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  1. Discovering the unseen: a performance comparison of taxonomic classification methods under unknown DNA barcodes

    Article • October 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  2. Bending the Course of Evolution: How Mutualistic Interactions Affect Macroevolutionary Dynamics of Diversification in Mimetic Ithomiini Butterflies

    Article • The American Naturalist, July 2025, University of Chicago Press

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  3. Parasitoid speciation and diversification

    Article • Current Opinion in Insect Science, December 2024, Elsevier

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  4. Rapid Evolution of Host Repertoire and Geographic Range in a Young and Diverse Genus of Montane Butterflies

    Article • Systematic Biology, November 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  5. Bending the course of evolution: how mutualistic interactions affect macroevolutionary dynamics of diversification in mimetic butterflies

    Article • January 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  6. TreePPL: A Universal Probabilistic Programming Language for Phylogenetics

    Article • October 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  7. Are exotic host plants a life raft or a trap for butterflies?

    Article • Current Opinion in Insect Science, August 2023, Elsevier

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  8. Host Phylogeny Structures the Gut Bacterial Community Within Galerucella Leaf Beetles

    Article • Microbial Ecology, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  9. A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mrs Mariana P Braga, Vijay Barve

  10. Plant scent and plant–insect interactions—Review and outlook from a macroevolutionary perspective

    Article • Journal of Systematics and Evolution, December 2022, Wiley

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  11. Larval transcriptomes reflect the evolutionary history of plant–insect associations

    Article • Evolution, December 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  12. Cophylogenetic Methods to Untangle the Evolutionary History of Ecological Interactions

    Article • Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics, November 2022, Annual Reviews

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  13. Evolution and Diversification Dynamics of Butterflies

    Article • May 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Mrs Mariana P Braga, Vijay Barve

  14. Phylogeny, species delimitation and ecological and morphological diversity of Characithecium (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae)

    Article • Parasitology, March 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  15. Host repertoires and changing insect–plant interactions

    Article • Ecological Entomology, July 2021, Wiley

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  16. Phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral ecological networks through time for pierid butterflies and their host plants

    Article • Ecology Letters, July 2021, Wiley

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  17. Phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral ecological networks through time for pierid butterflies and their host plants

    Article • February 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  18. Bayesian Inference of Ancestral Host–Parasite Interactions under a Phylogenetic Model of Host Repertoire Evolution

    Article • Systematic Biology, March 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  19. Bayesian inference of ancestral host-parasite interactions under a phylogenetic model of host repertoire evolution

    Article • June 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  20. Unifying host-associated diversification processes using butterfly–plant networks

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  21. Host use dynamics in a heterogeneous fitness landscape generates oscillations in host range and diversification

    Article • Evolution, July 2018, Wiley

    Mrs Mariana P Braga, Sören Nylin

  22. Embracing Colonizations: A New Paradigm for Species Association Dynamics

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, January 2018, Elsevier

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  23. Polyphagy and diversification in tussock moths: Support for the oscillation hypothesis from extreme generalists

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, August 2017, Wiley

    Mrs Mariana P Braga, Sören Nylin

  24. On oscillations and flutterings-A reply to Hamm and Fordyce

    Article • Evolution, May 2016, Wiley

    Sören Nylin, Mrs Mariana P Braga

  25. Understanding Host-Switching by Ecological Fitting

    Article • PLOS One, October 2015, PLOS

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  26. Tracking the history of an invasion: the freshwater croakers (Teleostei: Sciaenidae) in South America

    Article • Zoologica Scripta, December 2014, Wiley

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  27. Drivers of parasite sharing among Neotropical freshwater fishes

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, November 2014, Wiley

    Mrs Mariana P Braga

  28. Patterns of interaction between Neotropical freshwater fishes and their gill Monogenoidea (Platyhelminthes)

    Article • Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde Parasitology Research, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mrs Mariana P Braga