Gregor Hiddleston went over for Glasgow's first two tries

Gregor Hiddleston and Kyle Steyn each grabbed two tries to help Warriors to the win that put them top of the URC for, at least, a few hours.

Jamie Dobie and George Horne also crossed for the Warriors, and fly-half Ross Thompson converted five of the six tries while the Italians could only muster three Thomas Dominguez penalties at the Stadio Sergio Lanfranchi.

Glasgow started slowly and struggled for both possession and territory.

Zebre scrum-half Dominguez took advantage of Glasgow indiscipline to kick the hosts into a deserved six-point lead.

Warriors began to claw their way into the game as Zebre started to give away a string of penalties. Warriors were able to gain territory and bring their maul into play. See

Hiddleston was the beneficiary of two strong rolling mauls in the lead-up to half-time, putting Warriors eight points in front at the break.

Dominguez kicked another penalty at the start of the second half to bring Zebre back into the contest, but a stroke of good fortune then led to Glasgow's third try.

After a lucky bounce of the ball fell for Henco Venter, winger Steyn was in support and swerved through a couple of defenders to score under the posts.

The Warriors had now found their groove and were enjoying possession and territory. After probing at the Zebre line on the left the ball was slickly transferred to the right for Glasgow skipper Steyn to race in after a lovely pass from Jamie Dobie.

With the bonus point secured Glasgow revved up their running game with Dobie taking Tom Jordan's neat offload to score under the posts, before another lovely pass out of contact from Jordan set Euan Ferrie away.

Ferrie found Horne on his shoulder, who sprinted in for Glasgow's sixth try. Five conversions from fly-half Ross Thompson saw the visitors hit the 40-point mark.

Glasgow Warriors lock Scott Cummings told glasgowwarriors.org after the game: "It was a great win in the end. Obviously coming here and putting 40 points up, you can't not be happy with that.

"I don't think we were happy with the way we started the game, Zebre obviously came out and performed well in that first half.

"We got a bit frightened, there were areas we could be a lot better and a lot more effective in.

"I think as the game went on we came into our own a little bit more and definitely got our structure going how we wanted it to. It all paid off in dividends at the end."