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Marta Soares. Completed the Doutoramento in Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in 2008 by University of East Anglia School of Biological Sciences and Licenciatura in Biologia Aplicada aos Recursos Animais Marinhos in 2001 by Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências. Is Researcher in Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente and Principal Investigator in Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos. Published 76 articles in journals. Has 3 section(s) of books. Organized 3 event(s). Participated in 1 event(s). Supervised 1 PhD thesis(es) e co-supervised 4. Supervised 18 MSc dissertation(s) e co-supervised 5. Supervised 1 work(s) of course completion of LSc/BSc. Has received 8 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) in 1 project(s), Invited Scientist Fellow in 1 project(s), Other in 1 project(s), Principal investigator in 3 project(s) and Researcher in 7 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Natural sciences with emphasis on Biological Sciences and Natural sciences with emphasis on Biological Sciences. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Cleaning mutualims; teleost fish; Microbiome; Behaviour; Waxbills; Coloration; Physiology; Networks; Comportamento social; Flexibilidade comportamental; Plasticidade ontogenetica; Comportamento cooperativo inter-específico; biodiversity; evolutionary biology; conservation biology; Landscape Ecology and Planning; Biodiversity; Evolutionary Biology; Conservation Biology; Conservation and Evolutionary Biology; Genomics; Marine Ecology; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Marta Soares

Citation names

  • Soares, Marta
  • Marta C Soares

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
691C-B917-36CC
ORCID iD
0000-0002-5213-2377
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=X6NnlBgAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT&oi=ao
Researcher Id
J-4448-2013
Scopus Author Id
16203894900

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2008
Concluded
 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (Doutoramento)
University of East Anglia School of Biological Sciences, United Kingdom
"Applying game theoretic concepts to the Caribbean cleaning goby mutualism, with emphasis on biological markets" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved
2001
Concluded
 Biologia Aplicada aos Recursos Animais Marinhos (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Ecologia Alimentar e Aspectos Comportamentais de Synodus Saurus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Actinopterygii: Synodontidae) dos Açores" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/06/01 - Current Principal Investigator (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2021/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente, Portugal
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2019/03/01 - 2022/05 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2015/01/01 - 2019/02/28 Postdoc (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2013/09/01 - 2014/12/31 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2008/02/01 - 2013/08/31 Postdoc (Research) Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigacao, Portugal
2003/05/01 - 2003/09/30 Research Assistant (Research) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2002/05/01 - 2003/02/28 Research Assistant (Research) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2001/10/01 - 2002/04/30 Research Assistant (Research) Universidade dos Açores - Campus de Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal
2000/07/01 - 2001/07/15 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade dos Açores - Campus de Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/02/01 - 2024/07/31 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2003/10/01 - 2007/09/30 PhD Student University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
1996/09/15 - 2001/07/15 Undergraduate student Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/01/01 - Current Behavioural and physiological trade-offs between native and invasive fish species
2022
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Fisheries Society of the British Isles
Ongoing
2023/08/01 - 2025/07/31 Body tactile stimulation and well-being in fish: effects on aggressiveness, brain monoamines and productive performance
2023/02306-1
Team member
Ongoing
2022/06/01 - 2024/12/31 The way towards an optimal production practice of lumpfish to secure robustness and efficacy
2022
Invited Scientist Fellow
Ongoing
2021/06 - 2024/05 Neurobiology of avian social networks: short and long-term effects in a wild avian model
PTDC/BIA-COM/2644/2020
Researcher
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020 - 2022 Cleaning stations as hubs for the maintenance and recovery of microbial diversity on coral reefs
20-23420
Researcher
National Science Foundation (NSF), United States
 National Science Foundation (NSF)
Ongoing
2018/09/01 - 2021/12/31 Ecology and physiology of plastic sex differences in ornamentation
AAC/02/SAICT/2017/32210
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2021/01 - 2021/12 The meaning of social touch
...
Principal investigator
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
 Fisheries Society of the British Isles
Ongoing
2016/06/01 - 2019/12/31 The biology of friendship: How non-sexual social associations shape sexual selection and phenotypic evolution (SocioBiol)
PTDC/BIA-EVF/4852/2014
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/02/01 - 2013/03/01 The marine cleaning mutualism between the Indo-Pacific cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus (Valenciennes, 1839) and its client reef fish: the physiological bases of cooperative and deceptive behaviour
PTDC/MAR/105276/2008
Principal investigator
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigacao, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/06/01 - Current Measuring behavioural and neurobiological response of physical contact in reef fish
2021.01458.CEECIND
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (InBIO)
LA/P/0048/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0048/2020
Researcher
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 - 2023/12/31 Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
UIDB/50027/2020
10.54499/UIDB/50027/2020
Researcher
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
Concluded
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
UIDP/50027/2020
10.54499/UIDP/50027/2020
Researcher
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
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
UID/BIA/50027/2019
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal

Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2013/06/01 - 2016/08/31 Mecanismos moleculares e implicações evolutivas da plasticidade social
EXCL/BIA-ANM/0549/2012
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Marta C Soares; Luchiari, Ana; Eduardo Bessa; Bastien Sadoul; Marie-Laure Bégout; Sébastien Alfonso; Geffroy, Benjamin. "Behaviour of Marine Fishes". In Ecology of marine fishes, edited by Henrique Cabral,; Jérémy Lobry; Mario Lepage; Olivier Le Pape. 2024.
    In press
  2. Marta C Soares; Rita Covas. "Comportamento social e cooperação". In Bases Evolutivas e Fisiológicas do Comportamento, edited by Ana Luchiari; Arrilton Araujo; Fivia Lopes. Brazil, 2024.
    Under revision
  3. Côté, I.M.; Soares, M.C.. "Gobies as cleaners". 531-557. 2011.
Conference abstract
  1. Cacela-Rodrigues, Inês; Araújo-Silva, Heloysa; Saraiva, J. L.; Trigo, Sandra; Soares, Marta. Corresponding author: Soares, Marta. "The colour of cooperation: client preference for vivid colours". Paper presented in XX Congresso Nacional de Etologia | 7 – 9 Dezembro 2023, Vila do Conde, 2023.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Marques, Cristiana; Cardoso, Sónia C.; Marta C Soares. "Stress and cooperation: a role of serotonin and dopamine systems". Paper presented in SPE 2018 - XV Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia, 2018.
  2. Marques, Cristiana I.; de Abreu, Murilo S.; Cardoso, Sónia C.; Mece, Elona; Winberg, Svante; Barcellos, Leonardo; Marta C Soares. "Cooperation under Stress: A role for the serotonin and dopamine systems". Paper presented in XV Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia, 2018.
  3. Marta Reis; Narvaez, Pauline; Furtado Miguel; Carlos Eduardo Leite Ferreira; Marta C Soares. "Can damselfishes handle the crowds? Costs and benefits of living nearby a cleaning station". Paper presented in Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia, 2015.
  4. Narvaez, Pauline; Furtado, Miguel; Marta C Soares. "Are all cleaners fish the same? The cognitive and learning abilities of a facultative cleaner fish". Paper presented in Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia, 2015.
  5. Rodrigues A; Cavaleiro F; Narvaez, Pauline; Furtado M; Marta C Soares; Santos MJ. "Prevalence and intensity of Caligus elongatus (Copepoda: Caligidae) infecting Mullus surmuletus (Actinopterygii: Mullidae) off Azores Archipelago, Portugal". Paper presented in International Symposium on fish parasites, 2015.
  6. Cardoso, Sónia C.; Igrejas, André G.; Paula, J.R.; Gozdowska, M.; Kalamarz-Kubiak, H.; Kulczykowska, E.; Soares, Marta. "Cooperative modulation of brain neuropeptide levels in a cleaner fish". Paper presented in SPE 2014 ¿ XI Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia, 2014.
  7. Narvaez, Pauline; Furtado M; Marta C Soares. "A comparative study of cleaning activity by two facultative cleaner fish species Coris julis and Thalassoma pavo of São Miguel Island, Azores". Paper presented in Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia, 2014.
  8. Cardoso, Sónia C.; Bshary, R.; Paitio, J.R.; Mazzei, R.; Oliveira, R.F.; Soares, Marta. "Ecological relevance determines Arginine-vasotocin influence on cleanerfish learning abilities.". Paper presented in SPE 2013 - X Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia, 2013.
  9. Cardoso, Sónia C.; Bshary, R.; Côté, I.M.; Oliveira, R.F.; Soares, Marta. "Face your fears: cleanerfish inspect predators despite being stressed by them.". Paper presented in 14th International Behavioural Ecology Congress (ISBE), 2012.
  10. Cardoso, Sónia C.; Soares, Marta; Oxenford, H.A.; Côté, I.M.. "The impact of parrotfish on the benthic community composition of Caribbean coral.". Paper presented in European Conference on Behavioural Biology (ECBB), 2010.
  11. Cardoso, Sónia C.; Soares, Marta; Oxenford, Hazel A.; Côté, Isabelle M.. "Interspecific differences in foraging behaviour and functional role of Caribbean parrotfishes.". Paper presented in XXXI International Ethological Conference, 2009.
  12. Cardoso, Sónia C.; Soares, Marta; Bshary, R.; Côté, Isabelle M.. "A new perspective: Integrating game theory into the Caribbean cleaning mutualism.". Paper presented in XXXI International Ethological Conference, 2009.
Journal article
  1. Saldanha, Beatriz C; Beltrão, Patrícia; Gomes, Ana Cristina R; Soares, Marta C; Cardoso, Gonçalo C; Trigo, Sandra. "Dietary tryptophan affects group behavior in a social bird". Behavioral Ecology (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arae018.
    10.1093/beheco/arae018
  2. Ana Pereira; Anya Brown; Davis Strobel; Marta C Soares; Xavier, Raquel; Amy Appril; Paul C Sikkel. "Effects of two common antibiotics on the skin microbiome of ornamental reef fishes: implications for manipulative experiments in microbial dynamics". Aquaculture, Fish and Fisheries (2024):
    In press
  3. Ana Vasconcelos; Marta C. Soares; Marisa Barata; Ana Couto; Bárbara Teixeira; Laura Ribeiro; Pedro Pousão-Ferreira; Rogério Mendes; Margarida Saavedra. "Effect of Tryptophan Dietary Content on Meagre, Argyrosomus regius, Juveniles Stress and Behavioral Response". Animals (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13243762.
    10.3390/ani13243762
  4. Renata Mazzei; Yasmin Emery; Marta C. Soares; Redouan Bshary. "Dominance is associated with reduced cleaning activity in group-living Elacatinus prochilos gobies". Animal Behaviour (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.09.001.
    10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.09.001
  5. Marta C. Soares; Sónia C. Cardoso; Pedro Fernandes; José C. Alves; Pedro M. Anastácio; Filipe Banha. "First record of intraspecific cleaning behavior by the threatened Leuciscidae Squalius alburnoides (Steindachner, 1866) at the Guadiana River basin (Portugal)". Journal of Fish Biology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15571.
    10.1111/jfb.15571
  6. Trigo, Sandra; Silva, Paulo A.; Cardoso, Gonçalo C.; Soares, Marta C.. "Effects of mesotocin manipulation on the behavior of male and female common waxbills". Physiology & Behavior 267 (2023): 114226. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2023.114226.
    10.1016/j.physbeh.2023.114226
  7. Trigo, Sandra; Narvaez, Pauline; Cardoso, Gonçalo C.; Soares, Marta C.. "Not so monochromatic: Size-dependency of both sex and color in the cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1110079.
    10.3389/fevo.2023.1110079
  8. Beatriz C. Saldanha; Paulo A. Silva; Caio Maximino; Gonçalo C. Cardoso; Sandra Trigo; Marta C. Soares. "The role of serotonin in modulating common waxbill behaviour". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-023-03316-8.
    10.1007/s00265-023-03316-8
  9. Cristina Romero-Diaz; Paulo A. Silva; Marta C. Soares; Gonçalo C. Cardoso; Sandra Trigo. "Oestradiol reduces female bill colour in a mutually ornamented bird". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2022): https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1677.
    10.1098/rspb.2022.1677
  10. Diogo F. Antunes; Marta C. Soares; Michael Taborsky. "Dopamine modulates social behaviour in cooperatively breeding fish". Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 550 (2022): 111649-111649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mce.2022.111649.
    10.1016/j.mce.2022.111649
  11. Soares, Marta C.; Maximino, Caio. "Editorial: Emotional Function of Sociability in Fish". Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 16 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.909352.
    Published • 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.909352
  12. Soares, Marta C.; Banha, Filipe; Cardoso, Sónia C.; Gama, Mafalda; Xavier, Raquel; Ribeiro, Laura; Anastácio, Pedro. "Hemolymph Glycemia as an Environmental Stress Biomarker in the Invasive Red Swamp Crayfish (Procambarus clarkii)". Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 95 3 (2022): 265-277. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/719857.
    Published • 10.1086/719857
  13. Pereira, Ana; Soares, Marta C.; Santos, Teresa; Poças, Ana; Pérez-Losada, Marcos; Apprill, Amy; Sikkel, Paul C.; Xavier, Raquel. "Reef Location and Client Diversity Influence the Skin Microbiome of the Caribbean Cleaner Goby Elacatinus evelynae". Microbial Ecology (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00248-022-01984-z.
    Published • 10.1007/s00248-022-01984-z
  14. Sandra Trigo; Paulo A. Silva; Gonçalo C. Cardoso; Marta C. Soares. "A test of context and sex-dependent dopaminergic effects on the behavior of a gregarious bird, the common waxbill Estrilda astrild". Journal of Experimental Biology (2022): https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243861.
    10.1242/jeb.243861
  15. de Abreu, Murilo S.; Giacomini, Ana C.V.V.; Genario, Rafael; Demin, Konstantin A.; Amstislavskaya, Tamara G.; Costa, Fabiano; Rosemberg, Denis B.; et al. "Understanding early-life pain and its effects on adult human and animal emotionality: Translational lessons from rodent and zebrafish models". Neuroscience Letters 768 (2022): 136382. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2021.136382.
    10.1016/j.neulet.2021.136382
  16. Bozi, Brenno; Rodrigues, Jeane; Lima-Maximino, Monica; de Siqueira-Silva, Diógenes Henrique; Soares, Marta Candeias; Maximino, Caio. "Social Stress Increases Anxiety-Like Behavior Equally in Male and Female Zebrafish". Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 15 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.785656.
    10.3389/fnbeh.2021.785656
  17. Raquel Xavier; Marta C. Soares; Sofia M. Silva; Filipe Banha; Mafalda Gama; Laura Ribeiro; Pedro Anastácio; Sónia C. Cardoso. "Environment and host-related factors modulate gut and carapace bacterial diversity of the invasive red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii)". Hydrobiologia (2021): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-021-04623-9.
    10.1007/s10750-021-04623-9
  18. Beltrão, Patrícia; Silva, Paulo A.; Soares, Marta C.; Cardoso, Gonçalo C.; Trigo, Sandra. "Testosterone treatment produces sex-dependent effects in social dominance". Animal Behaviour 179 (2021): 307-315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.07.016.
    10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.07.016
  19. Quimbayo, Juan P.; Mendes, Thiago C.; Barneche, Diego R.; Dias, Murilo S.; Grutter, Alexandra S.; Furtado, Miguel; Leprieur, Fabien; et al. "Patterns of taxonomic and functional diversity in the global cleaner reef fish fauna". Journal of Biogeography 48 10 (2021): 2469-2485. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14214.
    10.1111/jbi.14214
  20. Renata Mazzei; Marta C. Soares; Redouan Bshary; Marta C Soares; Bshary, Redouan. "Social organization variation and behavioural flexibility in the facultative cleaning goby Elacatinus prochilos". Animal Behaviour 174 (2021): 187-195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.01.020.
    Accepted • 10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.01.020
  21. Andréia B. Moraes; Ana C.V.V. Giacomini; Rafael Genario; Leticia Marcon; Naiara Scolari; Barbara W. Bueno; Konstantin A. Demin; et al. "Pro-social and anxiolytic-like behavior following a single 24-h exposure to 17ß-estradiol in adult male zebrafish". Neuroscience Letters (2021): 135591-135591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2020.135591.
    10.1016/j.neulet.2020.135591
  22. Renata Mazzei; Thiago Mendes; César Cordeiro; José Luque; Marta C Soares; Carlos Ferreira; Thiago C. Mendes; et al. "Diet and abundance of the barber goby Elacatinus figaro on Brazilian marginal reefs: ecological predictors and reliance on cleaning interactions". Marine Biology 168 5 (2021): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-021-03856-5.
    Accepted • 10.1007/s00227-021-03856-5
  23. Ana Flávia Nogueira Pimentel; Monica Gomes Lima-Maximino; Marta C Soares; Caio Maximino; Marta Candeias Soares. "Zebrafish cooperate while inspecting predators: experimental evidence for conditional approach". Animal Behaviour 177 (2021): 59-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.04.014.
    Accepted • 10.1101/814434
  24. Trigo, Sandra; Gomes, Ana Cristina R.; Cardoso, Sónia C.; Teixeira, Miguel; Cardoso, Gonçalo C.; Soares, Marta C.. "Cleaner blues: Condition-dependent colour and cleaner fish service quality". Behavioural Processes 181 (2020): 104246. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2020.104246.
    10.1016/j.beproc.2020.104246
  25. de Abreu, Murilo S.; Maximino, Caio; Cardoso, Sónia C.; Marques, Cristiana I.; Pimentel, Ana F.N.; Mece, Elona; Winberg, Svante; Barcellos, Leonardo J.G.; Soares, Marta C.. "Dopamine and serotonin mediate the impact of stress on cleaner fish cooperative behavior". Hormones and Behavior 125 (2020): 104813. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2020.104813.
    Published • 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2020.104813
  26. Raquel Xavier; Ana Pereira; Andres Pagan; Gina C. Hendrick; Matthew D. Nicholson; Daniela Rosado; Marta C. Soares; Marcos Pérez-Losada; Paul C. Sikkel. "The effects of environment and ontogeny on the skin microbiome of two Stegastes damselfishes (Pomacentridae) from the eastern Caribbean Sea". Marine Biology 167 7 (2020): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-020-03717-7.
    10.1007/s00227-020-03717-7
  27. Paulo A. Silva; Sandra Trigo; Cristiana I. Marques; Gonçalo C. Cardoso; Marta C. Soares. "Experimental evidence for a role of dopamine in avian personality traits". The Journal of Experimental Biology (2020): jeb.216499-jeb.216499. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.216499.
    10.1242/jeb.216499
  28. Abreu, Murilo S.; Maximino, Caio; Banha, Filipe; Anastácio, Pedro M.; Demin, Konstantin A.; Kalueff, Allan V.; Soares, Marta C.. "Emotional behavior in aquatic organisms? Lessons from crayfish and zebrafish". Journal of Neuroscience Research (2020): https://doi.org/10.1002/jnr.24550.
    Published • 10.1002/jnr.24550
  29. Soares, Marta C.; Mazzei, Renata; Cardoso, Sónia C.; Ramos, Cândida; Bshary, Redouan. "Testosterone causes pleiotropic effects on cleanerfish behaviour". Scientific Reports 9 1 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51960-w.
    Open access • 10.1038/s41598-019-51960-w
  30. Soares, Marta. "A Risky Business? Habitat and Social Behavior Impact Skin and Gut Microbiomes in Caribbean Cleaning Gobies". Frontiers in Microbiology (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00716.
    10.3389/fmicb.2019.00716
  31. Karen Maruska; Marta C. Soares; Monica Lima-Maximino; Diógenes Henrique de Siqueira-Silva; Caio Maximino. "Social plasticity in the fish brain: Neuroscientific and ethological aspects". Brain Research (2019): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2019.01.026.
    10.1016/j.brainres.2019.01.026
  32. Soares, M.C.; Cable, J.; Lima-Maximino, M.G.; Maximino, C.; Xavier, R.. "Using fish models to investigate the links between microbiome and social behaviour: The next step for translational microbiome research?". Fish and Fisheries (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85065029435&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/faf.12366
  33. Morado, N.; Mota, P.G.; Soares, M.C.. "The rock cook wrasse Centrolabrus exoletus aims to clean". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7 May (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85066787913&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3389/fevo.2019.182
  34. Pimentel, A.F.N.; Carvalho, T.D.S.; Lima, F.; Lima-Maximino, M.; Soares, M.C.; Maximino, C.. "Conditional approach as cooperation in predator inspection: A role for serotonin?". Behavioural Brain Research 365 (2019): 164-169. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85062695872&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.bbr.2019.03.005
  35. Murilo S. Abreu; João P.M. Messias; Ana C.V.V. Giacomini; Marta C. Soares. "Estradiol shapes mutualistic behaviour of female cleaner fish ( Labroides dimidiatus - Valenciennes, 1839): Potential implications of environmental disturbance". Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 157 (2018): 244-248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2018.03.072.
    10.1016/j.ecoenv.2018.03.072
  36. Murilo S. Abreu; Ewa Kulczykowska; Sónia C. Cardoso; Gonçalo I. André; Marta Morais; Magdalena Gozdowska; Marta C. Soares. "Nonapeptide levels in male cleaner fish brains during interactions with unfamiliar intra and interspecific partners". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 72 7 (2018): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-018-2537-z.
    10.1007/s00265-018-2537-z
  37. Soares, Marta. "The use of model fish as tools for research the biological mechanisms of cooperative behaviour: a future for translational research concerning social anxiety disorders?". Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry S0278-5846, (17)30774-1 (2018): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29154800.
    10.1016/j.pnpbp.2017.11.014
  38. Soares, M.C.; Gerlai, R.; Maximino, C.. "The integration of sociality, monoamines and stress neuroendocrinology in fish models: applications in the neurosciences". Journal of Fish Biology 93 2 (2018): 170-191. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85053598861&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/jfb.13757
  39. de Abreu, M.S.; Messias, J.P.M.; Thörnqvist, P.-O.; Winberg, S.; Soares, M.C.. "The variable monoaminergic outcomes of cleaner fish brains when facing different social and mutualistic contexts". PeerJ 2018 5 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85047511013&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.7717/peerj.4830
  40. Abreu, M.S.; Messias, J.P.M.; Thörnqvist, P.-O.; Winberg, S.; Soares, M.C.. "Monoaminergic levels at the forebrain and diencephalon signal for the occurrence of mutualistic and conspecific engagement in client reef fish". Scientific Reports 8 1 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85046855114&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1038/s41598-018-25513-6
  41. Funghi, C.; Trigo, S.; Gomes, A.C.R.; Soares, M.C.; Cardoso, G.C.. "Release from ecological constraint erases sex difference in social ornamentation". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 72 4 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85044758761&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s00265-018-2486-6
  42. Marta C. Soares; Teresa P. Santos; João P. M. Messias. "Dopamine disruption increases cleanerfish cooperative investment in novel client partners". Royal Society Open Science 4 5 (2017): 160609-160609. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160609.
    10.1098/rsos.160609
  43. Soares, Marta. "The Neurobiology of Mutualistic Behavior: The Cleanerfish Swims into the Spotlight". Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (2017): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5651018/.
    10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00191
  44. Soares, Marta. "Reputation management promotes strategic adjustment of service quality in cleaner wrasse". Scientific Reports 7: 8425 (2017): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28827634.
    10.1038/s41598-017-07128-5
  45. Soares, M.C.; Cardoso, S.C.; Malato, J.T.; Messias, J.P.M.. "Can cleanerfish overcome temptation? A selective role for dopamine influence on cooperative-based decision making". Physiology and Behavior 169 (2017): 124-129. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85001115494&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.physbeh.2016.11.028
  46. Soares, Marta. "Region specific changes in nonapeptide levels during client fish interactions with allopatric and sympatric cleaner fish". PLoS One12(7): e0180290 (2017): http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0180290.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0180290
  47. Messias, J.P.M.; Paula, J.R.; Grutter, A.S.; Bshary, R.; Soares, M.C.. "Dopamine disruption increases negotiation for cooperative interactions in a fish". Scientific Reports 6 (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84957567057&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1038/srep20817
  48. Messias, J.P.M.; Santos, T.P.; Pinto, M.; Soares, M.C.. "Stimulation of dopamine D1 receptor improves learning capacity in cooperating cleaner fish". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283 1823 (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84955607273&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1098/rspb.2015.2272
  49. Soares, M.C.; Paula, J.R.; Bshary, R.. "Serotonin blockade delays learning performance in a cooperative fish". Animal Cognition 19 5 (2016): 1027-1030. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84964247474&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s10071-016-0988-z
  50. Kulczykowska, E.; Cardoso, S.C.; Gozdowska, M.; André, G.I.; Paula, J.R.; Slebioda, M.; Oliveira, R.F.; Soares, M.C.. "Brain levels of nonapeptides in four labrid fish species with different levels of mutualistic behavior". General and Comparative Endocrinology (2015): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84934784162&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.ygcen.2015.06.005
  51. Cardoso, S.C.; Bshary, R.; Mazzei, R.; Paitio, J.R.; Oliveira, R.F.; Soares, M.C.. "Arginine vasotocin modulates associative learning in a mutualistic cleaner fish". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 69 7 (2015): 1173-1181. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84930931594&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s00265-015-1931-z
  52. Cardoso, S.C.; Grutter, A.S.; Paula, J.R.; André, G.I.; Messias, J.P.; Gozdowska, M.; Kulczykowska, E.; Soares, M.C.. "Forebrain neuropeptide regulation of pair association and behavior in cooperating cleaner fish". Physiology and Behavior 145 (2015): 1-7. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84930189587&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.physbeh.2015.03.024
  53. Narvaez, P.; Barreiros, J.P.; Soares, M.C.. "The parasitic isopod Anilocra physodes, as a novel food source for the lizardfish Synodus saurus (Synodontidae)". Cybium 39 4 (2015): 313-314. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84958529034&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  54. Messias, J.P.M.; Soares, M.C.. "Erratum to: When good advertisement backfires: cleaners get eaten too (Coral Reefs, (2015), DOI 10.1007/s00338-015-1303-1)". Coral Reefs 34 4 (2015): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84947128124&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s00338-015-1343-6
  55. Cardoso, S.C.; Paitio, J.R.; Oliveira, R.F.; Bshary, R.; Soares, M.C.. "Arginine vasotocin reduces levels of cooperative behaviour in a cleaner fish". Physiology and Behavior 139 (2015): 314-320. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84911923921&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.11.052
  56. Messias, J.P.M.; Soares, M.C.. "When good advertisement backfires: cleaners get eaten too". Coral Reefs 34 4 (2015): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84947129181&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s00338-015-1303-1
  57. Paula, J.R.; Messias, J.P.; Grutter, A.S.; Bshary, R.; Soares, M.C.. "The role of serotonin in the modulation of cooperative behavior". Behavioral Ecology 26 4 (2015): 1005-1012. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84941644428&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/beheco/arv039
  58. Soares, M.C.; André, G.I.; Paula, J.R.. "Preliminary notes on brain weight variation across labrid fish species with different levels of cooperative behaviour". Current Zoology 61 2 (2015): 274-280. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84925452600&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  59. Narvaez, P.; Furtado, M.; Neto, A.I.; Moniz, I.; Azevedo, J.M.N.; Soares, M.C.. "Temperate facultative cleaner wrasses selectively remove ectoparasites from their client-fish in the Azores". Marine Ecology Progress Series 540 (2015): 217-226. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84958677665&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3354/meps11522
  60. Soares, M.C.; Cardoso, S.C.; Grutter, A.S.; Oliveira, R.F.; Bshary, R.. "Cortisol mediates cleaner wrasse switch from cooperation to cheating and tactical deception". Hormones and Behavior 66 2 (2014): 346-350. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84903554225&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.yhbeh.2014.06.010
  61. Mendonça, R.; Soares, M.C.; Bshary, R.; Oliveira, R.F.. "Arginine vasotocin neuronal phenotype and interspecific cooperative behaviour". Brain, Behavior and Evolution 82 3 (2013): 166-176. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84888290999&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1159/000354784
  62. Soares, M.C.; Cardoso, S.C.; Nicolet, K.J.; CÔté, I.M.; Bshary, R.. "Indo-Pacific parrotfish exert partner choice in interactions with cleanerfish but Caribbean parrotfish do not". Animal Behaviour 86 3 (2013): 611-615. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84882850948&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.06.017
  63. Soares, M.C.; Bshary, R.; Mendonça, R.; Grutter, A.S.; Oliveira, R.F.. "Arginine vasotocin regulation of interspecific cooperative behaviour in a cleaner fish". PLoS ONE 7 7 (2012): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84863622670&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0039583
  64. Soares, M.C.; Bshary, R.; Cardoso, S.C.; Côté, I.M.; Oliveira, R.F.. "Face your fears: Cleaning gobies inspect predators despite being stressed by them". PLoS ONE 7 6 (2012): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84863002052&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0039781
  65. Ros, A.F.H.; Lusa, J.; Meyer, M.; Soares, M.; Oliveira, R.F.; Brossard, M.; Bshary, R.. "Does access to the bluestreak cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus affect indicators of stress and health in resident reef fishes in the Red Sea?". Hormones and Behavior 59 1 (2011): 151-158. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-78651515279&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.11.006
  66. Soares, M.C.; Oliveira, R.F.; Ros, A.F.H.; Grutter, A.S.; Bshary, R.. "Tactile stimulation lowers stress in fish". Nature Communications 2 1 (2011): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-82555196503&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1038/ncomms1547
  67. Soares, M.C.; Côté, I.M.; Cardoso, S.C.; Oliveira, R.F.; Bshary, R.. "Caribbean cleaning gobies prefer client ectoparasites over mucus". Ethology 116 12 (2010): 1244-1248. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-78349257391&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01838.x
  68. Soares, M.C.; Bshary, R.; Fusani, L.; Goymann, W.; Hau, M.; Hirschenhauser, K.; Oliveira, R.F.. "Hormonal mechanisms of cooperative behaviour". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 365 1553 (2010): 2737-2750. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77957259023&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1098/rstb.2010.0151
  69. Marta C Soares. "Interspecific differences in foraging". Marine Biodiversity Records (2009):
    doi:10.1017/S1755267209990662
  70. Soares, M.C.; Bshary, R.; Côté, I.M.. "Cleaning in pairs enhances honesty in male cleaning gobies". Behavioral Ecology 20 6 (2009): 1343-1347. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70450255184&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/beheco/arp138
  71. Soares, M.C.; Bshary, R.; Cardoso, S.C.; Côté, I.M.. "The meaning of jolts by fish clients of cleaning gobies". Ethology 114 3 (2008): 209-214. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-39049088626&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01471.x
  72. Soares, M.C.; Côté, I.M.; Cardoso, S.C.; Bshary, R.. "The cleaning goby mutualism: A system without punishment, partner switching or tactile stimulation". Journal of Zoology 276 3 (2008): 306-312. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-54249113314&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/j.1469-7998.2008.00489.x
  73. Barreiros, J.P.; Cardigos, F.; Soares, M.S.C.; Machado, L.F.. "Juvenile Sphyraena viridensis, preyed by the lizard fish Synodus saurus, a new predatory association from the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean)". Cybium 32 3 (2008): 273-274. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-57349116153&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  74. Soares, M.C.; Bshary, R.; Côté, I.M.. "Does cleanerfish service quality depend on client value or choice options?". Animal Behaviour 76 1 (2008): 123-130. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-44949086426&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.01.015
  75. Soares, M.C.; Bshary, R.; Cardoso, S.C.; Côté, I.M.. "Does competition for clients increase service quality in cleaning gobies?". Ethology 114 6 (2008): 625-632. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-43749103080&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01510.x
  76. Soares, M.C.; Cardoso, S.C.; Côté, I.M.. "Client preferences by Caribbean cleaning gobies: Food, safety or something else?". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61 7 (2007): 1015-1022. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-34147140429&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s00265-006-0334-6
  77. Sousa, L.; Barreiros, J.P.; Soares, M.S.C.; Hostim-Silva, M.; Santos, R.S.. "Preliminary notes on the reproductive biology of the lizardfish, Synodus saurus (Actynopterygii: Synodontidae) in the Azores". Cybium 27 1 (2003): 41-45. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0348218978&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Magazine article
  1. Caio Maximino; Marta Soares. Corresponding author: Caio Maximino. "Cooperation in Animals, and What It Tells Us about Scientists", Science for the people , 2022, https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol24-3-cooperation/cooperation-in-animals/.
Preprint
  1. Larissa Nunes de Oliveira; Nuno Felix Paiva Alves; Marta Candeias Soares; Caio Maximino. "Social status in zebrafish modulates the behavioral response to 5-HT2C receptor agonists and antagonists". 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.26.538457.
    10.1101/2023.04.26.538457
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/11/09 The neurobiology of mutualistic behaviour: The cleanerfish swims into the spotlight
Centro de Biociências da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Natal, Brazil)
2023/09/19 A Neurobiologia do comportamento mutualístico entre peixes: cooperação, cognição e fisiologia
Universidade Federal do Sul e Sudeste do Pará (Marabá, Brazil)
2022/11 Emotional Function of Sociability in Fish
Swiss Laboratory Animal Science Association (SGV) (Lausanne , Switzerland)
2021/10/01 Neurosexismo: desconstruindo o mito das diferenças sexuais ao nível do cérebro.
i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (Porto, Portugal)
2020/12/03 Neurosexismo: desconstruindo o mito das diferenças sexuais ao nível do cérebro. Neuronline: ciclo de palestras online
Neuroliga Marabá (Brazil)
2018/10/19 Stress and Cooperation: insights from the cleanerfishes. - Invited Plenary speaker SPE - 15th Congress of the Portuguese Society of Ethology
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2017/07 The role of monoaminergic signaling to mutualistic behaviour between Fish Symposium: fish uses in behavioral neuroscience (invitation)
Behaviour 2017 - International Ethological Conference, Association for the study of Animal Behaviour (Estoril, Portugal)
2013/08/08 Cortisol causes cleaner wrasse to switch from cooperation to cheating and prompts tactical deception. Behaviour 2013 – International Ethological Conference, Association for the study of Animal Behaviour
(United Kingdom)
2012/05 The marine cleaning mutualims between cleanerfish and their reef clients: from behavior to endocrinology
Genetics and Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Sopot, Poland)
2012 Tactile stimulation lower stress in fish SPE - Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia, 9º Congresso Nacional de Etologia
Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2011/11 Cooperação e conflito nos mutualismos de limpeza Ciclo de conferencias - "a ciência que por cá se faz"
ISPA - Instituto Universitário (Lisboa, Portugal)
2011/11 The marine cleaning mutualims between cleanerfish and their reef clients: from behavior to endocrinology Lecture Series in Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology
University of Bern (Berna, Switzerland)
2010/07/17 Does the use of tactile stimulation by cleanerfish has a role on its client fish stress response? European Conference on Behavioural Biology (ECBB) – Simposium on the Endocrinology of Cooperative Behaviour,
European Conference on Behavioural Biology (ECBB) (Ferrara, Italy)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/09/01 - Current Crayfish fisheries challenges in Portugal
Co-supervisor of Cristiana Lopes
 PhD in Conservation (PhD)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2019 - Current The Colour of Cooperation: linking colour polymorphism to mutualistic behaviour in the Caribbean Sharknose Goby (Elacatinus evelynae)
Co-supervisor of Cristiana Isabel Jorge Marques
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2023/07/01 - 2025/12/15 The impact of tourism on native and exotic fish species living in reservoirs
Supervisor of João Filipe Moreira
 Master in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution (Master)
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2023/09/01 - 2024/12/15 Improving fish welfare in aquaculture: The effects of physical contact in fish response to stress
Supervisor of Júlia Côrtes Maceira
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023/09/01 - 2024/12/15 Testosterone effects on plastic sex differences in ornamentation
Co-supervisor of Bruna Reis
 Master in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2023/06/01 - 2024/12/15 Behavioural and physiological trade-offs between native and invasive fish species
Supervisor
 Master in Ecology and Environment (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023/05/01 - 2024/12/15 Tactile stimulation and animal welfare in fish: effects on behavioral response and stress in native and invasive species in captivity
Supervisor of Gonçalo Brito
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2023/05/01 - 2024/12/15 Impact of competitive interactions between native and invasive species of teleost fish
Supervisor of Marta Luiz
 Master in Conservation (Master)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2019 - 2024/12/15 Garbage dumps or primary care clinics? Cleaning stations as hubs for the maintenance and recovery of microbial diversity on coral reefs
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2022/07/01 - 2024/09/30 Efeito da estimulação táctil corporal sobre o comportamento de apaziguamento em um ciclídeo neotropical
Co-supervisor of Bianca Cambiaghi e Silva
 Master in Biological Sciences (Master)
Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Brazil
2022/09/01 - 2023/12/15 The Colour of Cooperation: threadfin butterflyfish ( Chaetodon auriga) preference for vivid colours
Supervisor of Inês Cacela Rodrigues
 Master in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution (Master)
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2022/09/01 - 2023/12/15 Contributing factors for crayfish dispersion: the influence of socio-environmental and serotonergic change to Procambarus clarkii
Supervisor of Daniel Oliveira
 Master in Ecology and Environment (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021/09 - 2022/09 Efeito de diferentes níveis de triptofano dietético no stress e resposta comportamental da corvina (Argyrosomus regius)
Co-supervisor
 Master
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021/09 - 2022/08 The meaning of social touch for client reef fish
Supervisor
 Biodiversity, genetics and evolution (Master)
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
2021/09 - 2022/08 Arginine vasotocin regulation of social behaviour and dominance in the common waxbill
Co-supervisor
 Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution (Master)
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
2019 - 2020 Serotonergic mechanisms of dominance and aggression in the common waxbill
Supervisor of Beatriz Saldanha
 Biodiversidade, Genética e Evolução (Master)
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2015 - 2019 Causes and consequences of social phenotypic variation in the Caribbean facultative cleaning goby Elacatinus prochilos
Co-supervisor of Renata Mazzei Cespe Barbosa
Institut de Zoologie, Switzerland
2017 - 2018 O papel da dopamina nos perfis comportamentais do bico de lacre comum (Estrilda astrild)
Supervisor of Paulo Alberto Ferreira Tavares da Silva
 Ecologia e Ambiente (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017 - 2017 The value of fish mucous cocoons: establishing a reliable non-invasive test method to determine cortisol levels from cleanerfish Labroides dimidiatus
Supervisor of Anastasios Stylos
2015 - 2017 Behavior and ecology of Caribbean cleaning gobies Elacatinus evelynae in response to reef-condition changes
Supervisor of Ana Maria Pedroça Poças
 Mestrado em Ecologia Marinha (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2015 - 2017 The variable behavioural and physiological outcome of social challenges in two species of Brazilian damselfish
Supervisor of Marta Soares dos Reis
 Mestrado em Ecologia Marinha (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2015 - 2016 The role of dopamine for behaviour regulation in cooperatively breeding fish
Co-supervisor of Diogo Fazenda Antunes
 Mestrado em Biologia Evolutiva e Desenvolvimento (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2015 - 2016 Coral reef degradation, fish parasite loads and cleaning behaviour: insights from a Caribbean island
Supervisor of Maria Teresa Pontes dos Santos
 Mestrado em Ecologia Animal (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2015 - 2016 The role of testosterone the modulation of the Indo-Pacific bluestreak cleaner wrasse behaviour Labroides dimidiatus
Supervisor of Cândida Ramos
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2015 - 2016 Living dangerously: the influence of predatory risk to the cooperative performance of a cleaner fish
Supervisor of João Malato
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2014 - 2016 Associações de limpeza entre o labrídeo facultativo Centrolabrus exoletus (Linnaeus, 1758) e os seus peixes cliente
Supervisor of Nádia Sofia Francisco Morado
 Mestrado em Ecologia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2014 - 2015 Cooperative modulation of brain neuropeptide levels in cleanerfish
Supervisor of Ana Marta Morais
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2010 - 2015 NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY OF COOPERATION: The role of Neuropeptides on the modulation of Mutualistic Behaviour of the Indo-Pacific Cleaner Wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus)
Supervisor of Sónia Cristina Cobra Cardoso
Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
2012 - 2014 The role of dopamine in the neuromodulation of the Indo-­-Pacific bluestreak cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus
Supervisor of João Pedro Miguel Messias
 Mestrado em Ecologia Animal (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2012 - 2013 PADRÕES DE DISTRIBUIÇÃO E COMPORTAMENTO ALIMENTAR DO PEIXE LIMPADOR Elacatinus figaro SAZIMA, MOURA & ROSA, 1997 (TELEOSTEI: GOBIIDAE) NA COSTA BRASILEIRA.
Co-supervisor of Renata Mazzei Cespe Barbosa
Mestrado em Ciências Biologicas (Master)
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012 - 2013 The role of serotonin in neuromodulation of cleaner fish Labroides dimidiatus behaviour – a key species of coral reefs
Supervisor of José Ricardo Maceiras de Paula
 Mestrado em Biologia da Conservação (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2012 - 2013 Interacções mutualísticas envolvendo os peixes limpadores facultativos Coris julis e Thalassoma pavo
Supervisor of Pauline Narvaez
 Mestrado em Ecologia Animal (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2010 - 2012 Characterization and comparison of the arginine vasotocin (AVT) neurons in the brain of phylogenetically close wrasses, with different levels of cooperative behaviour
Supervisor of Ana Rute Mendonça
 Mestrado em Ecologia Marinha (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2006 - 2008 Effects of Parrotfish Herbivory on Caribbean Coral Reefs: A functional approach
Co-supervisor of Sónia Cristina Cobra Cardoso
University of East Anglia School of Biological Sciences, United Kingdom

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2020/09 - 2021/03 Research Topic in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience: Emotional Function of Sociality in Fish (2020/09 - 2021/03)
Other (Co-organisor)
2019 - 2019 Organization committee of thie conference Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE). in 2019 (2019 - 2019)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Member of the organizing committee in 2014 of the Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE). (2014 - 2014)
Conference
 Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/11/13 - 2023/11/16 EFFECT OF TRYPTOPHAN DIETARY CONTENT ON MEAGRE Argyrosomus regiusJUVENILES' GROWTH, MUSCLE CELLULARITY AND BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSE
Conference

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2022/11/23 Behavioural variation along the bold-shy continuum: how different profiles could contribute to understanding licit drugs addiction
(Thesis) Arguer
 Heloysa Araujo-Silva (PhD)
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
2022/08/31 Bold and Shy individual differences in zebrafish: is there reliability between behavioral profiles?
(Thesis) Main arguer
 João Paulo M Mamede (Master)
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
2021/09/16 To be or not to be diseased: microbial dynamics and dysbiosis in farmed European seabass and gilthead seabream
(Thesis) Arguer
 Daniela Filipa Gonçalves Martins Rosado (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2021/04/04 Participação do receptor 5-HT2C na aproximação condicional em zebrafish (danio rerio)
(Thesis) Arguer
 Ana Flavia Nogueira Pimentel (Other)
Universidade Federal do Sul e Sudeste do Pará, Brazil
2016/12/16 Assessing the physiological costs of dominance in a highly social bird
(Thesis) Arguer
 Liliana Filipa Rodrigues Silva (Master)
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2024/01 - Current The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) Member
2016 - Current Member of the direction team of the Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE) Vogal
2015 - Current Fisheries Society of the British Isles (FSBI) Member

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2013 - Current Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE)
2023/09 - 2023/11 2023 Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia CIBIO-BIOPOLIS

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023/12/01 - Current Consultant on behavioral welfare on aquaculture systems, particularly on lumpfish behavioural response and learning, for Akvaplan, (https://akvaplan.no/en) Akvaplan-niva AS, Norway

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/11/20 - Current Coordinator and main lecturer of the advanced course at CIBIO-BIOPOLIS: Understanding animal responses to change on a neural and endocrine level (since 2022). https://cibio.up.pt/en/events/understanding-animal-responses-to-change-on-a-behavioural-and-endocrine-level/ (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2015/02/15 - Current Invited lecturer at CIBIO-BIOPOLIS (since 2015), Behavioural Ecology (Ecologia Comportamental), MSc course in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources at CIBIO, University of Porto, Portugal. Topics taught: Neuroendocrinology of social behaviour. Ecologia Comportamental (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2024/02/01 - 2024/07/31 Invited lecturer (Professora auxiliar convidada – second semester 2024) at the University of Porto, Faculty of Sciences (1º Ciclo – disciplina de Etologia). Etologia (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2013 visitor researcher at the University Federal Fluminense (Brazil)
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

Other distinction

2014 Small research grant
Fisheries Society of the British Isles, United Kingdom
2008 Post doctoral scholarship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2003 PhD scholarship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2003 Research Scholarship
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2002 Research scholarship (Programa de Estágios Profissionais)
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2001 Research scholarship (ESTAGIAR L)
Universidade dos Açores - Campus de Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal
2001 Research scholarship (Prodep III – Programa de Estágios no Ensino Superior)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal