Valerio Tettamanti
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Valerio Tettamanti
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PostDoc @ University of Queensland
Coastal restoration, coral reef fishes, eDNA, UW photography.
Reposted by Valerio Tettamanti
SA’s algal bloom is heading toward the giant cuttlefish breeding site in Whyalla. Experts warn the bloom could wipe out an entire generation. Urgent action is needed to protect the eggs, including exploring temporary relocation to an aquaculture facility.

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July 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Reposted by Valerio Tettamanti
A vertebrate #vision community effort to standardise the way we call image forming photoreceptors, with new marker genes to delineate the receptor types.
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PR0 = rod photoreceptor
PR1 = formerly lws receptor
PR2 …
PR3 …

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A standardized nomenclature for the rods and cones of the vertebrate retina
Vertebrate photoreceptors have been studied for well over a century, but a fixed nomenclature for referring to orthologous cell types across species has been lacking. In this Consensus View, the autho...
journals.plos.org
May 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
First paper of my PhD is finally out in Molecular Ecology!
A mix of UV photography, transcriptomics and phylogenetic reconstructions to investigate development of UV vision and patterns in damselfishes.

doi.org/10.1111/mec....
February 12, 2025 at 4:24 AM