Unit for Integrative Zoology

Teaching and research in our group spans across a wide range of animals including vertebrates, arthropods, and lophotrochozoans. These are analyzed using various morphological and molecular methods, including immunolabeling, advanced light and confocal microscopy, 3D reconstruction, high speed video analysis, electron microscopy, and gene expression studies. The data generated are used in integrative and comparative approaches to elucidate body plan evolution, development, functional morphology, ecomorphology and phylogeny of non-model organisms.

New publications

17.06.2021
 

New Paper in Organisms, Diversity & Evolution

Reproductive biology, embryonic development and matrotrophy in the phylactolaemate bryozoan Plumatella casmiana
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11.06.2021
 

New paper in BMC Zoology

A comparative analysis of the nervous system of cheilostome bryozoans
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27.04.2021
 

Fine structure of the epicuticular secretion coat and associated glands of Pedipalpi and Palpigradi (Arachnida)
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09.04.2021
 

New Paper in BioInvasions Records

The freshwater bryozoan Pectinatella magnifica (Leidy, 1851) in the Austrian Danube: first evidence in the Upper Danube basin.

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News

29.07.2021
 

Zita Roithmair BSc

Morphology and diversity of sexual dimorphic characters of the ultimate legs in selected lithobiomorph centipedes (Myriapoda,...
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08.08.2022
 

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August 8-12, 2022, Vienna, Austria
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