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57
Citations
11281
World Ranking
2733
National Ranking
34

Overview

Diego Fontaneto is affiliated with the Water Research Institute in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, contributing extensively to subfields such as Ecology, Oceanography, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, and Pollution.

The scientist has published significant work on topics including:

  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny

Frequent coauthors include Alejandro Martínez, Ester M. Eckert, Andrea Di Cesare, Gianluca Corno, and Raffaella Sabatino.

Diego Fontaneto has published regularly in several academic venues, notably:

  • Hydrobiologia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Limnology
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  • Biogeographia - The Journal of Integrative Biogeography

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Fontaneto are:

  • Contribution of microplastic particles to the spread of resistances and pathogenic bacteria in treated wastewaters (2021, Water Research)
  • Dynamics of Ecological Communities Following Current Retreat of Glaciers (2021, Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics)
  • Human access impacts biodiversity of microscopic animals in sandy beaches (2020, Communications Biology)
  • Freshwater zooplankton microbiome composition is highly flexible and strongly influenced by the environment (2021, Molecular Ecology)
  • Impact of the reference list features on the number of citations (2020, Scientometrics)

Best Publications

  • Independently evolving species in asexual bdelloid rotifers.

    Diego Fontaneto;Elisabeth A Herniou;Elisabeth A Herniou;Chiara Boschetti;Manuela Caprioli

  • The widely used small subunit 18S rDNA molecule greatly underestimates true diversity in biodiversity surveys of the meiofauna

    Cuong Q. Tang;Francesca Leasi;Francesca Leasi;Ulrike Obertegger;Alexander Kieneke

  • Is the meiofauna a good indicator for climate change and anthropogenic impacts

    Daniela Zeppilli;Daniela Zeppilli;Jozee Sarrazin;Daniel Leduc;Pedro Martinez Arbizu

  • Urbanization drives cross-taxon declines in abundance and diversity at multiple spatial scales.

    Elena Piano;Elena Piano;Caroline Souffreau;Thomas Merckx;Thomas Merckx;Lisa F. Baardsen

  • Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities.

    Thomas Merckx;Caroline Souffreau;Aurelien Kaiser;Lisa F Baardsen

  • Guidelines for DNA taxonomy, with a focus on the meiofauna

    Diego Fontaneto;Jean-François Flot;Cuong Q. Tang;Cuong Q. Tang

  • Microplastics increase impact of treated wastewater on freshwater microbial community.

    Ester M. Eckert;Andrea Di Cesare;Marie Therese Kettner;Maria Arias-Andres

  • Fifteen species in one: deciphering the Brachionus plicatilis species complex (Rotifera, Monogononta) through DNA taxonomy

    Scott Mills;J. Arturo Alcántara-Rodríguez;Jorge Ciros-Pérez;Africa Gómez

  • Effects of phylogenetic reconstruction method on the robustness of species delimitation using single-locus data

    Cuong Q. Tang;Aelys M. Humphreys;Aelys M. Humphreys;Diego Fontaneto;Timothy G. Barraclough

  • Extreme levels of hidden diversity in microscopic animals (Rotifera) revealed by DNA taxonomy

    Diego Fontaneto;Murat Kaya;Murat Kaya;Elisabeth A. Herniou;Elisabeth A. Herniou;Timothy G. Barraclough

  • DNAqua-Net: Developing new genetic tools for bioassessment and monitoring of aquatic ecosystems in Europe

    Florian Leese;Florian Altermatt;Agnès Bouchez;Torbjørn Ekrem

  • Why We Need Sustainable Networks Bridging Countries, Disciplines, Cultures and Generations for Aquatic Biomonitoring 2.0: A Perspective Derived From the DNAqua-Net COST Action

    Florian Leese;Agnes Bouchez;Kessy Abarenkov;Florian Altermatt

  • Characteristics of meiofauna in extreme marine ecosystems: a review

    Daniela Zeppilli;Daniel Leduc;Christophe Fontanier;Diego Fontaneto

  • Biogeography of microscopic organisms : is everything small everywhere?

    Diego Fontaneto

  • Patterns of diversity in soft-bodied meiofauna: dispersal ability and body size matter

    Marco Curini-Galletti;Tom Artois;Valentina Delogu;Willem H. De Smet

  • Fitness and Recovery of Bacterial Communities and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Urban Wastewaters Exposed to Classical Disinfection Treatments

    Andrea Di Cesare;Diego Fontaneto;Julia Doppelbauer;Gianluca Corno

  • Molecular evidence for broad-scale distributions in bdelloid rotifers: everything is not everywhere but most things are very widespread.

    Diego Fontaneto;Diego Fontaneto;Timothy G. Barraclough;Timothy G. Barraclough;Kimberly Chen;Claudia Ricci

  • Contribution of microplastic particles to the spread of resistances and pathogenic bacteria in treated wastewaters

    Silvia Galafassi;Raffaella Sabatino;María Belén Sathicq;Ester M. Eckert

  • Differences in Fatty Acid Composition between Aquatic and Terrestrial Insects Used as Food in Human Nutrition

    Diego Fontaneto;Mila Tommaseo-Ponzetta;Claudio Galli;Patrizia Risé

  • Integrative Taxonomy Recognizes Evolutionary Units Despite Widespread Mitonuclear Discordance: Evidence from a Rotifer Cryptic Species Complex

    Spiros Papakostas;Evangelia Michaloudi;Konstantinos Proios;Michaela Brehm

  • Rotifers in saltwater environments, re-evaluation of an inconspicuous taxon

    Diego Fontaneto;Willem H. De Smet;Claudia Ricci

  • Genetic Exchange among Bdelloid Rotifers Is More Likely Due to Horizontal Gene Transfer Than to Meiotic Sex.

    Nicolas N. Debortoli;Xiang X. Li;Isobel I. Eyres;Diego Fontaneto

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy G. Barraclough
Timothy G. Barraclough University of Oxford
Hendrik Segers
Hendrik Segers Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Tom Artois
Tom Artois Hasselt University
Stefano Mammola
Stefano Mammola National Research Council (CNR)
Marco Pautasso
Marco Pautasso European Food Safety Authority
Marina Manca
Marina Manca Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR
Manuel Serra
Manuel Serra University of Valencia
Jan Pawlowski
Jan Pawlowski Heidelberg University
Arpat Ozgul
Arpat Ozgul University of Zurich
Manuela Caprioli
Manuela Caprioli University of Milan

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