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2) Boieiro, M., Carvalho, J.C., Cardoso, P., Aguiar, C.A.S., Rego, C., Faria e Silva, I., Amorim, I. Pereira, R., Azevedo, F.E.B., Borges, P.A.V. & Serrano, A.R.M. (2013). Spatial factors play a major role as determinants of endemic ground Beetle Beta diversity of Madeira Island Laurisilva. PLOS One, 8(5):1-10. (IF=3.534)

3) Calabria, G., Dolgova, O., Rego, C., Castañeda, L., Rezende, E., Balanya, J., Pascual, M., Sørensen, J., Loeschcke, V. & Santos, M. (2012). Hsp70 protein levels and thermotolerance in Drosophila subobscura: a reassessment of the thermal co-adaptation hypothesis. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25: 691-700. DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02463 (IF: 3.479)

4) Dolgova, O., Rego, C., Calabria, G., Balanyà, J., Pascual, M., Rezende, E.L. & Santos, M. (2010). Genetic constraints for thermal coadaptation in Drosophila subobscura. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10(363): 1-16. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-363. (IF: 3.285)

5) Rego, C., Balanyà, J., Fragata, I., Matos, M., Rezende, E. & Santos, M. (2010). Clinal patterns of chromosomal inversion polymorphisms in Drosophila subobscura are partly associated with thermal preferences and heat stress resistance. Evolution, 64(2): 385-397. (IF= 5.659)

6) Fragata, I., Balanyà, J., Rego, C., Matos, M., Rezende, E. & Santos, M. (2010). Contrasting patterns of phenotypic variation linked to chromosomal inversions in native and colonizing populations of Drosophila subobscura. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23(1): 112-123. (IF= 3.656)

7) Rezende, E.L., Balanyà, J., Rodríguez-Trelles, F., Rego, C., Fragata, I., Matos, M., Serra, L. & Santos, M. (2010). Climate change and chromosomal inversions in Drosophila subobscura. Climate Research, 43(1-2): 103-114. (IF=2.110)

8) Rego, C., Santos, M. & Matos, M. (2007). Do species converge during adaptation? A case study in Drosophila. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 80(4): 347-357. (IF=2.227)

9) Rego, C., Santos, M. & Matos, M. (2007). Quantitative genetics of speciation: additive and non-additive genetic differentiation between Drosophila madeirensis and Drosophila subobscura. Genetica, 131(2): 167-174. (IF=1.396)

10) Rego, C., Matos, M. & Santos, M. (2006). Symmetry breaking in interspecific Drosophila hybrids is not due to developmental noise.  Evolution, 60(4): 746-761. (IF=4.292)