Zecca Giovanni, PhD
Assistant Professor
room 4013, TELLUS-U4 building, tel. +39 02 6448 3328
lab 4047, TELLUS-U4 building
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Keywords
Phylogenetics, Phylogeography, Population genomics, Adaptive evolution, Genotype-environment association, Biodiversity conservation, Molecular ecology
The activity is focused on the following research lines
Research interest
My research activity mainly focuses on the study of the evolutionary processes that have shaped the current diversity of plants and on the interactions between plants and the environment.
In particular, in order to enhance plant resources and identify appropriate conservation strategies, my research interests are aimed at deepening:
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Phylogenetic, phylogeographic and phylogenomics methods to reconstruct the evolution, adaptations and diffusion of plant taxa.
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Population genomics methods to study the variation of plant genomes among individuals across space and time, including the forces behind this variation.
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Methods for quantitative ecology.
Selected publications
-Zecca G., Panzeri D., Grassi F. 2022. Detecting signals of adaptive evolution in grape plastomes with a focus on the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K/Pg) transition. Annals of Botany, 130, (7), 965–980, https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcac128
-Zecca G., Labra M., Grassi F. 2020. Untangling the Evolution of American Wild Grapes: Admixed Species and How to Find Them. Frontiers in Plant Science 10:1814. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01814
-Zecca, G.*, Grassi, F., Tabidze, V. Pipia I., Kotorashvili, A., Kotaria N., Beridze T. 2020. Dates and rates in grape’s plastomes: evolution in slow motion. Current Genetics 66, 123–140. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00294-019-01004-7
-Zecca G., Tommasi N., Grassi F. 2020. Multiple evolutionary lineages detected in giant reed (Arundo donax L.): Applied and evolutionary perspectives. Annals of Applied Biology 176 (3) 285-295. https://doi.org/10.1111/aab.12573
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