Francisca Cunha Almeida

Francisca Cunha Almeida, Brazilian evolutionary biologist.

Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires – CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (2014–)
Departament de Genètica, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 645, Barcelona, Spain. (2009–2012)
Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

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Gonçalves, P.R., Almeida, F.C. & Bonvicino, C.R. 2005. A new species of Wiedomys (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) from Brazilian Cerrado. Mammalian Biology 70(1): 46–60. DOI: 10.1078/1616-5047-00175 Reference page.

Giannni, N.P., Almeida, F.C., Simmons, N.B. & DeSalle, R. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic harpy fruit bat, Harpyionycteris (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). American Museum Novitates 3533: 1–12. hdl: 2246/5811 Reference page.

Giannini, N.P., Almeida, F.C., Simmons, N.B. & Helgen, K.M. 2008. The systematic position of Pteropus leucopterus and its bearing on the monophyly and relationships of Pteropus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Acta Chiropterologica 10(1): 11–20. DOI: 10.3161/150811008X331054 Reference page.

Giannini, N.P., Almeida, F.C. & Simmons, N.B. 2009. Phylogenetic relationships of harpyionycterine mega-bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 331: 183–205. hdl: 2246/6035 Reference page.
Almeida, F.C., Giannini, N.P., DeSalle, R. & Simmons, N.B. 2009. The phylogenetic relationships of cynopterine fruit bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae: Cynopterinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 53(3): 772–783. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.07.035 Reference page.

Almeida, F.C., Giannini, N.P., DeSalle, R. & Simmons, N.B. 2011. Evolutionary relationships of the old world fruit bats (Chiroptera, Pteropodidae): Another star phylogeny? BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 1–17. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-281 Reference page.

Almeida, F.C., Giannini, N.P., Simmons, N.B. & Helgen, K.M. 2014. Each flying fox on its own branch: A phylogenetic tree for Pteropus and related genera (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 77: 83–95. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.03.009 Reference page.

Almeida, F.C., Giannni, N.P. & Simmons, N.B. 2016. The Evolutionary History of the African Fruit Bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Acta Chiropterologica 18(1): 73–108. DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.1.003 Reference page.

Almeida, F.C., Simmons, N.B. & Giannni, N.P. 2020. A Species-level Phylogeny of Old World Fruit Bats with a New Higher-level Classification of the Family Pteropodidae. American Museum Novitates 3950: 24 pp. hdl: 2246/7111 Reference page.