Adolfo Cordero Laboratory
Laboratory
Laboratory
We have an ongoing collaboration since several years, on diverse topics related to sexual selection of odonates, with Alex Córdoba (UNAM,
México) and Carlo Utzeri (University of Rome, Italy).
We are also collaborating with Eric Svensson and Bengt Hanson (University of Lund, Sweden) for the study of female colour polymorphism
in Ischnura elegans and I. graellsii.
Further, we collaborate withDavid Thompson and Phill Watts (University of Liverpool, UK) on population genetics and conservation ofCoenagrion mercuriale, Macromia splendens , Macromia splendens , Macromia splendens and Oxygastra curtisii.
To study the reproductive behaviour of two endemic Cuban odonates we have a collaboration with Adrián Trapero and Yusdiel Torres,
from the University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba (Cuba).
In 2008 we worked on Peruvian rainforest studying behaviour of Polythore, with Chris Beatty (now at Santa Clara Univ., California),
Joachim Hoffmann (ALAUDA, Germany),Tom Sherratt (University of Carleton, Canada) and Hans Van Gossum (University of Antwerp, Belgium).
Over many years we have worked on the population ecology, and biological control of the Eucalyptus weevil, Gonipterus scutellatus.
· Santolamazza Carbone, S. & Cordero Rivera, A. 2003. Superparasitism and sex ratio adjustment in a wasp parasitoid: results at variance
with local mate competition? Oecologia, 136: 365-373.
· Santolamazza Carbone, S.; A. Rodríguez-Illamola & A. Cordero Rivera. 2006. Thermal requirements and phenology of the Eucalyptus snout-beetleGonipterus scutellatus Gyllenhal.Journal of Applied Entomology, 130: 368-376.
We have also worked intensively on the conservation ecology and genetics of the European pond turtle, Emys orbicularis.
· Velo-Antón, G., Godinho, R., Ayres, C., Ferrand, N., and Cordero Rivera, A. 2007. Assignment tests applied to relocate individuals
of unknown origin in a threatened species, the European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis). Amphibia-Reptilia, 28: 475-484.
· Velo-Antón, G.; García-París, M. & Cordero Rivera, A. 2008. Patterns of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA variation in Iberian
populations of Emys orbicularis (Emydidae): conservation implications. Conservation Genetics, 9: 1263-1274.
More recently we were involved in the study of the population tendences and conservation of the amphibians inhabiting small off-shore
islands in the National Park of the Atlantic Islands of Galiza.
· Velo-Antón, G.; M. García-París, P. Galán & A. Cordero Rivera. 2007. The evolution of viviparity in Holocene islands: Ecological
adaptation vs. phylogenetic descent along the transition from aquatic to terrestrial environments. Journal of Zoological Systematics
and Evolutionary Research, 45: 345-352.
Our main topic of research is the evolutionary ecology of damselflies. We have worked intensively with Ischnura and Calopteryx. Of
special mention is our confirmation of the first case of parthenogenesis in odonates, the Azorean populations of Ischnura hastata.
· Sánchez-Guillén, R.A.; van Gossum, H. & Cordero Rivera, A. 2005.Hybridization and the inheritance of intrasexual polymorphism
in two Ischnurid damselflies (Odonata: Coenagrionidae).Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 85: 471-481.
· Cordero Rivera, A. & R.A. Sánchez-Guillén.2007. Male-like females of a damselfly are not preferred by males even if they are the
majority morph. Animal Behaviour, 74: 247-252.
· Lorenzo Carballa, M.O. & A. Cordero Rivera. 2009. Thelytokous parthenogenesis in the damselfly Ischnura hastata (Odonata, Coenagrionidae):
genetic mechanisms and lack of bacterial infection. Heredity, 103: 377-384.
Other research lines are focused to study mutualistic interactions between animals and plants, the reproductive ecology of plants and ecological invasions.
Selected publications:
- Calviño-Cancela M., He T.H. & Lamont B.B. (2008). Distribution of myrmecochorous species over the landscape and their potential long-distance dispersal by emus and kangaroos. Diversity and Distributions 14, 11-17.
- Calviño-Cancela M., Ayres Fernández C. & Cordero Rivera A. (2007).European pond turtles (Emys orbicularis) as alternative dispersers of “water-dispersed” waterlily (Nymphaea alba). Ecoscience 14, 529-534.
- Calviño-Cancela M., Dunn R.R., van Etten E. & Lamont B.B. (2006). Emus as non-standard seed dispersers and their potential for long-distance seed dispersal. Ecography 29, 632-640.
Adolfo Cordero, Head of the laboratory.
At a stream, habitat of Protoneura capillaris in Cuba. May 2007
Lab members:
Current collaborations:
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Postdocs |
PhD Students |
Previous PhD Students |
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José Andrés Abad (1998) | ||
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Guillermo Velo-Antón |
Dalia Ivette Galicia Mendoza |
Serena Santolamazza Carbone (2002) |
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María Calviño Cancela (2003) | ||
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Sandra Nieto Román |
Genaro da Silva Méndez |
Vicente Piorno González (2006) |
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Guillermo Velo Antón (2008) | |
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Olalla Lorenzo Carballa (2009) |
Adolfo Cordero at the National Park Pacaya-Samiria, Amazonian forest of Perú. June 2008
