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Sandra Afonso. Concluiu o(a) Mestrado em Biologia Evolutiva e do Desenvolvimento em 2008/12/01 pelo(a) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Licenciatura em Engenharia Biotecnológica em 2003/12/01 pelo(a) Instituto Politécnico de Bragança. É Assistente de Investigação (carreira) no(a) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos. Publicou 22 artigos em revistas especializadas.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Sandra Madalena Lousada Afonso

Citation names

  • Afonso, Sandra

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
A41B-6D8D-C259
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7212-991X
Researcher Id
M-5702-2013
Scopus Author Id
53867813600

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2008/12/01
Concluded
 Biologia Evolutiva e do Desenvolvimento (Mestrado)
Major in Biologia Molecular - Genética
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
1996/10/01 - 2003/12/01
Concluded
 Engenharia Biotecnológica (Licenciatura)
Major in Biologia Molecular - Cultura de Células - Genética
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2008/07/01 - Current Research Assistant (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2010/09/01 - 2011/01/01 Research Assistant (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Max-Planck-Institut fur evolutionare Anthropologie Abteilung fur Evolutionare Genetik, Germany
2007/12/01 - 2008/07/01 Research Assistant (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de Biologia Animal, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de Biologia Animal, Portugal
2008/02/01 - 2008/06/10 Visiting Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de Biologia Animal, Portugal
Texas A&M University Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, United States
2006/05/01 - 2007/11/30 Research Assistant (Research) Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/01/01 - Current Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
10.54499/UIDB/50027/2020
Technical development
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (InBIO)
LA/P/0048/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0048/2020
Technical development
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2024/12/31 Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
UIDP/50027/2020
10.54499/UIDP/50027/2020
Technical development
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/03/15 - 2024/03/14 HybridChange – O potencial da hibridização para promover adaptação rápida durante alterações climáticas
PTDC/BIA-EVL/1307/2020
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/03/01 - 2024/02/29 Controlo da peste de quarentena Drosophila suzukii através de estudos epidemiológicos e novas técnicas de biocontrolo verdes
PTDC/ASP-PLA/4477/2020
Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2008/01/01 - 2011/12/31 Genómica, Selecção e variabilidade nucleotidica no coelho Europeu, Oryctolagus cuniculus
PTDC/BIA-BDE/72304/2006
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares, Portugal

Universidade dos Açores Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular, Portugal

The University of Arizona Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, United States
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Henrique Batalha-Filho; Silvia Britto Barreto; Mario Henrique Barros Silveira; Cristina Yumi Miyaki; Sandra Afonso; Nuno Ferrand; Miguel Carneiro; Fernando Sequeira. "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 (2024): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-023-00662-1.
    10.1038/s41437-023-00662-1
  2. Joana L. Rocha; Pedro Silva; Nuno Santos; Mónia Nakamura; Sandra Afonso; Abdeljebbar Qninba; Zbyszek Boratynski; et al. "North African fox genomes show signatures of repeated introgression and adaptation to life in deserts". Nature Ecology & Evolution (2023): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02094-w.
    10.1038/s41559-023-02094-w
  3. Pedro Andrade; Mariana L Lyra; Juliana Zina; Deivson F O Bastos; Andrés E Brunetti; Délio Baêta; Sandra Afonso; et al. "Draft genome and multi-tissue transcriptome assemblies of the Neotropical leaf-frog Phyllomedusa bahiana". G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics (2022): https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkac270.
    10.1093/g3journal/jkac270
  4. Prem Aguilar; Pedro Andrade; Sandra Afonso; Miguel Á. Carretero; Guillem Pérez i de Lanuza; Catarina Pinho. "No genomic repercussions of assortative pairing in a colour polymorphic lizard". Journal of Evolutionary Biology (2022): https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13990.
    10.1111/jeb.13990
  5. Sara Freitas; Malgorzata A. Gazda; Miguel Â. Rebelo; Antonio J. Muñoz-Pajares; Carlos Vila-Viçosa; Antonio Muñoz-Mérida; Luís M. Gonçalves; et al. "Pervasive hybridization with local wild relatives in Western European grapevine varieties". Science Advances 7 47 (2021): https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abi8584.
    10.1126/sciadv.abi8584
  6. "A non-lethal method for studying scorpion venom gland transcriptomes, with a review of potentially suitable taxa to which it can be applied". PLOS ONE 16 11 (2021): e0258712-e0258712. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258712.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0258712
  7. Pedro Andrade; Tiago M. Rodrigues; Delphine Muths; Sandra Afonso; Susana Lopes; Raquel Godinho; Manuel Leitão; et al. "Genetic differentiation in Eurasian Woodcock ( Scolopax rusticola ) from the Azores". Ibis (2021): https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12991.
    10.1111/ibi.12991
  8. Ahmed Mostafa Emam; Sandra Afonso; Pedro González-Redondo; G.M.K. Mehaisen; A.A.A. Azoz; N.A. Ahmed; N. Fernand. "Status and origin of Egyptian local rabbits in comparison with Spanish common rabbits using mitochondrial DNA sequence analysis". World Rabbit Science (2020): https://doi.org/10.4995/wrs.2020.12219.
    10.4995/wrs.2020.12219
  9. Malgorzata A. Gazda; Pedro M. Araújo; Ricardo J. Lopes; Matthew B. Toomey; Pedro Andrade; Sandra Afonso; Cristiana Marques; et al. "A genetic mechanism for sexual dichromatism in birds". Science 368 6496 (2020): 1270-1274. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba0803.
    10.1126/science.aba0803
  10. Marques, João P.; Sotelo, Graciela; Galindo, Juan; Chaube, Pragya; Costa, Diana; Afonso, Sandra; Panova, Marina; et al. "Transcriptomic resources for evolutionary studies in flat periwinkles and related species". Scientific Data 7 1 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0408-8.
    10.1038/s41597-020-0408-8
  11. Gazda, Malgorzata Anna; Toomey, Matthew B; Araújo, Pedro M; Lopes, Ricardo J; Afonso, Sandra; Myers, Connie A; Serres, Kyla; et al. "Genetic Basis of De Novo Appearance of Carotenoid Ornamentation in Bare Parts of Canaries". Molecular Biology and Evolution (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaa006.
    10.1093/molbev/msaa006
  12. Afonso, Sandra. "Consequences of breed formation on patterns of genomic diversity and differentiation: the case of highly diverse peripheral Iberian cattle". BMC Genomics (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-5685-2.
    10.1186/s12864-019-5685-2
  13. Grashof, Dwin G. B.; Kerkkamp, Harald M. I.; Afonso, Sandra; Archer, John; Harris, D. James; Richardson, Michael K.; Vonk, Freek J.; van der Meijden, Arie. "Transcriptome annotation and characterization of novel toxins in six scorpion species". BMC Genomics 20 1 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-6013-6.
    10.1186/s12864-019-6013-6
  14. Afonso, Sandra. "Gene expression across mammalian organ development". Nature (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1338-5.
    10.1038/s41586-019-1338-5
  15. Afonso, Sandra. "Parallel adaptation of rabbit populations to myxoma virus". Science (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aau7285.
    10.1126/science.aau7285
  16. Afonso, Sandra. "Regulatory changes in pterin and carotenoid genes underlie balanced color polymorphisms in the wall lizard". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1820320116.
    10.1073/pnas.1820320116
  17. Carneiro, Miguel; Vieillard, Jennifer; Andrade, Pedro; Boucher, Samuel; Afonso, Sandra; Blanco-Aguiar, José A.; Santos, Nuno; et al. "Retinoid-Related Orphan Nuclear Receptor RORB is Required for Saltatorial Locomotion in Rabbits". SSRN Electronic Journal (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3479444.
    10.2139/ssrn.3479444
  18. Rafati, N.; Blanco-Aguiar, J.A.; Rubin, C.J.; Sayyab, S.; Sabatino, S.J.; Afonso, S.; Feng, C.; et al. "A genomic map of clinal variation across the European rabbit hybrid zone". Molecular Ecology 27 6 (2018): 1457-1478. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85041749965&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/mec.14494
  19. Gazda, M.A.; Andrade, P.; Afonso, S.; Dilyte, J.; Archer, J.P.; Lopes, R.J.; Faria, R.; Carneiro, M.. "Signatures of selection on standing genetic variation underlie athletic and navigational performance in racing pigeons". Molecular Biology and Evolution 35 5 (2018): 1176-1189. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85053934374&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/molbev/msy030
  20. Toomey, M.B.; Marques, C.I.; Andrade, P.; Araújo, P.M.; Sabatino, S.; Gazda, M.A.; Afonso, S.; et al. "A non-coding region near Follistatin controls head colour polymorphism in the Gouldian finch". Proceedings. Biological sciences 285 1888 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85054445978&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1098/rspb.2018.1788
  21. Brusini, I.; Carneiro, M.; Wang, C.; Rubin, C.-J.; Ring, H.; Afonso, S.; Blanco-Aguiar, J.A.; et al. "Changes in brain architecture are consistent with altered fear processing in domestic rabbits". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115 28 (2018): 7380-7385. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85049643502&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1073/pnas.1801024115
  22. Toomey, M.B.; Lopes, R.J.; Araújo, P.M.; Johnson, J.D.; Gazda, M.A.; Afonso, S.; Mota, P.G.; et al. "High-density lipoprotein receptor SCARB1 is required for carotenoid coloration in birds". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 20 (2017): 5219-5224. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85019581853&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1073/pnas.1700751114
  23. Carneiro, M.; Hu, D.; Archer, J.; Feng, C.; Afonso, S.; Chen, C.; Blanco-Aguiar, J.A.; et al. "Dwarfism and altered craniofacial development in rabbits is caused by a 12.1 kb deletion at the HMGA2 locus". Genetics 205 2 (2017): 955-965. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85021849586&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1534/genetics.116.196667
  24. Mohammadi, Saeed; Afonso, Sandra; Adibi, Mohammad Ali; Melo-Ferreira, José; Campos, Rita. "A new and highly divergent mitochondrial lineage in the Small Five-toed Jerboa,Allactaga elater, from Iran (Mammalia: Rodentia)". Zoology in the Middle East 62 3 (2016): 206-211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2016.1202925.
    10.1080/09397140.2016.1202925
  25. Alves JM; Carneiro M; Afonso S; Lopes S; Garreau H; Boucher S; Allain D; et al. "Levels and Patterns of Genetic Diversity and Population Structure in Domestic Rabbits.". (2015): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26689909.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0144687
  26. Carneiro M; Albert FW; Afonso S; Pereira RJ; Burbano H; Campos R; Melo-Ferreira J; et al. "The genomic architecture of population divergence between subspecies of the European rabbit.". (2014): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/25166595.
    10.1371/journal.pgen.1003519
  27. Carneiro M; Rubin CJ; Di Palma F; Albert FW; Alföldi J; Barrio AM; Pielberg G; et al. "Rabbit genome analysis reveals a polygenic basis for phenotypic change during domestication.". (2014): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/25170157.
    10.1126/science.1253714
  28. Carneiro M; Baird SJ; Afonso S; Ramirez E; Tarroso P; Teotónio H; Villafuerte R; Nachman MW; Ferrand N. "Steep clines within a highly permeable genome across a hybrid zone between two subspecies of the European rabbit.". (2013): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/23530594.
    10.1111/mec.12272
  29. Korrodi-Gregório L; Margarida Lopes A; Esteves SL; Afonso S; Lemos de Matos A; Lissovsky AA; da Cruz E Silva OA; et al. "An Intriguing Shift Occurs in the Novel Protein Phosphatase 1 Binding Partner, TCTEX1D4: Evidence of Positive Selection in a Pika Model.". (2013): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/24130861.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0077236
  30. van der Loo W; Afonso S; de Matos AL; Abrantes J; Esteves PJ. "Pseudogenization of the MCP-2/CCL8 chemokine gene in European rabbit (genus Oryctolagus), but not in species of Cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus) and Hare (Lepus).". (2012): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/22894773.
    10.1186/1471-2156-13-72
  31. Carneiro M; Afonso S; Geraldes A; Garreau H; Bolet G; Boucher S; Tircazes A; et al. "The genetic structure of domestic rabbits.". (2011): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/21216839.
    10.1093/molbev/msr003

Other

Other output
  1. Evidence of post-domestication hybridization and adaptive introgression in Western European grapevine varieties. 2021. S. Freitas; M.A. Gazda; M. Rebelo; A.J. Muñoz-Pajares; C. Vila-Viçosa; A. Muñoz-Mérida; L.M. Gonçalves; et al. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.03.432021.
    10.1101/2021.03.03.432021