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Teaching
Teaching activity
Teaching responsibility for modules/courses
- Zoologia generale (modulo dell'insegnamento zoologia generale e sistematica cod. 376ee) per Laurea in Scienze naturali ed ambientali
Incarichi di co-docenza in moduli/insegnamenti
- Sistematica e Filogenesi Molecolare (Cod. 537EE) per Laurea Magistrale in Conservazione ed evoluzione
- Zoologia Sistematica (Modulo dell'insegnamento Zoologia Generale e Sistematica Cod. 376EE) per Laurea in Scienze naturali ed ambientali
Research
Publications
- Comparative study and morphological plasticity of an Italian and a Chinese population of the protist ciliate Pseudokeronopsis erythrina [Hypotrichia, Kentrurostylida] with a mitochondrial genome analysis (Xu, Wenxin; Gammuto, Leandro; Serra, Valentina; Luo, Xiaotian; Erra, Fabrizio; Huang, Jie; Cerritelli, Giulia; Petroni, Giulio; Modeo, Letizia - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Molecular phylogenetic position and description of a new genus and species of freshwater Chaetonotidae [Gastrotricha: Chaetonotida: Paucitubulatina], and the annotation of its mitochondrial genome (Gammuto, L.; Serra, V.; Petroni, G.; Todaro, M. A. - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Host association and intracellularity evolved multiple times independently in the Rickettsiales (Castelli, Michele; Nardi, Tiago; Gammuto, Leandro; Bellinzona, Greta; Sabaneyeva, Elena; Potekhin, Alexey; Serra, Valentina; Petroni, Giulio; Sassera, Davide - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Morphology and phylogeny of four trachelocercid ciliates [Ciliophora, Karyorelictea, Trachelocercidae] from North China Sea, with description of a new species (Ye, Tingting; Song, Wen; Li, Yuqing; Al-Rasheid, Khaled A. S.; Serra, Valentina; Ma, Mingzhen - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Holospora-like bacteria "Candidatus Gortzia yakutica" and Preeria caryophila: Ultrastructure, promiscuity, and biogeography of the symbionts (Fokin, Sergei I; Lebedeva, Natalia A; Potekhin, Alexey; Gammuto, Leandro; Petroni, Giulio; Serra, Valentina - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Multidisciplinary characterization of the new species Copemetopus mystakophoros and its symbionts with a proposal for the new class Copemetopea [Alveolata: Ciliophora] (Fokin, Sergei I; Serra, Valentina; Gammuto, Leandro; Allievi, Alessandro; Petroni, Giulio; Modeo, Letizia - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Evaluation of Nutraceutical Properties of Eleven Microalgal Strains Isolated from Different Freshwater Aquatic Environments: Perspectives for Their Application as Nutraceuticals (Chiellini, Carolina; Serra, Valentina; Gammuto, Leandro; Ciurli, Adriana; Longo, Vincenzo; Gabriele, Morena - 2022 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Identification of the bacteria associated to the phycosphere of the Chlorella-like strain SEC_LI_ChL_1 (Serra, V; Gammuto, L; Petroni, G; Ciurli, A; Chiellini, C - 2022 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Characterization of a Pseudokeronopsis Strain [Ciliophora, Urostylida] and Its Bacterial Endosymbiont “Candidatus Trichorickettsia” [Alphaproteobacteria, Rickettsiales] (Castelli, Michele; Serra, Valentina; Gammuto, Leandro; Senra, Marcus V. X.; Modeo, Letizia; Petroni, Giulio - 2022 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Bacterial symbiosis in ciliates [Alveolata, Ciliophora]: Roads traveled and those still to be taken (Fokin, S. I.; Serra, V. - 2022 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)