Scientific papers


    Dora Henriques, Julio Chávez-Galarza, Juliana S.G. Teixiera, Helena Ferreira, Cátia J. Neves, Tiago M. Francoy, M. Alice Pinto. Wing geometric morphometrics of workers and drones and single nucleotide polymorphisms provide similar genetic structure in the iberian honey bee (Apis mellifera iberiensis). Insects. (https://doi.org/10.3390/insect)

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    Sónia Soares, Liliana Grazinha, Isabel Mafra, Joana Costa, M. Alice Pinto, M. Beatriz P.P. Oliveira, Joana S. Amaral. Towards honey authentication: Differentiation of Apis mellifera subspecies in European honeys based on mitochondrial DNA markers. Food Chemistry. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.food)

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    Dora Henriques, Cecília Costa, José Rufino, M. Alice Pinto. The mitochondrial genome of Apis mellifera siciliana. Mitochondrial DNA Part B . (https://doi.org/10.1080/238023)

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    Dora Henriques, Melanie Parejo, Ana R. Lopes, M. Alice Pinto. Mitochondrial SNP markers to monitor evolutionary lineage ancestry in Apis mellifera mellifera conservation programs. Apidologie. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592)

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    Dora Henriques, Ana R. Lopes, Nor Chejanovsky, Anne Dalmon, Mariano Higes, Clara Jabal-Uriel, Yves Le Conte, Maritza Reyes-Carreño, Victoria Soroker, Raquel Martín-Hernández, M. Alice Pinto. Mitochondrial and nuclear diversity of colonies of varying origins: contrasting patterns inferred from the intergenic tRNAleu-cox2 region and immune SNPs. Journal of Apicultural Research. (https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2021.2010940)

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    Helena Ferreira, Dora Henriques, Cátia J. Neves, Clycie A.S. Machado, João Azevedo, Tiago M. Francoy, M. Alice Pinto. Historical and contemporaneous human-mediated processes left a strong genetic signature on honey bee populations from the Macaronesian archipelago of the Azores. Apidologie. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592)

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    Pedro João Rodrigues, Walter Gomes, Maria Alice Pinto. DeepWings©: Automatic Wing Geometric Morphometrics Classification of Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Subspecies Using Deep Learning for Detecting Landmarks. Big data and cognitive computing. (https://doi.org/10.3390/ bdcc6)

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    Ana Rita Lopes, Raquel Martín-Hernández, Mariano Higes, Sara Kafafi Segura, Dora Henriques, Maria Alice Pinto. Colonisation Patterns of Nosema ceranae in the Azores Archipelago. Veterinary Sciences. (https:// doi.org/10.3390/vetsc)

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    Dora Henriques, Ana R. Lopes, Roberto Ferrari, Cátia J. Neves, Andreia Quaresma, Keith A. Browne, Grace P. McCormack, M. Alice Pinto. Can introgression in M-lineage honey bees be detected by abdominal colour patterns?. Apidologie. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592)

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    Dora Henriques, Ana R. Lopes, Nor Chejanovsky, Anne Dalmon, Mariano Higes, Clara Jabal-Uriel, Yves Le Conte, Maritza Reyes-Carreño,Victoria Soroker, Raquel Martín-Hernández, M. Alice Pinto. A SNP assay for assessing diversity in immune genes in the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.). nature. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94833-x)

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