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

24.11.2023
 

New paper in BMC

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

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03.11.2023
 

Journeys into the hidden microscopic world: technological advances in microscopic imaging and their impact on biology and science visualisation.
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30.10.2023
 

New paper in PNAS

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

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19.10.2023
 

New paper in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Editorial: MorphoEvoDevo: a multilevel approach to elucidate the evolution of metazoan organ systems
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20.09.2023
 

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

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19.09.2023
 

Octopod Hox genes and cephalopod plesiomorphies
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15.09.2023
 

Odour cues rather than personality affect tadpole deposition in a Neotropical poison frog
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04.08.2023
 

New paper in Journal of Morphology

The unplumatellid Plumatella fruticosa found its home: Hirosella gen. nov. morphological arguments for the systematic placement of a freshwater...
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16.06.2023
 

New paper in Marine Biodiversity

Mating observation of giant sea spiders (Pycnogonida: Colossendeidae).

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News

25.10.2023
 

Milica Djokic

Diversity of cheilostome Bryozoa in three Arctic seamounts: Vesteris, Boyd and Southern Seamount.
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18.10.2023
 

Anna-Chiara Barta

DNA Barcoding of Terrestrial Isopods in Austria Integrating Museum Specimens

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10.10.2023
 

David Koller

Developmental Gene Expression in Cephalopod Eyes
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