Cruz-Laufer, A.J.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Bachmann, L.; Barson, M.; Bassirou, H.; Bitja Nyom, A.R.; Geraerts, M.; Hahn, C.; Huyse, T.; Kasembele, G.K.; Njom, S.; Resl, P.; Smeets, K.; Kmentová, N. (2025). Adaptive evolution of stress response genes in parasites aligns with host niche diversity. BMC Biology 23(1): 10. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-02091-w
Jorissen, M.W.P.; Vanschoenwinkel, B.; Pariselle, A.; Artois, T.; Danadu, C.; Huyse, T.; Kapepula Kasembele, G.; Muterezi Bukinga, F.; Šimková, A.; Snoeks, J.; Van Sever, W.; Vreven, E.J.; Wamuini Lunkayilakio, S.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2025). Do parasite communities differ between invasive and native fish hosts? A case of monogeneans infecting the gills of Nile tilapia. Hydrobiologia 852(15): 3911-3928. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-024-05789-8
Kmentová, N.; Topic, M.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Atkinson, S.D. (2025). Monomyxum ligophori n. sp. in a ParasiteBlitz: monopisthocotylans as myxozoan hosts in South Carolina and monophyly of a cosmopolitan hyperparasitic clade. J. Helminthol. 99: e127. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022149x25100904
Magliozzi, Chiara; Cardoso, Ana Cristina; Gervasini, Eugenio; Melone, Beatrice; Bizzotto, Elisa Chiara; Brundu, Giuseppe; Cagnacci, Francesca; Cebrian, Emma; Adriaens, Tim; Alves, Maria Helena; Bartilotti, Cátia; Carnevali, Lucilla; Duarte, Sofia; Groom, Quentin; Queiroga, Raquel Martins; Meeus, Sofie; Nunes, Ana Luisa; Preda, Cristina; Rendón-Hernández, Eduardo; Vanden Abeele, Samuel; Scalera, Riccardo; Vanhove, Maarten P. M.; Álvaro, Nuno Vaz (2025). Aligning EU policies to address biological invasions: assessing invasion impacts across sectors. NeoBiota 102: 295-312. https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.102.152015
Monnens, M.; Artois, T.; Briscoe, A.; Diez, Y.L.; Fraser, K.P.P.; Leander, B.S.; Littlewood, D.T.J.; Santos, M.J.; Smeets, K.; Van Steenkiste, N.W.L.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2025). Signatures of endosymbiosis in mitochondrial genomes of rhabdocoel flatworms. Mol. Ecol. 34(21): e70015. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.70015
Lamkhalkhal, A.; Rahmouni, I.; Selfati, M.; Hamid, A.; Kmentová, N.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Bazairi, H. (2024). Hematodinium perezi (Dinophyceae: Syndiniales) in Morocco: The first record on the African Atlantic coast and the first country record of a parasite of the invasive non-native blue crab Callinectes sapidus. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 12(7): 1045. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jmse12071045
Bachmann, L.; Beermann, J.; Brey, T.; de Boer, H.J.; Dannheim, J.; Edvardsen, B.; Ericson, P.G.P.; Holston, K.C.; Johansson, V.A.; Kloss, P.; Konijnenberg, R.; Osborn, K.J.; Pappalardo, P.; Pehlke, H.; Piepenburg, D.; Struck, T.H.; Sundberg, P.; Markussen, S.S.; Teschke, K.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2023). The role of systematics for understanding ecosystem functions: proceedings of the Zoologica Scripta Symposium, Oslo, Norway, 25 August 2022. Zoologica Scri. 52(3): 187-214. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12593
Gobbin, T.P.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Veenstra, R.; Maan, M.E.; Seehausen, O. (2023). Variation in parasite infection between replicates of speciation in Lake Victoria cichlid fish. Evolution 77(7): 1682-1690. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpad080
Monnens, M.; Halajian, A.; Littlewood, D.T.J.; Briscoe, A.G.; Artois, T.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2023). Can avian flyways reflect dispersal barriers of clinostomid parasites? First evidence from the mitogenome of Clinostomum complanatum. Gene 851: 146952. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2022.146952
Phaka, F.M.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; du Preez, L.H.; Hugé, J. (2023). Library books as environmental management capacity building opportunities exclude most South African languages. Environ. Sci. Policy 141: 61-68. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.12.020
Cruz-Laufer, A.J.; Artois, T.; Koblmüller, S.; Pariselle, A.; Smeets, K.; Van Steenberge, M.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2022). Explosive networking: The role of adaptive host radiations and ecological opportunity in a species‐rich host–parasite assembly. Ecol. Lett. 25(8): 1795-1812. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.14059
Cruz-Laufer, A.J.; Pariselle, A.; Jorissen, M.W.P.; Muterezi Bukinga, F.; Al Assadi, A.; Van Steenberge, M.; Koblmüller, S.; Sturmbauer, C.; Smeets, K.; Huyse, T.; Artois, T.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2022). Somewhere I belong: phylogeny and morphological evolution in a species‐rich lineage of ectoparasitic flatworms infecting cichlid fishes. Cladistics (Print) 38(4): 465-512. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cla.12506
Dahdouh-Guebas, F.; Mafaziya Nijamdeen, T.W.G.F.; Hugé, J.; Dahdouh-Guebas, Y.; Di Nitto, D.; Hamza, A.J.; Kodikara Arachchilage, S.K.; Koedam, N.; Mancilla Garcia, M.; Mohamed, M.O.S.; Mostert, L.; Munga, C.N.; Poti, M.; Satyanarayana, B.; Stiers, I.; Van Puyvelde, K.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Vande Velde, K.; Ratsimbazafy, H.A. (2022). The Mangal Play: a serious game to experience multi-stakeholder decision-making in complex mangrove social-ecological systems. Front. Mar. Sci. 9: 909793. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.909793
Geraerts, M.; Vangestel, C.; Artois, T.; de Oliveira Fernandes, J.M.; Jorissen, M.W.P.; Chocha Manda, A.; Danadu Mizani, C.; Smeets, K.; Snoeks, J.; Sonet, G.; Tingbao, Y.; Van Steenberge, M.; Vreven, E.; Lunkayilakio Wamuini, S.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Huyse, T. (2022). Population genomics of introduced Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Repeated introductions since colonial times with multiple sources. Mol. Ecol. 31(12): 3304-3322. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.16479
Geraerts, M.; Huyse, T.; Barson, M.; Bassirou, H.; Bilong Bilong, C.F.; Bitja Nyom, A.R.; Chocha Manda, A.; Cruz-Laufer, A.J.; Kalombo Kabalika, C.; Kapepula Kasembele, G.; Muterezi Bukinga, F.; Njom, S.; Artois, T.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2022). Mosaic or melting pot: The use of monogeneans as a biological tag and magnifying glass to discriminate introduced populations of Nile tilapia in sub-Saharan Africa. Genomics (S. Diego Calif.) 114(3): 110328. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ygeno.2022.110328
Jorissen, M.W.P.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Pariselle, A.; Snoeks, J.; Vreven, E.; Simková, A.; Wamuini Lunkayilakio, S.; Manda, A.C.; Kapepula Kasembele, G.; Muterezi Bukinga, F.; Artois, T.; Huyse, T. (2022). Molecular footprint of parasite co-introduction with Nile tilapia in the Congo Basin. Org. Divers. Evol. 22: 1003-1019. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13127-022-00563-x
Wood, C.L.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2022). Is the world wormier than it used to be? We'll never know without natural history collections. J. Anim. Ecol. 92(2): 250-262. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13794
Cruz-Laufer, A.J.; Artois, T.; Smeets, K.; Pariselle, A.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2021). The cichlid–Cichlidogyrus network: a blueprint for a model system of parasite evolution. Hydrobiologia 848(16): 3847-3863. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-020-04426-4
Gobbin, T.P.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Seehausen, O.; Maan, M.E. (2021). Microhabitat distributions and species interactions of ectoparasites on the gills of cichlid fish in Lake Victoria, Tanzania. Int. J. Parasitol. 51(2-3): 201-214. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2020.09.001
Hermans, R.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Ditrich, O.; Tyml, T.; Gelnar, M.; Artois, T.J.; Kmentová, N. (2021). Parasitic flatworms infecting thorny skate, Amblyraja radiata: infection by the monogeneans Acanthocotyle verrilli and Rajonchocotyle emarginata in Svalbard. Parasitol. Int. 81: 102261. https://hdl.handle.net/10.1016/j.parint.2020.102261
Kmentová, N.; Hahn, C.; Koblmüller, S.; Zimmermann, H.; Vorel, J.; Artois, T.; Gelnar, M.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2021). Contrasting host-parasite population structure: Morphology and mitogenomics of a parasitic flatworm on pelagic deepwater cichlid fishes from Lake Tanganyika. Biology-Basel 10(8): 797. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology10080797
Vanhove, M.P.M.; Hermans, R.; Artois, T.; Kmentová, N. (2021). From the Atlantic coast to Lake Tanganyika: Gill-infecting flatworms of freshwater Pellonuline clupeid fishes in West and Central Africa, with description of eleven new species and key to Kapentagyrus (Monogenea, Dactylogyridae). Animals 11(12): 3578. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11123578
Geraerts, M.; Muterezi Bukinga, F.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Pariselle, A.; Chocha Manda, A.; Vreven, E.; Huyse, T.; Artois, T. (2020). Six new species of Cichlidogyrus Paperna, 1960 (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea) from the gills of cichlids (Teleostei: Cichliformes) from the Lomami River Basin (DRC: Middle Congo). Parasites & Vectors 13(1): 187. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-3927-4
Gobbin, T.P.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Pariselle, A.; Groothuis, T.G.G.; Maan, M.E.; Seehausen, O. (2020). Temporally consistent species differences in parasite infection but no evidence for rapid parasite-mediated speciation in Lake Victoria cichlid fish. J. Evolution. Biol. 33(5): 556-575. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13615
Jorissen, M.W.P.; Huyse, T.; Wamuini Lunkayilakio, S.; Muterezi Bukinga, F.; Chocha Manda, A.; Kapepula Kasembele, G.; Vreven, E.J.; Snoeks, J.; Decru, E.; Artois, T.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2020). Historical museum collections help detect parasite species jumps after tilapia introductions in the Congo Basin. Biological Invasions 22(9): 2825-2844. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-020-02288-4
Kmentová, N.; Koblmüller, S.; Van Steenberge, M.; Raeymaekers, J.A.M.; Artois, T.; De Keyzer, E.L.S.; Milec, L.; Muterezi Bukinga, F.; Mulimbwa N'sibula, T.; Masilya Mulungula, P.; Ntakimazi, G.; Volckaert, F.A.M.; Gelnar, M.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2020). Weak population structure and recent demographic expansion of the monogenean parasite Kapentagyrus spp. infecting clupeid fishes of Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. Int. J. Parasitol. 50(6-7): 471-486. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2020.02.002
Kmentová, N.; Koblmüller, S.; Van Steenberge, M.; Artois, T.; Muterezi Bukinga, F.; Mulimbwa N'sibula, T.; Muzumani Risasi, D.; Masilya Mulungula, P.; Gelnar, M.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2020). Failure to diverge in African Great Lakes: The case of Dolicirroplectanum lacustre gen. nov. comb. nov. (Monogenea, Diplectanidae) infecting latid hosts. J. Great Lakes Res. 46(5): 1113-1130. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2019.09.022
Monnens, M.; Thijs, S.; Briscoe, A.G.; Clark, M.; Frost, E.J.; Littlewood, D.T.J.; Sewell, M.; Smeets, K.; Artois, T.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2020). The first mitochondrial genomes of endosymbiotic rhabdocoels illustrate evolutionary relaxation of atp8 and genome plasticity in flatworms. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 162: 454-469. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.06.025
Monnens, M.; Frost, E.J.; Clark, M.; Sewell, M.A.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Artois, T. (2019). Description and ecophysiology of a new species of Syndesmis Silliman, 1881 (Rhabdocoela: Umagillidae) from the sea urchin Evechinus chloroticus (Valenciennes, 1846) Mortensen, 1943 in New Zealand. IJP 10: 71-82. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2019.07.005
Jorissen, M.W.P.; Pariselle, A.; Huyse, T.; Vreven, E.J.; Snoeks, J.; Decru, E.; Kusters, T.; Lunkayilakio, S.W.; Bukinga, F.M.; Artois, T.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2018). Six new dactylogyrid species (Platyhelminthes, Monogenea) from the gills of cichlids (Teleostei, Cichliformes) from the Lower Congo Basin. Parasite 25: 64. https://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2018059
Kmentová, N.; Van Steenberge, M.; Raeymaekers, J.A.M.; Koblmüller, S.; Hablützel, P.I.; Bukinga, F.M.; N’sibula, T.M.; Mulungula, P.M.; Nzigidahera, B.; Ntakimazi, G.; Gelnar, M.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2018). Monogenean parasites of sardines in Lake Tanganyika: diversity, origin and intra-specific variability. Contributions to Zoology 87(2): 105-132. https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18759866-08702004
Van Steenberge, M.; Raeymaekers, J.A.M.; Hablützel, P.I.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Koblmüller, S.; Snoeks, J. (2018). Delineating species along shifting shorelines: Tropheus (Teleostei, Cichlidae) from the southern subbasin of Lake Tanganyika. Front. Zool. 15(1): 42. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-018-0287-4
Hablützel, P. I.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Deschepper, P.; Grégoir, A.F.; Roose, A.K.; Volckaert, F.A.M.; Raeymaekers, J.A.M. (2017). Parasite escape through trophic specialization in a species flock. J. Evolution. Biol. 30(7): 1437-1445. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13111
Monnens, M.; Artois, T.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2017). Syndesmis aethopharynx (Umagillidae, Rhabdocoela, Platyhelminthes) from the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus: first record from the Eastern Mediterranean, phylogenetic position and intraspecific morphological variation. Parasitol. Int. 66(6): 848-858. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.parint.2017.07.006
Hablützel, P. I.; Grégoir, A.F.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Volckaert, F.A.M.; Raeymaekers, J.A.M. (2016). Weak link between dispersal and parasite community differentiation or immunogenetic divergence in two sympatric cichlid fishes. Mol. Ecol. 25(21): 5451-5466. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.13833
Vanhove, M.P.M.; Hablützel, P.I.; Pariselle, A.; Simková, A.; Huyse, T.; Raeymaekers, J.A.M. (2016). Cichlids: a host of opportunities for evolutionary parasitology. Trends Parasitol. 32(10): 820-832. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2016.07.002
Grégoir, A.F.; Hablützel, P.I.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Pariselle, A.; Bamps, J.; Volckaert, F.A.M.; Raeymaekers, J.A.M. (2015). A link between host dispersal and parasite diversity in two sympatric cichlids of Lake Tanganyika. Freshwat. Biol. 60(2): 323-335. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fwb.12492
Marchiori, N.C.; Pariselle, A.; Pereira Jr, J.; Agnèse, J.-F.; Durand, J.-D.; Vanhove, M.P.M. (2015). A comparative study of Ligophorus uruguayense and L. saladensis (Monogenea: Ancyrocephalidae) from Mugil liza (Teleostei: Mugilidae) in southern Brazil. Folia Parasitol. 62. https://dx.doi.org/10.14411/fp.2015.024
Vanhove, M.P.M.; Pariselle, A.; Van Steenberge, M.; Raeymaekers, J.A.M.; Hablützel, P.I.; Gillardin, C.; Hellemans, B.; Breman, F.C.; Koblmüller, S.; Sturmbauer, C.; Snoeks, J.; Volckaert, F.A.M.; Huyse, T. (2015). Hidden biodiversity in an ancient lake: phylogenetic congruence between Lake Tanganyika tropheine cichlids and their monogenean flatworm parasites. NPG Scientific Reports 5(1): 13669. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep13669
Geraylou, Z.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Souffreau, C.; Rurangwa, E.; Buyse, J.; Ollevier, F. (2014). In vitro selection and characterization of putative probiotics isolated from the gut of Acipenser baerii (Brandt, 1869). Aquac. Res. 45(2): 341-352. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2109.2012.03232.x
Hablützel, P. I.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Grégoir, A.F.; Hellemans, B.; Volckaert, F.A.M.; Raeymaekers, J.A.M. (2014). Intermediate number of major histocompatibility complex class IIBlength variants relates to enlarged perivisceral fat deposits in the blunt-head cichlid Tropheus moorii. J. Evolution. Biol. 27(10): 2177-2190. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12467
Raeymaekers, J.A.M.; Hablützel, P.I.; Grégoir, A.F.; Bamps, J.; Roose, A.K.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Van Steenberge, M.; Pariselle, A.; Huyse, T.; Snoeks, J.; Volckaert, F.A.M. (2013). Contrasting parasite communities among allopatric colour morphs of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid Tropheus. BMC Evol. Biol. 13(1): 41. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-41
Vanhove, M.P.M.; Tessens, B.; Schoelinck, C.; Jondelius, U.; Littlewood, D.T.J.; Artois, T.; Huyse, T. (2013). Problematic barcoding in flatworms: a case-study on monogeneans and rhabdocoels (Platyhelminthes). ZooKeys 365: 355-379. https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.365.5776
Meelkop, E.; Marco, H.G.; Janssen, T.; Temmerman, L.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Schoofs, L. (2012). A structural and functional comparison of nematode and crustacean PDH-like sequences. Peptides (New York, NY : 1980) 34(1): 74-81. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.peptides.2011.11.008
Vanhove, M.P.M.; Economou, A.N.; Zogaris, S.; Larmuseau, M.H.D.; Giakoumi, S.; Kalogianni, E.; Volckaert, F.A.M.; Huyse, T. (2012). Phylogenetics and biogeography of the Balkan ‘sand gobies’ (Teleostei: Gobiidae): vulnerable species in need of taxonomic revision. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 105(1): 73-91. dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01781.x
Vanschoenwinkel, B.; Pinceel, T.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Denis, C.; Jocqué, M.; Timms, B.V.; Brendonck, L. (2012). Toward a global phylogeny of the "living fossil" Crustacean order of the Notostraca. PLoS One 7(4): e34998. dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034998
Larmuseau, M.H.D.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Huyse, T.; Volckaert, F.A.M.; Decorte, R. (2011). Signature of selection on the rhodopsin gene in the marine radiation of American seven-spined gobies (Gobiidae, Gobiosomatini). J. Evolution. Biol. 24(7): 1618-1625. dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02290.x
Vanhove, M.P.M.; Kovacic, M.; Koutsikos, N.E.; Zogaris, S.; Vardakas, L.E.; Huyse, T.; Economou, A.N. (2011). First record of a landlocked population of marine Millerigobius macrocephalus (Perciformes: Gobiidae): observations from a unique spring-fed karstic lake (Lake Vouliagmeni, Greece) and phylogenetic positioning. Zool. Anz. 250(3): 195-204. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2011.03.002
Louvard, C.; Hadfield, K.A.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Sures, B.; Smit, N.J. (2025). Unveiling the hidden players: Exploring the intricate dance of aquatic parasites, host biodiversity and ecosystem health, in: Smit, N.J. et al.Aquatic parasitology: Ecological and environmental concepts and implications of marine and freshwater parasites. pp. 167-198. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-83903-0_7
Thys, K.J.M.; Vanhove, M.; Van Steenberge, M.; Kmentová, N. (2024). Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of diversification: Comparative genomics of the monogeneans infecting the gills of the marine barramundi, at both micro and macro evolutionary levels., in: Mees, J. et al.Book of abstracts – VLIZ Marine Science Day, 6 March 2024, Oostende. VLIZ Special Publication, 91: pp. 21
Vanhove, M. (2023). Fish-infecting monogenean flatworms: tools, threats, and targets in conservation, in: 21st FishBase/SeaLifeBase Symposium. pp. 42-43
Monnens, M.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Artois, T. (2020). Assembling mitochondrial genomes from small worms: a combined approach, in: Mees, J. et al.Book of abstracts – VLIZ Marine Science Day. Oostende, Belgium, 18 March 2020. VLIZ Special Publication, 84: pp. 9
Aerts, D.; Huyghe, C.E.T.; De Keyzer, E.L.R.; Heindler, F.M.; Vanhove, M.P.M.; Volckaert, F. (2019). Food resources and microbiome composition of the Lake Tanganyika sardines: A novel approach to investigate structure of overexploited L. miodon and S. tanganicae stocks., in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) Book of abstracts – VLIZ Marine Science Day. Bredene, Belgium, 13 March 2019. VLIZ Special Publication, 83: pp. 85-86
All data in the Integrated Marine Information System (IMIS) is subject to the VLIZ privacy policy
Web site hosted and maintained by Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Webmaster info@vliz.be Number of visitors: 2709500 - Total hits: 10374225 (since 2006-01-17)
