We are a growing team at the Estación Biológica de Doñana (Spanish National Research Council, CSIC). We have broad interests within the ecology and evolution of birds and their symbionts (see Research). Each member develops his/her own research, with different topics and approaches. We also have the pleasure to collaborate with several international collaborators. Inquiries from prospective students and postdoctoral researchers are welcome.
News
January 17, 2019 NEW PAPER (Mol Ecol) Unexpected bird‐feather mite associations revealed by DNA metabarcoding uncovers a dynamic ecoevolutionary scenario
September 4, 2018 NEW PAPER (Exp Appl Acarol) Enabling large-scale feather mite studies: An Illumina DNA metabarcoding pipeline
June 6, 2018 NEW PAPER (Exp Appl Acarol) Evidence of cryptic species in the genus Tinaminyssus (Acari: Rhinonyssidae) based on morphometrical and molecular data
May 25, 2018 NEW PAPER (Mitochondrial DNA Part B) The complete mitochondrial genome of the feather mite Trouessartia rubecula Jablonska, 1968 (Astigmata: Analgoidea: Trouessartiidae)
May 11, 2018 Interview to Jorge Doña (xataka.com)
May 4, 2018 NEW PAPER (Mol Ecol) Feather mites play a role in cleaning host feathers: New insights from DNA metabarcoding and microscopy
March 22, 2018 Big congrats to Jorge for his “Premio Joven a la Cultura Científica” from Sevilla’s city council!
Dic 1, 2017 Shane Brien and Lela Tierney are visiting scholars (Erasmus Plus program) in our lab. They are working on several experiments about the basic biology of feather mites and helping us in setting up the feather mites’ captive breeding program. Great job!
Nov 27, 2017 NEW PAPER (GEB) Host specificity, infrequent major host switching and the diversification of highly host-specific symbionts: The case of vane-dwelling feather mites.
Nov 2, 2017 Roger receives the “Premio Francisco Bernis a la Investigación” from SEO-BirdLife.
Nov 2, 2017 Jorge talks about the diversification of feather mites at XXIII Congreso Español de Ornitología (SEO/BirdLife).
Nov 2, 2017 Invited talk by Roger about bird collective behaviour at XXIII Congreso Español de Ornitología (SEO/BirdLife).
Oct 4, 2017 Jorge will give a talk about the history of diversification of feather mites at CICA (Universidade da Coruña).
Sept 6, 2017 NEW PAPER (Science Advances) Parasite biodiversity faces extinction and redistribution in a changing climate.
Aug 17, 2017 NEW PAPER (Am. Nat.) Should I change or should I go? Phenotypic plasticity and matching habitat choice in the adaptation to environmental heterogeneity.
Aug 12, 2017 NEW PAPER (Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.) Cophylogenetic analyses reveal extensive host-shift speciation in a highly specialized and host-specific symbiont system.
Jul 29, 2017 NEW PAPER (Genome) PCR cycles above routine numbers do not compromise high-throughput DNA barcoding results.
May 23, 2017 NEW PAPER (Trends Parasitol.) Opening the doors of parasitology journals to other symbionts.
May 7, 2017 Glad to have had Kevin P. Johnson in JovaniLab during this week. Many cool joint projects on bird lice – feather mites ahead.
April 19, 2017 NEW PAPER (Ecol. Entomol.) Vertical transmission in feather mites: insights into its adaptive value. Illustration by Francisco Jimenez Cazalla
February 1, 2017 NEW PAPER (Proc. R. Soc. B.) Shape matters: animal colour patterns as signals of individual quality. Drawing by Francisco J. Hernández
October 4, 2016 NEW PAPER (Ecology) Global associations between birds and vane-dwelling feather mites
September 25, 2016 Jorge is attending the XXV International Congress of Entomology.
September 21, 2016 Roger will give a talk about feather mites ecology and evolution at the International Congress of the Spanish Society of Ethology and Evolutionary Ecology
July 5, 2016 Oikos cover featuring our paper on seabird colony size and foraging range. Photo by Richard Shucksmith.
April 8, 2016. NEW PAPER (Biological Reviews) Fault bars in bird feathers
January 18-21, 2016. Jorge is attending the 5th conference of the Spanish Society for Evolutionary Biology.
October 28, 2015 – NEW PAPER (Ecology and Evolution). Species mtDNA genetic diversity explained by infrapopulation size in a host-symbiont system.
October 19, 2015 – A blog post in Oikos journal blog about the phylosophy behind our recent paper “Colony size and foraging range in seabirds.”
October 15, 2015 – NEW PAPER (Mitochondrial DNA). DNA barcoding of Iberian Peninsula and North Africa Tawny Owls.
September 19, 2015 – NEW PAPER (Oikos). Colony size and foraging range in seabirds.
July 15, 2015 – NEW PAPER (Journal of Evolutionary Biology). Context-dependent effects of yolk androgens on nestling growth and immune function in chicks of a multi-brooded passerine.
July 7-17, 2015. Jorge is learning about phylogenies and genealogies on the XIII course of “DNA Phylogenies and Genealogies: Reconstruction and applications” at the University of Barcelona.
July 3, 2015 – NEW PAPER (Experimental and Applied Acaroloy). NGS metabarcoding proves successful for quantitative assessment of symbiont abundance: the case of feather mites on birds.
June 22, 2015 – Our “Bird-sky networks” Ecology paper awarded (2000 Euros) as best paper in PostDoc category in Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC).
June 22, 2015 – NEW PAPER (Folia Parasitologica). A new feather mite of the genus Dolichodectes (Astigmata: Proctophyllodidae) from Hippolais polyglotta (Passeriformes: Acrocephalidae) in Spain
June 22, 2015 – Jorge is visiting AllGenetics. He will be there working on metabarcoding libraries for two weeks.
June 16, 2015 – Roger gives the talk “Colony size and foraging range in seabirds” at the “4º Congreso Ibérico de Ecología”, Coimbra (Portugal).
June 2, 2015 – Our Feather Mites Barcoding paper has been featured in the current issue of the Barcode Bulletin
June 20, 2014 – Ongoing field sampling of feather mites: VOLUNTEERS ARE MORE THAN WELCOME! (contact Jorge Doña at jdona@ebd.csic.es)
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