Personal identification

Full name
Ricardo Pereira

Citation names

  • Pereira, Ricardo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
1012-FA06-CF55
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8076-4822
Degree Classification
2005 - 2011
Concluded
 Biologia (Doutoramento)
Major in Evolução
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"The salamander ring species Ensatina eschscholtzii as a model to study the continuum of species formation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2003 - 2005
Concluded
 Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (Mestrado)
Major in Evolução
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Discordant introgression between mitochondrial and nuclear genes in the Lacerta schreiberi hybrid zone" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2003
Concluded
 Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Cryptic genetic differentiation in a morphologically conserved toad species (Alytes cisternasii)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015 - 2017 Postdoc (Research) Københavns Universitet Statens Naturhistoriske Museum, Denmark
Københavns Universitet, Denmark
2011 - 2015 Postdoc (Research) University of California San Diego, United States
University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography, United States
2011 - 2011 Visiting Researcher (Research) Fundación General CSIC, Spain
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017 - Current Assistant (University Teacher) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Fakultät für Biologie, Germany
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany

Grant

Designation Funders
2015/07 - 2017/06 AfterTheIce
658706
Post-doc
Københavns Universitet, Denmark
 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Concluded
2015/02 - 2015/05 Integrating experimental evolution and computer modeling to understand the genetic basis of low hybrid fitness
P3026
Post-doc
University of California, San Diego
2010/05 - 2013/10 Testing the weak phylogeographical hypothesis and hybrid zone movement in Iberian amphibians using a combination of multilocus analyses, simulation methods and ecological niche modelling
Provided by PTCRIS: 105083
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
2011/05 - 2011/05 Adaptive introgression of life history traits as a response to climate change: hybridization between eco-morphotypes of Salamandra salamandra (Caudata, Salamandridae) along an altitudinal transect
3318
Researcher
European Science Foundation
2011/04 - 2011/04 Climate change driving leaky species boundaries: hybrid zone dynamics along an altitudinal transect in Salamandra salamandra (Caudata, Salamandridae)
ES-TAF-1486
Researcher
Research Executive Agency

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/06/01 - 2024/05/31 The hybrid zone of Chorthippus parallelus: a window into the genetic basis of speciation
PID2019-104952GB-I00/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033
Researcher
Gobierno de España
Ongoing
2020/10 - 2021/09 SeaChange: The evolutionary response of fish stocks to a changing ocean
GZ: PE 3123/3-1 AOBJ: 669466
Principal investigator
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2017/06/01 - 2020/05/31 Uma abordagem de genômica populacional para subsidiar o manejo das tainhas de Alagoas
60030.1564/2016
Researcher
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Alagoas
Concluded
2016/06/01 - 2020/05/31 PELD-APA Costa dos Corais-AL
441657/2016-8
23038.000452/2017-16
Researcher
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Concluded
2019 - 2019 A novel genomic approach to study the diversification of a commercially relevant fish species
914-20.1.1
Principal investigator
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Department Biologie II, Germany
 BAYLAY - Das Bayerische Hochschulzentrum für Lateinamerika
Concluded

Publications

Journal article
  1. Pereira, Ricardo. "Physical and ecological isolation contribute to maintain genetic differentiation between fire salamander subspecies.". Heredity (2021): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-021-00405-0.
    10.1038/s41437-021-00405-0
  2. Pereira, Ricardo. "Integrative taxonomy reveals extreme morphological conservatism in sympatric Mugil species from the Tropical Southwestern Atlantic". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 59 1 (2021): 163-178. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jzs.12421.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12421
  3. Pereira, Ricardo J.; Ruiz-Ruano, Francisco J.; Thomas, Callum J.E.; Pérez-Ruiz, Mar; Jiménez-Bartolomé, Miguel; Liu, Shanlin; Torre, Joaquina; Bella, José L.. "Mind the numt: Finding informative mitochondrial markers in a giant grasshopper genome". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research n/a n/a (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12446.
    Open access • Published • 10.1111/jzs.12446
  4. Neves, Jessika M. M.; Almeida, JoÃo P. F. A.; Sturaro, Marcelo J.; FabrÉ, Nidia N.; Pereira, Ricardo J.; Mott, TamÍ. "Deep genetic divergence and paraphyly in cryptic species of Mugil fishes (Actinopterygii: Mugilidae)". Systematics and Biodiversity (2020): 1-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2020.1729892.
    10.1080/14772000.2020.1729892
  5. Pereira, Ricardo. "The relative role of glacial refugia and longstanding barriers in the diversification of a fossorial squamate". Systematics and Biodiversity 18 5 (2020): 447-463. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2020.1783716.
    10.1080/14772000.2020.1783716
  6. Pereira, Ricardo. "Historical isolation facilitates species radiation by sexual selection: Insights from Chorthippus grasshoppers". Molecular Ecology 29 24 (2020): 4985-5002. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mec.15695.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15695
  7. Pereira, Ricardo. "Adaptation to a latitudinal thermal gradient within a widespread copepod species: the contributions of genetic divergence and phenotypic plasticity". (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0236.
    10.1098/rspb.2017.0236
  8. Jessika M. M. Neves; Sergio M. Q. Lima; Liana F. Mendes; Rodrigo A. Torres; Ricardo J. Pereira; Tamí Mott; Vincent Laudet. "Population Structure of the Rockpool Blenny Entomacrodus vomerinus Shows Source-Sink Dynamics among Ecoregions in the Tropical Southwestern Atlantic". PLoS ONE 11 6 (2016): e0157472-e0157472. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0157472.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0157472
  9. da Fonseca RR; Albrechtsen A; Themudo GE; Ramos-Madrigal J; Sibbesen JA; Maretty L; Zepeda-Mendoza ML; et al. "Next-generation biology: Sequencing and data analysis approaches for non-model organisms.". (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/27184710.
    10.1016/j.margen.2016.04.012
  10. Pereira RJ; Barreto FS; Pierce NT; Carneiro M; Burton RS. "Transcriptome-wide patterns of divergence during allopatric evolution.". (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26859844.
    10.1111/mec.13579
  11. Pereira RJ; Martínez-Solano I; Buckley D. "Hybridization during altitudinal range shifts: nuclear introgression leads to extensive cyto-nuclear discordance in the fire salamander.". (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26850834.
    10.1111/mec.13575
  12. Pereira RJ; Wake DB. "Ring species as demonstrations of the continuum of species formation.". (2015): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26509692.
    10.1111/mec.13412
  13. Barreto FS; Pereira RJ; Burton RS. "Hybrid dysfunction and physiological compensation in gene expression.". (2015): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/25415967.
    10.1093/molbev/msu321
  14. 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
  15. Tarroso P; Pereira RJ; Martínez-Freiría F; Godinho R; Brito JC. "Hybridization at an ecotone: ecological and genetic barriers between three Iberian vipers.". (2014): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/24447270.
    10.1111/mec.12671
  16. Pereira RJ; Barreto FS; Burton RS. "Ecological novelty by hybridization: experimental evidence for increased thermal tolerance by transgressive segregation in Tigriopus californicus.". (2014): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/24372605.
    10.1111/evo.12254
  17. Ronald S. Burton; Ricardo J. Pereira; Felipe S. Barreto. "Cytonuclear Genomic Interactions and Hybrid Breakdown". Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 44 1 (2013): 281-302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110512-135758.
    10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110512-135758
  18. Monahan WB; Pereira RJ; Wake DB. "Ring distributions leading to species formation: a global topographic analysis of geographic barriers associated with ring species.". (2012): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/22410314.
    10.1186/1741-7007-10-20
  19. Pereira RJ; Monahan WB; Wake DB. "Predictors for reproductive isolation in a ring species complex following genetic and ecological divergence.". (2011): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/21733173.
    10.1186/1471-2148-11-194
  20. Gonçalves H; Martínez-Solano I; Pereira RJ; Carvalho B; García-París M; Ferrand N. "High levels of population subdivision in a morphologically conserved Mediterranean toad (Alytes cisternasii) result from recent, multiple refugia: evidence from mtDNA, microsatellites and nuclear genealogies.". (2009): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/19912538.
    10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04426.x
  21. Pereira RJ; Wake DB. "Genetic leakage after adaptive and nonadaptive divergence in the Ensatina eschscholtzii ring species.". (2009): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/19453728.
    10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00722.x
  22. THOMAS J. DEVITT; RICARDO PEREIRA; LAKSHMI JAKKULA; JOÃO ALEXANDRINO; CAROLYNE BARDELEBEN; CRAIG MORITZ. "Isolation and characterization of 15 polymorphic microsatellites in the Plethodontid salamander Ensatina eschscholtzii". Molecular Ecology Resources 9 3 (2009): 966-969. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02518.x.
    10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02518.x
  23. H. GONCALVES; R. PEREIRA; G. ROWE; T. BEEBEE; N. FERRAND. "Isolation and characterization of two dinucleotide and four tetranucleotide polymorphic microsatellite loci in the Iberian midwife toad Alytes cisternasii". Mol Ecol Notes 5 4 (2005): 767-769. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-8286.2005.01057.x.
    10.1111/j.1471-8286.2005.01057.x