Antónia Monteiro

The paper compares proximal-distal gene expression patterns in leg and wing development across Diptera and Lepidoptera, finding conserved regulatory networks and lineage-specific changes.

This study investigates how Bicyclus anynana butterfly larvae transmit odour preferences to their offspring through haemolymph injections of isoamyl acetate (IAA), finding that IAA affects learning but not intergenerational inheritance.

This study identifies araucan as a transcription factor that regulates butterfly wing iridescence by coordinating scale structure and pigmentation through pattern-specific effects.

This paper introduces two open-source robots for automated multi-step mRNA imaging workflows, enabling precise buffer exchanges, temperature control, and scalable execution of multiplex-FISH experiments.

This study shows that ridge and crossrib height in butterfly wing scales influence structural color diversity and introduces a geometrical model to predict color.

This study investigates the genetic basis of industrial melanism in peppered moths, showing that multiple alleles at the ivory locus, including structural variants, contribute to the trait in different regions.

This study shows that female butterfly brains change in volume and gene splicing patterns after brief pheromone exposure, correlating with altered sexual preferences.

This study investigates the role of chrna3 in alcohol response using zebrafish, finding that chrna3 mutants show increased alcohol tolerance and altered behavior.

The paper shows that Calreticulin is essential for forming chitin pillars inside butterfly wing scale cells and affects scale morphology and pigmentation.

The paper identifies a novel Hox gene promoter that drives temperature-mediated phenotypic plasticity in satyrid butterflies.

The paper introduces RAMFISH, a workflow for spatial mRNA profiling in tissues, and validates it on butterfly and zebrafish samples.

The paper identifies a micro-RNA, mir-193, as the effector gene responsible for melanic wing color polymorphisms in Lepidoptera, showing its conserved function across species.

The paper identifies differentially expressed genes in Bicyclus anynana butterfly larvae and adults that learned a novel food odor preference, suggesting potential epigenetic factors for inheritance.

The paper investigates the evolutionary origins of eyespots in Lepidoptera, finding multiple independent origins of Discal and Marginal eyespots and concluding they are not homologous.

The paper constructs a single-cell RNA-seq atlas of Bicyclus anynana butterfly pupal forewings to identify molecular identities of scale and sensory cell types and their regulators.

The paper identifies spatial and temporal regulation of Wnt signaling pathway members in butterfly eyespot development and shows their functional roles.

The paper develops two CNNs to detect and measure butterfly spots and eyespots in wing images, achieving high accuracy in distinguishing these patterns from other color patches.

The paper identifies Antennapedia and optix as regulators of metallic silver wing scale development and cell shape in Bicyclus anynana butterflies using single-cell analysis of crispant mutants.

The paper examines chromatin accessibility differences between butterfly wing regions and finds no direct correlation between chromatin profiles and wing patterns, but identifies GC content and transcription factor motifs as factors influencing gene regulation.

The paper presents 545 silkworm genomes to explore genotype-phenotype relationships, identifying new genes and variants linked to domestication and adaptation.

This study shows that 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) regulates courtship behavior in Bicyclus anynana butterflies by altering yellow gene expression during pupal brain development.

This study shows that the Hox gene Antennapedia regulates wing development in insects by controlling 20-hydroxyecdysone production and other wing-related genes.

The paper shows the reuse of an ancestral insect wing venation gene-regulatory network in patterning the complex eyespot rings of butterflies.

The paper investigates the genetic basis of eyespot number variation in Bicyclus anynana butterflies, finding that multiple loci, not single master regulators, influence this trait.

The paper identifies new gene expression domains in butterfly venation patterning genes and proposes evolutionary mechanisms for simplified venation in Drosophila.

The paper shows that mutations in different exons of Distal-less (Dll) cause distinct eyespot phenotypes, which are accurately modeled by reaction-diffusion mechanisms.

The paper investigates the genetic basis of hindwing eyespot number variation in Bicyclus anynana butterflies, finding moderate heritability and multiple loci associated with eyespot number.

The paper shows that temperature-mediated eyespot size plasticity in Bicyclus anynana butterflies is a derived adaptation, not a pre-adaptation, through comparative analysis of molecular and physiological components.

This study shows that melanin pathway genes influence butterfly wing scale morphology and coloration through structural changes in cuticular laminae.

This study identifies apterous A as a key regulator of surface-specific wing pattern differentiation in butterflies, showing its dual role in repressing ventral patterns and promoting dorsal sexual ornaments.