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Building a Portuguese coalition for biodiversity genomics
Marques, João P.; Alves, Paulo C.; Amorim, Isabel R.; Lopes, Ricardo Jorge; Moura, Monica; Myers, Eugene; Sim-Sim, Maria; Sousa-Santos, CarlaThe diverse physiography of the Portuguese land and marine territory, spanning from continental Europe to the Atlantic archipelagos, has made it an important repository of biodiversity throughout the Pleistocene glacial cycles, leading to a remarkable diversity of species and ecosystems. This rich biodiversity is under threat from anthropogenic drivers, such as climate change, invasive species, land use changes...
Island hitchhikers: pathogen agents of Madeira and Azores ticks
Rosa, Fernanda; Silva, Carla; Rodrigues, Ricardo; Esteves-Vieira, Mariana; Barbosa, Inês; Rosa, Sara; Dias, Deodália; Pina-MartinsTicks are blood-sucking arthropods that can transmit pathogens to their host. As insular ecosystems can enhance tick-host interactions, this study aimed to understand tick diversity, pathogen presence, and their respective associations in the Azores and Madeira archipelagos. Unfed or partially engorged ticks (n = 120) were collected from 58 cats and dogs in the Azores (n = 41 specimens) and Madeira (n = 79 spec...
No evidence of inbreeding depression despite a historical severe bottleneck in ...
Afonso, Rita O.; Pina-Martins; Friesen, Vicki; SUN, ZHENGXIN; Letizia, Campioni; Madeiros, Jeremy; Silva, Monica C.The Bermuda petrel Pterodroma cahow is an island endemic seabird that belongs to the Procellariiformes, one of the most endangered orders of birds. Historical records suggest a significant population size decline following human settlement in Bermuda, bringing the species to near extinction. Since the 1950s, the population has been recovering aided by the implementation of an ongoing conservation plan. However,...
Building a Portuguese Coalition for Biodiversity Genomics
Marques, João Pedro; ALVES, Paulo C; Rosário, Isabel Amorim do; Lopes, Ricardo J.; Moura, Mónica; Meyers, Gene; Sim-Sim, Manuela; Sousa-Santos, C.The diverse physiography of the Portuguese land and marine territory, spanning from continental Europe to the Atlantic archipelagos, has made it an important repository of biodiversity throughout the Pleistocene glacial cycles, leading to a remarkable diversity of species and ecosystems. This rich biodiversity is under threat from anthropogenic drivers, such as climate change, invasive species, land use changes...
Haplotype diversity patterns in Quercus suber (Fagaceae) inferred from cpDNA se...
Sousa, Filipe; Viegas, Mariana Bray; Costa, Joana; Marques, Isabel; Pina-Martins; Simões, Fernanda; Matos, José; Glushkova, Maria; Miguel, CéliaChloroplast genome diversity in cork oak (Quercus suber) is characterised by the occurrence of haplotypes that are akin to those found in other Mediterranean oak species, particularly in Q. ilex and Q. rotundifolia, suggesting the possible presence of an introgressed chloroplast lineage. To further investigate this pattern, we reconstructed chloroplast haplotypes by sequencing four chloroplast markers (cpDNA), ...
EvALLution: making basic evolution concepts accessible to visually impaired peo...
Laurentino, Telma G.; Xavier, Marisa; Ronco, Fabrizia; Pina-Martins; Domingues, Yolanda; Penha, Bruno; Dias, Marta; de Sousa, Alexandra; Carrilho, TiagoBackground People with visual impairment have benefitted from recent developments of assistive technology that aim to decrease socio-economic inequality. However, access to post-secondary education is still extremelly challenging, especially for scientific areas. The under representation of people with visual impairment in the evolution research community is connected with the vision-based communication of evol...
Correction to: Assessing genotype-phenotype associations in three dorsal colour...
Rodrigues, Ana S. B.; Silva, Sara Ema; Pina-Martins; Loureiro, João; Castro, Mariana; Gharbi, Karim; Johnson, Kevin P.; Dietrich, Christopher H.Following publication of the original article [1], it has been brought to the authors' attention that in their paper (Rodrigues et al. 2016) they reported the genome size based on 2C values (diploid genome) when it is more common to present it as 1C value.
Ancient divergence, a crisis of salt and another of ice shaped the evolution of...
Marabuto, Eduardo; Pina-Martins; Rebelo, Maria Teresa; Paulo, Octávio S.The Mediterranean region is an extremely complex hotspot where, since the Miocene, extensive geological, habitat and climate changes have taken place, alternating between warm and cold periods. These phenomena have taken a toll on the genetic composition of species, and surviving lineages have often adapted locally and diverged to the point of (complete) speciation. To study these phenomena, in this study we us...
Population genomics of Bombus terrestris reveals high but unstructured genetic ...
Silva, Sara Ema; Seabra, Sofia G; Carvalheiro, Luisa; Nunes, Vera L.; Marabuto, Eduardo; Mendes, Raquel; Rodrigues, Ana S. B.; Pina-MartinsOngoing climate change is expected to cause an increase in temperature and a reduction of precipitation levels in the Mediterranean region, which might cause changes in many species distributions. These effects negatively influence species gene pools, decreasing genetic variability and adaptive potential. Here, we use mitochondrial DNA and RADseq to analyse population genetic structure and genetic diversity of ...
Analyses of the genomic variation to study cork oak evolution and adaptation : ...
Pina-MartinsCurrent scientific literature indicates that climate change will cause an average world temperature increase between 1 and 4ºC, along with changes in precipitation patterns and extreme weather events in the next 50 years. These are likely to have a negative impact for biodiversity in general, and forest ecosystems should be particularly affected, especially those in Mediterranean areas, like the cork oak (Querc...