Leila T Shirai

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Sou bióloga evolutiva interessada na integração de conhecimentos de diferentes níveis biológicos para entender a origem e evolução de diversidade morfológica e de espécies.

Licenciada e Bacharel pela Universidade de São Paulo, tendo estudado a evolução da modularidade craniana em marsupiais Neotropicais. Este trabalho foi expandido para mamíferos em colaboração com A. Porto, F. Oliveira e G. Marroig. Mestre pela USP com biogeografia e filogeografia do gambá Didelphis aurita, testando a hipótese de refúgios na Mata Atlântica. Doutora pelo Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal com Biologia Evolutiva do Desenvolvimento, Evo-Devo de padrões de cor (ocelos) na asa de borboletas.

O projeto do pós-doutorado, em andamento no Labbor UNICAMP, pergunta se e como diferentes estágios do desenvolvimento influenciaram a diversificação de padrões de pigmentação nas asas de borboletas da família em Nymphalidae.

email
l180443@dac.unicamp.br

I’m an evolutionary biologist interested in integrating knowledge from different biological levels to understand the origin and evolution of morphological and species diversification.

For my bachelor’s diploma, I studied the evolution of skull modularity in Neotropical marsupials. This work, carried out at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (USP), was further expanded to all mammals, in collaboration with A. Porto, F. Oliveira, and G. Marroig. My MSc degree (USP) on bio- and phylogeography tested the Refugee Hypothesis for an Atlantic Forest species, the opossum Didelphis aurita. My PhD, done at the Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal explored the developmental basis of morphological diversification of a butterfly wing color pattern, the eyespot.

The project I currently work on at Labbor (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil) asks whether and how different stages of development influenced the diversification of nymphalid pigment patterns.

Publicações

1. Shirai LT, Mota LL, Freitas AVL. 2017. Aggregation of Epityches eupompe (Nymphalidae: Ithomiini) in southern Brazil. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 27: 111-114.

2. Shirai LT, Barbosa EP, Greve RR, Magaldi LM, Nascimento, AR, Freitas AVL. 2017. Natural history of Selenophanes cassiope guarany (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Brassolini): an integrative approach, from molecules to ecology. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 110: 145-159.

3. Porto A, Shirai LT, Oliveira FB, Marroig G. 2013. Size variation, growth strategies, and the evolution of modularity in the mammalian skull. Evolution 67: 3305-3322.

4. Shirai LT, Saenko SV, Keller RA, Jerónimo MA, Brakefield PM, Descimon H, Wahlberg N, Beldade P. 2012. Evolutionary history of the recruitment of conserved developmental genes in association to the formation and diversification of a novel trait. BMC Evolutionary Biology 12: 21 – chosen as Editor’s pick.

5. Shirai LT, Marroig G. 2010. Evolutionary constraint and flexibility: a comparison between neotropical marsupials and monkeys skull modularity. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol Dev Evol) 314B: 663-683.

6. Geise L, Paresque R, Sebastião HS, Shirai LT, Astúa D, Marroig G. 2010. Non-volant mammals, Parque Nacional do Catimbau, Vale do Catimbau, Buíque, Pernambuco State, Brazil, with karyologic data. Check List 6: 180-186.

7. Marroig G, Shirai LT, Porto A, Oliveira FB, De Conto V. 2009. The evolution of modularity in the mammalian skull II: evolutionary consequences. Evolutionary Biology 36: 136–148.

8. Porto A, Oliveira FB, Shirai LT, De Conto V, Marroig G. 2009. The evolution of modularity in the mammalian skull I: morphological integration patterns and magnitudes. Evolutionary Biology 36: 118–135.

Outras
1. “A day in the life of a butterfly lab”. 2014. The Company of Biologists blog, published in The Node.

http://thenode.biologists.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-butterfly-lab/lablife/