Valentina Serra

891 total citations
32 papers, 648 citations indexed

About

Valentina Serra is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Valentina Serra has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 648 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Valentina Serra's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (17 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (17 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers). Valentina Serra is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (17 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (17 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers). Valentina Serra collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Russia and India. Valentina Serra's co-authors include Giulio Petroni, Sergei I. Fokin, Estienne C. Swart, Mariusz Nowacki, Letizia Modeo, Giuseppe Donati, Marco Campera, Michela Balestri, Franco Verni and Michele Castelli and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Valentina Serra

29 papers receiving 643 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Valentina Serra Italy	15	374	348	124	105	71	32	648
Carmen Rosa GARCÍA-DÁVILA Peru	21	205 0.5×	308 0.9×	8 0.1×	70 0.7×	32 0.5×	99	1.1k
Kimberly A. Paczolt United States	8	76 0.2×	137 0.4×	13 0.1×	229 2.2×	71 1.0×	13	590
Karen Siu-Ting Peru	12	153 0.4×	69 0.2×	50 0.4×	144 1.4×	117 1.6×	29	478
Caitlin Potter United Kingdom	8	216 0.6×	348 1.0×	6 0.0×	88 0.8×	73 1.0×	11	490
Mariano Álvarez United States	9	216 0.6×	150 0.4×	8 0.1×	96 0.9×	208 2.9×	13	544
Rachel M. Wright United States	8	80 0.2×	376 1.1×	10 0.1×	33 0.3×	24 0.3×	14	542
James A. Reinartz United States	18	182 0.5×	313 0.9×	9 0.1×	741 7.1×	467 6.6×	32	1.1k
Héiber Cárdenas Colombia	11	86 0.2×	147 0.4×	15 0.1×	53 0.5×	57 0.8×	46	403
Johanna E. Elsensohn United States	10	84 0.2×	183 0.5×	20 0.2×	136 1.3×	149 2.1×	17	531
Alongklod Tanomtong Thailand	16	396 1.1×	66 0.2×	39 0.3×	112 1.1×	743 10.5×	185	1.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kosakyan, Anush, et al.. (2026). From Rigid Order to Radical Variation: Mitogenome Evolution in the Main Lineages of a Lesser-Known Animal Phylum (Gastrotricha). Genome Biology and Evolution. 18(2).

Kosakyan, Anush, et al.. (2026). Phylogenetic position of Setopus (Gastrotricha, Paucitubulatina) among planktonic Gastrotricha, with the description of a new species. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 321. 248–261. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Wenxin, Valentina Serra, Xiaotian Luo, et al.. (2025). Comparative study and morphological plasticity of an Italian and a Chinese population of the protist ciliate Pseudokeronopsis erythrina (Hypotrichia, Kentrurostylida) with a mitochondrial genome analysis. Water Biology and Security. 4(3). 100345–100345.

Petroni, Giulio, et al.. (2025). Behavioural adaptability of wild geladas (Theropithecus gelada) in human-impacted areas revealed by encounters with free-roaming dogs and potential threats. Global Ecology and Conservation. 62. e03738–e03738.

Montagna, Matteo, et al.. (2025). Active or passive? A multi-marker approach to compare active and passive eDNA sampling in riverine environments. The Science of The Total Environment. 974. 179247–179247. 4 indexed citations

Castelli, Michele, Elena Sabaneyeva, А. А. Потехин, et al.. (2024). Host association and intracellularity evolved multiple times independently in the Rickettsiales. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1093–1093. 9 indexed citations

Serra, Valentina, et al.. (2024). Molecular phylogenetic position and description of a new genus and species of freshwater Chaetonotidae (Gastrotricha: Chaetonotida: Paucitubulatina), and the annotation of its mitochondrial genome. Invertebrate Systematics. 38(7). 10 indexed citations

Fokin, Sergei I., et al.. (2023). Holospora-like bacteria “Candidatus Gortzia yakutica” and Preeria caryophila: Ultrastructure, promiscuity, and biogeography of the symbionts. European Journal of Protistology. 90. 125998–125998. 3 indexed citations

Fokin, Sergei I., et al.. (2023). Multidisciplinary characterization of the new species Copemetopus mystakophoros and its symbionts with a proposal for the new class Copemetopea (Alveolata: Ciliophora). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 198(4). 1171–1200. 3 indexed citations

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Ye, Tingting, et al.. (2023). Morphology and phylogeny of four trachelocercid ciliates (Ciliophora, Karyorelictea, Trachelocercidae) from North China Sea, with description of a new species. European Journal of Protistology. 91. 126025–126025. 2 indexed citations

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Serra, Valentina, et al.. (2022). Phylogeny of Neobursaridium reshapes the systematics of Paramecium (Oligohymenophorea, Ciliophora). Zoologica Scripta. 51(4). 478–481. 1 indexed citations

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Castelli, Michele, et al.. (2022). Characterization of a Pseudokeronopsis Strain (Ciliophora, Urostylida) and Its Bacterial Endosymbiont “Candidatus Trichorickettsia” (Alphaproteobacteria, Rickettsiales). Diversity. 14(12). 1032–1032. 1 indexed citations

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Fokin, Sergei I. & Valentina Serra. (2022). Bacterial symbiosis in ciliates (Alveolata, Ciliophora): Roads traveled and those still to be taken. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 69(5). e12886–e12886. 25 indexed citations

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Serra, Valentina, et al.. (2021). The neotypification of Frontonia vernalis (Ehrenberg, 1833) Ehrenberg, 1838 and the description of Frontonia paravernalis sp. nov. trigger a critical revision of frontoniid systematics. BMC Zoology. 6(1). 4–4. 5 indexed citations

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Modeo, Letizia, Alessandra Salvetti, Leonardo Rossi, et al.. (2020). “Candidatus Trichorickettsia mobilis”, a Rickettsiales bacterium, can be transiently transferred from the unicellular eukaryote Paramecium to the planarian Dugesia japonica. PeerJ. 8. e8977–e8977. 11 indexed citations

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Serra, Valentina, et al.. (2020). Phylogeny of Neobursaridium reshapes the systematics of Paramecium (Oligohymenophorea, Ciliophora). Zoologica Scripta. 50(2). 241–268. 14 indexed citations

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Serra, Valentina, Michele Castelli, Davide Sassera, et al.. (2020). Morphology, ultrastructure, genomics, and phylogeny of Euplotes vanleeuwenhoeki sp. nov. and its ultra-reduced endosymbiont “Candidatus Pinguicoccus supinus” sp. nov.. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 20311–20311. 37 indexed citations

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Fokin, Sergei I., Valentina Serra, Filippo Ferrantini, Letizia Modeo, & Giulio Petroni. (2019). “Candidatus Hafkinia simulans” gen. nov., sp. nov., a Novel Holospora-Like Bacterium from the Macronucleus of the Rare Brackish Water Ciliate Frontonia salmastra (Oligohymenophorea, Ciliophora): Multidisciplinary Characterization of the New Endosymbiont and Its Host. Microbial Ecology. 77(4). 1092–1106. 33 indexed citations

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Shameem, Ummey, et al.. (2019). Multidisciplinary investigation on the catfish parasite Hamatopeduncularia Yamaguti, 1953 (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae): description of two new species from India, and phylogenetic considerations. The European Zoological Journal. 86(1). 132–155. 8 indexed citations

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Castelli, Michele, Valentina Serra, Carlos A. G. Soares, et al.. (2018). The Hidden World of Rickettsiales Symbionts: “Candidatus Spectririckettsia obscura,” a Novel Bacterium Found in Brazilian and Indian Paramecium caudatum. Microbial Ecology. 77(3). 748–758. 25 indexed citations

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