Jonathan Sandoval-Castillo

PhD Student

Molecular Ecology Lab
Department of Biological Sciences
Macquarie University
Sydney, NSW 2109 Australia
Phone: 61 2 9850 8227
E-mail: jsandova@bio.mq.edu.au

Education

- PhD candidate. 2007-present. Macquarie University. Australia.
- MSc 2005 Centro Investigación y Educación Superior de Ensenada. México.
- BSc (Hons). 2002 Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur. México.

Career History

I have been involved in elasmobranch research in the Gulf of California and Pacific Coast of Baja California Peninsula in Mexico since 2000.

- 2000-2002. Elasmobranches fisheries. (Dr. Carlos Villavicencio-Garayzar UABCS)
- 2002-2007. Elasmobranches genetic population structure. (Dr. Axayacatl Rocha-Olivares CICESE).

Between 2005 and 2007, I participated as research assistant in the following projects:

- Population structure and molecular ecology of the mahi-mahi fishes (Dr. Axayacatl Rocha-Olivares CICESE)
- Juveniles recruitment of the California halibut (Dr. Sharon Herzka CICESE)
Genetic population of the red sea urchin (Dr. Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki CICESE)

I started my PhD in august 2007 with Dr. Luciano Beheregaray in Macquarie University. I am working with the speciation modes and comparative phylogeography in elasmobranchs.

Research Project

- Speciation Modes in Elasmobranchs from the Gulf of California

Publications

Rocha Olivares, A. y J. Sandoval Castillo. (2003). Mitochondrial diversity and genetic structure in allopatric populations of the Pacific red snapper Lutjanus peru. Ciencias Marinas. 29 (2): 197-209.

Sandoval Castillo, J., A. Rocha Olivares, C. Villavicencio Garayzar and E. Balard. (2004). Cryptic isolation of Gulf of California shovelnose guitarfish evidenced by mitochondrial DNA. Marine Biology. 145: 983-988.

Ramírez González, J., C. Villavicencio Garayzar y J. Sandoval Castillo. (2004). Captura comercial de tiburones pelágicos en la Costa Occidental de Baja California Sur, México. IN: Lozano, V. M. L. y B. A. J. Contreras (eds). Homenaje al Doctor Andrés Reséndez Medina. Un ictiólogo mexicano. Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. México. 316 pp.

Sandoval Castillo, J., J.Ramírez González, and C. Villavicencio Garayzar. (2006). First record of basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) in Mexico?. JMBA2. Biodiversity Records. http://www.mba.ac.uk/jmba/jmba2biodiversityrecords.php

Sandoval Castillo J., E. Mariano Meléndez y C. Villavicencio Garayzar. (2006). New record of albinism in elasmobranch fishes: the tiger shark Galeocerdo cuvier and the Pacific electric ray Narcine entemedor. Cybium. 30 (2): 191-192.

Rohca Olivares, A, M. Bobadilla Jiménez, S. Ortega García, N. Saavedra Sotelo, J. Sandoval-Castillo. 2006. Mitochondrial variability of dolphinfish Coryphaena hippurus populations in the Pacific Ocean. Ciencias Marinas. 32(3): 569-578.

Sandoval Castillo, J. and C. Villavicencio Garayzar. (accepted) Fetal mummification in silky shark (Carcharhinus falciformis) in the Gulf of California. Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology.

Sandoval Castillo, J. and A. Rocha Olivares. (in review). Deep mitochondrial divergence in Baja California populations of an aquilopelagic batoid.

Sandoval Castillo, J. and A. Rocha Olivares. (in preparation). Evidence of recent isolation between populations of Gymnura marmorata; base on the differential signals of two mitochondrial genes.