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Background
I got my BA in Biology in 1998, at Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
Starting as an undergrad, from 1997 to 2005 I have worked with
classical genetics of Drosophila, under the supervision of Dr. Louis
Bernard Klaczko. First I studied the effect of environmental variation
on wing morphometry in D. mediopunctata. The subject of my MSc and PhD
came later, after accidentally finding a previously unreported
male killer bacterium in D. melanogaster. I got my MSc in 2001 and my
PhD in 2005, always at Universidade Estadual de Campinas, focusing on
several aspects of the interaction between the male killer Spiroplasma
and its D. melanogaster host. During one year of my PhD I also worked
with Dr. Greg Hurst at University College London.
Research interests
My project here is to identify factors involved on male sterility
between hybrids of Drosophila mauritiana and D. simulans. It is a
tantalizing and challenging project, although quite a lot of work,
more than I would normally like.
Publications
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Montenegro, H., L. M. Hatadani, H. F. Medeiros, and L. B. Klaczko. 2006.
Male killing in three species of the tripunctata radiation of Drosophila
(Diptera: Drosophilidae). J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res. 44: 130-135.
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Montenegro, H., A. S. Petherwick, G. D. D. Hurst, and L. B. Klaczko.
2006. Fitness effects of Wolbachia and Spiroplasma in Drosophila
melanogaster. Genetica 127: 207-215.
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Montenegro, H., V. N. Solferini, L. B. Klaczko, and G. D. D. Hurst. 2005.
Male-killing Spiroplasma naturally infecting Drosophila melanogaster.
Insect Mol. Biol. 14: 281-287.
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Engelstadter, J., H. Montenegro, and G. D. D. Hurst. 2004. To what
extent do different types of sex ratio distorters interfere? Evolution 58: 2382-2386.
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Montenegro, H., and L. B. Klaczko. 2004. Low temperature cure of a male
killing agent in Drosophila melanogaster. J. Invert. Pathol. 86: 50-51.
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Montenegro, H., W. N. Souza, D. L. Leite, L. B. Klaczko. 2000.
Male-killing selfish cytoplasmic element causes sex-ratio distortion in Drosophila
melanogaster. Heredity 85: 465-470.
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