A5070710852- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Plant and animal studies
- Insect Utilization and Effects
- Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Genetics and Physical Performance
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Building materials and conservation
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
- Conservation Techniques and Studies
- Animal Genetics and Reproduction
- Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
2020-2024
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
2014-2024
University of Sussex
2014
Immune response against infections can be divided into mechanisms of resistance that ensure active pathogen elimination, and disease tolerance, which include processes return the host to physiological homeostasis without involving direct control. Studies on immune responses infection have mostly targeted resistance, consequently, these are now well-described in both vertebrates invertebrates. By comparison, mechanistic basis tolerance is less well understood. This part because interact...
Body size is a quantitative trait that closely associated to fitness and under the control of both genetic environmental factors. While developmental plasticity for this other traits heritable selection, little known about basis variation in can provide raw material its evolution. We quantified body Drosophila melanogaster by measuring thorax abdomen length females reared at two temperatures from panel representing naturally segregating alleles, Genetic Reference Panel (DGRP). found between...
The environmental regulation of development can result in the production distinct phenotypes from same genotype and provide means for organisms to cope with heterogeneity. effect environment on developmental outcomes is typically mediated by hormonal signals which convey information about external cues developing tissues. While such plasticity a wide-spread property development, not all tissues are equally plastic. To understand how integrate input into coherent adult phenotypes, we must...
Interactions between organisms and their environments are central to how biological diversity arises natural populations ecosystems respond environmental change. These interactions involve processes by which phenotypes affected or external conditions (e.g., via phenotypic plasticity selection) as well reciprocally interact with the environment eco-evolutionary feedbacks). Organism-environment can be highly dynamic operate on different hierarchical levels, from genes populations, communities,...
The regulated head-to-tail expression of Hox genes provides a coordinate system for the activation specific programmes cell differentiation according to axial level. Recent work indicates that can be via RNA processing but underlying mechanisms and biological significance this form regulation remain poorly understood. Here we explore these issues within developing Drosophila central nervous (CNS). We show pan-neural RNA-binding protein (RBP) ELAV (Hu antigen) regulates patterns gene...
Abstract Seasonal differences in insect pigmentation are attributed to the influence of ambient temperature on development. This thermal plasticity is adaptive and heritable, thereby capable evolving. However, specific genes contributing variation that can drive its evolution remain largely unknown. To address this, we analysed Drosophila melanogaster . We measured two components thorax abdomen: overall darkness proportion length covered by darker pattern elements (a trident bands abdomen)...
Abstract Background The Glanville fritillary (Melitaea cinxia) butterfly is a model system for metapopulation dynamics research in fragmented landscapes. Here, we provide chromosome-level assembly of the butterfly's genome produced from Pacific Biosciences sequencing pool males, combined with linkage map population crosses. Results final size 484 Mb an increase 94 on previously published genome. Estimation completeness BUSCO indicates that contains 92–94% genes complete and single copies. We...
Abstract Freshwater habitats are frequently contaminated by diverse chemicals of anthropogenic origin, collectively referred to as micropollutants, that can have detrimental effects on aquatic life. The animals' tolerance micropollutants may be mediated their microbiome. If polluted environments select for contaminant‐degrading microbes, the acquisition such microbes host increase its pollution. Here we tested potential microbiome growth and survival juvenile Asellus aquaticus , a widespread...
Abstract Body pigmentation is an evolutionarily diversified and ecologically relevant trait with substantial variation within between species, important roles in animal survival reproduction. Insect pigmentation, particular, provides some of the most compelling examples adaptive evolution, including its ecological significance genetic bases. Pigmentation includes multiple aspects color pattern that may vary more or less independently, can be under different selective pressures. We decompose...
Human activity is a major driver of ecological and evolutionary change in wild populations can have diverse effects on eukaryotic organisms as well environmental host-associated microbial communities. Although host-microbiome interactions be determinant host fitness, few studies consider the joint responses hosts their microbiomes to anthropogenic changes. In freshwater ecosystems, wastewater widespread stressor that represents multifarious perturbation. Here, we experimentally tested impact...
The environmental regulation of development can result in the production distinct phenotypes from same genotype and provide means for organisms to cope with heterogeneity. effect environment on developmental outcomes is typically mediated by hormonal signals which convey information about external cues developing tissues. While such plasticity a wide-spread property development, not all tissues are equally plastic. To understand how integrate input into coherent adult phenotypes, we must...
ABSTRACT Body size is a quantitative trait that closely associated to fitness and under the control of both genetic environmental factors. While developmental plasticity for this other traits heritable selection, little known about basis variation in can provide raw material its evolution. We quantified body Drosophila melanogaster by measuring thorax abdomen length females reared at two temperatures from panel representing naturally segregating alleles, Genetic Reference Panel (DGRP). found...
ABSTRACT Seasonal differences in insect pigmentation are attributed to the influence of ambient temperature on development. This thermal plasticity is adaptive and heritable, thereby capable evolving. However, specific genes contributing variation that can drive its evolution remain largely unknown. To address this, we analyzed Drosophila melanogaster . We measured two components thorax abdomen: overall darkness proportion length covered by darker pattern elements (a trident bands abdomen)...
Abstract The Glanville fritillary ( Melitaea cinxia ) butterfly is a long-term model system for metapopulation dynamics research in fragmented landscapes. Here, we provide chromosome level assembly of the butterfly’s genome produced from Pacific Biosciences sequencing pool males, combined with linkage map population crosses. final size 484 Mb an increase 94 on previously published genome. Estimation completeness BUSCO, indicates that contains 93 - 95% BUSCO genes complete and single copies....
ABSTRACT Body pigmentation is an evolutionarily diversified and ecologically relevant trait that shows variation within between species, important roles in animal survival reproduction. Insect pigmentation, particular, provides some of the most compelling examples adaptive evolution its ecological genetic bases. Yet, while includes multiple aspects color pattern may vary more or less independently, study frequently focuses on one single aspect. Here, we develop a method to quantify...