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  • Cruz‐Castillejo, L. D. L., Cassidy, R., Mitsi, K., Galià‐Camps, C., Benítez‐López, A., Gracia‐Sancha, C., … & Riesgo, A. (2026). Genomic Connectivity and Adaptation Signals of the Freshwater Sponge Ephydatia muelleri Across Its Distribution. Journal of Biogeography, 53(1), e70142. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.70142
  • Gratsia, E., Zenetos, A., Digenis, M., Gerovasileiou, V., Kasapidis, P., Karakassis, I. (2026). From hulls to caves: Insights into the introduction and expansion of non-indigenous marine bivalves of the genera Isognomon and Malleus in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Diversity, 18, 127. https://doi.org/10.3390/d18020127
  • Mammola, S., Brankovits, D., Lorenzo, T.D., Amorim, I.R., Bancila, R.I., Bellvert, A., … & Martínez, A. (2026). Subterranean environments contribute to three-quarters of classified ecosystem services. Biological Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1002/brv.70137
  • Samaai, T., Payne, R. P., & Kamwi, B. (2026). Revealing hidden diversity: new Latrunculia and Iophon species (Porifera, Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) from the continental shelf of the Namaqua ecoregion (Benguela ecosystem), along with a range extension of Latrunculia (Aciculatrunculia) biformis. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 106, e10. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315426101027 
  • Serejo, C. S., Simões, C., De Almeida, M. V. O., do Amaral, F. M., Targino, M., Elias, A. A., … & Kellner, A. W. (2026). An overview of Natural History Collections, post-disaster recovery, and digitization progress at the Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Brazil. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 147(1), blaf126. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaf126
  • Cárdenas, P., & Meister, M. (2025). The Schmidt collection of envelopes in the Musée Zoologique in Strasbourg. Journal of the History of Collections, fhaf008. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhaf008
  • Corral‐Lou, A., Ramón‐Laca, A., Alcaraz, L., Cassidy, R., Taboada, S., Mariani, S., … & Riesgo, A. (2025). Spatial and seasonal biodiversity variation in a large Mediterranean lagoon using environmental DNA metabarcoding through sponge tissue collection. Environmental DNA, 7(3), e70129. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.70129
  • Díaz, J. A., De la Torriente, A., Zumberge, J. A., Ríos, P., Serrano, A., Cristobo, J., … & Cárdenas, P. (2025). Vilesida, a new order of demosponges revealed by molecular phylogeny and abundant 24-isopropylcholesterols (24-ipc sterols). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 205(3), zlaf163. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf163
  • Gerovasileiou, V., Smith, C.J. & Mytilineou, C. (2025). Vulnerable rock sponges in the under-studied deep Eastern Mediterranean. Marine Biodiversity, 55, 43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-025-01525-0
  • Morav, T., Taboada, S., Goren, L., Idan, T., Shefer, S., Tikochinski, Y., … & Ilan, M. (2025). Deep connections: exploring the genetic connectivity of mesophotic and shallow-water populations of the sponge Axinella polypoides. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 39183. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-18563-0
  • Novarin, M. P., Fernandez, J. C., Hajdu, E., & Schejter, L. (2025). Revisiting Asbestopluma (Asbestopluma) magnifica in the SW Atlantic: taxonomic amendments, new insights, and evidence for potential conspecificity with Asbestopluma (Asbestopluma) sarsensis. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 105, e20. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315425000116
     
  • Recinos, R., Cavalcanti, T., Hajdu, E., & Pinheiro, U. (2025). A synopsis of Raspailia Nardo, 1833 (Porifera: Demospongiae: Axinellida) from the tropical and warm-temperate Southwestern Atlantic, with the description of four new species. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 103, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2024-0088
  • Rizzo, L., Vega Fernández, T., Necci, F., Grelaud, M., Ziveri, P., Gerovasileiou, V., & Rossi, S. (2025). Can Marine Animal Forests benefit from existing conservation measures? A systematic approach towards the identification of protected sessile benthic species in the Mediterranean Sea. Mediterranean Marine Science, 26(2), 327–340. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.38550

  • Taboada, S., Díez-Vives, C., Turon, M., Belén Arias, M., Galià-Camps, C., Cárdenas, P., … & Riesgo, A. (2025). Connectivity and adaptation patterns of the deep-sea ground-forming sponge Geodia hentscheli across its entire distribution. Molecular biology and evolution, 42(7), msaf145. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf145

  • Turon, M., Koutsouveli, V., Conejero, M., Taboada, S., Verdes, A., Lorente-Sorolla, J. M., … & Riesgo, A. (2025). The archaeal class Nitrososphaeria is a key component of the reproductive microbiome in sponges during gametogenesis. Mbio, 16(6), e02019-24. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.02019-24
  • Heres, P., Rios, P., Cristobo, J., Abad-Uribarren, A., Rodríguez-Basalo, A., & Prado, E. (2024). Characterization of deep-sea sponge ground (Asconema setubalense) using structure from motion methodology. Journal of Sea Research, 102511. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2024.102511
  • Derrien, M., Chevaldonné, P., & Pérez, T. (2024). Patterns of benthic diversity in marine underwater caves of the Marseille Region (France, North-Western Mediterranean Sea). Mediterranean Marine Science, 25(3), 666–681. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.38566
  • Gallego, R., Arias, M. B., Corral-Lou, A., Díez-Vives, C., Neave, E. F., Wang, C., … & Riesgo, A. (2024). North Atlantic deep-sea benthic biodiversity unveiled through sponge natural sampler DNA. Communications Biology, 7(1), 1015.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2024.102511
  • Digenis, M., & Gerovasileiou, V. (2024). The non-indigenous shrimp Urocaridella pulchella in a marine cave of the Ionian Sea. 465 pp. In: Christidis G., Ammar I. A., Antit M., Barhoum Y. M., Brundu G., Colletti A., … & Gerovasileiou, V. (2024). New records of introduced species in the Mediterranean (August 2024). Mediterranean Marine Science, 25, 453–479. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.34474
  • Santodomingo, N., Díez-Vives, C., Kenny, N. J., Cárdenas, P., Balcells, L., Moles, J., … & Riesgo, A. (2024). Integrative taxonomy of Tethya: description of four new species based on morphology, phylogeny and microbiome diversity. Systematics and Biodiversity, 22(1), 2383341. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2024.2383341
  • Gregório, I., Xavier, J. R., & Davies, A. J. (2024). Present and future distribution of the deep-sea habitat-forming sponge-Pheronema carpenteri (Thomson, 1869) in a changing ocean. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 213, 104390., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2024.104390
  • Santín, A., Wirtz, P., Neves, P., & Ribeiro, C. (2024). Filling gaps in the Webbnesia marine diversity: The madeiran sponge fauna. Continental Shelf Research, 277, 105230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2024.105230
  • Díaz, J. A., Ordines, F., Massutí, E., & Cárdenas, P. (2024). From caves to seamounts: the hidden diversity of tetractinellid sponges from the Balearic Islands, with the description of eight new species. PeerJ, 12, e16584. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16584
  • Dinçtürk, E., Öndes, F., Leria, L., & Maldonado, M. (2023). Mass mortality of the keratose sponge Sarcotragus foetidus in the Aegean Sea (Eastern Mediterranean) correlates with proliferation of Vibrio bacteria in the tissues. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14, 1272733. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1272733
  • Periasamy, R., Cárdenas, P., Kurian, P. J., Ingole, B., & Samaai, T. (2023). Is the North Atlantic Geodia barretti (Porifera, Tetractinellida, Geodiidae) present on the Southwest Indian Ridge?. Zootaxa, 5380(5), 461–474. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5380.5.3.