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Miguel Cruz. Concluiu o(a) Mestrado em Biologia Evolutiva e do Desenvolvimento em 2017/10/18 pelo(a) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Mestrado em Biologia Evolutiva e do Desenvolvimento em 2017/10/18 pelo(a) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Licenciatura em Biologia em 2015/07/21 pelo(a) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências. Atua na(s) área(s) de Ciências Naturais com ênfase em Ciências Biológicas com ênfase em Biologia da Evolução das Espécies. No seu currículo Ciência Vitae os termos mais frequentes na contextualização da produção científica, tecnológica e artístico-cultural são: Host-parasite interactions; Reproductive isolation; Reproductive interference; Competition; Experimental evolution; Molecular ecology; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Miguel Cruz

Citation names

  • Cruz, Miguel A.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7913-A2CA-DD64
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2877-4086

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Evolutionary Biology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2018/03/01 - 2022/10/31
Ongoing
 Biodiversidade, Genética e Evolução (Doutoramento)
Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
"The impact of individual variation for, and evolution of, reproductive barriers on coexistence" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2017/10/18
Concluded
 Biologia Evolutiva e do Desenvolvimento (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"The interplay between Wolbachia and host-associated reproductive barriers among populations of Tetranychus urticae" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2015/07/21
Concluded
 Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 13
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2018/11/01 - Current The impact of ecological specialization, reproductive interference and reproductive isolation on the outcome of competition between spider-mite populations
SFRH/BD/136454/2018
PhD Student Fellow
Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/02/01 - 2018/10/31 COMPCON: Competition under (niche) construction
GA 725419
PhD Student Fellow
Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
 European Research Council
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Cruz, Miguel A.; Sousa, Vitor C; Magalhães, Sara; Zélé, Flore. "Evolution in sympatry did not increase avoidance of reproductive interference between closely related spider mites". Paper presented in XVII ENBE: Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Evolutionary Biology, 2021.
  2. Cruz, Miguel; Juliane Souza; Flore Zélé; Sara Magalhães. "Do heterospecific matings affect the mating signals of spider mite females?". Paper presented in XV Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva (ENBE), Porto, Portugal, 2019.
  3. Cruz, Miguel; Vitor Sousa; Murat Bakirdöven; Sara Magalhães; Flore Zélé. "Does reproductive interference lead to reinforcement between spider mite species?". Paper presented in BIODIV Annual Meeting ’19, Vairão, Portugal, 2019.
  4. Cruz, Miguel; Vitor Sousa; Sara Magalhães; Flore Zélé. "The impact of ecological specialization, reproductive interference and reproductive isolation on the outcome of competition between spider-mite populations.". Paper presented in XIV Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva (ENBE), Lisboa, Portugal, 2018.
  5. Cruz, Miguel; Sara Magalhães; Élio Sucena; Flore Zélé. "The interplay between Wolbachia and host-associated reproductive barriers among populations of Tetranychus urticae.". Paper presented in II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, Montpellier, France, 2018.
  6. Cruz, Miguel; Sara Magalhães; Élio Sucena; Flore Zélé. "The interplay between Wolbachia and morph-associated reproductive barriers among populations of Tetranychus urticae.". Paper presented in Frontiers in E3: 3rd cE3c Annual Meeting, Ponta Delgada, Portugal, 2017.
  7. Miguel Cruz; Sara Magalhães; Flore Zélé. "The interplay between Wolbachia and morph-associated reproductive barriers among populations of Tetranychus urticae.". Paper presented in XII Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva (ENBE), Aveiro, Portugal, 2016.
Journal article
  1. Miguel A. Cruz; Sara Magalhães; Élio Sucena; Flore Zélé. "Wolbachia and host intrinsic reproductive barriers contribute additively to postmating isolation in spider mites". Evolution 75 8 (2021): 2085-2101. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14286.
    Published • 10.1111/evo.14286
  2. Diogo P. Godinho; Miguel A. Cruz; Maud Charlery de la Masselière; Jéssica Teodoro-Paulo; Cátia Eira; Inês Fragata; Leonor R. Rodrigues; Flore Zélé; Sara Magalhães. "Creating outbred and inbred populations in haplodiploids to measure adaptive responses in the laboratory". Ecology and Evolution (2020): https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6454.
    10.1002/ece3.6454
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Cruz, Miguel. "The interplay between Wolbachia and host-associated reproductive barriers among populations of Tetranychus urticae". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/31610.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/01/28 Evolution in sympatry did not increase avoidance of reproductive interference between closely related spider mites BIODIV Annual Meeting 2022
cE3c, CIBIO (Portugal)
2021/10/01 The effect of population size and relative density of heterospecific mates on the cost of reproductive interference Frontiers in E3: 7th cE3c Annual Meeting
cE3c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/09 Reproductive interference as a driver of species exclusion and evolution in spider mites. XVII Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB)
European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) (Turku, Finland)
2019/07 Reproductive interference as a driver of species exclusion and evolution in spider mites. Frontiers in E3: 5th cE3c Annual Meeting
Centro de Ecologia, Evolução e Alterações Ambientais (cE3c) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/05 Does reproductive interference lead to reinforcement between spider mite species? 25th European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB XV)
European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) (Pedrogão Pequeno, Portugal)
2018/07 Is there reinforcement of pre-zygotic isolation between incompatible populations of the spider mite Tetranychus urticae that evolve together? Frontiers in E3: 4th cE3c Annual Meeting
Centro de Ecologia, Evolução e Alterações Ambientais (cE3c) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/12 The interplay between Wolbachia and host-associated reproductive barriers among populations of Tetranychus urticae. XIII Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva (ENBE)
Associação Portuguesa de Biologia Evolutiva (APBE) (Faro, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019/07 - 2019/07 Frontiers in E3: 5th cE3c Annual Meeting, Lisboa, Portugal (2019/07 - 2019/07)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2017 - Current Presentation of our model organism and the research questions explored by our research group to high school students.
Other
 Dia Aberto FCUL
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2019/03 - 2019/06 The effect of interspecific matings on mate choice of male spider mites Juliane Souza
Distinctions

Other distinction

2017 Best Oral presentation: "The interplay between Wolbachia and host-associated reproductive barriers among populations of Tetranychus urticae."