PhD Student

E-mail:  peralta@eeza.csic.es

                                         

Universidad de  Granada

Grupo Enterococcus

 Departamento de Ecología Funcional y Evolutiva
(Functional and Evolutive Ecology Department)
  

Calle General Segura, 1
E-04001 Almería
Spain

Phone: 0034 950 28 10 45 Ext:208
Mobile: 0034 648 09 12 90 
Fax: 0034 950 27 71 00

 

 

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 Research interests

Everything started when my mother bought to me a Wild Life Series Book from a famous Spanish biologist, Felix Rodríguez de La Fuente. My interest for the Nature made my mother sometimes crazy, particularly when I brought home worms, caterpillar, small birds or even a young fox (with a mouth plenty of sharp teeth). Due to my life never went (is going) in a straight line, I started biology in the university when I was 22 years old. And now I am a lucky guy that can study that I love.

I am interested in the evolutive pressures that birds experience, mainly related bacteria and parasites, and how these pressures modulated and change life history traits in birds. These relationships may be very complex and bacterial communtity can play a major role in eggshell colonization, egg content infections and embryo viability. The study of bacterial community on bird eggshell in different species is an essential step to understand bird/bacteria relationship and species-specific interactions.

I am also interested in migration behavior and patterns, especially in the Straight of Gibraltar where wind is a strong handicap for soaring birds.


Education & Stays


Publications

Volatiles of symbiotic bacterial origin explain ectoparasitism and fledging success of hoopoes

Microbiota and the volatile profile of avian nests are associated with each other and with the intensity of parasitism

Cosmetic coloration of cross-fostered eggs affects paternal investment in the hoopoe (Upupa epops)

The gut microbiota of brood parasite and host nestlings reared within the same environment: disentangling genetic and environmental effects

Autoclaving nest-material remains influences the probability of ectoparasitism of nestling hoopoes (Upupa epops)

Seasonal and sexual differences in the microbiota of the hoopoe uropygial secretion

Ectoparasite Activity During Incubation Increases Microbial Growth on Avian Eggs

Bacterial density rather than diversity correlates with hatching success across different avian species

A communal catalogue reveals Earth's multiscale microbial diversity

Nestedness of hoopoes' bacterial communities: symbionts from the uropygial gland to the eggshell

Nest bacterial environment affects microbiome of hoopoe eggshells, but not that of the uropygial secretion

The Microbiome of the Uropygial Secretion in Hoopoes Is Shaped Along the Nesting Phase

The hoopoe's uropygial gland hosts a bacterial community influenced by the living conditions of the bird

Laying date, incubation and egg breakage as determinants of bacterial load on bird eggshells: experimental evidence

Special structures of hoopoe eggshells enhance the adhesion of symbiont-carrying uropygial secretion that increase hatching success

Eggshell Bacterial Load Is Related to Antimicrobial Properties of Feathers Lining Barn Swallow Nests

Environmental factors shape the community of symbionts in the hoopoe uropygial gland more than genetic factors

Hoopoes color their eggs with antimicrobial uropygial secretions

Eggshell pigmentation has no evident effects on offspring viability in common kestrels

Avian life history traits influence eggshell bacterial loads: A comparative analysis

The evolution of size of the uropygial gland: Mutualistic feather mites and uropygial secretion reduce bacterial loads of eggshells and hatching failures of European birds

Antimicrobial activity and genetic profile of enteroccoci isolated from hoopoes uropygial gland

Cognitive skills and bacterial load: Comparative evidence of costs of cognitive proficiency in birds

Goshawk prey have more bacteria than non-prey

PLoS ONE -pdf

Antimicrobial activity and genetic profile of Enteroccoci isolated from hoopoes uropygial gland

Naturwissenschaften -pdf

Cognitive skills of birds and eggshell bacterial loads: Comparative evidence of costs associated with cognitive proficiency of birds

Journal of Animal Ecology -pdf

Goshawk prey have more bacteria than non-prey

Brood parasitism is associated with increased bacterial contamination of host eggs: Bacterial loads of host and parasitic eggs

DNA sampling from eggshell swabbing is widely applicable in wild bird populations as demonstrated in 23 species

Innate humoural immunity is related to eggshell bacterial load of European birds: A comparative analysis

Migratory divides and their consequences for dispersal, population size and parasite-host interactions

Naturwissenschaften -pdf

Innate humoral immunity reduces eggshell bacterial load of European birds: A comparative analysis

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society -pdf

Brood parasitism is associated with increased bacterial contamination of host eggs: bacterial loads of host and parasitic eggs

Journal of Evolutionary Biology -pdf

Migratory divides and their consequences for dispersal, population size and parasite-host interactions

Molecular Ecology Resources -pdf

DNA sampling from eggshell swabbing is widely applicable for wild bird populations as demonstrated in 23 species

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society -pdf

Colour composition of nest lining feathers affects hatching success of barn swallows, Hirundo rustica (Passeriformes: Hirundinidae)

Chelex-based DNA isolation procedure for the identification of microbial communities of eggshell surfaces

Antimicrobial chemicals in hoopoe preen secretions are produced by symbiotic bacteria

Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences -pdf

Antimicrobial chemicals in hoopoe preen secretions are produced by symbiotic bacteria

Open Ornithology -pdf

Antibiotic-producing bacteria as a possible defence of birds against pathogenic microorganisms

Analytical Biochemistry -pdf

Chelex-based DNA isolation procedure for the identification of microbial communities of eggshell surfaces

Functional Ecology -pdf

Number and color composition of nest lining feathers predict eggshell bacterial community in barn swallows nests. An experimental study

Seasonal, sexual and developmental differences in hoopoe Upupa epops preen gland morphology and secretions: Evidence for a role of bacteria

Journal of Avian Biology -pdf

Seasonal, sexual and developmental differences in hoopoe Upupa epops preen gland morphology and secretions: evidence for a role of bacteria

Symbiotic association between hoopoes and antibiotic-producing bacteria that live in their uropygial gland

Functional Ecology -pdf

Symbiotic association between hoopoes and antibiotic-producing bacteria that live in their uropigial gland



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