André Nogueira Alves

Dissecting contributions of directional and balancing selection to trajectories of mitochondrial haplotype evolution in Drosophila melanogaster.

This study investigates how directional and balancing selection influence mitochondrial haplotype evolution in Drosophila melanogaster under different thermal environments and genetic backgrounds.

Dietary landscapes shape genotype- and sex-specific responses to insecticides

The paper shows how a resistance allele affects reproductive traits differently in male and female fruit flies depending on diet and insecticide exposure.

Ecdysone coordinates plastic growth with robust pattern in the developing wing

This study shows ecdysone coordinates plastic growth and robust pattern in Drosophila wings by regulating growth via graded responses and patterning via threshold responses to nutritional changes.

Target of Rapamycin drives unequal responses to essential amino acid depletion in egg laying

The paper investigates how different essential amino acids affect egg production in Drosophila when depleted, finding that methionine and histidine have distinct impacts compared to other amino acids.