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Francis M. F. Nunes
Researcher at Federal University of São Carlos
Publications - 36
Citations - 4108
Francis M. F. Nunes is an academic researcher from Federal University of São Carlos. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gene & Genome. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 34 publications receiving 3702 citations. Previous affiliations of Francis M. F. Nunes include University of São Paulo & Sao Paulo State University.
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Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera
George M. Weinstock,Gene E. Robinson,Richard A. Gibbs,Kim C. Worley,Jay D. Evans,Ryszard Maleszka,Hugh M. Robertson,Daniel B. Weaver,Martin Beye,Peer Bork,Christine G. Elsik,Klaus Hartfelder,Greg J. Hunt,Evgeny M. Zdobnov,Gro V. Amdam,Mrcia M.G. Bitondi,Anita M. Collins,Alexandre S. Cristino,H. Michael G. Lattorff,Carlos H. Lobo,Robin F. A. Moritz,Francis M. F. Nunes,Robert E. Page,Zilá Luz Paulino Simões,Diana E. Wheeler,Piero Carninci,Shiro Fukuda,Yoshihide Hayashizaki,Chikatoshi Kai,Jun Kawai,Naoko Sakazume,Daisuke Sasaki,Michihira Tagami,Stefan Albert,Geert Baggerman,Kyle T. Beggs,Guy Bloch,Giuseppe Cazzamali,Mira Cohen,Mark D. Drapeau,Dorothea Eisenhardt,Christine Emore,Michael A. Ewing,Susan E. Fahrbach,Sylvain Forêt,Cornelis J. P. Grimmelikhuijzen,Frank Hauser,Amanda B. Hummon,Jurgen Huybrechts,Andrew K. Jones,Tatsuhiko Kadowaki,Noam Kaplan,Robert Kucharski,Grard Leboulle,Michal Linial,J. Troy Littleton,Alison R. Mercer,T.A. Richmond,Sandra L. Rodriguez-Zas,Elad B. Rubin,David B. Sattelle,David I. Schlipalius,Liliane Schoofs,Yair Shemesh,Jonathan V. Sweedler,Rodrigo A. Velarde,Peter Verleyen,Evy Vierstraete,Michael Williamson,Seth A. Ament,Susan J. Brown,Miguel Corona,Peter K. Dearden,W. Augustine Dunn,Michelle M. Elekonich,Tomoko Fujiyuki,Irene Gattermeier,Tanja Gempe,Martin Hasselmann,Eriko Kage,Azusa Kamikouchi,Takeo Kubo,Takekazu Kunieda,Marcé D. Lorenzen,Natalia V. Milshina,Mizue Morioka,Kazuaki Ohashi,Ross Overbeek,Christian A. Ross,Morten Schioett,Teresa D. Shippy,Hideaki Takeuchi,Amy L. Toth,Judith H. Willis,Megan J. Wilson,Karl H.J. Gordon,Ivica Letunic,Kevin J. Hackett,Jane Peterson,Adam Felsenfeld,Mark S. Guyer,Michel Solignac,Richa Agarwala,Jean Marie Cornuet,M. Monnerot,Florence Mougel,Justin T. Reese,Dominique Vautrin,Joseph J. Gillespie,Joseph J. Gillespie,Jamie J. Cannone,Robin R. Gutell,J. Spencer Johnston,Michael B. Eisen,Michael B. Eisen,Venky N. Iyer,Vivek Iyer,Peter Kosarev,Aaron J. Mackey,Victor V. Solovyev,Alexandre Souvorov,Katherine A Aronstein,Katarína Bíliková,Yanping Chen,Andrew G. Clark,Laura I. Decanini,William M. Gelbart,Charles Hetru,Dan Hultmark,Jean-Luc Imler,Haobo Jiang,Michael R. Kanost,Kiyoshi Kimura,Brian P. Lazzaro,Dawn Lopez,Jozef Šimúth,Graham J. Thompson,Zhen Zou,Pieter J. de Jong,Erica Sodergren,Miklós Csürös,Aleksandar Milosavljevic,Kazutoyo Osoegawa,Stephen Richards,Chung Li Shu,Laurent Duret,Eran Elhaik,Dan Graur,Juan Manuel Anzola,Kathryn S. Campbell,Kevin L. Childs,Derek Collinge,Madeline A. Crosby,C. Michael Dickens,L. Sian Grametes,Christina M. Grozinger,Peter L. Jones,Mireia Jordà,Xu Ling,Beverly B. Matthews,Jonathan Miller,Craig Mizzen,Miguel A. Peinado,Jeffrey G. Reid,Jeffrey G. Reid,Susan M. Russo,Andrew J. Schroeder,Susan E. St. Pierre,Ying Wang,Pinglei Zhou,Huaiyang Jiang,Paul Kitts,Barbara J. Ruef,Anand Venkatraman,Lan Zhang,Gildardo Aquino-Perez,Charles W. Whitfield,Susanta K. Behura,Stewart H. Berlocher,Walter S. Sheppard,Deborah R. Smith,Andrew V. Suarez,Neil D. Tsutsui,Xuehong Wei,David A. Wheeler,Paul Havlak,Bingshan Li,Yue Liu,Angela Jovilet,Sandra L. Lee,Lynne V. Nazareth,Ling Ling Pu,Rachel Thorn,Viktor Stolc,Thomas C. Newman,Manoj P. Samanta,Waraporn Tongprasit,Charles Claudianos,Charles Claudianos,May R. Berenbaum,Sunita Biswas,Sunita Biswas,Dirk C. de Graaf,René Feyereisen,Reed M. Johnson,John G. Oakeshott,Hilary Ranson,Mary A. Schuler,Donna M. Muzny,Joseph Chacko,Clay Davis,Huyen Dinh,Rachel Gill,Judith Hernandez,Sandra Hines,Jennifer Hume,La Ronda Jackson,Christie Kovar,Lora Lewis,George Miner,Margaret Morgan,Ngoc Nguyen,Geoffrey Okwuonu,Heidi Paul,Jireh Santibanez,Glenford Savery,Amanda F. Svatek,Donna Villasana,Rita A. Wright +228 more
TL;DR: The genome sequence of the honeybee Apis mellifera is reported, suggesting a novel African origin for the species A. melliferA and insights into whether Africanized bees spread throughout the New World via hybridization or displacement.
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Functional and evolutionary insights from the genomes of three parasitoid Nasonia species.
John H. Werren,Stephen Richards,Christopher A. Desjardins,Oliver Niehuis,Jürgen Gadau,John K. Colbourne,Leo W. Beukeboom,Claude Desplan,Christine G. Elsik,Cornelis J. P. Grimmelikhuijzen,Paul Kitts,Jeremy A. Lynch,Terence Murphy,Deodoro C. S. G. Oliveira,Christopher D. Smith,Christopher D. Smith,Louis De Van Zande,Kim C. Worley,Evgeny M. Zdobnov,Maarten Aerts,Stefan Albert,Víctor Hugo Anaya,Juan Manuel Anzola,Angel Roberto Barchuk,Susanta K. Behura,Agata N. Bera,May R. Berenbaum,Rinaldo C. Bertossa,Márcia Maria Gentile Bitondi,Seth R. Bordenstein,Peer Bork,Erich Bornberg-Bauer,Marleen Brunain,Giuseppe Cazzamali,Lesley S. Chaboub,Joseph Chacko,Dean Chavez,Christopher P. Childers,Jeong Hyeon Choi,Michael E. Clark,Charles Claudianos,Rochelle A. Clinton,Andrew Cree,Alexandre S. Cristino,Alexandre S. Cristino,Phat M. Dang,Alistair C. Darby,Dirk C. de Graaf,Bart Devreese,Huyen Dinh,Rachel Edwards,Navin Elango,Eran Elhaik,Olga Ermolaeva,Jay D. Evans,Sylvain Forêt,Gerald R. Fowler,Daniel Gerlach,Joshua D. Gibson,Donald G. Gilbert,Dan Graur,Stefan Gründer,Darren E. Hagen,Yi Han,Frank Hauser,Da Hultmark,Henry C. Hunter,Gregory D. D. Hurst,Shalini N. Jhangian,Huaiyang Jiang,Reed M. Johnson,Andrew K. Jones,Thomas Junier,Tatsuhiko Kadowaki,A. Kamping,Yuri Kapustin,Bobak D. Kechavarzi,Jaebum Kim,Jay Kim,Boris Kiryutin,T. Koevoets,Christie Kovar,Evgenia V. Kriventseva,Robert Kucharski,Heewook Lee,Sandra L. Lee,Kristin Lees,Lora Lewis,David W. Loehlin,John M. Logsdon,Jacqueline Lopez,Ryan J. Lozado,Donna Maglott,Ryszard Maleszka,Anoop Mayampurath,Danielle J. Mazur,Marcella A. McClure,Andrew D. Moore,Margaret Morgan,Jean Muller,Monica Munoz-Torres,Donna M. Muzny,Lynne V. Nazareth,Susanne Neupert,Ngoc Nguyen,Francis M. F. Nunes,John G. Oakeshott,Geoffrey Okwuonu,Bart A. Pannebakker,Vikas Pejaver,Zuogang Peng,Stephen C. Pratt,Reinhard Predel,Ling Ling Pu,Hilary Ranson,Rhitoban Raychoudhury,Andreas Rechtsteiner,Andreas Rechtsteiner,Justin T. Reese,Jeffrey G. Reid,Megan Riddle,I. I. Hugh M Robertson,Jeanne Romero-Severson,Miriam I. Rosenberg,Timothy B. Sackton,David B. Sattelle,Helge Schlüns,Thomas Schmitt,Martina Schneider,Andreas Schüler,Andrew M. Schurko,David M. Shuker,Zilá Luz Paulino Simões,Saurabh Sinha,Zachary Smith,Victor V. Solovyev,Alexandre Souvorov,Andreas Springauf,Elisabeth Stafflinger,Deborah E. Stage,Deborah E. Stage,Mario Stanke,Yoshiaki Tanaka,Arndt Telschow,Carol Trent Selina Vattathil,I. I. Eveline C Verhulst,Lumi Viljakainen,Kevin W. Wanner,Robert M. Waterhouse,James B. Whitfield,Timothy E. Wilkes,Michael Williamson,Judith H. Willis,Florian Wolschin,Stefan Wyder,Stefan Wyder,Takuji Yamada,Soojin V. Yi,Courtney N. Zecher,Lan Zhang,Lan Zhang,Richard A. Gibbs +161 more
TL;DR: Key findings include the identification of a functional DNA methylation tool kit; hymenopteran-specific genes including diverse venoms; lateral gene transfers among Pox viruses, Wolbachia, and Nasonia; and the rapid evolution of genes involved in nuclear-mitochondrial interactions that are implicated in speciation.
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The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organization
Ben M. Sadd,Ben M. Sadd,Seth M. Barribeau,Seth M. Barribeau,Guy Bloch,Dirk C. de Graaf,Peter K. Dearden,Christine G. Elsik,Christine G. Elsik,Jürgen Gadau,Cornelis J. P. Grimmelikhuijzen,Martin Hasselmann,Jeffrey D. Lozier,Hugh M. Robertson,Guy Smagghe,Eckart Stolle,Matthias Van Vaerenbergh,Robert M. Waterhouse,Erich Bornberg-Bauer,Steffen Klasberg,Anna K. Bennett,Francisco Câmara,Roderic Guigó,Katharina J. Hoff,Marco Mariotti,Monica Munoz-Torres,Monica Munoz-Torres,Terence Murphy,Didac Santesmasses,Gro V. Amdam,Matthew Beckers,Martin Beye,Matthias Biewer,Matthias Biewer,Márcia Maria Gentile Bitondi,Mark Blaxter,Andrew F. G. Bourke,Mark J. F. Brown,Séverine D. Buechel,Rossanah Cameron,Kaat Cappelle,James C. Carolan,Olivier Christiaens,Kate L. Ciborowski,David F. Clarke,Thomas J. Colgan,David Collins,Andrew G. Cridge,Tamas Dalmay,Stephanie Dreier,Louis du Plessis,Louis du Plessis,Elizabeth J. Duncan,Silvio Erler,Jay D. Evans,Tiago Falcon,Kevin B. Flores,Flávia Cristina de Paula Freitas,Taro Fuchikawa,Taro Fuchikawa,Tanja Gempe,Klaus Hartfelder,Frank Hauser,Sophie Helbing,Fernanda C. Humann,Frano Irvine,Lars S. Jermiin,Claire E. Johnson,Reed M. Johnson,Andrew K. Jones,Tatsuhiko Kadowaki,Jonathan H. Kidner,Vasco Koch,Arian Köhler,F. Bernhard Kraus,H. Michael G. Lattorff,Megan Leask,Gabrielle A. Lockett,Eamonn B. Mallon,David S. Marco Antonio,Monika Marxer,Ivan Meeus,Robin F. A. Moritz,Ajay Nair,Kathrin Näpflin,Inga Nissen,Jinzhi Niu,Francis M. F. Nunes,John G. Oakeshott,Amy J. Osborne,Marianne Otte,Daniel Guariz Pinheiro,Nina Rossié,Olav Rueppell,Carolina G. Santos,Regula Schmid-Hempel,Björn D. Schmitt,Christina Schulte,Zilá Luz Paulino Simões,Michelle P.M. Soares,Luc Swevers,Eva C. Winnebeck,Florian Wolschin,Florian Wolschin,Na Yu,Evgeny M. Zdobnov,Evgeny M. Zdobnov,Peshtewani K. Aqrawi,Kerstin P. Blankenburg,Marcus Coyle,Liezl Francisco,Alvaro G. Hernandez,Michael Holder,Matthew E. Hudson,LaRonda Jackson,Joy Jayaseelan,Vandita Joshi,Christie Kovar,Sandra L. Lee,Robert Mata,Tittu Mathew,Irene Newsham,Robin Ngo,Geoffrey Okwuonu,Christopher Pham,Ling-Ling Pu,Nehad Saada,Jireh Santibanez,DeNard Simmons,Rebecca Thornton,Aarti Venkat,Kimberly K. O. Walden,Yuanqing Wu,Griet Debyser,Bart Devreese,Claire Asher,Julie Blommaert,Ariel D. Chipman,Lars Chittka,Bertrand Fouks,Bertrand Fouks,Jisheng Liu,Jisheng Liu,Meaghan P. O’Neill,Seirian Sumner,Daniela Puiu,Jiaxin Qu,Steven L. Salzberg,Steven E. Scherer,Donna M. Muzny,Stephen Richards,Gene E. Robinson,Richard A. Gibbs,Paul Schmid-Hempel,Kim C. Worley +154 more
TL;DR: Overall, gene repertoires suggest that the route to advanced eusociality in bees was mediated by many small changes in many genes and processes, and not by notable expansion or depauperation.
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Genomic signatures of evolutionary transitions from solitary to group living
Karen M. Kapheim,Karen M. Kapheim,Hailin Pan,Cai Li,Steven L. Salzberg,Steven L. Salzberg,Daniela Puiu,Tanja Magoc,Hugh M. Robertson,Matthew E. Hudson,Aarti Venkat,Aarti Venkat,Brielle J. Fischman,Brielle J. Fischman,Alvaro G. Hernandez,Mark Yandell,Daniel D. Ence,Carson Holt,George D. Yocum,William P. Kemp,Jordi Bosch,Robert M. Waterhouse,Evgeny M. Zdobnov,Evgeny M. Zdobnov,Eckart Stolle,Eckart Stolle,F. Bernhard Kraus,Sophie Helbing,Robin F. A. Moritz,Karl M. Glastad,Brendan G. Hunt,Michael A. D. Goodisman,Frank Hauser,Cornelis J. P. Grimmelikhuijzen,Daniel Guariz Pinheiro,Daniel Guariz Pinheiro,Francis M. F. Nunes,Michelle P.M. Soares,E. D. Tanaka,Zilá Luz Paulino Simões,Klaus Hartfelder,Jay D. Evans,Seth M. Barribeau,Reed M. Johnson,Jonathan Massey,Jonathan Massey,Bruce R. Southey,Martin Hasselmann,Daniel Hamacher,Matthias Biewer,Clement F. Kent,Clement F. Kent,Amro Zayed,Charles Blatti,Saurabh Sinha,J. Spencer Johnston,Shawn J. Hanrahan,Sarah D. Kocher,Jun Wang,Gene E. Robinson,Guojie Zhang +60 more
TL;DR: There is no single road map to eusociality; independent evolutionary transitions in sociality have independent genetic underpinnings and these transitions do have similar general features, including an increase in constrained protein evolution accompanied by increases in the potential for gene regulation and decreases in diversity and abundance of transposable elements.
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A non-invasive method for silencing gene transcription in honeybees maintained under natural conditions
TL;DR: This work developed a non-invasive method for honeybee gene knockdown, using a well-established vitellogenin RNAi system as a model, and showed that RNAi ingestion did not elicit drastic collateral effects.