Aguiar de Souza Penha V, Muriel J, Podos J, Marzal A, Manica LT. 2026. No clear links between haemosporidian parasite infection, host condition, and pairing success in a multi-year study of a population of Blue-black Grassquits. Journal of Ornithology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-026-02410-8
Aguiar de Souza Penha V, Tolesano-Pascoli G, Alquezar RD, Ferreira FC, de-Angeli Dutra D, Braga EM, Macedo RH, Gil D. 2025. Ectoparasite and blood parasite prevalence in birds: a comparative study between urbanized airport environments and natural habitats. Oecologia, 207, 172. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-025-05811-3
Vieira LMCP, Aguiar de Souza Penha V, McGraw KJ, Silva AVD, Braga EM. 2025. Physiological, environmental, and life-history drivers of haemosporidian infections in non-passerine birds from a rehabilitation center. Frontiers in Parasitology, 4:1568852. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpara.2025.1568852
Kraberger S, Custer JM, Hammond R, Gibson M, Aguiar de Souza Penha V, McGraw H, Fountain-Jones NM, Olivo D, Vargas KL, Kaján GL, Harrach B, McGraw KJ, Varsani A. 2025. Incidence and diversity of circoviruses, polyomaviruses, and adenoviruses in exotic free-roaming rosy-faced lovebirds from Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Virology, 611, 110640. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2025.110640
McGraw KJ, Aguiar de Souza Penha V, DePinto KN, Drake DJ, Soldan, ECP, Pais D. 2025. Habitat Urbanization, Circulating Glucose and Carotenoid Levels, and Body Condition Predict Variation in Blood Ketone Levels in House Finches (Haemorhous mexicanus) from the American Southwest. Birds, 6, 34. https://doi.org/10.3390/birds6030034
Aguiar de Souza Penha V, McGraw KJ, Wrona A, Drake DJ, Amacher-IV AG, West L, Hutton P. 2025. Some like it hot: Elevated heating capacity of carotenoid-containing contour feathers compared to melanized feathers and of rural over urban feathers. Avian Biology Research, 18, 108-116. https://doi.org/10.1177/17581559251343753
Aguiar de Souza Penha V, Fonseca BB, Schlemper AE, Martins MM, Braga EM, Rodrigues RS, Anciaes M, Manica LT. 2025. Plumage coloration and feather corticosterone concentration predict haemosporidian parasite occurrence in four passerines from the Atlantic Forest. Journal of Ornithology,J Ornithol 166, 995–1007 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-025-02287-z
De-La-Torre GM, Aguiar de Souza Penha V, Manica LT. 2024. Differences in plumage coloration between ventral and dorsal regions on Atlantic Forest birds. International Journal of Avian Science (IBIS), 167, 765-775. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13383
Olivo DA, Kraberger S, Chiu ES, Custer JM, Jackson D, Regney M, Lund MC, Bandoo RA, Aguiar de Souza Penha V, Drake D, McGraw KJ, Varsani A. 2024. Avian circoviruses and hepadnaviruses identified in tissue samples of various waterfowl. Virology, 603, 110381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2024.110381
Aguiar de Souza Penha V & De-La-Torre GM. 2024. The relationship between habitat breadth, climate, local species diversity, and avian body condition in the Atlantic Forest Biome. Journal of Ornithology, 166, 173-182. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-024-02200-0
Rodrigues-Filho JL, Santiago DF, Piazza TB, Dantas DV, Aguiar de Souza Penha V, Branco JO. 2024. Habitat distinctness doesn't influence on the abundance and relative growth of the juveniles Atherinella brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) in a subtropical estuarine ecosystem. Regional Studies in Marine Science 77, 103663. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2024.103663
Sahnan S, Olivo S, Custer JM, Bandoo RA, Jackson D, Lund MC, McGraw H, Regney M, Aguiar de Souza Penha V, Neil J, Drake D, McGraw KJ, Varsani A, Kraberger S. 2024. Genome analysis of gyroviruses identified in waterfowl in Arizona (USA). Archives of Virology, 169, 120. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-024-06049-9
Aguiar de Souza Penha V, Manica LT, Barrand ZA, Hepp CM, McGraw KJ. 2024. Correlates of Co-Infection with Coccidiosis and Avian Malaria in House Finches (Haemorhous mexicanus). Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 60, 634-646. https://doi.org/10.7589/JWD-D-23-00175
Aguiar de Souza Penha V. 2024. Sex, moulting dynamics, and reproductive status in Atlantic Forest tanagers and their collective impact on body condition. Emu, 124, 177-186. https://doi.org/10.1080/01584197.2024.2328675
McGraw KJ & Aguiar de Souza Penha V. 2024. Using point‐of‐care devices to examine covariation among blood nutritional‐physiological parameters and their relationships with poxvirus infection, habitat urbanization, and male plumage coloration in house finches (Haemorhous mexicanus). Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, 341, 440-449. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.2796
Aguiar de Souza Penha V, Domingos FMCB, Fecchio A, Bell JA, Weckstein JD, Ricklefs RE, Braga EM, Moreira PA, Soares L, Latta S, Tolesano-Pascoli G, Alquezar RD, Del-Claro K, Manica LT. 2023. Host life-history traits predict haemosporidian parasite prevalence in tanagers (Aves: Thraupidae). Parasitology, 150, 32-41. https://doi.org/10.1017/ S0031182022001469
Aguiar de Souza Penha V, Domingos FMCB, Fecchio A, Bell JA, Weckstein JD, Ricklefs RE, Braga EM, Moreira PA, Soares L, Latta S, Tolesano-Pascoli G, Alquezar RD, Del-Claro K, Manica LT. 2022. Haemosporidian parasites and incubation period influence plumage coloration in tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae). Proceedings B, 289, 20221283. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1283
McGraw KJ, Aguiar de Souza Penha V, Drake DJ, Kraberger S, Varsani A. 2022. Poxvirus infection in house finches (Haemorhous mexicanus): Genome sequence analysis and patterns of infection in wild birds. Transboundaring and Emerging Diseases, 69, e2318 - e2328. https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.14575
Aguiar de Souza Penha V & Rodrigues RS. 2021. Sex, age, mean annual temperature and year predict the body condition in Chiroxiphia caudata (Passeriformes: Pipridae). Journal of Ornithology, 163, 445-456. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-021-01947-0
Rodrigues RS, Aguiar de Souza Penha V, Miwa RY, Branco JO, Marcal-Junior O. 2021. Stress and Body Condition Predict Haemosporidian Parasitaemia in Birds from Cerrado, Southeastern Brazil. Ardea, 109, 175-183. https://doi.org/10.5253/arde.v109i3.a7
Aguiar de Souza Penha V, Rodrigues RS, Quaglia AI, Hoepers PG, Del-Claro K, Soares L. 2020. Plumage Coloration Predicts Haemosporidian Infection Occurrence in Birds. Ardea, 108, 39-48. https://doi.org/10.5253/arde.v108i1.a2
Silva PLAPA, Goulart LR, Reis TFM, Mendonca EP, Melo RT, Aguiar de Souza Penha V, Peres PABM, Hoepers PG, Beletti ME, Fonseca BB. 2019. Biofilm Formation in Different Salmonella Serotypes Isolated from Poultry. Current Microbiology, 76, 124-129. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-018-1599-5
Soares L, Escudero G, Aguiar de Souza Penha V, Ricklefs RE. 2016. Low Prevalence of Haemosporidian Parasites in Shorebirds. Ardea, 104, 129-141. https://doi.org/10.5253/arde.v104i2.a8
Bernardino-Neto M, Avelar-Junior EB, Arantes TS, Jordao IA, Costa-Huss JC, Souza TMT, Aguiar de Souza Penha V, Silva SC, Souza PCA, Tavares M, Penha-Silva N. 2013. Bivariate and multivariate analyses of the correlations between stability of the erythrocyte membrane, serum lipids and hematological variables. Biorheology, 50, 305-320. https://doi.org/10.3233/BIR-13064