Marcel Caminer
PhD student
- Project: Project 12.1
- Research Group
- Address: iomE, Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 15 (Biozentrum I/Room 01.401), 55128 Mainz
- Phone: 06131 39 27853
"I love that the RTG community is multicultural, because of that I have been able to learn about different traditions and especially how people can interpret life and science in different ways."
Education
- Since 2019: PhD studies, on Evolution Biology
- 2013-2014: MSc in Evolution, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Thesis: “Phylogenetic relationships, taxonomic revision and phylogeography of the species complex Dendropsophus leucophyllatus (Beireis, 1783) and Dendropsophus triangulum (Gunther, 1869) (Anura Hylidae)”. - 2004-2010: BSc in Biology, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Thesis: “Systematics of the species complex Hypsiboas fasciatus (Günther, 1858) and Hypsiboas calcaratus (Troschel, 1848) (Anura: Hylidae)”.
Working Experience
- 2015-2018: Research Associate, Santiago R. Ron group, Division of Herpetology, Department of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.
- 2014: Research Associate, Borja Milá group, Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain.
- 2011-2013: Research Associate, Santiago R. Ron group, Division of Herpetology, Department of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.
- 2010: Research Assistant, Lee A. Weigt group, Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, Laboratory of Analytical Biology, Washington DC, USA.
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Caminer MA, Libbrecht R, Majoe M, Ho DV, Baumann, P, Foitzik S (2023)
Task-specific odorant receptor expression in worker antennae indicates that sensory filters regulate division of labor in ants Communications Biology, 6:1004 -
Ron SR, Carrión J, Caminer MA, Sagredo Y, Navarrete MJ, Ortega JA, Varela-Jaramillo A, Maldonado-Castro GA and Terán C (2020)
Three new species of frogs of the genus Pristimantis (Anura, Strabomantidae) with a redefinition of the P. lacrimosus species group ZooKeys, 993:121–155 -
Chasiluisa VD, Caminer MA, Varela-Jaramillo A, Ron SR (2020)
Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new species of treefrog of the Osteocephalus buckleyi species group (Anura: Hylidae) Neotropical Biodiversity, 6(1): 21–36 -
Caminer MA
Ron SR (2020)
Systematics of the Boana semilineata species group (Anura: Hylidae), with a description of two new species from Amazonian Ecuador Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlaa002 -
Caminer MA and Ron SR (2020)
Systematics of the Boana semilineata species group (Anura: Hylidae), with a description of two new species from Amazonian Ecuador Zool J Linn Soc., 2020:1-32 -
Ron SR, Caminer MA, Varela-Jaramillo A and Almeida-Reinoso D (2018)
A new treefrog from Cordillera del Cóndor with comments on the biogeographic affinity between Cordillera del Cóndor and the Guianan Tepuis (Anura, Hylidae, Hyloscirtus) ZooKeys, 809:97–124 -
Ron SR, Duellman WE, Caminer MA and Pazmiño D (2018)
Advertisement calls and DNA sequences reveal a new species of Scinax (Anura: Hylidae) on the Pacific lowlands of Ecuador PLoS One, 13:e0203169 -
Caminer MA, Milá B, Jansen M, Fouquet A, Venegas PJ, Chávez G, Chek A, Ron SR (2017)
Phylogenetic relationships, bioacoustics and taxonomic revision of the Dendropsophus leucophyllatus and Dendropsophus triangulum species complex (Anura: Hylidae) with the description of two new species PLoS ONE, 12 (3): e0171785 -
Caminer MA, Milá B, Jansen M, Fouquet A, Venegas PJ, Chávez G, Lougheed SC and Ron SR (2017)
Systematics of the Dendropsophus leucophyllatus species complex (Anura: Hylidae): Cryptic diversity and the description of two new species PLoS One, 12:e0171785 -
Caminer M and Ron S (2014)
Systematics of treefrogs of the Hypsiboas calcaratus and Hypsiboas fasciatus species complex (Anura, Hylidae) with the description of four new species ZooKeys, 370:1–68 -
Funk WC, Caminer M and Ron SR (2012)
High levels of cryptic species diversity uncovered in Amazonian frogs Proc R Soc B Biol Sci, 279:1806–1814