David Ortiz

My main research interests are the evolutionary biology of spiders and the trace that history has left in their genome, morphology, physiology, ecology, distribution, etc. Across my career, I have transitioned from mainly using morphological to target sequencing and, recently, genome-wide data to uncover spider evolution. So far, I have mainly focused on two fantastic and highly diversified but very different model organisms: tarantulas and ant-eating spiders