
María Belén FernándezUniversity of Buenos Aires | UBA · Department of Ecology, Genetics and Evolution
María Belén Fernández
Master of Science
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Introduction
Additional affiliations
March 2020 - January 2021
Universidad Nacional de Hurlingham
Position
- Professor (Associate)
Description
- Professor of Introduction to Botany
April 2019 - April 2019
Universidad Nacional de Hurlingham
Position
- Jefe de Trabajos Practicos
Description
- Professor of Introduction to Botany
March 2016 - September 2017
Education
September 2017 - September 2022
March 2010 - March 2017
Publications
Publications (9)
Genital morphology, a cornerstone in taxonomy that predates Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae, is vital for species delimitation. However, the widely accepted paradigm that genitalia are taxonomically informative lacks robust testing between closely related species, and supporting evidence is often limited to taxonomic literature in which genitalia are as...
Antagonistic interactions can affect population growth and dispersal of an invasive species. Wolbachia are intracellular endosymbiont bacteria that infect arthropod and nematode hosts and are able to manipulate reproduction, which in some cases leads to cocladogenesis. Moreover, the presence of the strictly maternally transferred Wolbachia in a pop...
Background
Social insects are among the most serious invasive pests in the world, particularly successful at monopolizing environmental resources to outcompete native species and achieve ecological dominance. The invasive success of some social insects is enhanced by their unicolonial structure, under which the presence of numerous queens and the l...
A pesar de, aparentemente, ser bastante conocida y estar extensamente descripta la peculiar morfología de las flores del género Passiflora, sorprendentemente existen aspectos no reportados o parcialmente estudiados. Tales aspectos incluyen algunas estructuras florales hasta ahora no mencionadas, las particularidades del nectario y la cámara nectarí...
El patrón visual floral influye en la atracción y orientación de los polinizadores. Éstos distinguen entre patrones y cambian su forma de aproximación a las flores ante diferencias en ellos. El patrón visual incluye la cantidad y disposición de las piezas florales. En las flores de Passiflora las piezas del gineceo no son múltiplos de las piezas de...