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List of works by Eduardo Eizirik

A Molecular Classification for the Living Orders of Placental Mammals and the Phylogenetic Placement of Primates

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A biodiversity hotspot losing its top predator: The challenge of jaguar conservation in the Atlantic Forest of South America

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A domestic cat X chromosome linkage map and the sex-linked orange locus: mapping of orange, multiple origins and epistasis over nonagouti

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A homozygous single-base deletion in MLPH causes the dilute coat color phenotype in the domestic cat.

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A revised taxonomy of the Felidae

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An autosomal genetic linkage map of the domestic cat, Felis silvestris catus

scientific article published on 13 December 2008

Atlantic rainforest's jaguars in decline

scientific article published in November 2013

Author Correction: Puma genomes from North and South America provide insights into the genomic consequences of inbreeding

scientific article published on 21 November 2019

BRAZIL ROAD-KILL: a data set of wildlife terrestrial vertebrate road-kills

scientific article published on 19 September 2018

Characterization of ciliate diversity in bromeliad tank waters from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.

scientific article published on 17 May 2017

Comparative assessment of genetic and morphological variation at an extensive hybrid zone between two wild cats in southern Brazil

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Conservation genetics of maned wolves in a highly impacted area of the Brazilian Cerrado biome

scientific article published on February 8, 2011

Cross-amplification and characterization of 13 tetranucleotide microsatellites in multiple species of Neotropical canids

scientific article published in July 2008

DNA barcoding meets molecular scatology: short mtDNA sequences for standardized species assignment of carnivore noninvasive samples.

scientific article published on 31 August 2011

Defining and mapping mammalian coat pattern genes: multiple genomic regions implicated in domestic cat stripes and spots

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Description of Two New Species of the Genus Vorticella (Ciliophora: Peritrichia) Epibionts on Pomacea canaliculata (Mollusca: Ampullariidae: Gastropoda) in Southern Brazil

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Development and testing of an optimized method for DNA-based identification of jaguar (Panthera onca) and puma (Puma concolor) faecal samples for use in ecological and genetic studies

scientific article published on 10 January 2009

Disparate phylogeographic patterns of molecular genetic variation in four closely related South American small cat species

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Endogenous retrovirus insertion in the KIT oncogene determines white and white spotting in domestic cats

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Epistylis portoalegrensis n. sp. (Ciliophora, Peritrichia): A New Freshwater Ciliate Species from Southern Brazil

scientific article published on 21 July 2015

Expanded phylogenetic representation of genera Opercularia and Epistylis sheds light on the evolution and higher-level taxonomy of peritrich ciliates (Ciliophora: Peritrichia).

scientific article published on 3 August 2010

Four independent mutations in the feline fibroblast growth factor 5 gene determine the long-haired phenotype in domestic cats

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GENOMICS: On Choosing Mammalian Genomes for Sequencing

scientific article published in Science

Genetic diversity of the Neotropical otter (Lontra longicaudis Olfers, 1818) in Southern and Southeastern Brazil

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Genome-wide analyses reveal drivers of penguin diversification

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Genome-wide signatures of complex introgression and adaptive evolution in the big cats.

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Genomic Adaptations and Evolutionary History of the Extinct Scimitar-Toothed Cat, Homotherium latidens

scientific article published on 09 October 2020

Genomic Signatures of Divergent Ecological Strategies in a Recent Radiation of Neotropical Wild Cats

publication published on 01 June 2022

Genomic legacy of the African cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus

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High extinction risk and limited habitat connectivity of Muñoa’s pampas cat, an endemic felid of the Uruguayan Savanna ecoregion

scientific article published on 07 May 2021

How the leopard hides its spots: ASIP mutations and melanism in wild cats

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Identification and characterization of diverse groups of endogenous retroviruses in felids

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Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg extinction on mammal diversification

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Inter-species hybridization among Neotropical cats of the genus Leopardus, and evidence for an introgressive hybrid zone between L. geoffroyi and L. tigrinus in southern Brazil.

scientific article published in October 2008

Mapping black panthers: Macroecological modeling of melanism in leopards (Panthera pardus).

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Mapping of the domestic cat "SILVER" coat color locus identifies a unique genomic location for silver in mammals.

scientific article published on 27 April 2009

Mesozoic origin for West Indian insectivores

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Microbiota associated with tubes of Escarpia sp. from cold seeps in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean constitutes a community distinct from that of surrounding marine sediment and water

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Molecular assessment of the phylogeny and biogeography of a recently diversified endemic group of South American canids (Mammalia: Carnivora: Canidae)

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Molecular data reveal complex hybridization and a cryptic species of neotropical wild cat.

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Molecular dating and biogeography of the early placental mammal radiation.

scientific article published in March 2001

Molecular evidence for a recent demographic expansion in the puma (Puma concolor) (Mammalia, Felidae)

scientific article (publication date: December 2013)

Molecular genetics and evolution of melanism in the cat family

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Molecular phylogenetics and the origins of placental mammals

scientific article (publication date: February 2001)

Molecular systematics of the Hyaenidae: relationships of a relictual lineage resolved by a molecular supermatrix

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Morphology and placental mammal phylogeny

scientific article published in June 2008

NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES: a data set on carnivore distribution in the Neotropics

scientific article published on 30 August 2020

Near fixation of melanism in leopards of the Malay Peninsula

Parameterizing Pantherinae: de novo mutation rate estimates from Panthera and Neofelis pedigrees

Pattern and timing of diversification of the mammalian order Carnivora inferred from multiple nuclear gene sequences

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Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 May 2009-31 July 2009.

scientific article published on 29 September 2009

Phylogenomic evidence for ancient hybridization in the genomes of living cats (Felidae)

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Phylogenomics of the world’s otters

scientific article published in 2022

Phylogeny of the Procyonidae (Mammalia: Carnivora): molecules, morphology and the Great American Interchange

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Phylogeographic analyses of the pampas cat (Leopardus colocola; Carnivora, Felidae) reveal a complex demographic history

scientific article published in January 2018

Phylogeographic patterns and evolution of the mitochondrial DNA control region in two neotropical cats (Mammalia, felidae).

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Phylogeography and demographic history of the neotropical otter (Lontra longicaudis)

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Phylogeography and population history of the crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous)

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

Placental mammal diversification and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary

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Population Genetics of Jaguars (Panthera onca) in the Brazilian Pantanal: Molecular Evidence for Demographic Connectivity on a Regional Scale

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Puma genomes from North and South America provide insights into the genomic consequences of inbreeding

scientific article published on 18 October 2019

Recurrent evolution of melanism in South American felids.

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Remarkably Complex Microbial Community Composition in Bromeliad Tank Waters Revealed by eDNA Metabarcoding

scientific article published on 20 June 2020

Resolution of the early placental mammal radiation using Bayesian phylogenetics

scientific article (publication date: 14 December 2001)

Response to Comment by Faurby, Werdelin and Svenning

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Response to Comment on "Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification"

scientific article published in Science

Specifying and sustaining pigmentation patterns in domestic and wild cats

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Structure and patterns of sequence variation in the mitochondrial DNA control region of the great cats

scientific article published on 01 October 2001

Successful carnivore identification with faecal DNA across a fragmented Amazonian landscape

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Taxonomic revision of the genus Galictis (Carnivora: Mustelidae): species delimitation, morphological diagnosis, and refined mapping of geographical distribution

scholarly article (2013)

The adequacy of morphology for reconstructing the early history of placental mammals

scientific article (publication date: August 2007)

The effect of habitat fragmentation on the genetic structure of a top predator: loss of diversity and high differentiation among remnant populations of Atlantic Forest jaguars (Panthera onca)

scientific article published on 12 October 2010

The evolutionary history of extinct and living lions

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

The genus Rhagomys (Thomas 1917) (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) in South America: morphological considerations, geographic distribution and zoogeographic comments

The late Miocene radiation of modern Felidae: a genetic assessment

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Tracking the evolution of the elusive Andean mountain cat (Oreailurus jacobita) from mitochondrial DNA

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Waking the undead: Implications of a soft explosive model for the timing of placental mammal diversification.

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Worrisome isolation: noninvasive genetic analyses shed light on the critical status of a remnant jaguar population

scientific article published in 2018