Dissertation topics suggested by the teacher.
Arthropods molecular systematics and phylogenetics
Arthropods and molluscs evolutionary genomics
Genomic approaches for the analysis of Italian ants biodiveristy and phylogenetics
Analysis and applications of phylogenetic methods
Recent dissertations supervised by the teacher.
First cycle degree programmes dissertations
- Caratterizzazione di specie di formica mediante marcatori molecolari
- Caratterizzazione molecolare di mantidi del genere
Ameles Burmeister, 1838 (Insecta: Mantodea)
mediante marcatori molecolari (12S, H3, COI, COII)
- caratterizzazione molecolare di popolazioni di formiche italiane
- Filogenesi molecolare di alcune famiglie dell'ordine Phasmatodea con enfasi sulla famiglia Heteropterygidae (Bacilloidea)
- Filogenesi molecolare di specie appartenenti alle famiglie Heteropterygidae e Anisacanthidae (Phasmatodea, Bacilloidea)
Second cycle degree programmes dissertations
- Comparative genomic analysis of good and bad among the genus Burkholderia
- Identification and characterization of Hox and ParaHox genes in tadpole shrimp genomes (Pancrustacea, Branchiopoda, Notostraca)
- Phylogeographical patterns in Italian populations of European red wood ants (Formica rufa species group; Hymenoptera, Formicidae) and the myrmecophilic spider Mastigusa arietina (Araneae, Hahniidae)
- The response of six species of Collembola to exposure to severe drought levels after a pre-acclimation treatment
- Variable responses to land-use and climate change among terrestrial insect taxa
