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Franco Verni

University of Pisa(IT)

Publications by Year

Research Areas

Protist diversity and phylogeny, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Marine Biology and Ecology Research

Most-Cited Works

→ Mutations in twinstar, a Drosophila gene encoding a cofilin/ADF homologue, result in defects in centrosome migration and cytokinesis.(1995)316 cited
→ Defensive extrusive ectosymbionts of Euplotidium (Ciliophora) that contain microtubule-like structures are bacteria related to Verrucomicrobia(2000)132 cited
→ A Molecular Approach to the Tangled Intrageneric Relationships Underlying Phylogeny in Euplotes (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea)(2002)130 cited
→ Resting cysts: A survival strategy in Protozoa Ciliophora(2011)108 cited
→ ‘Candidatus Megaira polyxenophila’ gen. nov., sp. nov.: Considerations on Evolutionary History, Host Range and Shift of Early Divergent Rickettsiae(2013)77 cited
→ Feeding behaviour in ciliated protists(1997)76 cited

→ Detection of a Novel Subspecies of Francisella noatunensis as Endosymbiont of the Ciliate Euplotes raikovi(2010)

68 cited

→ A Multidisciplinary Approach to Describe Protists: a Morphological, Ultrastructural, and Molecular Study on Peritromus kahliVilleneuve‐Brachon, 1940 (Ciliophora, Heterotrichea)(2004)66 cited

→ A Bacterium Belonging to the Rickettsiaceae Family Inhabits the Cytoplasm of the Marine Ciliate Diophrys appendiculata (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)(2005)65 cited

→ “CandidatusAnadelfobacter veles” and “CandidatusCyrtobacter comes,” Two NewRickettsialesSpecies Hosted by the Protist CiliateEuplotes harpa(Ciliophora, Spirotrichea)(2010)61 cited