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Elsa Froufe is affiliated with the University of Porto in Portugal. Their research mainly focuses on areas within Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

The subfields of study that characterize their work include Ecology, Molecular Biology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics, and Global and Planetary Change.

Froufe's main research topics cover a range of subjects, including:

  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Mollusks and Parasites Studies

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • André Gomes-dos-Santos
  • Manuel Lopes-Lima
  • L. Filipe C. Castro
  • André M. Machado
  • Amílcar Teixeira

Elsa Froufe has published extensively across several venues, with a notable number of publications in the following journals:

  • Mitochondrial DNA Part B
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Hydrobiologia
  • Scientific Data
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Elsa Froufe include:

  • Freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from the rising sun (Far East Asia): phylogeny, systematics, and distribution, 2020, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Integrative taxonomy, biogeography and conservation of freshwater mussels (Unionidae) in Russia, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Environmental DNA metabarcoding for freshwater bivalves biodiversity assessment: methods and results for the Western Palearctic (European sub-region), 2020, Hydrobiologia
  • Monitoring of biofouling communities in a Portuguese port using a combined morphological and metabarcoding approach, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Diversity, biogeography, evolutionary relationships, and conservation of Eastern Mediterranean freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae), 2021, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Best Publications

  • Conservation status of freshwater mussels in Europe: state of the art and future challenges.

    Manuel Lopes-Lima;Manuel Lopes-Lima;Ronaldo Sousa;Ronaldo Sousa;Juergen Geist;David C. Aldridge

  • Research priorities for freshwater mussel conservation assessment

    Noé Ferreira-Rodríguez;Yoshihiro B. Akiyama;Olga V. Aksenova;Rafael Araujo

  • Phylogeny of the most species-rich freshwater bivalve family (Bivalvia: Unionida: Unionidae): Defining modern subfamilies and tribes.

    Manuel Lopes-Lima;Elsa Froufe;Van Tu Do;Mohamed Ghamizi

  • Biology and conservation of freshwater bivalves: past, present and future perspectives

    Manuel Lopes-Lima;Amílcar Teixeira;Elsa Froufe;Anabela Lopes

  • Diversity, biogeography and conservation of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in East and Southeast Asia

    Alexandra Zieritz;Arthur E. Bogan;Elsa Froufe;Olga Klishko

  • Genetic subdivision, glacial refugia and postglacial recolonization in the golden‐striped salamander, Chioglossa lusitanica (Amphibia: Urodela)

    J. Alexandrino;E. Froufe;J. W. Arntzen;N. Ferrand

  • Factors driving changes in freshwater mussel (Bivalvia, Unionida) diversity and distribution in Peninsular Malaysia

    Alexandra Zieritz;Manuel Lopes-Lima;Arthur E. Bogan;Ronaldo Sousa

  • Freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from the rising sun (Far East Asia): phylogeny, systematics, and distribution

    Manuel Lopes-Lima;Manuel Lopes-Lima;Akimasa Hattori;Takaki Kondo;Jin Hee Lee

  • Phylogenetic analysis of the genus Thymallus (grayling) based on mtDNA control region and ATPase 6 genes, with inferences on control region constraints and broad-scale Eurasian phylogeography.

    E. Froufe;I. Knizhin;S. Weiss

  • Molluscan genomics: the road so far and the way forward

    André Gomes-dos-Santos;Manuel Lopes-Lima;Manuel Lopes-Lima;L. Filipe C. Castro;Elsa Froufe

  • Taxonomic inflation: species concept or historical geopolitical bias?

    D. James Harris;Elsa Froufe

  • Identification of reproductively isolated lineages of Amur grayling (Thymallus grubii Dybowski 1869): concordance between phenotypic and genetic variation.

    E. Froufe;I. Knizhin;M. T. Koskinen;C. R. Primmer

  • Who lives where? Molecular and morphometric analyses clarify which Unio species (Unionida, Mollusca) inhabit the southwestern Palearctic

    Elsa Froufe;Duarte V. Gonçalves;Duarte V. Gonçalves;Amílcar Teixeira;Ronaldo Sousa;Ronaldo Sousa

  • Lagrangian transport pathways in the northeast Atlantic and their environmental impact

    Iria Sala;Rui M. A. Caldeira;Rui M. A. Caldeira;Sheila N. Estrada-Allis;Elsa Froufe

  • Integrative taxonomy, biogeography and conservation of freshwater mussels (Unionidae) in Russia.

    Ivan N. Bolotov;Ivan N. Bolotov;Ivan N. Bolotov;Alexander V. Kondakov;Alexander V. Kondakov;Alexander V. Kondakov;Ekaterina S. Konopleva;Ekaterina S. Konopleva;Ilya V. Vikhrev;Ilya V. Vikhrev;Ilya V. Vikhrev

  • Comparative phylogeography of salmonid fishes (Salmonidae) reveals late to post‐Pleistocene exchange between three now‐disjunct river basins in Siberia

    E. Froufe;S. Alekseyev;I. Knizhin;P. Alexandrino

  • mtDNA sequence data supports an Asian ancestry and single introduction of the common carp into the Danube Basin

    E. Froufe;I. Magyary;I. Lehoczky;S. Weiss

  • Expansion and systematics redefinition of the most threatened freshwater mussel family, the Margaritiferidae.

    Manuel Lopes-Lima;Manuel Lopes-Lima;Ivan N. Bolotov;Ivan N. Bolotov;Van Tu Do Do;David C. Aldridge

  • Genetic diversity of the pan‐European freshwater mussel Anodonta anatina (Bivalvia: Unionoida) based on CO1: new phylogenetic insights and implications for conservation

    Elsa Froufe;Carina Sobral;Amílcar Teixeira;Ronaldo Sousa;Ronaldo Sousa

  • Environmental DNA metabarcoding for freshwater bivalves biodiversity assessment: methods and results for the Western Palearctic (European sub-region)

    Vincent Prié;Alice Valentini;Manuel Lopes-Lima;Elsa Froufe

  • Postglacial colonization of Europe by the barbastelle bat: agreement between molecular data and past predictive modelling.

    Hugo Rebelo;Hugo Rebelo;Elsa Froufe;José C. Brito;Danilo Russo;Danilo Russo

Frequent Co-Authors

Manuel Lopes-Lima
Manuel Lopes-Lima University of Porto
Ronaldo Sousa
Ronaldo Sousa University of Minho
Simone Varandas
Simone Varandas University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
Arthur E. Bogan
Arthur E. Bogan North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Ivan N. Bolotov
Ivan N. Bolotov Russian Academy of Sciences
David C. Aldridge
David C. Aldridge University of Cambridge
Paulo C. Alves
Paulo C. Alves University of Porto
José Carlos Brito
José Carlos Brito University of Porto
Pedro Beja
Pedro Beja University of Porto
Hugo Rebelo
Hugo Rebelo University of Lisbon

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