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Página personal del Dr. Enrique P. Lessa


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El Dr. Enrique P. Lessa es investigador Grado 5 en el Area Biología del PEDECIBA. Ingresó al Programa en 1987. Desempeña sus actividades en el Laboratorio de Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias.
En 1999 recibió una Beca de la John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Sus líneas de investigación son :

  • Evolución molecular y genética de poblaciones
  • Sistemática de mamíferos
  • Genética ovina

    Dirección:
    Laboratorio de Evolución
    Facultad de Ciencias
    Universidad de la República
    Iguá 4225 - piso 6 - Alas S y N
    Montevideo 11400
    Uruguay
    Dirección postal:
    Casilla 12106
    Montevideo 11300
    Uruguay
    tel: (+598 2) 525 8618-26 int. 142-143
    fax: (+598 2) 525 8617
    e-mail :lessa@fcien.edu.uy

    • Publicaciones seleccionadas


    • Lessa EP, Patton JL
      Structural constraints, recurrent shapes and allometry in pocket gophers (genus Thomomys)
      Biol J Linn Soc, 36: 349-363 (1989)

    • Lessa EP
      Multidimensional analysis of geographic genetic structure
      Syst Zool, 39:242-252 (1990)

    • Lessa EP
      Rapid surveying of DNA sequence variation in natural populations
      Mol Biol Evol, 9:323-330 (1992)

    • Lessa EP, Stein BR
      Morphological constraints in the digging apparatus of pocket gophers (Mammalia: Geomyidae)
      Biol J Linn Soc, 47:439-453 (1993)

    • Lessa EP, Applebaum G
      Screening techniques for detecting allelic variation in DNA sequences
      Mol Ecol, 2:119-129 (1993)

    • Lessa EP, Van Valkenburgh B, Fariña RA
      Testing hypotheses of differential mammalian extinction subsequent to the great American biotic interchange
      Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 135:157-162 (1997)

    • Lessa EP, Cook JA
      The molecular phylogenetics of tuco-tucos (genus Ctenomys, Rodentia: Octodontidae) suggests an early burst of speciation
      Mol Phylogenet Evol, 9:88-99 (1998)

    • D'Elía G, Lessa EP, Cook JA
      Geographic structure, gene flow and maintenance of melanism in Ctenomys rionegrensis (Rodentia: Octodontidae)
      Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde, 63:285-296 (1998)

    • Cook JA, Lessa EP
      Are rates of diversification in subterranean South American tuco-tucos (genus Ctenomys, Rodentia: Octodontidae) unusually high?
      Evolution, 52:1521-1527 (1998)

    • Joseph LG, Lessa EP, Christidis C
      Phylogeny and biogeography in the evolution of migration: shorebirds of the Charadrius complex
      J Biogeogr, 26: 329-342 (1999)

    • Lessa EP
      The evolution of subterranean rodents: a synthesis
      En E. Lacey, J. Patton y G. Cameron (eds.), Life underground: the biology of subterranean rodents. University of Chicago Press, pp. 389-420 (2000)

    • Lessa EP, Cook JA, Patton JL
      Genetic footprints of demographic expansion in North America, but not Amazonia, during the Late Quaternary
      P Natl Acad Sci USA, 100: 10331-10334 (2003)

    • Wlasiuk G, Garza JC, Lessa EP
      Genetic and geographic differentiation in the Río Negro tuco-tuco (Ctenomys rionegrensis): inferring the roles of migration and drift from multiple genetic markers
      Evolution, 57: 913-926 (2003)