Matteo Vecchi

Publications

• Integrative systematic studies on tardigrades from Antarctica identify new genera and new species within Macrobiotoidea and Echiniscoidea
• What if the claws are reduced? Morphological and molecular phylogenetic relationships of the genus Haplomacrobiotus May, 1948 (Eutardigrada, Parachela)
• Interspecific relationships of tardigrades with bacteria, fungi and protozoans, with a focus on the phylogenetic position of Pyxidium tardigradum (Ciliophora)
• Micropropagation of Aristolochia rotunda L.
• The Microbial Community of Tardigrades: Environmental Influence and Species Specificity of Microbiome Structure and Composition
• The evolutionary history and functional divergence of trehalase (treh) genes in insects
• Resolving the systematics of Richtersiidae by multilocus phylogeny and an integrative redescription of the nominal species for the genus Crenubiotus (Tardigrada)
• Integrative descriptions of two new Macrobiotus species (Tardigrada, Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae) from Mississippi (USA) and Crete (Greece)
• The toughest animals of the Earth versus global warming: Effects of long‐term experimental warming on tardigrade community structure of a temperate deciduous forest
• Desiccation risk favours prevalence and diversity of tardigrade communities and influences their trophic structure in alpine ephemeral rock pools
• A lift in snail's gut provides an efficient colonization route for tardigrades
• Sisubiotus hakaiensis sp. nov. (Tardigrada, Macrobiotidae), a new tardigrade species from Calvert Island (British Columbia, Canada)
• First insights into female sperm storage duration in tardigrades
• Larva description and phylogenetic position of the armoured tardigrade Acanthechiniscus goedeni (Grigarick, Mihelčič & Schuster, 1964)
• Tardigrades of Finland: new records and an annotated checklist
• Expanding Acutuncus: Phylogenetics and morphological analyses reveal a considerably wider distribution for this tardigrade genus
• Negative impact of freeze–thaw cycles on the survival of tardigrades
• Morphology, phylogenetic position, and mating behaviour of a new Mesobiotus (Tardigrada) species from a rock pool in the Socorro Box Canyon (New Mexico, USA)
• Ecology explains anhydrobiotic performance across tardigrades, but the shared evolutionary history matters more
• First records of limnoterrestrial tardigrades (Tardigrada) from Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada
• The tardigrade Mesobiotus aradasi (Binda, Pilato & Lisi, 2005) is widely distributed along the Antarctic Peninsula
• Diverse eggs, diverse species? Production of two egg morphotypes in Paramacrobiotus bifrons , a new eutardigrade species within the areolatus group