CV Lattes
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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Biociências (IB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
bachelor's at Ciencias Biologicas from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1991), master's at Genetics from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1995) and doctorate at Genetics from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2000). Has experience in Genetics, focusing on Quantitative Genetics, acting on the following subjects: evolução morfológica, genética quantitativa, forças evolutivas, biogeografia and primatas neotropicais. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Individuals are composed of suites of traits that arise from a common genome through shared developmental processes that together determine their fitness. Consequently, fundamental to our understanding of the genetic basis and evolution of complex traits is the concept of pleiotropy, where a single gene affects the expression of multiple traits. Although patterns of pleiotropy have import…
Modularity in Biology refers to the pattern of connections among elements: genes, proteins, morphological traits. This pattern emerges whenever a high connectivity between some elements in the system exists, forming modules, and at the same time those same elements are more loosely connected to other elements that compose other modules. Many types of modules have been recognized in Biolo…
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The Platyrrhini are the only representative primates, other than humans, that inhabit the Americas. Endemic to this continent, the Platyrrhini are divided into, at least, 110 species (Marroig & Cheverud, 2005) and 19 genera (Rylands & Mittermeier, 2009). Since their arrival on the American continent, around 40 million years ago, the Platyrrhini have undergone great size, diet, and morphol…
Catarrhini is the group of primates that has the largest geographic distribution across the globe, also exhibiting great taxonomic and ecologic niche diversity. Therefore, size variation patterns can be observed in these monkeys and to comprehend them it is necessary to understand the interactions between internal and external factors that lead to their formation. Among the external facto…
The relation between genes and phenotypes, mediated through development, is manifested in the genetic architecture. Multivariate phenotypes, composed of different traits, have their form and structure determined by a series of genes and developmental processes, resulting in a complex genetic architecture. The evolution of these phenotypes depends strongly on their genetic architecture, wh…
Rodents of the subfamily Sigmodontinae comprises the mammal clade with the greatest diversity and distribution in the Neotropics. Adapted for a wide range of lifestyles, sigmodontine pattern of diversification has been widely debated, especially through a phylogenetic, biogeography and taxonomy perspective. Studying the modularity/morphological integration of organisms is fundamental sinc…
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A great challenge in evolutionary biology is to understand how complex morphological structures arise and change during evolution. The genetic covariance structure among elements (G-matrix) in a system comprises one of the most important factors determining the evolutionary trajectory and the pace of a suite of traits in a population. If G is stable, then it can be used to predict the fu…
One of the greatest challenges of evolutionary biology is to understand the evolution of complex phenotypes composed of several traits that interact with each other. The theory of phenotypic modularity represents interactions among traits as genetic and phenotypic covariation or correlation. A fundamental undertaking in modularity studies is to uncover which evolutionary forces shaped a c…
Since morphological evolution and response to selection depend on the standing genetic variation available in a given population, how this covariation evolves is a central question in biology. The genetic covariation structure is determined by the sum of genetic effects, including mainly pleiotropic effects and linkage disequilibrium. In this internship, we intend to use data from a cro…
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