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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08.10.2024
 

New paper in PNAS

The extension of mammalian pregnancy required taming inflammation: Independent evolution of extended placentation in the tammar wallaby

 
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07.10.2024
 

New paper in PNAS

No birth-associated maternal mortality in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) despite giving birth to large-headed neonates
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19.09.2024
 

New paper in Frontiers in Zoology

Explosive regeneration and anamorphic development of legs in the house centipede Scutigera coleoptrata
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17.09.2024
 

New article Media Portal of the University of Vienna

An Unexpected Result: The Mammalian Inner Ear is a Striking Example of Convergent evolution
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16.09.2024
 

New paper in Nature Communications

Convergent evolution in Afrotheria and non-afrotherians demonstrates high evolvability of the mammalian inner ear.

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11.09.2024
 

Lukas Humer

Vergleich aller Entwicklungsstadien der Samtschrecke Peruphasma schultei hinsichtlich Morphologie der Mandibeln und Fraßspuren
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05.09.2024
 

New paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution

A Novel Expression Domain of extradenticle Underlies the Evolutionary Developmental Origin of the Chelicerate Patella
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03.09.2024
 

New Paper in Acta ZooBot Austria

Relevance of teaching species knowledge in times of biodiversity crisis.
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29.08.2024
 

Sebastian H. Decker

Boring bryozoans: systematics and life history of the endolithic families Penetrantiidae and Terebriporidae

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 Upcoming talks:

15.10.2024
 

eDNA-based analysis of arthropod communities in the canopy of native and non-native tree species
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22.10.2024
 

Visual Rhetorics in Science
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22.10.2024
 

Seasonal Changes of Body Condition in a Population of Fire Salamanders (Salamandra salamandra) in Vienna
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12.11.2024
 

Axis determination and left-right asymmetry in a vermetid gastropod

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