Dr Tim Littlewood

Grants

Untangling ribbon worm diversity through mitogenomics
Role: Principal investigatorLittlewood T
Co-investigator: Waeschenbach A
Funding: Centre for Ecology and Evolution
Total value £4,100 (to Museum £4,100)
Dates: 2012 - 2013

A platform for massive parallel sequencing of longPCR amplicons
Role: Principal investigatorLittlewood T
Funding: BBSRC
Total value £119,787.25 (to Museum £119,787.25)
Dates: 2010 - 2012

A survey of the tapeworms (Cestoda: Platyhelminthes) from the vertebrate bowels of the Earth
Role: Principal investigatorLittlewood T
Funding: NSF
Total value £206,825 (to Museum £206,825)
Dates: 2009 - 2012

BBR-CryoArks: Enhancing frozen collections for non-model and endangered animal taxa
Co-investigator: Emery AM
Funding: BBSRC
Total value £965,428 (to Museum £256,766)
Dates: 2018 - 2021

A survey of the tapeworms (Cestoda: Platyhelminthes) from the vertebrate bowels of the Earth
Role: Principal investigatorCaira J
Co-investigator: Littlewood DTJ
Funding: NSF
Total value £3,034,350 (to Museum £206,825)
Dates: 2008 - 2016

Rates, patterns and divergence times among the Bryozoa: integrating fossil, molecular and morphological data
Role: Principal investigatorTaylor P
Co-investigator: Porter J
Funding: NERC
Total value £274,966 (to Museum £274,966)
Dates: 2007 - 2011

Mitogenomics using a massively parallel reactor platform - from barcoding to diagnostic tools for pathogens of major socioeconomic importance
Co-investigator: Littlewood T
Funding: Australian Research Council
Total value £240,000

Other projects

Molluscan deep-sea diversity
Role: Researcher
Funding: Museum development

NHM Initiative Pest and Crop Wild Relatives
Role: Manager
Funding: Museum development
Dates: 2015 - 2017.

Fellowships

Wellcome Senior Research Fellow in Basic Biomedical Sciences, 2001 - 2005.

Wellcome Senior Research Fellow in Biodiversity, Natural History Museum, London, King's College London, London, 1996 - 2001.

Committees

Member, Imperial Court, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 2021 - on going.

Member, Trustees of the Hunterian Collection at the Royal College of Surgeons, 2017 - 2022.

Member, Board - London Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases,

Memberships

Society of Systematic Biologists.

Editorships

Board member, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution,

Associate editor, International Journal for Parasitology,

Board member, Acta Parasitologica,

Board member, Systematic Parasitology,

Board member, Folia Parasitologica,

Board member, Parasite, Journal de la Société Française de Parasitologie,

Publications

Papaiakovou M, Littlewood DTJ, Doyle SR, Gasser RB, Cantacessi C (2022) Worms and bugs of the gut: the search for diagnostic signatures using barcoding, and metagenomics–metabolomics. Parasites & Vectors, 15 (1) : doi: 10.1186/s13071-022-05225-7

Cutmore SC, Littlewood DTJ, Arellano-Martínez M, Louvard C, Cribb TH (2022) Evidence that a lineage of teleost-infecting blood flukes (Aporocotylidae) infects bivalves as intermediate hosts. International Journal for Parasitology, doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2022.09.007

Monnens M, Halajian A, Littlewood DTJ, Briscoe AG, Artois T, Vanhove MPM (2023) Can avian flyways reflect dispersal barriers of clinostomid parasites? First evidence from the mitogenome of Clinostomum complanatum. Gene, 851 : 146952 - 146952. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2022.146952

Fraija-Fernández N, Waeschenbach A, Briscoe AG, Hocking S, Kuchta R, Nyman T, Littlewood DTJ (2021) Evolutionary transitions in broad tapeworms (Cestoda: Diphyllobothriidea) revealed by mitogenome and nuclear ribosomal operon phylogenetics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 163 : 107262 - 107262. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107262

Avokpaho EFGA, Houngbégnon P, Accrombessi M, Atindégla E, Yard E, Rubin Means A, Kennedy DS, Littlewood DTJ, Garcia A, Massougbodji A, Galagan SR, Walson JL, Cottrell G, Ibikounlé M, Ásbjörnsdóttir KH, Luty AJF (null) Factors associated with soil-transmitted helminths infection in Benin: Findings from the DeWorm3 study. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15 (8) : e0009646 - e0009646. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009646

Neov B, Vasileva GP, Radoslavov G, Hristov P, Littlewood DTJ, Georgiev BB (2021) Phylogeny of hymenolepidids (Cestoda: Cyclophyllidea) from mammals: sequences of 18S rRNA and COI genes confirm major clades revealed by the 28S rRNA analyses. Journal of Helminthology, 95 : doi: 10.1017/s0022149x21000110

Papaiakovou M, Littlewood DTJ, Gasser RB, Anderson RM (2021) How qPCR complements the WHO roadmap (2021–2030) for soil-transmitted helminths. Trends in Parasitology, 37 (8) : 698 - 708. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2021.04.005

Scholz T, Waeschenbach A, Oros M, Brabec J, Littlewood DTJ (2021) Phylogenetic reconstruction of early diverging tapeworms (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea) reveals ancient radiations in vertebrate hosts and biogeographic regions. International Journal for Parasitology, doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2020.09.009

Dunn JC, Papaiakovou M, Han KT, Chooneea D, Bettis AA, Wyine NY, Lwin AMM, Maung NS, Misra R, Littlewood DTJ, Anderson RM (2020) The increased sensitivity of qPCR in comparison to Kato-Katz is required for the accurate assessment of the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infection in settings that have received multiple rounds of mass drug administration. Parasites & Vectors, 13 (1) : doi: 10.1186/s13071-020-04197-w

Monnens M, Thijs S, Briscoe AG, Clark M, Frost EJ, Littlewood DTJ, Sewell M, Smeets K, Artois T, Vanhove MPM (2020) The first mitochondrial genomes of endosymbiotic rhabdocoels illustrate evolutionary relaxation of atp8 and genome plasticity in flatworms. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 162 : 454 - 469. doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.06.025

Bray RA, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DTJ, Halvorsen O, Olson PD (2020) Molecular circumscription of new species of Gyrocotyle Diesing, 1850 (Cestoda) from deep-sea chimaeriform holocephalans in the North Atlantic. Systematic Parasitology, 97 (3) : 285 - 296. doi: 10.1007/s11230-020-09912-w

Janssen T, Vizoso DB, Schulte G, J. Littlewood DT, Waeschenbach A, Schärer L (2020) Corrigendum to “The first multi-gene phylogeny of the Macrostomorpha sheds light on the evolution of sexual and asexual reproduction in basal Platyhelminthes”. [Mol. Phylogen. Evol. 92 (2015) 82–107]. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 146 : 106708 - 106708. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106708

Papaiakovou M, Wright J, Pilotte N, Chooneea D, Schär F, Truscott JE, Dunn JC, Gardiner I, Walson JL, Williams SA, Littlewood DTJ (2019) Pooling as a strategy for the timely diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminths in stool: value and reproducibility. Parasites & Vectors, 12 (1) : doi: 10.1186/s13071-019-3693-3

Papaiakovou M, Gasser RB, Littlewood DTJ (2019) Quantitative PCR-Based Diagnosis of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections: Faecal or Fickle?. Trends in Parasitology, 35 (7) : 491 - 500. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2019.04.006

Harmon A, Littlewood DTJ, Wood CL (2019) Parasites lost: using natural history collections to track disease change across deep time. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 17 (3) : 157 - 166. doi: 10.1002/fee.2017

Truscott JE, Dunn JC, Papaiakovou M, Schaer F, Werkman M, Littlewood DTJ, Walson JL, Anderson RM (null) Calculating the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infection through pooling of stool samples: Choosing and optimizing the pooling strategy. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 13 (3) : e0007196 - e0007196. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007196

Neov B, Vasileva GP, Radoslavov G, Hristov P, Littlewood DTJ, Georgiev BB (2019) Phylogeny of hymenolepidid cestodes (Cestoda: Cyclophyllidea) from mammalian hosts based on partial 28S rDNA, with focus on parasites from shrews. Parasitology Research, 118 (1) : 73 - 88. doi: 10.1007/s00436-018-6117-y

Vanhove MPM, Briscoe AG, Jorissen MWP, Littlewood DTJ, Huyse T (2018) The first next-generation sequencing approach to the mitochondrial phylogeny of African monogenean parasites (Platyhelminthes: Gyrodactylidae and Dactylogyridae). BMC Genomics, 19 (1) : doi: 10.1186/s12864-018-4893-5

Aldhoun J, Elmahy R, Littlewood DTJ (2018) Phylogenetic relationships within Dicrocoeliidae (Platyhelminthes: Digenea) from birds from the Czech Republic using partial 28S rDNA sequences. Parasitology Research, 117 (11) : 3619 - 3624. doi: 10.1007/s00436-018-6062-9

Stothard JR, Littlewood DTJ, Gasser RB, Webster BL (2018) Advancing the multi-disciplinarity of parasitology within the British Society for Parasitology: studies of host–parasite evolution in an ever-changing world. Parasitology, 145 (13) : 1641 - 1646. doi: 10.1017/s0031182018001476

Papaiakovou M, Pilotte N, Grant J, Wright J, Schaer F, Gardiner I, Misra R, Walson J, Williams S, Littlewood T (2018) POOLING STRATEGY VALIDATION AND PREVALENCE-BASED MODELING FOR COST-EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT MONITORING OF SOIL-TRANSMITTED HELMINTH INFECTIONS. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE 99 (4) : 616 - 616.

Waeschenbach A, Brabec J, Scholz T, Littlewood DTJ, Kuchta R (2017) The catholic taste of broad tapeworms - multiple routes to human infection.. Int J Parasitol, 47 (13) : 831 - 843. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2017.06.004

McGeehan RE, Cockram LA, Littlewood DTJ, Keatley K, Eccles DM, An Q (2018) Deep sequencing reveals the mitochondrial DNA variation landscapes of breast-to-brain metastasis blood samples. Mitochondrial DNA Part A, 29 (5) : 703 - 713. doi: 10.1080/24701394.2017.1350950

Littlewood DTJ (2017) Animal Evolution: Last Word on Sponges-First?. Current Biology, 27 (7) : R259 - R261. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.02.042

Williams ST, Foster PG, Hughes C, Harper EM, Taylor JD, Littlewood DTJ, Dyal P, Hopkins KP, Briscoe AG (2017) Curious bivalves: Systematic utility and unusual properties of anomalodesmatan mitochondrial genomes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 110 : 60 - 72. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.03.004

Caira JN, Jensen K, Georgiev BB, Kuchta R, Littlewood DT, Mariaux J, Scholz T, Tkach VV, Waeschenbach A (2017) An overview of the tapeworms of vertebrate bowels of the earth, In: Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008-2016): Tapeworms from Vertebrate Bowels of the Earth, Caira JN, Jensen K (Eds). null : Lawrence, Kansas.

Mariaux J, Tkach VV, Vasileva GP, Waeschenbach A, Beveridge I, Dimitrova Y, Haukisalmi V, Greiman SE, Littlewood DT, Makarikov AA, Phillips AJ, Razafiarisolo T, Widmer V, Georgiev BB (2017) Cyclophyllidea, In: Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008-2016): Tapeworms from Vertebrate Bowels of the Earth., Caira JN, Jensen K (Eds). null : Lawrence, Kansas.

Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DT (2017) A molecular framework for the Cestoda, In: Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008-2016): Tapeworms from vertebrate bowels of the earth., Caira JN, Jensen K (Eds). null : Lawrence, Kansas.

Hawash MBF, Betson M, Al-Jubury A, Ketzis J, LeeWillingham A, Bertelsen MF, Cooper PJ, Littlewood DTJ, Zhu X-Q, Nejsum P (2016) Whipworms in humans and pigs: origins and demography. Parasites & Vectors, 9 (1) : doi: 10.1186/s13071-016-1325-8

Means AR, Ásbjörnsdóttir K, Mwandawiro C, Rollinson D, Jacobson J, Littlewood T, Walson JL (null) Sustaining Progress towards NTD Elimination: An Opportunity to Leverage Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Programs to Interrupt Transmission of Soil-Transmitted Helminths. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 10 (7) : e0004737 - e0004737. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004737

Foster P, Stalteri M, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DT (2016) High-throughput multiplexed mitogenomics for Metazoa: prospects and limitations, In: Next Generation Systematics, Olson P, Hughes J, Cotton JA (Eds). Cambridge University Press :

Briscoe AG, Bray RA, Brabec J, Littlewood DTJ (2016) The mitochondrial genome and ribosomal operon of Brachycladium goliath (Digenea: Brachycladiidae) recovered from a stranded minke whale. Parasitology International, 65 (3) : 271 - 275. doi: 10.1016/j.parint.2016.02.004

Hoyal Cuthill JF, Sewell KB, Cannon LRG, Charleston MA, Lawler S, Littlewood DTJ, Olson PD, Blair D (2016) Australian spiny mountain crayfish and their temnocephalan ectosymbionts: an ancient association on the edge of coextinction?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283 (1831) : 20160585 - 20160585. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0585

Brabec J, Kuchta R, Scholz T, Littlewood DTJ (2016) Paralogues of nuclear ribosomal genes conceal phylogenetic signals within the invasive Asian fish tapeworm lineage: evidence from next generation sequencing data. International Journal for Parasitology, 46 (9) : 555 - 562. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2016.03.009

Jensen K, Caira JN, Cielocha JJ, Littlewood DTJ, Waeschenbach A (2016) When proglottids and scoleces conflict: phylogenetic relationships and a family-level classification of the Lecanicephalidea (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda). International Journal for Parasitology, 46 (5-6) : 291 - 310. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2016.02.002

Bray RA, Cribb TH, Littlewood DTJ, Waeschenbach A (null) The molecular phylogeny of the digenean family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925 and the value of morphological characters, with the erection of a new subfamily. Folia Parasitologica, 63 : doi: 10.14411/fp.2016.013

Gazi M, Kim J, García-Varela M, Park C, Littlewood DTJ, Park J-K (2016) Mitogenomic phylogeny of Acanthocephala reveals novel Class relationships. Zoologica Scripta, 45 (4) : 437 - 454. doi: 10.1111/zsc.12160

Maddock ST, Briscoe AG, Wilkinson M, Waeschenbach A, San Mauro D, Day JJ, Littlewood DTJ, Foster PG, Nussbaum RA, Gower DJ (null) Next-Generation Mitogenomics: A Comparison of Approaches Applied to Caecilian Amphibian Phylogeny. PLOS ONE, 11 (6) : e0156757 - e0156757. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156757

Morand S, Krasnov BR, Littlewood DTJ (2015) Parasite Diversity and Diversification. Cambridge University Press : 488.

(2015) Fossil Parasites. De Baets K, Littlewood DTJ (Eds). Elsevier : 1 - 420.

Brabec J, Kostadinova A, Scholz T, Littlewood DTJ (2015) Complete mitochondrial genomes and nuclear ribosomal RNA operons of two species of Diplostomum (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda): a molecular resource for taxonomy and molecular epidemiology of important fish pathogens. Parasites & Vectors, 8 (1) : doi: 10.1186/s13071-015-0949-4

Brabec J, Waeschenbach A, Scholz T, Littlewood DTJ, Kuchta R (2015) Molecular phylogeny of the Bothriocephalidea (Cestoda): molecular data challenge morphological classification. International Journal for Parasitology, 45 (12) : 761 - 771. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2015.05.006

Bass D, Stentiford GD, Littlewood DTJ, Hartikainen H (2015) Diverse Applications of Environmental DNA Methods in Parasitology. Trends in Parasitology, 31 (10) : 499 - 513. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2015.06.013

Littlewood DTJ, Waeschenbach A (2015) Evolution: A Turn Up for the Worms. Current Biology, 25 (13) : 1798 - 1798. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.011

Janssen T, Vizoso DB, Schulte G, Littlewood DT, Waeschenbach A, Schärer L (2015) The first multi-gene phylogeny of the Macrostomorpha sheds light on the evolution of sexual and asexual reproduction in basal Platyhelminthes.. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.06.004

Littlewood DTJ, Waeschenbach A (2015) Evolution: A Turn Up for the Worms. Current Biology, 25 (11) : R457 - R460. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.04.012

Solà E, Álvarez-Presas M, Frías-López C, Littlewood DTJ, Rozas J, Riutort M (2015) Evolutionary analysis of mitogenomes from parasitic and free-living flatworms. PLOS ONE, 10 (3) : e0120081 - e0120081. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120081

Lloyd RE, Keatley K, Littlewood DTJ, Meunier B, Holt WV, An Q, Higgins SC, Polyzoidis S, Stephenson KF, Ashkan K, Fillmore HL, Pilkington GJ, McGeehan JE (2015) Identification and functional prediction of mitochondrial complex III and IV mutations associated with glioblastoma. Neuro-Oncology, 17 : 942 - 952. doi: 10.1093/neuonc/nov020

Wayland MT, Vainio JK, Gibson DI, Herniou EA, Littlewood DTJ, Väinölä R (null) The systematics of Echinorhynchus Zoega in Müller, 1776 (Acanthocephala, Echinorhynchidae) elucidated by nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data from eight European taxa. ZooKeys, 484 : 25 - 52. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.484.9132

De Baets K, Littlewood DTJ (2015) ADVANCES IN PARASITOLOGY Fossil Parasites. FOSSIL PARASITES, 90 : XI - XIII.

De Baets K, Littlewood DTJ (2015) The Importance of Fossils in Understanding the Evolution of Parasites and Their Vectors, In: Fossil Parasites, Elsevier : 1 - 51.

Jabbar A, Littlewood DTJ, Mohandas N, Briscoe AG, Foster PG, Müller F, von Samson-Himmelstjerna G, Jex AR, Gasser RB (2014) The mitochondrial genome of Parascaris univalens - implications for a “forgotten” parasite. Parasites & Vectors, 7 (1) : 428 - 428. doi: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-428

Bray RA, Cribb TH, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DTJ (2014) Molecular evidence that the genus Cadenatella Dollfus, 1946 (Digenea: Plagiorchiida) belongs in the superfamily Haploporoidea Nicoll, 1914. Systematic Parasitology, 89 (1) : 15 - 21. doi: 10.1007/s11230-014-9504-5

Scholz T, Oros M, Bazsalovicsová E, Brabec J, Waeschenbach A, Xi B-W, Aydoğdu A, Besprozvannykh V, Shimazu T, Králová-Hromadová I, Littlewood DTJ (2014) Molecular evidence of cryptic diversity in Paracaryophyllaeus (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea), parasites of loaches (Cobitidae) in Eurasia, including description of P. vladkae n. sp.. Parasitology International, 63 (6) : 841 - 850. doi: 10.1016/j.parint.2014.07.015

Caira JN, Jensen K, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DTJ (2014) An enigmatic new tapeworm, Litobothrium aenigmaticum, sp. nov. (Platyhelminthes : Cestoda : Litobothriidea), from the pelagic thresher shark with comments on development of known Litobothrium species. Invertebrate Systematics, 28 (3) : 231 - 231. doi: 10.1071/is13047

Lloyd RE, Streeter SD, Foster PG, Littlewood DTJ, Huntley J, Beckham GT, Himmel ME, Cragg SM (2014) The complete mitochondrial genome of Limnoria quadripunctata Holthuis (Isopoda: Limnoriidae). Mitochondrial DNA, 1 - 2. doi: 10.3109/19401736.2013.855912

Williams ST, Foster PG, Littlewood DTJ (2014) The complete mitochondrial genome of a turbinid vetigastropod from MiSeq Illumina sequencing of genomic DNA and steps towards a resolved gastropod phylogeny. Gene, 533 (1) : 38 - 47. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2013.10.005

Bray RA, Waeschenbach A, Dyal P, Littlewood DTJ, Morand S (2014) New digeneans (Opecoelidae) from hydrothermal vent fishes in the south eastern Pacific Ocean, including one new genus and five new species. ZOOTAXA, 3768 (1) : 73 - 87. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3768.1.5

Caira JN, Jensen K, Waeschenbach A, Olson PD, Littlewood DTJ (2014) Orders out of chaos – molecular phylogenetics reveals the complexity of shark and stingray tapeworm relationships. International Journal for Parasitology, 44 (1) : 55 - 73. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2013.10.004

Cappellini E, Gentry A, Palkopoulou E, Ishida Y, Cram D, Roos A-M, Watson M, Johansson US, Fernholm B, Agnelli P, Barbagli F, Littlewood DTJ, Kelstrup CD, Olsen JV, Lister AM, Roca AL, Dalén L, Gilbert MTP (2014) Resolution of the type material of the Asian elephant,Elephas maximusLinnaeus, 1758 (Proboscidea, Elephantidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 170 (1) : 222 - 232. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12084

Mohandas N, Jabbar A, Podolska M, Zhu X-Q, Littlewood DTJ, Jex AR, Gasser RB (2014) Mitochondrial genomes of Anisakis simplex and Contracaecum osculatum (sensu stricto) – Comparisons with selected nematodes. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 21 : 452 - 462. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2013.10.026

Littlewood DTJ (2013) Next generation sequencing and the prospects for helminth mitogenomics. TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH, 18 : 50 - 50.

SCHOLZ T, CHAMBRIER AD, KUCHTA R, LITTLEWOOD DTJ, WAESCHENBACH A (null) <i>Macrobothriotaenia ficta</i> (Cestoda: Proteocephalidea), a parasite of sunbeam snake (<i>Xenopeltis unicolor</i>): example of convergent evolution. Zootaxa, 3640 (3) : 485 - 485. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3640.3.12

Caira JN, LITTLEWOOD DTJ (2013) Worms, Platyhelminthes. Levin SA (Eds). Academic Press : Waltham MA. 437 - 469.

Jabbar A, Beveridge I, Mohandas N, Chilton NB, Littlewood DTJ, Jex AR, Gasser RB (2013) Analyses of mitochondrial amino acid sequence datasets support the proposal that specimens of Hypodontus macropi from three species of macropodid hosts represent distinct species. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13 (1) : 259 - 259. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-259

Jabbar A, Jex AR, Mohandas N, Hall RS, Littlewood DTJ, Gasser RB (2013) The mitochondrial genome of Aelurostrongylus abstrusus—diagnostic, epidemiological and systematic implications. Gene, 516 (2) : 294 - 300. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2012.10.072

Unwin S, Chantrey J, Chatterton J, Aldhoun JA, Littlewood DTJ (2013) Renal trematode infection due to Paratanaisia bragai in zoo housed Columbiformes and a red bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea rubra). International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2 : 32 - 41. doi: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2012.11.001

Vanhove M, Tessens B, Schoelinck C, Jondelius U, Littlewood T, Artois T, Huyse T (null) Problematic barcoding in flatworms: A case-study on monogeneans and rhabdocoels (Platyhelminthes). ZooKeys, 365 : 355 - 379. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.365.5776

Bray RA, Foster GN, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DTJ (2012) The discovery of progenetic Allocreadium neotenicum Peters, 1957 (Digenea: Allocreadiidae) in water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) in Great Britain. ZOOTAXA, 58 - 70.

Waeschenbach A, Webster BL, Littlewood DTJ (2012) Adding resolution to ordinal level relationships of tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda) with large fragments of mtDNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 63 (3) : 834 - 847. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.02.020

Waeschenbach A, Taylor PD, Littlewood DTJ (2012) A molecular phylogeny of bryozoans. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 62 (2) : 718 - 735. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.11.011

Aldhoun JA, Littlewood DTJ (2012) Orientobilharzia Dutt & Srivastava, 1955 (Trematoda: Schistosomatidae), a junior synonym of Schistosoma Weinland, 1858. SYSTEMATIC PARASITOLOGY, 82 (2) : 81 - 88. doi: 10.1007/s11230-012-9349-8

Bray RA, Cribb TH, Littlewood DTJ (2012) Sasala nolani gen. n., sp n. (Digenea: Aporocotylidae) from the body-cavity of the guineafowl puffer fish Arothron meleagris (Lacepede) (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) from off Moorea, French Polynesia. ZOOTAXA, 29 - 41.

Gasser RB, Jabbar A, Mohandas N, Höglund J, Hall RS, Littlewood DTJ, Jex AR (2012) Assessment of the genetic relationship between Dictyocaulus species from Bos taurus and Cervus elaphus using complete mitochondrial genomic datasets. Parasites & Vectors, 5 (1) : doi: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-241

Gasser RB, Jabbar A, Mohandas N, Schnyder M, Deplazes P, Littlewood DTJ, Jex AR (2012) Mitochondrial genome of Angiostrongylus vasorum: Comparison with congeners and implications for studying the population genetics and epidemiology of this parasite. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 12 (8) : 1884 - 1891. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2012.07.022

Jia W, Yan H, Lou Z, Ni X, Dyachenko V, Li H, Littlewood DTJ (2012) Mitochondrial genes and genomes support a cryptic species of tapeworm within Taenia taeniaeformis. Acta Tropica, 123 (3) : 154 - 163. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2012.04.006

Lloyd RE, Foster PG, Guille M, Littlewood DTJ (2012) Next generation sequencing and comparative analyses of Xenopus mitogenomes. BMC Genomics, 13 (1) : 496 - 496. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-496

Webster BL, Littlewood DTJ (2012) Mitochondrial gene order change in Schistosoma (Platyhelminthes: Digenea: Schistosomatidae). International Journal for Parasitology, 42 (3) : 313 - 321. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2012.02.001

LITTLEWOOD DTJ (2011) Systematics as a cornerstone of parasitology: overview and preface. Parasitology, 138 (13) : 1633 - 1637. doi: 10.1017/s0031182011001533

Schärer L, Littlewood DTJ, Waeschenbach A, Yoshida W, Vizoso DB (2011) Mating behavior and the evolution of sperm design. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108 (4) : 1490 - 1495. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1013892108

Fehlauer-Ale KH, Littlewood DTJ (2011) Molecular phylogeny of Potamotrygonocotyle (Monogenea, Monocotylidae) challenges the validity of some of its species. Zoologica Scripta, 40 (6) : 638 - 658. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2011.00496.x

Philippe H, Brinkmann H, Lavrov DV, Littlewood DTJ, Manuel M, Wörheide G, Baurain D (null) Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough. PLoS Biology, 9 (3) : e1000602 - e1000602. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000602

Timmermans MJTN, Dodsworth S, Culverwell CL, Bocak L, Ahrens D, Littlewood DTJ, Pons J, Vogler AP (2010) Why barcode? High-throughput multiplex sequencing of mitochondrial genomes for molecular systematics. Nucleic Acids Research, 38 (21) : e197 - e197. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkq807

Curini-Galletti M, Webster BL, Huyse T, Casu M, Schockaert ER, Artois TJ, Littlewood DTJ (2010) New insights on the phylogenetic relationships of the Proseriata (Platyhelminthes), with proposal of a new genus of the family Coelogynoporidae. ZOOTAXA, 1 - 18.

Jex AR, Hall RS, Littlewood DTJ, Gasser RB (2010) An integrated pipeline for next-generation sequencing and annotation of mitochondrial genomes. Nucleic Acids Research, 38 (2) : 522 - 533. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp883

Jex AR, Littlewood DTJ, Gasser RB (2010) Corrigendum to “Toward next-generation sequencing of mitochondrial genomes — Focus on parasitic worms of animals and biotechnological implications” [Biotechnol. Adv. 28 (2010) 151–159]. Biotechnology Advances, 28 (2) : 283 - 283. doi: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2009.12.006

Jex AR, Littlewood DTJ, Gasser RB (2010) Toward next-generation sequencing of mitochondrial genomes — Focus on parasitic worms of animals and biotechnological implications. Biotechnology Advances, 28 (1) : 151 - 159. doi: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2009.11.002

Jia W-Z, Yan H-B, Guo A-J, Zhu X-Q, Wang Y-C, Shi W-G, Chen H-T, Zhan F, Zhang S-H, Fu B-Q, Littlewood DTJ, Cai X-P (2010) Complete mitochondrial genomes of Taenia multiceps, T. hydatigena and T. pisiformis: additional molecular markers for a tapeworm genus of human and animal health significance. BMC Genomics, 11 (1) : doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-447

Mwinyi A, Bailly X, Bourlat SJ, Jondelius U, Littlewood DTJ, Podsiadlowski L (2010) The phylogenetic position of Acoela as revealed by the complete mitochondrial genome of Symsagittifera roscoffensis. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10 (1) : doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-309

Zhao QP, Jiang MS, Littlewood DTJ, Nie P (null) Distinct Genetic Diversity of Oncomelania hupensis, Intermediate Host of Schistosoma japonicum in Mainland China as Revealed by ITS Sequences. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 4 (3) : e611 - e611. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000611

Bray R, Waeschenbach A, Cribb T, Weedall G, Dyal P, Littlewood D (2009) The phylogeny of the Lepocreadioidea (Platyhelminthes, Digenea) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial genes: Implications for their systematics and evolution. Acta Parasitologica, 54 (4) : doi: 10.2478/s11686-009-0045-z

Telford MJ, Littlewood DTJ (2009) Animal Evolution. Oxford University Press : 245.

Palm HW, Waeschenbach A, Olson PD, Littlewood DTJ (2009) Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the Trypanorhyncha Diesing, 1863 (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 52 (2) : 351 - 367. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.01.019

Waeschenbach A, Cox CJ, Littlewood DTJ, Porter JS, Taylor PD (2009) First molecular estimate of cyclostome bryozoan phylogeny confirms extensive homoplasy among skeletal characters used in traditional taxonomy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 52 (1) : 241 - 251. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.02.002

Lefebvre F, Georgiev B, Bray R, Littlewood D (2009) Developing a dedicated cestode life cycle database: lessons from the hymenolepidids. Helminthologia, 46 (1) : 21 - 27. doi: 10.2478/s11687-009-0004-0

Healy CJ, Caira JN, Jensen K, Webster BL, Littlewood DTJ (2009) Proposal for a new tapeworm order, Rhinebothriidea. International Journal for Parasitology, 39 (4) : 497 - 511. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2008.09.002

JENNER RA, LITTLEWOOD DTJ (2009) Invertebrate Problematica: kinds, causes, and solutions, In: Animal Evolution - Genomes, Fossils and Trees, Telford MJ, Littlewood DTJ (Eds). Oxford University Press : Oxford. 107 - 126.

Jex AR, Waeschenbach A, Hu M, van Wyk JA, Beveridge I, Littlewood DTJ, Gasser RB (2009) The mitochondrial genomes of Ancylostoma caninum and Bunostomum phlebotomum – two hookworms of animal health and zoonotic importance. BMC Genomics, 10 (1) : doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-79

Telford MJ, LITTLEWOOD DTJ (2009) Animal Evolution - Genomes, Fossils and Trees. Oxford University Press : Oxford. 18 - chapters.

Telford MJ, LITTLEWOOD DTJ (2009) Reassembling animal evolution: a four dimensional puzzle, In: Animal Evolution - Genomes, Fossils and Trees, Telford MJ, Littlewood DTJ (Eds). Oxford University Press : Oxford. 191 - 196.

Littlewood DTJ (2008) Platyhelminth systematics and the emergence of new characters. Parasite, 15 (3) : 333 - 341. doi: 10.1051/parasite/2008153333

Olson PD, Poddubnaya LG, Littlewood DTJ, Scholz T (2008) On the Position of Archigetes and Its Bearing on the Early Evolution of the Tapeworms. Journal of Parasitology, 94 (4) : 898 - 904. doi: 10.1645/ge-1456.1

Huyse T, Buchmann K, Littlewood DTJ (2008) The mitochondrial genome of Gyrodactylus derjavinoides (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea) — A mitogenomic approach for Gyrodactylus species and strain identification. Gene, 417 (1-2) : 27 - 34. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.03.008

Littlewood D, Waeschenbach A, Nikolov P (2008) In search of mitochondrial markers for resolving the phylogeny of cyclophyllidean tapeworms (Platyhelminthes, Cestoda) — a test study with Davaineidae. Acta Parasitologica, 53 (2) : doi: 10.2478/s11686-008-0029-4

Jenner RA, Littlewood DTJ (2008) Problematica old and new. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363 (1496) : 1503 - 1512. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2240

Jex AR, Hu M, Littlewood DTJ, Waeschenbach A, Gasser RB (2008) Using 454 technology for long-PCR based sequencing of the complete mitochondrial genome from single Haemonchus contortus (Nematoda). BMC Genomics, 9 (1) : 11 - 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-9-11

Jex AR, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DTJ, Hu M, Gasser RB (null) The Mitochondrial Genome of Toxocara canis. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2 (8) : e273 - e273. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000273

Jones HD, Webster BL, Timothy D, Littlewood J, McDonald JC (2008) Molecular and morphological evidence for two new species of terrestrial planarians of the genus Microplana (Platyhelminthes; Turbellaria; Tricladida; Terricola) from Europe. ZOOTAXA, 1 - 38.

Plaisance L, Rousset V, Morand S, Littlewood DTJ (null) Colonization of Pacific islands by parasites of low dispersal ability: phylogeography of two monogenean species parasitizing butterflyfishes in the South Pacific Ocean. Journal of Biogeography, 0 (0) : 071115144243001 - ???. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01794.x

Telford MJ, Littlewood DTJ (2008) The evolution of the animals: introduction to a Linnean tercentenary celebration. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363 (1496) : 1421 - 1424. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2231

Waeschenbach A, Webster BL, Bray RA, Littlewood DTJ (2007) Added resolution among ordinal level relationships of tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda) with complete small and large subunit nuclear ribosomal RNA genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 45 (1) : 311 - 325. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.03.019

Zarowiecki MZ, Huyse T, Littlewood DTJ (2007) Making the most of mitochondrial genomes – Markers for phylogeny, molecular ecology and barcodes in Schistosoma (Platyhelminthes: Digenea). International Journal for Parasitology, 37 (12) : 1401 - 1418. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2007.04.014

Bray R, Cribb T, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood D (2007) A new species of Stephanostomum Looss, 1899 (Digenea, Acanthocolpidae) with a bizarre oral sucker: S. adlardi sp. nov. from the common coral trout Plectropomus leopardus (Lacepède, 1802) (Perciformes, Serranidae) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. Acta Parasitologica, 52 (3) : doi: 10.2478/s11686-007-0025-0

Plaisance L, Huyse T, Littlewood DTJ, Bakke TA, Bachmann L (2007) The complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the monogenean Gyrodactylus thymalli (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea), a parasite of grayling (Thymallus thymallus). Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 154 (2) : 190 - 194. doi: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.04.012

Huyse T, Littlewood DTJ (2007) Parasite species and speciation – Tackling a host of problems. International Journal for Parasitology, 37 (8-9) : 825 - 828. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2007.05.002

Palm HW, Waeschenbach A, Littlewood DTJ (2007) Genetic diversity in the trypanorhynch cestode Tentacularia coryphaenae Bosc, 1797: evidence for a cosmopolitan distribution and low host specificity in the teleost intermediate host. Parasitology Research, 101 (1) : 153 - 159. doi: 10.1007/s00436-006-0435-1

Rudolfová J, Littlewood DTJ, Sitko J, Horák P (2007) Bird schistosomes of wildfowl in the Czech Republic and Poland. Folia Parasitologica, 54 (2) : 88 - 93. doi: 10.14411/fp.2007.011

Webster BL, Rudolfová J, Horák P, Littlewood DTJ (2007) THE COMPLETE MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME OF THE BIRD SCHISTOSOME TRICHOBILHARZIA REGENTI (PLATYHELMINTHES: DIGENEA), CAUSATIVE AGENT OF CERCARIAL DERMATITIS. Journal of Parasitology, 93 (3) : 553 - 561. doi: 10.1645/ge-1072r.1

(2006) Corrigendum. Parasitology, 134 (5) : 761 - 762. doi: 10.1017/s0031182007002740

HUYSE T, PLAISANCE L, WEBSTER BL, MO TA, BAKKE TA, BACHMANN L, LITTLEWOOD DTJ (2006) The mitochondrial genome of Gyrodactylus salaris (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea), a pathogen of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Parasitology, 134 (5) : 739 - 747. doi: 10.1017/s0031182006002010

PARK J-K, KIM K-H, KANG S, JEON HK, KIM J-H, LITTLEWOOD DTJ, EOM KS (2006) Characterization of the mitochondrial genome ofDiphyllobothrium latum(Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea) – implications for the phylogeny of eucestodes. Parasitology, 134 (5) : 749 - 759. doi: 10.1017/s003118200600206x

Park J-K, Kim K-H, Kang S, Kim W, Eom KS, Littlewood DTJ (2007) null. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 7 (1) : 11 - 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-11

Aznar FJ, Agustí C, Littlewood DTJ, Raga JA, Olson PD (2007) Insight into the role of cetaceans in the life cycle of the tetraphyllideans (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda). International Journal for Parasitology, 37 (2) : 243 - 255. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2006.10.010

Webster BL, Mackenzie-Dodds JA, Telford MJ, Littlewood DTJ (2007) The mitochondrial genome of Priapulus caudatus Lamarck (Priapulida: Priapulidae). Gene, 389 (1) : 96 - 105. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2006.10.005

PANKOV P, WEBSTER BL, BLASCO-COSTA I, GIBSON DI, LITTLEWOOD DTJ, BALBUENA JA, KOSTADINOVA A (2006) Robinia aurata n. g., n. sp. (Digenea: Hemiuridae) from the mugilid Liza aurata with a molecular confirmation of its position within the Hemiuroidea. Parasitology, 133 (02) : 217 - 217. doi: 10.1017/s0031182006000126

Waeschenbach A, Telford MJ, Porter JS, Littlewood DTJ (2006) The complete mitochondrial genome of Flustrellidra hispida and the phylogenetic position of Bryozoa among the Metazoa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 40 (1) : 195 - 207. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.03.007

Georgiev BB, Bray RA, Timothy D, Littlewood J (null) Cestodes of small mammals: Taxonomy and life cycles, In: Micromammals and Macroparasites, Springer Japan : 29 - 62.

Littlewood DTJ, Lockyer AE, Webster BL, Johnston DA, Le TH (2006) The complete mitochondrial genomes of Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma spindale and the evolutionary history of mitochondrial genome changes among parasitic flatworms. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 39 (2) : 452 - 467. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.12.012

LITTLEWOOD DTJ (2006) The evolution of parasitism in flatworms, In: Parasitic flatworms: molecular biology, biochemistry, immunology and physiology, Maule AG, Marks NJ (Eds). CAB International : Wallingford. 1 - 36.

Pankov P, WEBSTER BL, Blasco MI, Gibson DI, LITTLEWOOD DTJ, Kostadinova A (2006) Robinia aurata n. g., n. sp. (Digenea: Hemiuridae) from Liza aurata (Perciformes: Mugilidae) in the western Mediterranean described from morphology and molecules.. Parasitology, 133 : 217 - 227.

Reid DG, Lal K, Mackenzie-Dodds J, Kaligis F, Littlewood DTJ, Williams ST (2006) Comparative phylogeography and species boundaries in Echinolittorina snails in the central Indo-West Pacific. Journal of Biogeography, 33 (6) : 990 - 1006. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01469.x

Smith AB, Pisani D, Mackenzie-Dodds JA, Stockley B, Webster BL, Littlewood DTJ (2006) Testing the Molecular Clock: Molecular and Paleontological Estimates of Divergence Times in the Echinoidea (Echinodermata). Molecular Biology and Evolution, 23 (10) : 1832 - 1851. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msl039

Todaro MA, Telford MJ, Lockyer AE, Littlewood DTJ (2006) Interrelationships of the Gastrotricha and their place among the Metazoa inferred from 18S rRNA genes. Zoologica Scripta, 35 (3) : 251 - 259. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00228.x

Webster BL, Copley RR, Jenner RA, Mackenzie-Dodds JA, Bourlat SJ, Rota-Stabelli O, Littlewood DTJ, Telford MJ (2006) Mitogenomics and phylogenomics reveal priapulid worms as extant models of the ancestral Ecdysozoan. Evolution <html_ent glyph="@amp;" ascii="&amp;"/> Development, 8 (6) : 502 - 510. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-142x.2006.00123.x

WEBSTER B, SOUTHGATE V, LITTLEWOOD D (2006) A revision of the interrelationships of Schistosoma including the recently described Schistosoma guineensis☆. International Journal for Parasitology, 36 (8) : 947 - 955. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2006.03.005

Willems WR, Wallberg A, Jondelius U, Littlewood DTJ, Backeljau T, Schockaert ER, Artois TJ (2006) Filling a gap in the phylogeny of flatworms: relationships within the Rhabdocoela (Platyhelminthes), inferred from 18S ribosomal DNA sequences. Zoologica Scripta, 35 (1) : 1 - 17. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00216.x

Elizabeth McClymont H, Dunn AM, Terry RS, Rollinson D, Littlewood DTJ, Smith JE (2005) Molecular data suggest that microsporidian parasites in freshwater snails are diverse. International Journal for Parasitology, 35 (10) : 1071 - 1078. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2005.05.008

Plaisance L, Littlewood DTJ, Olson PD, Morand S (2005) Molecular phylogeny of gill monogeneans (Platyhelminthes, Monogenea, Dactylogyridae) and colonization of Indo-West Pacific butterflyfish hosts (Perciformes, Chaetodontidae). Zoologica Scripta, 34 (4) : 425 - 436. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00191.x

AGUSTÍ C, AZNAR FJ, OLSON PD, LITTLEWOOD DTJ, KOSTADINOVA A, RAGA JA (2005) Morphological and molecular characterization of tetraphyllidean merocercoids (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda) of striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) from the Western Mediterranean. Parasitology, 130 (4) : 461 - 474. doi: 10.1017/s0031182004006754

Agusti C, Aznar FJ, OLSON PD, LITTLEWOOD DTJ, Kostadinova A, Raga JA (2005) Morphological and molecular characterization of tetraphylllidean merocercoids of striped dolphins from the western Mediterranean.. Parasitology, 130 : 159 - 167.

Bray RA, Webster BL, Bartoli P, Littlewood DTJ (2005) Relationships within the Acanthocolpidae Luhe, 1906 and their place among the Digenea. ACTA PARASITOLOGICA, 50 (4) : 281 - 291.

Rudolfov� J, Hampl V, Bayssade-Dufour C, Lockyer AE, Littlewood DTJ, Hor�k P (2005) Validity reassessment of Trichobilharzia species using Lymnaea stagnalis as the intermediate host. Parasitology Research, 95 (2) : 79 - 89. doi: 10.1007/s00436-004-1262-x

Stockley B, Smith AB, Littlewood T, Lessios HA, Mackenzie-Dodds JA (2005) Phylogenetic relationships of spatangoid sea urchins (Echinoidea): taxon sampling density and congruence between morphological and molecular estimates. Zoologica Scripta, 34 (5) : 447 - 468. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00201.x

Terry RS, Smith JE, Sharpe RG, Rigaud T, Littlewood DTJ, Ironside JE, Rollinson D, Bouchon D, MacNeil C, Dick JTA, Dunn AM (2004) Widespread vertical transmission and associated host sex–ratio distortion within the eukaryotic phylum Microspora. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 271 (1550) : 1783 - 1789. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2793

Littlewood DTJ, Mcdonald SM, Gill AC, Cribb TH (2004) Molecular phylogenetics of Chaetodon and the Chaetodontidae (Teleostei : Perciformes) with reference to morphology. ZOOTAXA, 1 - 20.

Littlewood DTJ, Telford MJ, Bray RA (2004) Protostomes and Platyhelminthes - The worm's turn, In: null, null : 209 - 234.

Smith AB, Peterson KJ, Wray G, Littlewood DTJ (2004) From bilateral symmetry to pentaradiality - The phylogeny of hemichordates and echinoderms, In: null, null : 365 - 383.

Tkach VV, Littlewood DTJ, Olson PD, Kinsella JM, Swiderski Z (2003) Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Microphalloidea Ward, 1901 (Trematoda: Digenea). Systematic Parasitology, 56 (1) : 1 - 15. doi: 10.1023/a:1025546001611

KANE RA, SOUTHGATE VR, ROLLINSON D, LITTLEWOOD DTJ, LOCKYER AE, PAGS JR, TCHUEM TCHUENT LA, JOURDANE J (2003) A phylogeny based on three mitochondrial genes supports the division of Schistosoma intercalatum into two separate species. Parasitology, 127 (2) : 131 - 137. doi: 10.1017/s0031182003003421

Olson PD, Cribb TH, Tkach VV, Bray RA, Littlewood DTJ (2003) Phylogeny and classification of the Digenea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda)11Nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper are available in the GenBank™, EMBL and DDBJ databases under the accession numbers AY222082–AY222285.. International Journal for Parasitology, 33 (7) : 733 - 755. doi: 10.1016/s0020-7519(03)00049-3

Todaro MA, Littlewood DTJ, Balsamo M, Herniou EA, Cassanelli S, Manicardi G, Wirz A, Tongiorgi P (2003) The Interrelationships of the Gastrotricha Using Nuclear Small rRNA Subunit Sequence Data, with an Interpretation Based on Morphology. Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology, 242 (2) : 145 - 156. doi: 10.1078/0044-5231-00093

LOCKYER AE, OLSON PD, ØSTERGAARD P, ROLLINSON D, JOHNSTON DA, ATTWOOD SW, SOUTHGATE VR, HORAK P, SNYDER SD, LE TH, AGATSUMA T, MCMANUS DP, CARMICHAEL AC, NAEM S, LITTLEWOOD DTJ (2003) The phylogeny of the Schistosomatidae based on three genes with emphasis on the interrelationships of Schistosoma Weinland, 1858. Parasitology, 126 (3) : 203 - 224. doi: 10.1017/s0031182002002792

LOCKYER AE, OLSON PD, LITTLEWOOD DTJ (null) Utility of complete large and small subunit rRNA genes in resolving the phylogeny of the Neodermata (Platyhelminthes): implications and a review of the cercomer theory. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 78 (2) : 155 - 171. doi: 10.1046/j.1095-8312.2003.00141.x

Bourlat SJ, Nielsen C, Lockyer AE, Littlewood DTJ, Telford MJ (2003) Xenoturbella is a deuterostome that eats molluscs. Nature, 424 (6951) : 925 - 928. doi: 10.1038/nature01851

Cribb TH, BRAY RA, OLSON PD, LITTLEWOOD DTJ (2003) Life cycle evolution in the Digenea: a new perspective from phylogeny, In: Advances in Parasitology, Littlewood DTJ (Eds). Elsevier : 198 - 243.

CRIBB T, BRAY R, OLSON P, TIMOTHY D, LITTLEWOOD J (2003) Life Cycle Evolution in the Digenea: a New Perspective from Phylogeny. null, 197 - 254. doi: 10.1016/s0065-308x(03)54004-0

Jeffery CH, Emlet RB, Littlewood DTJ (2003) Phylogeny and evolution of developmental mode in temnopleurid echinoids. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 28 (1) : 99 - 118. doi: 10.1016/s1055-7903(03)00030-7

Kostadinova A, Herniou EA, Barrett J, Littlewood DTJ (2003) Phylogenetic relationships of Echinostoma Rudolphi, 1809 (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) and related genera re-assessed via DNA and morphological analyses. Systematic Parasitology, 54 (3) : 159 - 176. doi: 10.1023/a:1022681123340

LITTLEWOOD DTJ, Donovan SK (2003) Fossil parasites: a case of identity. Geology Today, 19 :

MATEJUSOV I, GELNAR M, VERNEAU O, CUNNINGHAM CO, LITTLEWOOD DTJ (2003) Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the genus Gyrodactylus (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea) inferred from rDNA ITS region: subgenera versus species groups. Parasitology, 127 (6) : 603 - 611. doi: 10.1017/s0031182003004098

McInerney JO, LITTLEWOOD DTJ, Creevey CJ (2003) Detecting adaptive molecular evolution: additional tools for the parasitologist, In: Advances in Parasitology, Littlewood DTJ (Eds). Elsevier : 360 - 377.

O McInerne J, J Littlewood DT, J Creevey C (2003) Detecting Adaptive Molecular Evolution: Additional Tools for the Parasitologist. null, 359 - 379. doi: 10.1016/s0065-308x(03)54009-x

Telford MJ, Lockyer AE, Cartwright–Finch C, Littlewood DTJ (2003) Combined large and small subunit ribosomal RNA phylogenies support a basal position of the acoelomorph flatworms. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 270 (1519) : 1077 - 1083. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2342

Todaro MA, LITTLEWOOD DTJ, Balsamo M, HERNIOU EA, Cassanelli S, Manicardi G, Wirz A, Tongiorgi P (2003) The interrelationships of the Gastrotricha using nuclear small rRNA subunit sequence data, with an interpretation based on morphology. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 242 : 146 - 156.

Williams ST, Reid DG, Littlewood DTJ (2003) A molecular phylogeny of the Littorininae (Gastropoda: Littorinidae): unequal evolutionary rates, morphological parallelism, and biogeography of the Southern Ocean. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 28 (1) : 60 - 86. doi: 10.1016/s1055-7903(03)00038-1

Olson PD, Littlewood DTJ, Griffiths D, Kennedy CR, Arme C.* (2002) Evidence for the co-existence of separate strains or species of <I>Ligula</I> in Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland. Journal of Helminthology, 76 (2) : 171 - 174. doi: 10.1079/joh2001101

Olson P (2002) Phylogenetics of the Monogenea – evidence from a medley of molecules. International Journal for Parasitology, 32 (3) : 233 - 244. doi: 10.1016/s0020-7519(01)00328-9

Bray RA, Olson PD, Cribb TH, Littlewood DTJ (2002) Frangible fluke phylogenies: delineating digenean descent. The British Society for Parasitology Spring Meeting,

Brickle P, Olson PD, Littlewood DTJ, Bishop A, Arkhipkin AI (2001) Parasites of <i>Loligo gahi</i> from waters off the Falkland Islands, with a phylogenetically based identification of their cestode larvae. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 79 (12) : 2289 - 2296. doi: 10.1139/cjz-79-12-2289

Williams S, Reid D, Littlewood T (2001) Nodilittorina (periwinkles) - a model for Indo-Pacific biogeography.. AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST, 41 (6) : 1626 - 1626.

Le TH, Humair P-F, Blair D, Agatsuma T, Littlewood DTJ, McManus DP (2001) Mitochondrial gene content, arrangement and composition compared in African and Asian schistosomes. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 117 (1) : 61 - 71. doi: 10.1016/s0166-6851(01)00330-9

Cribb TH, Bray RA, Littlewood DTJ (2001) The nature and evolution of the association among digeneans, molluscs and fishes. International Journal for Parasitology, 31 (9) : 997 - 1011. doi: 10.1016/s0020-7519(01)00204-1

Olson PD, Littlewood DTJ, Bray RA, Mariaux J (2001) Interrelationships and Evolution of the Tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 19 (3) : 443 - 467. doi: 10.1006/mpev.2001.0930

Littlewood DTJ, Cribb TH, Olson PD, Bray RA (2001) Platyhelminth phylogenetics - a key to understanding parasitism?. BELGIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, 131 : 35 - 46.

Littlewood DTJ, Olson PD, Telford MJ, Herniou EA, Riutort M (2001) Elongation Factor 1-Alpha Sequences Alone Do Not Assist in Resolving the Position of the Acoela Within the Metazoa. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 18 (3) : 437 - 442. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003821

Littlewood DTJ, Bray RA (2000) Interrelationships of the Platyhelminthes. CRC Press : 380.

Telford MJ, Herniou EA, Russell RB, Littlewood DTJ (2000) Changes in mitochondrial genetic codes as phylogenetic characters: Two examples from the flatworms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 97 (21) : 11359 - 11364. doi: 10.1073/pnas.97.21.11359

Littlewood DTJ, Curini-Galletti M, Herniou EA (2000) The Interrelationships of Proseriata (Platyhelminthes: Seriata) Tested with Molecules and Morphology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 16 (3) : 449 - 466. doi: 10.1006/mpev.2000.0802

Le TH, Blair D, Agatsuma T, Humair P-F, Campbell NJH, Iwagami M, Littlewood DTJ, Peacock B, Johnston DA, Bartley J, Rollinson D, Herniou EA, Zarlenga DS, McManus DP (2000) Phylogenies Inferred from Mitochondrial Gene Orders—A Cautionary Tale from the Parasitic Flatworms. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 17 (7) : 1123 - 1125. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026393

Littlewood DTJ (2000) First report of the protozoan Perkinsus cf. marinus in the mangrove oyster Crassostrea rhizophorae (Guilding). CARIBBEAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 36 (1-2) : 153 - 154.

Ruiz-Trillo I, Riutort M, Littlewood DTJ, Herniou EA, Baguñà J (1999) Acoel Flatworms: Earliest Extant Bilaterian Metazoans, Not Members of Platyhelminthes. Science, 283 (5409) : 1919 - 1923. doi: 10.1126/science.283.5409.1919

Bray RA, Littlewood DTJ, Herniou EA, Williams B, Henderson RE (1999) Digenean parasites of deep-sea teleosts: a review and case studies of intrageneric phylogenies. Parasitology, 119 (S1) : S125 - S144. doi: 10.1017/s0031182000084687

LITTLEWOOD DTJ, ROHDE K, BRAY RA, HERNIOU EA (1999) Phylogeny of the Platyhelminthes and the evolution of parasitism. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 68 (1-2) : 257 - 287. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1999.tb01169.x

LITTLEWOOD DTJ, ROHDE K, CLOUGH KA (1999) The interrelationships of all major groups of Platyhelminthes: phylogenetic evidence from morphology and molecules. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 66 (1) : 75 - 114. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1999.tb01918.x

Carranza S, Ruiz-Trillo I, Littlewood DTJ, Riutort M, Baguna J (1998) A reappraisal of the phylogenetic and taxonomic position of land planarians (Platyhelminthes, Turbellaria, Tricladida) inferred from 18S rDNA sequences. PEDOBIOLOGIA, 42 (5-6) : 433 - 440.

FERNANDEZ M, LITTLEWOOD DTJ, LATORRE A, RAGA JA, ROLLINSON D (1998) Phylogenetic relationships of the family Campulidae (Trematoda) based on 18S rRNA sequences. Parasitology, 117 (4) : 383 - 391. doi: 10.1017/s0031182098003126

Littlewood DTJ, Rohde K, Clough KA (1998) The phylogenetic position of Udonella (Platyhelminthes)1. International Journal for Parasitology, 28 (8) : 1241 - 1250. doi: 10.1016/s0020-7519(98)00108-8

Herniou EA, Pearce AC, Littlewood DTJ (1998) Vintage Helminths Yield Valuable Molecules. Parasitology Today, 14 (7) : 289 - 292. doi: 10.1016/s0169-4758(98)01266-6

Carranza S, Littlewood DTJ, Clough KA, Ruiz-Trillo I, Baguñà J, Riutort M (1998) A robust molecular phylogeny of the Tricladida (Platyhelminthes: Seriata) with a discussion on morphological synapomorphies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 265 (1396) : 631 - 640. doi: 10.1098/rspb.1998.0341

Bray RA, Cribb TH, Littlewood DTJ (1998) A phylogenetic study of Lepidapedoides Yamaguti, 1970 (Digenea) with a key and descriptions of two new species from Western Australia. Systematic Parasitology, 39 (3) : 183 - 197. doi: 10.1023/a:1005970227834

Littlewood DTJ, Telford MJ, Clough KA, Rohde K (1998) Gnathostomulida—An Enigmatic Metazoan Phylum from both Morphological and Molecular Perspectives. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 9 (1) : 72 - 79. doi: 10.1006/mpev.1997.0448

Littlewood DTJ, Bray RA, Clough KA (1998) null. Hydrobiologia, 383 (1/3) : 155 - 160. doi: 10.1023/a:1003436821134

Littlewood DTJ, Rohde K, Clough KA (1997) Parasite speciation within or between host species?—Phylogenetic evidence from site-specific polystome monogeneans. International Journal for Parasitology, 27 (11) : 1289 - 1297. doi: 10.1016/s0020-7519(97)00086-6

Littlewood DTJ, Smith AB, Clough KA, Emson RH (1997) The interrelationships of the echinoderm classes: morphological and molecular evidence. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 61 (3) : 409 - 438. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1997.tb01799.x

Littlewood DTJ, Johnston DA (1995) Molecular phylogenetics of the four Schistosoma species groups determined with partial 28S ribosomal RNA gene sequences. Parasitology, 111 (2) : 167 - 175. doi: 10.1017/s003118200006491x

(1995) Comparing patterns of evolution: larval and adult life history stages and ribosomal RNA of post-Palaeozoic echinoids. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 349 (1327) : 11 - 18. doi: 10.1098/rstb.1995.0085

(1995) A combined morphological and molecular phylogeny for sea urchins (Echinoidea: Echinodermata). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 347 (1320) : 213 - 234. doi: 10.1098/rstb.1995.0023

Littlewood DTJ (1995) Echinoderm class relationships revisited. ECHINODERM RESEARCH 1995 19 - 28.

Littlewood DTJ (1994) Molecular Phylogenetics of Cupped Oysters Based on Partial 28S rRNA Gene Sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 3 (3) : 221 - 229. doi: 10.1006/mpev.1994.1024

Littlewood DTJ, Young RE (1994) The effect of air-gaping behaviour on extrapallial fluid pH in the tropical oyster Crassostrea rhizophorae. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Physiology, 107 (1) : 1 - 6. doi: 10.1016/0300-9629(94)90264-x

Smith AB, Littlewood DTJ (1994) Paleontological data and molecular phylogenetic analysis. Paleobiology, 20 (3) : 259 - 273. doi: 10.1017/s009483730001277x

Fong D, Chan MM-Y, Rodriguez R, Chen C-C, Liang Y, Tim D, Littlewood J, Ford SE (1993) Small subunit ribosomal RNA gene sequence of the parasitic protozoan Haplosporidium nelsoni provides a molecular probe for the oyster MSX disease. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 62 (1) : 139 - 142. doi: 10.1016/0166-6851(93)90190-9

DONOVAN SK, LITTLEWOOD DTJ (1993) THE BENTHIC MOLLUSK FAUNAS OF 2 CONTRASTING REEF PALEOSUBENVIRONMENTS - FALMOUTH FORMATION (LATE PLEISTOCENE, LAST INTERGLACIAL), JAMAICA. NAUTILUS, 107 (1) : 33 - 42.

Ford SE, Kanaley SA, Littlewood DTJ (1993) Cellular Responses of Oysters Infected with Haplosporidium nelsoni: Changes in Circulating and Tissue-Infiltrating Hemocytes. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 61 (1) : 49 - 57. doi: 10.1006/jipa.1993.1009

Littlewood DTJ, Ford SE, Fong D (1991) Small subunit rRNA gene sequence ofCrassostrea virginica(Gmelin) and a comparison with similar sequences from other bivale molluscs. Nucleic Acids Research, 19 (21) : 6048 - 6048. doi: 10.1093/nar/19.21.6048

Gustafson RG, Littlewood DTJ, Lutz RA (1991) Gastropod Egg Capsules and Their Contents From Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Environments. The Biological Bulletin, 180 (1) : 34 - 55. doi: 10.2307/1542427

Barber BJ, Ford SE, Littlewood DTJ (1991) A physiological comparison of resistant and susceptible oysters Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin) exposed to the endoparasite Haplosporidium nelsoni (Haskin, Stauber & Mackin). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 146 (1) : 101 - 112. doi: 10.1016/0022-0981(91)90256-v

Littlewood DTJ, Marsbe LA (1990) Predation on cultivated oysters, Crassostrea rhizophorae (Guilding), by the polyclad turbellarian flatworm, Stylochus (Stylochus) frontalis Verrill. Aquaculture, 88 (2) : 145 - 150. doi: 10.1016/0044-8486(90)90289-y

DONOVAN SK, LITTLEWOOD DTJ (1989) A LATE PLEISTOCENE SCAPHOPOD FROM JAMAICA. JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY, 33 : 185 - 185.

Timothy D, Littlewood J (1989) Predation on cultivated Crassostrea rhizophorae (Guilding) by the gastropod Cymatium pileare (Linnaeus). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 55 (1) : 125 - 127. doi: 10.1093/mollus/55.1.125

Littlewood DTJ (1989) Thermal tolerance and the effects of temperature on air-gaping in the mangrove oyster, Crassostrea rhizophorae. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Physiology, 93 (2) : 395 - 397. doi: 10.1016/0300-9629(89)90054-6

Littlewood DTJ (1989) Aquatic and aerial respiration of crassostrea rhizophorae. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Physiology, 93 (4) : 773 - 775. doi: 10.1016/0300-9629(89)90500-8

LITTLEWOOD D, DONOVAN SK (1988) VARIATION OF RECENT AND FOSSIL CRASSOSTREA IN JAMAICA. PALAEONTOLOGY, 31 : 1013 - 1028.

Littlewood DTJ (1988) SUBTIDAL VERSUS INTERTIDAL CULTIVATION OF CRASSOSTREA-RHIZOPHORAE. AQUACULTURE, 72 (1-2) : 59 - 71.

Timothy D, Littlewood J (1984) Identification of cultivated oysters. Aquaculture, 40 (4) : 359 - 361. doi: 10.1016/0044-8486(84)90176-5

(null) Baseline patterns of infection in regions of Benin, Malawi and India seeking to interrupt transmission of soil transmitted helminths (STH) in the DeWorm3 trial. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14 (11) : e0008771 - e0008771. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008771

Ásbjörnsdóttir KH, Ajjampur SSR, Anderson RM, Bailey R, Gardiner I, Halliday KE, Ibikounle M, Kalua K, Kang G, Littlewood DTJ, Luty AJF, Means AR, Oswald W, Pullan RL, Sarkar R, Schär F, Szpiro A, Truscott JE, Werkman M, Yard E, Walson JL (null) Assessing the feasibility of interrupting the transmission of soil-transmitted helminths through mass drug administration: The DeWorm3 cluster randomized trial protocol. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 12 (1) : e0006166 - e0006166. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006166

De Baets K, Dentzien-Dias P, Harrison GWM, Littlewood DTJ, Parry LA (2021) Fossil Constraints on the Timescale of Parasitic Helminth Evolution, In: Topics in Geobiology, Springer International Publishing : 231 - 271.

Keatley K, Stromei-Cleroux S, Wiltshire T, Rajala N, Burton G, Holt WV, Littlewood DTJ, Briscoe AG, Jung J, Ashkan K, Heales SJ, Pilkington GJ, Meunier B, McGeehan JE, Hargreaves IP, McGeehan RE (null) Integrated Approach Reveals Role of Mitochondrial Germ-Line Mutation F18L in Respiratory Chain, Oxidative Alterations, Drug Sensitivity, and Patient Prognosis in Glioblastoma. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 20 (13) : 3364 - 3364. doi: 10.3390/ijms20133364

Kinkar L, Gasser R, Webster B, Rollinson D, Littlewood D, Chang B, Stroehlein A, Korhonen P, Young N (null) Nanopore Sequencing Resolves Elusive Long Tandem-Repeat Regions in Mitochondrial Genomes. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22 (4) : 1811 - 1811. doi: 10.3390/ijms22041811

Littlewood DTJ, Webster BL (null) Origins and evolutionary radiation of Schistosoma, In: Schistosoma: Biology, Pathology and Control, Jamieson BGM (Eds). CRC Press : 1 - 8.

Wu Y-D, Dai G-D, Li L, Littlewood DTJ, Ohiolei JA, Zhang L-S, Guo A-M, Wu Y-T, Ni X-W, Shumuye NA, Li W-H, Zhang N-Z, Fu B-Q, Fu Y, Yan H-B, Jia W-Z (null) Expansion of Cyclophyllidea Biodiversity in Rodents of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the “Out of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau” Hypothesis of Cyclophyllideans. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13 : doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.747484

Contributed Publications

Littlewood DTJ (2003) The Evolution of Parasitism - A Phylogenetic Perspective. Academic Press : 416.

Littlewood DTJ, Bray RA (2000) Interrelationships of the Platyhelminthes. CRC Press : 380.

Littlewood DTJ, Bray RA (2000) Interrelationships of the Platyhelminthes. CRC Press : 380.

De Baets K, Dentzien-Dias P, Harrison GWM, Littlewood DTJ, Parry LA (2021) Fossil Constraints on the Timescale of Parasitic Helminth Evolution, In: Topics in Geobiology, Springer International Publishing : 231 - 271.

Courses taught

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Systematics: Introduction to the Tree of Life Module
Imperial College, London
10/2013.

Awards

C.A. Wright Memorial Medal, 2009.