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Dr Ana Duarte

Networks Facilitation Officer

A.Duarte@exeter.ac.uk

01326 253702

Tremough House

Tremough House, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9FE, UK

Overview

As Networks Facilitation Officer, I facilitate the activity of the Exeter Research Networks and create enabling conditions for high quality research to take place.

My background is in social evolution and behavioural ecology. During my PhD at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) I focused on theoretical models of the evolution of complex group behavior, such as division of labour. After my PhD, I moved to Cambridge to study family interactions in insects. At Exeter, I performed research on the evolution of insecticide resistance and sexual selection. I enjoy using the skills gained during my own interdisciplinary research to help researchers at Exeter connect through collaborative interdisciplinary networks.

Qualifications

2012 – PhD Theoretical Biology (University of Groningen)
2006 – TopMaster Evolutionary Biology (University of Groningen)
2003 – BSc Biology (University of Lisbon)

Career

2021 - present Networks Facilitation Officer - University of Exeter

2017 – 2021 Postdoctoral Research Fellow – University of Exeter
2011 – 2016 Postdoctoral Research Associate – University of Cambridge

Research group links

Ecosystems

Research

Research projects

Understanding and Exploiting the P450 Resistome –P450RESIST (Collaborators: Prof. Chris Bass (PI), Dr Christoph Zimmer, Dr Kumar Saurabh Singh)

Genome and transcriptome wide analysis of brown planthopper resistance to fipronil (Collaborators: Prof. Chris Bass (PI), Dr Kumar Saurabh Singh)

Publications

Journal articles

Duarte A, Pym A, Garrood WT, Troczka BJ, Zimmer CT, Davies TGE, Nauen R, O’Reilly AO, Bass C (2022). P450 gene duplication and divergence led to the evolution of dual novel functions and insecticide cross-resistance in the brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens. PLOS Genetics, 18(6), e1010279-e1010279. Abstract.

Duarte A, Rebar D, Hallett AC, Jarrett BJM, Kilner RM (2021). Evolutionary change in the construction of the nursery environment when parents are prevented from caring for their young directly. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 118(48). Abstract. Author URL.

Singh KS, Cordeiro EMG, Troczka BJ, Pym A, Mackisack J, Mathers TC, Duarte A, Legeai F, Robin S, Bielza P, et al (2021). Global patterns in genomic diversity underpinning the evolution of insecticide resistance in the aphid crop pest Myzus persicae. Commun Biol, 4(1). Abstract. Author URL.

McLeman A, Troczka BJ, Homem RA, Duarte A, Zimmer C, Garrood WT, Pym A, Beadle K, Reid RJ, Douris V, et al (2020). Fly-Tox: a panel of transgenic flies expressing pest and pollinator cytochrome P450s. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology, 169 Abstract.

Singh KS, Troczka BJ, Duarte A, Balabanidou V, Trissi N, Carabajal Paladino LZ, Nguyen P, Zimmer CT, Papapostolou KM, Randall E, et al (2020). The genetic architecture of a host shift: an adaptive walk protected an aphid and its endosymbiont from plant chemical defenses. Science Advances, 6(19). Abstract.

Jarrett BJM, Evans E, Haynes HB, Leaf MR, Rebar D, Duarte A, Schrader M, Kilner RM (2018). A sustained change in the supply of parental care causes adaptive evolution of offspring morphology. Nat Commun, 9(1). Abstract. Author URL.

De Gasperin O, Duarte A, English S, Attisano A, Kilner RM (2018). The early‐life environment and individual plasticity in life‐history traits. Ecology and Evolution, 9(1), 339-351.

Duarte A, Cotter SC, De Gasperin O, Houslay TM, Boncoraglio G, Welch M, Kilner RM (2017). No evidence of a cleaning mutualism between burying beetles and their phoretic mites. Sci Rep, 7(1). Abstract. Author URL.

Duarte A, Welch M, Swannack C, Wagner J, Kilner RM (2017). Strategies for managing rival bacterial communities: Lessons from burying beetles. Journal of Animal Ecology, 87(2), 414-427. Abstract.

Palmer WJ, Duarte A, Schrader M, Day JP, Kilner R, Jiggins FM (2016). A gene associated with social immunity in the burying beetle. Nicrophorus vespilloides. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1823), 20152733-20152733. Abstract.

De Gasperin O, Duarte A, Troscianko J, Kilner RM (2016). Fitness costs associated with building and maintaining the burying beetle's carrion nest. Sci Rep, 6 Abstract. Author URL.

Duarte A, Welch M, Wagner J, Kilner RM (2016). Privatization of a breeding resource by the burying beetleNicrophorus vespilloidesis associated with shifts in bacterial communities. Abstract.

Palmer WJP, Duarte A, Schrader M, Day JP, Kilner R, Jiggins F (2015). A gene for social immunity in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides?. Abstract.

De Gasperin O, Duarte A, Kilner RM (2015). Interspecific interactions explain variation in the duration of paternal care in the burying beetle. Animal Behaviour, 109, 199-207.

Duarte A, Cotter SC, Reavey CE, Ward RJS, De Gasperin O, Kilner RM (2015). Social immunity of the family: parental contributions to a public good modulated by brood size. Evolutionary Ecology, 30(1), 123-135.

Duarte A, Pen I, Keller L, Weissing FJ (2012). Evolution of self-organized division of labor in a response threshold model. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 66(6), 947-957.

Duarte A, Scholtens E, Weissing FJ (2012). Implications of Behavioral Architecture for the Evolution of Self-Organized Division of Labor. PLoS Computational Biology, 8(3), e1002430-e1002430.

Duarte A, Weissing FJ, Pen I, Keller L (2011). An Evolutionary Perspective on Self-Organized Division of Labor in Social Insects. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 42(1), 91-110. Abstract.

SIMÕES P, ROSE MR, DUARTE A, GONÇALVES R, MATOS M (2006). Evolutionary domestication in Drosophila subobscura. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 20(2), 758-766. Abstract.

Matos M, Simões P, Duarte A, Rego C, Avelar T, Rose MR (2004). CONVERGENCE TO a NOVEL ENVIRONMENT: COMPARATIVE METHOD VERSUS EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION. Evolution, 58(7), 1503-1503.

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