A5012004391- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Plant Reproductive Biology
- Cancer Cells and Metastasis
- Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Peripheral Artery Disease Management
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Insect Pest Control Strategies
- Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
- Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Extracellular vesicles in disease
- COVID-19 impact on air quality
- Immune cells in cancer
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
The University of Queensland
2013-2024
Unidade em Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas
2023
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2023
Universidade do Oeste Paulista
2019
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
2018-2019
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
2018-2019
Universidad de Los Andes
2009
The evolution of new species is made easier when traits under divergent ecological selection are also mating cues. Such cues now considered more common than previously thought, but we still know little about the genetic changes underlying their or generally basis for assortative behaviors. Both tight physical linkage and existence large-effect preference loci will strengthen associations between behavioral barriers, promoting mating. warning patterns Heliconius melpomene H. cydno disruptive...
Homoploid speciation generates species without a change in chromosome number via introgressive hybridization and has been considered rare animals. Heliconius butterflies exhibit bright aposematic color patterns that also act as cues assortative mating. heurippa pattern can be recreated by introgression of the H. melpomene red band into an cydno genetic background. Wild males show mating based on we here investigate origin this preference studying first-generation backcross hybrids between...
Summary Speciation with gene flow, or the evolution of reproductive isolation between interbreeding populations, remains a controversial problem in evolution. This is because flow erodes adaptive differences that selection creates populations. Here, we use combination common garden experiments field and glasshouse to investigate what ecological genetic mechanisms prevent maintain morphological differentiation coastal parapatric populations Australian groundsel Senecio lautus . We discovered...
Adaptation to replicate environments is often achieved through similar phenotypic solutions. Whether selection also produces convergent genomic changes in these situations remains largely unknown. The variable groundsel, Senecio lautus, an excellent system investigate the genetic underpinnings of evolution, because morphologically forms plants have adapted same along coast Australia. We compared range-wide patterns divergence natural populations this plant and searched for regions putatively...
Introduction: The research on tumor microenvironment (TME) has recently been gaining attention due to its important role in growth, progression, and response therapy. Because of this, the development three-dimensional cancer models that mimic interactions TME structure complexity is great relevance drug development. Methods: This study aimed characterize colorectal spheroids overtime assess how susceptibility or resistance doxorubicin (Dox) inclusion fibroblasts heterotypic influence...
Abstract Landscape‐scale factors known to influence in‐field abundance of pest herbivores and their natural enemies, but little is about effects that operate through the shorter‐range influences exerted by habitats immediately adjacent crop fields. This study first compared brassica insect pests enemy arthropods in 24 spatially independent vegetable fields across southern Australia. An ‘edge effect’ index was used compare each taxon field center with areas differing habitats. Then, three...
OPINION article Front. Sustain. Food Syst., 11 June 2024Sec. Agroecology and Ecosystem Services Volume 8 - 2024 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1375065
Abstract Habitat management is an ecologically based approach to suppress pest densities, utilising properties of non‐crop vegetation improve the impact natural enemies or directly affect behaviour. Research in this has escalated dramatically century, extending uptake some crops, but adoption Australia been lower than overseas. Here, we address need Australian vegetable sector reduce reliance on insecticides by assessing scope for habitat brassica (Brassicaceae), lettuce ( Lactuca sativa )...
Abstract The evolution of new species is made easier when traits under divergent ecological selection are also mating cues. Such cues now considered more common than previously thought, but we still know little about the genetic changes underlying their evolution, or generally basis for assortative behaviors. warning patterns Heliconius melpomene and H. cydno disruptive due to increased predation non-mimetic hybrids, used during mate recognition. We carried out a genome-wide quantitative...
Islands offer exclusive prisms for an experimental investigation of biodiversity x ecosystem function interplay. Given that species in upper trophic layers, e.g., arthropod predators, experience a comparative disadvantage on small, isolated islands, such settings can help to clarify how predation features within biotic resistance equations. Here, we use observational and manipulative studies chain nine Indonesian islands quantify predator-mediated against the cassava mealybug Phenacoccus...