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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

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]

Tonachella, Nicolò; Contò, Michela; Martinoli, Marco; Martini, Arianna; Fianchini, Alessandra; Fontanesi, Luca; Gallucci, Francescantonio; Paris, Enrico; Pulcini, Domitilla; Rakaj, Arnold; Napolitano, Riccardo; Capoccioni, Fabrizio, Fatty Acids and Fatty Acid Trophic Markers in Two Holothurian Species from the Central Mediterranean Sea, «DIVERSITY», 2025, 17, Article number: 576 , pp. 1 - 17 [Scientific article]Open Access

Taurisano, Valeria; Ribani, Anisa; Bovo, Samuele; Schiavo, Giuseppina; Bertolini, Francesca; Schiavitto, Michele; Fontanesi, Luca, Frequency of the beta-carotene oxygenase 2 (BCO2) allele associated with the yellow fat phenotype in rabbits: insights into the spread of a genetic alteration in a wide variety of breeds and populations, «LIVESTOCK SCIENCE», 2025, 302, Article number: 105842 , pp. 1 - 7 [Scientific article]Open Access

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]

Bovo, S; Ribani, A; Fanelli, F; Galimberti, G; Martelli, Pl; Trevisi, P; Bertolini, F; Bolner, M; Casadio, R; Dall'Olio, S; Gallo, M; Luise, D; Mazzoni, G; Schiavo, G; Taurisano, V; Zambonelli, P; Bosi, P; Pagotto, U; Fontanesi, L, Merging metabolomics and genomics provides a catalog of genetic factors that influence molecular phenotypes in pigs linking relevant metabolic pathways, «GENETICS SELECTION EVOLUTION», 2025, 57, Article number: 11 , pp. 1 - 27 [Scientific article]Open Access

Bertolini, F.; Bolner, M.; Bovo, S.; Schiavo, G.; Zambonelli, P.; Gallo, M.; Cappelloni, M.; Fontanesi, L., Metabolomics identifies novel biomarkers for fat deposition, feed efficiency and growth in Italian Large White pigs, in: Book of Abstracts of the 76th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science, 2025, pp. 739 - 739 (atti di: 76th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science, Innsbruck, Austria, Austria 25 - 29 August, 2025) [Abstract]

Schiavo, G.; Bovo, S.; Bertolini, F.; Bolner, M.; Ribani, A.; Taurisano, V.; Dall'Olio, S.; Maranzani, J.; Bonacini, M.; Fontanesi, L., Mining genomic data in Reggiana cattle genetic resource to identify and manage potential deleterious alleles, in: Book of Abstracts of the 76th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science, 2025, pp. 151 - 151 (atti di: 76th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science, Innsbruck, Austria, 25 - 29 August, 2025) [Abstract]

Bovo, Samuele; Ribani, Anisa; Schiavo, Giuseppina; Taurisano, Valeria; Bolner, Matteo; Bertolini, Francesca; Fontanesi, Luca, Mining Porcine Blood Whole-DNA Sequencing Datasets to Uncover Pig Viromes: An Exploratory Application to Identify Potential Infecting Agents of an Undefined Disease Outbreak, «VETERINARY SCIENCES», 2025, 12, Article number: 513 , pp. 1 - 16 [Scientific article]Open Access

Bertolini, Francesca; Schiavo, Giuseppina; Bovo, Samuele; Ribani, Anisa; Gallo, Maurizio; Fontanesi, Luca, Monitoring allele frequency trends associated with resistance to relevant diseases in Italian heavy pig breeds over the last three decades, in: Abstract book for the 19th International Conference on Production Diseases in Farm Animals (ICPD2025), 2025, pp. 27 - 27 (atti di: 19th International Conference on Production Diseases in Farm Animals (ICPD2025), Leuven (Belgium), 8-11 July, 2025) [Abstract]

Ribani, Anisa; Özkan Koca, Ayça; Taurisano, Valeria; Bovo, Samuele; Fontanesi, Luca, Multiple-metabarcoding assays provides botanical and entomological DNA fingerprints that can reveal the geographic origin of Turkish honey, in: APIMONDIA 2025 ABSTRACT BOOK, 2025, pp. 603 - 603 (atti di: 49th APIMONDIA Congress (APIMONDIA 2025), Copenhagen (Denmark), 23-27 September 2025) [Abstract]