Research and Career
At her return to Ecuador after her doctoral studies, she chose a local frog for study, the Andean marsupial frog, Gastrotheca riobambae, that then occurred in the gardens of the university in Quito. She studied the reproductive and developmental adaptations of this frog in comparison with other tropical frogs, and the frog Xenopus laevis, a frog widely used for developmental studies. Her comparative studies added greatly to our understanding of the relationship between evolution and embryonic development. She combines research with teaching of Developmental Biology in Ecuador.
Early in her career she became interested in education for conservation of the Galapagos Archipelago. She helped the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands in the establishment of a program of scholarships for Ecuadorian students in the Galapagos Islands. She served as Vice President of the Charles Darwin Foundation for several years in the 1990s.
Her work for the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands and her position as the only Ecuadorian citizen to have achieved international recognition in science, have made her a figure of national importance in Ecuador.
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