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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14.11.2025
 

Leon Claus

The ctenostome bryozoan family Clavoporidae: diversity and description of new taxa

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23.09.2025
 

Willy DeMattia

Testing genital anatomical characters in clausiliid systematics on the example of Alopiinae (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora:...
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12.09.2025
 

Max Hämmerle

received the award for the best poster at the DZG 2025 in Berlin (September 8th to 12th, 2025).
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New publications

29.09.2025
 

New book chapter in Insect Ecomorphology - Linking Functional Insect Morphology to Ecology and Evolution

Nectar-feeding ecology, ecomorphological adaptations and variation of proboscis length in a longproboscid fly (Diptera: Nemestrinidae: Prosoeca).

 
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26.09.2025
 

New paper in Entomologica Austriaca

Morphology of the proboscis drinking region and the sensilla styloconica in butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea).

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25.09.2025
 

New paper in Gene

Evolution of highly diverse gene orders in mitochondrial genomes of Syllidae (Annelida).
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23.09.2025
 

New paper in Entomologica Austriaca

Contrasting paths to evolutionary novelty: insect wings and wing hearts.
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21.09.2025
 

New paper in Insects

Mouthparts and Alimentary Tract of Flower-Visiting Monkey Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Hopliini): Insights into Feeding Preferences.

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12.09.2025
 

New paper in Conservation Genetics

Temporal analysis reveals loss of genetic diversity and increasing differentiation in South-west German red deer populations.
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11.09.2025
 

New paper in Methods in Microscopy

Microscopic dual-energy computed tomography (microDECT) imaging of animal tissues: the colour of X-rays.

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10.07.2025
 

New paper in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

A genome-skimming phylogeny of ctenostome bryozoans
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03.07.2025
 

New book capter in "The New Taxonomy. A Science Reimagined."

A Single Authoritative List of the World's Species - Background and Road Map
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