Sara M. Francisco

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Email: 
sara_francisco@ispa.pt
URI: 
MARE - ISPA
Role: 
Researcher
Qualifications: 
PhD
Research domain: 
Coastal Systems and Ocean
Research lines: 
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
Aquaculture and Fisheries
ORCID ID: 
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0907-7453
Scopus Author ID: 
http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=10839734500
Researcher ID: 
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/K-8239-2013
ResearchGate: 
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara_Francisco
Google Scholar: 
https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=9posCpsAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT

Activity summary

My research interests have been focused on the phylogeography and phylogeny of inshore organisms, temporal structure of populations, interannual fluctuations of genetic diversity of coastal fish and their relationship with effective population size. More recently I am developing an independent research line on a more contemporary and applied approach of genetic biomonitoring to fisheries.

Highlights

Time matters: genetic composition and evaluation of effective population size in temperate coastal fish species As time goes by: a temporal approach to fish genetics. Disentangling biological variables affecting population structure and genetic connectivity Historical gene flow constraints in a northeastern Atlantic fish: phylogeography of the ballan wrasse Labrus bergylta across its distribution range Establishment of a coastal fish in the Azores: recent colonization or sudden expansion of a relict population? In Search of Phylogeographic Patterns in the Northeastern Atlantic and Adjacent Seas Unexpected high genetic diversity at the extreme Northern geographic limit of Taurulus bubalis (Euphrasen, 1786) Multilocus phylogenetic analysis of the genus Atherina (Pisces: Atherinidae).