Publications

(peer-reviewed + preprints)

  • Are exotic host plants a life raft or a trap for butterflies?

    Mariana P Braga

    2023, Current Opinion in Insect Science

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  • A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins

    Akito Y Kawahara, Caroline Storer, Ana Paula S Carvalho, David M Plotkin, Fabien L Condamine, Mariana P Braga, et al.

    2023, Nature Ecology and Evolution

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  • Host Phylogeny Structures the Gut Bacterial Community Within Galerucella Leaf Beetles

    Yueqing An, Mariana P Braga, Sarahi L Garcia, Magdalena Grudzinska-Sterno, Peter A Hambäck

    2023, Microbial Ecology

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  • Larval transcriptomes reflect the evolutionary history of plant-insect associations

    Maria de la Paz Celorio-Mancera, Rachel A Steward, Peter Pruisscher, Agata Smialowska, Mariana P Braga, Niklas Janz, Christopher W Wheat, Sören Nylin

    2023, Evolution

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  • Plant Scent and Plant‐Insect Interactions–Review and Outlook from a Macroevolutionary Perspective

    Orlando Schwery, Breanna Sipley, Mariana P Braga, Yan Yang, Roberto Rebollo, Pengjuan Zu

    2023, Journal of Systematics and Evolution

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  • Cophylogenetic methods to untangle the evolutionary history of ecological interactions

    Wade Dismukes, Mariana P Braga, David H Hembry, Tracy A Heath, Michael J Landis

    2022, Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

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  • Phylogeny, species delimitation, and ecological and morphological diversity of Characithecium (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae)

    Emília W. Wendt, Luiz R. Malabarba, Mariana P Braga, Walter A. Boeger, Michael Landis, Tiago P. Carvalho

    2022, Parasitology

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  • Phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral ecological networks through time for pierid butterflies and their host plants

    Mariana P Braga, Niklas Janz, Sören Nylin, Fredrik Ronquist, Michael J Landis

    2021, Ecology Letters

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  • Host repertoires and changing insect–plant interactions

    Mariana P Braga and Niklas Janz

    2021, Ecological Entomology

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  • Bayesian Inference of Ancestral Host–Parasite Interactions under a Phylogenetic Model of Host Repertoire Evolution

    Mariana P Braga, Michael J Landis, Sören Nylin, Niklas Janz, Fredrik Ronquist

    2020, Systematic Biology

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  • Unifying host-associated diversification processes using butterfly–plant networks

    Mariana P. Braga, Paulo R. Guimarães Jr, Christopher W. Wheat, Sören Nylin, Niklas Janz

    2018, Nature Communications

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  • Host use dynamics in a heterogeneous fitness landscape generates oscillations in host range and diversification

    Mariana P. Braga, Sabrina B. L. Araujo, Salvatore Agosta, Daniel Brooks, Eric Hoberg, Sören Nylin, Niklas Janz, Walter A. Boeger

    2018, Evolution

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  • Embracing colonizations: a new paradigm for species association dynamics

    Sören Nylin, Salvatore Agosta, Staffan Bensch, Walter A Boeger, Mariana P Braga, Daniel R Brooks, Matthew L Forister, Peter A Hambäck, Eric P Hoberg, Tommi Nyman, Alexander Schäpers, Alycia L Stigall, Christopher W Wheat, Martin Österling, Niklas Janz

    2018, TREE

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  • Polyphagy and diversification in tussock moths: Support for the oscillation hypothesis from extreme generalists

    Houshuai Wang, Jeremy D. Holloway, Niklas Janz, Mariana P. Braga, Niklas Wahlberg, Min Wang, Sören Nylin

    2017, Ecology and Evolution

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  • On oscillations and flutterings—A reply to Hamm and Fordyce

    Niklas Janz, Mariana P. Braga, Niklas Wahlberg, Sören Nylin

    2016, Evolution

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  • Understanding host-switching by ecological fitting

    Sabrina B. L. Araujo, Mariana P Braga, Daniel R. Brooks, Salvatore J. Agosta, Eric P. Hoberg, Francisco W. von Hartenthal, Walter A. Boeger

    2015, Plos One

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  • Tracking the history of an invasion: the freshwater croakers (Teleostei: Sciaenidae) in South America

    Walter A. Boeger, Flávio M. Marteleto, Letícia Zagonel, Mariana P. Braga

    2015, Zoologica Scripta

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  • Drivers of parasite sharing among Neotropical freshwater fishes

    Mariana P. Braga, Emanuel Razzolini, Walter A. Boeger

    2015, Journal of Animal Ecology

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  • Patterns of interaction between Neotropical freshwater fishes and their gill Monogenoidea (Platyhelminthes)

    Mariana P Braga, Sabrina B L Araujo, Walter A Boeger

    2014, Parasitology research

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  • Stationary substrates facilitate bioinvasion in Paranaguá Bay in southern Brazil

    Rosana M Rocha, Leonardo C Cangussu, Mariana P Braga

    2010, Brazilian Journal of Oceanography

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