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Sandra Afonso

Research Technician

Publications

33 Publications

Andrade, P., Alves, J. M., Pereira, P., Rubin, C. J., Silva, E., Sprehn, C. G., Enbody, E., Afonso, S., Faria, R., Zhang, Y., Bonino, N., Duckworth, J. A., Garreau, H., Letnic, M., Strive, T., Thulin, C. G., Queney, G., Villafuerte, R., Jiggins, F. M., Ferrand, N., … Carneiro, M. (2024). Selection against domestication alleles in introduced rabbit populations. Nature ecology & evolution, 8(8), 1543–1555. doi: 10.1038/s41559-024-02443-3 Open publication

Arbore, R., Barbosa, S., Brejcha, J., Ogawa, Y., Liu, Y., Nicolaï, M. P. J., Pereira, P., Sabatino, S. J., Cloutier, A., Poon, E. S. K., Marques, C. I., Andrade, P., Debruyn, G., Afonso, S., Afonso, R., Roy, S. G., Abdu, U., Lopes, R. J., Mojzeš, P., Maršík, P., Sin, S.Y.W., White, M.A., Araújo, P.M., Corbo, J.C., Carneiro, M. (2024). A molecular mechanism for bright color variation in parrots. Science (New York, N.Y.), 386(6721), eadp7710. https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-2232/full Open publication

Batalha-Filho, H., Barreto, S. B., Silveira, M. H. B., Miyaki, C. Y., Afonso, S., Ferrand, N., Carneiro, M., & Sequeira, F. (2024). Disentangling the contemporary and historical effects of landscape on the population genomic variation of two bird species restricted to the highland forest enclaves of northeastern Brazil. Heredity, 132(2), 77–88. doi: 10.1038/s41437-023-00662-1 Open publication

Ghosh Roy, S., Bakhrat, A., Abdu, M., Afonso, S., Pereira, P., Carneiro, M., & Abdu, U. (2024). Mutations in SLC45A2 lead to loss of melanin in parrot feathers. G3 (Bethesda, Md.), 14(2), jkad254. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkad254 Open publication

Guimarães-Moreira, M., Marques, C. I., Afonso, S., Lacerda, B., Carneiro, M., & Araújo, P. M. (2024). A missense mutation in the tyrosinase gene explains acromelanism in domesticated canaries. Animal genetics, 55(6), 838–842. doi: 10.1111/age.13481 Open publication

Merondun, J., Marques, C. I., Andrade, P., Meshcheryagina, S., Galván, I., Afonso, S., Alves, J. M., Araújo, P. M., Bachurin, G., Balacco, J., Bán, M., Fedrigo, O., Formenti, G., Fossøy, F., Fülöp, A., Golovatin, M., Granja, S., Hewson, C., Honza, M., Howe, K., … Wolf, J. B. W. (2024). Evolution and genetic architecture of sex-limited polymorphism in cuckoos. Science advances, 10(17), eadl5255. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adl5255 Open publication

Rocha J.L., Silva P., Santos N., Nakamura M., Afonso S., Qninba A., Boratynski Z., Sudmant P.H., Brito J.C., Nielsen R. & Godinho R. (2023) North-African foxes genomes show signatures of repeated introgression and adaptation to life in deserts. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1-20. doi: 10.1038/s41559-023-02094-w Open publication

Andrade, P., Lyra, M. L., Zina, J., Bastos, D. F. O., Brunetti, A. E., Baêta, D., Afonso, S., Brunes, T. O., Taucce, P. P. G., Carneiro, M., Haddad, C. F. B., & Sequeira, F. (2022). Draft genome and multi-tissue transcriptome assemblies of the Neotropical leaf-frog Phyllomedusa bahiana. G3 (Bethesda, Md.), 12(12), jkac270. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkac270 Open publication

Toomey, M. B., Marques, C. I., Araújo, P. M., Huang, D., Zhong, S., Liu, Y., Schreiner, G. D., Myers, C. A., Pereira, P., Afonso, S., Andrade, P., Gazda, M. A., Lopes, R. J., Viegas, I., Koch, R. E., Haynes, M. E., Smith, D. J., Ogawa, Y., Murphy, D., Kopec, R. E., … Corbo, J. C. (2022). A mechanism for red coloration in vertebrates. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.08.013 Open publication

Andrade, P., Gazda, M. A., Araújo, P. M., Afonso, S., Rasmussen, J. A., Marques, C. I., Lopes, R. J., Gilbert, M. T. P. & Carneiro, M. (2021). Molecular parallelisms between pigmentation in the avian iris and the integument of ectothermic vertebrates. PLoS genetics, 17(2), e1009404. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009404 Open publication

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