{"id":5092,"date":"2014-06-18T23:45:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T22:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baselunar.com\/blog\/?page_id=5092"},"modified":"2019-02-13T20:19:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T19:19:17","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/baselunar.com\/blog\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are at the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forestales.uvigo.es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EUET Forestal<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvigo.es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vigo University (Spain)<\/a><\/strong>. The head of Laboratory is\u00a0<strong>Adolfo Cordero Rivera<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #747474;\">We are currently working on Sexual selection, using Odonates as model organisms. Other topics of interest are the evolution of female colour polymorphism, pest ecology and conservation biology.\u00a0We are currently involved in several projects that use odonates as model organisms, and teach Ecology and Conservation Biology for Forestry students.<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #747474;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #747474;\">ONGOING and recently finished, but still active:<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #747474;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Project title: \u201c<strong>Sexual selection and the evolution of mating strategies in odonates (ODOEVO)<\/strong>\u201c. Funding: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovaci\u00f3n, CGL2008-02799. 2009-2011. Amount: 149.677 \u20ac. Principal investigator: Adolfo Cordero Rivera.<\/li>\n<li>Project title: \u201c<strong>Mimetic coloration in the Damselfly family Polythoridae (Odonata: Zygoptera): anti-predator strategies in a novel taxonomic group\u201d<\/strong>. Funding: Ministerio de Educaci\u00f3n y Ciencia, PCI2006-A7-0639. 2007-2008. Amount: 15.590 \u20ac. PI: Christopher D. Beatty.<\/li>\n<li>Project title: \u201c<strong>Ecological integration and impacts of eucalypt plantations<\/strong>\u201c. Funding: Xunta de Galicia (08MRU024371PR). 2008-2011. Amount: 94.072,30 \u20ac. PI: Mar\u00eda Calvi\u00f1o Cancela.<\/li>\n<li>Project title: \u201c<strong>Teledetection of invasive species with image spectrography T(EI)2<\/strong>\u201c.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:31px;\"><h2 class=\"title-heading-left\"><strong>Some recent papers<\/strong><\/h2><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<style type='text\/css'>.reading-box-container-1 .element-bottomshadow:before,.reading-box-container-1 .element-bottomshadow:after{opacity:0.6;}<\/style><div class=\"fusion-reading-box-container reading-box-container-1\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:84px;\"><div class=\"reading-box element-bottomshadow\" style=\"background-color:#f6f6f6;border-width:1px;border-color:#f6f6f6;border-left-width:3px;border-left-color:#0055c4;border-style:solid;\"><a class=\"button fusion-button fusion-button-default button-square fusion-button-small button-small button-flat  fusion-desktop-button continue continue-right\" style=\"-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;box-shadow:none;\" href=\"http:\/\/baselunar.com\/blog\/publications\/\" target=\"_self\"><span>See full list<\/span><\/a><div class=\"reading-box-description\">Full list of papers by Adolfo Cordero-Rivera<\/div><div class=\"reading-box-additional\"><\/div><a class=\"button fusion-button fusion-button-default button-square fusion-button-small button-small button-flat  fusion-mobile-button continue-right\" style=\"-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;box-shadow:none;\" href=\"http:\/\/baselunar.com\/blog\/publications\/\" target=\"_self\"><span>See full list<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Evolutionary ecology of odonates:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cordero Rivera, A. &amp; R.A. S\u00e1nchez Guill\u00e9n. 2007. Male-like females of a damselfly are not preferred by males even if they are the majority morph.\u00a0<strong>Animal Behaviour<\/strong>, 74: 247-252.<\/li>\n<li>Lorenzo Carballa, M.O. and Cordero Rivera, A. 2007. Are parthenogenetic and sexualIschnura hastata damselflies equal in fertility? Testing sexual conflict theories.\u00a0<strong>Ethology Ecology &amp; Evolution<\/strong>, 19: 291-298.<\/li>\n<li>Cordero Rivera, A. &amp; Stoks, R. 2008. Mark-recapture studies and demography. In: Dragonflies and Damselflies: Model organisms for ecological and evolutionary research. A. C\u00f3rdoba Aguilar (Ed), pp. 7-20. Oxford University Press, Oxford.<\/li>\n<li>Van Gossum, H., Sherratt, T.N. &amp; Cordero Rivera, A. 2008. The evolution of sex-limited colour polymorphisms. In: Dragonflies and Damselflies: Model organisms for ecological and evolutionary research. A. C\u00f3rdoba Aguilar (Ed), pp. 219-229. Oxford University Press, Oxford.<\/li>\n<li>C\u00f3rdoba Aguilar, A. &amp; Cordero Rivera, A. 2008. Cryptic female choice and sexual conflict. In: Dragonflies and Damselflies: Model organisms for ecological and evolutionary research. A. C\u00f3rdoba Aguilar (Ed), pp. 189-202. Oxford University Press, Oxford.<\/li>\n<li>Contreras-Gardu\u00f1o, J., C\u00f3rdoba-Aguilar, A., Lanz-Mendoza, H., and Cordero Rivera, A. 2009. Territorial behaviour and immunity are mediated by juvenile hormone: the physiological basis of honest signaling?\u00a0<strong>Functional Ecology<\/strong>, 23: 157-163.<\/li>\n<li>C\u00f3rdoba-Aguilar, A.; M. A. Serrano-Meneses &amp; A. Cordero-Rivera. 2009. Copulation duration of nonterritorial Odonate species lasts longer than territorial species.\u00a0<strong>Annals of the Entomological Society of America<\/strong>, 102: 694-701.<\/li>\n<li>Lorenzo Carballa, M.O. &amp; A. Cordero Rivera. 2009. Thelytokous parthenogenesis in the damselfly Ischnura hastata (Odonata, Coenagrionidae): genetic mechanisms and lack of bacterial infection.\u00a0<strong>Heredity<\/strong>, 103: 377-384.<\/li>\n<li>Lorenzo Carballa, M. O.; Beatty, C, D.; Utzeri, C; Vieira, V. and A. Cordero Rivera. 2009. Parthenogenetic Ischnura hastata revisited: present status and notes on population ecology and behaviour (Odonata: Coenagrionidae).\u00a0<strong>International Journal of Odonatology<\/strong>, 12 (2):395-411.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Conservation and phylogeography:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Velo-Ant\u00f3n, G.; M. Garc\u00eda-Par\u00eds, P. Gal\u00e1n &amp; A. Cordero Rivera. 2007. The evolution of viviparity in Holocene islands: Ecological adaptation vs. phylogenetic descent along the transition from aquatic to terrestrial environments.\u00a0<strong>Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research<\/strong>, 45: 345-352.<\/li>\n<li>Cordero Rivera, A.; G. Velo-Ant\u00f3n and P. Gal\u00e1n. 2007. Ecology of amphibians in small coastal Holocene islands: local adaptations and the effect of exotic tree plantations.\u00a0<strong>Munibe<\/strong>, 25: 94-103.<\/li>\n<li>Velo-Ant\u00f3n, G.; Garc\u00eda-Par\u00eds, M. &amp; Cordero Rivera, A. 2008. Patterns of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA variation in Iberian populations of Emys orbicularis (Emydidae): conservation implications.\u00a0<strong>Conservation Genetics<\/strong>, 9: 1263-1274.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Pest ecology:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Santolamazza-Carbone, S.; M. Pesta\u00f1a Nieto &amp; A. Cordero Rivera. 2007. Maternal size and age affect offspring sex-ratio in the solitary, egg parasitoid, Anaphes nitens (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae).<strong>\u00a0Journal of Applied Entomology<\/strong>, 125: 23-32.<\/li>\n<li>Santolamazza-Carbone, S.; Pesta\u00f1a-Nieto, M.; P\u00e9rez Otero, R.; Mansilla V\u00e1zquez, P. &amp; Cordero Rivera, A. 2009. Winter and spring ecology of Anaphes nitens, a solitary egg-parasitoid of the Eucalyptus snout-beetleGonipterus scutellatus.\u00a0<strong>BioControl<\/strong>, 54: 195-209.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Miscellanea:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calvi\u00f1o-Cancela, M.; C. Ayres Fern\u00e1ndez &amp; A. Cordero Rivera. 2007. European pond turtles (Emys orbicularis) as alternative dispersers of \u201cwater-dispersed\u201d waterlily (Nymphaea alba).\u00a0<strong>Ecoscience<\/strong>, 14: 529-535.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-one-fourth fusion-layout-column fusion-column-last fusion-spacing-yes\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"imageframe-align-center\"><span style=\"border:8px solid #f6f6f6;-moz-box-shadow: 2px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,.3);-webkit-box-shadow: 2px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,.3);box-shadow: 2px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,.3);\" class=\"fusion-imageframe imageframe-dropshadow imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/baselunar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/libelulas_copula.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5103 alignnone size-full wp-image-5103\" src=\"http:\/\/baselunar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/libelulas_copula.jpg\" alt=\"libelulas_copula\" 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(Spain). The head of Laboratory is\u00a0Adolfo Cordero Rivera. We are currently working on Sexual selection, using Odonates as model organisms. Other topics of interest are the evolution of female colour polymorphism, pest ecology and conservation biology.\u00a0We are currently involved in several projects that use odonates as model organisms, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5092","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselunar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselunar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselunar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselunar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselunar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5092"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/baselunar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5499,"href":"https:\/\/baselunar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5092\/revisions\/5499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselunar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}