publications

21. Riley, Vicencio Oostra, Plaistow (2023) Does the definition of a novel environment affect the ability to detect cryptic genetic variation? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 36 (11), 1618-1629

20. Van Bergen & Vicencio Oostra (2023). Digest: Habitat seasonality drives evolutionary change in plasticity in Bicyclus butterflies. Evolution, qpad106

19. Steward, De Jong, Vicencio Oostra* & Wheat* (2022). ‘Alternative splicing in seasonal plasticity and the potential for adaptation to environmental change’. Nature Communications 13 (1), 755

18. Smolander, Blande, Ahola, Rastas, Tanskanen, Kammonen, Vicencio Oostra, et al. (2022). ‘Improved chromosome level genome assembly of the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia) integrating Pacific Biosciences long reads and a high-density linkage map.’ GigaScience volume 11, 2022, giab097. https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giab097

17. Kahilainen, Vicencio Oostra, Somervuo, Minard & Saastamoinen (2022). ‘Alternative developmental and transcriptomic responses to host plant water limitation in a butterfly metapopulation.’ Molecular Ecology Molecular Ecology 31 (22), 5666-5683

16. Singh, Van Bergen, Brattström, Osbaldeston, Brakefield, and Vicencio Oostra (2020). ‘Complex Multi-Trait Responses to Multivariate Environmental Cues in a Seasonal Butterfly’. Evolutionary Ecology 34 no 5 (2020): 713-734. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10682-020-10062-0

15. Richard Pearson, Enrique Martínez-Meyer, et al. (2019). ‘Research Priorities for Maintaining Biodiversity’s Contributions to People in Latin America’. UCL Open Environment, 8 August 2019. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000002.

14. Franke, Karl, Peña Centeno, Feldmeyer, Lassek, Vicencio Oostra, Riedel, Stanke, Wheat, and Fischer (2019). ‘Effects of Adult Temperature on Gene Expression in a Butterfly: Identifying Pathways Associated with Thermal Acclimation’. BMC Evolutionary Biology 19, no. 1: 32. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1362-y.

13. Kraaijeveld, Vicencio Oostra*, Liefting*, Wertheim, De Meijer, and Ellers (2018). ‘Regulatory and Sequence Evolution in Response to Selection for Improved Associative Learning Ability in Nasonia Vitripennis’. BMC Genomics 19, no. 1: 892. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-018-5310-9.

12. Oostra Vicencio, Saastamoinen, Zwaan*, and Wheat* (2018). ‘Strong Phenotypic Plasticity Limits Potential for Evolutionary Responses to Climate Change’. Nature Communications 9, no. 1 (2018): 1005. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03384-9.

11. Wright, Darolti, Bloch, Vicencio Oostra, Sandkam, Buechel, Kolm, Breden, Vicoso, and Mank (2017). ‘Convergent Recombination Suppression Suggests Role of Sexual Selection in Guppy Sex Chromosome Formation’. Nature Communications 8, no. 1: 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14251.

10. Nowell, Elsworth, Vicencio Oostra, et al. (2017).‘A High-Coverage Draft Genome of the Mycalesine Butterfly Bicyclus Anynana’. GigaScience 6, no. 7 (2017): 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/gix035.

9. Hudson, Newbold, Contu, et al. (2017). ‘The Database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) Project’. Ecology and Evolution 7, no. 1: 145–88. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2579.

8. Oostra Vicencio, Mateus, Van der Burg, Piessens, Van Eijk, Brakefield, Beldade, et al. (2014). ‘Ecdysteroid Hormones Link the Juvenile Environment to Alternative Adult Life Histories in a Seasonal Insect’. The American Naturalist 184, no. 3: E79–92. https://doi.org/10.1086/677260.

7. Mateus, Marques-Pita*, Vicencio Oostra*, Lafuente, Brakefield, Zwaan, and Beldade (2014). ‘Adaptive Developmental Plasticity: Compartmentalized Responses to Environmental Cues and to Corresponding Internal Signals Provide Phenotypic Flexibility’. BMC Biology 12, no. 1: 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-014-0097-x.

6. Oostra Vicencio, Brakefield, Hiltemann, Zwaan, and Brattström (2014). ‘On the Fate of Seasonally Plastic Traits in a Rainforest Butterfly under Relaxed Selection’. Ecology and Evolution 4, no. 13: 2654–67. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1114.

5. Oostra Vicencio (2013). ‘Hormonal and Transcriptional Mechanisms Underlying Developmental Plasticity of Life Histories in a Seasonal Butterfly’. PhD thesis, University of Leiden, 26 June 2013. https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/21036.

4. Terenius, Papanicolaou, et al (2011). ‘RNA Interference in Lepidoptera: An Overview of Successful and Unsuccessful Studies and Implications for Experimental Design’. Journal of Insect Physiology 57, no. 2: 231–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2010.11.006.

3. Oostra Vicencio*, De Jong*, Invergo, Kesbeke, Wende, Brakefield, and Zwaan (2011). ‘Translating Environmental Gradients into Discontinuous Reaction Norms via Hormone Signalling in a Polyphenic Butterfly’. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 278, no. 1706: 789–97. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1560.

2. Oostra Vicencio, Gomes, and Nijman (2008). ‘Implications of Deforestation for the Abundance of Restricted-Range Bird Species in a Costa Rican Cloud-Forest’. Bird Conservation International 18, no. 1: 11–19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270908000038.

1. Gomes*, Vicencio Oostra*, Nijman, Cleef, and Kappelle (2008). ‘Tolerance of Frugivorous Birds to Habitat Disturbance in a Tropical Cloud Forest’. Biological Conservation 141, no. 3: 860–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2008.01.007.

* equal contributions