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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 11^th 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