FRANCESCO ZACCANTI - ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA’ DI BOLOGNA MARINE & FRESHWATER SCIENCE GROUP - DIPARTIMENTO DI BIOLOGIA EVOLUZIONISTICA SPERIMENTALE, via Selmi 3, 40126 Bologna, Italy

Francesco Zaccanti, Born in Bologna on 18 September 1940.
Professor of Zoology at the University of Bologna, Faculty of Mathematical, Physical, and Natural Sciences Department Chair of Biology at the University of Bologna since 1998 to 2004.
Member of the Academic Senate of the University of Bologna.
Member of the Unione Zoologica Italiana.
Member of the Gruppo Embriologico Italiano.
Founding Member of the Associazione Italiana Ittiologi delle Acque Dolci.
Founding Member of Marine & Freshwater Science Group Association.

Scientific Activities
Early sexual differentiation of germinal cells in vertebrates
Cytological sexual dimorphism in non mammal vertebrates
Distribution and management of freshwater fish life in the Region of Emilia-Romagna
Taxonomy of cyprinids and salmonids in northern Italian rivers, isoenzymatic techniques and analysis of mitochondrial DNA were used for classification
Reproductive biology and population distribution of Mediterranean Madreporaria
Geographic distribution of Mediterranean species of Hippocampus
Biodiversity in coastal marine environments.

Principal scientific publications:

Petrini S., Zaccanti F. 1998: The effects of aromatase and 5a-reductase inhibitors, antiandrogen, and sex steroids on Bidder's organ development and gonadal differentiation in Bufo bufo tadpoles."J Exp Zool, 280, pp. 245-259.

Manaresi S., Mantovani B., Zaccanti F. 1999: Molecular markers for the diagnosis of autochtonous Salmo (trutta) trutta (morpha fario) populations: preliminary data. J. Fresh. Biol. 28:7-12.

Falconi R., Rizzoli M., Anacardi F., Dal Piaz D., Zaccanti F. 1999: Comparison of fish population general lines in rivers of High and Middle Appennino Bolognese and Romagnolo Quaderni ETP J. Fresh. Biol. 28: 87-94.

Falconi R., Petrini S., Quaglia A., Zaccanti F. 2001: Fine structure of undifferentiated gonads in Rana dalmatina tadpoles. ITAL J ZOOL, 68, pp. 15-21.

Goffredo S., Piccinetti C., Zaccanti F. 2002: Mediterranean Hippocampus Mission: a report of the findings following 33 months of research. SSI Dive Business International, 2nd quarter 2002: 14-15.

Goffredo S., Arnone S., Zaccanti F. 2002: Sexual reproduction in the Mediterranean solitary coral Balanophyllia europaea (Scleractinia, Dendrophylliidae). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 229: 83-94.