I am an evolutionary biologist, and currently an Associate Professor of Zoology at the University of Catania (Italy).

Over the years, I have held positions (both postdoctoral and permanent) at several institutions around the world (please, see my bio for details). I have worked on multiple groups of organisms, but particularly fish. I have methodological expertise in the analysis of biological form (morphometrics), as well as in using phenotypic data in combination with genomics and transcriptomics.

Selected publications

Unexpectedly uneven distribution of functional trade-offs explains cranial morphological diversity in carnivores

Sansalone, C., Wroe, S., Coates, G., Attard, M.R.G., Fruciano, C. 2024.
Nature Communications

Hidden in the ocean: The importance of detecting hybridisation in pelagic and deep-water fishes

Pecoraro, C., Papetti, C., Fruciano, C. 2024.
Fish and Fisheries

Divergent allometric trajectories in gene expression and coexpression produce species differences in sympatrically speciating Midas cichlid fish

Fruciano, C., Meyer, A., Franchini, P. 2019.
Genome Biology and Evolution

The soft explosive model of placental mammal evolution

Phillips, M.J., Fruciano, C. 2018.
BMC Evolutionary Biology

Genetic linkage of adaptive traits in sympatrically speciating Midas cichlid fish

Fruciano, C.*, Franchini, P.*, Kovacova, V., Elmer, K., Henning, F., Meyer, A. 2016.
Nature Communications

Measurement error in geometric morphometrics

Fruciano, C. 2016.
Development Genes and Evolution

Genomic architecture of ecologically divergent body shape in a pair of sympatric crater lake cichlid fishes

Franchini, P.*, Fruciano, C.*, Spreitzer, M.L., Jones, J.C., Elmer, K.R., Henning, F., Meyer, A. 2014.
Molecular Ecology

Resampling-based approaches to study variation in morphological modularity

Fruciano, C., Franchini, P., Meyer, A., 2013.
Plos One

Geographic morphological variation within and between colour phases in Coris julis (L. 1758), a protogynous marine fish.

Fruciano, C., Tigano, C., Ferrito, V., 2011.
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
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