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Gabriela Castellanos-Morales
PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer
560 Points

Contributions by role

Author 370
Reviewer 190

Contributions by subject area

Conservation Biology
Ecology
Evolutionary Studies
Genetics
Zoology
Biodiversity
Plant Science
Population Biology
Mycology
Freshwater Biology
Genomics
Biogeography
Taxonomy
Molecular Biology

Gabriela Castellanos-Morales

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

For my bachelor's degree thesis I studied the habitat use and food habits of ring-tailed cats (Bassariscus astutus) in and urban reserve located within Mexico City. During my master's degree I started working with population genetics and conservation of black-tailed prairie dogs in Chihuahua. For my Ph.D. I worked on the phylogeography and conservation genetics of two species of prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus and C. mexicanus).

My main research interests focus in understanding the evolutionary processes that promote lineage and species divergence and that affect species’ abilities to adapt to environmental change. I am also interested in determining the effect of anthropogenic activities on genetic variation of wildlife populations and in the development of conservation strategies to mitigate these effects.

My future research focuses on using genomic, transcriptomic and metagenomic approaches to address evolutionary ecology and conservation genetics questions. Specifically, I am interested in the conservation of adaptive genetic variation in wild populations through the search of signals of selection and local adaptation and to understand the role of inbreeding and outbreeding depression in population extinction. This information will allow making predictions about species responses to future environmental change.

Biodiversity Biogeography Conservation Biology Evolutionary Studies Zoology

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ Open Advances in Plant Science

Past or current institution affiliations

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Work details

Investigadora Titular "A"

El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Villahermosa
October 2017
Conservation of Biodiversity
The projects I conduct integrate populations genetics, ecology, phylogeography, evolutionary biology and biological conservation to understand species evolutionary history as well as the effect of anthropogenic activities on genetic variation to propose management action for their conservation. I work mainly with species of agronomic interest, invasive species and mammals.

Posdoctoral Associate

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
March 2015 - August 2017
UBIPRO, FES Iztacala
Posdoctoral associate to the project "Genetic variation of Cucurbita in Mexico". I'm currently working with the phylogeography of C. pepo in Mexico using chloroplast and nuclear microsatellite loci. In addition, I'm working with GBS to identify loci associated to the domestication syndrom in this species and to identify loci associated to local adaptation.

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 4
  • Reviewed 4
July 8, 2024
Unraveling genomic features and phylogenomics through the analysis of three Mexican endemic Myotis genomes
Edgar G. Gutiérrez, Jesus E. Maldonado, Gabriela Castellanos-Morales, Luis E. Eguiarte, Norberto Martínez-Méndez, Jorge Ortega
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17651 PubMed 38993980
October 3, 2022
The fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans is not detected in wild and captive amphibians from Mexico
M. Delia Basanta, Victor Avila-Akerberg, Allison Q. Byrne, Gabriela Castellanos-Morales, Tanya M. González Martínez, Yurixhi Maldonado-López, Erica Bree Rosenblum, Ireri Suazo-Ortuño, Gabriela Parra Olea, Eria A. Rebollar
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14117 PubMed 36213512
July 26, 2022
Incipient speciation, high genetic diversity, and ecological divergence in the alligator bark juniper suggest complex demographic changes during the Pleistocene
Rodrigo Martínez de León, Gabriela Castellanos-Morales, Alejandra Moreno-Letelier
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13802 PubMed 35910768
September 29, 2021
Discordance in maternal and paternal genetic markers in lesser long-nosed bat Leptonycteris yerbabuenae, a migratory bat: recent expansion to the North and male phylopatry
Roberto-Emiliano Trejo-Salazar, Gabriela Castellanos-Morales, DulceCarolina Hernández-Rosales, Niza Gámez, Jaime Gasca-Pineda, Miguel Rene Morales Garza, Rodrigo Medellin, Luis E. Eguiarte
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12168 PubMed 34703665

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August 18, 2020
New records of a lost species and a geographic range expansion for sengis in the Horn of Africa
Steven Heritage, Houssein Rayaleh, Djama G. Awaleh, Galen B. Rathbun
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9652 PubMed 32879790
February 12, 2018
Genomic analysis of morphometric traits in bighorn sheep using the Ovine Infinium® HD SNP BeadChip
Joshua M. Miller, Marco Festa-Bianchet, David W. Coltman
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4364 PubMed 29473002
July 12, 2017
EPAS1 variants in high altitude Tibetan wolves were selectively introgressed into highland dogs
Bridgett vonHoldt, Zhenxin Fan, Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo, Robert K. Wayne
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3522 PubMed 28717592
March 3, 2015
Rapid morphological change in black rats (Rattus rattus) after an island introduction
Oliver R.W. Pergams, David Byrn, Kashawneda L.Y. Lee, Racheal Jackson
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.812 PubMed 25780765