Bachelor's at Licenciatura em Ciências Biológicas from Universidade de São Paulo (1981), master's at Genetics from Universidade de São Paulo (1987) and doctorate at Genetics from Universidade de São Paulo (1992). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Elaine Françoso has the prestigious Skodowska-Curie fellowship and develops her research at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Her current project is ambitious and aims investigate the evolution of the interaction between mitochondrial and nuclear genomes, with emphasis on numts (nuclear copies of mitochondrial genes that migrated to nucleus) and heteroplasmy (multiple copies of mi…
Bees comprise a highly speciose group. It has been recognized 20,452 species around the World. Their role as pollinators of native and commercial plants is unquestionable benefiting human beings and the environment by their ecosystem services free of charge. Bees have been studied for centuries because aside their ecological features they present the intriguing behavior of eusociality. Th…
Pollinators play unquestionable ecological services important for native flora maintenance and also increasing crops productivity. During the last decades several reports have been warning for the pollinators decline all over the world. The genus Bombus, an important pollinator in temperate climate, has gained attention for the high extinction of species. Among those, here in South Americ…
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Stingless bees (Apidae, Meliponini) are among the most common and abundant pollinators in tropical regions, especially in the neotropics. This group has a wide taxonomic diversity, with more than 500 described species, 243 of which are found in Brazil. Some species have adaptations that allow them to survive adverse environmental conditions. Species from the subtropical region of Brazil, …
The chemosensory system plays an important role by mediating animal behavior. The genes (called chemosensory related genes - CRGs) and their respective protein products are well described in the literature, however with incipient information for some animal groups. The contribution brought by the advancement on molecular analysis and bioinformatics tools has helped in a better understandi…
Population genetics and phyologeographic studies enable to unveil population dynamics, species evolutionary history, detection of cryptic species and also these information may be very useful to subsidize conservation actions. This project aim at performing a phylogeographic survey for two species: Tetragonisca angustula and Xylocopa frontalis. Both species have a wide geographic range in…
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Evolution of cooperative and altruistic behaviours have been important topics in evolutionary biology for years. The fire ant Solenopsis invicta is a remarkable model for such studies because in this species two distinct forms of social organization co-exist. According to the allele frequency of the pheromone-binding gene Gp-9, it is possible to predict the colony queen number. In homozyg…
The comparative Phylogeography assumes that species with the same geographic distribution share the same story. Therefore, co-distributed species now have been together in the past and therefore the same events would have affected then in synchrony. Comparison of these phylogeographic patterns among co-distributed species could show evidence of the history of an entire community. So, betw…
Honey bee of the Genus apis constitute an important group of the apidae whose evolution, despite extensive phylogenetic study. Based on morphological and behavioral characters, remains a matter of controversy within the scientific literature. We propose an extensive investigation of this group using molecular systematic method including pcr-mediated amplification and sequencing of ribosom…
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