Dissertation topics suggested by the teacher.
Project #1: Genetic population structure of the Mediterranean sea cucumber Holothuria tubulosa(Gmelin 1788)
Thesis Project Aim: Despite the low mobility of sea cucumbers, long-lived planktotrophic larvae and high dispersal have been hypothesised to contribute feeding the geneflow of Holothuria tubulosa around the Sardinia Island. To test this hypothesis, total genomic DNA will be extracted from the available samples collected in the sampling sites of Teulada, Oristano e Tortolì and employed to unravel the genetic population structure of the species, whose population trend is currently data deficient at a regional scale.
Info: Valentina Crobe valentina.crobe2@unibo.it; Alessia Cariani alessia.cariani@unibo.it
Project #2: Spatial and temporal analysis of the genetic diversity of three small delphinid species in the Italian waters using ancient DNA
Info: Martina Pasino martina.pasino2@unibo.it; Fausto Tinti fausto.tinti@unibo.it
Project #3: Spatial and temporal composition of stable isotopes isolated in Delphinus delphis L. from the Italian waters: technological development and preliminary analysis of trophic variation and habitat preferences
Info: Martina Pasino martina.pasino2@unibo.it; Maria Vittoria Iacovelli maria.iacovelli2@unibo.it; Fausto Tinti fausto.tinti@unibo.it
Recent dissertations supervised by the teacher.
Second cycle degree programmes dissertations
- Linking seas: assessing the connectivity of Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo, 1827) from the Mediterranean Sea to global oceans
