Fontaneto Diego
Permanent researcher
Address
- Viale Tonolli 50
28922 Verbania (VB)
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- +39 0323 518363 (Telephone)
- +39 0323 556513 (Fax)
- http://www.ise.cnr.it/people/researcher/fontaneto
Other information
My research interests include speciation, macroecology and patterns of diversity, mostly using as a test case microscopic invertebrates such as rotifers.
Speciation. The evolution of distinct species in animals has often been considered a property solely of sexually reproducing organisms. My work deals with differences and similarities in the speciation process between sexual and asexual organisms.
Macroecology. Patterns of diversity in microscopic organisms are hypothesised to differ from macroscopic ones, as small size, desiccation tolerance, and dispersal capability should allow micro-organisms to achieve global distributions. I test the predictions of this ubiquity hypothesis in microscopic animals using morphological and molecular taxonomy.
Editorial Board:
Hydrobiologia
Italian Journal of Zoology
Journal of Limnology
PLoS ONE
Citations:
Google Scholar
ResearchGate
ResearcherId B-9710-2008
ORCID
Publications (from 2012)