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