Researcher
Biology and Evolution of Marine Organisms Department
Genoa Marine Centre (GMC)
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn–National Institute of Marine Biology, Ecology and Biotechnology
Villa del Principe, Piazza del Principe 4, 16126 Genoa, Italy
Tel. +39 081 5833678
E-mail: roberto.arrigoni(at)szn.it
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=j_UXCOcAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao
ERC sector - Phylogenetics, systematics, comparative biology (LS8_8)
Settore scientifico-disciplinare - Zoologia (BIO/05)
Research Interests
I am interested in the study of biodiversity of scleractinian corals (Cnidaria, Scleractinia). In particular, most of my researches are focused on the hard corals living in shallow-water environments of tropical and subtropical seas in the Indo-Pacific, representing the major reef-building organisms of coral reefs worldwide, and in shallow-water environments of the temperate Mediterranean Sea. I also work on scleractinian corals living in mesophotic and deep-sea environments. My research is about different aspects of the biology of these marine invertebrates, including biodiversity, systematics, phylogeny, biogeography, evolution, ecology, symbiosis, and response to the environment. With the aim to investigate these topics, I use an integrated approach, combining data from genetics, morphology, and ecology. The morphological analyses include light and electron microscopy, while the genetic analyses include the use of barcoding genes and/or genomic data obtained with Next Generation Sequencing.
Selected Publications
Terraneo, T.I., Houlbreque, F., Arrigoni, R., Longari, B., Berumen, M.L., Hume, B.C.C., Fiat, S., Rodolfo-Metalpa, R., Payri, C.E., Voolstra, C.R., & Benzoni, F. (2024). Coral-associated Symbiodiniaceae dynamics during the 2016 mass bleaching event in New Caledonia. Coral Reefs, 43, 1127–1132.
Macrina, L., Terraneo, T.I., Arrigoni, R., Maggioni, D., Tietbohl, M.D., Anker, A., Lasley, R.M., Pappas, M., Berumen, M.L., & Benzoni, F. (2024). Molecular diversity and patterns of co-occurrence of decapod crustaceans associated with branching corals in the central Red Sea. Marine Biodiversity, 54, 1–16.
Quek, Z.R., Jain, S. S., Richards, Z.T., Arrigoni, R., Benzoni, F., Hoeksema, B.W., Carvajal, J.I., Wilson, N.G., Baird, A.H., Kitahara, M.V., Seiblitz, I.G.L., Vaga, C.F., & Huang, D. (2023). A hybrid-capture approach to reconstruct the phylogeny of Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 186, 107867.
Arrigoni, R., Berumen, M.L., Stolarski, J., Terraneo, T.I., & Benzoni, F. (2019). Uncovering hidden coral diversity: a new cryptic lobophylliid scleractinian from the Indian Ocean. Cladistics, 35, 301–328.
Arrigoni, R., Kitano, Y.F., Stolarski, J., Hoeksema, B.W., Fukami, H., Stefani, F., Galli, P., Montano, S., Castoldi, E., & Benzoni, F. (2014). A phylogeny reconstruction of the Dendrophylliidae (Cnidaria, Scleractinia) based on molecular and micromorphological criteria and its ecological implications. Zoologica Scripta, 43, 661–688.
