DR. MARTA PRECIOSO
Postdoctoral researcher, looking for a postdoc
Her research has focused on the study of the interactions between brood parasites and their host in the system formed by the great-spotted cuckoo and the magpie.
During her doctoral thesis she has determined the short/medium and long-term costs that parasitism entails for these hosts, focusing on the effect of parasitism on hosts’ longevity, hosts’ telomere dynamics and their lifetime reproductive success.
During her PhD she has also identified long-term effects of storage on telomere measurement by qPCR, and optimized these technique for its use in other species of fishes and mammals.
Publications
Precioso, M., Molina‐Morales, M., Sánchez‐Tójar, A., Avilés, J. M., & Martínez, J. G. (2020). Brood parasitism, provisioning rates and breeding phenology of male and female magpie hosts. Journal of Avian Biology, 51(10).
Precioso, M., Molina-Morales, M., Dawson, D. A., Burke, T. A., & Martínez, J. G. (2022). Effects of long-term ethanol storage of blood samples on the estimation of telomere length. Evolutionary Ecology, 1-17.