K. Naty García-Cabello- Doctor of Philosophy Science
- Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Padua
K. Naty García-Cabello
- Doctor of Philosophy Science
- Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Padua
Figuring out how to make it through the Postdoc life!
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Introduction
My early work was on animal behaviour, studying foraging and agonistic interactions in hermit crabs. I then studied the links between behaviour and sexual trait evolution, focusing on sexual conflict in livebearing poeciliids using phylogenetic comparative methods to explore the co-evolution of reproductive strategies. Later, shifted to cichlid morphological diversification. Currently, back to poeciliids, unraveling mate-choice mechanisms pre- and post-mating and their evolutionary consequences.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
July 2024 - January 2025
The National Museum of Natural Sciences-CSIC
Position
- Postdoc Researcher
Education
July 2019 - October 2023
August 2014 - October 2016
July 2008 - October 2012
Publications
Publications (5)
How energetic cost of locomotion affects foraging decisions, and its metabolic consequences are poorly understood. In several groups of animals, including hermit crabs, exploratory walking enhances the efficiency of foraging by increasing the probability of finding more and better food items; however, the net gain of energy will only be enhanced if...
This study explores how specific reproductive strategies, placentotrophy and superfetation, influence the evolution of male gonopodial structures in livebearing fishes of the family Poeciliidae. Although previous expectations pointed to higher diversification rates in species exhibiting both placentotrophy and superfetation, our results offer an al...
The causes and consequences of the evolution of placentotrophy (post-fertilization nutrition of developing embryos of viviparous organisms by means of a maternal placenta) in non-mammalian vertebrates are still not fully understood. In particular, in the fish family Poeciliidae there is an evolutionary link between placentotrophy and superfetation...
