Jose Antonio Blanco-aguiar
Researcher
Population Genetics, Hybridization and Speciation
CIBIO, Centro de Investigacao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Geneticos
Portugal
Biography
"I did my graduation in Biology at the Faculty of Sciences of the University Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and I first worked as a technician during some years in different research projects focusing on the wildlife management of small game. After I was a PhD student at the Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), and my thesis was about the ecology and genetics of the redlegged partridges (Alectoris rufa) Currently I moved as a Post-doc researcher to CIBIO-InBIO, at the University of Porto. I am working trying to understand the mechanisms of reproductive isolation between two European rabbit subspecies (Oryctolagus cuniculus), combining behavioural, physiological or molecular approaches."
Research Interest
"I am interested on population biology, and my research interests are focused on the ecology, conservation and management of animal populations using multidisciplinary approaches. "
Publications
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Carneiro M, Albert FW, Afonso S, Pereira RJ, Burbano H, Campos R, Melo-Ferreira J, Blanco-Aguiar JA, Villafuerte R, Nachman MW, Good JM, Ferrand N (2014) The Genomic Architecture of Population Divergence between Subspecies of the European Rabbit. PLoS genetics, 10(8): e1003519.
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Ferreira CC, Castro F, Piorno V, Barrio IC, Delibes-Mateos M, Rouco C, Minguez LE, Aparicio F, Blanco-Aguiar JA, Ramirez E, Iriarte C, Rios-Saldana CA, Canadilla J, Arias de Reyna L, Ferreras P, Alves PC, Villafuerte R (2015) Biometrical analysis reveals major differences between the two subspecies of the European rabbit. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 116(1): 106-116.
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Ferrero ME, Blanco-Aguiar JA, Davila JA, (2016) Climatic and geographic effects on the spatial genetic pattern of a landbird species (Alectoris rufa) on the Iberian Peninsula. Population Ecology, 58(3): 429-440.
