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Cino Pertoldi

Cino Pertoldi

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
41
Citations
7814
World Ranking
5774
National Ranking
85

Overview

Cino Pertoldi is affiliated with Aalborg University in Denmark and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Ecology and related subfields. Their research encompasses diverse areas including Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Human-Animal Interaction Studies, as well as Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock and Identification and Quantification in Food.

The scientist's publication record includes multiple papers in recognized venues such as Animals, Preprints.org, Genetics and Biodiversity Journal, Drones, and Symmetry. These outlets reflect a broad engagement with both applied and theoretical aspects of environmental and biological sciences.

  • Animals
  • Preprints.org
  • Genetics and Biodiversity Journal
  • Drones
  • Symmetry

The main fields of study and their research output quantify the scientist's focus as:

  • Environmental Science (126 publications)

Within this domain, subfields that received considerable attention include:

  • Ecology (95 publications)
  • Genetics (31 publications)
  • Small Animals (29 publications)
  • Insect Science (15 publications)
  • Molecular Biology (14 publications)

Key topics predominate in their work as follows:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (74 publications)
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies (58 publications)
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (26 publications)
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change (24 publications)
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies (22 publications)
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (20 publications)
  • Identification and Quantification in Food (16 publications)

Pertoldi has frequently collaborated with colleagues, with prominent coauthors including:

  • Sussie Pagh (36 joint publications)
  • Dan Bruhn (35 joint publications)
  • Aage Kristian Olsen Alstrup (21 joint publications)
  • Trine Hammer Jensen (19 joint publications)
  • Simon Bahrndorff (16 joint publications)

Examples of recent papers authored or coauthored by Pertoldi include:

  • The Gut Microbiome of 54 Mammalian Species, 2022, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • eDNA metabarcoding for biodiversity assessment, generalist predators as sampling assistants, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Is Virtual Fencing an Effective Way of Enclosing Cattle? Personality, Herd Behaviour and Welfare, 2022, Animals
  • Biobanking in amphibian and reptilian conservation and management: opportunities and challenges, 2020, Conservation Genetics Resources
  • Integrated genome-wide investigations of the housefly, a global vector of diseases reveal unique dispersal patterns and bacterial communities across farms, 2020, BMC Genomics

Best Publications

  • Adapting to climate change: a perspective from evolutionary physiology

    Steven Loudon Chown;Ary Anthony Hoffmann;Torsten Nygaard Kristensen;Michael J Angilletta

  • Conservation genetics in transition to conservation genomics

    N. Joop Ouborg;Cino Pertoldi;Volker Loeschcke;Rudolf Bijlsma

  • Atlantic salmon populations invaded by farmed escapees: quantifying genetic introgression with a Bayesian approach and SNPs.

    Kevin Alan Glover;Cino Pertoldi;Cino Pertoldi;Francois Besnier;Vidar Wennevik

  • Species inflation and taxonomic artefacts—A critical comment on recent trends in mammalian classification

    Frank E. Zachos;Marco Apollonio;Eva V. Bärmann;Marco Festa-Bianchet

  • Local adaptation in brown trout early life-history traits: implications for climate change adaptability.

    Lasse Fast Jensen;Michael M Hansen;Cino Pertoldi;Gert Holdensgaard

  • Effectiveness of microsatellite and SNP markers for parentage and identity analysis in species with low genetic diversity: the case of European bison.

    M Tokarska;T Marshall;R Kowalczyk;J M Wójcik

  • Conservation genetics in a globally changing environment: present problems, paradoxes and future challenges

    Cino Pertoldi;Rudolf Bijlsma;Volker Loeschcke

  • Contrasting effects of environmental factors during larval stage on morphological plasticity in post-metamorphic frogs

    Miguel Tejedo;Federico Marangoni;Cino Pertoldi;Alex Richter-Boix

  • What can livestock breeders learn from conservation genetics and vice versa

    Torsten Nygaard Kristensen;Ary Hoffmann;Cino Pertoldi;Astrid Vik Stronen

  • Genetic consequences of population decline in the European otter (Lutra lutra): an assessment of microsatellite DNA variation in Danish otters from 1883 to 1993.

    Cino Pertoldi;Michael Møller Hansen;Volker Loeschcke;Aksel Bo Madsen

  • Genetic status of the European bison Bison bonasus after extinction in the wild and subsequent recovery

    Małgorzata Tokarska;Cino Pertoldi;Rafał Kowalczyk;Kajetan Perzanowski

  • Microsatellite analyses reveal fine-scale genetic structure in grey mouse lemurs (Microcebus murinus).

    T. Fredsted;C. Pertoldi;C. Pertoldi;M. H. Schierup;P. M. Kappeler;P. M. Kappeler

  • Genetic structure in otter (Lutra lutra) populations in Europe: implications for conservation

    Ettore Randi;Francesca Davoli;Massimo Pierpaoli;Cino Pertoldi

  • Genetic diversity and landscape genetic structure of otter ( Lutra lutra ) populations in Europe

    Nadia Mucci;Johanna Arrendal;Hermann Ansorge;Michael Bailey

  • North-South differentiation and a region of high diversity in European wolves (Canis lupus).

    Astrid Vik Stronen;Bogumila Jedrzejewska;Cino Pertoldi;Cino Pertoldi;Ditte Demontis

  • Evolutionary aspects of climate-induced changes and the need for multidisciplinarity

    C Pertoldi;Lars Bach

  • Concordant mitochondrial and microsatellite DNA structuring between Polish lowland and Carpathian Mountain wolves

    Sylwia D. Czarnomska;Bogumiła Jędrzejewska;Tomasz Borowik;Magdalena Niedziałkowska

  • The rapid cold hardening response of Collembola is influenced by thermal variability of the habitat

    Simon Bahrndorff;Simon Bahrndorff;Volker Loeschcke;Cino Pertoldi;Cino Pertoldi;Claus Beier

  • Is Virtual Fencing an Effective Way of Enclosing Cattle? Personality, Herd Behaviour and Welfare

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  • Unravelling the scientific debate on how to address wolf-dog hybridization in Europe

    Valerio Donfrancesco;Paolo Ciucci;Valeria Salvatori;David Benson

  • Genome variability in European and American bison detected using the BovineSNP50 BeadChip

    C. Pertoldi;C. Pertoldi;Jan M Wójcik;Małgorzata Tokarska;Agata Kawałko

  • Developmental instability as an estimator of genetic stress.

    C. Pertoldi;Torsten Nygaard Kristensen;D H Andersen;Volker Loeschcke

Frequent Co-Authors

Volker Loeschcke
Volker Loeschcke Aarhus University
Ettore Randi
Ettore Randi Aalborg University
Torsten Nygaard Kristensen
Torsten Nygaard Kristensen Aalborg University
Søren Faurby
Søren Faurby University of Gothenburg
Jeppe Lund Nielsen
Jeppe Lund Nielsen Aalborg University
Michael Møller Hansen
Michael Møller Hansen Aarhus University
Urmas Saarma
Urmas Saarma University of Tartu
Elena Fabbri
Elena Fabbri University of Bologna
Chris J. Topping
Chris J. Topping Aarhus University
Andrzej Zalewski
Andrzej Zalewski Polish Academy of Sciences

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