Publications: Dr Vicencio Oostra

Molleman F, Moore ME, Halali S, Kodandaramaiah U, Halali D, van Bergen E, Brakefield PM, Oostra V ( 2024 ) . Larval growth rate is not a major determinant of adult wing shape and eyespot size in the seasonally polyphenic butterfly Melanitis leda . PeerJ vol. 12 ,

Riley CL, Oostra V, Plaistow SJ ( 2023 ) . Does the definition of a novel environment affect the ability to detect cryptic genetic variation? . Journal of Evolutionary Biology vol. 36 , ( 11 ) 1618 - 1629 .

van Bergen E, Oostra V ( 2023 ) . Digest: Habitat seasonality drives evolutionary change in plasticity in Bicyclus butterflies . Evolution vol. 77 , ( 8 ) 1910 - 1911 .

Steward RA, de Jong MA, Oostra V, Wheat CW ( 2022 ) . Alternative splicing in seasonal plasticity and the potential for adaptation to environmental change . Nature Communications vol. 13 , ( 1 )

Smolander O-P, Blande D, Ahola V, Rastas P, Tanskanen J, Kammonen JI, Oostra V, Pellegrini L et al. ( 2022 ) . Improved chromosome-level genome assembly of the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia) integrating Pacific Biosciences long reads and a high-density linkage map . GigaScience vol. 11 , ( 1 )

Kahilainen A, Oostra V, Somervuo P, Minard G, Saastamoinen M ( 2021 ) . Alternative developmental and transcriptomic responses to host plant water limitation in a butterfly metapopulation . Molecular Ecology vol. 31 , ( 22 ) 5666 - 5683 .

Wright AE, Darolti I, Bloch NI, Oostra V, Sandkam BA, Buechel SD, Kolm N, Breden F et al. ( 2019 ) . On the power to detect rare recombination events . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 116 , ( 26 ) 12607 - 12608 .

Franke K, Karl I, Centeno TP, Feldmeyer B, Lassek C, Oostra V, Riedel K, Stanke M et al. ( 2019 ) . Effects of adult temperature on gene expression in a butterfly: identifying pathways associated with thermal acclimation . BMC Ecology and Evolution vol. 19 , ( 1 )

Pearson RG, Martínez-Meyer E, Velázquez MA, Caron M, Corona-Núñez RO, Davis K, Durán AP, García-Morales R et al. ( 2019 ) . Research priorities for maintaining biodiversity’s contributions to people in Latin America . vol. 1 ,

Kraaijeveld K, Oostra V, Liefting M, Wertheim B, de Meijer E, Ellers J ( 2018 ) . Regulatory and sequence evolution in response to selection for improved associative learning ability in Nasonia vitripennis . BMC Genomics vol. 19 , ( 1 )

Oostra V, Saastamoinen M, Zwaan BJ, Wheat CW ( 2018 ) . Strong phenotypic plasticity limits potential for evolutionary responses to climate change . Nature Communications vol. 9 , ( 1 )

Nowell RW, Elsworth B, Oostra V, Zwaan BJ, Wheat CW, Saastamoinen M, Saccheri IJ, Hof AEV et al. ( 2017 ) . A high-coverage draft genome of the mycalesine butterfly Bicyclus anynana . GigaScience vol. 6 , ( 7 )

Wright AE, Darolti I, Bloch NI, Oostra V, Sandkam B, Buechel SD, Kolm N, Breden F et al. ( 2017 ) . Convergent recombination suppression suggests role of sexual selection in guppy sex chromosome formation . Nature Communications vol. 8 , ( 1 )

Hudson LN, Newbold T, Contu S, Hill SLL, Lysenko I, De Palma A, Phillips HRP, Alhusseini TI et al. ( 2016 ) . The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project . Ecol Evol vol. 7 , ( 1 ) 145 - 188 .

Mateus ARA, Marques-Pita M, Oostra V, Lafuente E, Brakefield PM, Zwaan BJ, Beldade P ( 2014 ) . Adaptive developmental plasticity: Compartmentalized responses to environmental cues and to corresponding internal signals provide phenotypic flexibility . BMC Biology vol. 12 , ( 1 )

Oostra V, Mateus ARA, van der Burg KRL, Piessens T, van Eijk M, Brakefield PM, Beldade P, Zwaan BJ ( 2014 ) . Ecdysteroid Hormones Link the Juvenile Environment to Alternative Adult Life Histories in a Seasonal Insect . The American Naturalist vol. 184 , ( 3 ) e79 - e92 .

Oostra V, Brakefield PM, Hiltemann Y, Zwaan BJ, Brattström O ( 2014 ) . On the fate of seasonally plastic traits in a rainforest butterfly under relaxed selection . Ecology and Evolution vol. 4 , ( 13 ) 2654 - 2667 .

Terenius O, Papanicolaou A, Garbutt JS, Eleftherianos I, Huvenne H, Kanginakudru S, Albrechtsen M, An C et al. ( 2010 ) . RNA interference in Lepidoptera: An overview of successful and unsuccessful studies and implications for experimental design . Journal of Insect Physiology vol. 57 , ( 2 ) 231 - 245 .

Oostra V, de Jong MA, Invergo BM, Kesbeke F, Wende F, Brakefield PM, Zwaan BJ ( 2010 ) . Translating environmental gradients into discontinuous reaction norms via hormone signalling in a polyphenic butterfly . Proceedings of the Royal Society B vol. 278 , ( 1706 ) 789 - 797 .