Doutoramento em Biologia, Universidade do Porto (2012)

Genética de Populações de Organismos Marinhos
Estrutura Temporal e Efectivo Populacional
Filogeografia e Filogenia

Almada, F., Francisco, S.M., Lima, C.S., FitzGerald, R., Mirimin, L., Villegas-Ríos, D., Saborido-Rey, F., Afonso, P., Morato, T., Bexiga, S., & Robalo, J.I. (2017) Historical gene flow constraints in a northeastern Atlantic fish: phylogeography of the ballan wrasse Labrus bergylta across its distribution range. Royal Society Open Science. 4: 160773. doi:10.1098/rsos.160773

Francisco, S.M., & Robalo, JI (2015) Genetic structure and effective population size through time: a tale on two coastal marine species with contrasting life-history patterns. Journal of Phylogenetics and Evolutionary Biology 3: 155 doi:10.4172/2329-9002.1000155

Stefanni, S., Castilho, R., Sala-Bozano, M., Robalo, J.I., Francisco, S.M., Santos, R.S., Marques, N., Brito, A., Almada, V.C., & Mariani, S. (2015) Establishment of a coastal fish in the Azores: recent colonization or sudden expansion of a relict population? Heredity 115, 527–537. doi: 10.1038/hdy.2015.55

Francisco, S.M., Robalo, J.I., Levy, A., & Almada, V.C. (2014) In search of phylogeographic patterns in the northeastern Atlantic and adjacent seas. In: Evolutionary biology, Genome, Speciation, Coevolution and Origin of life. Pontarotti, P (Ed). Springer. Chapter 15: 323-338. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-07623-2_15

Almada, V.C., Almada, F., Francisco, S.M., Castilho, R., & Robalo, J.I. (2012) Unexpected high genetic diversity at the extreme Northern geographic limit of Taurulus bubalis (Euphrasen, 1786). PLoS One 7(8): e44404. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044404