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DOÑANA BIOLOGICAL STATION

Department of Evolutionary Biology

Av. Americo Vespucio sn

41092, Seville

Spain

davidcanal(at)ebd.csic.es

RESEARCHID               ORCID               Scopus
  

Academic and Professional History

• 2012. Postdoctoral researcher at the Doñana Biological Station.

• 2012. Ph.D. Biology “Extra pair paternity and individual genetic variation: implications for the fitness of pied flycatchers, Ficedula hypoleuca” at the Complutense University, Spain. Supervisor: Jaime Potti.

• 2007. Research Sufficiency diploma at the Complutense University, Spain. Supervisor: Jaime Potti.

• 2004. Field assistant, Uppsala University, Sweden.

• 2003-2004. Undergraduate thesis at the Department of Animal Ecology, Uppsala University, Sweden. Supervisor: Göran Arnqvist.

• 2002-2003. Research Student Scholarship, University of Alcalá, Spain.

 
Publications

• C Camacho, D Canal, J Potti. 2017. Lifelong effects of trapping experience lead to age-biased sampling: Lessons from a wild bird population. Animal Behaviour.130: 133-139. doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.06.018.

• D Canal, S Roques, JJ Negro, JH Sarasola. 2016. Population genetics of the endangered Crowned Solitary Eagle (Buteogallus coronatus) in South America. Conservation Genetics.18 (1):235-240. doi:10.1007/s10592-016-0878-6. 

• C Camacho, D Canal, J Potti. 2016. Natal habitat imprinting counteracts the diversifying effects of phenotype-dependent dispersal in a spatially structured population. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16:158. doi: 10.1186/s12862-016-0724-y

• D Canal, M Mulero-Pázmány, F Sergio, JJ Negro. 2016. Decoration increases the conspicuousness of raptor nests. PloS One 11(7):e0157440. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0157440

• G Moreno-Rueda, T Redondo, D Ochoa, C Camacho, D Canal, J Potti. 2016 Nest-dwelling ectoparasites reduce begging effort in Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca nestlings. Ibis. 158: 881-886. doi: 10.1111/ibi.12394 

•  AA Belkacem, O Gast, H Stuckas, D Canal, M Lo Valvo, G Giacalone, M Päckert. 2016. North African hybrid sparrows (Passer domesticus, P. hispaniolensis) back from oblivion – ecological segregation and asymmetric mitochondrial introgression between parental species. Ecology and Evolution. 16: 5190-5206. doi 10.1002/ece3.2274.

• C Camacho, D Canal, J Potti. 2015. Testing the matching habitat choice hypothesis in nature: phenotype-environment correlation and fitness in a songbird population. Evolutionary Ecology. 29: 873–886. doi i10.1007/s10682-015-9793-4.

• L Garamszegi, M Zagalska-Neubauer, D Canal, G Markó, E Szász, S Zsebők, E Szöllősi, G Herczeg and J Török. 2015. Malaria parasites, immune challenge, MHC variability and predator avoidance in a passerine bird. Behavioral Ecology. 26: 1292-1302. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arv077

• D Canal, D Serrano, J Potti. 2014. Exploring Heterozygosity-Survival Correlations in a Wild Songbird Population: Contrasting Effects between Juvenile and Adult Stages. PLoS ONE 9(8): e105020. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0105020.

• J Potti, D Canal, C Camacho. 2014. Ontogenetic variation in the plumage colour of female European Pied flycatchers Fidecula hypoleuca. Ibis.156: 879-884. doi: 10.1111/ibi.12175.

• K Kuhn, K Schwenk, C Both, D Canal, US Johansson, S van der Mije, T Töpfer, M Päckert. 2013. Differentiation in neutral and candidate genes in the pied flycatcher: using biological archives to track global climate change. Ecology and Evolution. 3: 4799-4814. doi: 10.1002/ece3.855.

• C Camacho, D Canal, J Potti. 2013. Non-random dispersal drives phenotypic divergence within a bird population. Ecology and Evolution. 3: 4841-4848. doi: 10.1002/ece3.563.

• J Potti, D Canal, D Serrano. 2013. Lifetime fitness and age-related female ornament signalling: evidence for survival and fecundity selection in the pied flycatcher. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 26:1445-1457.

• D Canal, R Jovani, J Potti. 2012. Male decisions or female accessibility? Spatiotemporal patterns of extra pair paternity in a songbird. Behavioral Ecology. 23: 1146-1153. 

• JH Sarasola, D Canal, C Solaro, MA Galmes, JJ Zanón-Martínez, JJ Negro. 2012. Cross species amplification of seventeen polymorphic microsatellite loci in the endangered crowned eagle (Harpyhaliaetus coronatus). Molecular Ecology Resources. 12: 779-781. Please cite this article as: Andris M, et al. (2012) Permanent genetic resources added to molecular ecology resources database 1 February 2012–31 march 2012. Molecular ecology resources. 12: 779-781.

• D Canal, R Jovani, J. Potti. 2012. Multiple mating opportunities boost protandry in a pied flycatcher population. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 66: 67-76. 

• J Potti, D Canal. 2011. Heritability and genetic correlation between the sexes in a songbird sexual ornament. Heredity. 106: 945-954.

• D Canal, J Potti, JA Davila. 2011. Male phenotype predicts extra-pair paternity in pied flycatchers. Behaviour. 148: 691-712.

• D Canal, M Alcaide, JA Anmarkrud, J Potti. 2010.Towards the simplification of MHC typing protocols: targeting classical MHC class II genes in a passerine, the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca.BMC Research notes. 3: 236.

• D Canal, JA Dávila, PJG de Nova, ME Ferrero, J Potti. 2009. Polymorphic microsatellite markers isolated from a southern European population of pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca iberiae).Molecular Ecology Resources. 9: 1375 - 1379. Please cite this article as: Abercrombie LG, et al. (2009) Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources database 1 January 2009-30 April 2009. Molecular Ecology Resources. 9: 1375–1379. 

• Edvardsson, D Canal. 2006. The effects of copulation duration in the bruchid beetle Callosobruchus maculatus. Behavioral Ecology. 17: 430 - 434.

Scientific congress

• XVI Argentinian Congress of Ornithology (La Plata, Argentina, September 2015). Using molecular techniques to analyse the reproductive strategy and spatial ecology of the crowned eagle (Buteogallus coronatus). José H. Sarasola, David Canal, Maximiliano Galmes, Juan J Negro (Talk)
• XI ‘Ecology and Behaviour’ Conference (Toulouse, France, May 2015). Nonrandom dispersal and evolutionary divergence: insights from a wild bird population. Carlos Camacho, David Canal, Jaime Potti (Talk)
•  XXII Spanish Congress of Ornithology (Madrid, Spain, December 2014). Spatio temporal patterns of polygamy and fitness consequences in the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca). Javier Manzano, David Canal, Carlos Camacho, Jaime Potti (Talk)
•  XV Argentinian Congress of Ornithology (La Pampa, Argentina, September 2013). Genetic status assessment of the endangered crowned eagle (Harpyhaliaetus coronatus) in Argentina. David Canal, Severine Roques, José H Sarasola, Juan J Negro (Poster)
• International Congress “Adapting to Global Change in the Mediterranean Hotspot”(Seville, Spain, September 2013). Plastic adjustment to short-scale environmental changes: influence of mean lifetime phenology on response intensity. Carlos Camacho, David Canal, Jaime Potti (Poster)
•  XXI Spanish and V Iberian Ornithologica Cogress (Vitoria, Spain, December 2012). Asymmetric dispersion may generate evolutionary scenarios at small scale. Carlos Camacho, David Canal, Jaime Potti (Talk)
•  XIV National and XI Iberoamerican Congress of the Spanish Ethological Society (Seville, Spain, September 2012). Male decisions or female availability?. Spatiotemporal patterns of extra pair paternity in a songbird. David Canal, Roger Jovani and Jaime Potti (Talk). 
• 4th lnternational Eurasian Ornithology Congress (Baja, Hungary, April 20l2). Multiple mating opportunities boost protandry in a pied flycatcher population. David Canal, Roger Jovani and Jaime Potti (Talk). 
• II Congress of the Spanish Society for Evolutionary Biology (Valencia, Spain, November 2009). Evidence for a link between extra pair fertilizations and choice of good genes in pied flycatchers. David Canal, Jaime Potti and José A. Dávila (Poster).