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

15.01.2024
 

New paper in Nature, Ecology & Evolution

Monitoring of species’ genetic diversity in Europe varies greatly and overlooks potential climate change impacts

11.01.2024
 

Neuromuscular development in the emerging scyphozoan model system, Cassiopea xamachana: implications for the evolution of cnidarian nervous systems.

02.01.2024
 

New paper in Zoological Letters

Epimorphic development in tropical shallow-water Nymphonidae (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) revealed by fluorescence imaging.

29.11.2023
 

New paper in Journal of Apicultural Research

Impact of heat stress on flower visitation and pollination of Phaseolus coccineus by honey bees (Apis mellifera).

24.11.2023
 

New paper in BMC

Genomic and transcriptomic survey of bryozoan Hox and ParaHox genes with emphasis on phylactolaemate bryozoans.

03.11.2023
 

Journeys into the hidden microscopic world: technological advances in microscopic imaging and their impact on biology and science visualisation.

30.10.2023
 

New paper in PNAS

Widespread support for a global species list with a formal governance system.

19.10.2023
 

New paper in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Editorial: MorphoEvoDevo: a multilevel approach to elucidate the evolution of metazoan organ systems

20.09.2023
 

Personality traits differentially affect components of reproductive success in a Neotropical poison frog.

News

25.10.2023
 

Milica Djokic

Diversity of cheilostome Bryozoa in three Arctic seamounts: Vesteris, Boyd and Southern Seamount.

18.10.2023
 

Anna-Chiara Barta

DNA Barcoding of Terrestrial Isopods in Austria Integrating Museum Specimens

10.10.2023
 

David Koller

Developmental Gene Expression in Cephalopod Eyes