Luis Amador
-Post-doc-
- he/him
- Email:
- laamador@unm.edu
- Faculty Advisor:
- Lisa Barrow
Education:
Universidad Austral de Chile, PhD in Ecology and Evolution, 2016 - 2021, Guillermo D'Elia (advisor)
Universidad de Guayaquil, MSc Natural Resources, 2016, Juan M. Guayasamin (advisor)
Research Area(s)
Computational Biology & Genomics, Conservation Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Population Genetics & Phylogenetics, Vertebrate Biology
Research Interests:
Selected Publications:
Franco-Mena D, De la Riva I, Vega-Yánez MA, Székely P, Amador L, Batallas D, Reyes-Puig JP, Cisneros-Heredia DF, Venegas-Valencia K, Galeano SP, Culebras J, Guayasamin JM. (2024). Simplifying the Centrolene buckleyi complex (Amphibia: Anura: Centrolenidae): a taxonomic review and description of two new species. PeerJ 12:e17712 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17712
Amador L, Arroyo-Torres I, Barrow LN. (2024). Machine learning and phylogenetic models identify predictors of genetic variation in Neotropical amphibians. Journal of Biogeography 51, 909–923. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14795
Amador L, Leaché AD, Victoriano PF, Hickerson MJ, D'Elía G. (2022). Genomic scale data shows that Parastacus nicoleti encompasses more than one species of burrowing continental crayfishes and that lineage divergence occurred with and without gene flow. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 169, 107443. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107443
Ortega-Andrade HM, Rodes Blanco M, Cisneros-Heredia DF, Guerra Arévalo N, López de Vargas-Machuca KG, Sánchez-Nivicela JC, Armijos-Ojeda D, Cáceres Andrade JF, Reyes-Puig C, Quezada Riera AB, Székely P, Rojas Soto OR, Székely D, Guayasamin JM, Siavichay Pesántez FR, Amador L, Betancourt R, et al. (2021) Red List assessment of amphibian species of Ecuador: A multidimensional approach for their conservation. PLoS ONE 16(5): e0251027. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251027
Amador L, Victoriano PF, D’Elía G. (2021). Molecular species delimitation reveals hidden specific diversity within a freshwater burrowing crayfish (Decapoda: Parastacidae) from southern Chile. Systematics and Biodiversity. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2020.1865471
Amador L, Soto‐Gamboa,M, Guayasamin JM. (2019). Integrating alpha, beta, and phylogenetic diversity to understand anuran fauna along environmental gradients of tropical forests in western Ecuador. Ecology and Evolution, 9: 11040– 11052. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5593
Amador L, Parada A, D’Elía G, Guayasamin JM. (2018). Uncovering hidden specific diversity of Andean glassfrogs of the Centrolene buckleyi species complex (Anura: Centrolenidae). PeerJ, 6: e5856 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5856
Awards:
2019 Internship Abroad Scholarship, Beca de Estadía en Centros de Investigación Científica, Tecnológica y Humanística, segundo semestre 2019, Universidad Austral de Chile
2019 Fellowship Doctoral Internships Abroad, Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT)
2019 Course Scholarship Bursary award towards the registration fee in the Wellcome Genome Campus Advance Course: Computational Molecular Evolution.
2019 Fellowship Research Costs for PhD Thesis Project, Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT)
2017 Scholarship for PhD students, Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT)
2014 PhD Scholarship, Secretaría Nacional de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SENESCYT)
2010 MSc Scholarship, Universidad de Guayaquil, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales
