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Catarina Rato
Researcher at University of Porto
Publications - 35
Citations - 518
Catarina Rato is an academic researcher from University of Porto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tarentola mauritanica & Population. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 28 publications receiving 441 citations. Previous affiliations of Catarina Rato include Spanish National Research Council.
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Conflicting patterns of nucleotide diversity between mtDNA and nDNA in the Moorish gecko, Tarentola mauritanica.
TL;DR: The mtDNA results reveal a Moroccan lineage basal to the common "European" haplotype, thus suggesting that the latter probably originated in Morocco, and nDNA data do not support the majority of the mtDNA phylogenetic relationships, possibly due to incomplete lineage sorting of these markers.
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Evolutionary history of the genus Tarentola(Gekkota: Phyllodactylidae) from the Mediterranean Basin, estimated using multilocus sequence data
TL;DR: At least in the Iberian Peninsula and Northwest Africa, the lineages obtained have some geographic coherency, whilst the evolutionary history of the forms from Northeast Africa remains unclear, with a paraphyletic T. neglecta and T. mindiae, occurring only in North Africa.
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When selection deceives phylogeographic interpretation: the case of the Mediterranean house gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus (Linnaeus, 1758).
TL;DR: The identification of a hitch-hiking process occurring in H. turcicus, represents two unprecedented cases of a selective sweep taking place in the same geographic area shaping the phylogeographic patterns of two unrelated genera of geckos.
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The taxonomy of the Tarentola mauritanica species complex (Gekkota: Phyllodactylidae): Bayesian species delimitation supports six candidate species.
TL;DR: Bayesian coalescent species delimitation analysis supports all six mitochondrial clades as "unconfirmed candidate species", pending morphological data to define them, despite showing signs of ancestral polymorphism or possibly gene flow between the Maghreb/South Iberia and Central Morocco clades.
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A Combination of Divergence and Conservatism in the Niche Evolution of the Moorish Gecko, Tarentola mauritanica (Gekkota: Phyllodactylidae)
Catarina Rato,David James Harris,Ana Perera,Sílvia B. Carvalho,Miguel A. Carretero,Dennis Rödder +5 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that diversification within this complex, during the Miocene and Pleistocene, is associated with both niche divergence and niche conservatism, with a pattern that varies depending on whether the variables involved are related to the mean or seasonality of temperature and humidity.