Antonio Brito da Cunha, Brazilian geneticist (São Paulo 17 June 1925 – Brasilia 02 December 2019)
Proposed the adaptive polymorphism (genetic variability correlated to degree of ecological diversity of environment that species live)
With H. Burla & T. Dobzhansky. Adaptive chromosomal polymorphism in Drosophila willistoni. Evolution 4(3):212-35, 1950
Others
Developed a cage for Drosophila populations
Genetic analysis of the polymorphism of color pattern in Drosophila polymorpha. Evolution 3:239-51, 1949
With W.E. Kerr. A genetical theory to explain sex determination by arrhenotokous parthenogenesis. Forma et Functio 1:33-6, 1957
Developed a method for chromosomal analysis taking account the location of lethal factors and its interrelationships
With L.E. Magalhães & J.S. Botelho. The nature of lethals in Drosophila willistoni. Genetics 53:559-608, 1965
Presented a model of chromosome structure for explaining how the genetic redundance could origin and how DNA produced in excess could be related to chromosome
With C. Pavan. Gene amplification in ontogeny and phylogeny of animals. Genetics 61 (Suppl): 289-304, 1969
Developed methods for maintenance of Dipteran Sciaridae
With J.S. Morgante, J. Marques & I. Romeo. Métodos para a criação de alguns Sciaridae (Diptera). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 14:33-40, 1970
With T. Dobzhansky
With O. Pavlovsky & B. Spassky. Genetics of natural populations. XXVIII. Supplementary data on the chromosomal polymorphism in Drosophila willistoni in its relation to the environment. Evolution 13:389-404, 1959
With C. Pavan. Heterosis and elimination of weak homozygotes in natural populations of three related species of Drosophila. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 43(2):226-34, 1957
Differentiation of nutritional preferences in Brazilian Drosophila. Ecology 36:34-9, 1955
A further study of chromosomal polymorpphism in Drosophila willistoni in its relation to the environment. Evolution 8:119-34, 1954
With A. Sokoloff. On food preferences of sympatric species of Drosophila. Evolution 5:97-101, 1951
With H. Burla. A comparative study of chromosomal polymorphism in sibling species of the willistoni group of Drosophila. Am. Nat. 89:229-46, 1950
With H. Burla, A.G.L. Cavalcanti & C. Pavan. Population density and dispersal rates in Brazilian Drosophila willistoni. Ecology 31(3):393-404, 1950
With H. Burla, A.R. Cordeiro, C. Malagolowkin & C. Pavan. The willistoni group of sibling species of Drosophila. Evolution 3(4):300-14, 1949
Papers in Nature
Chromosomal inversions with sex-limited effects. Nature 172:815, 1953
A further analysis of the polymorphism of Drosophila polymorpha. Nature 171:887, 1953
Papers made to order
Chromosomal polymorphism in Diptera. Advanc. In Genet. 7:93-138, 1955
Chromosomal variation and adaptation in insects. Ann. Rev. Entomol. 5:85-110, 1960
With C. Pavan, Chromosomal activities in Rhynchosciara and other Sciaridae. Ann. Rev. Genetics 3:425-50, 1969
NEW SPECIES
Diptera
Drosophila arapuan 1947 with Pavan
Drosophila ararama 1947 with Pavan
Drosophila arassari 1947 with Frota-Pessoa
Drosophila (Sporophora) bocainensis 1947 with Pavan
Drosophila bromelioides 1947 with Pavan
Drosophila caponei 1947 with Pavan
Drosophila (Sporophora) tropicalis 1949 with Burla
Protozoa
Schneideria schmeiderae 1975 with Morgante, Malavasi, Marques & Garrido