PhD candidate | Evolutionary Biology | @evolgenCIBIO @CIBIO_InBIO Genetics of colour diversity in #birds and the evolution of correlated traits. 🇵🇹 She/her
Porto, Portugal
Joined November 2019
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Paper News!🚨
How do pheomelanic birds handle oxidative stress if their pigments consume antioxidants?🤔
Seems like physiological plasticity may be the answer💡🤯
Out now in iScience!👉🔗10.1016/j.isci.2025.112937
Short on time? Check the GA😉
@ecoevol_MNCN @evolgenCIBIO
Paper News!🚨
You may be more familiar with #acromelanism than you think🤔The culprit?
A heat-sensitive protein that affects melanin synthesis!
Turns out, it's not much studied in birds🫣
Read our latest to find what Perl canaries are all about😉
doi.org/10.1111/age.13481
#colsci
Oh the Danaus sp. dilemma...🙈
Amazing talk by Rishi de-Kayne from @simonhmartin lab on dynamic supergenes conferring different colors morphs to Monarch butterflies 🦋🌈 #SMBE2023 #colsci
Recent private chr fusion in Brenthis butterflies 🦋 shows signs of positive selection BUT in the context of GF it may be a tech artifact.
Sounds very promising and hopefully they can disentangle these effects later on 😊 Beautifully clear talk from Alex Mackintosh👏
#SMBE2023
Amazing talk from Graduate Student Excellence Awardee Aurora Alvarez-Buylla #SMBE23
Poison frogs use ABG to bind dietary alkaloids avoiding toxicity. Interestingly this blood protein his homologous to CBG, cortisol binding protein in mammals.
Toxicity is still stress right? 🤷♀️😋
First plenary by Kateryna Makova at CT venue #SMBE2023
Really nice and packed with juicy information on why studying sex-chromosomes and how they uncover exciting Ape biology
CristianaMarques retweeted
#EvoKE2023 Bath, UK, 3 - 5July 2023, is now OPEN FOR REGISTRATION. Register until 31 May and network with international and interdisciplinary partners to develop and boost your #evolution #education&outreach projects! Registration and more information at evokeproject.org/evoke-meeti…
A sneak peak of the past weekend at #mostrauporto using current research projects for science outreach.
Follow the🧵⬇️for more!
PhD student Frederico Barroso develops noninvasive methods to study thermal physiology in reptiles. In his activity, kids learn that lizards are not cold blooded, they just depend on external sources to heat! So they have pretty cool adaptations to control where body heat goes!🙀
This is @evoPAA and myself playing ECOGEN's game "What's your Dog for?"🐶🤔
Of course kids nailed this in record timing! While playing, they learned that dog breeds were artificially selected for specific tasks. Some very intriguing given the looks of the dog😆
A total favourite!
If you have the chance, pass by @CIBIO_InBIO at #mostrauporto any day from TODAY to SUNDAY.
You can take your own thermal picture, just like I did! 😃Courtesy of @FunctionalBiod1 🦎🔥❄️
Few weeks ago, we had a TV crew filming our work on Animal coloration!🐦🦎🐇
Each BIOPOLIS research group addresses it from different lenses, complementing each other. Enjoy!⬇️😍
rtp.pt/play/p11190/e677805/b…
(portuguese only)
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Shout out to this oustanding woman who deserves to be celebrated every single day!🌼
Thank you for being a daily inspiration😊You are such an amazing person to have around and work alonside with🤗
Cheers to your colourful personality @soraiambarbosa 🍻#strongwomen #WomenInScience
