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2022
Kajihara, H., Grygier, M.J., Andrade, S.C., Bartolomaeus, T., Chernyshev, A.V., von Döhren, J., Gibson, R., Giribet, G., Hookabe, N., Junoy, J., Kvist, S., Maslakova, S.A., Mendes, C., Norenburg, J.L., Schwartz, M.L., Strand, M., Sun, S. & Turbeville, J.M. 2022. Case 3849 –Emplectonematidae Bürger, 1904 and Emplectonema Stimpson, 1857 (Nemertea, Monostilifera): proposed conservation of current usage by reversal of precedence of the family name with respect to Eunemertidae Joubin, 1894 and designation of a new type species for the genus. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 78: 184-200. PDF
Lynggaard, C., Oceguera-Figueroa, A., Kvist, S., Gilbert, M.T.P. & Bohmann, K. 2022. The potential of aquatic bloodfeeding and non-bloodfeeding leeches as a tool for iDNA characterisation. Molecular Ecology Resources, 22: 539-553. PDF
2021
Darabi-Darestani, K., Sari, A., Khomenko, A., Kvist, S., Utevsky, S. 2021. DNA barcoding of Iranian leeches (Annelida: Clitellata: Hirudinida). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 59: 1438-1452. PDF
Ceylan, M., Çetinkaya, O. & Kvist, S. 2021. The function of the waterfowl nests as reproduction and living areas for leeches (Annelida: Hirudinea). Animal Reproduction Science, 232: 106816. PDF
Iwama, R., Tessler, M., Siddall, M.E. & Kvist, S. 2021. The origin and evolution of antistasin-like proteins in leeches (Hirudinida, Clitellata). Genome Biology and Evolution, 13: evaa242. PDF
2020
Anderson, K., Pepinelli, M., & Kvist, S. 2020. Natural occurrence of an experimental developmental phenotype in the leech Erpobdella punctata (Leidy, 1870) (Annelida: Clitellata: Hirudinea). Invertebrate Reproduction and Development, 64: 268-273. PDF
Williams, K.M., Barkdull, M., Fahmy, M., Hekkala, E., Siddall, M.E. &. Kvist, S. 2020. Caught red handed: iDNA points to wild source of CITES contraband leeches. European Journal of Wildlife Management, 66: 80. PDF
Sosa-Jiménez, V.M., Torres-Carrera, G., Manzano Marín, A., Kvist, S. & Oceuguera-Figueroa, A. 2020. Mitogenome of the blood feeding leech Haementeria acuecueyetzin (Hirudinida: Glossiphoniidae) from Tabasco, Mexico. Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 5: 3328-3330. PDF
Jiménez-Armenta, J., Kvist, S. & Oceguera-Figueroa, A. 2020. An exceptional case of mitochondrial tRNA duplication-deletion events in blood-feeding leeches. Organisms Diversity and Evolution, 20: 221-231. PDF
Kvist, S., Manzano-Marín, A., de Carle, D., Trontelj, P. & Siddall, M.E. 2020. Draft genome of the European medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis (Annelida: Clitellata: Hirudiniformes) with emphasis on anticoagulants. Scientific Reports 10: 9885. PDF
Manglicmot, C., Oceguera-Figueroa, A., & Kvist, S. 2020. Bacterial endosymbionts of Placobdella (Annelida: Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae): phylogeny, genetic distance, vertical transmission and co-speciation. Hydrobiologia, 847: 1177-1194. PDF
Anderson, K., Braoudakis, G., & Kvist, S. 2020. Genetic variation, pseudocryptic diversity, and phylogeny of Erpobdella (Annelida: Hirudinida: Erpobdelliformes), with emphasis on Canadian species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 143: 106688. PDF
2019
Iwama, R., de Carle, D., Manglicmot, C., Oceguera-Figueroa, A., Erséus, C., Siddall, M.E., & Kvist, S. 2019. Broad geographic sampling and DNA barcoding do not support the presence of Helobdella stagnalis (Linnaeus, 1758) in North America. Zootaxa 4671: 1-25. PDF
Mack, J., de Carle, D. & Kvist, S. 2019. Prey, populations, and the Pleistocene: evidence for low COI variation in a widespread North American leech. Mitochondrial DNA Part A, 30: 749-763. PDF
Phillips, A.J., Salas-Montiel, R., Kvist, S., & Oceguera-Figueroa, A. 2019. Phylogenetic position and description of a new species of “medicinal” leech from the eastern United States. Journal of Parasitology, 105: 587-597. PDF
Iwama, R., Oceguera-Figueroa, A., Giribet, G. & Kvist, S. 2019. The salivary transcriptome of Limnobdella mexicana (Annelida: Clitellata: Praobdellidae) and orthology determination of major leech anticoagulants. Parasitology, 146: 1338-1346. PDF
Mack, J. & Kvist, S. 2019. Improved geographic sampling provides further evidence for the separation of Glossiphonia complanata and Glossiphonia elegans (Annelida: Clitellata: Glossiphoniidae). Journal of Natural History, 53: 335-350. PDF
Khan, M. S. Guan, D.L., Kvist, S., Ma, L-B, Xie, J-Y., & Xu S-Q. 2019. Transcriptomics and differential gene expression in Whitmania pigra (Annelida: Clitellata: Hirudinida: Hirudinidae): contrasting feeding and fasting modes. Ecology & Evolution, 9: 4706-4719. PDF
Strand, M., Norenburg, J., Alfaya, J.E., Fernández-Álvarez, F.A., Andersson, H.S., Andrade, S.C.S., Bartolomeus, T., Beckers, P., Bigatti, G., Cherneva, I., Chernyshev, A., Chung, B.M., von Döhren, J., Giribet, G., Gonzalez-Cueto, J., Herrera-Bachiller, A., Hiebert, T., Hookabe, N., Junoy, J., Kajihara, H., Krämer, D., Kvist, S., Magarlamov, Y.T., Maslakova, S., Mendes, C.B., Okazaki, R., Sagorny, C., Schwartz, M., Sun, S-C., Sundberg, P., Turbeville, J.M., Xu, C-M. 2019. Nemertean taxonomy – implementing changes in the higher ranks, dismissing Anopla and Enopla. Zoologica Scripta, 48: 118-119. PDF
2018
Kvist, S., de Carle, D., Cornejo, A. & Oceguera-Figueroa, A. Biological invasions or native ranges?: two curious cases of new distributional records in the Panama Canal. BioInvasions Records, in press. PDF
Koroiva, R. & Kvist, S. Estimating the barcoding gap in a global dataset of cox1 sequences for Odonata: close, but no cigar. Mitochondrial DNA, 29: 765-771. PDF
Tessler, M., Marancik, D., Champagne II, D., Dove, A., Camus, A., Siddall, M.E., & Kvist, S. 2018. Marine leech anticoagulant diversity and evolution. Journal of Parasitology, 104: 210-220. PDF
Kvist S. & Erséus, C. 2018. Two new European species of the marine genus Tubificoides (Annelida: Clitallata: Naididae) with notes on the morphology of T. pseudogaster (Dahl, 1960). Zootaxa, 4433: 561-573. PDF
Langer, S., Vezsenyi, K., de Carle, D., Beresford, D. & Kvist, S. 2018. Leeches (Annelida: Hirudinea) from the far north of Ontario: distribution, diversity, and diagnostics. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 96: 141-152. PDF
2017
Koroiva, R., de Oliveira Roque, F., Pepinelli, M., Rodrigues, M. E., Lorenz-Lemke, A. P. & Kvist, S. 2017. DNA barcoding of odonates from the Upper Plata basin: database creation and genetic diversity estimation. PLoS ONE, 12: e0182283. PDF
de Carle D., Oceguera-Figueroa, A., Tessler, M., Siddall, M.E. & Kvist, S. 2017. Phylogenetic analysis of Placobdella (Hirudinea: Rhynchobdellida: Glossiphoniidae) with consideration of COI variation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 114: 234-248. PDF
Kvist, S., Oceguera-Figueroa, A., Tessler, M., Jiménez-Armenta, J., Freeman Jr., R.M., Giribet, G. & Siddall, M.E. 2017. When predator becomes prey: investigating the salivary transcriptome of the shark-feeding leech Pontobdella macrothela (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 179: 725-737. PDF
2016
Ceríaco, L.M.P. et al. (493 signatories). 2016. Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences. Zootaxa, 4196: 435-445. PDF
Pérez-Flores, J., Rueda-Calderon, H., Kvist, S., Siddall, M.E. & Oceguera-Figueroa, A. 2016. From the worm in the bottle of mezcal: iDNA confirmation of a leech parasitizing the Antillean Manatee. Journal of Parasitology, 102: 553-555. PDF
Wang, T., White, M.M., Kvist, S., & Moncalvo J-M. 2016. Genome-wide survey of gut fungi (Harpellales) reveals the first horizontally transferred ubiquitin gene from a mosquito host. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 33: 2544-2554. PDF
Sundberg, P., Kvist, S., & Strand, M. 2016. Evaluating the utility of single-locus DNA barcoding for the identification of ribbon worms (phylum Nemertea). PLoS ONE 11: e0155541. PDF
Sundberg, P., Andrade S.C., Bartolomeus, T., Beckers, P., von Döhren, J., Gibson, R., Giribet, G., Herrera-Bachiller, A., Junoy, J., Kajihara, H., Kvist, S., Kånneby, T., Krämer, D., Sun, S., Turbeville, J.M. & Strand, M. 2016. The future of nemertean taxonomy (phylum Nemertea) – a proposal. Zoologica Scripta, 45: 579-582. PDF
Oceguera-Figueroa, A., Manzano-Marin, A., Kvist, S., Moya, A., Siddall, M.E. & Latorre, A. 2016. Comparative mitogenomics of leeches (Annelida: Clitellata): genome conservation and Placobdella-specific trnD gene duplication. PLoS ONE 11: e0155441. PDF
Siddall, M.E., Brugler, M. & Kvist, S. 2016. Comparative transcriptomic analyses of 3 species of Placobdella (Rhynchobdellida: Glossiphoniidae) confirms a single origin of blood feeding in leeches. Journal of Parasitology 102: 143-150. PDF
Kvist, S. 2016. Does a global DNA barcoding gap exist in Annelida? Mitochondrial DNA 27: 2241-2252. PDF
2015
Kvist, S., Chernyshev, A.V. & Giribet, G. 2015. Phylogeny of Nemertea with special interest in the placement of diversity from Far East Russia and northeast Asia. Hydrobiologia 760: 105-119. PDF
Herrera, A., Kvist, S., Giribet, G., & Junoy, J. 2015. Redescription of Micrura dellechiajei (Hubrecht, 1879) (Nemertea, Pilidiophora, Lineidae), a rare Mediterranean species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK 95: 1091-1100. PDF
2014
Magesh, M., Kvist, S., & Glasby, C.J. 2014. Incipient speciation within the Namalycastis abiuma (Annelida: Nereididae) species group from southern India revealed by combined morphological and molecular data. Proceedings of the 11th International Polychaete Conference – Memoirs of the Museum Victoria 71: 169-176. PDF
Magesh, M., Glasby, C.J. & Kvist, S. 2014. Redescription of Namalycastsis glasbyi Fernando & Rajasekaran, 2007 (Annelida, Nereididae, Namanereidinae) from India. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington B 127: 455-465. PDF
Lenihan, J., Kvist, S., Fernández, R., Giribet, G. & Ziegler, A. 2014. A dataset comprising four micro-computed tomography scans of freshly fixed and museum earthworm specimens. GigaScience 3:6. PDF
Fernández, R., Kvist, S., Lenihan, J., Giribet, G. & Ziegler, A. 2014. Sine systemate chaos? A versatile tool for earthworm taxonomy: non-destructive imaging of freshly fixed and museum specimens using micro-computed tomography. PLoS One 9:e96617. PDF
Kvist, S., Laumer, C.L., Junoy, J. & Giribet, G. 2014. New insights into the phylogeny, systematics and DNA barcoding of Nemertea. Invertebrate Systematics 28: 287-308. PDF
Kvist, S., Brugler, M.R., Goh, T.G., Giribet, G. & Siddall, M.E. 2014. Pyrosequencing the salivary transcriptome of Haemadipsa interrupta (Annelida: Clitellata: Haemadipsidae): anticoagulant diversity and insight into the evolution of anticoagulation capabilities in leeches. Invertebrate Biology 133: 74-98. PDF
2013
Kvist, S. 2013. Barcoding in the dark?: a critical view of the sufficiency of zoological DNA barcoding databases and a plea for broader integration of taxonomic knowledge. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69: 39-45. PDF
Kvist, S., Gi-Sik, M. & Siddall, M.E. 2013. Diversity and selective pressures of anticoagulants in three medicinal leeches (Hirudinida: Hirudinidae, Macrobdellidae). Ecology and Evolution 3: 918-933. PDF
Kvist, S. & Siddall, M.E. 2013. Phylogenomics of Annelida revisited: a cladistics approach using genome-wide EST data mining and examining the effects of missing data. Cladistics 29: 435-448. PDF
2012
Magesh, M., Kvist, S. & Glasby, C.J. 2012. Description and phylogeny of Namalycastis jaya sp. n. (Polychaeta: Nereididae) from the southwest coast of India. Zookeys 238: 31-43. PDF
Siddall, M.E., Kvist, S., Phillips, A.J. & Oceguera-Figueroa, A. 2012. DNA barcoding of parasitic nematodes: is it kosher? Journal of Parasitology 98: 692-694.PDF
2011
Kvist, S., Narechania, A., Oceguera-Figueroa, A., Fuks, B. & Siddall, M.E. 2011. Phylogenomics of Reichenowia parasitica, an alphaproteobacterial endosymbiont of the freshwater leech Placobdella parasitica. PLoS One 6: e28192. PDF
Kvist, S., Sarkar, I.N. & Siddall, M.E. 2011. Genome-wide search for leech antiplatelet proteins in the non-bloodfeeding leech Helobdella robusta (Rhyncobdellida: Glossiphoniidae) reveals evidence of secreted anticoagulants. Invertebrate Biology 130: 344-350. PDF
Kvist, S, Montanari, S.A., Yi, H., Fuks, B. & Siddall, M.E. 2011. Teaching biodiversity and evolutionary biology in a North American marine coastal environment. American Biology Teacher 73:72-77. PDF
2010
Kvist, S., Oceguera-Figueroa, A., Siddall, M.E. & Erséus, C. 2010. Barcoding, types and the Hirudo-files: using information content to critically evaluate the identity of DNA barcodes. Mitochondrial DNA 21:198-205. PDF
Kvist, S., Sarkar, I.N. & Erséus, C. 2010. Genetic variation and phylogeny of the cosmopolitan marine genus Tubificoides (Annelida: Clitellata: Naididae: Tubificinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57:687-702. PDF
Oceguera-Figueroa, A., Kvist, S., Watson, S.C., Sankar, D., Overstreet, M. & Siddall, M.E. 2010. Leech collections from Washington State, USA, with the description of two new species of Placobdella (Annelida: Glossiphoniidae). American Museum Novitates No. 3701. PDF
2009
Siddall, M.E., Fontanella, F.M., Watson, S.C., Kvist, S. & Erséus, C. 2009. Barcoding bamboozled by bacteria: convergence to metazoan mitochondrial primer targets by marine microbes. Systematic Biology 58: 445-451. PDF
2008
Kvist, S., Dreyer, J. & Erséus, C. 2008. Two new species of Tubificoides (Annelida: Clitellata: Naididae) from the Blake Ridge methane seep in the North-west Atlantic Ocean. Proceedings of the Biological Society Washington B 121: 531-540. PDF
2007
Erséus, C. & Kvist, S. 2007. COI-variation in Scandinavian marine species of Tubificoides (Annelida: Clitellata: Tubificidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK 87: 1121-1126. PDF