Roberto Arrigoni

Position: Researcher

SZN Dept: Biology and Evolution of Marine Organisms

Email: roberto.arrigoni(at)szn.it

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Personal keywords: #Scleractinia, #Phylogenetics, #Biodiversity, #Systematics, #Biogeography

Scientific interests in a nutshell:

I am interested in the study of biodiversity of stony corals living in shallow-water environments of tropical and subtropical seas of the Indo-Pacific, where they represent the major reef-building organisms of coral reefs. I also study corals living in deep habitats and temperate environments such as the Mediterranean Sea. My research is about different aspects of the biology and ecology of these marine invertebrates, including systematics, taxonomy, phylogenetics, species delimitation, biogeography, evolution, and symbioses with animals and micro-organisms. With the aim to investigate these topics, I use an integrated approach, combining data from genetics, morphology, and ecology within a phylogenetic framework. The morphological analyses include light and electron microscopy, while the genetic analyses include the use of both traditional barcoding genes and genomic data obtained with Next Generation Sequencing approaches such as RADseq and metabarcoding.

Selected publications:

Arrigoni R, Berumen ML, Stolarski J, Terraneo TI, Benzoni F. (2018). Uncovering hidden coral diversity: a new cryptic lobophylliid scleractinian coral genus from the Indian Ocean. Cladistics, 35:301-328
Benzoni F, Arrigoni R, Berumen ML, Taviani M, Bongaerts P, Frade PR (2018). Morphological and genetic divergence between Mediterranean and Caribbean populations of Madracis pharensis (Heller 1868) (Scleractinia, Pocilloporidae): too much for one species? Zootaxa, 4471:473-492
Arrigoni R, Benzoni F, Terraneo TI, Caragnano A, Berumen ML (2016). Recent origin and semi-permeable species boundaries in the scleractinian coral genus Stylophora from the Red Sea. Scientific Reports, 6:34612
Arrigoni R, Kitano YF, Stolarski J, Hoeksema BW, Fukami H, Stefani F, Galli P, Montano S, Castoldi E, Benzoni F (2014). A phylogeny reconstruction of the Dendrophylliidae (Cnidaria, Scleractinia) based on molecular and micromorphological criteria and its ecological implications. Zoologica Scripta, 43:661-688
Arrigoni R, Stefani F, Pichon M, Galli P, Benzoni F (2012). Molecular phylogeny of the Robust clade (Faviidae, Mussidae, Merulinidae, and Pectiniidae): An Indian Ocean perspective. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 65:183-193