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78Th Congress of the 118Th Congress of the Unione Zoologica Italiana Société Zoologique De France 78th Congress of the 118th Congress of the Unione Zoologica Italiana Société Zoologique de France Second Joint Meeting of Société Zoologique de France and Unione Zoologica Italiana Torino, 18-23 September 2017 The evolution of animal diversity: a comparative approach Abstract Book Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology - University of Torino 1 Abstract Book Edited by Daniela Donna Marco Moietta Claudia Palestrini Paolo Peretto Angela Roggero 2 DIRETTIVO Unione Zoologica Italiana Elvira De Matthaeis (Presidente) Roberto Valvassori (Vice Presidente) Roberto Bertolani (Segretario Tesoriere) Loriano Ballarin Cristina Giacoma Stefano Piraino Sandro Tripepi Alberto Ugolini Marzio Zapparoli COMMISSIONE DIDATTICA Stefano Piraino (Presidente) Andrea Di Giulio Pietro Paolo Fanciulli Lucia Manni Maria Agnese Sabatini Antonio Terlizzi Paola Zarattini COMMISSIONE FAUNA Marzio Zapparoli (Presidente) Carlo Cerrano Diana Maria Paola Galassi Adriana Giangrande Anna Loy Antonio Mingozzi Fabio Stoch C OMITATO REDAZIONALE Ettore Olmo Direttore delle pubblicazioni Vincenzo Caputo Barucchi Associate Editor Stefano Fenoglio Associate Editor Diego Fontaneto Associate Editor Maria Maisano Associate Editor 3 Bureau Société Zoologique de France Philippe Lherminier (Président) René Lafont et Jamila Ben Souissi (Vice-présidents) Mark Judson et Olivier Brosseau (Secrétaires adjoints) Françoise Bigey (Trésorière) Jean-Loup d’Hondt (Archiviste) René Lafont (Directeur de publication) 4 PRESIDENZA DEL COMITATO SCIENTIFICO Elvira De Matthaeis Jean-Loup d'Hondt MEMBRI DEL COMITATO SCIENTIFICO Loriano Ballarin Emilio Balletto Raja Ben Ahmed Sandro Bertolino Roberto Bertolani Simona Bonelli Giuseppe Corriero Olivier Friard Marco Gamba Mehrez Gammoudi Silvestro Greco Sadjia Hammouche René Lafont Levy Frédéric Bianca Lombardo Enrico Pasini Pietro Passerin d’Entrèves Claudia Palestrini Paolo Peretto Isabelle Perroteau Mario Pestarino Andrea Pilastro Stefano Piraino Sandro Tripepi Alberto Ugolini Roberto Valvassori Marzio Zapparoli 5 PRESIDENZA DEL COMITATO ORGANIZZATORE Cristina Giacoma Philippe Lherminier MEMBRI DEL COMITATO ORGANIZZATORE Franco Andreone Francesca Barbero Enrico Barbero Rosa Boano Simona Bonelli Patrizia Bovolin Luca Casacci Sergio Castellano Piero Cervella Claudio Dati Beatrice Demarchi Silvia De Marchis Olivier Friard Marco Gamba Elena Gavetti Elena Giacobino Massimo Meregalli Margherita Micheletti Cremasco Anna Perazzone Paolo Peretto Daniela Pessani Valeria Torti SEGRETERIA ORGANIZZATIVA Erika Cottone Chiara De Gregorio Daniela Donna Claudio Gendusa Fabrizio Grosso Marco Moietta Alessandro Portigliatti Angela Roggero Daria Valente 6 Cari amici e colleghi, sono più di 78 anni che ci si ritrova per condividere non solo conoscenza ma anche quelle esperienze straordinarie che si possono comunicare solo a voce, magari in un intervallo dei lavori. Questi incontri ci hanno portati ad avere una conoscenza della zoologia che va oltre le nozioni e che possiamo trasmettere ai nostri studenti. Anche quest’anno i simposi affronteranno argomenti fondamentali della biologia animale con l’obiettivo di fornire un quadro aggiornato basato su un approccio il più interdisciplinare possibile. Parleremo di: 1) Plasticità neurale, dati comparativi ed output comportamentali con il contributo dei relatori ad invito Peter Narins dell’Università della California e Frédéric Levy dell’Università di Tours. 2) Conservazione della biodiversità, estinzione e sviluppo sostenibile con i contributi di Francesco Santini e Nando Boero. 3) Specie introdotte, parassiti infestanti e malattie emergenti con il contributo di Piero Genovesi coordinatore IUCN. 4) Biologia della riproduzione e strategie riproduttive con i contributi di Gil Rosenthal della università Texas A&M e Xavier Turon dello CEAB-CSIC spagnolo. 5) Un momento di riflessione su ruolo e conseguenze dell’utilizzazione alimentare della fauna selvatica verrà sviluppato insieme ai colleghi della Università di Scienze Gastronomiche nella splendida sede di Pollenzo. L’importanza del nostro approccio comparato allo studio dell’evoluzione verrà discusso da Telmo Pievani che ci parlerà del ruolo evolutivo della cooptazione funzionale. L’avere una cultura biologica e far progredire la consapevolezza scientifica sui meccanismi evolutisi nel tempo a livello molecolare, cellulare, organismico, di popolazione e di specie non sembra però essere sufficiente per consentire di superare le sfide che il mondo universitario e quello culturale in genere, è chiamato ad affrontare oggigiorno. Non basta collaborare con i colleghi, ma occorre fare rete. E’ con questo obiettivo che i colleghi della Société Zoologique de France hanno proposto di trasformare la loro 118° riunione annuale nel secondo convegno congiunto tra UZI e SZF, in continuità ideale con il Congresso italo-francese organizzato nel 1984 a Padova. Il congresso si aprirà con un richiamo alla storia delle nostre interazioni a partire dal Risorgimento ricostruita da Pietro Passerin d’Entrèves e da Claudia Palestrini, completata poi da Jean- Loup d’Hondt. Uno sguardo a come affrontare il futuro verrà presentato durante la tavola rotonda dedicata agli strumenti a supporto della cooperazione in ricerca, alla valorizzazione delle collezioni museali, alla innovazione in didattica e ad innovazioni metodologiche durante il workshop dedicato al programma di gestione dati comportamentali BORIS. Questo volume riunisce i contributi di oltre 500 autori che lavorano in oltre 10 nazioni e che hanno avuto in questo secondo convegno congiunto un’occasione di confronto Il comitato organizzatore 7 Pre-Congress Workshop Coordinators: Marco Gamba – Olivier Friard ([email protected] - [email protected]) Behavioral analysis with BORIS The workshop aims at training academics and students as users of the acclaimed event-logging software called BORIS. The BORIS program is a free, open-source and multiplatform standalone program that allows a user-specific coding environment to be set for a computer-based review of previously recorded videos or live observations. Being open to user-specific settings, the program allows a project-based ethogram to be defined that can then be shared with collaborators or can be imported or modified. BORIS answers the need to provide researchers with a flexible tool to expand and enhance behavioral investigations. In recent years, quantitative aspects of the study of animal and human behavior are increasingly relevant to test hypotheses and find empirical support for them. Researchers frequently face the need to code considerable quantities of video recordings, often constrained by species-specific options or settings. Projects created in BORIS can include a list of observations, and each observation may include one or two videos (e.g. simultaneous screening of visual stimuli and the subject being tested; recordings from different sides of an aquarium). Once the user has set an ethogram, including state or point events or both, coding can be performed using previously assigned keys on the computer keyboard. BORIS allows the definition of an unlimited number of events (states/point events) and subjects. Once the coding process is completed, the program can extract a time-budget or single or grouped observations automatically and present an at-a-glance summary of the main behavioral features. The observation data and time-budget analysis can be exported in many standard formats. The workshop will start with a short introduction to methods and techniques used in behavioral research. Analisi comportamentale con gli sviluppatori di BORIS Il workshop si propone di formare ricercatori e studenti all'utilizzo del software di video-coding BORIS. BORIS è un programma free, open-source, multipiattaforma realizzato dal DBIOS che consente la creazione di un ambiente specifico per la codifica computerizzata di file media registrati in precedenza o la realizzazione di osservazioni in tempo reale. Workshop d'analyse comportementale avec les développeurs de BORIS Le workshop propose de former chercheurs et étudiants à l'utilisation du programme d'encodage vidéo BORIS. BORIS est un programme gratuit, open-source et multi-plateforme réalisé par le DBIOS qui permet la création d'un environnement personnalisé pour l'encodage assisté par ordinateur de fichiers média ou la réalisation d'observations en temps réel. 8 Opening PIETRO PASSERIN D’ENTRÈVES, CLAUDIA PALESTRINI ([email protected], [email protected]) I LEGAMI STORICO-SCIENTIFICI TRA ZOOLOGI FRANCESI E PIEMONTESI Riassunto Pur vicini territorialmente e favoriti dall’uso frequente della lingua francese gli zoologi del Regno di Sardegna non hanno avuto, salvi rari casi, stretti rapporti di collaborazione con i colleghi francesi fino agli inizi dell’Ottocento. I legami diventano invece assai più frequenti dopo la Rivoluzione con l’occupazione francese del Piemonte e la sua conseguente trasformazione in provincia metropolitana. Ciò è avvenuto anche, ma con formule di governo diverse, per altri stati italiani, prima indipendenti, aprendo un canale privilegiato con i centri di ricerca e i ricercatori d’oltralpe. I primi decenni dell’Ottocento sono caratterizzati dalla presenza, a Parigi, nel Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, di zoologi di fama mondiale, mentre nella capitale del nuovo Impero affluiscono materiali biologici frutto delle spedizioni francesi in tutto il mondo. L’Università di Torino dipende strettamente da quella di Parigi e George Cuvier (1769-1832), che visiterà Torino nel 1810, ne è Ispettore generale
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