Valéria Marques

Research Interests

I am a PhD student at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (Barcelona, Spain), at the Butterfly Diversity and Evolution Lab, with Dr Roger Vila. I am currently researching cryptic diversity and biogeographic patterns in Eurasian butterflies using genomics.

I a, collaborating with the Lohse Lab to explore the origin and history of a seemingly extinct butterfly, Pieris wollastoni.

Biography

(2023 - present) PhD Evolutionary Biology, University of Barcelona Spain
(2024) visiting PhD student Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK

Publications

V Marques, et al. 2024. The opposed forces of differentiation and admixture across glacial cycles in the butterfly Aglais urticae. Molecular Ecology, e17304
C Rato, G Deso, J Renet, MJ Delaugerre, V Marques, G Mochales-Riaño. 2023. Colonization routes uncovered in a widely introduced Mediterranean gecko, Tarentola mauritanica. Scientific Reports 13 (1), 16681
V Marques, G Riaño, MA Carretero, I Silva‐Rocha, C Rato. 2023. Sex determination and optimal development in the Moorish gecko, Tarentola mauritanica. Acta Zoologica 104 (3), 419-433
K Lohse, A Hayward, DR Laetsch, V Marques, R Vila, C Tyler-Smith. 2023. The genome sequence of the Mazarine Blue, Cyaniris semiargus (Rottemburg, 1775). Wellcome Open Research 8
C Rato, V Marques, M Paracuellos, J Tortolero, JC Nevado, MA Carretero. 2023. Alborán Island, a small meeting point for three invasive lizards, whose geographic origin is uncovered by molecular analysis. BioInvasions Record 10 (4)