
Ernesto Mollo
Experience & Activities
Ecologia chimica marina
Esopolisaccaridi
Biotrasformazioni
Invasioni biologiche
Biologia evoluzionistica
Saggi biologici.
1. E Mollo, P Amodeo, MT Ghiselin. Can Intelligence Gradually Evolve in a Shell? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 2019, 34, 689-690, doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2019.04.014
2. E Mollo, MJ Garson, G Polese, P Amodeo, MT Ghiselin. Taste and smell in aquatic and terrestrial environments. Natural Product Reports 2017, 34, 496-513, doi: 10.1039/c7np00008a
3. G Giordano, M Carbone, ML Ciavatta, E Silvano, M Gavagnin, MJ Garson, KL Cheney, IW Mudianta, GF Russo, G Villani, L Magliozzi, G Polese, C Zidorn, A Cutignano, A Fontana, MT Ghiselin, E Mollo. Volatile secondary metabolites as aposematic olfactory signals and defensive weapons in aquatic environments. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2017, 114, 3451–3456, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1614655114
4. E Mollo, G Cimino, MT Ghiselin. Alien biomolecules: a new challenge for natural product chemists. Biological Invasions 2015, 17, 941–950, doi: 10.1007/s10530-014-0835-6
5. E Mollo, A Fontana, V Roussis, G Polese, P Amodeo, MT Ghiselin. Sensing marine biomolecules: smell, taste, and the evolutionary transition from aquatic to terrestrial life. Frontiers in Chemistry 2014, 2, 92, doi: 10.3389/fchem.2014.00092
6. M Carbone, M Gavagnin, M Haber, Y-W Guo, A Fontana, E Manzo, G Genta-Jouve, M Tsoukatou, WB Rudman, G Cimino, MT Ghiselin, E Mollo. Packaging and delivery of chemical weapons: a defensive trojan horse stratagem in chromodorid nudibranchs. PloS one 2013, 8, e62075, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062075
7. A Terlizzi, S Felline, MG Lionetto, R Caricato, V Perfetti , A Cutignano, E Mollo. Detrimental physiological effects of the invasive alga Caulerpa racemosa on the mediterranean white seabream Diplodus sargus. Aquatic Biology 2011, 12, 109–117, doi: 10.3354/ab00330
8. M Haber, S Cerfeda, M Carbone, G Calado, H Gaspar, R Neves, V Maharajan, G Cimino, M Gavagnin, MT Ghiselin, E Mollo. Coloration and defense in the nudibranch gastropod Hypselodoris fontandraui. The Biological Bulletin 2010, 218, 181-188, doi: 10.1086/BBLv218n2p181
9. E Mollo, M Gavagnin, M Carbone, F Castelluccio, F Pozone, V Roussis, J Templado, MT Ghiselin, G Cimino. Factors promoting marine invasions: a chemoecological approach. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2008, 105, 4582–4586, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709355105
10. E Mollo, M Gavagnin, M Carbone, Y Guo, Guido Cimino. Chemical studies on Indopacific Ceratosoma nudibranchs illuminate the protective role of their dorsal horn. Chemoecology 2005, 15, 31-36, doi: 10.1007/s00049-005-0289-5


