Biodiversity is the result of historical and recurrent events acting on populations and species.
The Drosophila buzzatii species cluster is distributed along a diagonal of open areas in …

Hybridization and introgression are processes that contribute to shaping biological diversity.
The factors promoting the formation of these processes are multiples but poorly explored in …

Genetic diversity in mitochondrial DNA barcodes, comprising a segment of the cytochrome c
oxidase subunit I (COI) gene, was used to infer demographic histories in selected taxa of the …

Abstract Drosophila buzzatii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) is a fly that breeds exclusively on
decaying tissues of cacti species widely distributed in tropical and subtropical areas of South …

Pleistocene climatic changes have played a major role in the evolution of Brazilian Atlantic
Forest and South America biodiversity but their impacts on the genetic structure of widely …

The Drosophila repleta group comprises more than one hundred species that inhabit
several environments in the Neotropics and use different hosts as rearing and feeding …

Evolutionary processes related to climatic changes and ecological factors, such as
microhabitat affinities and food specialization, can be important contributors to …

Ao longo de milhões de anos, a restrita associação ecológica de drosófilas neotropicais
com cactáceas pode ter tido um papel fundamental na diversificação e irradiação desses …

The insect/plant interaction is known to be a trigger for diversification and even speciation.
Experimental analyses on fitness traits and phenotypic variation using alternative host sites …