Ana GomesPostdok

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I am a behavioral ecologist and evolutionary biologist mainly interested in the evolution of sexual traits and social behaviours. 

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher working with the SpermTree database on the evolution of sperm in animals, and studying cognition in different fish species of the Poeciliidae family, in the Fitzpatrick Lab. In my MSc and PhD, at CIBIO (Portugal), I studied the evolution of coloration, and how phenotypes influence social structure and mate choice, using theoretical and empirical work mostly in birds. 

Publication highlights:

[1] Gomes ACR, Beltrão P, Boogert NJ, Cardoso GC (2022) Familiarity, dominance, sex and season shape common waxbill social networks. Behav Ecol 33: 526–540.

[2] Gomes ACR, Boogert NJ, Cardoso GC (2021) Network structure and the optimisation of proximity-based association criteria. Methods Ecol Evol 12:88–100

[3] Gomes ACR, Cardoso GC (2020) The lag-time constraint for behavioural plasticity. Proceedings R Soc B 287:20200525.

[4] Gomes ACR, Cardoso GC (2018) Choice of high-quality mates vs. avoidance of low-quality mates. Evolution 72:2608-2616.

[5] Gomes ACR, Sorenson MD, Cardoso GC (2016) Speciation is associated with changing ornamentation rather than stronger sexual selection. Evolution 70:2823-2838.