Professor in the Department of Genetics, Evolution, Microbiology and Immunology at the Institute of Biology at UNICAMP. She holds a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of São Carlos (2005), a master's degree in Animal Biology from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (2008), and a doctorate in Ecology and Evolution from the Universidad Austral de Chile (2012). She was a Young Talent scholarship holder with a postdoctoral degree from the Science without Borders Program at USP (Ribeirão Preto campus). She has experience in the area of Ecology, but currently her work focuses on molecular evolution of mammals, evolution of gene families, Genomics and Comparative Genomics, mainly focusing on aquatic mammals. She is the mother of Isabela (9) and Davi (1) and stepmother of Maitê (8) and Lara (5). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The availability of whole genome sequences is opening new opportunities to make progress in our understanding of the genomic bases of phenotypic diversity. It also allows non-model organisms to emerge as groups with great potential to answer questions regarding the nature of the evolutionary process. Among non-model organisms, aquatic mammals are particularly special because of the radica…
Convergent evolution has been a challenging topic for decades, being cetaceans, pinnipeds and sirenians textbook examples of three independent origins of equivalent phenotypes. These mammalian lineages acquired similar anatomical features correlated to an aquatic life, and remarkably differ from their terrestrial counterparts. Whether their molecular evolutionary history also involved si…
There are three independent mammalian lineages that secondarily returned to the aquatic environment: cetaceans, pinnipeds and sirenians. During their evolutionary histories, several morphological, physiological and behavioral modifications evolved, such as the ability of diving in apnea and the vasoconstriction of some organs to make the use of oxygen more efficiently during diving, resul…
There are many evidences of adaptations in organisms due to new environments colonization. In particular, the colonization of aquatic environments allows a scenario of new lineages adaptation and diversification and appears as an important issue in evolutionary biology. This proposal aims to elucidate the colonization and subsequent diversification of species in aquatic environments by im…
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An enduring goal in Evolutionary Biology is to decipher the molecular underpinnings that have driven species' evolution, leading to the vast biodiversity present on our planet today. Comparative genomics has become an indispensable approach in this endeavor, identifying specific genetic variations responsible for group divergence and highlighting genes and genomic regions associated with …
Comparative genomics has been a powerful tool for studying the molecular evolution of arange of non-model organisms and its contribution to answering key questions in evolutionary biology is expected to increase due to continuous advances in sequencing technologies. However, the quality of its results is directly proportional to the quality of the genomic data used, encouraging researcher…
Manatees (Order Sirenia) are susceptible to various threats to their populations. Naturalthreats to the Florida manatee include cold water temperatures, hurricanes, harmful algal blooms, and the spread of diseases and pathogens. Based on clinical findings, Florida manatees are naturally resistant to infectious and natural diseases, which may result from a highly developed and efficient im…
The ease in genome sequencing nowadays is increasing the number of studies in several research fields, e.g. molecular evolution and comparative genomics. However, despite the availability of many new genomes every year, theoretical studies are necessary to correctly explore this data. In this context, this project is designed to determine the best approaches while analyzing comparative ge…
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