Cristina B. Sánchez-Prieto

Cristina B. Sánchez-Prieto
University of Granada | UGR · Department of Zoology

PhD

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January 2016 - present
Estación Biológica de Doñana
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  • PostDoc Position
October 2015 - October 2015
University of Granada
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  • Profesor Sustituto Interino
January 2011 - September 2015
University of Granada
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  • PostDoc Position

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Publications (18)
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Investigating factors related to reproductive phenology is of particular interest in mammals with long gestation times, as the optimal adjustment of the timing of births depends on factors that occur much earlier. In Mediterranean environments, delays in conception timing in red deer populations, mainly due to climatic and demographic factors, lead...
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La variación en la fenología reproductiva de numerosas especies animales se debe principalmente a componentes demográficos, características individuales y cambios climáticos. Investigar los factores relacionados con la fenología reproductiva es especialmente interesante en mamíferos con tiempos de gestación largos, ya que el ajuste óptimo de la fec...
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In the last decades, climate change has caused an increase in mean temperatures and a reduction in average rainfall in southern Europe, which is expected to reduce resource availability for herbivores. Resource availability can influence animals' physical condition and population growth. However, much less is known on its effects on reproductive pe...
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Sexual signals play a central role in male-male competition in polygynous species. In red deer (Cervus elaphus), male’s ventral area become dark during the rutting season due to urine spraying behaviour and retains many chemical compounds potentially revealing individual features. Here we investigate the variation in size of this trait, exploring i...
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Theory predicts that the plastic expression of sex-traits should be modulated not only by their production costs but also by the benefits derived from the presence of rivals and mates, yet there is a paucity of evidence for an adaptive response of sex-trait expression to social environment. We studied antler size, a costly and plastic sex trait, an...
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• Parnassius apollo filabricus is a subspecies of apollo (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae) restricted to the Sierra de Baza‐Filabres range in southeastern Spain that has become increasingly rare in the last decades, disappearing from most of its known locations. • In this article, we calculate both census and effective population size of a local populati...
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Population persistence depends in many cases on gene flow between local populations. Parnassius apollo nevadensis is an endemic subspecies of Apollo butterfly in the Sierra Nevada (southern Spain), whose populations are distributed in discrete patches at altitudes between 1850 and 2700 m. In this paper, we use 13 microsatellite loci to examine the...
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El objetivo de este trabajo es conocer la variación en la forma alar de Parnassius apollo nevadensis, lepidóptero endémico de Sierra Nevada, en función del sexo y la altitud. Para ello, utilizamos herramientas de Morfometría Geométrica aplicadas a fotografías de individuos de ambos sexos de poblaciones situadas a lo largo de su área de distribución...
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Teeth in Cervidae are permanent structures that are not replaceable or repairable; consequently their rate of wear, due to the grinding effect of food and dental attrition, affects their duration and can determine an animal's lifespan. Tooth wear is also a useful indicator of accumulative life energy investment in intake and mastication and their i...
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We characterized 20 new microsatellite loci isolated from Parnassius apollo nevadensis. The 20 loci displayed 2–12 alleles and expected heterozygosities varied from 0.22 to 0.89; the markers were amplified in nine multiplex reactions. The combined non-exclusion probabilities of this set are 0.001084 and 0.000005 for the first and second parents, re...
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Artificial barriers such as wire fences constitute a common conservation management practice to protect vegetation from the browsing impact of large herbivores. Apart from protecting the fenced area, these barriers may affect the use of adjacent areas by animals. For example, they may interrupt major movement routes. We studied the effect of fences...
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After about 50 years of research on fluctuating asymmetry (FA) as a reliable indicator of both individual quality and environmental stress, the enthusiasm is beginning to decline. The findings of many studies are inconsistent and the relationship between FA and stress appears both weaker and more complex than first thought. To provide clarification...
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Worn teeth in herbivore ungulates may be related to lower efficiency in mastication and hence lower performance. However, selection should favour maximal performance in terms of body mass and reproductive capacity during reproductive lifespan, when permanent teeth are already partially worn. We hypothesize that wear rate may respond to a strategy o...
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Senescence may result from an optimal balance between current reproductive investment and bodily repair processes required for future reproduction, a theoretical prediction difficult to prove especially in large, long-lived animals. Here we propose that teeth that have fixed dimensions early in life, but that wear during chewing, can be taken as a...
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Resource dispersion influences mammalian mating systems by affecting space use by females and in turn the strategies employed by males. Other elements related to mating interactions, however, also may affect female decisions, and it usually becomes difficult to discriminate between them. Here we present the results of experimental food supplementat...
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Management of game species may involve a risk of alteration of their genetic properties. Local adaptations may be disrupted if artificially selected individuals from farms or those belonging to distant geographical areas are introduced to increase population density or trophy "quality". In Spain, red deer (Cervus elaphus) from different European su...
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We analyzed the distribution of genetic variation at 6 microsatellite loci in heavily hunted populations of red deer (Cervus elaphus) in southwestern Spain. Some hunting estates are surrounded by high mesh fences that prevent deer from leaving the estate. The primary purpose of our study was to assess whether differences exist in the degree of gene...

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