[Odonata-l] Postdoc position in Spain

[Adolfo Cordero]

Dear colleagues
The Spanish Ministry of Education and Science has a program (Juan de la 
Cierva) to hire young PhD scientists to work in Spanish universities 
during three years. Salary is 32000 euro/year (including taxes). The 
applicants must previously contact a research group in Spain that must 
select them and propose their name in the selective process. This 
program is open to all nationalities and a previous knowledge of Spanish 
is not necessary (but of course would be helpful).

I would be glad to receive applications from young odonatologists 
interested in joining us in our laboratory, colaborating in the 
following grant, recently awarded to our group:

Evolutionary ecology of reproductive strategies: Odonates as a model system.

SUMMARY:
This project intends the study of different aspects of the ecology of 
the reproductive behaviour of a group of insects with highly diversified 
strategies. The goals are related to three main objectives:  
(1) the study of the mechanisms of parthenogenesis and reproductive 
strategies of Ischnura hastata, the only known parthenogenetic odonate 
species. The presence of a recently identified bacterial endosymbiont, 
the philogeography of the species in the archipelago of the Azores, the 
type of parthenogenesis, and the incidence of parasites will be studied 
in asexual populations of this species.  
(2) different experiments on sexual selection in odonates, with special 
reference to the Calopterygidae and their genital evolution.  
(3) hybridization and the maintenance of colour polymorphism in 
Ischnura. The first systematic estimations of androchrome frequency will 
be made in Iberian populations of I. graellsii and I. elegans, and the 
philogeography of both species will be analyzed in the peninsula, as 
well as an analysis of its hybridization. 
The different topics will be approached from an evolutionary and 
functional perspective.

Please feel free to forward this email to potentially interested people. 
Further information on this program is found at: 
http://www.mec.es/ciencia/jsp/plantilla.jsp?area=delacierva&id=44

The deadline for applications is 25 days from 8 March.

All the best,

Adolfo Cordero

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*Adolfo Cordero Rivera*
Catedrático de Ecoloxía/ / Professor of Ecology/ 	*Universidade de Vigo*
EUET Forestal, Campus Universitario,
36005 Pontevedra, Galiza, España / Spain
*Grupo de Ecoloxía Evolutiva
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