Dr Vicencio Oostra
Future Leaders Fellow & Senior Lecturer
School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Research
tropical butterflies, evolutionary adaptation, phenotypic plasticity, gene regulation, population and comparative genomics, biodiversity
Interests
The research in our lab aims to understand how the processes of phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary adaptation interact, and how these interactions drive species and ecosystem resilience to anthropogenic change. We use tropical butterflies, study them in the field and lab, and integrate approaches from development, genomics, evolutionary biology and ecology.Publications
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Evolutionary and Functional Genomics2025
Plasticity in climate change responsesStollewerk A Kratina P Sentis A Chaparro‐Pedraza C Decaestecker E De Meester L Eyice O Govaert L et al.
Biological Reviews, Wiley vol. 100 (6), 2508-2527.
23-07-2025
2024
Larval growth rate is not a major determinant of adult wing shape and eyespot size in the seasonally polyphenic butterfly Melanitis leda.Molleman F Moore ME Halali S Kodandaramaiah U Halali D
Peerj, Peerj vol. 12
16-10-2024
2023
Does the definition of a novel environment affect the ability to detect cryptic genetic variation?Riley CL Oostra V
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 36 (11), 1618-1629.
01-11-2023
Digest: Habitat seasonality drives evolutionary change in plasticity in Bicyclus butterfliesvan Bergen E Oostra V
Evolution, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 77 (8), 1910-1911.
10-06-2023
2022
Alternative splicing in seasonal plasticity and the potential for adaptation to environmental changeSteward RA de Jong MA Oostra V
Nature Communications, Springer Nature vol. 13 (1)
08-02-2022
Improved chromosome-level genome assembly of the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia) integrating Pacific Biosciences long reads and a high-density linkage mapSmolander O-P Blande D Ahola V Rastas P Tanskanen J Kammonen JI Oostra V Pellegrini L et al.
Gigascience, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 11 (1)
12-01-2022
2021
Alternative developmental and transcriptomic responses to host plant water limitation in a butterfly metapopulationKahilainen A Oostra V Somervuo P
Molecular Ecology, Wiley vol. 31 (22), 5666-5683.
27-09-2021
2019
On the power to detect rare recombination eventsWright AE Darolti I Bloch NI Oostra V Sandkam BA Buechel SD Mank JE
Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America, Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences vol. 116 (26), 12607-12608.
18-06-2019
Effects of adult temperature on gene expression in a butterfly: identifying pathways associated with thermal acclimationFranke K Karl I Centeno TP Feldmeyer B Lassek C Riedel K Stanke M
Bmc Ecology and Evolution, Springer Nature vol. 19 (1)
23-01-2019
Research priorities for maintaining biodiversity’s contributions to people in Latin AmericaPearson RG Martínez-Meyer E Velázquez MA Caron M Corona-Núñez RO Davis K Durán AP García-Morales R et al.
, Ucl Press vol. 1
01-01-2019
2018
Regulatory and sequence evolution in response to selection for improved associative learning ability in Nasonia vitripennisKraaijeveld K Oostra V Liefting M de Meijer E
Bmc Genomics, Springer Nature vol. 19 (1)
01-12-2018
Strong phenotypic plasticity limits potential for evolutionary responses to climate changeOostra V Saastamoinen M Zwaan BJ
Nature Communications, Springer Nature vol. 9 (1)
08-03-2018
2017
A high-coverage draft genome of the mycalesine butterfly Bicyclus anynanaNowell RW Elsworth B Oostra V Zwaan BJ Wheat CW Saastamoinen M Saccheri IJ Hof AEV et al.
Gigascience, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 6 (7)
09-05-2017
Convergent recombination suppression suggests role of sexual selection in guppy sex chromosome formationWright AE Darolti I Bloch NI Oostra V Sandkam B Breden F
Nature Communications, Springer Nature vol. 8 (1)
31-01-2017
2016
The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project.Hudson LN Newbold T Contu S Hill SLL Lysenko I De Palma A Phillips HRP Alhusseini TI et al.
Ecol Evol vol. 7 (1), 145-188.
16-12-2016
2014
Adaptive developmental plasticity: Compartmentalized responses to environmental cues and to corresponding internal signals provide phenotypic flexibilityMateus ARA Marques-Pita M Oostra V Lafuente E Brakefield PM
Bmc Biology, Springer Nature vol. 12 (1)
21-11-2014
Ecdysteroid Hormones Link the Juvenile Environment to Alternative Adult Life Histories in a Seasonal InsectOostra V Mateus ARA van der Burg KRL Piessens T van Eijk M
The American Naturalist, University of Chicago Press vol. 184 (3), e79-e92.
31-07-2014
On the fate of seasonally plastic traits in a rainforest butterfly under relaxed selectionOostra V Hiltemann Y Zwaan BJ
Ecology and Evolution, Wiley vol. 4 (13), 2654-2667.
04-06-2014
2010
RNA interference in Lepidoptera: An overview of successful and unsuccessful studies and implications for experimental designTerenius O Papanicolaou A Garbutt JS Eleftherianos I Huvenne H Kanginakudru S Albrechtsen M An C et al.
Journal of Insect Physiology, Elsevier vol. 57 (2), 231-245.
20-11-2010
Translating environmental gradients into discontinuous reaction norms via hormone signalling in a polyphenic butterflyOostra V de Jong MA Invergo BM Kesbeke F Wende F Brakefield PM
Proceedings of The Royal Society B, The Royal Society vol. 278 (1706), 789-797.
08-09-2010
Recovering ecological interactions by mining non-target data from whole genome re-sequencing projectsJones M Rastas P Chacón-Duque JC DiLeo MF Nair A Oostra V Saastamoinen M Duplouy A
In Biorxiv
Grants
Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Evolutionary and Functional GenomicsFuture Leadership Fellowship: Testing how developmental pathways can predict evolutionary adaptation to climate change-GRANT TRANSFERVicencio Oostra
£1,404,707 MRC Medical Research Council
31-05-2022 - 31-12-2026
Research Group
Research Staff
PhD Students
- Marcus Hicks
How Do Amazonian Butterflies (Specifically Panacea Prola) Adapt to Natural Seasonal Cycles and How Will This Help Them to Cope With Anthropogenic Climate Change? - Arina Huang
Genetic Basis and Selection Maintaining Wing Polymorphism in The Evening Brown Butterfly, Melanitis Leda - Sarah Hume
Evolution of Olfactory Perception - Baron Koylass
Deep Learning Algorithms to Detect Signals of Adaptation From Genomic Data - Dominic Phillips
Tropical Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation Genomics - Jenny Stewart
Analysing Phenology and Migration of Amazonian Butterflies Under Climate Change
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