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

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January 17, 2019 NEW PAPER (Mol Ecol) Unexpected bird‐feather mite associations revealed by DNA metabarcoding uncovers a dynamic ecoevolutionary scenario

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September 4, 2018 NEW PAPER (Exp Appl Acarol) Enabling large-scale feather mite studies: An Illumina DNA metabarcoding pipeline

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June 6, 2018 NEW PAPER (Exp Appl Acarol) Evidence of cryptic species in the genus Tinaminyssus (Acari: Rhinonyssidae) based on morphometrical and molecular data

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May 25, 2018 NEW PAPER (Mitochondrial DNA Part B) The complete mitochondrial genome of the feather mite Trouessartia rubecula Jablonska, 1968 (Astigmata: Analgoidea: Trouessartiidae)

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 May 11, 2018 Interview to Jorge Doña (xataka.com)

fm_diet 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.

entrega del premio Nov 2, 2017 Roger receives the “Premio Francisco Bernis a la Investigación” from SEO-BirdLife.

charla Jorge Nov 2, 2017 Jorge talks about the diversification of feather mites at XXIII Congreso Español de Ornitología (SEO/BirdLife).

IMG_1486 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, 2015A blog post in Oikos journal blog about the phylosophy behind our recent paper “Colony size and foraging range in seabirds.”

October  15, 2015NEW PAPER (Mitochondrial DNA). DNA barcoding of Iberian Peninsula and North Africa Tawny Owls.

September  19, 2015NEW PAPER (Oikos). Colony size and foraging range in seabirds.

July  15, 2015NEW 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, 2015NEW 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, 2015NEW 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.

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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

February 24, 2015 – NEW PAPER (Mol Ecol Res). DNA barcoding and mini‐barcoding as a powerful tool for feather mite studies

December 2, 2014 – NEW PAPER (Ecology). Multievent capture-recapture analysis reveals individual foraging specialisation in a generalist species

September 12, 2014 – NEW PAPER (PLoS ONE). Repeatability of Feather Mite Prevalence and Intensity in Passerine Birds

July, 2014 – NEW PAPER (Ecology). How vultures find carrion by using social information? testing an individual-based-model with experimental field data

June 20, 2014 – Ongoing field sampling of feather mites: VOLUNTEERS ARE MORE THAN WELCOME! (contact Jorge Doña at jdona@ebd.csic.es)

June 10, 2014 – NEW PAPER (PLoS ONE). Climate-driven variation in the intensity of feather mites along a broad elevation gradient