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.

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19.06.2026
 

Maria Serracanta Fernandez

Segment polarity gene expression in Acanthochitona fascicularis (Mollusca: Polyplacophora), a non-segmented...
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20.05.2026
 

Maximillien Jadin

Molecular patterns of adhesion gene expression and lectin moieties in Acanthochitona fascicularis
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21.04.2026
 

Congratulations!

Lisa Kindler

Methodological comparison of HCR and WMISH for gene expression analysis in Thylaeodus rugulosus

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New publications

08.06.2026
 

New paper in African Journal of Wildlife Research

Estimating Greater Kudu Abundance Using Non-Invasive Genetic Sampling Methods – A Pilot Study.

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03.06.2026
 

New paper in Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology:

The Impact of Substrate Properties on the Kinematics of Locomotion in a Limb-Reduced Skink, Ablepharus kitaibelii (Squamata: Scincidae).

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30.05.2026
 

First record of Macrothele calpeiana (Araneae: Macrothelidae) in Austria.

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29.05.2026
 

New paper in SPIXIANA

First record of the terrestrial nemertean Geonemertes pelaensis in Austria, discovered in a heated greenhouse in Vienna (Hoplonemertea:...
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28.05.2026
 

Early nervous system development in the chaetognath Spadella cephaloptera exhibits conserved bilaterian patterning features.
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21.05.2026
 

New paper in African Journal of Wildlife Research

The Genetic Status of Fragmented Gemsbok (Oryx gazella) Populations in the Northern Cape, South Africa.
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21.05.2026
 

New paper in Conservation Biology

Evaluating the use of taxonomy in the IUCN Red List.

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21.05.2026
 

The anti-neural role of BMP signaling is a consequence of its ancestral function in dorsoventral patterning
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14.05.2026
 

New Paper in Science

Protist-dominated hard substrate faunas thrive at the deepest ocean depths
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