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  1. Feeding Relationship between Octopus vulgaris (Cuvier, 1797) Early Life-Cycle Stages and Their Prey in the Western Iberian Upwelling System: Correlation of Reciprocal Lipid and Fatty Acid Contents

    Article • Frontiers in Physiology, July 2017, Frontiers

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  2. You Are What You Eat: A Genomic Analysis of the Gut Microbiome of Captive and Wild Octopus vulgaris Paralarvae and Their Zooplankton Prey

    Article • Frontiers in Physiology, May 2017, Frontiers

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  3. Diet Composition and Variability of Wild Octopus vulgaris and Alloteuthis media (Cephalopoda) Paralarvae: a Metagenomic Approach

    Article • Frontiers in Physiology, May 2017, Frontiers

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  4. Sepiolid paralarval diversity in a regional upwelling area of the NE Atlantic

    Article • Hydrobiologia, April 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  5. Epibiontic associations between apostomid ciliates Conidophrys spp. and amphipods associated with fish farms fouling in the western Mediterranean Sea

    Article • Helgoland Marine Research, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  6. Fatty acid composition and age estimation of wild Octopus vulgaris paralarvae

    Article • Aquaculture, November 2016, Elsevier

    Juan Carlos Navarro, Dr Alvaro Roura

  7. Morphological assessment of the Octopus vulgaris species complex evaluated in light of molecular‐based phylogenetic inferences

    Article • Zoologica Scripta, September 2016, Wiley

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  8. Life strategies of cephalopod paralarvae in a coastal upwelling system (NW Iberian Peninsula): insights from zooplankton community and spatio-temporal analyses

    Article • Fisheries Oceanography, April 2016, Wiley

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  9. Macroparasites of allis shad (Alosa alosa) and twaite shad (Alosa fallax) of the Western Iberian Peninsula Rivers: ecological, phylogenetic and zoonotic insights

    Article • Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde Parasitology Research, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  10. Description of a new epibiotic relationship (Suctorian-Copepoda) in NE Atlantic waters: from morphological to phylogenetic analyses

    Article • Acta Zoologica, January 2015, Wiley

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  11. Anisakis simplexcomplex (Nematoda: Anisakidae) in zooplankton communities from temperate NE Atlantic waters

    Article • Journal of Natural History, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  12. Octopus vulgaris paralarvae vertical distribution in a fluctuating upwelling-downwelling system

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, January 2014, Frontiers

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  13. Cannibalistic behavior of octopus (Octopus vulgaris) in the wild.

    Article • Journal of Comparative Psychology, January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  14. Isolation and molecular identification of the scuticociliatePorpostoma notataMoebius, 1888 from moribund rearedHippocampus hippocampus(L.) seahorses, by amplification of the SSU rRNA gene sequences

    Article • Journal of Fish Diseases, November 2013, Wiley

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  15. Nyctiphanes couchii as intermediate host for Rhadinorhynchus sp. (Acanthocephala, Echinorhynchidae) from NW Iberian Peninsula waters

    Article • Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, July 2013, Inter-Research Science Center

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  16. Zooplankton communities off NW Iberian Peninsula

    Article • Progress In Oceanography, February 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  17. The black-pygmy mussel Limnoperna securis in Galician Rias (north-eastern Atlantic): new records and first evidence of larval stages predation by copepods

    Article • Marine Biodiversity Records, January 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  18. On gonadic maturation and reproductive strategy in deep-sea benthic octopus Graneledone macrotyla

    Article • Helgoland Marine Research, December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  19. Morphological variability of the rare bush-club squid Batoteuthis (Cephalopoda, Batoteuthidae)?

    Article • Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, October 2012, Schweizerbart

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  20. Nyctiphanes couchii as intermediate host for the acanthocephalan Bolbosoma balaenae in temperate waters of the NE Atlantic

    Article • Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, May 2012, Inter-Research Science Center

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  21. New insights into the morphology, reproduction and distribution of the large-tuberculate octopus Graneledone macrotyla from the Patagonian slope

    Article • Scientia Marina, May 2012, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  22. Molecular prey identification in wild Octopus vulgaris paralarvae

    Article • Marine Biology, March 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  23. A molecular approach to identifying the prey of cephalopod paralarvae

    Article • ICES Journal of Marine Science, June 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  24. Morphological and genetic evidence that Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797 inhabits Amsterdam and Saint Paul Islands (southern Indian Ocean)

    Article • ICES Journal of Marine Science, May 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  25. Sperm ultrastructure of the hydrothermal vent octopodVulcanoctopus hydrothermalis

    Article • Journal of Morphology, January 2010, Wiley

    Dr Alvaro Roura

  26. Sperm ultrastructure inBathypolypus bairdiiandB. sponsalis(Cephalopoda: Octopoda)

    Article • Journal of Morphology, January 2009, Wiley

    Dr Alvaro Roura