Daniela Moraga Lopez

• PhD candidate
• PhD Student at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Many biodiversity studies focus on explaining high tropical species richness, but an equally dramatic yet understudied pattern involves the divergent richness of land, sea and freshwater. Here, we reveal the origins of these richness differences among habitats across animals and plants. Most plant and animal species are terrestrial, although these...

Entender la evolución de los sistemas biológicos a diferentes niveles es una pregunta importante en la biología. Entre los ejemplos más particulares se encuentra el plegamiento de los genes ribosomales, los cuales han sido clasificados dentro de dos familias múltigenicas denominadas repeticiones 5s y 45s rADN. En la actualidad, el modelo de evoluci...

The genus Halobates includes the only five insect species that have been successful in a pelagic marine environment. Different scenarios of independent colonization events of that environment have been proposed, considering the appearance of pelagic distribution in several non-sister clades in the phylogeny of the genus. In this paper, we aim to up...

When carrying out modelling analysis using experimental data is important to obtain a measure of the relative fit of the each model as a primary selection criterion. In this sense, there are few studies based on multi-model selection techniques for the theoretical representation of data sets, so it is common to incur in a misinterpretation of the e...

The genus Halobates includes the only five insect species that have been successful in a pelagic marine environment. Different scenarios of independent colonization events of that environment have been proposed, considering the appearance of pelagic distribution in several non-sister clades in the phylogeny of the genus. In this paper, we aim to up...