglia, Stranislao Bevilacqua, Pietro Tedesco, Giuseppe Scordella, Antonio Terlizzi. 2024. Increasing trammel mesh size reduces biomass removal, mitigates discards and increases economic revenue in artisanal fisheries. Frontiers in Marine Science

Enrico Cecapolli, Antonio Calò, Sylvaine Giakoumi, Manfredi Di Lorenzo, Silvestro Greco, Emanuela Fanelli, Giacomo Milisenda, Antonio Di Franco. 2024. Sandy bottoms have limited species richness but substantially contribute to the regional coastal fish β-diversity: A case study of the Central Mediterranean Sea. Marine Environmental Research

Maria Costantini, Roberta Esposito, Nadia Ruocco, Davide Caramiello, Angela Cordella, Giovanna Maria Ventola, Valerio Zupo. 2024. De Novo Assembly of the Genome of the Sea Urchin Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck 1816). International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Mirko Mutalipassi, Emanuele D’Anza, Mariagiulia Pugliano, Roberto Firmamento, Carola Murano, Nadia Ruocco, Chiara Pennesi, Gabriele Procaccini, Teresa Romeo, Antonio Terlizzi, Vincenzo Peretti. 2024. Casting light on the European anchovy: from biology to conservation and industry. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Davide Maggioni, Peter Schuchert, Andrew N. Ostrovsky, Andrea Schiavo , Bert W. Hoeksema , Daniela Pica, Stefano Piraino, Roberto Arrigoni , Davide Seveso, Enrico Montalbetti , Paolo Galli, Simone Montano. 2024. Systematics and character evolution of capitate hydrozoans. Cladistics

Nadia Ruocco, Genoveffa Nuzzo, Serena Federico, Roberta Esposito, Carmela Gallo, Marcello Ziaco, Emiliano Manzo, Angelo Fontana, Marco Bertolino, Gicomo Zagami, Valerio Zupo, Clementina Sansone, Maria Costantini. 2024. Potential of polar lipids isolated from the marine sponge Haliclona (Halichoclona) vansoesti against melanoma. International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Serena Federico, Antonietta Siciliano, Roberta Esposito, Marisa Spampinato, Nadia Ruocco, Genoveffa Nuzzo, Adele Cutignano, Marco Giovine, Marina Pozzolini, Marco Bertolino, Marco Guida, Maria Costantini, Valerio Zupo. 2024. Toxigenic effects of sponges and benthic diatoms on marine invertebrates and their possible biotechnological applications. Scientific Reports

Sylvaine Giakoumi, Katie Hogg, Manfredi Di Lorenzo, Nicolas Compain, Claudia Scianna, Giacomo Milisenda, Joachim Claudet, Dimitrios Damalas, Pierluigi Carbonara, Francesco Colloca, Athanasius Evangelopoulos, Igor Isajlović, Dimitrios Karampetsis, Alessandro Ligas, Bojan Marčeta, Magda Nenciu, Victor Nita, Marina Panayotova, Rosaria Sabatella, Paolo Sartor, Antonio Di Franco. 2024. Deficiencies in monitoring practices of marine protected areas in southern European seas.. Journal of Environmental Management

Nathan J Bennett, Antonio Calò, Paolo Guidetti, Marco Milazzo, Giulia Prato, Emma Ben Lamine, Claudia Scianna, Antonio Di Franco. 2024. Access and well-being in small-scale fisheries. Marine Policy

Carola Murano, Rosario Balestrieri, Adriano Minichino, Letizia Campioni, Raffaella Casotti. 2024. Macro-and micro-plastics detected in razorbill Alca torda in the western Mediterranean Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin

Serena Zampardi, Claudia Scianna, Antonio Calò, Katie Hogg, Marco Ranù, Giorgio Aglieri, Emanuela Di Meglio, Maria Cristina Mangano, Giulia Prato, Teresa Romeo, Fabio Colloca, Giacomo Milisenda, Antonio Di Franco. 2024. Testing best practices in small scale fisheries management: Evidence from a collaborative intervention in two marine protected areas of the central Mediterranean Sea. Ocean & Coastal Management

Pierpaolo Consoli, Valentina Costa, Valentina Sciutteri, Danilo Malara, Cristina Pedà, Fabio Figurella, Ian Campbell, Emily Deery, Teresa Romeo, Franco Andaloro. 2024. Synthetic polymers: a global threat to aquatic benthic environments. Journal of Hazardous Material

Chloé Julie Loïs Fourreau, Daniela Pica, Emmeline A. Jamodiong, Guillermo Mironenko Castellò, Iori Mizukami, James Davis Reimer. 2024. Millepora spp. as substrates of their hydrozoan counterparts Stylaster sp. in the Pacific Ocean. Diversity

Tullia Guardia, Lorena Varriale, Adriano Minichino, Rosario Balestrieri, Danila Mastronardi, Tamara Pasqualina Russo, Ludivico Dipineto, Alessandro Fioretti, Luca Borrelli. 2024. Wild birds and the ecology of antimicrobial resistance: an approach to monitoring. Journal of Wildlife Management

Flavio Monti, Emiliano Mori, Rosario Balestrieri, Adriano Minichino, Roberto Vento, Andra Viviano, Francesco Tiralongo. 2024. First data on the diet of Razorbill Alca torda wintering in the Mediterranean Sea: insights from social media. Mediterranean Marine Science

Valeria Palummo, Giacomo Milisenda, Daniela Pica, Simonepietro Canese, Eva Salvati, Nunziacarla Spanò, Teresa Romeo, Silvestro Greco. 2024. Improving the knowledge base of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems’ distribution in the Amendolara Bank (Io-nian Sea). Mediterranean Marine Science

Roberta Esposito, Serena Federico, Michele Sonnessa, Sofia Reddel, Marco Bertolino, Nadia Ruocco, Giacomo Zagami, Marco Giovine, Marina Pozzolini, Marco Guida, Valerio Zupo, Maria Costantini. 2024. Characterizing the bacterial communities associated with Mediterranean sponges: a metataxonomic analysis. Frontiers in Microbiology

Valentina Sciutteri, Valentina Costa, Danilo Malara, Fabio Figurella, Ian Campbell, Emily Deery, Teresa Romeo, Franco Andaloro, Pierpaolo Consoli. 2024. Citizen science through a recreational underwater diving project supports the collection of large-scale marine litter data: the Oceania case study. Marine Pollution Bullettin

Geraldina Signa, Valentina Sciutteri, Agostino Tomasello, Valentina Costa, Silvia Casabianca, Giovanna Cilluffo, Cristina Andolina, Salvatrice Vizzini. 2024. Combined exposure to CO2 and H2S significantly reduces the performance of the Mediterranean seagrass Posidonia oceanica: evidence from a volcanic vent. Limnology and Oceanography Letters

Luciano Bosso, Raffaele Panzuto, Rosario Balestrieri , Sonia Smeraldo, Maria Luisa Chiusano, Francesca Raffini, Daniele Canestrelli, Luigi Musco, Claudia Gili. 2024. Integrating citizen science and spatial ecology to inform management and conservation of the Italian seahorses. Ecological Informatics

Christopher J. Smith , Jana Verdura, Nadia Papadopoulou, Simonetta Fraschetti, Emma Cebrian, Erika Fabbrizzi, Margalida Monserrat, Matilde Drake, Silvia Bianchelli, Roberto Danovaro, Dania Abdul Malak, Enric Ballesteros, Tatí Benjumea Tesouro, Pierre Boissery, Paolo D’Ambrosio, Cristina Galobart, Fabrice Javel, Didier Laurent, Sotiris Orfanidis, Luisa Mangialajo. 2023. A decision-support framework for the restoration of Cystoseira sensu lato forests.. Frontiers in Marine Science

Francesco Longo, Danilo Malara, Emanuele Asciutto, Pietro Battaglia. 2023. Growth of the Mesopelagic Fish Vinciguerria attenuata (Cocco, 1838) in the Strait of Messina (Central Mediterranean Sea). Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Pietro Battaglia, Simonepietro Canese, Eva Salvati, Silvestro Greco. 2023. In situ observations of three deep-sea cephalopods in the central Mediterranean Sea. Marine Biology

Chiara Lauritano, Christian Galasso. 2023. Microbial Interactions between Marine Microalgae and Fungi: From Chemical Ecology to Biotechnological Possible Applications. Marine drugs

Federica Laface, Cristina Pedà, Chiara Giommi, Serena Scozzafava, Carmen Rizzo, Danilo Malara, Silvestro Greco, Teresa Romeo. 2023. A glimpse into the future: A suitable methodological approach for the detection and identification of micro-bioplastics in biota. Science of The Total Environment

Francesco Caruso, Sara Ferri,Anaëlle Evrard, Augusto Passarelli, Teresa Romeo, Silvestro Greco, Simonepietro Canese. 2023. Acoustic monitoring of cetaceans using static and dynamic devices in the central Mediterranean Sea. 2023 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for the Sea; Learning to Measure Sea Health Parameters, MetroSea 2023 - Proceedings

Valeria Palummo, Giacomo Milisenda, Simonepietro Canese, Eva Salvati, Daniela Pica, Augusto Passarelli, Nunziacarla Spanò, Teresa Romeo, Silvestro Greco. 2023. Effect of environmental and anthropogenic factors on the distribution and co-occurrence of cold-water corals. Frontiers in Marine Science

Francesco Paolo Mancuso, Chiara Giommi, Maria Cristina Mangano, Laura Airoldi, Brian Helmuth, Gianluca Sarà. 2023. Evenness, biodiversity, and ecosystem function of intertidal communities along the Italian coasts: Experimental short-term response to ambient and extreme air temperatures. Science of The Total Environment

Francesco Enrichetti, Margherita Toma, Giorgio Bavestrello, Federico Betti, Michela Giusti, Simonepietro Canese, Davide Moccia, Gianluca Quarta, Lucio Calcagnile , Franco Andaloro, Silvestro Greco, Marzia Bo. 2023. Facies created by the yellow coral Dendrophyllia cornigera (Lamarck, 1816): Origin, substrate preferences and habitat complexity. Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Valerio Zupo, Maria Costantini, Eliahu D Aflalo, Tom Levy, Vered Chalifa-Caspi, Olabiyi Obayomi, Mirko Mutalipassi, Nadia Ruocco, Francesca Glaviano, Emanuele Somma, Paola Nieri, Amir Sagi. 2023. Ferroptosis precedes apoptosis to facilitate specific death signalling by fatty acids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Lucia Barra and Silvestro Greco. 2023. The Potential of Microalgae in Phycoremediation. Chapter in Microalgae - Current and Potential Applications edited by Intechopen

Rosario Balestrieri, Fabio Crocetta. 2023. Hunting on dangerous ground. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Pietro Battaglia, Cristina Pedà, Carmen Rizzo, Maria Giulia Stipa, Erika Arcadi, Francesco Longo, Giovanni Ammendolia, Mauro Cavallaro, Ignazio Rao, Alberto Villari, Rosario Calogero, Pierpaolo Consoli, Mauro Sinopoli, Franco Andaloro, Teresa Romeo. 2023. How Rare Are Argonautoidea Octopuses in the Mediterranean? New Data from Stranding Events, Stomach Contents and Genetics. Biology

Michele Ferrari, Lucia Barra, Luisa Ruffolo, Antonella Muto, Christian Galasso, Isabella Percopo, Silvestro Greco, Radiana Cozza. 2023. Identification of Pseudo-nitzschia Cryptic Species Collected in the Gulf of Naples Using Whole-Cell Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization: From Cultured Sample to Field Test. Diversity

Martina Genovese, Maria Cristina Mangano, Federica Papa, Teresa Romeo, Greco Silvestro. 2023. Local businesses' consumption and perception of Single-Use Plastics: A preliminary assessment for conservation and mitigation plans in the Egadi Islands Marine Protected Area. Marine Pollution Bullettin

Christian Galasso, Nadia Ruocco, Mirko Mutalipassi, Lucia Barra, Valentina Costa, Chiara Giommi, Alessia Dinoi, Martina Genovese, Daniela Pica, Chiara Romano, Silvestro Greco, Chiara Pennesi. 2023. Marine polysaccharides, proteins, lipids, and silica for drug delivery systems: a review. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Valentina Perricone, Mirko Mutalipassi, Antonio Mele, Mario Buono, Diego Vicinanza, Pasquale Contestabile. 2023. Nature-based and bioinspired solutions for coastal protection: an overview among key ecosystems and a promising pathway for new functional and sustainable designs. ICES Journal of Marine Science

Chiara Pennesi, Tiziana Romagnoli, Mirko Mutalipassi, Mario De Stefano, Silvestro Greco, Cecilia Totti. 2023. New insights into the association between epizoic diatoms and the sea turtle Chelonia mydas: new Mastogloia taxon (Bacillariophyceae) from Iran. Phycologia

Francesca De Domenico, Cristina Pedà, Claudio Berti, Pierpaolo Consoli, Francesco Longo, Silvestro Greco, Teresa Romeo. 2023. Reducing marine litter pollution from anchored fish aggregating devices: Sicilian good practices and the legislative paradox. Marine Policy

Elisa Nocella, Sofya Sergeevna Zvonareva, Giulia Fassio, Daniela Pica, Barbara Buge, Raimendo Villa, Nicolas Puillandre, Maria Vittoria Modica, Marco Oliverio. 2023. Spicy food for the egg-cowries: the evolution of corallivory in the Ovulidae (Gastropoda: Cypraeoidea). Frontiers in Marine Science

Luca Ambrosino, Marco Miralto, Lucia Barra, Angela Sardo, Maria Luisa Chiusano, Radiana Cozza, Michele Ferrari, Silvestro Greco. 2023. Stress Response in Toxic Diatoms: The Effects of Abiotic Factors on Growth and RNA Content in Pseudo-nitzschia calliantha and in Pseudo-nitzschia multistriata. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Marika Luci, Filomena De Leo, Donatella De Pascale, Christian Galasso, Mauro Francesco La Russa, Sandra Lo Schiavo, Michela Ricca, Silvestro Antonio Ruffolo, Nadia Ruocco, Clara Urzì. 2023. Surface-Active Ionic-Liquid-Based Coatings as Anti-Biofilms for Stone: An Evaluation of Their Physical Properties. Coatings

Valentina Costa, Valentina Sciutteri, Pierpaolo Consoli, Elisabetta Manea, Elisabetta Menini, Franco Andaloro, Teresa Romeo, Roberto Danovaro. 2023. Volcanic-associated ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea: a systematic map and an interactive tool to support their conservation. PeerJ Life & Environment

Matteo Galli, Matteo Baini, Cristina Panti, Dario Giani, Ilaria Caliani, Tommaso Campani, Massimiliano Rosso, Paola Tepsich, Vanessa Levati, Federica Laface, Teresa Romeo, Gianfranco Scotti, Francois Galgani, Maria Cristina Fossi. 2023. Oceanographic and anthropogenic variables driving marine litter distribution in Mediterranean protected areas: Extensive field data supported by forecasting modelling. Science of the Total Environment

Maurizio Sarà, Roberto Firmamento, Giuseppe Cangemi, Luca Pagano, Martina Genovese, Teresa Romeo, Silvestro Greco. 2023. Welcome aboard: are birds migrating across the Mediterranean Sea using ships as stopovers during adverse weather conditions?. IBIS - international journal of avian science

Antonio Di Cintio, Claudia Scianna, Giulia Prato. 2022. Analysis of small-scale fisheries value chain: An interview-based approach in Italian marine protected areas. Fisheries Research

Mar Bosch-Belmar, Antonio Giacoletti, Chiara Giommi, Albert Girons, Giacomo Milisenda, Gianluca Sarà. 2022. Short-term exposure to concurrent biotic and abiotic stressors may impair farmed molluscs performance. Marine Pollution Bullettin

Camilla Roveta, Teo Marrocco, Barbara Calcinai, Torcuato Pulido Mantas, Daniela Pica, Laura Valisano, Stefania Puce. 2022. Unravelling the sponge diversity of the Tuscan Archipelago National Park (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy). The European Zoological Journal

Davide Maggioni, Tullia I. Terraneo, Giovanni Chimienti, Fabio Marchese, Daniela Pica, Stephen D. Cairns, Ameer A. Eweida, Mattie Rodrigue, Sam J. Purkis, Francesca Benzoni. 2022. The First Deep-Sea Stylasterid (Hydrozoa, Stylasteridae) of the Red Sea. Diversity

Daniela Pica, Björn Berning, Rosalia Calicchio. 2022. Cheilostomatida (Bryozoa) from the Ionian Apulian coast (Italy) with the description of new species. The European Zoological Journal

Elena Cavalletti, Giovanna Romano, Fortunato Palma Esposito, Lucia Barra, Pasquale Chiaiese,Sergio Balzano, Angela Sardo. 2022. Copper Effect on Microalgae: Toxicity and Bioremediation Strategies. Toxics

Guido Pietroluongo, Belén Quintana Martín-Montalvo, Simone Antichi, Anastasia Miliou, Valentina Costa. 2022. First Assessment of Micro-Litter Ingested by Dolphins, Sea Turtles and Monk Seals Found Stranded along the Coasts of Samos Island, Greece. Animals

Camilla Roveta, Teo Marrocco, Daniela Pica, Torcuato Pulido Mantas, Fabio Rindi, Luigi Musco, Stefania Puce. 2022. The effect of substrate and depth on hydroid assemblages: A comparison between two islands of the Tuscan Archipelago (Tyrrhenian Sea). Marine Biodiversity

Carlos Sanchez-Arcos, Debora Paris, Valerio Mazzella, Mirko Mutalipassi, Maria Costantini, Maria Cristina Buia, Eric von Elert, Adele Cutignano, Valerio Zupo. 2022. Responses of the Macroalga Ulva prolifera Müller to Ocean Acidification Revealed by Complementary NMR- and MS-Based Omics Approaches. Marine Drugs

Christian Galasso, Xabier Lekube, Ibon Cancio, Antonio Dell’Anno, Christophe Brunet, Clementina Sansone, Michael Tangherlini. 2022. Marine Fungi as Potential Eco-Sustainable Resource for Precious Metals Recovery from Electronic Waste. Waste and Biomass Valorization

Cristina Pedà, Francesco Longo, Claudio Berti, Federica Laface, francesca De Domenico, Pierpaolo Consoli, Pietro Battaglia, Silvestro Greco, Teresa Romeo. 2022. The waste collector: information from a pilot study on the interaction between the common octopus (Octopus vulgaris, Cuvier, 1797) and marine litter in bottom traps fishing and first evidence of plastic ingestion. Marine Pollution Bullettin

Ettore Nepote, Cinzia Corinaldesi, Antonio Dell'Anno, Silvestro Greco, Marco Lo Martire, Roberto Danovaro. 2022. Positive effects of the decrease of hydraulic dredging due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on benthic fauna and clam harvesting in the northern Adriatic (Mediterranean Sea). Aquatic Science & Management

Luisa Albarano, Nadia Ruocco, Giusy Lofrano, Marco Guida, Giovanni Libralato. 2022. Genotoxicity in Artemia spp.: An old model with new sensitive endpoints. Aquatic Toxicology

Daniel Martin, Marika Mecca, Miguel A. Meca, Godfried van Moorsel, Chiara Romano. 2022. Citizen Science and integrative taxonomy reveal a great diversity within Carribbean Chaetoperidae (Annelida), with description of one new species. Invertebrate Systematics

Mirko Mutalipassi, Eva Terzibasi Tozzini, Alessandro Cellerino. 2022. Age and Longevity. CRC Press, in Evolution, Development and Ecology of Anemonefishes

Fabio Rindi, Brigitte Gavio, Laura Pezzolesi, Daniela Pica, Massimo Ponti, Fabrizio Torsani, Carlo Cerrano. 2022. Spring composition of the macroalgal vegetation of a small offshore island in the north-western Mediterranean (Gallinara Island, Ligurian Sea). Italian Botanist

Francesca Visintin, Elisa Tomasinsig, Maurizio Spoto, Francesco Marangon , Paolo D’Ambrosio, Luciana Muscogiuri, Sergio Fai, Stefania Troiano. 2022. Assessing the Benefit Produced by Marine Protected Areas: The Case of Porto Cesareo Marine Protected Area (Italy). Sustainability

Lucia Barra, Angela Sardo, Maria Moros, Arianna Smerilli, Pasquale Chiaiese, Isabella Percopo, Elena Cavalletti, Christian Castro-Hinojosa, Sergio Balzano. 2022. Identification of a Green Algal Strain Collected from the Sarno River Mouth (Gulf of Naples, Italy) and Its Exploitation for Heavy Metal Remediation. Microorganisms

Margherita Toma, Federico Betti, Giorgio Bavestrello, Riccardo Cattaneo-Vietti, Simonepietro Canese, Alessandro Cau, Franco Andaloro, Silvestro Greco, Marzia Bo. 2022. Diversity and abundance of heterobranchs (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the mesophotic and bathyal zone of the Mediterranean Sea. The European Zoological Journal

Margherita Toma, Marzia Bo, Riccardo Cattaneo-Vietti, Simonepietro Canese, Martina Canessa, Rita Cannas, Frine Cardone, Laura Carugati, Alessandro Cau, Giuseppe Corriero, Maria Cristina Follesa, Maria Mercurio, Silvestro Greco, Franco Andaloro, Giorgio Bavestrello. 2022. Basin-scale occurrence and distribution of mesophotic and upper bathyal red coral forests along the Italian coasts. Mediterranean Marine Science

Mirko Mutalipassi, Gennaro Riccio, Nadia Ruocco, Christian Galasso, Valerio Zupo, Silvestro Greco. 2022. Editorial: Cyanobacterial and microalgal compounds: Chemical ecology and biotechnological potentials. Frontiers in Marine Science

Mirko Mutalipassi, Valerio Mazzella, Francesca Glaviano, Valerio Zupo. 2022. Constitutive and activated toxigenic activity of Halomicronemametazoicum (Cyanoprokaryota, Cyanophyta). Marine Ecology

Simona Brillante, Christian Galasso, Chiara Lauritano, Sabrina Carrella. 2022. From the Sea for the Sight: Marine Derived Products for Human Vision. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Maria Costantini, Roberta Esposito, Nadia Ruocco. 2022. Crustaceans as Good Marine Model Organisms to Study Stress Responses by —Omics Approaches. Crustaceans

Mirko Mutalipassi, Valerio Mazzella, Matthias Schott, Patrick Fink, Francesca Glaviano, Lucia Porzio, Maurizio Lorenti, Maria Cristina Buia, Eric von Elert, Valerio Zupo. 2022. Ocean Acidification Affects Volatile Infochemicals Production and Perception in Fauna and Flora Associated With Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile. Frontiers in Marine Science

Pietro Battaglia, Cristina Pedà, Danilo Malara, Giacomo Milisenda, Brian R. MacKenzie, Valentina Esposito, Pierpaolo Consoli, Teresa Manuela Vicchio, Maria Giulia Stipa, Luca Pagano, Francesco Longo, Teresa Romeo. 2022. Importance of the Lunar Cycle on Mesopelagic Foraging by Atlantic Bluefin Tuna in the Upwelling Area of the Strait of Messina (Central Mediterranean Sea). Animals

Teresa Bottari, Monique Mancuso, Cristina Pedà, Francesca De Domenico, Federica Laface, Gabriella F. Schirinzi, Pietro Battaglia, Pierpaolo Consoli, Nunziacarla Spanò, Silvestro Greco, Teresa Romeo. 2022. Microplastics in the bogue, Boops boops: A snapshot of the past from the southern Tyrrhenian Sea. Journal of Hazardous Materials

Teresa Bottari, Valeria Conti Nibali, Caterina Branca, Marco Grotti, Serena Savoca, Teresa Romeo, Nunziacarla Spanò, Maurizio Azzaro, Silvestro Greco, Giovanna D’Angelo, Monique Mancuso. 2022. Anthropogenic microparticles in the emerald rockcod Trematomus bernacchii (Nototheniidae) from the Antarctic. Scientific Reports

Torcuato Pulido Mantas, Giorgio Bavestrello, Marco Bertolino, Carlo Cerrano, Daniela Pica, Camilla Roveta, Barbara Calcinai. 2022. A 3D Innovative Approach Supporting the Description of Boring Sponges of the Precious Red Coral Corallium rubrum. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Francesca Glaviano, Mirko Mutalipassi. 2022. Automatic Culture of Crustaceans as Models for Science. CRC Press, in Crustaceans

Valerio Zupo, Valerio Mazzella, Patrick Fink, Mahasweta Saha, Ylenia Carotenuto, Mirko Mutalipassi. 2022. Copepods vs. Salmons Environmental Treats for Crustaceans or Possible Eco-Sustainable Solutions?. CRC Press, in Crustaceans

Cristina Pedà, Pietro Battaglia, Teresa Romeo, Maria Giulia Stipa, Francesco Longo, Danilo Malara, Pierpaolo Consoli, Franco Andaloro. 2022. Photographic atlas of cephalopod beaks from the Mediterranean Sea. Officine grafiche F. Giannini & figli S.P.A.

Valeria Villanova, Christian Galasso, Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Gerardo Della Sala, Johan Engelbrektsson, Niklas Strömberg, Kashif Mohd Shaikh, Mats X. Andersson, Fortunato Palma Esposito, Susanne Ekendahl, Donatella De Pascale, Cornelia Spetea. 2022. Mixotrophy in a Local Strain of Nannochloropsis granulata for Renewable High-Value Biomass Production on the West Coast of Sweden. Marine drugs

Mirko Mutalipassi, Gennaro Riccio, Valerio Mazzella, Christian Galasso, Emanuele Somma, Antonia Chiarore, Donatella de Pascale, Valerio Zupo. 2021. Symbioses of cyanobacteria in marine environments: ecological insights and biotechnological perspectives. Marine drugs

Antonio Dell'Anno, Francesca Beolchini, Cinzia Corinaldesi, Alessia Amato, Alessandro Becci, Eugenio Rastelli, Melanie Hekeu, Francesco Regoli, Enrico Astarita, Silvestro Greco, Luigi Musco, Roberto Danovaro. 2021. Assessing the efficiency and eco-sustainability of bioremediation strategies for the reclamation of highly contaminated marine sediments. Marine Environmental Research

Alejandro Moreiras-Figueruelo, Genoveffa Nuzzo, Christian Galasso, Clementina Sansone, Fabio Crocetta, Valerio Mazzella, Carmela Gallo, Giusi Barra, Angela Sardo, Antonella Iuliano, Emiliano Manzo, Giuliana d’Ippolito, Marte Albrigtsen, Jeanette H Andersen, Adrianna Ianora, Angelo Fontana. 2021. Probing the therapeutic potential of marine phyla by spe extraction. Marine drugs

Clementina Sansone, Christian Galasso, Marco Lo Martire, Tomás Vega Fernández, Luigi Musco, Antonio Dell’Anno, Antonino Bruno, Douglas M Noonan, Adriana Albini, Christophe Brunet. 2021. In Vitro Evaluation of Antioxidant Potential of the Invasive Seagrass Halophila stipulacea. Marine drugs

Valeria Villanova, Christian Galasso, Federica Fiorini, Serena Lima, Mark Brönstrup, Clementina Sansone, Christophe Brunet, Alberto Brucato, Francesca Scargiali. 2021. Biological and chemical characterization of new isolated halophilic microorganisms from saltern ponds of Trapani, Sicily. Algal Research

Danilo Malara, Francesco Longo, Teresa Romeo, Franco Andaloro, Pietro Battaglia. 2021. Age and growth of pompano, Trachinotus ovatus (Linnaeus, 1758), from the Strait of Messina (central Mediterranean Sea). Scientia Marina

Michael Tangherlini, Cinzia Corinaldesi, Francesca Ape, Silvestro Greco, Teresa Romeo, Franco Andaloro, Roberto Danovaro. 2021. Ocean Acidification Induces Changes in Virus–Host Relationships in Mediterranean Benthic Ecosystems. Microorganisms

Fortunato Palma Esposito, Rosa Giugliano, Gerardo Della Sala, Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Carmine Buonocore, Janardhan Ausuri, Christian Galasso, Daniela Coppola, Gianluigi Franci, Massimiliano Galdiero, Donatella de Pascale. 2021. Combining OSMAC Approach and Untargeted Metabolomics for the Identification of New Glycolipids with Potent Antiviral Activity Produced by a Marine Rhodococcus. International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Mar Bosch-Belmar, Chiara Giommi, Giacomo Milisenda, Antonino Abbruzzo, Gianluca Sarà. 2021. Integrating functional traits into correlative species distribution models to investigate the vulnerability of marine human activities to climate change. Science of the Total Environment

Danilo Malara, Pietro Battaglia, Pierpaolo Consoli, Erika Arcadi, Francesco Longo, Maria Giulia Stipa, Luca Pagano, Silvestro Greco, Franco Andaloro, Teresa Romeo. 2021. When opportunistic predators interact with swordfish harpoon fishing activities: shark depredation over catches in the Strait of Messina (central Mediterranean Sea). The European Zoological Journal

Francesco Longo, Danilo Malara, Maria Giulia Stipa, Pierpaolo Consoli, Teresa Romeo, Marilena Sanfilippo, Francesco Abbate, Franco Andaloro, Pietro Battaglia. 2021. Age, growth and otolith microstructure of the spotted lanternfish Myctophum punctatum Rafinesque 1810. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Luisa Albarano, Valerio Zupo, Marco Guida, Giovanni Libralato, Davide Caramiello, Nadia Ruocco, Maria Costantini. 2021. PAHs and PCBs Affect Functionally Intercorrelated Genes in the Sea Urchin Paracentrotus lividus Embryos. International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Antonia Granata, Alessandro Bergamasco, Pietro Battaglia, Giacomo Milisenda, Marco Pansera, Vincenzo Bonanzinga, Giuseppe Arena, Franco Andaloro, Salvatore Giacobbe, Silvestro Greco, Rosanna Guglielmo, Nunziacarla Spanò, Giacomo Zagami, Letterio Guglielmo. 2020. Vertical distribution and diel migration of zooplankton and micronekton in Polcevera submarine canyon of the Ligurian mesopelagic zone (NW Mediterranean Sea). Progress in Oceanography

Cristina Pedà, Pietro Battaglia, Michela D’Alessandro, Federica Laface, Danilo Malara, Pierpaolo Consoli, Teresa Manuela Vicchio, Francesco Longo, Franco Andaloro, Matteo Baini, Matteo Galli, Teresa Bottari, Maria Cristina Fossi, Silvestro Greco, Teresa Romeo. 2020. Coupling gastro-intestinal tract analysis with an airborne contamination control method to estimate litter ingestion in demersal elasmobranchs. Frontiers in Environmental Science

Danilo Malara, Pietro Battaglia, Pierpaolo Consoli, Erika Arcadi, Simonepietro Canese, Silvestro Greco, Franco Andaloro, Teresa Romeo. 2020. Evidence of a predation event on a tagged Mediterranean spearfish (Tetrapturus belone; Pisces, Istiophoridae), inferred from pop-up satellite tagging data. Aquatic Living Resources

Roberto Danovaro, Emanuela Fanelli, Miquel Canals, Tiziana Ciuffardi, M-C Fabri, Marco Taviani, Marina Argyrou, Ernesto Azzurro, Silvia Bianchelli, Annalucia Cantafaro, Laura Carugati, Cinzia Corinaldesi, William P De Haan, Antonio Dell’Anno, Julian Evans, Federica Foglini, Bella Galil, Matthew Gianni, Menachem Goren, Silvestro Greco, Joan Grimalt, Queralt Güell-Bujons, Angelique Jadaud, Leyla Knittweis, JL Lopez, Anna Sanchez-Vidal, Patrick J Schembri, Paul Snelgrove, Sandrine Vaz, Lorenzo Angeletti, Mattia Barsanti,Joseph Anthony Borg, M Bosso, Anik Brind'Amour, Giorgio Castellan, Fabio Conte, Ivana Delbono, Francois Galgani, Giancarlo Morgana, Susanna Prato, Antonio Schirone, E Soldevila. 2020. Towards a marine strategy for the deep Mediterranean Sea: Analysis of current ecological status. Marine Policy

Serena Savoca, Teresa Bottari, Enza Fazio, Martina Bonsignore, Monique Mancuso, Gian Marco Luna, Teresa Romeo, Luisa D'Urso, Gioele Capillo, Giuseppe Panarello, Silvestro Greco, Giuseppe Compagnini, Giovanni Lanteri, Rosalia Crupi, Fortunato Neri, Nunziacarla Spanò. 2020. Plastics occurrence in juveniles of Engraulis encrasicolus and Sardina pilchardus in the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea. Science of the Total Environment