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Academic researcher with expertise in ecology, evolution and multivariate statistics

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Currently working as a researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) - previously Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth - in areas of ecology and evolution. Among my areas of expertise, morphometrics and statistical analysis (particularly multivariate methods), as well as the integration of morphometric, genomic and transcriptomic data. More info on my research on my research website fruciano.org

Subject Matter Expertise

• Expertise details not provided.

Services

• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Research Feasibility Study

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis

Work Experience

Lecturer

University of Portsmouth

January 2020 - Present

Honorary Fellow

Università degli Studi di Catania

October 2010 - Present

Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure

February 2018 - January 2020

Postdoctoral fellow

Queensland University of Technology

September 2015 - November 2017

Postdoc

Università degli Studi di Catania

July 2010 - August 2010

Tutor

Università degli Studi di Catania

September 2009 - October 2009

Research Assistant

Stony Brook University

September 2007 - October 2007

Education

PhD

Università degli Studi di Catania

- April 2010

BSc/MSc

Università degli Studi di Catania

- June 2006

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

(2019). Tissue preservation can affect geometric morphometric analyses: a case study using fish body shape . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

(2019). MicroRNA Gene Regulation in Extremely Young and Parallel Adaptive Radiations of Crater Lake Cichlid Fish . Molecular Biology and Evolution.

(2019). A molecular and morphometric assessment of the systematics of the Macropus complex clarifies the tempo and mode of kangaroo evolution . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

(2019). A molecular and morphometric assessment of the systematics of the Macropus complex clarifies the tempo and mode of kangaroo evolution . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

(2019). Divergent Allometric Trajectories in Gene Expression and Coexpression Produce Species Differences in Sympatrically Speciating Midas Cichlid Fish . Genome Biology and Evolution.

Carmelo Fruciano, Dominik Schmidt, Marcia Maria Ramírez Sanchez, Witold Morek, Zamira Avila Valle, Igor Talijančić, Carlo Pecoraro, Agnès Schermann Legionnet(2019). Tissue preservation can affect geometric morphometric analyses: a case study using fish body shape . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Oxford University Press ({OUP})

Marcy, A.E., Fruciano, C., Phillips, M.J., Mardon, K., Weisbecker, V.(2018). Low resolution scans can provide a sufficiently accurate, cost- and timeeffective alternative to high resolution scans for 3D shape analyses . PeerJ. 2018. (6).

Jones, J.C., Fruciano, C., Hildebrand, F., Al Toufalilia, H., Balfour, N.J., Bork, P., Engel, P., Ratnieks, F.L.W., Hughes, W.O.H.(2018). Gut microbiota composition is associated with environmental landscape in honey bees . Ecology and Evolution. 8. (1). p. 441-451.

Raffini, F., Fruciano, C., Meyer, A.(2018). Morphological and genetic correlates in the left-right asymmetric scale-eating cichlid fish of Lake Tanganyika . Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 124. (1). p. 67-84.

Chiozzi, G., Stiassny, M.L.J., De Marchi, G., Lamboj, A., Fasola, M., Fruciano, C.(2018). A diversified kettle of fish: Phenotypic variation in the endemic cichlid genus Danakilia of the Danakil Depression of northeastern Africa . Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 124. (4). p. 690-705.

Raffini, F., Fruciano, C., Meyer, A.(2018). Gene(s) and individual feeding behavior: Exploring eco-evolutionary dynamics underlying left-right asymmetry in the scale-eating cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis . Ecology and Evolution. 8. (11). p. 5495-5507.

Phillips, M.J., Fruciano, C.(2018). The soft explosive model of placental mammal evolution . BMC Evolutionary Biology. 18. (1).

Jones, J.C., Fruciano, C., Marchant, J., Hildebrand, F., Forslund, S., Bork, P., Engel, P., Hughes, W.O.H.(2018). The gut microbiome is associated with behavioural task in honey bees . Insectes Sociaux. 65. (3). p. 419-429.

Carmelo Fruciano, Mélina A. Celik, Kaylene Butler, Tom Dooley, Vera Weisbecker, Matthew J. Phillips(2017). Sharing is caring? Measurement error and the issues arising from combining 3D morphometric datasets . Ecology and Evolution. 7. (17). p. 7034--7046. Wiley-Blackwell

Carmelo Fruciano, Julia C Jones, Falk Hildebrand, Hasan Al Toufalilia, Nicholas J Balfour, Peer Bork, Philipp Engel, Francis LW Ratnieks, William OH Hughes(2017). Gut microbiota composition is associated with environmental landscape in honey bees . Ecology and Evolution. 8. (1). p. 441--451. Wiley

Pappalardo, A.M., Francisco, S.M., Fruciano, C., S Lima, C., Pulvirenti, V., Tigano, C., Robalo, J.I., Ferrito, V.(2017). Mitochondrial and nuclear intraspecific variation in the rusty blenny (Parablennius sanguinolentus, Blenniidae) . Hydrobiologia. 802. (1). p. 141-154.

Raffini, F., Fruciano, C., Franchini, P., Meyer, A.(2017). Towards understanding the genetic basis of mouth asymmetry in the scale-eating cichlid Perissodus microlepis . Molecular Ecology. 26. (1). p. 77-91.

Ferrante, M., Pappalardo, A.M., Ferrito, V., Pulvirenti, V., Fruciano, C., Grasso, A., Sciacca, S., Tigano, C., Copat, C.(2017). Bioaccumulation of metals and biomarkers of environmental stress in Parablennius sanguinolentus (Pallas, 1814) sampled along the Italian coast . Marine Pollution Bulletin. 122. (1-2). p. 288-296.

Fruciano, C., Celik, M.A., Butler, K., Dooley, T., Weisbecker, V., Phillips, M.J.(2017). Sharing is caring? Measurement error and the issues arising from combining 3D morphometric datasets . Ecology and Evolution. 7. (17). p. 7034-7046.

Jones, J.C., Fruciano, C., Keller, A., Schartl, M., Meyer, A.(2016). Evolution of the elaborate male intromittent organ of Xiphophorus fishes . Ecology and Evolution. 6. (20). p. 7207-7220.

Fruciano, C., Franchini, P., Raffini, F., Fan, S., Meyer, A.(2016). Are sympatrically speciating Midas cichlid fish special? Patterns of morphological and genetic variation in the closely related species Archocentrus centrarchus . Ecology and Evolution. 6. (12). p. 4102-4114.

Franchini, P., Xiong, P., Fruciano, C., Meyer, A.(2016). The role of microRNAs in the repeated parallel diversification of lineages of midas cichlid fish from Nicaragua . Genome Biology and Evolution. 8. (5). p. 1543-1555.

Fruciano, C., Franchini, P., Kovacova, V., Elmer, K.R., Henning, F., Meyer, A.(2016). Genetic linkage of distinct adaptive traits in sympatrically speciating crater lake cichlid fish . Nature Communications. 7.

Fruciano, C.(2016). Measurement error in geometric morphometrics . Development Genes and Evolution. 226. (3). p. 139-158.

Franchini, P., Colangelo, P., Meyer, A., Fruciano, C.(2016). Chromosomal rearrangements, phenotypic variation and modularity: A case study from a contact zone between house mouse Robertsonian races in Central Italy . Ecology and Evolution. 6. (5). p. 1353-1362.

Schmieder, D.A., Benítez, H.A., Borissov, I.M., Fruciano, C.(2015). Bat species comparisons based on external morphology: A test of traditional versus geometric morphometric approaches . PLoS ONE. 10. (5).

Fruciano, C., Pappalardo, A.M., Tigano, C., Ferrito, V.(2014). Phylogeographical relationships of Sicilian brown trout and the effects of genetic introgression on morphospace occupation . Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 112. (3). p. 387-398.

Franchini, P., Fruciano, C., Spreitzer, M.L., Jones, J.C., Elmer, K.R., Henning, F., Meyer, A.(2014). Genomic architecture of ecologically divergent body shape in a pair of sympatric crater lake cichlid fishes . Molecular Ecology. 23. (7). p. 1828-1845.

Franchini, P., Fruciano, C., Frickey, T., Jones, J.C., Meyer, A.(2014). The gut microbial community of Midas cichlid fish in repeatedly evolved limnetic-benthic species Pairs . PLoS ONE. 9. (4).

Gunter, H.M., Fan, S., Xiong, F., Franchini, P., Fruciano, C., Meyer, A.(2013). Shaping development through mechanical strain: The transcriptional basis of diet-induced phenotypic plasticity in a cichlid fish . Molecular Ecology. 22. (17). p. 4516-4531.

Fruciano, C., Franchini, P., Meyer, A.(2013). Resampling-Based Approaches to Study Variation in Morphological Modularity . PLoS ONE. 8. (7).

Fruciano, C., Tigano, C., Ferrito, V.(2012). Body shape variation and colour change during growth in a protogynous fish . Environmental Biology of Fishes. 94. (4). p. 615-622.

Fruciano, C., Tigano, C., Ferrito, V.(2011). Geographical and morphological variation within and between colour phases in Coris julis (L. 1758), a protogynous marine fish . Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 104. (1). p. 148-162.

Fruciano, C., Hanel, R., Debes, P.V., Tigano, C., Ferrito, V.(2011). Atlantic-Mediterranean and within-Mediterranean molecular variation in Coris julis (L. 1758) (Teleostei, Labridae) . Marine Biology. 158. (6). p. 1271-1286.

Fruciano, C., Tigano, C., Ferrito, V.(2011). Traditional and geometric morphometrics detect morphological variation of lower pharyngeal jaw in Coris julis (Teleostei, Labridae) . Italian Journal of Zoology. 78. (3). p. 320-327.

Ferrito, V., Pappalardo, A.M., Fruciano, C., Tigano, C.(2009). Morphology of scale lepidonts in the genus Aphanius (Teleostei, Cyprinodontidae) using SEM . Italian Journal of Zoology. 76. (2). p. 173-178.

OTHER

Carmelo Fruciano, Matthew J Phillips(2018). The soft explosive model of placental mammal evolution . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory