Publications

Martí, A., Milani, D., Bardella, V.B., Albuquerque, L., Song, H., Palacios-Gimenez, O.M., Cabral-de-Mello, D.C. (2021). Cytogenomic analysis unveils mixed molecular evolution and recurrent chromosome rearrangements shaping the multigene families on Schistocerca grasshopper genomes. [In review Evolution].

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Sharvani Mahadevaraju, Justin M. Fear, Miriam Akeju, Brian J. Galletta, Mara MLS. Pinheiro, Camila C. Avelino, Diogo C. Cabral-de-Mello, Katie Conlon, Stafania Dell’Orso, Zelalem Demere, Kush Mansuria, Carolina A. Mendonça, Octavio M. Palacios-Gimenez, Eli Ross, Max Savery, Kevin Yu, Harold E. Smith, Vittorio Sartorelli, Nasser M. Rusan, Maria D. Vibranovski, Erika Matunis, Brian Oliver. (2021). Dynamic Sex Chromosome Expression in Drosophila Male Germ Cells. Nature Communications. 12: 892.

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Peona, V., Palacios-Gimenez, O.M., Blommaert, J., Liu, J., Haryoko, T., Jønsson, K.A., Irestedt, M., Zhou, Q., Jern, P., Suh, A. (2021). The avian W chromosome is a refugium for endogenous retroviruses with likely effects on female-biased mutational load and genetic incompatibilities. bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.31.230854 [Accepted Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B].

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Santander, M.D., Cabral-de-Mello, D.C., Taffarel, A., Martí, E., Martí, D.A., Palacios-Gimenez, O.M., Castillo, E.R.D. (2021). New insights into the six decades of Mesa’s hypothesis of chromosomal evolution in Ommexechinae grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acridoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. XX: 1-15.  https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa188/6138200?guestAccessKey=150407af-0c1d-4474-beed-b61fc31f955b

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Palacios-Gimenez, O.M., Koelman, J., Palmada-Flores, M., Bradford, T.M., Jones, K.K., Cooper, S.J.B., Kawakami, T., Suh, A. (2020). Comparative analysis of morabine grasshopper genomes reveals highly abundant transposable elements and rapidly proliferating satellite DNA repeats. BMC Biology. 18: 199.

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Ana Beatriz Ferretti; Diogo Milani; Octavio Manuel Palacios-Gimenez; Francisco Ruiz- Ruano; Diogo Cavalcanti Cabral-de-Mello. (2020). High dynamism for neo-sex chromosomes: satellite DNAs reveal complex evolution in a grasshopper. Heredity. 125(3): 124-137

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Octavio M. Palacios-Gimenez , Diogo Milani , Hojun Song , Dardo A. Marti , Maria D. López-León , Francisco J. Ruiz-Ruano , Juan Pedro M. Camacho, Diogo C. Cabral-de-Mello. (2020). Eight million years of satellite DNA evolution in grasshoppers of the genus Schistocerca illuminate the ins and outs of the library hypothesis. Genome Biology and Evolution. 12(3):88–102.

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Milani, D.; Bardella, V.B.; Ferretti, A.B.S.M.; Palacios-Gimenez, O.M.; Melo, A.S.; Moura, R.C.; Loreto, V.; Song, H.; Cabral-de-Mello, D.C. (2018). Satellite DNAs Unveil Clues about the Ancestry and Composition of B Chromosomes in Three Grasshopper Species. Genes. 9: E523.

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Octavio Manuel Palacios-Gimenez, Vanessa Bellini Bardella, Bernardo Lemos, Diogo Cavalcanti Cabral-de-Mello. (2018). Satellite DNAs are conserved and differentially transcribed among Gryllus cricket species. DNA Research. 25(2): 137-147.

 

Octavio Manuel Palacios-Gimenez, Diogo Milani, Bernardo Lemos, Elio R. Castillo, Dardo A. Martí, Erica Ramos, Cesar Martins, Diogo C. Cabral-de-Mello. (2018). Uncovering the evolutionary history of neo-XY sex chromosomes in the grasshopper Ronderosia bergii (Orthoptera, Melanoplinae) through satellite DNA analysis. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 18(1): 2. 

 

Octavio Manuel Palacios-Gimenez, Guilherme Borges Dias, Leonardo Gomes de Lima, Gustavo Campos e Silva Kuhn, Erica Ramos, Cesar Martins, Diogo Cavalcanti Cabral-de-Mello. (2017). High-throughput analysis of the satellitome revealed enormous diversity of satellite DNAs in the neo-Y chromosome of the cricket Eneoptera surinamensis. Scientific Reports. 7(1): 6422.

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Bernardino ACS, Cabral-de-Mello DC, Machado CB, Palacios-Gimenez OM, Santos N, Loreto V. (2017). Populational variants of B chromosomes from the grasshopper Xyleus discoideus angulatus(Romaleidae) indicate possible polymorphism originated from the pericentromeric portion of A chromosomes. Cytogenetic and Genome Research. 152(4): 213-221. 

 

Castillo ERD, Taffarel A, Maronna MM, Cigliano MM, Palacios-Gimenez OM, Cabral-de-Mello DC, Martí DA. (2017). Phylogeny and chromosomal diversification in the Dichroplus elongatusspecies group (Orthoptera, Melanoplinae). PLoS ONE. 12(2): e0172352.

 

Milani D, Palacios-Gimenez OM, Cabral-de-Mello, DC. (2017). The U2 snDNA is a useful marker for B chromosome detection and frequency estimation in the grasshopper Abracris flavolineata. Cytogenetic and Genome Research. 151(1): 36-40.

 

Bueno D, Palacios-Gimenez OM, Martí DA, Mariguela TC, Cabral-de-Mello DC. (2016). The 5S rDNA in two Abracris grasshoppers (Ommatolampidinae: Acrididae): molecular and chromosomal organization. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 291(4): 1607-13.

 

Palacios-Gimenez OM, Marti DA, Cabral-de-Mello DC. (2015). Neo-sex chromosomes of Ronderosia bergi: insight into the evolution of sex chromosomes in grasshoppers. Chromosoma. 124: 353-365.

 

Palacios-Gimenez OM, Carvalho CR, Ferrari Soares FA, Cabral-de-Mello DC. (2015). Contrasting the chromosomal organization of repetitive DNAs in two Gryllidae crickets with highly divergent karyotypes. PLoS ONE. 10(12): e0143540. 

 

Palacios-Gimenez OM, Cabral-de-Mello DC. (2015). Repetitive DNA chromosomal organization in the cricket Cycloptiloides americanus: a case of the unusual X1X20 sex chromosome system in Orthoptera. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 290: 623-631.

 

Menezes-de-Carvalho NZ, Palacios-Gimenez OM, Milani D, Cabral-de-Mello DC. (2015). High similarity of U2 snDNA sequence between A and B chromosomes in the grasshopper Abracris flavolineata. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 290(5): 1787-92.

 

Palacios-Gimenez OM, Bueno D, Cabral-de-Mello DC. (2014). Chromosomal mapping of two Mariner-like elements in the grasshopper Abracris flavolineata(Orthoptera: Acrididae) reveals enrichment in euchromatin. European Journal of Entomology. 111(3): 329-334.

 

Palacios-Gimenez OM, Castillo ER, Martí DA, Cabral-de-Mello DC. (2013).Tracking the evolution of sex chromosome systems in Melanoplinae grasshoppers through chromosomal mapping of repetitive DNA sequences. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13: 167. 

 

Bueno D, Palacios-Gimenez OM, Cabral-de-Mello DC. (2013). Chromosomal mapping of repetitive DNAs in the grasshopper Abracris flavolineatareveal possible ancestry of the B chromosome and H3 histone spreading. PLoS ONE. 8(6): e66532.