Publikacijos

Podwysocki, K., Bącela-Spychalska, K., Desiderato, A., Rewicz, T., Copilaş-Ciocianu, D. 2025. Environment, intraspecific lineages and geographic range jointly shape the high morphological variability of Dikerogammarus villosus (Sowinsky, 1894) (Crustacea, Amphipoda): a successful aquatic invader across Europe. Hydrobiologia, 852 (8-9): 2081–2099. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-024-05565-8

Copilaş-Ciocianu, D., Marin, I., Palatov, D. 2025. Evolution and biogeography of Litorogammarus Marin, Palatov & Copilaş-Ciocianu, 2023 (Amphipoda: Gammaridae) with description of two new Caspian endemic species. Systematics and Biodiversity, 23 (1): art. no. 2454025. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2025.2454025

Gabrielczak, H., Copilaş-Ciocianu, D., Grabowski, M., Son, M.O., Rewicz, T. 2025. The amphipod Amathillina cristata Sars, 1894 is an overlooked native species in the Black Sea basin: insights from molecular data, historical records and SEM imaging. European Zoological Journal, 92 (1): 292–307. https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2025.2455615

Kazanavičiūtė, E., Copilaş-Ciocianu, D. 2024. Found after 70 years: morphology and DNA barcoding confirm the ongoing presence of Gammarus arduus Karaman, 1975 (Crustacea: Amphipoda) in Romania. North-Western Journal of Zoology, 20 (2): 175–178.

Copilaş-Ciocianu, D., Prokin, A., Esin, E., Shkil, F., Zlenko, D., Markevich, G., Sidorov, D. 2024. The subarctic ancient Lake El’gygytgyn harbours the world’s northernmost ‘limnostygon community’ and reshuffles crangonyctoid systematics (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Invertebrate Systematics, 38 (12): art. no. IS24001. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS24001

Copilaș-Ciocianu, D., Garbaras, A., Šidagytė-Copilas, E. 2024. Invasive Ponto-Caspian amphipods are less carnivorous outside their native range. Limnology and Oceanography, 69 (9): 1984–1996. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12638

Soto, I., Balzani, P., Carneiro, L., Cuthbert, R.N., Macêdo, R., Tarkan, A.S., Ahmed, D.A., Bang, A., Bacela-Spychalska, K., Bailey, S.A., Baudry, T., Ballesteros-Mejia, L., Bortolus, A., Briski, E., Britton, J.R., Buric, M., Camacho-Cervantes, M., Cano-Barbacil, C., Copilaş-Ciocianu, D., Coughlan, N.E., Courtois, P., Csabai, Z., Dalu, T., De Santis, V., Dickey, J.W.E., Dimarco, R.D., Falk-Andersson, J., Fernandez, R.D., Florencio, M., Franco, A.C.S., Garcia-Berthou, E., Giannetto, D., Glavendekic, M.M., Grabowski, M., Heringer, G., Herrera, I., Huang, W., Kamelamela, K.L., Kirichenko, N.I., Kouba, A., Kourantidou, M., Kurtul, I., Laufer, G., Lipták, B., Liu, C.L., López-López, E., Lozano, V., Mammola, S., Marchini, A., Meshkova, V., Milardi, M., Musolin, D.L., Nuñez, M.A., Oficialdegui, F.J., Patoka, R., Pattison, Z., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Piria, M., Probert, A.F., Rasmussen, J.J., Renault, D., Ribeiro, F., Rilov, G., Robinson, T.B., Sanchez, A.E., Schwindt, E., South, J., Stoett, P., Verreycken, H., Vilizzi, L., Wang, Y.J., Watari, Y., Wehi, P.M., Weiperth, A., Wiberg-Larsen, P., Yapici, S., Yogurtçuoglu, B., Zenni, R.D., Galil, B.S., Dick, J.T.A., Russell, J.C., Ricciardi, A., Simberloff, D., Bradshaw, C.J.A., Haubrock, P.J. 2024. Taming the terminological tempest in invasion science. Biological Reviews, 99 (4): 1357–1390. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13071

Premate, E., Fiser, Z., Biró, A., Copilaş-Ciocianu, D., Fromhage, L., Jennions, M., Borko, S., Herczeg, G., Balázs, G., Kralj-Fiser, S., Fiser, C. 2024. Sexual dimorphism in subterranean amphipod crustaceans covaries with subterranean habitat type. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 37 (5): 487–500. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voae032

Mamos, T., Grabowski, M., Sworobowicz, L., Salzburger, W., Trajanovski, S., Copilaş-Ciocianu, D., Mucciolo, S., Wysocka, A. 2024. Distribution, diversity and diversification from DNA barcoding perspective: The case of Gammarus radiation in the ancient Lake Ohrid. Journal of Biogeography, 51 (7): 1259–1275. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14822

Copilaş-Ciocianu, D., Ionesi, V. 2024. New Miocene fossil taxa illuminate the evolution and paleobiogeography of the Ponto-Caspian gammaroid amphipod radiation. Contributions to Zoology, 93 (3): 268–288. https://doi.org/10.1163/18759866-bja10061

Pelikan, L., Šidagytė-Copilas, E., Garbaras, A., Jourdan, J., Copilaş -Ciocianu, D. 2024. Competitive interaction in headwaters: slow upstream migration leads to trophic competition between native and non-native amphipods. NeoBiota, 90: 193–216. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.90.112383

Šidagytė-Copilas, E., Copilas-Ciocianu, D. 2024. Climatic niche differentiation between native and non-native ranges is widespread in Ponto-Caspian amphipods. Freshwater Biology, 69 (2): 277–287. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.14210

Jourdan, J., Bundschuh, M., Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Fiser, C., Grabowski, M., Hupalo, K., Kokalj, A.J., Kabus, J., Römbke, J., Soose, L.J., Oehlmann, J. 2023. Cryptic species in ecotoxicology. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 42 (9): 1889–1914. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5696

Horton, T., DE Broyer, C., Bellan-santini, D., Coleman, C.O., Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Corbari, L., Daneliya, M.E., Dauvin, J.C., Decock, W., Fanini, L., Fiser, C., Gasca, R., Grabowski, M., Guerra-Garcia, J.M., Hendrycks, E.A., Hughes, L.E., Jaume, D., Kim, Y.H., King, R.A., Brutto, S.L., Loerz, A.N., Mamos, T., Serejo, C.S., Senna, A.R., Souza, J.F., Tandberg, A.H.S., Thurston, M.H., Vader, W., Vaeinoelae, R .,Domedel, G.V. Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Vonk, R., White, K.N., Zeidler, W. 2023. The World Amphipoda Database: History and progress. Records of the Australian Museum, 75 (4): 329–342. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1875

Macher, J.N., Šidagytė-Copilas, E., Copilaş-Ciocianu, D. 2023. Comparative mitogenomics of native European and alien Ponto-Caspian amphipods. NeoBiota, 87: 27–44. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.15.532755

Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Palatov, D., Rewicz, T., Sands, A.F., Arbačiauskas, K., Van Haaren, T., Hebert, P.D.N., Grabowski, M., Marin, I. 2023. A widespread Ponto-Caspian invader with a mistaken identity: integrative taxonomy elucidates the confusing taxonomy of Trichogammarus trichiatus (= Echinogammarus) (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 198 (3): 821–846. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad010

Marin, I., Palatov, D., Copilas-Ciocianu, D. 2023. The remarkable Ponto-Caspian amphipod diversity of the lower Durso River (SW Caucasus) with the description of Litorogammarus dursi gen. et sp. nov. Zootaxa, 5297 (4): 483–517. https://doi.org/10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5297.4.2

Berchi, G.M., Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Kment, P., Mumladze, L. 2023. Water bugs (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha, Nepomorpha) of the Caucasus ecoregion. European Zoological Journal, 90 (1): 167–192. https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2023.2174190

Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Šidagytė-Copilas, E., Son, M.O., Morhun, H., Macher, J.N., Arbačiauskas, K. 2023. Genetic diversity of Ponto-Caspian amphipods throughout the invaded Baltic and native NW Black Sea donor ranges: does introduction mode matter? Hydrobiologia, 850 (14): 3061–3076. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-023-05230-6

Hupalo, K., Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Leese, F., Weiss, M. 2023. Morphology, nuclear SNPs and mate selection reveal that COI barcoding overestimates species diversity in a Mediterranean freshwater amphipod by an order of magnitude. Cladistics, 39 (2): 129–143. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12520

Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Sidorov, D., Šidagytė-Copilas, E. 2023. Global distribution and diversity of alien Ponto-Caspian amphipods. Biological invasions, 25 (1): 179–195. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-022-02908-1

Bystricky, P.K., Rutova, T., Brož, V., Gajdošova, M., Juračka, P.J., Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Petrusek, A. 2022. Distribution patterns at different spatial scales reveal reproductive isolation and frequent syntopy among divergent lineages of an amphipod species complex in Western Carpathian streams. Limnology and Oceanography, 67 (12): 2796–2808. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12239

Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Sarmanov, A., Sergaliyev, N., Sidorov, D. 2022. Turcogammarus aralensis (Uljanin, 1875), a relict pontogammarid amphipod crustacean from the Aralo-Caspian paleobasin: redescription, phylogenetic position and biogeography. Zootaxa, 5219 (2): 101–120. https://doi.org/10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5219.2.1

Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Rewicz, T., Sands, A.F., Palatov, D., Marin, I., Arbačiauskas, K.,Hebert, P.D.N., Grabowski, M., Audzijonytė, A. 2022. A DNA barcode reference library for endemic Ponto-Caspian amphipods. Scientific Reports, 12 (1): art. no 11332. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15442-w

Morhun, H., Son, M.O., Rewicz, T., Kazanavičiūtė, E., Copilas-Ciocianu, D. 2022. The first records of Niphargus hrabei and N. potamophilus in Ukraine and Bulgaria significantly enlarge the ranges of these species. European Zoological Journal, 89 (1): 1191–1200. https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2022.2126534

Morhun, H., Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Rewicz, T., Son, M.O., Khomenko, A., Huseynov, M., Utevsky, S., Grabowski, M. (2022) Molecular markers and SEM imaging reveal pseudocryptic diversity within the Ponto-Caspian low-profile amphipod invader Dikerogammarus bispinosus. European Zoological Journal, 89 (1): 87–101. https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2021.2018056

Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Šidagytė-Copilas, E. (2022) A substantial range expansion of alien Ponto-Caspian amphipods along the eastern Baltic Sea coast. Oceanologia, 64 (1): 227–232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceano.2021.09.005

Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Sidorov, D. (2022) Taxonomic, ecological and morphological diversity of Ponto-Caspian gammaroidean amphipods: a review. Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 22 (2): 285–315. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-021-00536-6

Rendos, M., Delic, T., Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Fiser, C. (2021) First insight into cryptic diversity of a Caucasian subterranean amphipod of the genus Niphargus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Niphargidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 290:1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2020.10.005

Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Boros, B.V., Šidagytė-Copilas, E. (2021) Morphology mirrors trophic niche in a freshwater amphipod community. Freshwater Biology, 66 (10): 1968–1979. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13804

Premate, E., Borko, S., Kralj-Fiser, S., Jennions, M., Fiser, Z., Balazs, G., Biro, A., Bracko, G., Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Hrga, N., Herczeg, G., Rexhepi, B., Zagmajster, M., Zaksek, V., Fromhage, L., Fiser, C. (2021) No room for males in caves: Female-biased sex ratio in subterranean amphipods of the genus Niphargus. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 34 (10): 1653–1661. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13917

Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Borko, S., Fiser, C. (2020) The late blooming amphipods: Global change promoted post-Jurassic ecological radiation despite Palaeozoic origin. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 143: art. no. 106664. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106664

Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Borza, P., Petrusek, A. (2020) Extensive variation in the morphological anti-predator defense mechanism of Gammarus roeselii Gervais, 1835 (Crustacea:Amphipoda). Freshwater Science. 39 (1): 47–55. https://doi.org/10.1086/707259

Kralj-Fiser, S., Premate, E., Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Volk, T., Fiser, Z., Balazs, G., Herczeg, G., Delic, T., Fiser, C. (2020) The interplay between habitat use, morphology and locomotion in subterranean crustaceans of the genus Niphargus. Zoology, 139: art. no. 125742. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2020.125742

Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Berchi, G.M., Mumladze, L. (2020) First survey of shallow-water Amphipoda along the Georgian Black Sea coast reveals new faunistic records and the unexpected Atlantic invader Melita nitida. Mediterranean Marine Science, 21 (2): 460-463. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.22844

Wattier, R., Mamos, T., Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Jelic, M., Ollivier, A., Chaumot, A., Danger, M., Felten, V., Piscart, C., Zganec, K., Rewicz, T., Wysocka, A., Rigaud, T., Grabowski, M. (2020) Continental-scale patterns of hyper-cryptic diversity within the freshwater model taxon Gammarus fossarum (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Scientific Reports, 10 (1): art. no. 16536. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73739-0

Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Pop, F.M. (2020) An account of bacterial-induced luminescence in the Ponto-Caspian amphipod Pontogammarus maeoticus (Sowinskyi, 1894), with an overview of amphipod bioluminescence. North-Western Journal of Zoology, 16 (2): art. no. e207301.

Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Zimta, A.A., Petrusek, A. (2019) Integrative taxonomy reveals a new Gammarus species (Crustacea, Amphipoda) surviving in a previously unknown southeast European glacial refugium. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 57 (2): 272-297. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12248

Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Sidorov, D., Gontcharov, A. (2019) Adrift across tectonic plates: molecular phylogenetics supports the ancient Laurasian origin of old limnic crangonyctid amphipods. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 19 (2): 191-207. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-019-00401-7

Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Zimta, A.A., Grabowski, M., Petrusek, A. (2018) Survival in northern microrefugia in an endemic Carpathian gammarid (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Zoologica Scripta. 47 (3): 357-372. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12285

Copilas-Ciocianu, D., Arbačiauskas, K. (2018) First record of Dikerogammarus bispinosus Martynov, 1925 in Kazakhstan: invasive or overlooked native in the Caspian Sea basin? Bioinvasions Records. 7 (3): 285-291. https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2018.7.3.09