La missione del Dipartimento di Biotechnologie Marine è di condurre e promuovere ricerche scientifiche riguardanti le possibili applicazioni dei prodotti naturali marini nei settori biomedico e ambientale.

Ci concentriamo principalmente sui prodotti microalgali e sull'ottimizzazione della produzione di composti bioattivi modificando i parametri di crescita come la qualità della luce e la concentrazione di sostanze nutritive. Siamo interessati alla caratterizzazione dell'attività biologica di estratti, frazioni e composti puri isolati da microalghe e altri organismi marini attraverso piattaforme di screening avanzate che consentono la previsione del tipo di attività farmacologica, nutraceutica e cosmeceutica dei composti.

Ci concentriamo anche sull'isolamento e la caratterizzazione di microrganismi marini, compresi batteri e funghi, che sono in grado di resistere e degradare inquinanti come metalli pesanti e idrocarburi policiclici aromatici. Gli studi di bioremediation e bioaugmentation mirano a convalidare nuove tecnologie per il recupero delle aree costiere inquinate marine. Sono in fase di sviluppo approcci nuovi e innovativi per il ripristino di tali siti mediante l'utilizzo di fanerogame marine e coralli.

La nostra esperienza multidisciplinare comprende campi come ecologia, ecologia chimica, fisiologia, genomica e trascrittomica, chimica e biochimica e biologia cellulare che guidano il trasferimento di tecnologia e conoscenza per applicazioni industriali di prodotti naturali marini.

Le piattaforme disponibili includono:
• Piattaforma BlueBiomass per l'isolamento e la manutenzione e la coltivazione di massa di microalghe e altri organismi marini per potenziali applicazioni biotecnologiche.
• Piattaforma BlueBioChem per l'estrazione e il frazionamento di organismi marini bioattivi
• Piattaforma BlueOmics per studi di gene mining per la ricerca di nuovi enzimi e percorsi biosintetici
• Piattaforma BlueCell per testare l'attività biologica di estratti, frazioni e composti puri su specie di modelli marini e linee cellulari umane.
• Piattaforma BlueMicrobe per testare l'attività antibatterica degli organismi marini.
• Piattaforma BlueEnvironment per il biorisanamento e il ripristino di siti marini inquinati

2016

Arnone, M. I. (2016). Echinoderm systems for gene regulatory studies in evolution and development. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 39, 129 - 137.

Basu, S., Hadzhiev, Y., Petrosino, G., Nepal, C., Gehrig, J., Armant, O., Ferg, M., Strahle, U., Sanges, R. and Müller, F. (2016). The Tetraodon nigroviridis reference transcriptome: developmental transition, length retention and microsynteny of long non-coding RNAs in a compact vertebrate genome. Scientific Reports 6, 33210.

Berenshtein, I., Rousseau, M., Scata, G., Fiorito, G. and Shashar, N. (2016). Observed and modelled camouflage response of European cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) to different substrate patch sizes during movement. Frontiers in Physiology 7, 671.

Bevilacqua, S. and Terlizzi, A. (2016). Species surrogacy in environmental impact assessment and monitoring: extending the BestAgg approach to asymmetrical designs. Marine Ecology Progress Series 547, 19-32.

Boni, R., Gallo, A., Montanino, M., Macina, A. and Tosti, E. (2016). Dynamic changes in the sperm quality of Mytilus galloprovincialis under continuous thermal stress. Mol Reprod Dev 83, 162-73.

Brozovic, M., Martin, C., Dantec, C., Dauga, D., Mendez, M., Simion, P., Percher, M., Laporte, B., Scornavacca, C., Di Gregorio, A. et al. (2016). ANISEED 2015: a digital framework for the comparative developmental biology of ascidians. Nucleic Acids Res 44 (D1), D808-D818.

Castellano, I., Migliaccio, O., D'Aniello, S., Merlino, A., Napolitano, A. and Palumbo, A. (2016). Shedding light on ovothiol biosynthesis in marine metazoans. Sci Rep 6, 21506.

Ciezarek, A. G., Dunning, L. T., Jones, C. S., Noble, L. R., Humble, E., Stefanni, S. S. and Savolainen, V. (2016). Substitutions in the Glycogenin-1 Gene Are Associated with the Evolution of Endothermy in Sharks and Tunas. Genome Biol Evol 8, 3011-3021.

Coppola, U., Annona, G., D'Aniello, S. and Ristoratore, F. (2016). Rab32 and Rab38 genes in chordate pigmentation: an evolutionary perspective. BMC Evol Biol 16, 26.

Costantini, M., Greif, G., Alvarez-Valin, F. and Bernardi, G. (2016). The Anolis Lizard Genome: An Amniote Genome without Isochores? Genome Biol Evol 8, 1048-55.

D'Agostino, Y., Locascio, A., Ristoratore, F., Sordino, P., Spagnuolo, A., Borra, M. and D'Aniello, S. (2016). A Rapid and Cheap Methodology for CRISPR/Cas9 Zebrafish Mutant Screening. Mol Biotechnol 58, 73-8.

De Luca, D., Catanese, G., Procaccini, G. and Fiorito, G. (2016). Octopus vulgaris (Cuvier, 1797) in the Mediterranean Sea: Genetic Diversity and Population Structure. PLoS One 11, e0149496.

Fortunato, A., Boni, R., Leo, R., Nacchia, G., Liguori, F., Casale, S., Bonassisa, P. and Tosti, E. (2016). Vacuoles in sperm head are not associated with head morphology, DNA damage and reproductive success. Reprod Biomed Online 32, 154-161.

Ferramosca, A., Conte, A., Guerra, F., Felline, S., Rimoli, M. G., Mollo, E., Zara, V. and Terlizzi, A. (2016). Metabolites from invasive pests inhibit mitochondrial complex II: A potential strategy for the treatment of human ovarian carcinoma? Biochemical and biophysical research communications 473(4), 1133-1138.

Fortunato, A., Boni, R., Leo, R., Nacchia, G., Liguori, F., Casale, S., Bonassisa, P. and Tosti, E. (2016a). Vacuoles in sperm head are not associated with head morphology, DNA damage and reproductive success. Reproductive BioMedicine Online 32, 154-61.

Fortunato, A. E., Sordino, P. and Andreakis, N. (2016b). Evolution of the SOUL Heme-Binding Protein Superfamily Across Eukarya. J Mol Evol 82, 279-90.

Gallina, A. A., Palumbo, A. and Casotti, R. (2016). Oxidative pathways in response to polyunsaturated aldehydes in the marine diatom Skeletonema marinoi (Bacillariophyceae). J Phycol. 52, 590–598.

Gallo, A., Boni, R., Buttino, I. and Tosti, E. (2016). Spermiotoxicity of nickel nanoparticles in the marine invertebrate Ciona intestinalis (ascidians). Nanotoxicology, 1-9.

Gallo, A. and Tosti, E. (2016). Adverse Effect of Ocean Acidification on Marine Organisms. J Marine Sci Res Dev 6, e139.

Josef, N., Berenshtein, I., Rousseau, M., Scata, G., Fiorito, G. and Shashar, N. (2016). Size Matters: Observed and Modeled Camouflage Response of European Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) to Different Substrate Patch Sizes during Movement. Frontiers in Physiology 7.

Karaz, S., Courgeon, M., Lepetit, H., Bruno, E., Pannone, R., Tarallo, A., Thouzé, F., Kerner, P., Vervoort, M., Causeret, F., Pierani, A., D'Onofrio, G. (2016). Neuronal fate specification by the Dbx1 transcription factor is linked to the evolutionary acquisition of a novel functional domain. EvoDevo 7, 1-13.

Mao, C. A., Agca, C., Mocko-Strand, J. A., Wang, J., Ullrich-Luter, E., Pan, P., Wang, S. W., Arnone, M. I., Frishman, L. J. and Klein, W. H. (2016). Substituting mouse transcription factor Pou4f2 with a sea urchin orthologue restores retinal ganglion cell development. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 283.

Martella, A., Sepe, R. M., Silvestri, C., Zang, J., Fasano, G., Carnevali, O., De Girolamo, P., Neuhauss, S. C. F., Sordino, P. and Di Marzo, V. (2016). Important role of endocannabinoid signaling in the development of functional vision and locomotion in zebrafish. The FASEB Journal 30, 4275-4288.

Migliaccio, O., Castellano, I., Di Cioccio, D., Tedeschi, G., Negri, A., Cirino, P., Romano, G., Zingone, A. and Palumbo, A. (2016). Subtle reproductive impairment through nitric oxide-mediated mechanisms in sea urchins from an area affected by harmful algal blooms. Scientific Reports 6, 26086.

Moreno-Valcárcel, R., Oliva-Paterna, F. J., Bevilacqua, S., Terlizzi, A. and Fernández-Delgado, C. (2016). Long-term effects of tidal restriction on fish assemblages in east Atlantic coastal marshlands. Marine Ecology Progress Series 543, 209-222.

Pagano, G., Guida, M., Siciliano, A., Oral, R., Kocbas, F., Palumbo, A., Castellano, I., Migliaccio, O., Thomas, P. J. and Trifuoggi, M. (2016). Comparative toxicities of selected rare earth elements: Sea urchin embryogenesis and fertilization damage with redox and cytogenetic effects. Environ Res 147, 453-60.

Perillo, M., Wang, Y. J., Leach, S. D. and Arnone, M. I. (2016). A pancreatic exocrine-like cell regulatory circuit operating in the upper stomach of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus larva. BMC Evol Biol 16, 117.

Pugliese, C., Mazza, R., Andrews, P. L., Cerra, M. C., Fiorito, G. and Gattuso, A. (2016). Effect of Different Formulations of Magnesium Chloride Used As Anesthetic Agents on the Performance of the Isolated Heart of Octopus vulgaris. Frontiers in Physiology 7.

Rizzo, F., Coffman, J. A. and Arnone, M. I. (2016). An Elk transcription factor is required for Runx-dependent survival signaling in the sea urchin embryo. Dev Biol. 416, 173–186.

Romano, G., Costantini, M., Sansone, C., Lauritano, C., Ruocco, N. and Ianora, A. (2016). Marine microorganisms as a promising and sustainable source of bioactive molecules. Mar Environ Res. In press; Available online: 3 May 2016.

Ruocco, N., Costantini, M. and Santella, L. (2016). New insights into negative effects of lithium on sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus embryos. Scientific Reports 6.

Ruocco, N., Costantini, S. and Costantini, M. (2016). Blue-Print Autophagy: Potential for Cancer Treatment. Marine Drugs 14, 138.

Ruocco, N., Costantini, S., Guariniello, S. and Costantini, M. (2016). Polysaccharides from the Marine Environment with Pharmacological, Cosmeceutical and Nutraceutical Potential. Molecules 21.

Ruocco, N., Varrella, S., Romano, G., Ianora, A., Bentley, M. G., Somma, D., Leonardi, A., Mellone, S., Zuppa, A. and Costantini, M. (2016). Diatom-derived oxylipins induce cell death in sea urchin embryos activating caspase-8 and caspase 3/7. Aquat Toxicol 176, 128-40.

Shaw, T. J., Osborne, M., Ponte, G., Fiorito, G. and Andrews, P. L. (2016). Mechanisms of wound closure following acute arm injury in Octopus vulgaris. Zoological Lett 2, 8.

Taddei, L., Stella, G. R., Rogato, A., Bailleul, B., Fortunato, A. E., Annunziata, R., Sanges, R., Thaler, M., Lepetit, B., Lavaud, J., Jaubert, M., Finazzi, G., Bouly, J.P., Falciatore, A. (2016). Multisignal control of expression of the LHCX protein family in the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. J Exp Bot 67, 3939-51.

Tarallo, A., Angelini, C., Sanges, R., Yagi, M., Agnisola, C. and D'Onofrio, G. (2016). On the genome base composition of teleosts: the effect of environment and lifestyle. BMC Genomics 17, 173.

Tarallo, A., Gambi, M. C. and D'Onofrio, G. (2016b). Lifestyle and DNA base composition in polychaetes. Physiological Genomics 48, 883-888.

Tarallo, A., Yagi, M., Oikawa, S., Agnisola, C. and D'Onofrio, G. (2016). Comparative morpho-physiological analysis between Ciona robusta and Ciona savignyi. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 485, 83-87.

Tosti, E., Boni, R. and Gallo, A. (2016). Ion currents in embryo development. Birth Defects Res C Embryo Today 108, 6-18.

Tosti, E. and Menezo, Y. (2016). Gamete activation: basic knowledge and clinical applications. Hum Reprod Update 22, 420-39.

Valero-Gracia, A., Marino, R., Crocetta, F., Nittoli, V., Tiozzo, S. and Sordino, P. (2016a). Comparative localization of serotonin-like immunoreactive cells in Thaliacea informs tunicate phylogeny. Frontiers in Zoology 13.

Valero-Gracia, A., Petrone, L., Oliveri, P., Nilsson, D. E. and Arnone, M. I. (2016b). Non-directional photoreceptors in the pluteus of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 4.

Varrella, S., Romano, G., Costantini, S., Ruocco, N., Ianora, A., Bentley, M. G. and Costantini, M. (2016). Toxic Diatom Aldehydes Affect Defence Gene Networks in Sea Urchins. PLoS One 11, e0149734.

Varrella, S., Romano, G., Ruocco, N., Ianora, A., Bentley, M. G. and Costantini, M. (2016). First Morphological and Molecular Evidence of the Negative Impact of Diatom-Derived Hydroxyacids on the Sea Urchin Paracentrotus lividus. Toxicol Sci 151, 419-33.

Verde, C., Giordano, D., Bellas, C. M., di Prisco, G. and Anesio, A. M. (2016). Chapter Four-Polar Marine Microorganisms and Climate Change. Advances in Microbial Physiology 69, 187-215.

Books and/or Book Chapters

Lowe, E. K., Cuomo, C. and Arnone, M. I. (2016). A Differential Transcriptomic Approach to Compare Target Genes of Homologous Transcription Factors in Echinoderm Species. In Dynamics of Mathematical Models in Biology: Springer International Publishing.

Martinez-Morales, J. R. and Locascio, A. (2016). Vertebrate Eye Evolution. In Organogenetic Gene Networks, (ed. J. Castelli-Gair Hombría, Bovolenta, Paola (Eds)), pp. 275-298: Springer International Publishing.

Avvisi Attivi

Avvisi Scaduti

2015

ISI Journal Papers

Affinito, O., Andreakis, N., Caputi, L., Marino, R., Pannone, R., Sordino, P. and Procaccini, G. (2015). High connectivity and directional gene flow in European Atlantic and Mediterranean populations of Ciona intestinalis sp. A. Marine Ecology 36, 1230-1243.

Andrikou, C. and Arnone, M. I. (2015). Too many ways to make a muscle: Evolution of GRNs governing myogenesis. Zoologischer Anzeiger 256, 2-13.

Andrikou, C., Pai, C. Y., Su, Y. H. and Arnone, M. I. (2015). Logics and properties of a genetic regulatory program that drives embryonic muscle development in an echinoderm. Elife 4.

Annona, G., Holland, N. D. and D'Aniello, S. (2015). Evolution of the notochord. Evodevo 6, 30.

Arnone, M. I. and Hejnol, A. (2015). Genomics going wild: Marine sampling for studies of evolution and development. Marine Genomics 24, 119-120.

Caputi, L., Crocetta, F., Toscano, F., Sordino, P. and Cirino, P. (2015). Long-term demographic and reproductive trends in Ciona intestinalis sp A. Marine Ecology-an Evolutionary Perspective 36, 118-128.

Castellano, I., Ercolesi, E., Romano, G., Ianora, A. and Palumbo, A. (2015a). The diatom-derived aldehyde decadienal affects ERK signaling during metamorphosis of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis. Open biology 5, 140-182.

Castellano, I., Ercolesi, E., Romano, G., Ianora, A. and Palumbo, A. (2015b). The diatom-derived aldehyde decadienal affects life cycle transition in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis through nitric oxide/ERK signalling. Open Biology 5.

Costantini, M. (2015). An overview on genome organization of marine organisms. Mar Genomics 24 Pt 1, 3-9.

Costantini, S., Romano, G., Rusolo, F., Capone, F., Guerriero, E., Colonna, G., Ianora, A., Ciliberto, G. and Costantini, M. (2015). Anti-Inflammatory Effects of a Methanol Extract from the Marine Sponge Geodia cydonium on the Human Breast Cancer MCF-7 Cell Line. Mediators Inflamm 2015, 204975.

Crocetta, F., Marino, R., Cirino, P., Macina, A., Staiano, L., Esposito, R., Pezzotti, M. R., Racioppi, C., Toscano, F., De Felice, E., Locascio, A., Ristoratore, F., Spagnuolo, A., Zanetti, L., Branno, M. and Sordino, P. (2015). Mutation studies in ascidians: a review. Genesis 53, 160-9.

D'Alessandro, A., Pesce, M., Arnone, M. I., Zito, F. P., Andreozzi, P., Efficie, E., Civiletti, R., Affinito, G., Cuomo, R. and Sarnelli, G. (2015). Impact of upper gastrointestinal symptoms perception on BMI in GERD patients. Neurogastroenterology and Motility 27, 13-14.

D'Aniello, S., Delroisse, J., Valero-Gracia, A., Lowe, E. K., Byrne, M., Cannon, J. T., Halanych, K. M., Elphick, M. R., Mallefet, J., Kaul-Strehlowi, S., Lowe, C.J., Flammang, P., Ullrich-Luter, E., Wanninger, A., Arnone, M.I. (2015). Opsin evolution in the Ambulacraria. Marine Genomics 24, 177-183.

Danovaro, R., Costantini, M. and Verde, C. (2015). The marine genome: structure, regulation and evolution. Mar Genomics 24 Pt 1, 1-2.

De Luca, D., Catanese, G., Fiorito, G. and Procaccini, G. (2015). A new set of pure microsatellite loci in the common octopus Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797 for multiplex PCR assay and their cross-amplification in O. maya Voss & Solis Ramirez, 1966. Conservation Genetics Resources 7, 299-301.

Di Cristina, G., Andrews, P., Ponte, G., Galligioni, V. and Fiorito, G. (2015). The impact of Directive 2010/63/EU on cephalopod research. Invertebrate Neuroscience 15, 1-7.

Di Dato, V., Musacchia, F., Petrosino, G., Patil, S., Montresor, M., Sanges, R. and Ferrante, M. I. (2015). Transcriptome sequencing of three Pseudo-nitzschia species reveals comparable gene sets and the presence of Nitric Oxide Synthase genes in diatoms. Sci Rep 5, 12329.

Elphick, M. R., Semmens, D. C., Blowes, L. M., Levine, J., Lowe, C. J., Arnone, M. I. and Clark, M. S. (2015). Reconstructing SALMFamide Neuropeptide Precursor Evolution in the Phylum Echinodermata: Ophiuroid and Crinoid Sequence Data Provide New Insights. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 6, 2.

Esposito, R., Racioppi, C., Pezzotti, M. R., Branno, M., Locascio, A., Ristoratore, F. and Spagnuolo, A. (2015). The ascidian pigmented sensory organs: structures and developmental programs. Genesis 53, 15-33.

Fiorito, G., Affuso, A., Basil, J., Cole, A., de Girolamo, P., D'Angelo, L., Dickel, L., Gestal, C., Grasso, F., Kuba, M. Mark, F., Melillo, D., Osorio, D., Perkins, K., Ponte, G., Shashar, N., Smith, D., Smith, J., Andrews, P.L. (2015). Guidelines for the Care and Welfare of Cephalopods in Research -A consensus based on an initiative by CephRes, FELASA and the Boyd Group. Lab Anim 49, 1-90.

Fortunato, A. and Tosti, E. (2015). Sperm Vacuoles and Reproductive Outcome. Journal of Fertilization: In Vitro-IVF-Worldwide, Reproductive Medicine, Genetics & Stem Cell Biology 2015.

Fortunato, A. E., Sordino, P. and Andreakis, N. (2016). Evolution of the SOUL Heme-Binding Protein Superfamily Across Eukarya. J Mol Evol 82, 279-90.

Gallo, A. and Tosti, E. (2015). Antifouling Compounds Endangering Marine Invertebrates Reproduction. J Environ Monit 13, 2360-2388.

Gallo, A. and Tosti, E. (2015). Ion currents involved in gamete physiology. Int J Dev Biol 59, 261-70.

Gallo, A. and Tosti, E. (2015). Reprotoxicity of the antifoulant chlorothalonil in ascidians: an ecological risk assessment. PLoS One 10, e0123074.

Gallo, A. and Tosti, E. (2015). The Ascidian Ciona Intestinalis as Model Organism for Ecotoxicological Bioassays. Journal of Marine Science. Research & Development 5, 1.

Guerriero, E., Capone, F., Accardo, M., Sorice, A., Costantini, M., Colonna, G., Castello, G. and Costantini, S. (2015). GPX4 and GPX7 over-expression in human hepatocellular carcinoma tissues. Eur J Histochem 59, 2540.

Holden-Dye, L., Fiorito, G. and Ponte, G. (2015). Invertebrate neuroscience and CephsInAction at the Mediterranean Society for Neuroscience Meeting Cagliari 2015. Invert Neurosci 15, 6.

Josef, N., Berenshtein, I., Fiorito, G., Sykes, A. V. and Shashar, N. (2015). Camouflage during movement in the European cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis). J Exp Biol 218, 3391-8.

Kumar, A., Castellano, I., Patti, F. P., Palumbo, A. and Buia, M. C. (2015). Nitric oxide in marine photosynthetic organisms. Nitric Oxide 47, 34-9.

Lettieri, A., Esposito, R., Ianora, A. and Spagnuolo, A. (2015). Ciona intestinalis as a marine model system to study some key developmental genes targeted by the diatom-derived aldehyde decadienal. Mar Drugs 13, 1451-65.

Limatola, N., Chun, J. T., Kyozuka, K. and Santella, L. (2015). Novel Ca²⁺ increases in the maturing oocytes of starfish during the germinal vesicle breakdown. Cell Calcium 58, 500-10.

Mariotti, M., Santesmasses, D., Capella-Gutierrez, S., Mateo, A., Arnan, C., Johnson, R., D'Aniello, S., Yim, S. H., Gladyshev, V. N., Serras, F., Corominas, M., Gabaldón, T., Guigó, R. (2015). Evolution of selenophosphate synthetases: emergence and relocation of function through independent duplications and recurrent subfunctionalization. Genome Res 25, 1256-67.

Migliaccio, O., Castellano, I., Cirino, P., Romano, G. and Palumbo, A. (2015). Maternal Exposure to Cadmium and Manganese Impairs Reproduction and Progeny Fitness in the Sea Urchin Paracentrotus lividus. PLoS One 10, e0131815.

Musacchia, F., Basu, S., Petrosino, G., Salvemini, M. and Sanges, R. (2015). Annocript: a flexible pipeline for the annotation of transcriptomes able to identify putative long noncoding RNAs. Bioinformatics 31, 2199-201.

Pappalardo, A., Porreca, I., Caputi, L., De Felice, E., Schulte-Merker, S., Zannini, M. and Sordino, P. (2015). Thyroid development in zebrafish lacking Taz. Mech Dev 138 Pt 3, 268-78.

Patil, S., Moeys, S., von Dassow, P., Huysman, M. J., Mapleson, D., De Veylder, L., Sanges, R., Vyverman, W., Montresor, M. and Ferrante, M. I. (2015). Identification of the meiotic toolkit in diatoms and exploration of meiosis-specific SPO11 and RAD51 homologs in the sexual species Pseudo-nitzschia multistriata and Seminavis robusta. BMC Genomics 16, 930.

Russo, M. T., Annunziata, R., Sanges, R., Ferrante, M. I. and Falciatore, A. (2015). The upstream regulatory sequence of the light harvesting complex Lhcf2 gene of the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum enhances transcription in an orientation- and distance-independent fashion. Mar Genomics 24 Pt 1, 69-79.

Santella, L. and Dale, B. (2015). Assisted yes, but where do we draw the line? Reprod Biomed Online 31, 476-8.

Santella, L., Limatola, N. and Chun, J. T. (2015). Calcium and actin in the saga of awakening oocytes. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 460, 104-13.

Stefanni, S., Castilho, R., Sala-Bozano, M., Robalo, J. I., Francisco, S. M., Santos, R. S., Marques, N., Brito, A., Almada, V. C. and Mariani, S. (2015). Establishment of a coastal fish in the Azores: recent colonisation or sudden expansion of an ancient relict population? Heredity 115, 527-37.

Vassalli, Q. A., Anishchenko, E., Caputi, L., Sordino, P., D'Aniello, S. and Locascio, A. (2015). Regulatory elements retained during chordate evolution: coming across tunicates. Genesis 53, 66-81.

Vitale, L., Patil, S., Basu, S., Sanges, R., Ferrante, M. and Montresor, M. (2015). Mating Type related genes in Pseudo-nitzschia multistriata. European Journal of Phycology 50, 117-118.

Yazaki, I., Tsurugaya, T., Santella, L., Chun, J. T., Amore, G., Kusunoki, S., Asada, A., Togo, T. and Akasaka, K. (2015). Ca²⁺ influx-linked protein kinase C activity regulates the beta-catenin localization, micromere induction signalling and the oral-aboral axis formation in early sea urchin embryos. Zygote 23, 426-46.

Zarrella, I., Ponte, G., Baldascino, E. and Fiorito, G. (2015). Learning and memory in Octopus vulgaris: a case of biological plasticity. Curr Opin Neurobiol 35, 74-9.

Zucchelli, S., Cotella, D., Takahashi, H., Carrieri, C., Cimatti, L., Fasolo, F., Jones, M. H., Sblattero, D., Sanges, R., Santoro, C., Persichetti, F., Carninci, P., Gustincich, S. (2015). SINEUPs: A new class of natural and synthetic antisense long non-coding RNAs that activate translation. RNA Biol 12, 771-9.

Books and/or Book Chapters

Anishchenko, E. and D’Aniello, S. (2015). Tunicate Neurogenesis: The Case of the SoxB2 Missing CNE. In Mathematical Models in Biology: Bringing Mathematics to Life, eds. V. Zazzu B. M. Ferraro and R. M. Guarracino, pp. 99-108. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Arnone, M. I., Byrne, M. and Martinez, P. (2015). Echinodermata. In Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates 6: Deuterostomia, (ed. A. Wanninger), pp. 1-58. Vienna 978-3-7091-1856-6: Springer Vienna.

Gallo, A. and Tosti, E. (2015). Cytoskeletal Elements and the Reproductive Success in Animals. In The Cytoskeleton in Health and Disease, (ed. H. Schatten), pp. 147-166. New York, NY 978-1-4939-2904-7: Springer New York.

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