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Informazioni Personali

Leonardo Dapporto, Professore Associato in Zoologia

ORCID 0000-0001-7129-4526

Email: leonardo.dapporto@unifi.it, secondary email: leondap@gmail.com

• Titoli di studio

Gen 2010 – Mar 2013    Studi e conseguimento del secondo dottorato di ricerca in Biotecnologie Microbiche Agrarie Presso l'Università di Firenze con una tesi dal titolo "Relationships between microorganisms and insects. A multidisciplinary approach". Tutor Prof. Paolo Capretti.

Mar 2000 - Lug 2003      Studi e conseguimento del primo dottorato di ricerca in "Etologia ed Ecologia Animale" presso l'Università di Firenze con una tesi dal titolo "New findings in chemical communication of social wasps”. Tutor, Prof. Stefano Turillazzi

Ott 1998                       Laurea in Scienze Naturali presso l'Università di Firenze. Voto finale 110/110. Titolo della tesi "I Lepidotteri del Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi", relatore Prof. Stefano Turillazzi.

• Attività lavorativa

 Giu 2024 – presente     Professore Associato in Zoologia presso il Dipartimento di Biologia dell’Università di Fiurenze

Giu 2021 – mag 2024      Ricercatore a tempo determinato (RTDB) in Zoologia presso il Dipartimento di Biologia dell’Università di Fiurenze

Gen 2017 – mag 2021      Ricercatore a tempo determinato (RTDA) in Zoologia presso il Dipartimento di Biologia dell’Università di Fiurenze

Set 2015 – Dec 2016      Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow presso l'Institut de Biologia Evolutiva di Barcellona (Spagna). EU project 658844 "EcoPhyloGeo".

Set 2014 - Ago 2015       Lecturer in "Environmental Biology" presso la Oxford Brookes University (Oxford, Regno Unito).

Set 2013 - Ago 2014       Ricercatore come "early career researcher" presso la Oxford Brookes University.

Apr 2008 – Dic 2010     Collaborazione Coordinata e Continuativa presso il Centro di Spettrometrie di Massa dell'Università di Firenze dal titolo "Etologia chimica di Leptoglossus occidentalis".

Mag 2006 – Dic 2010     Docente di Matematica e Scienze (A59) presso l’Istituto Comprensivo Convenevole da Prato, Prato.

Ott 2004 - Apr 2006      Serie di incarichi presso il Centro Interdipartimentale Museo di Storia Naturale e del Territorio dell'Università di Pisa per lo studio dei Lepidotteri della Tenuta di S. Rossore e dell'Arcipelago Toscano, lo studio degli idrocarburi cuticolari di Imenotteri solitari e per la realizzazione di un progetto sulla sociobiologia del lupo.

Set 2002 - Ago 2004       Titolare dell'assegno di ricerca "Studio della biodiversità comparata della Toscana, Corsica e Sardegna" presso il Centro Interdipartimentale Museo di Storia Naturale e del Territorio dell'Università di Pisa.

• Attività didattica

Settembre 2023-presente Docente in Zoologia II della laurea triennale in Scienze Naturali dell’Università di Firenze

Settembre 2019-presente Docente in Biodiversità animale della laurea specialistica in Biologia Ambientale e del Comportamento dell’Università di Firenze

Settembre 2017-presente Docente in Conservazione delle Risorse Faunistiche della laurea specialistica in Scienza della Natura e dell’Uomo dell’Università di Firenze

Gennaio 2016-2018 Docente nei seguenti corsi della laurea specialistica in Biologia dell’Università di Firenze

                        i) Ecofisiologia e Cambiamenti climatici

                        ii) Biodiversità Animale

Settembre 2013 - Novembre 2015 Docente in svariati moduli undergraduate e post-graduate presso la Oxford Brookes University:

Moduli undergraduate

         i) Advanced Topics in Wildlife Conservation (Titolare del corso 2014-2015)

         ii) Environmental Change: Field-Work and Research

         iii) Skills for life sciences

         iv) Threatened species

         v) Animal Behaviour

Moduli post-graduate

         i) Ecology for conservation

         ii) Biodiversity and ecosystem services

         iii) Molecular Ecology and Population Genetics

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• Abilitazioni Scientifiche Nazionali

Settore Concorsuale 05/B1 – Zoologia. II fascia. Bando 2012

Settore Concorsuale 05/C1-Ecologia. II fascia. Bando 2012

Settore Concorsuale 05/B1 – Zoologia. I fascia. Bando 2018

• Attività editoriale

Ha partecipato al comitato editoriale delle seguenti riviste:

-          Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Researches

-          Psyche

-          Entomologia

-          Journal of Insect Biogeography

• Pubblicazioni in riviste internazionali:

155 lavori su riviste indicizzate SCOPUS

Citazioni totali 3631. H-index: 36 (Scopus, August 10^th 2024).

La lista delle pubblicazione si può trovare qui

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6602369376

PERSONALINFORMATION

Leonardo Dapporto, born in Florence (Italy), Date of birth: 07 August 1971. Gender: male. Citizen: Italian.

ORCID 0000-0001-7129-4526

Resident in Prato (Italy),  via del Purgatorio 173 CAP 59100

Email: leonardo.dapporto@unifi.it, secondary email: leondap@gmail.com

• EDUCATION

01/01/2010- 11/03/2013 Second PhD in Microbial Agricultural Biotechnologies, Vegetal PathologyDept. University of Florence, Italy.

01/03/2000 - 06/07/2003 PhD study in Ethology and Ecology at the Biology Dept., University of Florence, Italy.

05/05/1993 - 27/10/1998 "Laurea" in Natural Sciences (equivalent to a MSc) in Florence University, Italy.

• CURRENTPOSITION

01/01/2017 - Present Researcher (RTD) in Florence University at the Department of Biology.

• WORKING EXPERIENCE

01/09/2015 - 31/12/2016 Marie Curie fellow in the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF Barcelona) in the Butterfly Diversity and Evolution.

01/09/2014-31/08/2014  Lecturer in Ecology at at the Centre for Ecology, Environment and Conservation of the Oxford Brookes University, UK.

01/09/2013 – 31/08/2014 Early Career Research Fellow in Ecology at the Centre for Ecology, Environment and Conservation of the Oxford Brookes University, UK.

01/09/2006 – 01/01/2010 Teacher in Secondary school.

01/09/ 2004 - 31/03/2006 Research grants at the Museum of Natural History and the Territory, Pisa University, Italy.

01/09/ 2002 - 31/08/ 2004 Post-doctoral fellow at the Museum of Natural History and the Territory, Pisa University, Italy.

01/03/2000 - 06/07/2003 PhD scholarship in Ethology and Ecology at the Dept. of Animal Biology, University of Florence, Italy.

• TEACHING ACTIVITIES

-          University of Florence in post-graduate course of Biology and Natural Science:

i) Ecophysiology and Climate Change (2015-2017)

ii) Animal Biodiversity (2016-Current)

iii) Field work for Naturalist (2016-Current)

iv) Conservation of faunistic resources (2017-Current)

-          Oxford Brookes University in under-graduate modules (2013-2015):

            i) Advanced Topics in Wildlife Conservation (Module Leader 2014-2015)

            ii) Environmental Change: Field-Work and Research

            iii) Skills for life sciences

            iv) Threatened species

-          Oxford Brookes University in post-graduate modules (2013-2015):

            i) Ecology for conservation

            ii) Biodiversity and ecosystem services

-          Guest teacher at the International PhD Course "From Solitary To Superorganism: The Evolution Of Insect Societies" Impruneta, Florence, 1 – 6 November 2009.

-          Teachingat the University of Florence in modules of Biology and Natural Science courses (2000-2009):

            i) Entomology

            ii) Zoology

-          Teachingat the University of Florence for the advanced laboratory course in Biology and Natural Science (2000-2003):

            Experimental Zoology

-          From May 2006 to present, the applicant is a permanent teacher at the primary school.

• SUPERVISING ACTIVITY

-          Co-supervisor in the PhD work of Raluca Voda at the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva in Barcelona “Biodiversity and comparative phylogeography of western Mediterranean butterflies”. Defended 11 December 2015.

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• ABILITAZIONI SCIENTIFICHE NAZIONALI

Settore Concorsuale 05/B1 – Zoologia. II fascia. Bando 2012

Settore Concorsuale 05/C1-Ecologia. II fascia. Bando 2012

Settore Concorsuale 05/B1 – Zoologia. I fascia. Bando 2018

• EDITORIAL ACTIVITY

 Member of the editorial board of:

-          Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Researches

-          Psyche

-          Entomologia

-          Journal of Insect Biogeography

• PUBLICATIONS IN ISI JOURNALS:

111 papers on ISI journals

total citations 2022. H-index: 28 (from Scopus, accessed February 16^th 2020).

1. Polistes sulcifer. Proc R Soc B 268:2253-2260.
2. Compsoptera aemiliorum Raineri, 1994 with C. opacaria (Hübner, 1819) (Lepidoptera Geometridae). Redia 87:73-75.
3. Cuticular hydrocarbons of P. dominulus as a biogeographic tool: a study on some populations of the Tuscan Archipelago and the surrounding areas. J Chem Ecol 30:2139-2151.
4. Epicuticular lipids and fertility in primitively social wasps. Physiol Entomol 29:464–471.
5. Sociality outside the nest: helpers in pre-hibernating clusters of Polistes dominulus. Ann Zool Fennici 42:135-139.
6. The neglected scent: On the marking function of urine in Lemur catta. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 58:437-445.
7. Do nest fidelity and intolerance decrease at the end of the colony cycle in Polistes dominulus (christ.)? Redia 87:227-229.
8. Under-estimate in a moth biodiversity measurement owing to a migratory event of Spodoptera exigua. Curr Zool 51:909-911.
9. Polistes dominulus workers in orphaned nests. J Insect Physiol 51:969-973.
10. 2006. Dominulin A and B: two new antibacterial Peptides identified on the cuticle and in the venom of the social paper wasp Polistes dominulus using MALDI-TOF MALDI-TOF/TOF and ESI-Ion Trap. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom17:376-383.
11. Lemur catta:a comparison of design features. Ann Zool Fennici 43:280-284.
12. Lemur catta. Chem Senses 31:437-443.
13. R. opifex. Biochem Syst Ecol 34:617-625.
14. Pre-hibernating aggregations of Polistes dominulus: an occasion to study early dominance assessment in social insects. Naturwissenschaften 93:321-324.
15. Habitually used hibernation sites of paper wasps are marked with venom and cuticular peptides. Curr Biol 16:530-531.
16. Wolbachia in the invasive European paper wasp Polistes dominulus. Insect Soc 53:269-273.
17. Dominance interactions in young adult foundresses of a paper wasp: a play-like behaviour? J Comp Psychol 120:394-400.
18. Polistes dominulus. Ann Zool Fennici 43:583-594 (Invited review).
19. Behaviour and chemical signature of pre hibernating females of P. dominulus infected by the strepsipteran X. vesparum. Parasitology 134:545-552.
20. J Zool  272:37-44.
21. The taxonomic level order as a possible tool for rapid assessment of Arthropod diversity in agricultural landscapes. Agric Ecosyst Environ 122:183-191.
22. Social dominance molds cuticular and egg chemical blends in a paper wasp. Curr Biol 17:r504-r505.
23. Lemur catta olfactory motivation and territorial defence. J Exp Biol 210:2700-2705.
24. Lasiommata megera and L. paramegera: the influence of species, sex, and population. Biol J Linn Soc 91:703-710.
25. Eur J Entomol 104:497-503.
26. Workers of a Polistes paper wasp detect the presence of their queen by chemical cues. Chem Senses 32:795-802.
27. P. dominulus. J Ins Physiol 54:89-95.
28. Polistes dominulus: body size, facial colour patterns and hierarchical rank. Proc R Soc B 275:1189-1196.
29. Ital J Zool 75: 219-224.
30. J Biogeogr 35:664-674.
31. Coenonympha corinna and C. elbana butterflies. Zootaxa 1755:47-56.
32. Lasiommata megera/paramegaera complex and the lack of a predicted hybridization area in the Tuscan Archipelago. J Zool Syst Evol Res 46:224-230.
33. J Insect Conserv 12:237-249.
34. J Insect Conserv 12:205-236.
35. Lemur catta) have distinct chemical signatures in left and right brachial glands. Naturwissenschaften 95:987-991.
36. Ecography 32:169-179.
37. J Insect Conserv 13:421-428.
38. Biochem Syst Ecol 37:341-348.
39. Polistes dominulus represent a distinct behavioural phenotype. Ann Zool Fennici 46:423-430.
40. Phylogeography and counter-intuitive inferences in island biogeography: evidence from morphometric markers in the mobile butterfly Maniola jurtina. Biol J Linn Soc 98:677–692.
41. Zerynthia polyxena (Lepidotera, Papilionidae). J Zool Syst Evol Res 48:229-237.
42. J Zool Syst Evol Res 48:109-114.
43. Hydrocarbon rank signatures correlate with differential oophagy and dominance behaviour in Polistes dominulus foundresses. J Exp Biol 213:453-458. [5]
44. Satyrinae butterflies from Sardinia and Corsica show a kaleidoscopic intraspecific biogeography (Lepidoptera,Nymphalidae) Biol J Linn Soc 100:195-212.
45. Rend Lincei-Sci Fis 21:163-170.[1]
46. Skipper impoverishment on large West Mediterranean islands: deterministic, historical and stochastic factors. Biodivers Conserv 19:2637-2649.
47. Dapporto L, Bruschini C, Cervo R, Dani FR, Jackson DE, Turillazzi S 2010. Timing matters when assessing dominance and chemical signatures in the paper wasp P. dominulus. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 64:1363-1365.
48. J Biogeogr 37:2291-2304.
49. Tiple AD, Padwad SV, Dapporto L, Dennis RLH 2010. Male mate location behaviour and encounter sites in a community of tropical butterflies: taxonomic and site associations and distinctions. J Biosciences 35:629-646.[4]
50. J Biogeogr 38:854-867.
51. J Insect Conserv 15:445-454.
52. The biogeography of the western Mediterranean: elucidating contradictory distribution patterns of differentiation in Maniola jurtina (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) Biol J Linn Soc, 103:571-577.
53. Polistes gallicus (Vespidae, Hymenoptera). Zoomorphology 130:197-201.
54. Relevance of wing morphology in distinguishing and classifying genera and species of Stenogastrinae wasps. Contrib Zool 80:191-199.
55. 2011. Combined genetic-morphometric analysis unravels the complex biogeographic history of P. icarus and P. celina Common Blue butterflies. Mol Ecol 18:3921-3935.
56. Biol J Linn Soc 104:725-737.
57. Dennis RLH, Hardy PB, Dapporto L 2012. Nestedness in island faunas: novel insights into island biogeography through butterfly community profiles of colonization ability and migration capacity. J Biogeogr 39:1412-1426.
58. Identifying zones of phenetic compression in West Mediterranean butterflies refugia, invasion and hybridization. Divers Distrib. 18, 1066-1076.
59. Org Divers Evol 12:39-49.
60. Stefanini I*, Dapporto L*, Legras J-L, Calabretta A, Di Paola M, De Filippo C, Viola R, Capretti P, Polsinelli P, Turillazzi S, Cavalieri D 2012. Role of social wasps in Saccharomyces cerevisiae ecology and evolution. Proc Natl Acad USA 109:13398-13403.
61. J Nat Hist, 46:2415-2437.
62. Biol Cons 157:229-236.
63. Habel JC, Husemann M, Schmitt T, Dapporto L, Rödder D, Vandewoestijne S 2013. A forest butterfly in Sahara desert oases: isolation does not matter. J Hered 104:234-247.
64. When the rule becomes the exception. No evidence of gene flow between two Zerynthia cryptic butterflies suggests the emergence of a new model group. PLoS One  8:e65746.
65. Major changes in the sex differences in cuticular chemical profiles of the western conifer seed bug (Leptoglossus occidentalis) after laboratory rearing. J Insect Physiol 59:738-744.
66. Dinca V, Wiklund C, Lukhtanov VA, Kodandaramaiah U, Noren K, Dapporto L, Wahlberg N, Vila R, Friberg M 2013. Reproductive isolation and patterns of genetic differentiation in a cryptic butterfly species complex. J Evolution Biol 10: 2095-2106.
67. Application of molecular genetics and geometric morphometrics to taxonomy and conservation of cave beetles in central Italy. J Insect Cons 17:921-932.
68. Ecography 36:1070-1075.
69. Biodiv Cons 22:2709-2734.
70. Phenotypic characterization of cryptic Diplodia species by MALDI-TOF MS and the bias of mycelium age. Forest Pathol 43:455–461.
71. Org Divers Evol 14:203-2014.
72. Behav Ecol 25:344-351.
73. Almost royal: incomplete suppression of host workers ovarian development by a social parasite wasp. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 68:467-475.
74. Biogeography of western Mediterranean butterflies: combining turnover and nestedness components of faunal dissimilarity. J Biogeogr 41:1639-1650.
75. Org Diver Evol 14: 269-278.
76. Comparing population patterns for genetic and morphological markers with uneven sample sizes. An example for the butterfly M. jurtina. Methods Ecol Evol 5: 834-843.
77. Ecography 38: 405-409.
78. PloS one, 10: e0117802.
79. Habel JC, Zachos FE, Dapporto L, Rödder D, Radespiel U, Tellier A, Schmitt T 2015. Population genetics revisited–towards a multidisciplinary research field. Biol J Linn Soc, 115: 1-12.
80. ‐small spatial scales, tested on British butterflies. Methods Ecol Evol, 6, 1287-1297.
81. The Rules of Aggression: How Genetic, Chemical and Spatial Factors Affect Intercolony Fights in a Dominant Species, the Mediterranean Acrobat Ant Crematogaster scutellaris. PloS one, 10, p.e0137919.
82. Social wasps are a Saccharomyces mating nest. Proc Natl Acad USA, 113: 2247-2251
83. Sci Rep, 6.
84. Hernández‐Roldán, J.L.*, Dapporto, L.,* Dincă, V., Vicente, J.C., Hornett, E.A., Šíchová, J., Lukhtanov, V.A., Talavera, G. and Vila, R., 2016. Integrative analyses unveil speciation linked to host plant shift in Spialia butterflies. Mol Ecol, 25: 4267-4284
85. Social Wasp intestines host the local phenotypic variability of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains. Yeast, 33: 277-287.
86. J Biogeogr, 44,433-445.
87. J Biogeogr, 44 (5), 1018-1028.
88. Long-term assessment reveals the hidden and hiding effects of experimental stress on ant colonies. Behav Ecol Sociobiol, 71(10), p.144.
89. Rise and fall of island butterfly diversity: Understanding genetic differentiation and extinction in a highly diverse archipelago. Divers Distrib, 23:1169-1181.
90. Sci Rep, 7, 1.
91. Middleton-Welling, J., Wade, R.A., Dennis, R.L.H, Dapporto, L., Shreeve, T.G. 2018 Optimising trait and source selection for explaining occurrence and abundance changes: a case study using British Butterflies. Functional Ecology, 32 (6), 1609-1619
92. Dincă, V., Bálint, Z., Vodă, R., Dapporto, L., Hebert, P. D., & Vila, R. (2018). Use of genetic, climatic, and microbiological data to inform reintroduction of a regionally extinct butterfly. Conservation Biology, 32 (4), 828-837.
93. Trans-generational immunization in the acrobat ant Crematogaster scutellaris. Biology letters, 14(4), p.20170761.
94. Journal of Biogeography 45 (7), 1628-1639.
95. The first red list of Italian butterflies. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 11(5), pp.506-521.
97. Environmental microbiology, 21(1), pp.50-71.
98. Natural biocide disrupts nestmate recognition in honeybees. Scientific reports, 9(1), p.3171.
99. Host plant selection and differential survival on two Aristolochia L. species in an insular population of Zerynthia cassandra. Journal of Insect Conservation, 23, 239-246.
101. Casacci, L. P., Balletto, E., Scalercio, S., Vila, R (2019). Integrating three comprehensive data sets shows that mitochondrial DNA variation is linked to species traits and paleogeographic events in European butterflies. Mol Ecol Res, 19:1623–1636.
102. Cavalieri, D. (2019). Saccharomyces cerevisiae induces immune enhancing and shapes gut microbiota in social wasps. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, 2320.
103. Sight in a clique, scent in society: plasticity in the use of nestmate recognition cues along colony development in the social wasp Polistes dominula. Frontiers Ecol Evol, 7.
104. J Zool Syst Evol Res (in press).
105. The Science of Nature, 107(1), 8.
106. No evidence of queen immunisation despite transgenerational immunisation in Crematogaster scutellaris ants. J Insect Physiol, 120, 103998.
107. Home economics in an oak gall: behavioural and chemical immune strategies against a fungal pathogen in Temnothorax ant nests. The Science of Nature, 106(11-12), 61.
108. Two aggressive neighbours living peacefully: the nesting association between a stingless bee and the bullet ant. Insectes Sociaux, in press.
109. Vodă, R., Bonelli, S., Bordoni, A., Casacci, P.L., Dincă, V., Balletto, E., Vila, R., Dapporto, L. 2020 How long is 3 kilometres for a butterfly? Ecological constraints and functional traits explain high mitochondrial genetic diversity between Sicily and the Italian Peninsula. J Anim Ecol (in press) DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13196.

3. Dapporto L, Cervo R, Sledge MF, Turillazzi S 2004. Rank integration in dominance hierarchies of host colonies by the paper wasp social parasite Polistes sulcifer. J Insect Physiol 50:217-223.4. Dapporto L, Theodora P, Spacchini C, Pieraccini G, Turillazzi S 2004. Rank and epicuticular hydrocarbons in different populations of the paper wasp Polistes dominulus Insect Soc 51:279-286.5. Dapporto L, Pansolli C, Turillazzi S 2004. Hibernation clustering and its consequences for associative nest foundation in Polistes dominulus. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 56:315-321.

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