- Post-doctoral researcher
• Dr. Violette Chiara (2020-2021),
granted by the Fyssen Foundation
- PhD students
• Wendy Fernández Pujó (2024-), FPI studentship
• Susana Cortés Manzaneque (2021-2025), FPI studentship
• Nayade Álvarez Quintero (2017-2021), FPI studentship
• Javier Díaz Real (2014-2018), FPI studentship
- Master students
• Belén Otero Rodríguez (2018-2019)
• Cristina Perry Nava (2011-2012)
Kim S-Y, Chiara V,
Velando A. 2026.
Grandmother age effects via sperm telomere
length and egg telomerase transcripts.
Molecular Ecology 35, e70212
Velando A, Cortés-Manzaneque
S, Kim S-Y. 2026.
Genomic integrity in gull chicks predicts colony
departure and postfledging movements. Ecology
and Evolution 16 (3), e73014
Yamasaki, Y. Y., Endo, Y.,
Musto, N., Galindo, J., Velando, A., Kim, S. Y., ...
& Kitano, J. (2026).
Two Genetically Distinct Lineages in Galician
Populations of the Three‐Spined Stickleback
(Gasterosteus aculeatus). Ecology and
Evolution, 16(7), e74051.
Cortés-Manzaneque S,
Kim S-Y, Velando A. 2026.
Early-life corticosterone shapes the integration of
behavior and melanin-based coloration in juvenile
gulls. Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology
In Press
Chiara, V., Buatois, A., &
Kim, S. Y. 2026.
AnimalTA: A simple yet flexible tool for video
tracking and manual corrections. bioRxiv,
2026-06.
Chiara, V., & Kim, S.-Y.
2026.
AnimalCol: A tool for quantitative color analysis of
digital images. Zenodo.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20107897
Kim S-Y, Morales J. 2025.
Consistent and flexible maternal effects: how the
environments of a mother influence the offspring
phenotype. Biological Reviews 100: 2641-2659
Cortés-Manzaneque S,
Kim S-Y, Velando A. 2025.
Corticosterone-implanted chicks transmit
stress to parents and neighbors in a
colonial seabird. Behavioral Ecology,
araf085
Cortés-Manzaneque S,
Kim S-Y, Noguera JC, Ruiz-Raya F, Velando
A. 2025.
Prenatal cues of predation risk
modulate the lasting effects of postnatal
predator exposure in gull chicks. The
American Naturalist 206: 64-79
Álvarez-Quintero, Kim S-Y. 2024.
Effects of maternal age and environmental enrichment
on learning ability and brain size. Behavioral
Ecology 35: arae049
Kim, S-Y, Chiara, V., Álvarez-Quintero, N., da
Silva, A., & Velando, A. 2023. Maternal
effect senescence via reduced DNA repair ability in
the three-spined stickleback. Molecular
Ecology, 32, 4648–4659
Chiara V, Kim S-Y 2023.AnimalTA: A
highly flexible and easy-to-use program for tracking
and analysing animal movement in different
environments. Methods in Ecology and
Evolution 14: 1699-1707
Kim S-Y, Chiara V, Álvarez-Quintero N, Velando A.
2022. Mitochondrial
DNA content in eggs as a maternal effect.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289: 20212100
Kim SY, Álvarez-Quintero N , Metcalfe NB. 2022. Does
the match between individual and group behavior
matter in shoaling sticklebacks? Ecology and
Evolution 12: e8581
Chiara V, Velando A, Kim S-Y. 2022. Relationships
between male secondary sexual traits, physiological
state and offspring viability in the three-spined
stickleback. BMC Ecology and Evolution 22:4
Álvarez-Quintero N, Velando A and Kim S-Y. 2021. Smart
mating: the cognitive ability of females influences
their preference for male cognitive ability. Behavioral
Ecology 10.1093/beheco/arab052
Álvarez-Quintero N, Chiara V, Kim S-Y. 2021. Trap
versus net: behavioural sampling bias caused by
capture method in three-spined sticklebacks. Behavioural
Processes,104504.
Álvarez-Quintero
N, Velando A, Noguera JC, Kim S-Y. 2021. Environment‐induced
changes in reproductive strategies and their
transgenerational effects in the three‐spined
stickleback. Ecology and Evolution, 11(2),
771-783.
Álvarez-Quintero N, Velando A, Kim S-Y. 2020. Long-lasting
negative effects of learning tasks during early life
in the three-spined stickleback. Frontiers in
Ecology and Evolution 8, 313
Kim S-Y, Velando A. 2020 Attractive
male sticklebacks carry more oxidative DNA damage in
the soma and germline. Journal of Evolutionary
Biology 33,121-126
Velando, A., Noguera, J.C., da Silva, A., Kim,
S-Y. 2019. Redox-regulation
and life-history trade-offs: scavenging
mitochondrial ROS improves growth in a wild bird. Scientific
Reports 9, 2203
Kim S-Y, Noguera JC & Velando A. 2019. Carry-over
effects of early thermal conditions on somatic and
germline oxidative damages are mediated by
compensatory growth in sticklebacks. Journal
Animal Ecology 88, 473-483
Kim S-Y, Metcalfe NB, da Silva A & Velando A.
2017. Thermal
conditions during early life influence seasonal
maternal strategies in the three-spined stickleback.
BMC Ecology 17: 34.
Velando A, Costa MM & Kim S-Y. 2017. Sex-specific
phenotypes and metabolism-related gene expression in
juvenile sticklebacks. Behavioral Ecology 28:
1553-1563.
Diaz-Real J, Kim S-Y & Velando A. 2017. Plumage
colour and the expression of stress‐related genes in
gull chicks. Journal of Avian Biology 48:
1216-1225.
Noguera JC, Kim S-Y & Velando A. 2017. Family-transmitted
stress in a wild bird. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences 114: 6794-6799.
Kim S-Y, Costa MM, Esteve-Codina A & Velando A.
2017. Transcriptional
mechanisms underlying life-history responses to
climate change in the three‐spined stickleback.
Evolutionary Applications 10: 718-730.
Diaz-Real J, Kim S-Y & Velando A. 2016. Hatching
hierarchy but not egg-related effects governs
behavioral phenotypes in gull chicks. Behavioral
Ecology 27: 1782-1789.
Kim S-Y & Velando A. 2016. Unsociable
juvenile male three-spined sticklebacks grow more
attractive. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
70: 975-980.
Kim S-Y, Metcalfe NB & Velando A. 2016. A
benign juvenile environment reduces the strength of
antagonistic pleiotropy and genetic variation in the
rate of senescence. Journal of Animal Ecology
85: 705–714.
Kim S-Y & Velando A. 2016. Genetic
conflict between sexual signalling and juvenile
survival in the three-spined stickleback. BMC
Evolutionary Biology 16: 52.
Kim S-Y. 2016. Fixed
behavioural plasticity in response to predation risk
in the three-spined stickleback. Animal
Behaviour 112: 147-152.
Kim S-Y & Velando A. 2015. Antioxidants
safeguard telomeres in bold chicks. Biology
Letters 11: 20150211.
Kim S-Y & Velando A. 2015. Phenotypic
integration between anti-predator behaviour and
camouflage pattern in juvenile sticklebacks.
Evolution 69: 830-838.
Kim S-Y & Velando A. 2014. Stickleback
males increase red coloration and courtship
behaviours in the presence of a competitive rival.
Ethology 120: 502-510.
Nava CP, Kim S-Y, Magalhães MC & Neves V. 2014. Do
Cory’s Shearwaters Calonectris borealis choose mates
based on size? Journal of Ornithology 155:
869-875.
Noguera JC, Kim S-Y & Velando A. 2013. Maternal
testosterone influences a begging component that
makes fathers work harder in chick provisioning.
Hormones and Behavior 64: 19-25.
Velando A, Kim S-Y & Noguera JC. 2013. Begging
response of gull chicks to the red-spot of parental
bill. Animal Behaviour 85: 1359-1366.
Kim S-Y, Fargallo JA, Vergara P &
Martínez-Padilla J. 2013. Multivariate
heredity of melanin-based coloration, body mass and
immunity. Heredity 111: 139-146.
Kim S-Y, Noguera JC, Tato A & Velando A. 2013. Vitamins,
stress and growth: the availability of antioxidants
in early life influences the expression of cryptic
genetic variation. Journal of Evolutionary
Biology 26: 1341-1352.
Kim S-Y, Sanz-Aguilar A, Mínguez E & Oro D.
2012. Small-scale
spatial variation in evolvability for life-history
traits in the storm petrel. Biological Journal
of the Linnean Society 106: 439-446.
Noguera JC, Kim S-Y & Velando A. 2012. Pre-fledgling
oxidative damage predicts recruitment in a
long-lived bird. Biology Letters 8: 61-63.
Kim S-Y, Noguera JC, Morales J & Velando A.
2011. The
evolution of multi-component begging display in gull
chicks: sibling competition and genetic variability.
Animal Behaviour 82: 113-118.
Kim S-Y, Velando A, Torres R & Drummond H. 2011. Effects
of recruiting age on senescence, lifespan and
lifetime reproductive success in a long-lived
seabird. Oecologia 166: 615-626.
Kim S-Y, Noguera JC, Morales J & Velando A.
2011. Quantitative
genetic evidence for trade-off between growth and
resistance to oxidative stress in a wild bird.
Evolutionary Ecology 25: 461- 472.
Kim S-Y, Drummond H, Torres R & Velando A. 2011. Evolvability
of an avian life-history trait declines with
father's age. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
24: 295-302.
Noguera JC, Alonso-Alvarez C, Kim S-Y, Morales J
& Velando A. 2011. Yolk
testosterone reduces oxidative damages during
postnatal development. Biology Letters 7: 93-95.
Morales J, Kim S-Y, Lobato E, Merino S, Tomás G,
Martínez-de la Puente J & Moreno J. 2010. On
the heritability of blue-green eggshell coloration. Journal
of Evolutionary Biology 23: 1783-1791.
Kim S-Y, Noguera JC, Morales J & Velando A.
2010. Heritability
of resistance to oxidative stress in early life. Journal
of Evolutionary Biology 23: 769-775.
Kim S-Y, Velando A, Sorci G & Alonso-Alvarez C.
2010. Genetic
correlation between resistance to oxidative stress
and reprodutive life span in a bird species.
Evolution 64: 852-857.
Drummond H, Torres R, Rodriguez C & Kim S-Y.
2010. Is
kin cooperation going on undetected in marine bird
colonies? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
64: 647-655.
Montes-Medina AC, Drummond H & Kim S-Y. 2009. Distance
from the forest edge matters in habitat selection of
the Blue-footed Booby Sula nebouxii. Journal of
Ornithology 150: 845-852.
Kim S-Y, Torres R & Drummond H. 2009. Simultaneous
positive and negative density-dependent dispersal in
a colonial bird species. Ecology 90: 230-239.
Kim S-Y, Torres R, Domínguez C & Drummond H.
2007. Lifetime
philopatry in the blue-footed booby: a longitudinal
study. Behavioral Ecology 18: 1132-1138.
Kim S-Y, Torres R, Rodriguez C & Drummond H.
2007. Effects
of breeding success, mate fidelity and senescence on
breeding dispersal of male and female blue-footed
boobies. Journal of Animal Ecology 76: 471-479.
Kim S-Y & Monaghan P. 2006. Interspecific
differences in foraging preferences, breeding
performance and demography in herring (Larus
argentatus) and lesser black-backed gulls (L.
fuscus) at a mixed colony. Journal of Zoology
270: 664-671.
Kim S-Y & Monaghan P. 2006. Sex
of the first hatched chick influences survival of
the brood in the herring gull (Larus argentatus). Journal
of Zoology 270: 116-121.
Kim S-Y & Monaghan P. 2006.
Effects of early incubation constancy on embryonic
development: An experimental study in the herring
gull Larus argentatus. Journal of Thermal
Biology 31: 416-421.
Kim S-Y & Monaghan P. 2005. Effects
of vegetation on nest microclimate and breeding
performance of lesser black-backed gulls (Larus
fuscus). Journal of Ornithology 146: 176-183.
Kim S-Y & Monaghan P. 2005. Interacting
effects of nest shelter and breeder quality on
behaviour and breeding performance of herring gulls. Animal
Behaviour 69: 301-306.
