Cuervo Osés José Javier

Investigación

ACADEMIC PROFILES

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EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT

December 2010 - present: Research Scientist, National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC), Madrid, Spain

December 1999 - November 2010: Tenured Scientist, Experimental Station of Arid Zones (EEZA-CSIC), Almería, Spain

November 1996 - August 1999: Postdoctoral Researcher, Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain

October 1994 - February 1996: Postdoctoral Researcher, Zoological Institute, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark

October 1993 - September 1994: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Zoology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

June 1993: Ph.D. in Biology, Department of Animal Biology I, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

January 1989 - December 1992: Ph.D. Student, Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain

June 1988: B.Sc. degree in Biology, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

RECENT RESEARCH GRANTS AND PROJECTS

September 2023 - August 2026. Social phenotype plasticity: maternal effects, early-life environment, and the development of individuality in social traits. PI: Judith Morales (National Museum of Natural Sciences, MNCN-CSIC)

September 2022 - August 2025. Underground hidden ecology in a changing world: impacts, responses and resilience of fossorial reptiles to changes and perturbations of the environment. PIs: José Martín (National Museum of Natural Sciences, MNCN-CSIC) and Isabel Barja (Autonomous University of Madrid)

January 2022 - December 2023. Stopover ecology of trans-Saharan migratory birds in a southern Tunisian oasis. In collaboration with Slaheddine Selmi (University of Gabès)

June 2020 - February 2024. Maternal programming of social behaviour. PI: Judith Morales (National Museum of Natural Sciences, MNCN-CSIC) 

January 2019 - September 2022. Underground sensory ecology in fossorial reptiles: function of chemoreception and consequences for social organization, reproductive success and health state. PI: José Martín (National Museum of Natural Sciences, MNCN-CSIC)

January 2017 - June 2017. Retrospective survey of the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in the amphibians of the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. In collaboration with Vance Vredenburg (San Francisco State University)

January 2015 - June 2019. Evolution and variability of sexual chemical signals in reptiles: consequences for reproductive success and speciation. PI: Pilar López (National Museum of Natural Sciences, MNCN-CSIC)

January 2014 - December 2017. Multiple functions of social signals: sex, life stage and bacterial environment make the difference. PI: Juan Moreno (National Museum of Natural Sciences, MNCN-CSIC)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

2025

Cuervo J. J., Durán-García M. C., Belliure J. 2025. Altitude and ground brightness explain interpopulation variation in dorsal coloration in a lizard. Current Zoology 71 (in press)  pdf

2024

Martín J., López P., Rodríguez-Ruiz G., Cuervo J. J., Sacchi R., Mangiacotti M. 2024. Age-dependent self- and individual chemosensory discrimination in male Psammodromus algirus lizards is based on lipids and proteins from their scent. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 78: 125  pdf

Belani F., Cuervo J. J., Selmi S. 2024. Predation by free-roaming domestic cats on migratory and resident birds during spring passage in a southern Tunisian oasis. European Journal of Wildlife Research 70: 125  pdf

Martín J., Rodríguez-Ruiz G., Cuervo J. J. 2024. Coping with drought? The hidden microhabitat selection and underground movements of amphisbaenians under summer drought conditions. Current Zoology 70: 647-658  pdf

Megía-Palma R., Cuervo J. J., Fitze P. S., Martínez J., Jiménez-Robles O., De la Riva I., Reguera S., Moreno-Rueda G., Blaimont P., Kopena R., Barrientos R., Martín J., Merino S. 2024. Do sexual differences in life strategies make male lizards more susceptible to parasite infection? Journal of Animal Ecology 93: 1338-1350  pdf

Martín J., Navarro-Castilla A., de la Concha A., Cuervo J. J., Barja I., López P. 2024. Heat-altered scent marks of males of a fossorial reptile still allow recognition by females but lose information on male quality. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 78: 77  pdf

2023

Belani F., Cuervo J. J., Selmi S. 2023. Human-facilitated feeding on date palm Phoenix dactylifera sap by trans-Saharan warblers during spring stopover in a Tunisian oasis. Bird Study 70: 260-268  pdf

Megía-Palma R., Martínez J., Fitze P. S., Cuervo J. J., Belliure J., Jiménez-Robles O., Cabido C., Martín J., Merino S. 2023. Genetic diversity, phylogenetic position, and co-phylogenetic relationships of Karyolysus, a common blood parasite of lizards in the western Mediterranean. International Journal for Parasitology 53: 185-196  pdf

Martín J., Rodríguez-Ruiz G., Cuervo J. J., López P. 2023. Intersexual and body size-related variation in chemical constituents from feces and cloacal products involved in intraspecific communication of a fossorial amphisbaenian. PeerJ 11: e15002  pdf

Recio P., Rodríguez-Ruiz G., Sannolo M., Cuervo J. J., López P., Martín J. 2023. Conspecific scent marks may influence underground site selection by a fossorial reptile. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 77: 29  pdf

Martín J., Barja I., Rodríguez-Ruiz G., Recio P., Cuervo J. J. 2023. Hidden but potentially stressed: a non-invasive technique to quantify fecal glucocorticoid levels in a fossorial amphisbaenian reptile. Animals 13: 109  pdf

2022 

Cuervo J. J., Morales J., Soler J. J., Moreno J. 2022. Sexual selection, feather wear, and time constraints on the pre-basic molt explain the acquisition of the pre-alternate molt in European passerines. Ecology and Evolution 12: e9260  pdf 

2021 

Motas M., Jerez S., Esteban M., Valera F., Cuervo J. J., Barbosa A. 2021. Mercury levels in feathers of penguins from the Antarctic Peninsula area: geographical and inter-specific differences. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18: 9918  pdf

Martín J., Ortega J., García-Roa R., Jiménez-Robles O., Rodríguez-Ruiz G., Recio P., Cuervo J. J. 2021. Going underground: short- and long-term movements may reveal the fossorial spatial ecology of an amphisbaenian. Movement Ecology 9: 14  pdf

2020

Cuervo J. J. 2020. Selección sexual después del apareamiento (y de la fecundación): recordando la hipótesis de la inversión diferencial. Etologuía 26: 47-58  pdf

Rodríguez-Ruiz G., Ortega J., Cuervo J. J. López P., Salvador A., Martín J. 2020. Male rock lizards may compensate reproductive costs of an immune challenge affecting sexual signals. Behavioral Ecology 31: 1017-1030  pdf

Cuervo J. J., Møller A. P. 2020. Demographic, ecological, and life-history traits associated with bird population response to landscape fragmentation in Europe. Landscape Ecology 35: 469-481  pdf

2019 

Fresnillo F., Belliure J., Gil D., Cuervo J. J. 2019. Hormonal control of seasonal color change in female spiny-footed lizards: an observational and experimental approach. Current Zoology 65: 633-642  pdf

Morales J., Cuervo J. J., Moreno J., Soler J. J. 2019. Juvenile plumage whiteness is associated with the evolution of clutch size in passerines. Behavioral Ecology 30: 1106-1112  pdf

Soler J. J., Morales J., Cuervo J. J., Moreno J. 2019. Conspicuousness of passerine females is associated with the nest-building behaviour of males. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 126: 824-835  pdf

Harris D. J., Belliure J., Cuervo J. J. 2019. Melting pots and hotspots: genetic variation within Acanthodactylus erythrurus (Reptilia: Lacertidae) from the Iberian Peninsula. Amphibia-Reptilia 40: 245-251  pdf 

2018

Megía-Palma R., Martínez J., Cuervo J. J., Belliure J., Jiménez-Robles O., Gomes V., Cabido C., Pausas J. G., Fitze P. S., Martín J., Merino S. 2018. Molecular evidence for host-parasite co-speciation between lizards and Schellackia parasites. International Journal for Parasitology 48: 709-718  pdf 

Belliure J., Fresnillo B., Cuervo J. J. 2018. Male mate choice based on female coloration in a lizard: the role of a juvenile trait. Behavioral Ecology 29: 543-552  pdf

Plaza M., Cantarero A., Cuervo J. J., Moreno J. 2018. Female incubation attendance and nest vigilance reflect social signaling capacity: a field experiment. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 72: 24  pdf

2017

Cuervo J. J., Møller A. P. 2017. Colonial, more widely distributed and less abundant bird species undergo wider population fluctuations independent of their population trend. PLoS One 12(3): e0173220  pdf

2016

Fresnillo B., Belliure J., Cuervo J. J. 2016. Ontogenetic shifts in risk behaviours are related to body size and coloration in spiny-footed lizards. Animal Behaviour 119: 165-172  pdf

Ambrosini R., Cuervo J. J., du Feu C., Fiedler W., Musitelli F., Rubolini D., Sicurella B., Spina F., Saino N., Møller A. P. 2016. Migratory connectivity and effects of winter temperatures on migratory behaviour of the European robin Erithacus rubecula: a continent-wide analysis. Journal of Animal Ecology 85: 749-760  pdf

Megía-Palma R., Martínez J., Nasri I., Cuervo J. J., Martín J., Acevedo I., Belliure J., Ortega J., García-Roa R., Selmi S., Merino S. 2016. Phylogenetic relationships of Isospora, Lankesterella and Caryospora species (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) infecting lizards. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 16: 275-288  pdf

Martín M. A., Ortiz J. M., Seva J., Vidal V., Valera F., Benzal J., Cuervo J. J., de la Cruz C., Belliure J., Martínez A. M., Díaz J. I., Motas M., Jerez S., D'Amico V. L., Barbosa A. 2016. Mode of attachment and pathology caused by Parorchites zederi in three species of penguins: Pygoscelis papua, Pygoscelis adeliae, and Pygoscelis antarctica in Antarctica. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 52: 568-575  pdf

Cuervo, J. J., Belliure J., Negro J. J. 2016. Coloration reflects skin pterin concentration in a red-tailed lizard. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B 193: 17-24  pdf

2015

De Mas E., Benzal J., Merino S., Valera F., Palacios M. J., Cuervo J. J., Barbosa A. 2015. Erythrocytic abnormalities in three Antarctic penguin species along the Antarctic Peninsula: biomonitoring of genomic damage. Polar Biology 38: 1067-1074  pdf

Fresnillo B., Belliure J., Cuervo J. J. 2015. Red coloration in juvenile spiny-footed lizards (Acanthodactylus erythrurus) reduces adult aggression. Animal Behaviour 102: 59-67  pdf

Fresnillo B., Belliure J., Cuervo J. J. 2015. Red tails are effective decoys for avian predators. Evolutionary Ecology 29: 123-135  pdf

Díaz M., Cuervo J. J., Grim T., Flensted-Jensen E., Ibáñez-Álamo J. D., Jokimäki J., Markó G., Tryjanowski P., Møller A. P. 2015. Interactive effects of fearfulness and geographical location on bird population trends. Behavioral Ecology 26: 716-721  pdf

2014

Cuervo J. J., de Ayala R. M. 2014. Effects of experimental tail shortening on the phenotypic condition of barn swallows Hirundo rustica: implications for tail-length evolution. Journal of Avian Biology 45: 345-353  pdf