Isabel Sousa-Pinto

Exploring the relationship between dolphins and fisheries: uncovering the spatial and temporal patterns that influence potential conflicts along Portugal's north coast

This study maps spatial and temporal overlaps between common dolphin sightings and fishing activity along Portugal's north coast using AIS data and environmental variables.

Time to Potential Collision: A Dynamic Approach To Study Vessel-Whale Close Encounters

This study redefines and quantifies close encounters (CEs) between vessels and whales in the Eastern North Atlantic using Time to Potential Collision (TPC) as a dynamic metric, finding that TPC is influenced by species, vessel type, weather, and observer experience.

Parallel erosion of a testis-specific Na+/K+ ATPase in three mammalian lineages sheds light into the evolution of spermatozoa energetics

The paper investigates the evolution of sperm energetics in mammals by analyzing gene duplication and loss of Atp1a4, revealing its role in sodium-dependent glucose uptake and subsequent pseudogenization in three lineages.

Functional or vestigial? The genomics of the pineal gland in Xenarthra

The paper uses genomic analysis to determine whether the pineal gland in Xenarthra is functional or vestigial, finding that melatonin synthesis and signaling genes are independently eroded and lost.