Antonio Brito da Cunha, Brazilian geneticist (São Paulo 17 June 1925 – Brasilia 02 December 2019) Proposed the adaptive polymorphism (genetic variability correlated to degree of ecological diversity of environment that species live) With H. Burla & T. Dobzhansky. Adaptive chromosomal polymorphism in Drosophila willistoni. Evolution 4(3):212-35, 1950 Others Developed a cage for Drosophila populations
Genetic analysis of the polymorphism of color pattern in Drosophila polymorpha. Evolution 3:239-51, 1949 With W.E. Kerr. A genetical theory to explain sex determination by arrhenotokous parthenogenesis. Forma et Functio 1:33-6, 1957 Developed a method for chromosomal analysis taking account the location of lethal factors and its interrelationships
With L.E. Magalhães & J.S. Botelho. The nature of lethals in Drosophila willistoni. Genetics 53:559-608, 1965 Presented a model of chromosome structure for explaining how the genetic redundance could origin and how DNA produced in excess could be related to chromosome With C. Pavan. Gene amplification in ontogeny and phylogeny of animals. Genetics 61 (Suppl): 289-304, 1969 Developed methods for maintenance of Dipteran Sciaridae
With J.S. Morgante, J. Marques & I. Romeo. Métodos para a criação de alguns Sciaridae (Diptera). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 14:33-40, 1970 With T. Dobzhansky With O. Pavlovsky & B. Spassky. Genetics of natural populations. XXVIII. Supplementary data on the chromosomal polymorphism in Drosophila willistoni in its relation to the environment. Evolution 13:389-404, 1959 With C. Pavan. Heterosis and elimination of weak homozygotes in natural populations of three related species of Drosophila. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 43(2):226-34, 1957 Differentiation of nutritional preferences in Brazilian Drosophila. Ecology 36:34-9, 1955 A further study of chromosomal polymorpphism in Drosophila willistoni in its relation to the environment. Evolution 8:119-34, 1954 With A. Sokoloff. On food preferences of sympatric species of Drosophila. Evolution 5:97-101, 1951 With H. Burla. A comparative study of chromosomal polymorphism in sibling species of the willistoni group of Drosophila. Am. Nat. 89:229-46, 1950 With H. Burla, A.G.L. Cavalcanti & C. Pavan. Population density and dispersal rates in Brazilian Drosophila willistoni. Ecology 31(3):393-404, 1950 With H. Burla, A.R. Cordeiro, C. Malagolowkin & C. Pavan. The willistoni group of sibling species of Drosophila. Evolution 3(4):300-14, 1949
Papers in Nature Chromosomal inversions with sex-limited effects. Nature 172:815, 1953 A further analysis of the polymorphism of Drosophila polymorpha. Nature 171:887, 1953 Papers made to order Chromosomal polymorphism in Diptera. Advanc. In Genet. 7:93-138, 1955 Chromosomal variation and adaptation in insects. Ann. Rev. Entomol. 5:85-110, 1960
With C. Pavan, Chromosomal activities in Rhynchosciara and other Sciaridae. Ann. Rev. Genetics 3:425-50, 1969 NEW SPECIES Diptera Drosophila arapuan 1947 with Pavan Drosophila ararama 1947 with Pavan Drosophila arassari 1947 with Frota-Pessoa Drosophila (Sporophora) bocainensis 1947 with Pavan Drosophila bromelioides 1947 with Pavan Drosophila caponei 1947 with Pavan Drosophila (Sporophora) tropicalis 1949 with Burla Protozoa Schneideria schmeiderae 1975 with Morgante, Malavasi, Marques & Garrido
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