Maria Buglione is Researcher in Zoology and professor of Animal Phylogeny at the Department of Biology of the University of Naples Federico II. At the same department, she graduated in Biology with honors in 2013 and got her PhD in Biology in 2017. Her research underlies many applications for the protection of endangered species, such as Lepus corsicanus and Canis lupus italicus, as well as the management of problematic species, such as Sus scrofa, aiming at the conservation of global and local biodiversity. Her main evolutionary topics concern the evolutive trajectories and the adaptations involved in the feralization in Sus scrofa. The field and laboratory investigations are carried out mainly with innovative and non-invasive strategies, such as DNA metabarcoding and HTS to diet analysis, High Resolution Melting Analysis for the species determination, -genomic approaches for phylogenetic and evolutionary inferences. Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=T95VbdMAAAAJ&hl=it SCOPUS author ID: 56605518500 ORCID code: https: //orcid.org/0000-0001-6022-707X