CV Lattes
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Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Instituto de Biociências (IB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Holanda
graduation at Biology from Wageningen University (2007), master's at Biology from Wageningen University (2009) and doctorate at Biology - Ecology and Evolution from University of Copenhagen (2014). He is currently young investigator at Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho. Has experience in Ecology, focusing on Ecology, acting on the following subjects: mutualism, attini, fungus-growing ants, phylogenetics and evolution. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This project aims to understand the maintenance of mutualistic symbioses. Partners in a mutualism are in a constant conflict, with each gaining the highest benefit when the partner allocates the most resources for the least costs. In mutualisms, sexual reproduction is often controlled by the host via unknown mechanisms. Asexuality occurs frequently among polyploid organisms, such as human…
The first topic of the Project "The role of asexuality in mutualism stability" is the role of polyploidy in the maintenance of an asexual fungal crop. In general, polyploidy can lead to asexuality due to problems in mitosis (e.g., chromosome loss) and meiosis (e.g., unequal division of chromosomes) as well as conflicts in gene expression. Similar to many human-domesticated plant crops, th…
The third objective of the Project "The role of asexuality in mutualism stability" is to investigate the role fungus-growing ants have in the epigenetics of their fungal crop. The cultivars of attine ants have shown to grow mushrooms when colonies collapse (Fisher et al., 1994; Mueller, 2002), suggesting that ants suppress basidiome formation. Therefore, if the ants actively suppress fung…
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