Publicações

  • Depintor TS, Freitas FCP, Hernandes N, Nunes FMF, Simões ZLP. Interactions of juvenile hormone, 20-hydroxyecdysone, developmental genes, and miRNAs during pupal development in Apis mellifera. Sci Rep. 2025 Mar 26;15(1):10354.
  • Bataglia L, Freitas Fd, Pinheiro DG, et al. Predicted m6A and m5C marks in honeybee larval transcriptomes imply functional differences in caste development. Apidologie. 2025;56:59.
  • Alcobaça OSA, Campanini EB, Ciancaglini I, Rocha SV, Malavazi I, Freire CCM, Nunes FMF, Fuentes ASC, Cunha AF. Identification of a New Endo-β-1,4-xylanase Prospected from the Microbiota of the Termite Heterotermes tenuis. Microorganisms. 2022 Apr 26;10(5):906.
  • Martelli F, Falcon T, Pinheiro DG, Simões ZLP, Nunes FMF. Worker bees (Apis mellifera) deprived of pollen in the first week of adulthood exhibit signs of premature aging. Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2022 Jul;146:103774.
  • Bataglia L, Simões ZLP, Nunes FMF. Transcriptional expression of m6A and m5C RNA methyltransferase genes in the brain and fat body of honey bee adult workers. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2022 Aug 29;10:921503.
  • Marquioni V, Nunes FM, Novo-Mansur MT. Protein identification by database searching of mass spectrometry data in the teaching of proteomics. J Chem Educ. 2021;98:812-823.
  • Campanini EB, Pedrino M, Martins LA, Athaide Neta OS, Carazzolle MF, Ciancaglini I, Malavazi I, Costa-Leonardo AM, de Melo Freire CC, Nunes FMF, da Cunha AF. Expression profiles of neotropical termites reveal microbiota-associated, caste-biased genes and biotechnological targets. Insect Mol Biol. 2021 Apr;30(2):152-164.
  • Bataglia L, Simões ZLP, Nunes FMF. Active genic machinery for epigenetic RNA modifications in bees. Insect Mol Biol. 2021 Dec;30(6):566-579.
  • Freitas FCP, Buchholz J, Nunes FMF, Cristino AS, Simões ZLP. Characterization of sex-specific variants of doublesex and feminizer genes in stingless bee species. Apidologie. 2020;51(4):469-480.
  • de Paula Freitas FC, Lourenço AP, Nunes FMF, Paschoal AR, Abreu FCP, Barbin FO, Bataglia L, Cardoso-Júnior CAM, Cervoni MS, Silva SR, Dalarmi F, Del Lama MA, Depintor TS, Ferreira KM, Gória PS, Jaskot MC, Lago DC, Luna-Lucena D, Moda LM, Nascimento L, Pedrino M, Oliveira FR, Sanches FC, Santos DE, Santos CG, Vieira J, Barchuk AR, Hartfelder K, Simões ZLP, Bitondi MMG, Pinheiro DG. The nuclear and mitochondrial genomes of Frieseomelitta varia - a highly eusocial stingless bee (Meliponini) with a permanently sterile worker caste. BMC Genomics. 2020 Jun 3;21(1):386. 
  • Mello TRP, Aleixo AC, Pinheiro DG, Nunes FMF, Cristino AS, Bitondi MMG, Barchuk AR, Simões ZLP. Hormonal control and target genes of ftz-f1 expression in the honeybee Apis mellifera: a positive loop linking juvenile hormone, ftz-f1, and vitellogenin. Insect Mol Biol. 2019 Feb;28(1):145-159. 
  • Freitas FCP, Depintor TS, Agostini LT, Luna-Lucena D, Nunes FMF, Bitondi MMG, Simões ZLP, Lourenço AP. Evaluation of reference genes for gene expression analysis by real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) in three stingless bee species (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). Sci Rep. 2019 Nov 27;9(1):17692.
  • Vollet-Neto A, Koffler S, dos Santos CF, Menezes C, Nunes FMF, Hartfelder K, et al. Recent advances in reproductive biology of stingless bees. Insect Soc. 2018;65:201-212.
  • Bataglia L, Godoy IC, Del Lama MA, Nunes FMF. Leucine-aminopeptidase A (LAP-A) Encoding Gene in Apoidea: from Genomic Identification to Functional Insights Based on Gene Expression. Sociobiology. 2018 Oct. 11;65(4):654-61.
  • Macedo LM, Nunes FM, Freitas FC, Pires CV, Tanaka ED, Martins JR, Piulachs MD, Cristino AS, Pinheiro DG, Simões ZL. MicroRNA signatures characterizing caste-independent ovarian activity in queen and worker honeybees (Apis mellifera L.). Insect Mol Biol. 2016 Jun;25(3):216-26.
  • Sadd BM, Barribeau SM, Bloch G, De Graaf DC, Dearden P, Elsik CG, Nunes FM, et al. The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organization. Genome Biol. 2015;16(1):76.
  • Kapheim KM, Pan H, Li C, Salzberg SL, Puiu D, Magoc T, Robertson HM, Hudson ME, Venkat A, Fischman BJ, Hernandez A, Yandell M, Ence D, Holt C, Yocum GD, Kemp WP, Bosch J, Waterhouse RM, Zdobnov EM, Stolle E, Kraus FB, Helbing S, Moritz RF, Glastad KM, Hunt BG, Goodisman MA, Hauser F, Grimmelikhuijzen CJ, Pinheiro DG, Nunes FM, et al. Social evolution. Genomic signatures of evolutionary transitions from solitary to group living. Science. 2015 Jun 5;348(6239):1139-43. 
  • Falcón T, Ferreira-Caliman MJ, Franco Nunes FM, Tanaka ED, do Nascimento FS, Gentile Bitondi MM. Exoskeleton formation in Apis mellifera: cuticular hydrocarbons profiles and expression of desaturase and elongase genes during pupal and adult development. Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2014 Jul;50:68-81.
  • Mello TR, Aleixo AC, Pinheiro DG, Nunes FM, Bitondi MM, Hartfelder K, Barchuk AR, Simões ZL. Developmental regulation of ecdysone receptor (EcR) and EcR-controlled gene expression during pharate-adult development of honeybees (Apis mellifera). Front Genet. 2014 Dec 22;5:445.
  • Martelli F, Nunes FMF. Radicais livres: em busca do equilíbrio. Cienc Cult. 2014;66(3).
  • Nunes FM, Aleixo AC, Barchuk AR, Bomtorin AD, Grozinger CM, Simões ZL. Non-Target Effects of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)-Derived Double-Stranded RNA (dsRNA-GFP) Used in Honey Bee RNA Interference (RNAi) Assays. Insects. 2013 Jan 4;4(1):90-103. 
  • Nunes FM, Ihle KE, Mutti NS, Simões ZL, Amdam GV. The gene vitellogenin affects microRNA regulation in honey bee (Apis mellifera) fat body and brain. J Exp Biol. 2013 Oct 1;216(Pt 19):3724-32.