Teaming to Upgrade to Excellence in Environmental Biology, Ecosystem Research and AgroBiodiversity

Project Information

BIOPOLIS

Grant agreement ID: 857251

DOI

10.3030/857251

EC signature date 2 July 2019

Start date 1 October 2019

End date 30 September 2027

Funded under

• Teaming of excellent research institutions and low performing RDI regions

Total cost

€ 14 988 525,00

EU contribution

€ 14 988 525,00

Coordinated by

ASSOCIACAO BIOPOLIS
Portugal

CORDIS provides links to public deliverables and publications of HORIZON projects.

Links to deliverables and publications from FP7 projects, as well as links to some specific result types such as dataset and software, are dynamically retrieved from OpenAIRE .

Deliverables

Documents, reports (11)

1st Implementation Report

The Implementation Report is a standard deliverable which should be submitted at the time when the periodic report is submitted to the Research Executive Agency It will detail the future plans of the consortium regarding implementation of the project for the subsequent period including also ethical issues and how they will be addressed It should refer to policyrelevant key aspects of the project future actions plans of the consortium in relation to the implementation of the project This deliverable refers to the 1st year of implementation

Education and Training Strategy

Education and Training Strategy will be drafted by the CAEU in collaboration with the SC and the RUs benefiting from the best practice of UM The strategy will set the rules regarding for instance the processes of recruitment the mechanisms of supervision and mentoring of PhD students and Postdoctoral researchers and the general themes and calendar of the advanced courses

1st Report of the Education and Training Activities

1st Report of the Education and Training Activities address the Doctoral programs Post Doctoral Training Program and Advanced Training

2nd Implementation Report
3rd Implementation Report
Definition of CoE KPIs

The performance indicators identified in the application will be used as the starting point to define the Key Performance Indicators of the CoE, and its ability to achieve the identified impacts .

1st Review of the Affiliates Programme

1st Revision of the Affiliates Programme.

Strategic Research Programme

This deliverable is an update of the research strategy developed in the Business Plan, preparing a roadmap to steer the development of excellent research towards innovation. It will set up the Research Units (RU), and will create the conditions for implementing the research strategy.

Implementation Plan for Ethics and Animal Welfare Guidelines

This document reviews the best practices in the UM services CECEMA Centre dElevage et de Conditionnement Exprimental des Modles Animaux and get advice from them and will receive inputs from UM researchers involved in this component Given the research focus of the CoE particular attention will be given to the aspects regarding experiments with animals and the quality of the facilities to keep animals in captivity while complying with the three Rs strategy replacement reduction and refinement

Communication, Dissemination & Exploitation Plan

The CDE Plan main objectives are i To raise regional national and international awareness recognition and attractiveness of BIOPOLIS RI promoting its areas of excellence ii To disseminate BIOPOLISs research and innovation enabling others to use and take up results and thus maximising its impact iii To identify relevant audiences markets and business segments in order to create and foster concrete exploitation of research results and iv to contribute to fund raising and the sustainability of the CoE The Plan will detail the activities to be carried out including for instance the partner responsibilities in their implementation the calendar and the models of implementation

1st Research Funding Review

1st review of the Research Funding activities including participation in the final opportunities from H2020, in the Horizon Europe calls and future framework Programmes and accessing to Portuguese funds.

Open Research Data Pilot (2)

Review of the Data Management Plan including ORDP: Open Research Data Pilot

Revision and update of the Data Management Plan.

Data Management Plan including ORDP: Open Research Data Pilot

This Plan will include the provisions for making data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR), and it will describe the open access policies, following the guidelines set in the H2020 Online Manual.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (90)

The population bottleneck of the Iberian wolf impacted genetic diversity but not admixture with domestic dogs: A temporal genomic approach

Author(s): Diana Lobo, José Vicente López‐Bao, Raquel Godinho
Published in: Molecular Ecology, Issue 32, 2023, Page(s) 5986-5999, ISSN 0962-1083
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mec.17171

Ancient dog introgression into the Iberian wolf genome may have facilitated adaptation to human-dominated landscapes

Author(s): Diana Lobo, Hernán E. Morales, Cock Van Oosterhout, José Vicente López-Bao, Pedro Silva, Luis Llaneza, Carolina Pacheco, Diana Castro, Germán Hernández-Alonso, George Pacheco, John Archer, M. Tho
Published in: Genome Research, Issue 35, 2025, Page(s) 432-445, ISSN 1088-9051
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
DOI: 10.1101/gr.279093.124

The Terrific Skink bite force suggests insularity as a likely driver to exceptional resource use

Author(s): Michael J. Jowers, Yuri Simone, Anthony Herrel, M. Pilar Cabezas, Raquel Xavier, Magaly Holden, Renaud Boistel, John C. Murphy, Mathieu Santin, Stephane Caut, Renoir J. Auguste, Arie van der Meijden, Franco Andreone & Ivan Ineich
Published in: Scientific Reports, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-08148-6

A meta-analysis of biocontrol potential and herbivore pressure in olive crops: Does integrated pest management make a difference?

Author(s): Sasha Vasconcelos, Mattias Jonsson, Ruben Heleno, Francisco Moreira, Pedro Beja
Published in: Basic and Applied Ecology, Issue 63, 2025, Page(s) 115-124, ISSN 1439-1791
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2022.05.009

An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola

Author(s): Mariana P. Marques, Diogo Parrinha, Manuel Lopes-Lima, Arthur Tiutenko, Aaron M. Bauer, Luis M. P. Ceríaco
Published in: ZooKeys, Issue 1201, 2024, Page(s) 167-217, ISSN 1313-2989
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1201.120750

How vulnerable are bryophytes to climate change? Developing new species and community vulnerability indices

Author(s): H. Hespanhol, K. Cezón, J. Muñoz, R.G. Mateo, J. Gonçalves
Published in: Ecological Indicators, 2022, ISSN 1872-7034
Publisher: ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108643

Occult hepatitis C infection: viruses with infectious potential in Huh7.5 and MDBK cell lines suggest HCV/OCI transmission

Author(s): Eliane Silva, Sara Marques, Hugo Osorio, Bernardo Canhao, Joao Madaleno, Adelia Simao, Armando Carvalho
Published in: Pharmacy & Pharmacology International Journal, Issue 11, 2023, Page(s) 1-8, ISSN 2379-6367
Publisher: MedCrave Group Kft.
DOI: 10.15406/ppij.2023.11.00394

Demography and evolutionary history of grey wolf populations around the Bering Strait

Author(s): Carolina Pacheco, Astrid Vik Stronen, Bogumiła Jędrzejewska, Kamila Plis, Innokentiy M. Okhlopkov, Nikolay V. Mamaev, Sergei V. Drovetski, Raquel Godinho
Published in: Molecular Ecology, Issue 31, 2023, Page(s) 4851-4865, ISSN 0962-1083
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16613

Dietary Variation Is Driven by Landscape Heterogeneity in an Insular Omnivorous Endemic Lizard, Revealed by DNA Metabarcoding

Author(s): Catarina Rato, Thomas Dellinger, Miguel A. Carretero
Published in: Diversity, Issue 14, 2025, Page(s) 1078, ISSN 1424-2818
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/d14121078

Evolutionary history of the roan antelope across its African range

Author(s): Margarida Gonçalves, Hans R. Siegismund, Bettine Jansen van Vuuren, Nuno Ferrand, Raquel Godinho
Published in: Journal of Biogeography, Issue 48, 2023, Page(s) 2812-2827, ISSN 0305-0270
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.14241

CView: A network based tool for enhanced alignment visualization

Author(s): Raquel Linheiro, Stephen Sabatino, Diana Lobo, John Archer
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 17, 2022, Page(s) e0259726, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259726

A common statement on anthropogenic hybridization of the European wildcat (Felis silvestris)

Author(s): Beatrice Nussberger, Soraia Barbosa, Mark Beaumont, Mathias Currat, Sébastien Devillard, Marco Heurich, Jo Howard-McCombe, Federica Mattucci, Carsten Nowak, Claudio Sebastián Quilodrán, Helen Senn,
Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Issue 11, 2023, ISSN 2296-701X
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1156387

Multiple Lines of Ecological Evidence Support Ancient Contact Between the African Wild Dog and the Dhole

Author(s): Rita Gomes Rocha, João Gonçalves, Pedro Tarroso, Pedro Monterroso, Raquel Godinho
Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Issue 10, 2022, ISSN 2296-701X
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.803822

Multi-temporal remote sensing of inland surface waters: A fusion of sentinel-1&2 data applied to small seasonal ponds in semiarid environments

Author(s): Francesco Valerio, Sérgio Godinho, Gonçalo Ferraz, Ricardo Pita, João Gameiro, Bruno Silva, Ana Teresa Marques, João Paulo Silva
Published in: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Issue 135, 2025, Page(s) 104283, ISSN 1569-8432
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2024.104283

Fine-scale survey of intertidal macroalgae reveals recent changes in a cold-water biogeographic stronghold

Author(s): Cátia Monteiro, Joana Pereira, Rui Seabra and Fernando P. Lima
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.880074

Phylogenetic evidence suggests the non-validity of the Iberian land snail genus Tartessiberus and confirms its synonymy with Iberus (Helicidae)

Author(s): Michael J. Jowers, José Liétor, Antonio R. Tudela, Pedro A. Jódar, Inés Galán-Luque, Gregorio Moreno-Rueda
Published in: ZooKeys, Issue 1201, 2024, Page(s) 219-231, ISSN 1313-2989
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1201.117318

Using GPS and accelerometer data to remotely detect breeding events in two elusive ground-nesting steppe birds

Author(s): Gonçalo Ferraz, Carlos Pacheco, Mario Fernández-Tizón, Ana T. Marques, Paulo C. Alves, João P. Silva, François Mougeot
Published in: Animal Biotelemetry, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2050-3385
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s40317-024-00385-y

Novel method to investigate thermal exchange rates in small, terrestrial ectotherms: A proof-of-concept on the gecko Tarentola mauritanica

Author(s): Gabriel Mochales-Riaño, Frederico M. Barroso, Valéria Marques, Alexandra E. Telea, Marco Sannolo, Catarina Rato, Miguel A. Carretero
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 19, 2024, Page(s) e0316283, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0316283

On taming the effect of transcript level intra-condition count variation during differential expression analysis: A story of dogs, foxes and wolves

Author(s): Diana Lobo, Raquel Linheiro, Raquel Godinho, John Patrick Archer
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 17, 2022, Page(s) e0274591, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0274591

The rabbit as an animal model to study innate immunity genes: Is it better than mice?

Author(s): João Soares, Ana Pinheiro, Pedro José Esteves
Published in: Frontiers in Immunology, Issue 13, 2022, ISSN 1664-3224
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.981815

The genetics of adaptation in freshwater Eurasian shad ( Alosa)

Author(s): Stephen J. Sabatino, Paulo Pereira, Miguel Carneiro, Jolita Dilytė, John Patrick Archer, Antonio Munoz, Francesco Nonnis-Marzano, Antonio Murias
Published in: Ecology and Evolution, 2022, ISSN 2045-7758
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8908

Alien but not that one: a molecular reassessment of the Alborán Island’s Saurodactylus Fitzinger, 1846 gecko

Author(s): Catarina Rato, Lekshmi Sreelatha, José Mateo, Miguel Carretero
Published in: BioInvasions Records, Issue 12, 2023, Page(s) 313-320, ISSN 2242-1300
Publisher: Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC)
DOI: 10.3391/bir.2023.12.1.28

Multiple genomic ancestries in the broom hare mark the complex biogeographic history of hares in the Iberian Peninsula

Author(s): João Souto, João P Marques, Liliana Farelo, José Costa, João Queirós, Christian Pietri, Fernando Ballesteros, Paulo C Alves, Pierre Boursot, José Melo-Ferreira
Published in: Evolution, Issue 79, 2025, Page(s) 1469-1479, ISSN 0014-3820
Publisher: Society for the Study of Evolution
DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpaf082

DNA Markers for Detection and Genotyping of Xanthomonas euroxanthea

Author(s): Kayla Gisela Silva,Leonor Martins,Miguel Teixeira,Joël F. Pothier and Fernando Tavares
Published in: Microorganisms, 2022, ISSN 2076-2607
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10061078

Predicting the expansion of invasive species: how much data do we need?

Author(s): Joana Santana, Neftalí Sillero, Joana Ribeiro, César Capinha, Ricardo Jorge Lopes, Luís Reino
Published in: NeoBiota, Issue 95, 2024, Page(s) 109-132, ISSN 1314-2488
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/neobiota.95.122335

Incorporating fire-smartness into agricultural policies reduces suppression costs and ecosystem services damages from wildfires

Author(s): Judit Lecina-Diaz, María-Luisa Chas-Amil, Núria Aquilué, Ângelo Sil, Lluís Brotons, Adrián Regos, Julia Touza
Published in: Journal of Environmental Management, Issue 337, 2025, Page(s) 117707, ISSN 0301-4797
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117707

Canopy arthropod declines along a gradient of olive farming intensification

Author(s): Sasha Vasconcelos, Sílvia Pina, José M. Herrera, Bruno Silva, Pedro Sousa, Miguel Porto, Nereida Melguizo-Ruiz, Gerardo Jiménez-Navarro, Sónia Ferreira, Francisco Moreira, Ruben Heleno, Mattias Jo
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 12, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-21480-1

Lymphocystis viral disease impacts the diversity and functional profiles of the skin microbiome in gilthead seabream

Author(s): Raquel Xavier, Marcos Pérez-Losada, Sofia Marques Silva, Marilia Lino, Maria João Faleiro, Paula Canada
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1470572

Performance of post-mortem diagnostic tests for tuberculosis in wild ungulates at low and high prevalence assessed using Bayesian latent class models

Author(s): Beatriz Cardoso, Saúl Jiménez-Ruiz, Alberto Perelló Jiménez, Miguel Nóvoa, João P. V. Santos, Margarida Correia-Neves, Christian Gortázar, Nuno Santos
Published in: Frontiers in Veterinary Science, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2297-1769
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2024.1415277

The introduction and spread of rye (Secale cereale) in the Iberian Peninsula

Author(s): Luís Seabra, Andrés Teira-Brión, Inés López-Dóriga, María Martín-Seijo, Rubim Almeida, João Pedro Tereso
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 18, 2024, Page(s) e0284222, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0284222

Forest type modulates mammalian responses to megafires

Author(s): Marcelo Magioli, Luanne Helena Augusto Lima, Priscilla Marqui Schmidt Villela, Ricardo Sampaio, Lilian Bonjorne, Renan Lieto Alves Ribeiro, Daniel Luis Zanella Kantek, Selma Samiko Miyazaki, Thiago B.
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-64460-3

Disentangling climatic and nest predator impact on reproductive output reveals adverse high‐temperature effects regardless of helper number in an arid‐region cooperative bird

Author(s): Pietro B. D’Amelio, André C. Ferreira, Rita Fortuna, Matthieu Paquet, Liliana R. Silva, Franck Theron, Claire Doutrelant, Rita Covas
Published in: Ecology Letters, Issue 25, 2023, Page(s) 151-162, ISSN 1461-023X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13913

An updated herpetofauna species inventory of Iona National Park in Southwestern Angola

Author(s): Javier Lobón-Rovira, Pedro Vaz Pinto, François S. Becker, Krystal A. Tolley, John Measey, Bruce Bennet, Bastiaan Boon, Sango de Sá, Werner Conradie
Published in: Check List, 2022, ISSN 1809-127X
Publisher: Centro de Referencia em Informacao Ambiental
DOI: 10.15560/18.2.289

Long-Term Monitoring of In-Water Abundance of Juvenile Pelagic Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta): Population Trends in Relation to North Atlantic Oscillation and Nesting

Author(s): Thomas Dellinger, Vladimir Zekovic, Marko Radeta
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 9, 2023, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.877636

Origins and taxonomic status of Hemidactylus geckos on the Îles Éparses of the Western Indian Ocean

Author(s): D. James Harris, Mickaël Sanchez, Sara Rocha
Published in: Herpetozoa, Issue 37, 2024, Page(s) 181-187, ISSN 2682-955X
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e118699

Adaptive or non-adaptive? Cranial evolution in a radiation of miniaturized day geckos

Author(s): Javier Lobón-Rovira, Jesus Marugán-Lobón, Sergio M. Nebreda, David Buckley, Edward L. Stanley, Stephanie Köhnk, Frank Glaw, Werner Conradie, Aaron M. Bauer
Published in: BMC Ecology and Evolution, Issue 24, 2024, ISSN 2730-7182
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-024-02344-w

Environmental and topographic drivers of amphibian phylogenetic diversity and endemism in the Iberian Peninsula

Author(s): Maria João Paúl, Dan Rosauer, Pedro Tarroso, Guillermo Velo‐Antón, Sílvia B. Carvalho
Published in: Ecology and Evolution, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-7758
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9666

Toxic Habits: An Analysis of General Trends and Biases in Snake Venom Research

Author(s): Ignazio Avella, Wolfgang Wüster, Luca Luiselli, Fernando Martínez-Freiría
Published in: Toxins, Issue 14, 2025, Page(s) 884, ISSN 2072-6651
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/toxins14120884

Evidence for Extensive Duplication and Subfunctionalization of FCRL6 in Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus)

Author(s): Maria Carolina Matos, Ana Pinheiro, Randall S. Davis, Pedro J. Esteves
Published in: International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Issue 24, 2025, Page(s) 4531, ISSN 1422-0067
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/ijms24054531

Evolution of TRIM5 and TRIM22 in Bats Reveals a Complex Duplication Process

Author(s): Alexandre P. Fernandes, Ana Águeda-Pinto, Ana Pinheiro, Hugo Rebelo, Pedro J. Esteves
Published in: Viruses, Issue 14, 2025, Page(s) 345, ISSN 1999-4915
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/v14020345

The leaf idioblastome of the medicinal plant<i>Catharanthus roseus</i>is associated with stress resistance and alkaloid metabolism

Author(s): Joana G Guedes, Rogério Ribeiro, Inês Carqueijeiro, Ana Luísa Guimarães, Cláudia Bispo, John Archer, Herlander Azevedo, Nuno A Fonseca, Mariana Sottomayor
Published in: Journal of Experimental Botany, Issue 75, 2024, Page(s) 274-299, ISSN 0022-0957
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erad374

MIMt: a curated 16S rRNA reference database with less redundancy and higher accuracy at species-level identification

Author(s): M. Pilar Cabezas, Nuno A. Fonseca, Antonio Muñoz-Mérida
Published in: Environmental Microbiome, Issue 19, 2024, ISSN 2524-6372
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s40793-024-00634-w

Uncovering a 500 million year old history and evidence of pseudogenization for TLR15

Author(s): Fabiana Neves, Antonio Muñoz-Mérida, André M. Machado, Tereza Almeida, Arnaud Gaigher, Pedro J. Esteves, L. Filipe C. Castro, Ana Veríssimo
Published in: Frontiers in Immunology, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 1664-3224
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.1020601

Phylogenetic relationships, distribution, and conservation of Roosmalens’ dwarf porcupine, Coendou roosmalenorum Voss &amp;amp; da Silva, 2001 (Rodentia, Erethizontidae)

Author(s): Fernando Heberson Menezes, Thiago Borges Fernandes Semedo, Juliane Saldanha, Guilherme Siniciato Terra Garbino, Hugo Fernandes-Ferreira, Pedro Cordeiro-Estrela, Itayguara Ribeiro da Costa
Published in: ZooKeys, Issue 1179, 2023, Page(s) 139-155, ISSN 1313-2989
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1179.108766

Genome-wide variation in the Angolan Namib Desert reveals unique pre-Bantu ancestry

Author(s): Sandra Oliveira, Anne-Maria Fehn, Beatriz Amorim, Mark Stoneking, Jorge Rocha
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 9, 2024, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adh3822

Spatial ecology of the invasive Asian common toad in Madagascar and its implications for invasion dynamics

Author(s): Fulvio Licata, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Mattia Falaschi, Benjamin J. Muller, Franco Andreone, Rodino Fetrarijahona Harison, Karen Freeman, Antonio T. Monteiro, Sophia Rosa, Angelica Crottini
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-29467-2

Extensive MHC class IIβ diversity across multiple loci in the small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula)

Author(s): Arnaud Gaigher, Alessia Rota, Fabiana Neves, Antonio Muñoz-Mérida, Javier Blasco-Aróstegui, Tereza Almeida, Ana Veríssimo
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-30876-6

Assessing the performance of historical skins and bones for museomics using wolf specimens as a case study

Author(s): Carolina Pacheco, Diana Lobo, Pedro Silva, Francisco Álvares, Emilio J. García, Diana Castro, Jorge F. Layna, José Vicente López-Bao, Raquel Godinho
Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Issue 10, 2022, ISSN 2296-701X
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.970249

Table for two: Diet composition differences of allopatric and sympatric populations of island geckos

Author(s): Catarina J. Pinho, Bárbara Santos, Vanessa A. Mata, Ricardo J. Lopes, Maria M. Romeiras, Evandro P. Lopes, Paulo C. Alves, Brent C. Emerson, Raquel Vasconcelos
Published in: Global Ecology and Conservation, Issue 57, 2025, Page(s) e03412, ISSN 2351-9894
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2025.e03412

High Mortality of Wild European Rabbits during a Natural Outbreak of Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease GI.2 Revealed by a Capture-Mark-Recapture Study

Author(s): Saúl Jiménez-Ruiz, Marta Rafael, Joana Coelho, Henrique Pacheco, Manuel Fernandes, Paulo Célio Alves, Nuno Santos
Published in: Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Issue 2023, 2023, Page(s) 1-9, ISSN 1865-1674
Publisher: Blackwell-Wiss.-Verl
DOI: 10.1155/2023/3451338

Beta-lactam antimicrobials activity and the diversity of blaZ gene in Staphylococcus aureus isolates from bovine mastitis in the northwest of Portugal

Author(s): Rachid Hnini, Eliane Silva, Luís Pinho, Mohamed Najimi, Gertrude Thompson
Published in: Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, Issue 53, 2024, ISSN 1516-3598
Publisher: Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia
DOI: 10.37496/rbz5320230024

COI Metabarcoding Provides Insights into the Highly Diverse Diet of a Generalist Salamander, Salamandra salamandra (Caudata: Salamandridae)

Author(s): Adam J. D. Marques, Vanessa A. Mata, Guillermo Velo-Antón
Published in: Diversity, Issue 14, 2025, Page(s) 89, ISSN 1424-2818
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/d14020089

The evolutionary pathways for local adaptation in mountain hares

Author(s): Iwona Giska, João Pimenta, Liliana Farelo, Pierre Boursot, Klaus Hackländer, Hannes Jenny, Neil Reid, W Ian Montgomery, Paulo A Prodöhl, Paulo C Alves, José Melo-Ferreira
Published in: Molecular Ecology, 2022, ISSN 1365-294X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16338

New data on the diversity and distribution of lineages of the Acanthodactylus erythrurus species complex in North Africa derived from mitochondrial DNA markers

Author(s): D. James Harris, Dimitra Sergiadou, J. Filipe Faria
Published in: Herpetozoa, Issue 37, 2024, Page(s) 281-286, ISSN 2682-955X
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e118175

A treasure trove of endemics: two new species of snake-eyed skinks of the genus Panaspis Cope, 1868 (Squamata, Scincidae) from the Serra da Neve Inselberg, southwestern Angola

Author(s): Mariana P. Marques, Diogo Parrinha, Manuel Lopes-Lima, Arthur Tiutenko, Aaron M. Bauer, Luis M. P. Ceríaco
Published in: Evolutionary Systematics, Issue 8, 2024, Page(s) 167-182, ISSN 2535-0730
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.8.121103

The effect of powerlines on bustards: how best to mitigate, how best to monitor?

Author(s): João Paulo Silva, João Paulo Silva, Ana Teresa Marques, Joana Bernardino, Tris Allinson, Yuri Andryushchenko, Sutirtha Dutta, Mimi Kessler, Ricardo C. Martins, Francisco Moreira, John Pallett, Mattheuns D. Pretorius, H. Ann Scott, Jessica M. Shaw and Nigel J. Collar
Published in: Bird Conservation Intrenational, 2022, ISSN 1467-2235
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0959270922000314

Rhodolith beds and their onshore transport in Fuerteventura Island (Canary Archipelago, Spain)

Author(s): Ana Cristina Rebelo, Esther Martín-González, Carlos S. Melo, Markes E. Johnson, Alberto González-Rodríguez, Inés Galindo, Rui Quartau, Lara Baptista, Sérgio P. Ávila, Michael W. Rasser
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 9, 2022, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.917883

Genetic analysis of <i>Pinna rudis</i> L 1758 (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pinnidae) in the Northwest Cabo Verde Islands (Central-East Atlantic)

Author(s): Evandro P. Lopes, Sarah Santos, Raquel Xavier, Joana L. Santos, M. Pilar Cabezas, Fernando Sequeira, António M. Santos
Published in: PeerJ, Issue 13, 2025, Page(s) e18328, ISSN 2167-8359
Publisher: PeerJ
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.18328

Age-related spatial ecology of Audouin’s gull during the non-breeding season

Author(s): R Ponti, V Morera-Pujol, Á Sallent, J González-Solís, R Ramos
Published in: Endangered Species Research, Issue 55, 2024, Page(s) 155-167, ISSN 1863-5407
Publisher: Inter-Research Science Center
DOI: 10.3354/esr01370

Clarifying the taxonomy of some cryptic blennies (Blenniidae) in their native and introduced range

Author(s): M. Pilar Cabezas, Oscar M. Lasso-Alcalá, Elena Quintero-T, Raquel Xavier, Tommaso Giarrizzo, Jorge L. S. Nunes, Fabiola S. Machado, Jesús Gómez, Wellington Silva Pedroza & Michael J. Jowers
Published in: Scientific Reports, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-12580-z

Draft genome and multi-tissue transcriptome assemblies of the Neotropical leaf-frog <i>Phyllomedusa bahiana</i>

Author(s): Pedro Andrade, Mariana L Lyra, Juliana Zina, Deivson F O Bastos, Andrés E Brunetti, Délio Baêta, Sandra Afonso, Tuliana O Brunes, Pedro P G Taucce, Miguel Carneiro, Célio F B Haddad, Fernando Sequ
Published in: G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, Issue 12, 2022, ISSN 2160-1836
Publisher: Genetics Society of America
DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkac270

Metabarcoding analysis of different portions of the digestive tract of scorpions (Scorpiones, Arachnida) following a controlled diet regime shows long prey <scp>DNA</scp> half‐life

Author(s): Yuri Simone, Cátia Chaves, Arie van der Meijden, Bastian Egeter
Published in: Environmental DNA, Issue 4, 2023, Page(s) 1176-1186, ISSN 2637-4943
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/edn3.311

Individual variability in space use near power lines by a long‐lived territorial raptor

Author(s): Ana Teresa Marques, Luís Palma, Rui Lourenço, Rogério Cangarato, Alexandre Leitão, Miguel Mascarenhas, João Tiago Tavares, Ricardo Tomé, Francisco Moreira, Pedro Beja
Published in: Ecology and Evolution, Issue 12, 2023, ISSN 2045-7758
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8811

Filling the gaps: herpetological checklist of Mayombe National Park and Cabinda Province (Angola) shed light on one of the most unexplored corners of tropical Central Africa

Author(s): Javier Lobón-Rovira, Ninda L Baptista, Tyron Clark, Luke Verburgt, Gregory FM Jongsma, Werner Conradie, Luis Veríssimo, Pedro Vaz Pinto
Published in: African Journal of Herpetology, Issue 74, 2025, Page(s) 1-59, ISSN 2156-4574
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2024.2421007

Trophic interactions of an invasive gecko in an endemic-rich oceanic island: Insights using DNA metabarcoding

Author(s): Beatriz Martins, Iolanda Silva-Rocha, Vanessa A. Mata, Ysabel Gonçalves, Ricardo Rocha, Catarina Rato
Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Issue 10, 2022, ISSN 2296-701X
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.1044230

Social‐ecological memory: From concepts and methods to applications

Author(s): Ana R. Cardoso, Cláudia Fernandes, João P. Honrado
Published in: Geographical Research, Issue 63, 2025, Page(s) 179-198, ISSN 1745-5863
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1745-5871.12683

The InBIO Barcoding Initiative Database: contribution to the knowledge on DNA barcodes of cuckoo wasps, with the description of new species from the Iberian Peninsula (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae)

Author(s): Paolo Rosa, Thomas Wood, Teresa Luísa Silva, Joana Veríssimo, Vanessa Mata, Denis Michez, Pedro Beja, Sónia Ferreira
Published in: Biodiversity Data Journal, Issue 11, 2023, ISSN 1314-2828
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/bdj.11.e98743

Not so monochromatic: Size-dependency of both sex and color in the cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus

Author(s): Sandra Trigo, Pauline Narvaez, Gonçalo C. Cardoso, Marta C. Soares
Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Issue 11, 2023, ISSN 2296-701X
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1110079

Modelling technical and biological biases in macroinvertebrate community assessment from bulk preservative using multiple metabarcoding markers

Author(s): Filipa M. S. Martins, Miguel Porto, Maria J. Feio, Bastian Egeter, Aurélie Bonin, Sónia R. Q. Serra, Pierre Taberlet, Pedro Beja
Published in: Molecular Ecology, 2020, ISSN 0962-1083
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mec.15620

Iron age genomic data from Althiburos – Tunisia renew the debate on the origins of African taurine cattle

Author(s): Catarina Ginja, Silvia Guimarães, Rute R. da Fonseca, Rita Rasteiro, Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela, Luciana G. Simões, Cindy Sarmento, Maria Carme Belarte, Nabil Kallala, Joan Ramon Torres, Joan Sanmart
Published in: iScience, Issue 26, 2024, Page(s) 107196, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107196

Evolutionary analyses of polymeric immunoglobulin receptor (pIgR) in the mammals reveals an outstanding mutation rate in the lagomorphs

Author(s): Fabiana Neves, Patrícia de Sousa-Pereira, José Melo-Ferreira, Pedro J. Esteves, Ana Pinheiro
Published in: Frontiers in Immunology, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 1664-3224
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.1009387

Multi‐species occupancy modeling reveals methodological and environmental effects on eDNA detection of amphibians in temporary ponds

Author(s): Sara Peixoto, Mário Mota‐Ferreira, Cátia Chaves, Guillermo Velo‐Antón, Pedro Beja, Bastian Egeter
Published in: Environmental DNA, Issue 5, 2023, Page(s) 796-811, ISSN 2637-4943
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/edn3.443

The mitochondrial genomes of Iberian freshwater and diadromous fishes

Author(s): Joana Veríssimo, Manuel Curto, Maria Judite Alves, Pedro Raposo de Almeida, Enric Aparicio, Miguel Clavero, Cátia Chaves, Carlos Fernandez-Delgado, Jesús Hernández, Sissel Jentoft, Lukáš Kalous,
Published in: Scientific Data, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-04297-7

The IgA of hares (Lepus sp.) and rabbit confirms that the leporids IgA explosion is old and reveals a new case of trans-species polymorphism

Author(s): Ana Pinheiro, Patrícia de Sousa-Pereira, Pedro J. Esteves
Published in: Frontiers in Immunology, Issue 14, 2023, ISSN 1664-3224
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1192460

Drivers of irrigated olive grove expansion in Mediterranean landscapes and associated biodiversity impacts

Author(s): Rui Morgado, Paulo Flores Ribeiro, José Lima Santos, Francisco Rego, Pedro Beja, Francisco Moreira
Published in: Landscape and Urban Planning, Issue 225, 2025, Page(s) 104429, ISSN 0169-2046
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104429

Combining bird tracking data with high-resolution thermal mapping to identify microclimate refugia

Author(s): Rita F. Ramos, Aldina M. A. Franco, James J. Gilroy, João P. Silva
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-31746-x

Fine-scale abundance of rocky shore macroalgae species with distribution limits in NW Iberia in 2020/2021

Author(s): Joana Pereira, Catia Monteiro, Rui Seabra, Fernando P Lima
Published in: Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022, ISSN 1314-2828
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers Ltd
DOI: 10.3897/bdj.10.e80798

The legacy of recurrent introgression during the Radiation of Hares

Author(s): MAFALDA S. FERREIRA, MATTHEW R. JONES, COLIN M. CALLAHAN, LILIANA FARELO, ZELALEM TOLESA, FRANZ SUCHENTRUNK, PIERRE BOURSOT, L. SCOTT MILLS7, PAULO C. ALVES, JEFFREY M. GOOD, AND JOSÉ MELO-FERREIRA
Published in: Systematic Biology, 2021, ISSN 1063-5157
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syaa088

Combining DNA metabarcoding and ecological networks to inform conservation biocontrol by small vertebrate predators

Author(s): Vanessa A. Mata, Luis P. da Silva, Joana Veríssimo, Pedro Horta, Helena Raposeira, Gary F. McCracken, Hugo Rebelo, Pedro Beja
Published in: Ecological Applications, Issue 31, 2023, ISSN 1051-0761
Publisher: Ecological Society of America
DOI: 10.1002/eap.2457

Counteracting forces of introgressive hybridization and interspecific competition shape the morphological traits of cryptic Iberian Eptesicus bats

Author(s): Pedro Horta, Helena Raposeira, Adrián Baños, Carlos Ibáñez, Orly Razgour, Hugo Rebelo, Javier Juste
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 12, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-15412-2

Biogeographical patterns of amphibians and reptiles in the northernmost coastal montane complex of South America

Author(s): Gilson A. Rivas,Oscar M. Lasso-Alcalá,Douglas Rodríguez-Olarte,Mayke De Freitas,John C. Murphy,Cristian Pizzigalli,John C. Weber,Laurent de Verteuil,Michael J. Jowers
Published in: PLoS One, 2021, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246829

Evolution of primate interferon-induced transmembrane proteins (IFITMs): a story of gain and loss with a differentiation into a canonical cluster and IFITM retrogenes

Author(s): Luca Schelle, Joana Abrantes, Hanna-Mari Baldauf, Pedro José Esteves
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 14, 2023, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1213685

Oceanic islands act as drivers for the genetic diversity of marine species: Cardita calyculata (Linnaeus, 1758) in the NE Atlantic as a case-study

Author(s): Livia Sinigaglia, L Baptista, C Alves, F Feldmann, C Sacchetti, C Rupprecht, T Vijayan, E Martín-González, SP Ávila, AM Santos, M Curto, H Meimberg
Published in: BMC Ecology and Evolution, Issue 24, 2024, ISSN 2730-7182
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-024-02322-2

African Forest elephants persist in Guinea-Bissau but require an emergency conservation plan

Author(s): Luís Palma, Raquel Godinho, Quebá Quecuta, Tomé Mereck, João Mandeck, Teli Uri Só, Juan Pablo Cancela, Pedro Beja
Published in: Oryx, Issue 58, 2024, Page(s) 125-128, ISSN 0030-6053
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0030605323000674

Colonization routes uncovered in a widely introduced Mediterranean gecko, Tarentola mauritanica

Author(s): Catarina Rato, Gregory Deso, Julien Renet, Michel Jean Delaugerre, Valéria Marques, Gabriel Mochales-Riaño
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-43704-8

A nationwide collapse of a priority grassland bird related to livestock conversion and intensification

Author(s): João Paulo Silva, Ana Teresa Marques, Carlos Carrapato, Rui Machado, Rita Alcazar, Ana Delgado, Carlos Godinho, Gonçalo Elias, João Gameiro
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-36751-8

Environmental Gradients in Lizard Colouration

Author(s): Lekshmi B. Sreelatha, Pedro Tarroso, Ossi Nokelainen, Zbyszek Boratyński, Miguel Angel Carretero
Published in: Ecology and Evolution, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-7758
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.71012

Preserving wintering frugivorous birds in agro‐ecosystems under land use change: Lessons from intensive and super‐intensive olive orchards

Author(s): Rui Morgado, Rui Pedroso, Miguel Porto, José M. Herrera, Francisco Rego, Francisco Moreira, Pedro Beja
Published in: Journal of Applied Ecology, Issue 58, 2023, Page(s) 2975-2986, ISSN 0021-8901
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14029

Evidence of a twofold ecological trap driven by agricultural change causing a priority farmland bird population crash

Author(s): João Gameiro, Ana Teresa Marques, Luís Venâncio, Francesco Valerio, Carlos Pacheco, Américo Guedes, José Pereira, Luís Ribeiro, Francisco Moreira, Pedro Beja, Beatriz Arroyo, João Paulo Silva
Published in: Conservation Science and Practice, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2578-4854
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/csp2.13168

Automating microsatellite screening and primer design from multi-individual libraries using Micro-Primers

Author(s): Filipe Alves, Filipa M. S. Martins, Miguel Areias, Antonio Muñoz-Mérida
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 12, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-04275-8

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Characterization of the oral microbiome of medicated type-2 diabetes patients

Author(s): Ana Almeida-Santos, Daniela Martins-Mendes, Magdalena Gayà-Vidal, Lucía Pérez-Pardal and Albano Beja-Pereira
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.610370

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