Foto del docente

Luca Fontanesi

Full Professor

Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Academic discipline: AGRI-09/A Livestock Systems, Animal Breeding and Genetics

Delegate for Competitive Research Projects

Publications

Schiavo, G.; Bovo, S.; Bertolini, F.; Bolner, M.; Ribani, A.; Taurisano, V.; Galimberti, G.; Gallo, M.; Fontanesi, L., Application of artificial intelligence in livestock genomics: combining random forest and Boruta algorithm to identify informative single nucleotide polymorphisms across pig breeds, in: Book of Abstracts of the 1st EAAP Conference on Artificial Intelligence 4 Animal Science, 2025, pp. 30 - 30 (atti di: 1st EAAP Conference on Artificial Intelligence 4 Animal Science, Zurich - Switzerland, 4-6 June, 2025) [Abstract]

Fabbri, Maria Chiara; Arias, Katherine D.; Rezende, Marcos P. G.; Tiezzi, Francesco; Biffani, Stefano; Goyache, Felix; Schiavo, Giuseppina; Bovo, Samuele; Fontanesi, Luca; Čandek-Potokar, Marjeta; Muñoz, Maria; Ovilo, Cristina; Poklukar, Klavdija; Škrlep, Martin; Bozzi, Riccardo, Assessment of heterozygosity in European local and cosmopolitan pig populations, «AGRICULTURE», 2025, 15, Article number: 761 , pp. 1 - 13 [Scientific article]Open Access

Credi, Alberto; Fontanesi, Luca; Montanari, Rebecca; Coppini, Sara; Gualandi, Bianca, Back to fundamentals of research: Ethics and academic freedom. Position paper, in: Back to fundamentals of research, Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, 2025, pp. 1 - 7 (atti di: Back to Fundamentals of Research: Reliability, Transparency and Reproducibility, Bologna, 02/12/2024) [Contribution to conference proceedings]Open Access

Bovo, S.; Bolner, M.; Lewis, C.; Holl, J.; Valente, B.; Schiavo, G.; Bertolini, F.; Fontanesi, L., Combining metabolomics and genomics to describe genetic factors affecting the metabolism in growing Duroc male pigs, in: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Animal Genetics, 2025, pp. 141 - 141 (atti di: 40th International Conference on Animal Genetics (ISAG 2025), Daejeon, Republic of Korea, July 20–25, 2025) [Abstract]

Taurisano, Valeria; Ribani, Anisa; Utzeri, Valerio Joe; Sami, Dalal; Johnson, Kate Elise Nelson; Formato, Giovanni; Milito, Marcella; Schiavo, Giuseppina; Bovo, Samuele; Bertolini, Francesca; Fontanesi, Luca, Comparing Morphometric and Mitochondrial DNA Data from Honeybees and Honey Samples for Identifying Apis mellifera ligustica Subspecies at the Colony Level, «ANIMALS», 2025, 15, Article number: 1743 , pp. 1 - 19 [Scientific article]Open Access

Bovo, Samuele; Bolner, Matteo; Schiavo, Giuseppina; Galimberti, Giuliano; Bertolini, Francesca; Dall'Olio, Stefania; Ribani, Anisa; Zambonelli, Paolo; Gallo, Maurizio; Fontanesi, Luca, Description of metabolic differences between castrated males and intact gilts obtained from high-throughput metabolomics of porcine plasma, «JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE», 2025, 103, Article number: skaf178 , pp. 1 - 17 [Scientific article]Open Access

Schiavo, Giuseppina; Bovo, Samuele; Bertolini, Francesca; Bolner, Matteo; Ribani, Anisa; Taurisano, Valeria; Dall’Olio, Stefania; Maranzani, Jessica; Bonacini, Massimo; Fontanesi, Luca, Establishing a genomic-driven conservation of a cattle genetic resource: the case of the Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese iconic breed, in: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Animal Genetics, 2025, pp. 167 - 167 (atti di: 40th International Conference on Animal Genetics (ISAG 2025), Daejeon, Republic of Korea, July 20–25, 2025) [Abstract]

Fontanesi, Luca; Norton, Tomas; Consortium, EU-LI-PHE, European Network on Livestock Phenomics: An international initiative to enhance genome to phenome integration in all livestock species for applications in animal breeding, in: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Animal Genetics, 2025, pp. 88 - 88 (atti di: 40th International Conference on Animal Genetics (ISAG 2025), Daejeon, Republic of Korea, July 20–25, 2025) [Abstract]

Bovo, S.; Bolner, M.; Schiavo, G.; Galimberti, G.; Bertolini, F.; Ribani, A.; Gallo, M.; Dall’Olio, S.; Fontanesi, L., Exploring the animal molecular phenome with machine learning algorithms: mining the plasma metabolome to describe differences between breeds, in: Book of Abstracts of the 1st EAAP Conference on Artificial Intelligence 4 Animal Science, 2025, pp. 31 - 31 (atti di: 1st EAAP Conference on Artificial Intelligence 4 Animal Science, Zurich - Switzerland, 4-6 June, 2025) [Abstract]

Aranguren-Rivas, Paula; Heras-Molina, Ana; Gómez-Izquierdo, Emilio; Gomez-Fernández, Jose; García, Fabián; Fontanesi, Luca; Óvilo, Cristina; María García-Casco, Juan; Muñoz, María, Heat stress effects on the circulating microRNA profile of Iberian purebred and Duroc x Iberian crossbred weaned piglets., in: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Animal Genetics, 2025, pp. 21 - 21 (atti di: 40th International Conference on Animal Genetics (ISAG 2025), Daejeon, Republic of Korea, July 20–25, 2025) [Abstract]

Bolner, M.; Bovo, S.; Schiavo, G.; Galimberti, G.; Bertolini, F.; Ribani, A.; Dall’Olio, S.; Zambonelli, P.; Gallo, M.; Fontanesi, L., High-throughput GWAS for more than 250,000 metabolomic features provides novel insights on the genetic mechanisms influencing pig metabolism, in: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Animal Genetics, 2025, pp. 49 - 49 (atti di: 40th International Conference on Animal Genetics (ISAG 2025), Daejeon, Republic of Korea, July 20–25, 2025) [Abstract]

Bovo, S.; Bolner, M.; Schiavo, G.; Galimberti, G.; Bertolini, F.; Dall'Olio, S.; Ribani, A.; Zambonelli, P.; Gallo, M.; Fontanesi, L., High-throughput untargeted metabolomics reveals metabolites and metabolic pathways that differentiate two divergent pig breeds, «ANIMAL», 2025, 19, Article number: 101393 , pp. 1 - 13 [Scientific article]Open Access

Taurisano, V.; Ribani, A.; Sami, D.; Johnson Nelson, K. E.; Schiavo, G.; Utzeri, V. J.; Fontanesi, L., How genetic integrity in honey bees, addressed in a regional law, can be monitored using mitochondrial DNA, in: Book of Abstracts of the 1st EAAP Workshop on Insect Genetic Improvement, Implementation, Impact, 2025, pp. 24 - 24 (atti di: 1st EAAP Workshop on Insect Genetic Improvement, Implementation, Impact, Athens, Greece, 29-31 January, 2025) [Abstract]

Bovo, Samuele; Ribani, Anisa; Schiavo, Giuseppina; Fornasini, Daniela; Frabetti, Andrea; Fontanesi, Luca, Investigating genetic factors affecting a production disease in meat rabbits: a genome-wide association study on susceptibility to diarrhea before weaning, in: Abstract book for the 19th International Conference on Production Diseases in Farm Animals (ICPD2025), 2025, pp. 22 - 22 (atti di: 19th International Conference on Production Diseases in Farm Animals (ICPD2025), Leuven (Belgium), 8-11 July, 2025) [Abstract]

Fontanesi, Luca, La Genetica del Colore del Mantello nel Coniglio, in: Razze Cunicole: Norme Tecniche, Roma, Associazione Nazionale Coniglicoltori Italiani, 2025, pp. 148 - 151 [Chapter or essay]