Welcome to the Department of Evolutionary Biology!

The Department of Evolutionary Biology seeks to understand the evolution of animal form, function, and diversity by combining comparative, developmental, and theoretical approaches. The department consists of two units, Integrative Zoology and Theoretical Biology. 

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03.01.2025
 

New paper in Zoologischer Anzeiger

Comparative ultra-microscopy unraveling the regressive evolutionary signals: Insights from adaptation to extreme environment.

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31.12.2024
 

New paper in Zoological Letters

Ecology of endolithic bryozoans: colony development, growth rates and interactions of species in the genus Immergentia.
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13.12.2024
 

Max Hämmerle

The development of the skeletomusculature in the sea spider Pycnogonum litorale (Strøm, 1762) - with first insight into chelicerate...
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12.12.2024
 

New paper in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Recurrent evolution of breathing microtunnel system in terrestrial operculate snails (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoroidea)
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12.12.2024
 

Augustina Löwenstein

Lepidurus apus (L., 1758): A population genetic analysis through space and time
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04.12.2024
 

Congratulations!

Claudia Longin
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04.12.2024
 

New paper in Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology

Hox, homology, and parsimony: An organismal perspective.

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29.11.2024
 

Seyedeh Saghar Sadraei

The expression of anterior nervous system markers in chaetognath Spadella cephaloptera
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26.11.2024
 

New Paper in Cybium

A collection of fishes from the enigmatic type locality of fish species described by Georges Cuvier and by Achille Valenciennes, the hot springs of...
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 Upcoming talks:

14.01.2025
 

Georg Ehrlich

Demography and biometrics of fire-bellied toads in two contrasting habitats in Obere Lobau, Vienna
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21.01.2025
 

Cell Type Co-Evolution in Mammalian Pregnancy
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28.01.2025
 

Christoph Bleidorn

Unleashing the power of museum collections with short read phylogenomics
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