RESEARCHERS
Daniel Escobar – Camacho
PhD Biological Sciences, University of Maryland
Office: Darwin, DW-021
Phone: (+593 2) 297-1700, ext. 1441
E-mail: descobar@usfq.edu.ec
Interests
Visual ecology, biology of vision, evolution, molecular biology, ichthyology, freshwater fish diversity, climate change.
Projects
- Biodiversity dynamics of freshwater fishes of the intermitent rivers systment of the Cube catchment at Maché Chindul reserve
- Priorization of candidate areas for the implementation of mitigation and adaptation actions against climate change in the Galapagos islands
Publications
| Year | Title | Authors | Document |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Rediscovery of Hemigrammus unilineatus (Gill, 1858) (Characiformes, Characidae) in Ecuador after more than three decades. | Valdiviezo-Rivera J, Buenaño Carriel M, Escobar-Camacho D. | Download |
| 2021 | Conservation threats and future prospects for the freshwater fishes of Ecuador: A hotspot of Neotropical fish diversity | Aguirre, W. E., Alvarez-Mieles, G., Anaguano-Yancha, F., Burgos Morán, R., Cucalon, R. V., _x0001_ Escobar-Camacho, D., Jácome-Negrete, I., Jiménez Prado, P., Laaz, E., Miranda-Troya, K., Navarrete-Amaya, R., Nugra Salazar, F., Revelo, W., Rivadeneira, J. F., Valdiviezo Rivera, J., & Zárate Hugo, E | Download |
| 2021 | Oceanic islands and climate: using a multi-criteria model of drivers of change to select key conservation areas in Galapagos | Escobar-Camacho D, Rosero P, Castrejón M, Mena C, Cuesta F | Download |
| 2021 | Climate and sea surface trends in the Galapagos Islands | Paltán H, Benitez F, Rosero P, Escobar-Camacho D, Cuesta F, Mena C. | Download |
| 2020 | Visual pigment evolution in Characiformes: insights of dynamic evolution of teleost whole-genome duplication surviving opsins, and spectral tuning. | Escobar-Camacho D, Carleton KL, Narain DW, Pierotti MER. | Download |
| 2020 | Seeing the rainbow: mechanisms underlying spectral sensitivity in teleosts fishes | Carleton KL, Escobar-Camacho D, Stieb SM, Cortesi F and Marshall NJ. | Download |
| 2019 | Visual adaptation could aid sympatric speciation in a deep crater lake. | Carleton KL, Escobar-Camacho D, Kocher TD. | Download |
| 2019 | Color discrimination thresholds in a cichlid fish: Metriaclima benetos. | Escobar-Camacho D, Taylor MA, Cheney KL, Green NF, Marshall NJ and Carleton KL. | Download |
| 2019 | Diurnal variation in opsin expression and common housekeeping genen necessitates comprehensive normalization methods for quantitative real- time PCR analysis. | Yourick MR, Sandkam BA, Gammerdinger WJ, Escobar-Camacho D, Nandamuri SP, Clark FE, Joyce B, Conte MA, Kocher TD, Carleton KL. | Download |
| 2019 | Variable vision in variable environments: the visual system of an invasive cichlid (Cichla monoculus, Agassiz, 1831) in Lake Gatun, Panama. | Escobar-Camacho D, Pierotti M, Ferenc V, Sharpe D, Ramos E, Martins C, Carleton KL. | Download |
| 2017 | Behavioral color vision in a cichlid fish: Metriaclima benetos. | Escobar-Camacho D, Marshall J, Carleton KL. | Download |
| 2017 | The opsin genes of Amazonian cichlids | Escobar-Camacho D, Ramos E, Martins C, and Carleton KL. | Download |
| 2016 | Proximate and ultimate causes of variable visual sensitivities: Insights from cichlid fish radiations. | Carleton KL, Dalton BE, Escobar-Camacho D, Nandamuri SP. | Descargar |
| 2015 | Sensory modalities in cichlid fish behavior. | Escobar-Camacho D, Carleton KL. | Descargar |
| 2015 | Discovering hidden diversity of Characins (Teleostei: Characiformes) In Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park | Escobar-Camacho D, Barriga R, Ron SR. | Descargar |
| 2012 | By the teeth of their skin, cavefish find their way. | Haspel G, Schwartz A, Streets A, Escobar-Camacho D and Soares D. | Descargar |
