Claudia Marcia Aparecida Carareto

• Abstract

  Preservation of biodiversity appears as one of the major objectives of this century policies, so that 2010 was celebrated as the year of biodiversity. As far as biodiversity is concerned, the notion of species is of fundamental interest as well as is of fundamental interest to understand the mechanism driving to speciation and how adaptation occurs in the presence of new environments. The…

  Ecological transition and diversification in Drosophila, AP.R

• Abstract

  This project aims to understand the functional and evolutionary dynamics of transposable elements (TEs) within and between drosophilid species focusing on two main issues. The first will investigate whether the impact of genomic stress resultant from hybridization causes activation of TEs, and whether this activation may be associated with post-zygotic reproductive isolation. For this, tw…

  FUNCTIONAL AND EVOLUTIONARY DINAMICS OF TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS WITHIN AND BETWEEN SPECIES, AP.R

• Abstract

  The request aims the coming of Dr. Cristina Vieira to Brazil, for the period 16 to 23 February 2014, to conduct research activities at the Laboratory of Molecular Evolution, under my coordination, and academic activities in the Graduate Program of Genetics, at the IBILCE/ UNESP/campus São José do Rio Preto. The coming of Dr. Cristina Vieira is related to the project "Analysis of the trans…

  Transcriptome analysis of Drosophila mojavensis and D. arizonae hybrids, AV.EXT

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)

• Abstract

  The gene OdsH was the first speciation gene described in Drosophila, known for its role in reproductive isolation between the species Drosophila simulans and D. mauritiana, being related to the male hybrid sterility. It is proposed that OdsH originated from a duplication of the gene unc-4, in subgenus Sophophora, after its divergence from the subgenus Drosophila. However, our searches rea…

  Analysis of the Drosophila unc-4 gene duplication and relationships of its duplicate Odysseus (OdsH) to the post-zygotic reproductive isolation between Drosophila arizonae and D. mojavensis, BP.IC

• Abstract

  Coffee Berry Borer (CBB) is the most limiting pest of coffee production generating a decrease in production and beverage quality. Besides of his importance as agriculture pest, CBB has special biological characteristics that make it a interesting non-model species.Has a reproductive behaviour that make it highly inbred and a special sex determination system called functional haplodiplody,…

  Transposable elements and genome evolution in coffee berry borer - Hypothenemus hampei - (Coleoptera: Scolytinae), BP.DD

• Abstract

  Speciation is one of the key events in the evolutionary process. In sexual organisms, speciation occurs when a reproductive barrier is established between two populations, preventing the cross between them. Such barriers may be pre-zygotic, limiting the potential for heterospecific mating through ecological, behavior, and mechanical incompatibility, or post-zygotic, in which the hybrids a…

  Interpopulation and interspecific divergence and selective process acting in orthologous genes fruitless and Odysseus in Drosophila mojavensis and Drosophila arizonae, BP.MS

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• Assessment of feasibility of using mobile elements to drive genes into populations of insect vectors of disease, BE.PQ