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
 

New paper in Arthropod Structure & Development

Evolution and homology of leg segments in Chelicerata: Evo-devo solutions to century-old challenges.

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26.04.2025
 

Günter Wagner
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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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 Upcoming talks:

20.05.2025
 

Comparative study of SIFamidergic neurons in the euchelicerate CNS
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20.05.2025
 

Thorny-headed worms (Acanthocephala) of freshwater fishes of the Danube: comparison of modern and historical distribution
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03.06.2025
 

Evolution of Senescence
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03.06.2025
 

Metabolomics of uterine decidualization in mammals
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03.06.2025
 

Morphology of a vermetid gastropod
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10.06.2025
 

Comparing Vermetid transcripts in different life-cycle stages
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