Thales Renato Ochotorena de Freitas

Research interests

Publications

• 12,500+ and counting: biodiversity of the Brazilian Pampa

  Frontiers of Biogeography · 2023 · 10.21425/f5fbg59288

• Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities

  Journal of Biogeography · 2022 · 10.1111/jbi.14330

• Diet, bite force and skull morphology in the generalist rodent morphotype

  Journal of Evolutionary Biology · 2016 · 10.1111/jeb.12937

• Geographical variation of body size in sigmodontine rodents depends on both environment and phylogenetic composition of communities

  Journal of Biogeography · 2016 · 10.1111/jbi.12718

• Diet, bite force and skull morphology in the generalist rodent morphotype

  Journal of Evolutionary Biology · 2016 · 10.1111/jeb.12937

• The ecology of a continental evolutionary radiation: Is the radiation of sigmodontine rodents adaptive?

  Evolution · 2016 · 10.1111/evo.13155

• DNA metabarcoding diet analysis for species with parapatric vs sympatric distribution: a case study on subterranean rodents

  Heredity · 2015 · 10.1038/hdy.2014.109

• Remarkably low genetic diversity and strong population structure in common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from coastal waters of the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean

  Conservation Genetics · 2014 · 10.1007/s10592-014-0586-z

• Molecular Data Reveal Complex Hybridization and a Cryptic Species of Neotropical Wild Cat

  Current Biology · 2013 · 10.1016/j.cub.2013.10.046

• The role of chromosomal rearrangements and geographical barriers in the divergence of lineages in a South American subterranean rodent (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae: Ctenomys minutus)

  Heredity · 2013 · 10.1038/hdy.2013.49

• Molecular Ecology Resources Primer Development Consortium

  Journal · 2012

• Permanent Genetic Resources added to the Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 February 2010–31 March 2010

  Molecular Ecology Resources · 2010 · 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2010.02871.x

• Activity, habitat use, density, and reproductive biology of the crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous) and comparison with the pampas fox (Lycalopex gymnocercus) in a Restinga area in the southern Brazilian Atlantic Forest

  Mammalian Biology · 2009 · 10.1016/j.mambio.2008.12.005

• Inter‐species hybridization among Neotropical cats of the genus Leopardus , and evidence for an introgressive hybrid zone between L. geoffroyi and L. tigrinus in southern Brazil

  Molecular Ecology · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2008.03919.x

• Mapping the evolutionary twilight zone: molecular markers, populations and geography

  Journal of Biogeography · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.01912.x

• Geographical variation of heterochromatin in Ctenomys flamarioni (Rodentia-Octodontidae) and its cytogenetic relationships with other species of the genus

  Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics · 2008 · 10.1159/000133821

• Bottlenecks and Dispersal in the Tuco-Tuco Das Dunas,Ctenomys flamarioni(Rodentia: Ctenomyidae), in Southern Brazil

  Journal of Mammalogy · 2007 · 10.1644/06-mamm-a-210r1.1

• Fine-scale habitat selection of Chilean dolphins (Cephalorhynchus eutropia): interactions with aquaculture activities in southern Chiloé Island, Chile

  Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom · 2007 · 10.1017/s0025315407051594

• Phylogeography and population history of the crab‐eating fox (Cerdocyon thous)

  Molecular Ecology · 2006 · 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2006.03185.x

• Fish as bioindicators to assess the effects of pollution in two southern Brazilian rivers using the Comet assay and micronucleus test

  Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis · 2004 · 10.1002/em.20070

• Comet assay using mullet (Mugil sp.) and sea catfish (Netuma sp.) erythrocytes for the detection of genotoxic pollutants in aquatic environment

  Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis · 2004 · 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2004.02.006

• Genotoxicity biomonitoring in coal regions using wild rodentCtenomys torquatus by Comet assay and micronucleus test

  Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis · 2000 · 10.1002/1098-2280(2000)35:4<270::aid-em2>3.0.co;2-l

• An alkaline single-cell gel electrophoresis (comet) assay for environmental biomonitoring with native rodents

  Genetics and Molecular Biology · 2000 · 10.1590/s1415-47572000000100042

• Effects of chronic exposure to coal in wild rodents (Ctenomys torquatus) evaluated by multiple methods and tissues

  Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis · 2000 · 10.1016/s1383-5718(00)00094-2

• Geographic distribution and conservation of four species of the genusctenomysin southern Brazil

  Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment · 1995 · 10.1080/01650529509360941

Current projects

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