ZOOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE ETHOLOGY

The objectives of this research group are the study of:

  • Marine and terrestrial Biodiversity: taxonomy and phylogenetic.
  • Neuroethology of marine animals models and canine ethology.
  • Function and physiology of smell.
  • "Welfare" of Cephalopods as laboratory animals.
  • Evolution and phylogeography of populations of wildlife.
  • Saproxylic insects, Ethnozoology and Archaeozoology.
  • Animal models of disease and comparative pathology of aquatic organisms.

The major international collaborations are with: Whitney Laboratory of Marine Bioscience, Florida University; Facultad de Ciencies UNAM, Mexico; Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Calgary; Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network University of Oxford.

Partecipants

  • DE VICO GIONATA (Full Professor)
  • ROPERTO FRANCO PEPPINO (Full Professor)
  • D'ANIELLO BIAGIO (Associate Professor)
  • DI COSMO ANNA (Associate Professor)
  • GUARINO FABIO MARIA (Associate Professor)
  • CARELLA FRANCESCA (Researcher)
  • FULGIONE DOMENICO (Researcher)
  • GENOVESE ANGELO (Researcher)
  • MASELLI VALERIA (Researcher)
  • POLESE GIANLUCA (Researcher)
  • SOPPELSA OTTAVIO (Researcher)