Pubblicazioni 2026

Accoroni S., Montali G., Neri F., Borrello P., Spada E., Berdalet E., Vila M., Lemée R., Davenet J., Dechraoui Bottein M.-Y., Mangialajo L., Chiantore M., Asnaghi V., Fricano C., Champion F., Totti C. (2026). The role of sea temperature in Ostreopsis cf. ovata blooms in temperate areas – 14 years of data gathered along the Northern Mediterranean coast. Harmful Algae, 155, 103107. DOI: 10.1016/j.hal.2026.103107

Auciello C., Yacoubi L., Arossa S., De Stefano M., Pennesi C., Mansour L., Al-Quraishy S., Qurban M.A., Rabaoui L.J. (2026). First assessment of the diversity and composition of coral-associated diatoms in the Saudi Arabian Gulf. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 336, 109865. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2026.109865

Bianchelli S., Buschi E., Tamburello L. (2026). Meiofaunal colonization potential in barren grounds: new cues for habitat rehabilitation. Marine Environmental Research, 218, 108064. DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2026.108064

Bignami G., Monzón-Atienza L., Leuzzi D., Scicchitano D., Candela M., Gómez-Mercader A., Jlidi M., Gustinelli A., Tedesco P., Fioravanti M.L., Castro P.L., Acosta F. (2026). "Effects of Bacillus Velezensis D-18 on Health Status of European Seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) Experimentally Challenged with Vibrio harveyi". Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins, 18, 5525-5538. DOI: 10.1007/s12602-025-10833-7

Bonaviri C., Agnetta D., Pinna S., Piazzi L., Badalamenti F., Ceccherelli G., Iaciofano D., Di Lorenzo M., Di Trapani F., Lo Brutto S., Mačić V., Mannino A.M., Mura F., Musco L., Tamburello L., Fernández T.V., Vizzini S., Willis T.J., Gianguzza P. (2026). Benthic megafauna and the functioning of macroalgal forests and urchin barrens. Oikos, 2026, e11604. DOI: 10.1002/oik.11604

Boubakri A., Annabi A., Chmangui A., Ben Hamed S. , Kwas H., Marini M., Ben Ameur W. (2026). Internal concentrations of cadmium, nickel and zinc in the land snail Cornu aspersum and human health risk assessment for consumers: a case study in tunisian regions. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 48, 267. DOI: 10.1007/s10653-026-03151-6

Buschi E., Blasio M., Sardo A., Musco L., Danovaro R., Corinaldesi C., Dell’Anno A., Balzano S., Rastelli E. (2026). Low diversity and potentially harmful taxa of microbial eukaryotes in chronically polluted marine sediments: the Bagnoli-Coroglio case study. Environmental Research, 300, 124436. DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2026.124436

Cakmak E.K., Otterheim L., Marques Penha F.M., Chen C., Cuartero M., Palladino G., Candela M., Turroni S., Cetecioǧlu Z. (2026). Bioleaching of critical minerals from marine sediments by indigenous microbial communities: Experimental and predictive analysis. Chemical Engineering Journal, 536, 176047. DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2026.176047

Campanini C., Coppari M., Di Camillo C.G., Gregorin C., Marrocco T., Pulido Mantas T., Roveta C., Cerrano C. (2026). Peering into the twilight: a systematic review on visual-based investigation of worldwide mesophotic ecosystems. Marine Environmental Research, 220, 108212. DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2026.108212

Canuti E., Capellacci S., Casabianca S., Ricci F., Penna A. (2026). Design of experiment guided development of an UHPLC method for phytoplankton pigments analysis. Marine Chemistry, 276, 104636. DOI: 10.1016/j.marchem.2026.104636

Cortez F., Nanetti E., Chaves G., Pereira A.C., Mendes M.C., Oliveira I., Leuzzi D., Abreu H., Martins M., Leite R.B., Keller-Costa T., Costa R. (2026). Prokaryotic community structure and auxin biosynthesis in early developmental stages of farmed Atlantic Nori (Porphyra spp.). Frontiers in Microbiology, 16, 1750184. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2025.1750184

De Witt F., Montroni D., Stagioni M., Cervellin S., Falini G., Kaandorp J., Caroselli E., Goffredo S. (2026). Ontogenetic and sex-related variations in otolith morphology and structure of thinlip gray mullet from a transitional environment in northern Italy. Frontiers in Marine Science, 13, 1797222. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2026.1797222

Di Camillo C.G., Roveta C., Pulido Mantas T., Coppari M., Marchesi V., Riccardi A., Simonini R., Cerrano C. (2026). Killing without a weapon: new morphofunctional and behavioural traits of Hermodice carunculata (Pallas, 1766). The European Zoological Journal, 93, 471-482. DOI: 10.1080/24750263.2026.2637268

Foresto L., Radaelli E., Leuzzi D., Palladino G., Scicchitano D., Bejaoui S., Turroni S., Rampelli S., Santolini C., Pari A., Marcellini F., Danovaro R., Corinaldesi C., Candela M. (2026). Metagenomic profiling reveals distinct signatures of pathogens, antibiotic-resistance genes and human viruses in urban river mouths of the north-western Adriatic coast. Scientific Reports, 16, 15553. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-45229-2

Freddi A., Ricci F., Coci M., Guicciardi o Guizzardi S., Casabianca S., Penna P., Bolognini L., Marini M., Penna A., Manini E. (2026). Fecal microbial pollution in river and coastal environments: Influence of weather conditions. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 224, 119156. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2025.119156

González-Vidal A., Caruso S., Badalamenti F., Argente-Garcia J.E., Willis T.J., Skarmeta A.F. (2026). AI-driven analysis of fish reproductive behaviour. Ecological Informatics, 94, 103614. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2026.103614

Gregorin C., Annibaldi A., Domenichelli F., Feliziani M., Gridelli S., Musco L., Susmel S., Vit M., Puce S. (2026). Chronic exposure of the model organism Aurelia coerulea (Scyphozoa, Cnidaria) to “first generation” artificial sweeteners. Marine Environmental Research, 220, 108181. DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2026.108181

Gregorin C., Coppari M., Marrocco T., Pulido Mantas T., Roveta C., Willis T.J., Cerrano C. (2026). Through the lens of time-lapse photography: uncovering hidden behaviours in the mesophotic coral Dendrophyllia ramea and other natural history observations. The European Zoological Journal, 93, 203-214. DOI: 10.1080/24750263.2025.2610004

Locatello L., Fonsatti E., Detillo P., Borgheresi O., Guidi L., Grassi E., Bortoletti M., Radaelli G., Pascoli F., Bertotto D. (2026). Efficacy of glyoxal acid-free (GAF®) as a non-toxic fixative for fish gonads, gametes and larvae: widespread implications for laboratory studies, field sampling and applied aquaculture. Reproduction, Fertility and Development, 38: RD25137. DOI: 10.1071/RD25137

Luongo G., Corinaldesi C., Dell’Anno A., Giorgetti A., Pusceddu A., Rastelli E., Tangherlini M., Cau A., Ennas C., Greco S., Danovaro R. (2026). Microbial response to temperature and organic matter shifts in deep Antarctic sediments. Progress in Oceanography, 247, 103792. DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2026.103792

Luongo G., Dell’Anno A., Tangherlini M., Corinaldesi C., Ruhl H.A., Danovaro R. (2026). Major changes in micro-eukaryotic biodiversity of the abyssal ecosystem of the NE Atlantic: A comparison between 1996 and 2018. iScience, 29, 114266. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.114266

Machado Toffolo M., Meschini M., Marchini C., Caroselli E., Prada F., Mancuso A., Lee C.A., Zanon M.V., Goffredo S. (2026). Citizen science data reliability enhancing scientific research: insights from an 11-year study in the Mediterranean Sea. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 30, 101203. DOI: 10.1016/j.indic.2026.101203

Mancuso A., Bardone F.G., Marchini C., Gironi M., Dalpozzo A.C., Sani T., Girolametti F., Annibaldi A., Arenas F., Falini G., Goffredo S. (2026). Triple threat: Ocean acidification, warming, and hyposalinity synergistically weaken shell integrity in a Mediterranean calcifying mollusk. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 225, 119304. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2026.119304

Marini M., Vilibić I., Grilli F., Ciglenečki I. (2026). The Adriatic Sea: A laboratory for advancing Blue Growth in coastal seas, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 337, 109898. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2026.109898

Marrocco T., Coppari M., Cerrano C., Gregorin C., Pulido Mantas T., Roveta C., Puce S., Calcinai B. (2026). The ecological role of Pholas dactylus (Mollusca, Bivalvia) empty burrows. Scientific Reports, 16, 8304. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-38212-4

Montali G., Neri F., Banchi E., Cerino F., Turk Dermastia T., Francé J., Mozetič P., Pelusi A., Romagnoli T., Ubaldi M., Totti C., Accoroni S. (2026). Phytoplankton Diversity in the Northern Adriatic Sea: Insights and Inconsistencies from Microscopy and Metabarcoding. Biology, 15, 487. DOI: 10.3390/biology15060487

Negro E., McGill R.A.R., Borgheresi O., Badalamenti F., Locatello L., Zenone A., Willis T.J. (2026). Stable isotope values from teleost fin membrane as a non-lethal substitute for muscle tissue. Hydrobiologia, 853, 1391-1415. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-025-06005-x

Noè S., Stenico F., Cardone F., Terlizzi A., Canese S., Romeo T., Bonaviri C., Aiello A., Willis T.J. (2026). Big sharks in the dark: High densities of the bluntnose sixgill shark Hexanchus griseus in the Gulf of Naples. Ecology, 107, e70388. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70388

Pagliarusco T., Franco-Romero A., Terrin F., Citton F., Carducci L., Facchinello N., Fontana C.M., Giacomazzo M., Verin R., Rasotto M.B., Locatello L., Dalla Valle L., Sandri M. (2026). Mytho/Phaf1 is required to prevent DNA damage and tissue degeneration in Danio rerio. Cell Death Discovery, 12, 252. DOI: 10.1038/s41420-026-03106-x

Pellegrini C., Basili M., Sammartino I., Tesi T., Frapiccini E., Quero G.M., Pizzini S., Zangrando R., Luna G.M., Catena S., Campo B., Massaccesi N., Trincardi F., Gallerani A., Chiggiato J. (2026). River flooding reshapes sediments, contaminants and benthic microbial communities in a Mediterranean coastal system. Biogeosciences, 23, 2389-2412. DOI: 10.5194/bg-23-2389-2026

Pennesi C., Auciello C., De Stefano M., Yacoubi L., Gopalan J., Abrogueña J.B.R., Premlal P., Maneja R.H., Arossa S., Qurban M.A., Rabaoui L.J. (2026). First characterization of seagrass diatom assemblage in the Arabian Gulf: Structure, composition, spatial patterns, and potential use in environmental assessment. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 231, 119985. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2026.119985

Pulido Mantas T., Roveta C., Coppari M., Di Camillo C.G., Garrabou J., Jacobsen N.L., Palma M., Pantaleo U., Hendawitharana M.P., Cerrano C. (2026). As above, so below: A perspective into the application of land-forest monitoring methods for the assessment of marine animal forests. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 17, 1124-1142. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.70242

Rastelli E., Tangherlini M., Corinaldesi C., Dell’Anno A., Lo Martire M., Giorgetti A., De Luca P., Bakran-Petricioli T., Kipson S., Pajusalu L., Rinde E., Tunka Bengil E.G., Tüney İ., Danovaro R. (2026). Seagrasses host unique and vulnerable microbiomes, structured by inter-domain microbial interactions. iScience, 29, 115757. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2026.115757

Roveta C., Pulido Mantas T., Berardone S., Betti F., Coppari M., Cappanera V., Di Camillo C.G., Enrichetti F., Merotto L., Sanna G., Bacchi A., Cerrano C. (2026). To GRaB or not to GRaB: a citizen science-based, decision-making index to assess the biological implications of lost fishing gears retrieval. Ocean and Coastal Management, 273, 108072. DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2025.108072

Ruiz A., Andree K.B., Furones D., Scicchitano D., Candela M., Carbó R., Gisbert E. (2026). System design and habitat type drive microbial communities in recirculating aquaculture systems: comparison of conventional fish-only and sustainable aquaponic systems. Frontiers in Microbiology, 17, 1706522. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2026.1706522

Sani T., Campanelli A., Marini M., Goffredo S., Grilli F. (2026). Long-term changes in the Adriatic Sea (1971-2023): river influence, climate impacts, and biogeochemical shifts in coastal bottom waters. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 331, 109722. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2026.109722

Thomas N., Lima Silveira T.C., Pulido Mantas T., Schuler Crivellaro M., Segal B., Cerrano C. (2026). Are visual surveys outdated? A case study comparing visual surveys designed for sun coral assessment and emerging 3D photogrammetric approaches. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 226, 119370. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2026.119370