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Monica Caffara
Researcher at University of Bologna
Publications - 83
Citations - 1182
Monica Caffara is an academic researcher from University of Bologna. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 72 publications receiving 994 citations. Previous affiliations of Monica Caffara include Sao Paulo State University.
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Diversity, specificity and speciation in larval Diplostomidae (Platyhelminthes: Digenea) in the eyes of freshwater fish, as revealed by \DNA\ barcodes
Sean A. Locke,Sean A. Locke,Fatima Shihab Al-Nasiri,Monica Caffara,Fabiana B. Drago,Martin Kalbe,Angela Rose Lapierre,J. Daniel McLaughlin,Pin Nie,Robin M. Overstreet,Geza Thais Rangel e Souza,Geza Thais Rangel e Souza,Ricardo Massato Takemoto,David J. Marcogliese +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, distance-based analysis of cytochrome c oxidase 1 barcodes and, in some specimens, internal transcribed spacer (ITS-1, 5.8S, ITS-2) sequences was performed for over 2000 diplostomids from Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia and the Americas.
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Morphological and Molecular Differentiation of Clinostomum complanatum and Clinostomum marginatum (Digenea: Clinostomidae) Metacercariae and Adults
TL;DR: Recent data confirm the validity of the junior species, C. marginatum, by ∼1% differences in its 18S rDNA sequences and identified basic morphometrics in metacercariae that may be useful for discriminating the species.
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First description of the adult stage of Clinostomum cutaneum Paperna, 1964 (Digenea: Clinostomidae) from grey herons Ardea cinerea L. and a redescription of the metacercaria from the Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus niloticus (L.) in Kenya.
Andrea Gustinelli,Monica Caffara,Daniela Florio,Elick O. Otachi,E. M. Wathuta,Maria L. Fioravanti +5 more
TL;DR: Sequencing the rRNA confirmed the morphological similarity between adults from the grey heron and the metacercarial stage from tilapia, and a level of genetic similarity with the other previously sequenced Clinostomum spp.
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Validity of the Diplostomoidea and Diplostomida (Digenea, Platyhelminthes) upheld in phylogenomic analysis.
Sean A. Locke,Alex R. Van Dam,Monica Caffara,Hudson Alves Pinto,Danimar López-Hernández,Christopher A. Blanar +5 more
TL;DR: Both ultra-conserved genomic elements and mt genomes support the monophyly of the Diplostomoidea and show congruent relationships within it, and Morphological traits of diplostomoid metacercariae appear to be more useful for differentiating clades than those of adults.
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Investigation of Toxoplasma gondii presence in farmed shellfish by nested-PCR and real-time PCR fluorescent amplicon generation assay (FLAG).
Lorenza Putignani,Livia Mancinelli,F. Del Chierico,Donato Menichella,D. Adlerstein,M.C. Angelici,Marianna Marangi,Federica Berrilli,Monica Caffara,D.A. Frangipane di Regalbono,Annunziata Giangaspero +10 more
TL;DR: Shellfish specimens collected from the Varano Lagoon demonstrated the presence of T. gondii in edible farmed C. gigas and T. decussatus and indicate that there may be a considerable health threat involved in eating contaminated raw shellfish.