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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30.04.2025
 

Luisa PALLARES (Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, Tübingen)

Wednesday 30 April 2025, 3.00 pm (CET)
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09.04.2025
 

Molluscan Shells, Spicules, and Gladii Are Evolutionarily Deeply Conserved.
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01.04.2025
 

Cost Anton Pircher

Morphological analysis of Triturus carnifex and Triturus dobrogicus larval populations near Vienna

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27.03.2025
 

New paper in Archiv für Molluskenkunde

Quantitative and qualitative statistical analyses of the shell and the genital traits of the doorsnail genus Montenegrina O. Boettger, 1877...
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27.03.2025
 

Michaela Haas

Morphologie und Sensillenausstattung des Rüssels der Bläulinge (Lycaenidae)

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25.03.2025
 

Congratulations!

Lina Ried

Behavior and activity patterns of the European green toad (Bufotes viridis) in an urban and natural habitat

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21.03.2025
 

Silvia Basanta

The evolution of signaling in mammalian pregnancy

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14.03.2025
 

New paper in Check List

The first documented record of the Critically Endangered adder Vipera berus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Serpentes, Viperidae) from the German North Frisian...
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05.02.2025
 

New paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution

Red Deer Resequencing Reveals the Importance of Sex Chromosomes for Reconstructing Late Quaternary Events.
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 Upcoming talks:

29.04.2025
 

Markus Grams

Joining forces in malacostracan phylogeny - New approaches for combining morphological and phylogenomic data
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29.04.2025
 

Christoph G. Höpel

Comparative phylogeography and speciation in correlation with glaciation and cave colonization in Tasmanian mountain shrimps (Anaspides, Anaspidacea,...
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29.04.2025
 

Patrick Frühwirth

A micro piece of the chaetognath puzzle

Tracing the micro RNA repertoire of Spadella cephaloptera and comparing the expression of conserved micro...
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06.05.2025
 

Thomas Bartolomaeus

Evolution of excretory organs

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13.05.2025
 

Club-shaped bryozoans: Clavoporidae

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13.05.2025
 

Spiralian adhesive systems
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