Telma G. Laurentino

Convergent & Divergent evolution

PostDoc @ Rosenblum Lab, UCBerkeley 🇺🇸

I studied phenotypic convergence across species and habitats and divergence within species to investigate the genomic basis of Lizard's adaptation to rapid environmental change: does natural selection use the same tools to produce similar, and diverging, cryptic coloration phenotypes? What are the idiosyncrasies of convergent evolution? What genes underlie fast adaptive change?

Genomic footprints of Natural Selection

PhD @ Salzburger Lab, Unibas 🇨🇭

I focused on European three spined stickleback fish to research the tempo and mode of natural selection: what footprints does this force leave on the genome? Can we capture selection acting in real time? What genes are shaped by selection and underlie phenotypic adaptations?

Speciation continuum

MSc @ CoBig2 Lab, FCUL 🇵🇹

I combined environmental, phenotypic and genomic data to research the level of divergence between two parapatric subspecies of Timon lepidus (ocellated lizard) living along a climatic cline: Are these subspecies far in the path of the speciation continuum? Is dorsal coloration an expression of local adaptation? How much is divergence shaped by demography?

Scientific publications

First authorships

Ecology & Evolution (2022) 12:e9555

Repeated evolution of blanched coloration in a lizard across independent white-sand habitats

Laurentino TG, Dittmer DE, Grundler M, Pina-Martins F, Haddock J, Hibbitts TJ, Rosenblum EB

Radio interview on the Salt Basin Dunes' Lizards

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics (2022) 12:6 Cover feature

The EDA receptor (EDAR) is a candidate gene for lateral plate number variation in stickleback fish

Laurentino TG, Boileau N, Ronco F, Berner D

Evolution: education and outreach (2021) 14:5; * Equal contribution

evALLution: making basic evolution concepts accessible to people with visual impairment through a multi-sensory tree of life

Laurentino TG, Xavier M, Ronco F, Pina-Martins F, Domingues I, Penha B, Dias M, de Sousa A, Carrilho T, Rodrigues L, Pinheiro C*, Rato D*, Balata D*, Ayala G*, Matos M M*, Campelo M*, Botelho R

3 lessons the blind community taught us Feature in a Portuguese news paper 🇵🇹

Nature Communications (2020) 11, 1928

Genomic release-recapture experiment in the wild indicates within-generation polygenic selection in stickleback fish

Laurentino TG, Moser D, Roesti M, Ammann M, Frey A, Ronco F, Kueng B, Berner D

Featured on Nature Ecology and Evolution 'Behind the paper'

African journal of ecology (2019) 57(1), 130-136

Liana abundance and relationships to sapling and tree hosts in an East African Primary Forest

Laurentino TG, Baur J, Usui T, Eichhorn M

Why anyone should care about Ugandan Lianas?

Molecular ecology (2018) 27 (11), 2477-2497

Meta-analysis of chromosome-scale crossover rate variation in eukaryotes and its significance to evolutionary genomics

Laurentino TG*, Haenel Q*, Roesti M, Berner D

Basic and Applied Herpetology (2016) 30, 7-23

From a local observation to a european-wide phenomenon: Amphibian deformities in Serra da Estrela Natural Park, Portugal

Laurentino TG, Pais MP, Rosa GM

Collaborations

Molecular ecology (2023) 32:5661–5672

Gut microbiota parallelism and divergence associated with colonisation of novel habitats

Haerer A, Mauro AA, Laurentino TG, Rosenblum EB, Rennison DJ

Nature Communications (2021) 12, 4850

Clinal genomic analysis reveals strong reproductive isolation across a steep habitat transition in stickleback fish

Haenel Q, Oke KB, Laurentino TG, Hendry AP, Berner D

Molecular ecology (2019) 29(2), 262-271

Widespread intersex differentiation across the stickleback genome – the signature of sexually antagonistic selection?

Bissegger M, Laurentino TG, Roesti M, Berner D

Oecologia (2019) 189(1), 111–122; 1 co-first authorship; 2 co-last authorship

Spider mites escape bacterial infection by avoiding contaminated food

Zéle F1, Matos G1, Figueiredo A, Eira C, Pinto C, Laurentino TG, Sucena E2, Magalhães S2

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (2019) blz182

Population genomics of Bombus terrestris reveals high but unstructured genetic diversity in a potential glacial refugium

Silva SE, Seabra SG, Carvalheiro LG, Nunes VL, Marabuto E, Mendes R, Rodrigues ASB, Pina-Martins F, Yurtsever S, Laurentino TG, Figueiredo E, Rebelo MR, Paulo OS

Evolutionary applications (2018)

Genomic signatures of introgression between commercial and native bumblebees, Bombus terrestris, in western Iberian Peninsula – implications for conservation and trade regulation

Seabra S, Silva S, Nunes VL, Sousa VC, Martins J, Marabuto E, Rodrigues AS, Pina-Martins F, Laurentino TG, Rebelo MT, Figueiredo E, Paulo OS

Zootaxa (2017) 4237(3), 517-544

Morphology, songs and genetics identify two new cicada species from Morocco : Tettigettalna afroamissa sp. nov. and Berberigetta dimelodica gen. nov. & sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Cicadettini)

Costa GJ, Nunes VL, Marabuto E, Mendes R, Laurentino TG, Quartau JA, Paulo OS, Simões P

Scientific Reports(2017) 7, 43260

Impact of asynchronous emergence of two lethal pathogens on amphibian assemblages

Rosa GM, Sabino-Pinto J, Laurentino TG, Martel A, Pasmans F, Rebelo R, Griffiths RA, Stöhr AC, Marschang RE, Price SJ, Garner TWJ, Bosch J

Entomological Science(2012) 15: 343-345

Field observation of foraging behavior by a group of adult diving beetles Agabus (Gaurodytes) bipustulatus preying on an adult Lissotriton boscai.

Rosa GM, Laurentino TG, Madeira M

Research