Wielstra B., Salvi D. & D. Canestrelli, 2021. Genetic divergence across glacial refugia despite interglacial gene flow in a crested newt. Evolutionary Biology 48: 17-26.

Dufresnes, C., Brelsford, A., Jeffries, D.L., Mazepa, G., Suchan, T., Canestrelli, D., Nicieza, A., Fumagalli, L., Dubey, S., Martínez-Solano, I., Litvinchuk, S.N., Vences, M., Perrin, N., Crochet, P.A. 2021. Mass of genes rather than master genes underlie the genomic architecture of amphibian speciation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118: e2103963118

Tamagnini, D., Canestrelli, D., Meloro, C., Raia, P., Maiorano, L., 2021. New Avenues for Old Travellers: Phenotypic Evolutionary Trends Meet Morphodynamics, and Both Enter the Global Change Biology Era. Evolutionary Biology 48: 379-393.

Canestrelli, D., Martino, G. 2021. You startle me, you don’t. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 19: 265.

Canestrelli, D., Bisconti, R., Liparoto, A., Angelier, F., Ribout, C., Carere, C., Costantini, D. 2021. Biogeography of telomere dynamics in a vertebrate. Ecography 44: 453-455

Chiocchio A., Arntzen J.W., Martínez-Solano I.,de Vries W., Bisconti R., Pezzarossa A., Maiorano L., Canestrelli D. 2021. Reconstructing hotspots of genetic diversity from glacial refugia and subsequent dispersal in Italian common toads (Bufo bufo). Scientific Reports 11: 260

Biello R., Zampiglia M., Corti C., Deli G, Biaggini M, Delaugerre M, Di Tizio L, Leonetti F.L., Olivieri O., Pellegrino F., Romano A., Sperone E., Trabalza-Marinucci M., Bertorelle G. & D. Canestrelli, 2021. Who's who in the western Hermann's tortoise conservation: a STR toolkit and a reference database for wildlife forensic genetic analyses. Forensic Science International: Genetics 51: 102447

Spadavecchia G., Bisconti R. & D. Canestrelli, 2021. Paso doble: a two-step Late Pleistocene range expansion in the Tyrrhenian tree frog Hyla sarda. Gene 780: 145489.

Chiocchio A., Arduino P., Cianchi R., Canestrelli D. & A. Zilli, 2021. Unveiling cryptic diversity among Müllerian co-mimics: insights from the Western Palaearctic Syntomis moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae). Organisms Diversity and Evolution 21: 119-133.

Liparoto A., Canestrelli D., Bisconti R., Carere C., Costantini D. 2020. Biogeographic history moulds population differentiation in ageing of oxidative status in an amphibian. Journal of Experimental Biology 223: jeb235002

Arntzen, J.W., de Vries, W., Canestrelli, D., Martínez-Solano, I. 2020. Genetic and Morphological Differentiation of Common Toads in the Alps and the Apennines. In: Pontarotti, P. (eds) Evolutionary Biology—A Transdisciplinary Approach. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57246-4_1

Arntzen J.W., Canestrelli D., & Martínez-Solano I. 2020. Environmental correlates of the European common toad hybrid zone. Contributions to Zoology 89: 270-281.

Sebastiano M., Canestrelli D., Bisconti R., Lavergne A., Pineau K., Chastel O., Lacoste V., Costantini D., 2020. Detection and Phylogenetic Characterization of a Novel Herpesvirus in Sooty Terns Onychoprion fuscatus. Frontiers in Veterinary Science 7: 567
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Zampiglia M., Bisconti R., Maiorano L., Aloise G., Siclari A., Pellegrino F., Martino G., Pezzarossa A., Chiocchio A., Martino C., Nascetti G. & D. Canestrelli, 2019. Drilling down hotspots of intraspecific diversity to bring them into on-ground conservation of threatened species. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7: 205.

Chiocchio A., Colangelo P., Aloise G., Amori G., Bertolino S., Bisconti R., Castiglia R. & D. Canestrelli, 2019. Population genetic structure of the bank vole Myodes glareolus within its glacial refugium in peninsular Italy. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 57: 959- 969.

Fagotti A. , Rossi R., Canestrelli D., La Porta G., Paracucchi R., Lucentini L., Simoncelli F. & I. Di Rosa, 2019. Longitudinal study of Amphibiocystidium sp. infection in a natural population of the Italian stream frogs (Rana italica). Parasitology 146: 903-910.

Senczuk G., Harris D.J., Castiglia R., Litsi Mizan V., Colangelo P., Canestrelli D. & D. Salvi, 2019. Evolutionary and demographic correlates of Pleistocene coastline changes in the Sicilian wall lizard Podarcis wagleriana. Journal of Biogeography 46: 224-237.

Bisconti R., Martino G., Chiocchio A., Siclari A. & D. Canestrelli, 2019. Balkan marsh frogs Pelophylax kurtmuelleri (Gayda, 1940) introduced in the Aspromonte National Park, southern Italy. Bioinvasion Records 8: 26-33.
 
Jeffries D.L., Lavanchy G., Sermier R., Sredl M.J., Miura I., Borzée A., Barrow L.N., Canestrelli D., Crochet P.-A., Dufresnes C., Fu J., Ma W.-J., Garcia C.M., Ghali K., Nicieza A.G., O’Donnell R.P., Rodrigues N., Romano A., Martínez-Solano Í., Stepanyan I., Zumbach S., Brelsford A. & N. Perrin, 2018. A rapid rate of sex-chromosome turnover and non-random transitions in true frogs. Nature Communications 9: 4088.
 
Dufresnes C., Mazepa G., Rodrigues N., Brelsford A., Litvinchuk S.N., Sermier R., Lavanchy G., Betto-Colliard C., Blaser O., Borzée A., Cavoto E., Fabre G., Ghali K., Grossen C., Horn A., Leuenberger J., Phillips B.C., Saunders P.A., Savary R., Maddalena T., Stöck M., Dubey S., Canestrelli D. & D.L. Jeffries, 2018. Genomic evidence for cryptic speciation in tree frogs from the Apennine Peninsula, with description of Hyla perrini sp. nov. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6: 144.

Bisconti R., Porretta D., Arduino P., Nascetti G. & D. Canestrelli, 2018. Hybridization and rampant mitochondrial introgression among fire salamanders in peninsular Italy. Scientific Reports 8: 13187.

Bisconti R., Aloise G., Siclari A., Fava V., Provenzano M, Arduino P., Chiocchio A., Nascetti G. & D. Canestrelli, 2018. Forest Dormouse (Dryomys nitedula) populations in southern Italy belong to a deeply divergent evolutionary lineage: implications for taxonomy and conservation. Hystrix 29: 75-79.

Wielstra B., Canestrelli D., Cvijanović M., Denoël M., Fijarczyk A., Jablonski D., Liana M., Naumov B., Olgun K., Pabijan M., Pezzarossa A., Popgeorgiev G., Salvi D., Si Y., Sillero N., Sotiropoulos K., Zieliński P. & W. Babik, 2018. The distributions of the six species constituting the smooth newt species complex (Lissotriton vulgaris sensu lato and L. montandoni) – an addition to the New Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles of Europe. Amphibia-Reptilia 39: 252-259.

Bisconti R., Tenchini R., Belfiore C., Nascetti G. & D. Canestrelli, 2018. Fast and accurate identification of cryptic and sympatric mayfly species of the Baetis rhodani group. BMC research notes 11: 7.

Chiocchio A., Bisconti R., Zampiglia M., Nascetti G. & D. Canestrelli, 2017. Quaternary history, population genetic structure and diversity of the cold adapted Alpine newt Ichthyosaura alpestris in peninsular Italy. Scientific Reports 7: 2955.
 
Arntzen J.W., de Vries W., Canestrelli D.  & I. Martínez-Solano, 2017. Hybrid zone formation and contrasting outcomes of secondary contact over transects in common toads. Molecular Ecology 26: 5663-5675.
 
Dufresnes C., Di Santo L., Leuenberger J., Schuerch J., Mazepa G., Grandjean N., Canestrelli D., Perrin N. & S. Dubey, 2017. Cryptic invasion of Italian pool frogs (Pelophylax bergeri) across Western Europe unraveled by multilocus phylogeography. Biological Invasions 19: 1407-1420.
 
Canestrelli D., Bisconti, R., Chiocchio, A., Maiorano, L., Zampiglia, M. & G. Nascetti, 2017. Climate change promotes hybridisation between deeply divergent species. PeerJ: e3072. [media coverage: BBC Mundo; El Pais]

​Canestrelli D., Porretta D., Lowe W., Bisconti R., Carere C. & G. Nascetti, 2016. The tangled evolutionary legacies of range expansion and hybridization. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31: 677-688 (Cover article).

Bisconti R., Canestrelli, D. Tenchini R., Belfiore C., Buffagni A. & G. Nascetti, 2016. Cryptic diversity and multiple origins of the widespread mayfly species group Baetis rhodani (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) on northwestern Mediterranean islands. Ecology and Evolution 6: 7901-7910.

Canestrelli D., Bisconti R. & C. Carere, 2016. Historical biogeography and the (epi)genetic architecture of animal personality: a comment on Cobben and van Oers. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31: 499-500.

Salvi D., Bisconti R. & D. Canestrelli, 2016. High phylogeographic complexity within Mediterranean islands: Insights from the Corsican fire salamander. Journal of Biogeography 43: 192-203.

Canestrelli D., Bisconti R. & C. Carere, 2016. Bolder takes all? The behavioral dimension of biogeography. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31: 35-43.

Mattiucci S., Acerra V., Paoletti M., Cipriani P., Levsen A., Webb S.C., Canestrelli D. & G. Nascetti, 2016. No more time to stay ‘single’ in the detection of Anisakis pegreffii, A. simplex (s. s.) and hybridization events between them: a multi-marker nuclear genotyping approach. Parassitology 43: 998-1011.

Dufresnes C.,  Dubey S., Ghali K., Canestrelli D. & N. Perrin, 2015. Introgressive hybridization of threatened European tree frogs (Hyla arborea) by introduced H. intermedia in Western Switzerland. Conservation Genetics 16:1507-1513.

Gvoždík V., Canestrelli D., García-París M., Moravec J., Nascetti G., Recuero E., Teixeira J. & P. Kotlík, 2015. Speciation history and widespread introgression in the European short-call tree frogs (Hyla arborea sensu lato, H. intermedia and H. sarda). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 83: 143-155.

​Canestrelli D., Bisconti R. & G. Nascetti, 2014. Extensive unidirectional introgression between two salamander lineages of ancient divergence and its evolutionary implications. Scientific Reports 4: 6516.

Maura M., Salvi D., Bologna M.A., Nascetti G. & D. Canestrelli, 2014. Northern richness and cryptic refugia: Phylogeography of the Italian smooth newt Lissotriton vulgaris meridionalis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 113: 590-603.

Canestrelli D., Bisconti R., Sacco F. & G. Nascetti, 2014. What triggers the rising of an intraspecific biodiversity hotspot? Hints from the agile frog. Scientific Reports 4: 5042.

Bisconti R., Aloise G., Cipriani P. & D. Canestrelli, 2014. Predation by the Italian pool frog Pelophylax lessonae bergeri on the Valais shrew, Sorex antinorii. Herpetology Notes 7: 159-160.

Zampiglia M., Canestrelli D., Chiocchio A. & G. Nascetti, 2013. Geographic distribution of the chytrid pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis among mountain amphibians along the Italian peninsula. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 107: 61-68.

Arntzen J.W., Recuero E., Canestrelli D. & I. Martinez-Solano, 2013. How complex is the Bufo bufo species group? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69:1203-1208.

Canestrelli D., Zampiglia M. & G. Nascetti, 2013. Widespread occurrence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in contemporary and historical samples of the endangered Bombina pachypus along the Italian peninsula. PLoS One 8: e63349.

Bisconti R.*, Canestrelli D.*, Salvi D. & G. Nascetti, 2013. A geographic mosaic of evolutionary lineages within the insular endemic newt Euproctus montanus. Molecular Ecology 22: 143-156. (*Co-primary authors).

Bisconti R., Canestrelli D. & G. Nascetti, 2013. Has living on islands been so simple? Insights from the insular endemic frog Discoglossus montalentii. PLoS One 8: e55735.

Canestrelli D., Salvi D., Maura M., Bologna M.A. & G. Nascetti, 2012. One species, three Pleistocene evolutionary histories: Phylogeography of the Italian crested newt, Triturus carnifex. PLoS One 7: e41754.

Recuero E., Canestrelli D., Vörös J., Szabó K., Poyarkov N.A., Arntzen J.W., Crnobrnja-Isailovic J., Kidov A.A., Cogalniceanu D., Caputo F.P., Nascetti G. & I. Martínez-Solano, 2012. Multilocus species tree analyses resolve the radiation of the widespread Bufo bufo species group (Anura, Bufonidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 62: 71-86.

​Canestrelli D., Sacco F. & G. Nascetti, 2012. On glacial refugia, genetic diversity and microevolutionary processes: Deep phylogeographic structure in the endemic newt Lissotriton italicus. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 105: 42-55.

Bisconti R.*, Canestrelli D.*, Colangelo P. & G. Nascetti, 2011. Multiple lines of evidence for demographic and range expansion of a temperate species (Hyla sarda) during the last glaciation. Molecular Ecology 20: 5313-5327 (*Co-primary authors).

Bisconti R., Canestrelli D. & G. Nascetti, 2011. Genetic diversity and evolutionary history of the Tyrrhenian treefrog Hyla sarda (Anura: Hylidae): Adding pieces to the puzzle of  Corsica-Sardinia biota. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 103: 159-167.
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Porretta D. *,  Canestrelli D. *, Urbanelli S., Bellini R., Schaffner F., Petric D. & G. Nascetti, 2011. Southern crossroads of the Western Palaearctic during the Late Pleistocene and their imprints in the current patterns of genetic diversity: insights from the mosquito Aedes caspius. Journal of Biogeography 38: 20-30. (*Co-primary authors)

Canestrelli D., Aloise G., Cecchetti S. & G. Nascetti, 2010. Birth of a hot spot of intraspecific genetic diversity: notes from the underground. Molecular Ecology 19: 5432-5451.

Verardi A., Canestrelli D. & G. Nascetti, 2009. Nuclear and mitochondrial patterns of introgression between the parapatric European treefrogs Hyla arborea and H. intermedia. Annales Zoologici Fennici 46: 247–258.

​​Canestrelli D. & G. Nascetti, 2008. Phylogeography of the pond frog Rana (Pelophylax) lessonae in the Italian peninsula and Sicily: multiple refugia, glacial expansions and nuclear-mitochondrial discordance. Journal of Biogeography 35: 1923-1936.
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Canestrelli D., Cimmaruta R. & G. Nascetti, 2008. Population genetic structure and diversity of the Apennine endemic stream frog Rana italica - insights on the Pleistocene evolutionary history of the Italian peninsular biota. Molecular Ecology 17: 3856-3872.

Canestrelli D.,Cimmaruta R & G. Nascetti, 2007. Phylogeography and historical demography of the Italian treefrog Hyla intermedia reveals multiple refugia, range expansions and secondary contacts within the Italian peninsula. Molecular Ecology 16: 4808-4821.

Porretta D., Canestrelli D., Bellini R., Celli G. & S. Urbanelli, 2007. Improving insect pest management through population genetic data: a case study of the mosquito Ochlerotatus caspius (Pallas). Journal of Applied Ecology 44: 682-691.

​Canestrelli D. & C. Bagnoli, 2007. Occurrence of paedomorphosis in the fire salamander Salamandra salamandra. Salamandra 43: 249-252.

Canestrelli D., Verardi A. & G. Nascetti, 2007. Genetic differentiation and history of populations of the Italian treefrog Hyla intermedia: lack of concordance between mitochondrial and nuclear markers. Genetica 130: 241-255.

Canestrelli D., Zangari F. & G. Nascetti, 2006. Genetic evidence for two distinct species within the Italian endemic Salamandrina terdigitata Bonnaterre, 1789(Amphibia: Urodela: Salamandridae). Herpetological Journal 16: 221-227.

​Canestrelli D., Cimmaruta R., CostantiniV. & G. Nascetti, 2006. Genetic diversity and phylogeography of the Apennine yellow-bellied toad Bombina pachypus, with implications for conservation. Molecular Ecology 15: 3741-3754.

Canestrelli D., Caputo F.P., Bagnoli C. & G. Nascetti, 2006. Integrating genetic,  demographic and ecological issues for the conservation of the Alpine Newt in Central Italy. Annales Zoologici Fennici 43: 322-334.

Caputo F.P.*, Canestrelli D.* & L. Boitani, 2005. Conserving the terecay (Podocnemis unifilis, Testudines: Pelomedusidae) through a community-based sustainable harvest of its eggs. Biological Conservation 126: 84-92. (*Co-primary authors)

Nascetti G., Zangari F. & D. Canestrelli, 2005. The spectacled salamanders, Salamandrina terdigitata (Lacépède, 1788) and S. perspicillata (Savi, 1821): 1) genetic differentiation and evolutionary history.  Rendiconti Lincei: Scienze Fisiche e Naturali 16:159-169.New Avenues for Old Travellers: Phenotypic Evolutionary Trends Meet Morphodynamics, and Both Enter the Global Change Biology Era