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Overview

Tom Artois is affiliated with Hasselt University in Belgium and has contributed extensively to research in Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work covers a variety of subfields including Ecology, Molecular Biology, Global and Planetary Change, Genetics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's research topics span several areas such as Parasite Biology and Host Interactions, Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation, Marine Ecology and Invasive Species, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Fish Biology and Ecology Studies, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Tom Artois has published in several frequent venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Zootaxa
  • Preprints.org
  • Hydrobiologia

Selected recent papers include:

  • Human access impacts biodiversity of microscopic animals in sandy beaches, 2020, Communications Biology
  • The curious and neglected soft-bodied meiofauna: Rouphozoa (Gastrotricha and Platyhelminthes), 2020, Hydrobiologia
  • Reactive oxygen species rescue regeneration after silencing the MAPK-ERK signaling pathway in Schmidtea mediterranea, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Trading fear for food in the Anthropocene: How ungulates cope with human disturbance in a multi-use, suburban ecosystem, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Historical museum collections help detect parasite species jumps after tilapia introductions in the Congo Basin, 2020, Biological Invasions

Throughout their career, Tom Artois has collaborated frequently with other researchers. Their frequent co-authors include Maarten P. M. Vanhove, Marlies Monnens, Karen Smeets, Antoine Pariselle, and Yander L. Diez.

Best Publications

  • The magnitude of global marine species diversity

    Ward Appeltans;Shane T. Ahyong;Shane T. Ahyong;Gary Anderson;Martin V. Angel

  • Bioaugmentation with engineered endophytic bacteria improves contaminant fate in phytoremediation.

    Nele Weyens;Daniël Van Der Lelie;Tom J. Artois;Karen Smeets

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

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

  • Reactive Oxygen Species in Planarian Regeneration: An Upstream Necessity for Correct Patterning and Brain Formation

    Nicky Pirotte;An-Sofie Stevens;Susanna Fraguas;Michelle Plusquin

  • Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

    Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Alain Dubois;Cristian Simón Abdala

  • Global diversity of free living flatworms (Platyhelminthes, “Turbellaria”) in freshwater

    Ernest R. Schockaert;Matthew Hooge;Ronald Sluys;Steve Schilling

  • Bacteria associated with oak and ash on a TCE-contaminated site: characterization of isolates with potential to avoid evapotranspiration of TCE

    Nele Weyens;Safiyh Taghavi;Tanja Barac;Daniel van der Lelie

  • Biogeography of Microscopic Organisms: Ubiquity of microscopic animals? Evidence from the morphological approach in species identification

    Tom Artois;Diego Fontaneto;William D. Hummon;Sandra J. McInnes

  • Problematic barcoding in flatworms: A case-study on monogeneans and rhabdocoels (Platyhelminthes)

    Maarten Pieterjan Vanhove;Bart Tessens;Charlotte Schoelinck;Ulf Jondelius

  • Filling a gap in the phylogeny of flatworms: relationships within the Rhabdocoela (Platyhelminthes), inferred from 18S ribosomal DNA sequences

    Wim R. Willems;Andreas Wallberg;Ulf Jondelius;David T. J. Littlewood

  • Migratory pathways, stopover zones and wintering destinations of Western European Nightjars Caprimulgus europaeus

    Ruben Evens;Greg J. Conway;Ian G. Henderson;Brian Cresswell

  • Human access impacts biodiversity of microscopic animals in sandy beaches

    Alejandro Martínez;Ester M. Eckert;Tom Artois;Giovanni Careddu

  • A revision of the genus Cheliplana de Beauchamp, 1927 (Rhabdocoela: Schizorhynchia), with the description of six new species.

    Stefan Gobert;Yander L. Diez;Marlies Monnens;Patrick Reygel

  • Biodiversity estimates and ecological interpretations of meiofaunal communities are biased by the taxonomic approach

    Francesca Leasi;Francesca Leasi;Joseph L. Sevigny;Eric M. Laflamme;Tom Artois

  • The curious and neglected soft-bodied meiofauna: Rouphozoa (Gastrotricha and Platyhelminthes)

    Maria Balsamo;Tom Artois;Julian P. S. Smith;M. Antonio Todaro

  • On the genus Typhlopolycystis Karling, 1956 (Platyhelminthes, Kalyptorhynchia, Polycystididae), with data on the five known species and the description of eleven new species.

    Ernest R. Schockaert;Patricia Moons;Toon Janssen;Bart S. Tessens

  • Taxonomy and phylogeny of Koinocystididae (Platyhelminthes, Kalyptorhynchia), with the description of three new genera and twelve new species.

    Yander L. Diez;Marlies Monnens;Rosa Isabel Aguirre;Rana Yurduseven

  • Revision of Trigonostomum Schmidt, 1852 (Platyhelminthes, Typhloplanoida, Trigonostomidae) with the description of seven new species

    Wim R. Willems;Tom J. Artois;Wouter A. Vermin;Ernest R. Schockaert

  • Reactive oxygen species rescue regeneration after silencing the MAPK-ERK signaling pathway in Schmidtea mediterranea.

    V. Jaenen;S. Fraguas;K. Bijnens;M. Heleven

  • Kalyptorhynchia (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela) from KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), with the description of six new species.

    Wim R. Willems;Patrick Reygel;Niels Van Steenkiste;Bart Tessens

  • Trading fear for food in the Anthropocene: How ungulates cope with human disturbance in a multi-use, suburban ecosystem.

    Jolien Wevers;Julien Fattebert;Julien Fattebert;Jim Casaer;Tom Artois

  • A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of dalytyphloplanida (platyhelminthes: rhabdocoela) reveals multiple escapes from the marine environment and origins of symbiotic relationships.

    Niels Van Steenkiste;Bart Tessens;Wim Willems;Thierry Backeljau;Thierry Backeljau

  • Schizorhynchia Meixner, 1928 (Platyhelminthes, Rhabdocoela) of the Iberian Peninsula, with a description of four new species from Portugal

    Stefan Gobert;Marlies Monnens;Lise Eerdekens;Ernest Schockaert

  • Proximity of breeding and foraging areas affects foraging effort of a crepuscular, insectivorous bird

    Ruben Evens;Natalie Beenaerts;Thomas Neyens;Nele Witters

  • Wind-associated detours promote seasonal migratory connectivity in a flapping flying long-distance avian migrant.

    Gabriel Norevik;Susanne Åkesson;Tom Artois;Natalie Beenaerts

  • Historical museum collections help detect parasite species jumps after tilapia introductions in the Congo Basin

    M. W. P. Jorissen;M. W. P. Jorissen;T. Huyse;T. Huyse;A. Pariselle;A. Pariselle;S. Wamuini Lunkayilakio

  • Consumptive and non-consumptive effects of turbellarian (Mesostoma sp.) predation on anostracans

    Els R. M. De Roeck;Tom Artois;Luc Brendonck

  • First report of the exotic blue land planarian, Caenoplana coerulea (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae), on Menorca (Balearic Islands, Spain).

    Karin Breugelmans;Josep Quintana Cardona;Tom Artois;Kurt Jordaens

Frequent Co-Authors

Maarten P.M. Vanhove
Maarten P.M. Vanhove Hasselt University
Tine Huyse
Tine Huyse KU Leuven
Thierry Backeljau
Thierry Backeljau Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Milan Gelnar
Milan Gelnar Masaryk University
Stephan Koblmüller
Stephan Koblmüller University of Graz
Diego Fontaneto
Diego Fontaneto Water Research Institute
Ann Cuypers
Ann Cuypers Hasselt University
Jaco Vangronsveld
Jaco Vangronsveld Hasselt University
Luc Brendonck
Luc Brendonck KU Leuven
Shane T. Ahyong
Shane T. Ahyong Australian Museum

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