Publications

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Under Review

Gonçalves LT, Pezzi PH, Montagner FRG, Souza WV, Françoso E, Deprá M. The genome of the bellicose bumblebee (Bombus bellicosus), a threatened pollinator in a changing South American landscape. Under Review.

Pezzi PH, Gonçalves LT, Backes A, Giudicelli GC, Turchetto C, Bombarely A, Freitas LB. Evaluating the evolutionary origin of atypical Petunia populations in a hybridization hotspot. Under Review.

2023

Gonçalves LT, Françoso E, Deprá M. 2023. Mitochondrial phylogenomics of bumblebees, Bombus (Hymenoptera: Apidae): a tale of structural variation, shifts in selection constraints, and tree discordance. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 212(1): zlad178. [PDF]

Backes A, Pezzi PH, Gonçalves LT, Greppi JA, Freitas LB. 2023. Integrating morphology, niche modelling, and molecular data to disentangle taxonomic challenges in a species complex of Calibrachoa (Solanaceae). Plant Ecology & Diversity 16(5-6): 165−177. [PDF]

Lindner MF, Gonçalves LT, Bianchi FM, Ferrari A, Cavalleri A. 2023. Tiny insects, big troubles: a review of BOLD’s COI database for Thysanoptera (Insecta). Bulletin of Entomological Research 113(5): 703−715. [PDF]

Françoso E, Zuntini AR, Ricardo PC, Santos PKF, Araujo NS, Silva JPN, Gonçalves LT, Brito R, Gloag R, Taylor BA, Harpur BA, Oldroyd BP, Brown MJF, Arias MC. 2023. Rapid evolution, rearrangements and whole mitogenome duplication in the Australian stingless bees Tetragonula (Hymenoptera: Apidae): A steppingstone towards understanding mitochondrial function and evolution. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 242: 124568. [PDF]

Pezzi PH*, Gonçalves LT*, Deprá M, Freitas LB. 2023. Evolution and diversification of the O-methyltransferase (OMT) gene family in Solanaceae. Genetics and Molecular Biology 46(3): e20230121. *these authors contributed equally to this work. [PDF]

2022

Gonçalves LT, Françoso E, Deprá M. 2022. Shorter, better, faster, stronger? Comparing the identification performance of full-length and mini-DNA barcodes for apid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Apidologie 53(5): 55. [PDF]

Timm VF, Gonçalves LT, Valente VLS, Deprá M. 2022. The efficiency of the COI gene as a DNA barcode and an overview of Orthoptera (Caelifera and Ensifera) sequences in the BOLD System. Canadian Journal of Zoology 100(11): 710−718. [PDF]

Gonçalves LT, Pezzi PH, Bianchi FM. 2022. Four new stink bug mitogenomes corroborate the internal inconsistencies in the classification of Pentatomidae (Hemiptera). Zootaxa 5120(1): 128−142. [PDF]

2021

Bianchi FM, Gonçalves LT. 2021. Getting science priorities straight: how to increase the reliability of specimen identification? Biology Letters 17(4): 20200874. [PDF]

Bianchi FM, Gonçalves LT. 2021. Borrowing the Pentatomomorpha tome from the DNA barcode library: Scanning the overall performance of cox1 as a tool. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 59(5): 992−1012. [PDF]

Gonçalves LT, Bianchi FM, Deprá M, Calegaro-Marques C. 2021. Barcoding a can of worms: testing cox1 performance as a DNA barcode of Nematoda. Genome 64(7): 705−717. [PDF]

2018

Almerón-Souza F*, Sperb C*, Castilho CL, Figueiredo PICC, Gonçalves LT, Machado R, Oliveira LR, Valiati VH*, Fagundes NJR*. 2018. Molecular identification of shark meat from local markets in Southern Brazil based on DNA barcoding: evidence for mislabeling and trade of endangered species. Frontiers in Genetics 9: 138. *these authors contributed equally to this work. [PDF]