LUOGO E DATA DI NASCITA: Treviso 20.12.48
RUOLO: Professore Ordinario

AFFILIAZIONE:

Dipartimento di Biologia dell'Università
Indirizzo: Via U. Bassi 58 B - 35131 Padova
Telefono: 049.8276303
Fax: 049.8276300
E-mail: almin@civ.bio.unipd.it

DESCRIZIONE DELLE COMPETENZE:

a) ORGANISMI: Artropodi
b) MARCATORI GENETICI:
c) TECNICHE MOLECOLARI:
d) ANALISI DI DATI: Ricostruzioni filogenetiche
e) ASPETTI TEORICI: Problematica del metodo comparativo (omologia etc.); concetti di specie
 

· - principles and methods of biological systematics, with emphasis on homology concepts, species and speciation, and fractal analysis of biological diversity.

· - relationships between developmental biology and evolutionary biology, with emphasis on problems of segmentation in arthropods

· - systematics, ecology and phylogeny of centipedes (Chilopoda), with emphasis on European and Neotropical fauna

· - history of biological systematics (ideas and institutions)

 
PUBBLICAZIONI RECENTI (max 6 lavori)

MINELLI A.  Biological Systematics. The State of the Art. London: Chapman & Hall, XVI+387 pp. (1993)

MINELLI A. & SCHRAM F.R. Owen revisited: a reappraisal of morphology in evolutionary biology. Bijdragen tot de dierkunde 64:65-74 (1994).

MINELLI A. Molecules, developmental modules and phenotypes: a combinatorial approach to homology. Mol. Phyl. Evol., in stampa.

MINELLI A. Segments, tagmata and appendages: how many ways to patterning? J. Morphol., 232, 1997, p. 296.

MINELLI A., D. FODDAI The species in terrestrial non-insect inverterbrates (earthworms, arachnids, myriapods, woodlice and snails), In: The Units of Biodiversity, CLARIDGE M.F., H.A. DAWAH, M.R. WILSON (eds), Chapman & Hall Pub., 1997, pp. 309-324.

MINELLI A: Segments, body regions and the control of development through time. Memories of the California Academy of Sciences, 20:55-61 (New perspectives on the history of life - M.T. Ghiselin & G. Pinna eds.) (1996)