ONGOING:

Pietro d’Amélio. Pietro d’Amélio. European Marie Curie Fellowship SOCIAL MATCH – 896475 2021-2023.

CONCLUDED:

Pietro d’Amélio (2018-2019). Mate choice in socialble weavers . Funding: ANR, FCT. CEFE‐CIBIO. Advisors: Claire Doutrelant (CEFE), Rita Covas (CIBIO) & Fanny Rybak (Paris Sud).

Nora Carlson (2017-2018) The effect of an audience on cooperative behaviours. Funding: ANR, FCT. CEFE‐CIBIO. Advisors: Claire Doutrelant (CEFE), Rita Covas (CIBIO).

Arnaud Tognetti (2015‐2017) Acoustic communication in weavers Funding: Institute for Advanced Study of Toulouse. Advisors: Claire Doutrelant (CEFE), Rita Covas (CIBIO).

Sophie Lardy (2014‐2017) Quantifying the cost of helping in a cooperatively breeding bird. Funding: Claude Leon Fellowship, South Africa, ANR. CEFE‐CIBIO. Advisors: Claire Doutrelant (CEFE), Rita Covas (CIBIO).

Claire Loiseau (2014‐2015) The effects of insularity on avian Malaria: a global analysis. Funding: Région Languedoc‐Roussillon, France. CEFE. Advisors: Claire Doutrelant (CEFE), Rita Covas (CIBIO), Martim Melo (CIBIO).

Matthieu Paquet (2014‐ 2015) Maternal and helper effects on offspring phenotype in the cooperatively breeding sociable weaver. Funding: DST‐NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute. U. Cape Town. Advisors: Rita Covas (CIBIO), Claire Doutrelant (CEFE).

Elisa Lobato (2012‐2016) The evolution of host‐parasite interactions on islands and implications for sexual selection. CIBIO. Funding FCT. Advisors: Rita Covas (CIBIO), Claire Doutrelant (CEFE).

José Melo‐Ferreira (2009‐2015) Natural Selection and Genome Admixture: Tracing adaptive and non‐adaptive evolutionary processes. CIBIO. Funding: FCT, ESF, SFRH/BPD/43264/2008. Advisor: Pierre Boursot (ISEM).

Rafael Mares (2013‐2014) The effect of social, genetic and environmental factors on reproductive success in cooperatively breeding sociable weavers. CIBIO. Advisors: Rita Covas (CIBIO), Claire Doutrelant (CEFE).

ONGOING:

Nicolas Silva (2021-) Mate choice in a monomorphic dull bird social species: a role for behaviour? Funding: ANR. Supervisors: Rita Covas (CIBIO) & Claire Doutrelant (CEFE).

Erwan Harscouet (2020-) The evolution of weavers nests and associated secondary sexual signals. Funding: ANR. Supervisors: Rita Covas (CIBIO), Claire Doutrelant (CEFE) and Julien Renoult (CEFE).

André Liz (2019-) Comparative phylogeography of the Sahara-Sahel: integrating spatial and temporal approaches to understand biodiversity dynamics in deserts and arid regions. U. Porto. Supervisors: José C. Brito (CIBIO).

André Ferreira (2017-) Can cooperation be under social or sexual selection? Funding: FCT, SFRH/BD/122106/2016.  U. Montpellier. Supervisors: Rita Covas (CIBIO), Claire Doutrelant (CEFE).

Rita Fortuna (2017-) Prenatal maternal effects and its consequences for offspring, parents and helpers fitness in a cooperatively breeding species Funding: FCT, SFRH/BD/122106/2017. U. Porto. Supervisors: Rita Covas (CIBIO), Claire Doutrelant (CEFE).

João Pedro Marques (2016-) The role of natural selection in species genomic differentiation and admixture: a comparative approach in hares and mice. Funding: FCT, SFRH/BD/115089/2016. BIODIV, U. Porto. Supervisors: José Melo‐Ferreira (CIBIO), Pierre Boursot (ISEM).

CONCLUDED:

Alois Robert (2019) Insularity and song evolution. Funding: U. Montpellier. Advisor: Claire Doutrelant & Doris Gomez (CEFE) . Collaboration Martim Melo and Rita Covas (CIBIO).

Guilherme Dias (2018) Understanding speciation: a multidisciplinary assessment of hybrid zones using a lizard species complex as model. Universidade do Porto. Funding: FCT, SFRH/BD/89750/2012. Supervision: Catarina Pinho (CIBIO), Pierre‐André Crochet (CEFE).

Menad Beddek (2017) Impact of uncertainties in taxonomy and global change models on conservation policies for Algerian herpetofauna. Université de Montpellier. Supervisors: Olivier Peyre (Naturalia‐Environnements), Pierre‐André Crochet (CEFE), José Carlos Brito (CIBIO).

Fernando Seixas (2017) Assessing the role of cytonuclear coevolution and coadaptation in massive mitochondrial DNA introgression. Co‐tutelle Universidade do Porto and Université Montpellier. Funding: FCT, SFRH/BD/87126/2012. Supervisors: José Melo‐Ferreira (CIBIO), Pierre Boursot (ISEM).

Margaux Rat (2015) The role of dominance in maintaining cooperation in the sociable weaver Philetairus socius. University of Cape Town. DST‐NRF CoE. Supervision: R. Covas (CIBIO), C. Doutrelant (CEFE), R. van Dijk (Univ Sheffield) and P.G. Ryan (U. Cape Town).

ONGOING:

Benjamin Dupuis. Effects of predation on social and life-history traits in the sociable weavers. Univ Lyon- ENS Supervisors: Claire Doutrelant (CEFE), Rita Covas (CIBIO), Pietro d’Amelio (CEFE)

Lucas Pacheco. Cooperative behaviour and roosting association: a study  of the ‘pay to stay hypothesis’. Univ Porto. Supervisors: Rita Covas (CIBIO), Liliana Silva (CIBIO), André Ferreira (CIBIO), Claire Doutrelant (CEFE)

João Souto. The genomics of divergence and hybridization in hares. MSc Biodiversity and Evolution, U. Porto. Supervisors: José Melo-Ferreira (CIBIO), Pierre Boursot (ISEM).

CONCLUDED

Mathilde Barthe (2020) Relachement des pressions de selection sur les genes de l’immunité en milieu insulaire. Supervisors: Benoit Nabholz (ISEM), Claire Loiseau (CIBIO) & Claire Doutrelant (CEFE)

Barbara Freitas (2020). Erasmus. An automatic  calls identification of a recently discovered Ottus species in  Sao Tome. Supervisors: Yves Bas (CEFE), Alois Robert (USA), Martim Melo (CIBIO) & Claire Doutrelant (CEFE)

Erwan Harscouet (2020). Master2. Weaverbirds (Ploceidae) nest: a sexually selected extended phenotype?  University of Montpellier. Supervisors: Claire Doutrelant (CEFE), Rita Covas (CIBIO), Paul Dufour (Grenoble) and Julien Renoult (CEFE)

Luis Bliard (2020) Predation and colouration on island. University of Montpellier, Master I. MEME. Supervisors: Rita Covas (CIBIO), Claire Doutrelant (CEFE).

Erwan Harscouet (2019) Study of the relationship between a melanic trait and cooperativeness in a social bird. Master1, University of Montpellier. Supervisors: Claire Doutrelant (CEFE), Rita Covas (CIBIO), Pietro D’Amelio (CEFE).

António Vieira (2019) The effect of helpers on reproductive output in the Sociable Weaver. University of Porto. Supervisors: Rita Covas (CIBIO), Claire Doutrelant (CEFE).

Cristian Pizzigalli (2019) Integrative approaches to the taxonomy and systematics of Mesalina lizards in West Africa. University of Porto. Supervisors: JC Brito, F Martínez-Freiría (CIBIO), P.-A. Crochet (CEFE).

Inês Duarte (2018) Is cooperative investment related with social network position in an aggressive context. University of Porto. Supervisors: Rita Covas (CIBIO), Claire Doutrelant (CEFE), André Ferreira (CEFE).

Sandra Esteves (2018) Individual personality and social network position in a cooperatively breeding bird. University of Porto. Supervisors: Rita Covas (CIBIO), Claire Doutrelant (CEFE), André Ferreira (CEFE).

Kyle Lloyd (2017) The effect of nest predation on population dynamics: an experimental approach. Percy FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town. Supervision: R. Covas (CIBIO), C. Doutrelant (CEFE) and Res Altwegg (U. Cape Town).

Liliana Silva (2016) An investigation of the physiological costs of social dominance in a colonial, cooperative passerine. CIBIO, University of Porto. Supervision: R. Covas (CIBIO), Claire Doutrelant (CEFE) and Sophie Lardy (PFIAO, U. Cape Town).

Rita Fortuna (2016) Do females manipulate the amount of care provided by other individuals via maternal effects? CIBIO, University of Porto. Supervision: R. Covas (CIBIO), Claire Doutrelant (CEFE) and Matthieu Paquet (U. Edinburgh).

André Ferreira (2015) Benefits and costs of helpers: investigating the underlying mechanisms. CIBIO, University of Porto. Supervision: R. Covas (CIBIO) & Claire Doutrelant (CEFE).

Sofia Santos (2015) The effect of helping presence on maternal allocation in a cooperatively breeding bird. University of Lisbon. Supervision: : R. Covas (CIBIO) & Claire Doutrelant (CEFE).