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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11.09.2024
 

Lukas Humer

Vergleich aller Entwicklungsstadien der Samtschrecke Peruphasma schultei hinsichtlich Morphologie der Mandibeln und Fraßspuren
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03.06.2024
 

Susanne Reier PhD

Elucidating phylogeographic patterns of minnows in complex aquifers of the Dinaric Karst
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New publications

03.09.2024
 

New Paper in Acta ZooBot Austria

Relevance of teaching species knowledge in times of biodiversity crisis.
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23.08.2024
 

New paper in Frontiers in Zoology

Material composition and mechanical properties of the venom-injecting forcipules in centipedes
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20.08.2024
 

Developmental gene expression in the eyes of the pygmy squid Xipholeptos notoides
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27.06.2024
 

New paper in Organisms Diversity & Evolution

Digging into boring bryozoans: new characters and new species of Immergentiidae
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14.06.2024
 

New paper in Zoological Letters

Boring life: early colony formation and growth in the endolithic bryozoan genus Penetrantia Silén, 1946
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13.06.2024
 

New paper in BMC Biology

The venom and telopodal defence systems of the centipede Lithobius forficatus are functionally convergent serial homologues.
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08.05.2024
 

New paper in Neural Developement

Unfolding the ventral nerve center of chaetognaths.
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12.04.2024
 

New article in Schriften zur Verbreitung naturwissenschaftlicher Kenntnisse

Der erste meeresbiologische Kurs des Institutes für Zoologie der Universität Wien in Rovinj (Kroatien)
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03.04.2024
 

New Paper in Journal of Zoology

In search of the glow—Three-dimensional reconstruction of Latia neritoides with specific focus on the mantel cavity (Mollusca; Gastropoda;...
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