Conservation assessment of southern South American freshwater ecoregions on the basis of the distribution and genetic diversity of crabs from the genus AeglaM Pérez-Losada
Department of Biology and Monte L Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo UT 84602 5255, USA
Conserv Biol 23:692-702. 2009
..Hence, conservation plans in the former regions will potentially require less effort than plans in the latter regions...
Population dynamics of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Shanghai, China: a comparative studyLoubna Tazi
Division of Epidemiology and Disease Control, University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Brownsville Regional Campus, Brownsville, TX, USA
BMC Infect Dis 10:13. 2010
..We compare these findings with our previous study of the evolution of a fluoroquinolone sensitive gonococcal population from Baltimore, MD...
- Distinguishing importation from diversification of quinolone-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae by molecular evolutionary analysis
Marcos Pérez-Losada
Department of Integrative Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
BMC Evol Biol 7:84. 2007
..We applied molecular evolutionary analyses to DNA sequences from 9 housekeeping genes and gyrA, parC and porB of 24 quinolone resistant N. gonorrhoeae (QRNG) and 24 quinolone sensitive isolates collected in Israel during 2000-2001...
Testing hypotheses of population structuring in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea using the common cuttlefish Sepia officinalisMarcos Pérez-Losada
Department of Integrative Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
Mol Ecol 16:2667-79. 2007
..Two Atlantic and five Mediterranean samples showed evidence of current decline in genetic diversity, which may indicate over-exploitation of Sepia in both marine regions...
- Phylogenetic assessment of the earthworm Aporrectodea caliginosa species complex (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences
Marcos Pérez-Losada
CIBIO, Centro de Investigacao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Geneticos, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485 661 Vairão, Portugal
Mol Phylogenet Evol 52:293-302. 2009
..Moreover our analyses also showed the presence of highly divergent lineages within A. caliginosa, A. trapezoides, and A. longa, suggesting the existence of cryptic diversity within these taxa...
- Remarkable convergent evolution in specialized parasitic Thecostraca (Crustacea)
Marcos Pérez-Losada
CIBIO, Centro de Investigacao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Geneticos, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Portugal
BMC Biol 7:15. 2009
..Similarities between the metamorphosis found in the Facetotecta and Rhizocephala suggests a common evolutionary origin, but until now no comprehensive study has looked at the basic evolution of these thecostracan groups...
- Ethnic differences in the adaptation rate of HIV gp120 from a vaccine trial
Marcos Pérez-Losada
CIBIO, Centro de Investigacao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Geneticos, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485 661 Vairão, Portugal
Retrovirology 6:67. 2009
..65-1.56). These results suggest intrinsic differences among races in immune response and highlight the need for including multiple ethnicities in the design of future HIV-1 vaccine studies and trials...
- Phylodynamics of HIV-1 from a phase III AIDS vaccine trial in Bangkok, Thailand
Marcos Pérez-Losada
CIBIO, Centro de Investigacao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Geneticos, Universidade do Porto, Vairao, Portugal
PLoS ONE 6:e16902. 2011
..Here, we used these data in combination with other publicly available gp120 sequences to perform a molecular surveillance and phylodynamic analysis of HIV-1 in Thailand...
