Giuseppe Fusco
     Selected publications

BOOKS AND JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES

• Minelli A. & Fusco G. (eds) 2008. Evolving pathways. Key themes in evolutionary developmental biology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Minelli A., Bonato L. & Fusco G. (eds) 2008. Updating the Linnaean heritage: names as tools for thinking about animals and plants. Zootaxa, 1950.
• Fusco G. & Minelli A. (eds) 2010. From polyphenism to complex metazoan life cycles. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 365.
• Minelli A., Boxshall G. & Fusco G. (eds) 2013. Arthropod biology and evolution. Molecules, development, morphology. Springer, Berlin.
• Fusco G. & Minelli A. 2018. Biologia della riproduzione. Pearson Italia, Milano. [pdf]
• Fusco G. (ed) 2019. Perspectives on Evolutionary and Developmental Biology. Padova University Press, Padova. [pdf]
• Fusco G. & Minelli A. 2019. The Biology of Reproduction. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Fusco G. & Minelli A. 2023. Understanding Reproduction. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

• Minelli A. & Fusco G. 1995. Body segmentation and segment differentiation: the scope for heterochronic change. In: McNamara K. J. (ed.), Evolutionary change and heterochrony. Wiley & Sons, Chichester. Pp. 49-63.
• Maruzzo D., Bonato L., Brena C., Fusco G. & Minelli A. 2005. Appendage loss and regeneration in arthropods: a comparative view. In: Koenemann S. & Jener R. (eds), Crustacea and arthropod relationships. Crustacean Issues, 16. Boca Raton, CRC press. Pp.: 215-245. [pdf]
• Minelli A., Negrisolo E. & Fusco G. 2006. Reconstructing animal phylogeny in the light of evolutionary developmental biology. In: Hodkinson T.R., Parnell J.A.N. and Waldren S. (eds) Reconstructing the tree of life: taxonomy and systematics of species rich taxa. Systematics Association Special Series, Volume 72. Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA. Pp. 177-190. [pdf]
• Fusco G. 2011. Biologia evoluzionistica dello sviluppo. In: Ferraguti M. & Castellaci C. (a cura di), Evoluzione. Modelli e processi. Pearson Italia, Milano. Pp.: 172-203.
• Fusco G. 2011. Verso una sintesi estesa? In: Ferraguti M. & Castellaci C. (a cura di), Evoluzione. Modelli e processi. Pearson Italia, Milano. Pp.: 364-393.
• Fusco G. 2011. La scolopendra e il millepiedi: tra sviluppi della semantica e semantica dello sviluppo. In: Barbanti R., Boi L. & Neve M. (a cura di), Paesaggi della complessità. La trama delle cose e gli intrecci tra natura e cultura. Mimesis Edizioni, Milano. Pp.: 171-186. [pdf]
• Minelli A. & Fusco G. 2012. Classification. In: eLS (online Encyclopedia of Life Sciences). Wiley & Sons, Chichester.
• Minelli A., Boxshall G. & Fusco G. 2013. Introduction to diversity and ubiquity of arthropods. In: Minelli A., Boxshall G. & Fusco G. (eds), Arthropod biology and evolution. Molecules, development, morphology. Springer, Berlin. Pp.: 1-15. 
• Minelli A. & Fusco G. 2013. Arthropod post-embryonic development. In: Minelli A., Boxshall G. & Fusco G. (eds), Arthropod biology and evolution. Molecules, development, morphology. Springer, Berlin.  Pp.: 91-122. 
• Fusco G. & Minelli A. 2013. Arthropod body segments and tagmata. In: Minelli A., Boxshall G. & Fusco G. (eds), Arthropod biology and evolution. Molecules, development, morphology. Springer, Berlin. Pp.: 197-221.
• Minelli A. & Fusco G. 2013. Homology. In: Kampourakis K. (ed), The philosophy of biology: a companion for educators. Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg. Pp.: 289-322. [pdf]
• Fusco G., Carrer R. & Serrelli E. 2014. The landscape metaphor in development. In: Minelli A. & Pradeu T. (eds), Towards a theory of development. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Pp.: 114-128. [pdf]
• Fusco G. 2015. Descrizioni e definizioni in biologia: il caso del morfospazio. In: Minelli (a cura di), Descrivere e interpretare il vivente. Armando Editore, Roma. Pp.: 145-160. [pdf]
• Fusco G. 2018. Competizione e cooperazione nella teoria dell’evoluzione. In: Nazzi F. & Vianello A. (eds), L’altruismo. Competizione e cooperazione dalla biologia all’economia, dalla filosofia alle neuroscienze. Forum, Udine. [pdf]  
• Fusco G. 2019. Evo-devo beyond development: the evolution of life cycles. In: Fusco G. (ed), Perspectives on Evolutionary and Developmental Biology. Padova University Press, Padova. [pdf]
• Minelli A. & Fusco G. 2020. Classification. In: eLS (online Encyclopedia of Life Sciences). Wiley & Sons, Chichester.

• Minelli A., Fusco G. & Sartori S. 1991. Self-similarity in biological classifications. BioSystems, 26: 89-97.
• Fusco G. & Cronk Q. C. B., 1995. A new method for evaluating the shape of large phylogenies. Journal of theoretical Biology, 175: 235-243. [pdf]
• Turcato A., Fusco G. & Minelli A. 1995. The sternal pore areas of Geophilomorph Centipedes (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 115: 185-209.  [pdf]
• Minelli A., Negrisolo E. & Fusco G. 1996. Developmental trends in the post-embryonic development of Lithobiomorph Centipedes. In: Geoffroy J.-J., Muriès J.-P. & Nguyen Duy - Jacquemin M. (eds), Acta Myriapodologica. Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 169: 351-358.
• Berto D., Fusco G. & Minelli A. 1997. Segmental units and shape control in Chilopoda. Entomologica Scandinavica, Suppl. 51: 61-70. [pdf]
• Fusco G., Brena C. & Minelli A. 2000. Cellular processes in the growth of lithobiomorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha). A cuticular view. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 239: 91-102. [pdf]
• Fusco G. & Minelli A. 2000. Measuring morphological complexity of segmented animals: centipedes as model systems. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 13: 38-46.  [pdf]
• Fusco G. & Minelli A. 2000. Developmental stability in geophilomorph centipedes. In: Wytwer J. and Golovatch S. (eds), Progress in studies on myriapoda and onychophora. Fragmenta faunistica, 43 (Suppl.): 73-82. [pdf]
• Fusco G. 2001. How many processes are responsible for phenotypic evolution? Evolution & Development, 3: 279-286. [pdf]
• Minelli A., Fusco G. & Hughes N. C. 2003. Tagmata and segment specification in trilobites. In: Lane P. D., Fortey R. A. and Siveter D. J. (eds), Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on trilobites and their relatives. Special Papers in Palaeontology, 70. Pp. 31-43. [pdf]
• Fusco G. 2003. Biology and meaning: a reappraisal of semantic biology. Review of “The organic codes” by Marcello Barbieri. Evolution & Development, 5: 432-434. [pdf]
• Fusco G., Hughes N. C., Webster M. & Minelli A. 2004. Exploring developmental modes in a fossil arthropod: growth and trunk segmentation of the trilobite Aulacopleura konincki. American Naturalist,163: 167-183. [pdf] [in Science]
• Minelli A. & Fusco G. 2004. Evo-devo perspectives on segmentation: model organisms, and beyond. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 19: 423-429. [pdf]
• Minelli A. & Fusco G. 2005. Conserved vs. innovative features in animal body organization. Journal of Experimental Zoology, part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution,  304B: 520-525. [pdf]
• Fusco G. 2005.Trunk segment numbers and sequential segmentation in myriapods. Evolution & Development, 7: 608-617. [pdf]
• Minelli A., Brena C., Deflorian G., Maruzzo D. & Fusco G. 2006. From embryo to adult – beyond the conventional periodization of arthropod development. Development Genes & Evolution, 216: 373-383. [pdf]
• Minelli A. & Fusco G. 2006. Water-flea males from the netherworld. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 21: 474-476. [pdf]
• Hughes N.C., Minelli A. & Fusco G. 2006. The ontogeny of trilobite segmentation: a comparative approach. Paleobiology, 32: 602-627. [pdf]
• Maruzzo D., Minelli A., Ronco M. & Fusco G. 2007. Growth and regeneration of the second antennae of Asellus aquaticus (Isopoda) in the context of arthropod antennal segmentation. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 27: 184-196. [pdf]
• Drago L., Fusco G. & Minelli A. 2008. Non-systemic metamorphosis in male millipede appendages: long delayed, reversible effect of an early localized positional marker? Frontiers in Zoology, 5: 5. [pdf] 
• Maruzzo D., Egredzija M., Minelli A. & Fusco G. 2008. Segmental pattern formation following amputation in the flagellum of the second antennae of Asellus aquaticus (Crustacea, Isopoda). Italian Journal Zoology, 75(3): 225-231. [pdf].
• Fusco G. 2008. Morphological nomenclature, between patterns and processes: segments and segmentation as a paradigmatic case. Zootaxa, 1950: 96-102. [pdf] 
• Fusco G. 2009. Hunting for ‘factor X’: the genetic basis of segmental mismatch. Evolution & Development, 11: 6-7. [pdf]
• Maruzzo D., Minelli A. & Fusco G. 2009. Segmental mismatch in crustacean appendages: the naupliar antennal exopod of Artemia (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Anostraca). Arthropod Structure & Development, 38: 163-172. [pdf]
• Leśniewska M., Bonato L., Minelli A. & Fusco G. 2009. Trunk anomalies in the centipede Stigmatogaster subterranea provide insight into late-embryonic segmentation. Arthropod Structure & Development, 38: 417-426.  [pdf]
• Leśniewska M., Bonato L. & Fusco G. 2009. Morphological anomalies in a Polish population of Stigmatogaster subterranea (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha): a multi-year survey. Soil Organisms, 81: 347-358. [pdf]
• Fusco G. & Minelli A. 2010. Phenotypic plasticity in development and evolution: facts and concepts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 365: 547-556. [pdf]
• Minelli A. & Fusco G. 2010. Developmental plasticity and the evolution of animal complex life cycle. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 365: 631-640. [pdf] 
• Minelli A., Maruzzo D. & Fusco G. 2010. Multi-scale relationships between numbers and size in the evolution of arthropod body features. Arthropod Structure & Development, 39: 468-477. [pdf]
• Molecular Ecology Resources Primer Development Consortium, plus other 83 authors among which Congiu L., Boscari E., Bino G., Barbisan F., Leśniewska M. & Fusco G. 2011. Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 December 2010–31 January 2011. Microsatellite isolation in a population of the geophilomorph centipede Haplophilus subterraneus with high frequency of morphological anomalies. Molecular Ecology Resources, 11: 586-589. [pdf]
• Bortolin F., Benna C. & Fusco G. 2011. Gene expression during post-embryonic segmentation in the centipede Lithobius peregrinus (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha). Development Genes and Evolution, 221: 105-111. [pdf]
• Drago L., Fusco G., E. Garollo & Minelli A. 2011. Structural aspects of leg-to-gonopod metamorphosis in male helminthomorph millipedes (Diplopoda). Frontiers in Zoology, 8: 19.  [pdf]
• Bortolin F., Piulachs M.-D., Congiu L. & Fusco G. 2011. Cloning and expression pattern of the ecdysone receptor and retinoid X receptor from the centipede Lithobius peregrinus (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha). General and Comparative Endocrinology, 174: 60-69. [pdf]
• Fusco G., Garland T. Jr., Hunt G. & Hughes N.C. 2012. Developmental trait evolution in trilobites. Evolution, 66: 314-329. [pdf]
• Minelli A. & Fusco G. 2012. On the evolutionary developmental biology of speciation. Evolutionary Biology, 39: 242-254. [pdf]
• Fusco G., Hong P.S. & Hughes N.C. 2014. Positional specification in the segmental growth pattern of an early arthropod. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281: 20133037. [pdf]
• Guidarelli G., Nicolosi P., Fusco G., De Francesco M.C. & Loy A. 2014. Morphological variation and modularity in the mandible of three Mediterranean dolphin species. Italian Journal Zoology, 81: 354-367. [pdf]
• Moretto M., Minelli A. & Fusco G. 2015. Cell size versus body size in geophilomorph centipedes. The Science of Nature, 102: 16. [pdf]
• Fusco G, Leśniewska M, Congiu L & Bertorelle G. 2015. Population genetic structure of a centipede species with high levels of developmental instability. PLOS ONE, 10(6): e0126245. [pdf]
• Del Latte L., Bortolin F., Rota-Stabelli O., Fusco G. & Bonato L. 2015. Molecular-based estimate of species number, phylogenetic relationships and divergence times for the genus Stenotaenia (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha) in the Italian region. Zookeys, 510: 31-47. [pdf]
• Fusco G. 2015. For a new dialogue between theoretical and empirical studies in evo-devo. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 3: 97. [pdf]
• Rigato E. & Fusco G. 2016. Enhancing effect of phenotype mutational robustness on adaptation in Escherichia coli. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Molecular and Developmental Evolution), 326B: 31-37. [pdf]
• Pradeu T., Laplane L., Prévot K., Hoquet T., Reynaud V., Fusco G., Minelli A., Orgogozo V. & Vervoort M. 2016. Defining “development”. Current Topics in Developmental Biology, 117: 171-183. [pdf]
• Savriama Y., Vitulo M., Gerber S., Debat V. & Fusco G. 2016. Modularity and developmental stability in segmented animals: variation in translational asymmetry in geophilomorph centipedes. Development Genes and Evolution, 226: 187–196. [pdf]
• Fusco G., Hong P.S. & Hughes N.C. 2016. Axial growth gradients across the post-protaspid ontogeny of the Silurian trilobite Aulacopleura koninckii. Paleobiology, 42: 426-438. [pdf]
• Hughes N.C., Hong P.S., Hou J. & Fusco G. 2017. The development of the Silurian trilobite Aulacopleura koninckii reconstructed by applying inferred growth and segmentation dynamics: a case study in paleo-evo-devo. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 5: 37. [pdf]
• Baiocco M., Bonato L., Cardini A. & Fusco G. 2017. Shape variation of prey-catching structures in geophilomorph centipedes: a preliminary investigation using geometric morphometrics. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 268: 11-18.  [pdf]
• Savriama Y., Gerber S., Baiocco M., Debat V. & Fusco G. 2017. Development and evolution of segmentation assessed by geometric morphometrics: the centipede Strigamia maritima as a case study. Arthropod Structure & Development, 46: 419-428.  [pdf]
• Bonato L., Orlando M., Zapparoli M., Fusco G. & Bortolin F. 2017. New insights into Plutonium, one of the largest and least known European centipedes (Chilopoda): distribution, evolution and morphology. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 180: 887-909. [pdf]
• Clemente M., Fusco G., Tonina L. & Giomi F. 2018. Temperature-induced phenotypic plasticity in the ovipositor of the invasive species Drosophila suzukii. Journal of Thermal Biology, 75: 62-68. [pdf] 
• Bortolin F., Fusco G. & Bonato L. 2018. Comparative analysis of diet in syntopic geophilomorph species (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha) using a DNA-based approach. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 127: 223-229. [pdf] 
• Minelli A. & Fusco G. 2019. No limits: breaking constraints in insect miniaturization. Arthropod Structure & Development, 48: 4-11. [pdf]
• Rigato E. & Fusco G. 2020. Effects of phenotypic robustness on adaptive evolutionary dynamics. Evolutionary Biology, 47: 233-239. [pdf]
• Rigato E. & Fusco G. 2020. A heuristic model of the effects of phenotypic robustness in adaptive evolution. Theoretical Population Biology, 136: 22-30. [pdf]
• Springolo A., Rigato E. & Fusco G. 2021. Larval growth and allometry in the cabbage butterfly Pieris brassicae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Acta Zoologica, 102: 77-87. [pdf]
•  Fusco G., Rigato E. & Springolo A. 2021. Size and shape regulation during larval growth in the lepidopteran Pieris brassicae. Evolution & Development, 23: 46-60. [pdf]
• Fusco G. & Minelli A. 2021. The development of arthropod segmentation across the embryonic/post-embryonic divide – an evolutionary perspective. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9: 622482. [pdf]
•  Hughes N.C., Adrain J.M., Holmes J.D., Hong P.S., Hopkins M.J., Hou J, Minelli A, T-Y.S. Park, Paterson J.R., Peng J., Webster M., Zhang W-G., Zhang X-L. & Fusco G. 2021. Articulated trilobite ontogeny: suggestions for a methodological standard. Journal of Paleontology, 95: 298-304. [pdf]
• Sommaggio D., Fusco G., Uliana M. & Minelli A. 2021. Possible epigenetic origin of a recurrent gynandromorph pattern in Megachile wild bees. Insects, 12, 437. [pdf]
• Dai T., Hughes N.C., Zhang X-L. & Fusco G. 2021. Absolute axial growth and trunk segmentation in the early Cambrian trilobite Oryctocarella duyunensis. Paleobiology, 47: 517-532. [pdf]
• Poloni R., Iannella M., Fusco G. & Fattorini S. 2022. Conservation biogeography of high-altitude longhorn beetles under climate change. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 15: 429-444. [pdf]
• Fusco G. 2022. Serial homology. Biological Theory, 17: 114-119. [pdf]
• Peretti E., Cecchin C., Fusco G., Gregnanin L., Kos I. & Bonato L. 2022. Shedding light on species boundaries in small endogeic animals through an integrative approach: species delimitation in the centipede Clinopodes carinthiacus (Chilopoda: Geophilidae) in the south-eastern Alps. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 196: 902-923. [pdf]
• Baraldi S., Rigato E. & Fusco G. 2023. Growth regulation in the larvae of the lepidopteran Pieris brassicae: A field study. Insects, 14: 167. [pdf]
• Fusco G. & Minelli A. 2023. Descriptive versus causal morphology: gynandromorphism and intersexuality. Theory in Biosciences, 142: 1-11. [pdf]
• Dissegna A., Rota M., Basile S., Fusco G., Mencucci M., Cappai N., Galaverni M., Fabbri E., Velli E. & Caniglia R. 2023. How to Choose? Comparing different methods to count wolf packs in a protected area of the Northern Apennines. Genes,14: 932. [pdf]