Publications
2024
R.B. Correia, J.M. Almeida, M. Wyrwoll, I. Julca, D. Sobral, C.S. Misra, S. Di Persio, L.G. Guilgur, H. Schuppe, N. Silva, P. Prudêncio, A. Nóvoa, A.S. Leocádio, J. Bom, S. Laurentino, M. Mallo, S. Kliesch, M. Mutwil, L.M. Rocha, F. Tüttelmann, J.D. Becker and P. Navarro-Costa. The conserved transcriptional program of metazoan male germ cells uncovers ancient origins of human infertility. eLife. Preprint posted in 2023.
J.D. Bowman, N. Silva, E. Schüftan, J.M. Almeida, R.B. Correia, R.A Oliveira, F. Tüttelmann, D. Enard, P. Navarro-Costa and V.J. Lynch. Pervasive relaxed selection on spermatogenesis genes coincident with the evolution of polygyny in gorillas. eLife. Preprint posted in 2023.
2023
C. Krausz, P. Navarro-Costa, M. Wilke and F. Tüttelmann. EAA/EMQN best practice guidelines for molecular diagnosis of Y-chromosomal microdeletions: State of the art 2023. Andrology.
2021
C.E. Plancha, P. Rodrigues, M. Marques, J.M. Almeida and P. Navarro-Costa. The time is ripe for oocyte in vitro maturation. Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, 38, 1281-1283.
J. Costa, O. Santos, A. Virgolino, M.E. Pereira, M. Stefanovska-Petkovska, H. Silva, P. Navarro-Costa, M. Barbosa, R.C. Neves, I.D. Silva, V. Alarcão, R. Vargas and M.J. Heitor. MAternal Mental Health in the WORKplace (MAMH@WORK): A Protocol for Promoting Perinatal Maternal Mental Health and Wellbeing. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (5), 2558.
2020
P. Navarro-Costa, A. Molaro, C.S. Misra, C. Meiklejohn and P.J.I. Ellis. Sex and suicide: the curious case of Toll-Like Receptors. PLOS Biology, 18 (3): e3000663.
P. Navarro-Costa and R.G. Martinho. The emerging role of transcriptional regulation in the oocyte-to-zygote transition. PLOS Genetics, 16 (3), e1008602.
2018
P. Prudêncio, L.G. Guilgur, J. Sobral, J.D. Becker, R.G. Martinho and P. Navarro-Costa. The Trithorax group protein dMLL3/4 instructs the assembly of the zygotic genome at fertilization. EMBO reports, 19, e45728. Preprint posted in 2018.
P. Navarro-Costa. A (micro)environmental perspective on the evolution of female reproductive aging. Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, 35(12), 2129-213.
2016
P. Navarro-Costa, A. McCarthy, P. Prudêncio, C. Greer, G. Guilgur, J.D. Becker, J. Secombe, P. Rangan and R.G. Martinho. Early programming of the oocyte epigenome temporally controls late prophase I transcription and chromatin remodelling. Nature Communications, 7 (1), 1-15.
2014
P. Pereira, P. Navarro-Costa, R.G Martinho and J.D. Becker. Evolutionarily conserved mechanisms of male germline development in flowering plants and animals. Biochemical Society Transactions, 42, 377-382.
2012
P. Navarro-Costa. Sex, rebellion and decadence: The scandalous evolutionary history of the human Y chromosome. BBA Molecular Basis of Disease, 1822, 1851-1863.
2011
P. Navarro-Costa and C.E. Plancha. Heterochromatin: the hidden epigenetic geography of the Y chromosome. Human Reproduction Update, 17 (letter).
2010
P. Navarro-Costa, P. Nogueira, M. Carvalho, F. Leal, I. Cordeiro, C. Calhaz-Jorge, J. Gonçalves and C.E. Plancha. Incorrect DNA methylation of the DAZL promoter CpG island associates with defective human sperm. Human Reproduction, 25, 2647-2654.
P. Navarro-Costa, C.E. Plancha and J. Gonçalves. Genetic dissection of the AZF regions of the human Y chromosome: thriller or filler for male (in)fertility? BioMed Research International, 2010:936569.
P. Navarro-Costa, J. Gonçalves and C.E. Plancha. The AZFc region of the Y chromosome: at the crossroads between genetic diversity and male infertility. Human Reproduction Update, 6, 525-542.
2007
P. Navarro-Costa, L. Pereira, C. Alves, L. Gusmão, C. Proença, P. Marques-Vidal, T. Rocha, S.C. Correia, S. Jorge, A. Neves, A.P. Soares, J. Nunes, C. Calhaz-Jorge, A. Amorim, C.E. Plancha and J. Gonçalves. Characterizing partial AZFc deletions of the Y chromosome with amplicon-specific sequence markers. BMC Genomics, 8:342.
2005
P. Navarro-Costa, S.C. Correia, A. Gouveia-Oliveira, F. Negreiro, S. Jorge, A.J. Cidadão, M.J. Carvalho and C.E. Plancha. Effects of mouse ovarian tissue cryopreservation on granulosa cell-oocyte interaction. Human Reproduction, 20, 1607-1614.