Faculty Staff / Section of Animal Biology
Laboratory Teaching Personnel
Office location: 3rd floor (B/M 375)
Email: tryfonop@upatras.gr
Telephone: +30 2610 969215

Education

  • Degree Biology – University of Patra, Greece (1996).
  • MSc Biology, speciality: Zoology/Genetics – University of Patra, Greece (1999).
  • PhD Biology – University of Patra, Greece (2004).
  • Post-Doctoral Researcher Biology – University of Patra, Greece (2004-2006).

Educational activities

  • Biology Degree courses Animal Biology I and Animal Biology II.

Research and other activities

  • Biodiversity, zoogeography and phylogeography studies of various Greek fauna populations, belonging to terrestrial (primarily) and marine taxa.

Representative Publications

  • TRYFONOPOULOS, G. A., CHONDROPOULOS, B. P. & FRAGUEDAKIS-TSOLIS, S.E. (2005): Mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms of the house mouse, Mus musculus domesticus from, Greece, focusing on the Robetsonian chromosomal system of NW Peloponnese. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 84:643-651.
  • KLOSSA-KILIA, E., KILIAS, G., TRYFONOPOULOS, G., KOUKOU, K., SFENTHOURAKIS, S. & PARMAKELIS, A. (2006): Molecular phylogeny of the Greek populations of the genus Ligidium (Isopoda, Oniscidea) using three mtDNA gene segments. Zoologica Scripta, 35 (5): 459-472.
  • KLOSSA-KILIA, E., PAPASOTIROPOULOS, V., TRYFONOPOULOS, G., ALAHIOTIS, S. & KILIAS, G. (2007): Phylogenetic relationships of Atherina hepsetus and Atherina boyeri populations from Greece, based on mtDNA sequences. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 92:151-161.
  • KAMILARI, M.A., TRYFONOPOULOS, G.A., FRAGUEDAKIS-TSOLIS, S.E.  & CHONDROPOULOS, B.P.  (2012): Geometric morphometrics on Greek house mouse populations (Mus musculus domesticus) with Robertsonian and all-acrocentric chromosomal arrangements. Mammalian Biology – Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde11/2012.
  • ROBERT RUTKOWSKI, MIHA KROFEL, GIORGOS GIANNATOS, DUŠKO ĆIROVIĆ, PEEP MÄNNIL, ANATOLIY M. VOLOKH, JÓZSEF LANSZKI, MIKLÓS HELTAI, LÁSZLÓ SZABÓ, OVIDIU C. BANEA, EDUARD YAVRUYAN, VAHRAM HAYRAPETYAN, NATIA KOPALIANI, ANASTASIA MILIOU, GEORGE A. TRYFONOPOULOS, PETROS LYMBERAKIS, ALEKSANDRA PENEZIĆ, GIEDRĖ PAKELTYTĖ, EWA SUCHECKA, WIESŁAW BOGDANOWICZ (2015): A European Concern? Genetic Structure and Expansion of Golden Jackals (Canis aureus) in Europe and the Caucasus. PLoS ONE 10(11): e0141236. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141236.