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Priscila Albuquerque de Moura

  • Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Stengl-Wyer Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Integrative Biology
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priscila.moura@austin.utexas.edu

Research

I am a biologist and behavioral ecologist interested in how animals learn and acquire spatial knowledge. My research explores how environmental complexity shapes learning, spatial behavior, and brain plasticity, with a current focus on Heliconius butterflies.

Research Areas

  • Evolution
  • Biodiversity, Ecology or Sustainability

Fields of Interest

  • Behavior
  • Evolutionary Biology

Education

  • Ph.D. in Ecology. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil (2018-2022)

Publications

    1. Moura, P.A., Cardoso, M.Z. and S.H. Montgomery (2024). Heliconius butterflies use wide-field landscape features, but not individual local landmarks, during spatial learning. Royal Society Open Science 11:241097. doi:10.1098/rsos.241097
    2. Moura, P.A., Young, F.J., Monllor, M., Cardoso, M.Z. and S.H. Montgomery (2023). Long-term spatial memory across large spatial scales in Heliconius butterflies. Current Biology 33(15): R797-R798. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.06.009
    3. Moura, P.A., Cardoso, M.Z. and S.H. Montgomery (2023). No evidence of social learning in a socially roosting butterfly in an associative learning task. Biology Letters 19:20220490. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2022.0490
    4. Moura, P.A., Corso, G., Montgomery, S.H. and M.Z. Cardoso (2021). True site fidelity in pollen-feeding butterflies. Functional Ecology 36(3):572-582. doi:10.1111/13652435.13976
    5. Hines, H.M., Counterman, B.A., Papa, R., Moura, P.A., Cardoso, M.Z., Reed, R.D., Kronforst, M.R. and W.O. McMillan (2011). Wing patterning genes redefines the mimetic history of Heliconius butterflies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 108(49):19666-19671. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1110096108
    6. Moura, P.A., Quek, S.P., Cardoso, M.Z. and M.R. Kronforst (2011). Comparative population genetics of mimetic Heliconius butterflies in an endangered habitat; Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. BMC Genetics 12:9. doi:10.1186/1471-2156-12-9
    7. Quek, S.P., Counterman, B.A. Moura, P.A., Cardoso, M.Z. Marshall, C.R. McMillan,W.O. and M.R. Kronforst (2010). Dissecting comimetic radiations in Heliconius reveals divergent histories of convergent butterflies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 107:7365-7370. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0911572107