Department: Biología Molecular e Ingeniería Bioquímica

Area: Botany

Research group: SISTEMÁTICA Y EVOL. VEGETAL Sistemática y Evolución Vegetal

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Email: enarfer@upo.es

Áreas PAIDI: Biología y Biotecnología, Recursos Naturales, Energía y Medio Ambiente

Programas de doctorado: Biodiversidad y Biología de la Conservación

Doctor by the Universidad de Sevilla with the thesis Estrategias reproductivas de dos especies perennes de Euphorbia 2002. Supervised by Dr. Monserrat Arista Palmero, Dr. Pedro Luis Ortiz Ballesteros.

I am an evolutionary ecologist with a research interest in the study of insect-plant interactions (herbivory, pollination and dispersal), plant reproductive biology (sexual and breeding systems, flowering and germination) and plant micro- and macroevolution. Currently, my research focuses on evolutionary and ecological aspects of flower color, including biochemical and molecular basis of color variation, flower color as a signaling for pollinators, abiotic factors affecting flower color, and maintenance of flower color polymorphism.