PhD
I have graduated in Biotechnology (Coimbra, Portugal) and I am master in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution (Porto, Portugal). In 2020, I completed my PhD studies at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (Germany), where I am currently working as a postdoctoral researcher. My research focuses on the application of molecular and genomic tools to investigate evolutionary patterns in Madagascar using the mouse lemur as study model. Specifically, I am interested at (i) understand how the past Quaternary climatic changes shaped the demographic dynamics of mouse lemurs species adapted to different environmental conditions (evergreen humid forest vs. lowland habitats); and (ii) investigate whether hybridization occurs within the speciose genus Microcebus and its impact on the mouse lemur biogeography.
Grants Awarded
(2019) Maria Sibylla Merian Award in the category “First Runner-up Poster” at Joint BES/GTÖ Unifying Tropical Ecology meeting 2019 in Edinburgh (Scotland).
(2016) Robert Glaser Travel Grant, awarded by the German Gesellschaft für Primatologie, with the research project “Modelling Guinea baboon gene flow in the entire distribution range to improve local conservation management”.
(2013) Optimus Alive Research fellow!2013 in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution.
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Teixeira H, Salmona J, Arredondo A, Mourato B, Manzi S, Rakotondravony R, Mazet O, Chikhi L, Metzger J, Radespiel U; Impact of model assumptions on demographic inferences – the case study of two sympatric mouse lemurs in northwestern Madagascar (2021). BMC Ecology & Evolution; In press
Teixeira H, Montade V, Salmona J, Metzger J, Bremonde L, Kasper T, Daut G; Rouande S; Ranarilalatiana S; Rakotondravony R; Chikhi L; Behling H; Radespiel U. Past environmental changes affected lemur population dynamics prior to human impact in Madagascar (2021). Communications Biology 4, 1084. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02620-1.
Sgarlata GM, Salmona J, Le Pors B, Rasolondraibe E, Jan F, Ralantoharijaona T, Rakotonanahary A, Randriamaroson J, Marques AJ, Aleixo-Pais I, de Zoeten T, Ousseni DSA, Knoop SB, Teixeira H, Gabillaud V, Miller A, Ibouroi MT, Rasoloharijaona S, Zaonarivelo JR, Andriaholinirina NV, Chikhi L (2019). Genetic and morphological diversity of mouse lemurs (Microcebus spp.) in northern Madagascar: The discovery of a putative new species?. American Journal of Primatology. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23070
Salmona J, Rasolondraibe E, Jan F, Rakotonanahary AN, Ralantoharijaona T, Le Pors B, Ousseni DSA, Aleixo-Pais I, Marques AJD, Sgarlata GM, Teixeira H, Gabillaud V, Miller A, Ibouroi MT, Zaonarivelo JR, Andriaholinirina NV, Chikhi L (2018). Re-discovering the forgotten Phaner population of the small and isolated Analafiana forest (Vohémar, SAVA). Lemur News 21 (2018): 31-36
Rodríguez-Echeverría S, Teixeira H, Correia M, Timóteo S, Heleno R, Öpik M, Moora M (2016). Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi communities from tropical Africa reveal strong ecological structure. New Phytologist. doi:10.1111/nph.14122
Teixeira H, Rodríguez-Echeverría S. (2016). Identification of symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria from three African leguminous trees in Gorongosa National Park. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 39(5), 350-358
Salmona J, Teixeira H, Rasolondraibe E, Aleixo-Pais I, Kun-Rodrigues C, Rakotonanahary A, Jan F, Rabarivola Cj, Zaonarivelo Jr, Andriaholinirina Volasoa N, Chikhi L (2015). Genetic Diversity, Population Size, and Conservation of the Critically Endangered Perrier’s Sifaka (Propithecus perrieri). International Journal of Primatology, p-1-22. DOI 10.1007/s10764-015-9881-x
Teixeira, H., Rodríguez-Echeverría, S., & Nabais, C. (2014). Genetic diversity and differentiation of Juniperus thurifera in Spain and Morocco as determined by SSR. PloS one, 9(2), e88996.
