I co-supervised Louise’s undergraduate honour thesis (advisor: Dr. Glauco Machado, Universidade de São Paulo – Brazil), in a project in which we investigated experimentally and under natural conditions how males’ body condition affect their chances of mating and receiving eggs, both at non-parental and at parental states, using a species of harvestman with male-only care (Iporangaia pustulosa) as a model organism.
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Vinicius Montagner
I supervised Vinicius’ undergraduate honour thesis (Universidade de São Paulo – Brazil), in a project in which we investigated experimentally and under laboratory conditions how nest characteristics and male’s individual attributes affect males’ chances of mating and receiving eggs into their territory, using a species of harvestman with male-only care (Magnispina neptunus) as a model organism.
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I supervised Sergio’s Master’s dissertation (Universidade de São Paulo – Brazil), in a study in which we evaluated under natural conditions how variation in life-history traits and ecological conditions throughout the breeding season could mediate the trade-off resolution between mating and parental effort among males in the polygynous harvestman species Serracutisoma proximum.
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Link to the paper published in Animal Behaviour
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