If you want a copy of any of my papers, just e-mail me (alexandre.palaoro@gmail.com) and I will gladly send it to you.

  • Graham, ZA; Loughman, ZJ; Palaoro, AV (in press). Evolutionary timelines help explain the evolution of parental care strategies. Systematic Biology, in press.
  • Palaoro, AV; Monaenkova, D; Beard, CE; Adler, PH; Kornev, KG (2024). Biomechanical drivers of the evolution of butterflies and moths with a coilable proboscis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , 291: 20240903. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.0903 (link)
  • Puchalski, A; McCarthy, Z; Palaoro, AV; Salamatin, AA; Nagy-Mehesz, A; Korneva, G; Beard, CE; Owens, J; Adler, PH; Kornev, G (2024). Flexural rigidity of hawkmoth antennae depends on the bending direction. Acta Biomaterialia, 184: 273-285. DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2024.06.036. (link)
  • Graham, ZA; Florentino, JF; Smithers, SP; Menezes, JCT; Carvalho, JEC; Palaoro, AV (2024). C law coloration in the fiddler crab Leptuca uruguayensis has no correlation with male quality. Current Zoology. DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoae035. (link)
  • Buzzato, BA; Machado, G & Palaoro, AV (2024). Sigmoid allometries generate male dimorphism in secondary sexual traits: a comment on Packard (2023). Evolutionary Ecology, 38: 537-548. DOI: 10.1007/s10682-024-10303-6. (link)
  • Giacometti, D; Palaoro, AV; Leal, LC & Barros, FC (2023). How seasonality influences the thermal biology of lizards with different thermoregulatory strategies: a meta-analysis. Biological Reviews, 99 (2): 409-429. DOI: 10.1111/brv.13028 (link)
  • Palaoro, AV; Gole, AR; Sun, Y; Puchalski, A; Beard, CE; Adler, PH & Kornev, KG (2023). Wettability and morphology of proboscises interweave with hawkmoth evolutionary history. Journal of Experimental Biology, 226 (19): jeb245699. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.245699 (link). Highlighted paper in JEB's blog: Sipping takes no effort for hovering hawkmoths
  • Brasovs, A; Palaoro, AV; Aprelev, P; Beard, C; Adler, P & Kornev, K (2023). Haemolymph viscosity in hawkmoths and its implications for hovering flight. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290: 20222185. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.2185 (link)
  • Palaoro, AV & Peixoto, PEC (2022) The hidden links between animal weapons, fighting style, and their effect on contest success: a meta‐analysis. Biological Reviews, 97 (5): 1948-1966. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12877 (link)
  • Menezes, JCT & Palaoro, AV (2022) Flight hampers the evolution of weapons in birds. Ecology Letters, 25 (3): 624-634. Special Edition: Avian Functional Traits. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13964 (link) MEDIA COVERAGE: Over 30 news outlets including Science; The Conversation; Pesquisa FAPESP; TekCrispy. YOUTUBE VIDEO COVERAGE: SciShow. MEDIA APPEARANCE: BBC's Comedy Show "Have I Got News for You
  • Nogueira, CS; da Silva, AR & Palaoro, AV (2022) Fighting does not influence the morphological integration of crustacean claws (Decapoda: Aeglidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 136 (1): 173-186. DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blac026 (link)
  • Palaoro, AV; García-Hernández, S*; Buzatto, BA & Machado, G (2022) Function predicts the allometry of contest-related traits, but not sexual or male dimorphism in the Amazonian tusked harvestman. Evolutionary Ecology - Special Issue: The ecological and evolutionary implications of allometry, 36: 605-620. DOI: 10.1007/s10682-022-10152-1 (link)
  • Graham, ZA; Kaiser, N & Palaoro, AV (2022) Biomechanics influence sexual dimorphism in the giant mesquite bug, Thasus neocalifornicus. Zoology, 150: 125988. DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2021.125988 (link)
  • Graham, ZA; Vargas, C; Angiletta, MJ & Palaoro, AV (2021) Regenerated claws of the virile crayfish Faxonius virilis (Hagen, 1870) (Decapoda: Astacidea: Cambaridae) generate weaker pinching forces compared to original claws. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 41(3): 1-8. DOI: 10.1093/jcbiol/ruab036 (link)
  • Zimmermann, BL; Cardoso, GM; Pezzi, PH; Palaoro, AV & Araujo, PB (2021) Supergroup F Wolbachia in terrestrial isopods: Horizontal transmission from termites? Evolutionary Ecology, 35: 165-182. DOI: 10.1007/s10682-021-10101-4 (link) Featured paper of the edition
  • Graham, ZA; Garde, E; Heide-Jørgensen, MD & Palaoro, AV (2020) The longer the better: evidence that narwhal tusks are sexually selected. Biology Letters, 16: 20190950. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2019.0950 (link). MEDIA COVERAGE: Over 30 news outlets including Scientific American; El Pais; CNN; Popular Science; IFL Science; BBC Science & Focus; eurekAlert; Pesquisa FAPESP. YOUTUBE VIDEO COVERAGE: SciShow
  • Palaoro, AV; Peixoto, PEC; Benso-Lopes, F; Boligon, DS & Santos, S (2020) Fight intensity correlates with stronger and more mechanically efficient weapons in three species of Aegla crabs. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 74:53. DOI: 10.1007/s00265-020-02834-z (link)
  • Palaoro, AV; Muniz, DG & Santos, S (2020) Harder, better, faster, stronger: Weapon size is more sexually dimorphic than weapon biomechanical components in two freshwater anomuran species. Journal of Morphology. DOI: 10.1002/jmor.21234 (link)
  • Palaoro, AV & Thiel, M (2020) "The Caring Crustacean": An Overview of Crustacean Parental Care. In: The Natural History of Crustacea - Reproductive Biology: Volume VI (Eds. Cothran, RD & Thiel, M); pp 115. Oxford, Oxford University Press. (link)
  • Palaoro, AV & Beermann, J (2020) Overview of the Mating Systems of Crustacea. In: The Natural History of Crustacea - Reproductive Biology: Volume VI (Eds. Cothran, RD & Thiel, M); pp 275. Oxford, Oxford University Press. (link)
  • Candaten, A; Possenti, AG; Mainardi, AA; Rocha, MC & Palaoro, AV (2020) Fighting scars: Heavier Gladiator frogs bear more injuries than lighter frogs. Acta Ethologica, 23: 39-44. DOI: 10.1007/s10211-019-00333-7 (link)
  • Dalosto, MM & Palaoro, AV (2019) Intra- and interspecific behavioral interactions of Aeglidae with a comparison to other decapods. In: Aeglidae: Life History and Conservation Status of Unique Freshwater Anomuran Decapods (Eds. Santos, S & Bueno, SLS); pp 181-202. Boca Raton, CRC Press. (link)
  • Dalosto, MM; Ayres-Peres, L; Araujo, PB; Santos, S & Palaoro, AV (2019) Pay attention to the ladies: female aggressive behavior and weapon allometry provides clues for sexual selection in freshwater anomurans (Decapoda: Aeglidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 73: 127. DOI: 10.1007/s00265-019-2741-5 (link)
  • Benso-Lopes, F; Santos, S & Palaoro, AV (2019) Underwater compensation for exaggerated weaponry: The role of morphology and environment on crab locomotor performance. Journal of Experimental Zoology part A, 331(7): 382-391. DOI: 10.1002/jez.2305 (link)
  • Pinto, NS; Palaoro, AV & Peixoto, PEC (2019) All by myself? Meta-analysis of animal contests shows stronger support for self than for mutual assessment models. Biological Reviews, 94: 1430-1442. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12509 (link)
  • Zimmermann, BL; Palaoro, AV; Bouchon, D; Almerão, MP & Araujo, PB (2018) How coexistence may influence life history: the reproduction strategies of sympatric congeneric terrestrial isopods (Crustacea, Oniscidea). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 96: 1214-1220. DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2018-0086 (link)
  • Palaoro, AV; Velasque, M; Santos, S & Briffa, M (2017) How does environment influence fighting? The effects of tidal flow on resource value and fighting costs in sea anenomes. Biology Letters, 13: 20170011. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0011 (link)
  • Palaoro, AV & Briffa, M (2017) Weaponry and defenses in fighting animals: How allometry can alter predictions from contest theory. Behavioral Ecology, 28: 328-336. DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arw163 (link)​
  • Sousa, FDR; Palaoro, AV; Elmoor-Loureiro, LMA & Kotov, AA (2017) Predicting the invasive potential of the cladoceran Daphnia lumholtzi Sars, 1885 (Crustacea: Cladocera: Daphniidae) in the Neotropics: are generalists threatened while relicts protected by conditions of their life?. Journal of Limnology, 78: 272-280. DOI: 10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1571 (link)
  • Costa, JR; Dalosto, MM; Palaoro, AV & Santos, S (2016) Contest duration and dynamics are affected by body size in a potentially subsocial crayfish (Crustacea: Decapoda). Ethology, 122: 502-512. DOI: 10.1111/eth.12496 (link).
  • Palaoro, AV; del Valle, E & Thiel, M (2016) Life history patterns are correlated with predictable fluctuations in highly seasonal environments in semi-terrestrial burrowing crayfish. Hydrobiologia, 767: 51-63. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-015-2475-y (link)
  • Dalosto, MM; Palaoro, AV; Souty-Grosset, C; Bueno, SLS; Loureiro, TG; Almerão, MP; Araujo, PB & Santos, S (2015) One step ahead of the enemy: investigating aggressive interactions between invasive and native crayfish before the contact in nature. Biological Invasions, 17: 3503-3515. DOI: 10.1007/s10530-015-0974-4 (link)
  • Ayres-Peres, L; Araujo, PB; Jara, CG; Palaoro, AV & Santos, S (2015) How variable is agonistic behavior among crab species? A case study on freshwater anomurans (Crustacea: Decapoda: Aeglidae). Journal of Zoology, 297: 115-122. DOI: 10.1111/jzo.12262 (link)​
  • Baumart, JS; Dalosto, MM; Gonçalves, AS; Palaoro, AV & Santos, S (2015) How to deal with a bad neighbor? Strategies of sympatric freshwater decapods (Crustacea) for co-existence. Hydrobiologia, 762: 29-39. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-015-2331-0 (link)
  • Palaoro, AV; Dalosto, MM; Costa, JR & Santos, S (2014) Freshwater decapod (Aegla longirostri) uses a mixed assessment strategy to resolve contests. Animal Behaviour, 95: 71-79. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.06.2014 (link)
  • Dalosto MM; Palaoro, AV; Oliveira, D; Samuelsson, E & Santos S (2014) Population biology of Aegla platensis (Decapoda, Anomura, Aeglidae) in a tributary of the Uruguay River, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Zoologia, 31 (3): 215-222. DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702014000300002 (link)
  • Palaoro, AV; Dalosto, MM; Coutinho, C & Santos, S (2013) Assessing the importance of burrows through behavioral observations of Parastacus brasiliensis, a Neotropical burrowing crayfish (Crustacea), in laboratory conditions. Zoological Studies, 52: 4. DOI: 10.1186/1810-522X-52-4 (link)
  • Siqueira, AF; Palaoro, AV & Santos, S (2013) Mate preference in the Neotropical freshwater crab Aegla longirostri (Decapoda: Anomura): Does the size matter? Marine & Freshwater Behaviour & Physiology, 46 (4): 219-227. DOI: 10.1080/10236244.2013.808832 (link)
  • Palaoro, AV; Dalosto, MM; Costa, GC & Santos, S (2013) Niche conservatism and the potential for the crayfish Procambarus clarkii to invade South America. Freshwater Biology, 58 (7): 1379-1391. DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12134 (link)
  • Palaoro, AV; Ayres-Peres, L & Santos, S (2013) Modulation of male aggressiveness through different communication pathways. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 67 (2): 283-292. DOI: 10.1007/s00265-012-1448-7 (link)
  • Dalosto, MM; Palaoro, AV; Costa, JR & Santos, S (2013) Aggression and life underground: the case of burrowing crayfish. Behaviour, 150 (1): 3-22. DOI: 10.1163/1568539X-00003034 (link)
  • Dalosto, MM; Palaoro, AV & Santos, S (2012) Mother-offspring relationship in the Neotropical burrowing crayfish Parastacus pilimanus (von Martens, 1869) (Decapoda: Parastacidae). Crustaceana, 85 (11): 1305-1315. DOI:10.1163/156854012X651367 (link)