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