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Parasitology, Network analysis, Evolutionary biology, Ecology, EcoHealth, Parasite ecology

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Employment (5)

Universiteit Hasselt: Diepenbeek, BE

2023-10-01 to 2026-09-30 | Postdoctoral Fellow (Centre for Environmental Sciences (CMK))
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Armando Cruz-Laufer

Université Libre de Bruxelles: Brussels, BE

2023-10-01 to 2026-09-30 | Mandated scientific collaborator (Département de Biologie des Organismes (DBO))
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Armando Cruz-Laufer

Universiteit Hasselt: Diepenbeek, BE

2023-01-16 to 2023-03-31 | Researcher (Centre for Environmental Sciences (CMK))
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Armando Cruz-Laufer

Universiteit Hasselt: Diepenbeek, Limburg, BE

2019-01-16 to 2023-01-15 | PhD Student (Centre for Environmental Sciences (CMK))
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Armando Cruz-Laufer

Unversity of Exeter: Exeter, England, GB

2017-10 to 2018-03 | Research Assistant (College of Life and Environmental Sciences)
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Armando Cruz-Laufer

Education and qualifications (3)

Universiteit Hasselt: Diepenbeek, BE

2019-01-16 to 2023-09-01 | Doctor in Biology (Faculty of Sciences)
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Armando Cruz-Laufer

University of Exeter: Exeter, England, GB

2016-09 to 2017-09 | Master of Science in Conservation and Biodiversity (College of Life and Environmental Sciences)
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Armando Cruz-Laufer

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, DE

2012-10 to 2015-10 | Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences (Biowissenschaften)
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Funding (1)

A network of change: predation on human disease vectors by mangrove fishes and the role of fisheries and parasitic infections

2023-10 to 2026-09 | Grant
Research Foundation - Flanders (Brussels, BE)
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12APB24N
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Works (20)

Adaptive evolution of stress response genes in parasites aligns with host niche diversity

BMC biology
2025 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-024-02091-w
HANDLE: http://hdl.handle.net/1942/45158
Part of ISSN: 1741-7007
Contributors: Armando Cruz-Laufer; Maarten Vanhove; Bachmann, Lutz; Barson, Maxwell; Bassirou, Hassan; Bitja Nyom, Arnold R.; Mare Geraerts; Hahn, Christoph; Huyse, Tine; KASEMBELE, Kapepula et al.
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Hasselt University

Ichthyo(parasito)logical research for parasite conservation, One Health, and education

2025 | Conference paper
HANDLE: http://hdl.handle.net/1942/45381
Contributors: Maarten Vanhove; Armando Cruz-Laufer; Tiziana Gobbin; Nathan Vranken; Nikol Kmentová
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Hasselt University

Rapid speciation in host lineage may lead to adaptive evolution of parasites’ stress response genes in monopisthocotylan flatworms

2025 | Conference paper
HANDLE: http://hdl.handle.net/1942/45366
Contributors: Armando Cruz-Laufer; Maarten Vanhove; Bachmann, L.; Hahn, C.; Resl, P.; Nikol Kmentová
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Hasselt University

Adaptive evolution of stress response genes in two monogenean parasite lineages aligns with their respective host niche diversity

2024 | Conference paper
HANDLE: http://hdl.handle.net/1942/43240
Contributors: Armando Cruz-Laufer; Maarten Vanhove; Bachmann, Lutz; Hahn, Christoph; Resl, Philipp; Nikol Kmentová
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Hasselt University

Impact of mangrove forests on malaria prevalence in coastal Africa: a spatial analysis of ecosystem health and disease dynamics

2024 | Conference paper
HANDLE: http://hdl.handle.net/1942/45127
Contributors: Armando Cruz-Laufer; Maarten Vanhove; Kyrychenko, Olexiy; Wood, Chelsea L.; Dahdouh-Guebas, Farid
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Hasselt University

Host lifestyle and parasite interspecific facilitation mediate co‐infection in a species‐poor host–parasite system

Oikos
2024-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/oik.10360
Contributors: Nikol Kmentová; Armando J. Cruz‐Laufer; Leona J. M. Milec; Tanisha Moons; Senne Heeren; Elze van den Hoorn; Kelly J. M. Thys; Lawrence Makasa; Auguste Chocha Manda; Pascal Masilya Mulungula et al.
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Mitogenomics, phylogenetic position, and updated distribution of Ergasilus kandti, an ergasilid copepod parasitizing African cichlid fishes

Hydrobiologia
2024-10-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-024-05702-3
Contributors: Dries Jansen; Maarten P. M. Vanhove; Lawrence Makasa; Jiří Vorel; Nikol Kmentová; Armando J. Cruz-Laufer
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Adaptive evolution of stress response genes in parasites aligns with host niche diversity     

2024-06-10 | Preprint
DOI: 10.22541/au.171148951.13856787/v2
Contributors: Armando J. Cruz-Laufer; Maarten P. M. Vanhove; Lutz Bachmann; Maxwell Barson; Hassan Bassirou; Arnold R. Bitja Nyom; Mare Geraerts; Christoph Hahn; Tine Huyse; Gyrhaiss Kapepula Kasembele et al.
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A flatworm’s choice: developing a model system to study the ecology and evolution of host preference using cichlid fishes and their monogenean parasites

2023 | Dissertation or Thesis
HANDLE: http://hdl.handle.net/1942/40795
Contributors: Armando Cruz-Laufer
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Hasselt University

A global review of problematic and pathogenic parasites of farmed tilapia

Reviews in Aquaculture
2023 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/raq.12742
HANDLE: http://hdl.handle.net/1942/40023
Part of ISSN: 1753-5123
Contributors: Shinn, Andrew P.; Avenant-Oldewage, Annemarie; Bondad-Reantaso, Melba G.; Armando Cruz-Laufer; Garcia-Vasquez, Adriana; Hernandez-Orts, Jesus S.; Kuchta, Roman; Longshaw, Matt; Metselaar, Matthijs; Pariselle, Antoine et al.
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Hasselt University
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All quiet on the western front? The evolutionary history of monogeneans (Dactylogyridae: Cichlidogyrus, Onchobdella) infecting a West and Central African tribe of cichlid fishes (Chromidotilapiini)

Parasite
2023 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2023023
Contributors: Tanisha Moons; Nikol Kmentová; Antoine Pariselle; Tom Artois; Wim Bert; Maarten P.M. Vanhove; Armando J. Cruz-Laufer
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Mystery of the parasites inhabiting pelagic zones: the case of monogeneans in Lake Tanganyika

2023 | Conference paper
HANDLE: http://hdl.handle.net/1942/43120
Contributors: Nikol Kmentová; Kelly Johanna Marie Thys; Vorel, Jiří; Armando Cruz-Laufer; Hahn, Christoph; Koblmüller, Stephan; Maarten Van Steenberge; Makasa, Lawrence; Chocha Manda, August; Mulimbwa N'sibula, Theophile et al.
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Hasselt University

Sharing is caring? Barcoding suggests co-introduction of dactylogyrid monogeneans with Nile tilapia and transfer towards native tilapias in sub-Saharan Africa

International Journal for Parasitology
2023 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2023.05.007
HANDLE: http://hdl.handle.net/1942/42020
Part of ISSN: 0020-7519
Contributors: Mare Geraerts; Huyse, Tine; Barson, Maxwell; Bassirou, Hassan; Bilong, Charles F. Bilong; Nyom, Arnold R. Bitja; Manda, Auguste Chocha; Armando Cruz-Laufer; Kasembele, Gyrhaiss Kapepula; Bukinga, Fidel Muterezi et al.
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Hasselt University
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Explosive networking: the role of adaptive host radiations and ecological opportunity in a species‐rich host–parasite assembly

Ecology Letters
2022-06-21 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/ele.14059
DOI: 10.22541/au.164328685.58498923/v1
Part of ISSN: 1461-023X
Part of ISSN: 1461-0248
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Armando Cruz-Laufer
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Mosaic or melting pot: the use of monogeneans as a biological tag and magnifying glass to discriminate introduced populations of Nile tilapia in sub-Saharan Africa

Genomics
2022-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2022.110328
Part of ISSN: 0888-7543
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Armando Cruz-Laufer
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Somewhere I belong: phylogeny and morphological evolution in a species‐rich lineage of ectoparasitic flatworms infecting cichlid fishes

Cladistics
2022-04-30 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/cla.12506
DOI: 10.1101/2021.03.22.435939
Contributors: Armando J. Cruz‐Laufer; Antoine Pariselle; Michiel W. P. Jorissen; Fidel Muterezi Bukinga; Anwar Al Assadi; Maarten Van Steenberge; Stephan Koblmüller; Christian Sturmbauer; Karen Smeets; Tine Huyse et al.
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Armando Cruz-Laufer
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Dactylogyridae 2022: a meta-analysis of phylogenetic studies and generic diagnoses of parasitic flatworms using published genetic and morphological data

International Journal for Parasitology
2022-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2022.01.003
Version of DOI: 10.32942/osf.io/5mh3d
Part of ISSN: 0020-7519
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Armando Cruz-Laufer
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The cichlid–Cichlidogyrus network: a blueprint for a model system of parasite evolution

Hydrobiologia (The Hague. Print)
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-020-04426-4
HANDLE: http://hdl.handle.net/1942/32519
Part of ISSN: 0018-8158
Contributors: Armando Cruz-Laufer; Tom Artois; Karen SMEETS; Pariselle, Antoine; Maarten Vanhove
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Hasselt University
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Systematics, taxonomy, and distribution of species of Myriogenospora G.F. Atk. (Clavicipitaceae, Hypocreales, Ascomycota)

Check List
2019-09-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.15560/15.5.735
Part of ISSN: 1809-127X
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Armando Cruz-Laufer
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Hyperparasitic fungi on black mildews (Meliolales, Ascomycota): hidden fungal diversity in the tropics

Frontiers in Fungal Biology
Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/ffunb.2022.885279
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Armando Cruz-Laufer
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Peer review (6 reviews for 3 publications/grants)

Review activity for Parasite. (1)
Review activity for Parasitology. (2)
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