Research Interests
I have a CAPES scholarship, and use comparative data to infer ecological determinants of incidence, prevalence and host-shift success, in the bacterial endosymbionts of arthropods.
Eli Vieira Araujo-Jnr
History
2012-present: PhD; Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge
2010-2012: Masters (Genética e Biologia Molecular); Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Brazilian CV is here.
Publications
Ahmed MZ, Araujo-Jnr EV, Welch JJ, Kawahara AY (2015). Wolbachia in butterflies and moths: geographical structure in infection frequency. Front Zool 12: 16.
Weinert LA*, Araujo-Jnr EV*, Ahmed MZ, Welch JJ (2015). The incidence of bacterial endosymbionts in terrestrial arthropods. Proc R Soc B 282: 20150249. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0249.
Mota NR*, Araujo-Jnr EV*, Paixão-Côrtes VR, Bortolini MC & Bau CHD (2012). Linking Dopamine Neurotransmission and Neurogenesis: The Evolutionary History of the NTAD (NCAM1-TTC12-ANKK1-DRD2) Gene Cluster. Genetics and Molecular Biology 35: 912–918.
* Equal contributions.