Jorge Brito

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Jorge Brito currently works at Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INABIO), Ecuador. Jorge is an explorer of remote areas where he studies mammals and other vertebrates. His main work focuses on the study of small mammals (sigmodontines rodents). His lines of research include systematics, ecology and natural history of small mammals, the diet of raptors and carnivores.

Agricultural Science Biodiversity Biogeography Ecology Evolutionary Studies Taxonomy Zoology

Past or current institution affiliations

Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad

Work details

Researcher

Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INABIO)

Mammalogy

His main work focuses on the study of small mammals (sigmodontines rodents). His lines of research include systematics, ecology and natural history of small mammals, the diet of raptors and carnivores.

Websites

PeerJ Contributions

Articles 6

July 10, 2025

Cryptic diversity on the genus Caenolestes (Caenolestidae: Paucituberculata) in the Ecuadorian Andes

Julio C. Carrión-Olmedo, Jorge Brito

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19648 PubMed 40656956

March 5, 2025

Soft anatomy and morphological variation in Daptomys peruviensis (Rodentia, Cricetidae), a rare ichthyomyine from the northwestern Amazonian forests

Jorge Brito, Mateo A. Vega-Yánez, Jhandry P. Guaya-Ramos, Melanie Polo, Claudia Koch, Nicolás Tinoco, Ulyses F.J. Pardiñas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18997 PubMed 40061235

January 13, 2023

Systematics and diversification of the Ichthyomyini (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) revisited: evidence from molecular, morphological, and combined approaches

Jorge Salazar-Bravo, Nicolás Tinoco, Horacio Zeballos, Jorge Brito, Daniela Arenas-Viveros, David Marín-C, José Daniel Ramírez-Fernández, Alexandre R. Percequillo, Jr., Thomas E. Lee, Sergio Solari, Javier Colmenares-Pinzon, Carlos Nivelo, Bernal Rodríguez Herrera, William Merino, Cesar E. Medina, Oscar Murillo-García, Ulyses F.J. Pardiñas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14319 PubMed 36655048

October 17, 2022

Six new species of Pristimantis (Anura: Strabomantidae) from Llanganates National Park and Sangay National Park in Amazonian cloud forests of Ecuador

Jhael A. Ortega, Jorge Brito, Santiago R. Ron

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13761 PubMed 36275471

April 19, 2022

Unlocking Andean sigmodontine diversity: five new species of Chilomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae) from the montane forests of Ecuador

Jorge Brito, Nicolás Tinoco, C. Miguel Pinto, Rubí García, Claudia Koch, Vincent Fernandez, Santiago Burneo, Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13211 PubMed 35462758

November 10, 2020

A new genus of oryzomyine rodents (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) with three new species from montane cloud forests, western Andean cordillera of Colombia and Ecuador

Jorge Brito, Claudia Koch, Alexandre R. Percequillo, Nicolás Tinoco, Marcelo Weksler, C. Miguel Pinto, Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10247 PubMed 33240614