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Líneas de investigación
- Ecología nutricional y cría artificial de insectos con énfasis en Moscas de la Fruta (Diptera: Tephritidae).
Síntesis Curricular
Formación académica
- Licenciatura en Biología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Veracruzana (2005)
- Maestría en Ciencias, Instituto de Ecología, A.C. (2012)
- Doctorado en Ciencias, Instituto de Ecología, A.C. (2016)
- Posdoctorado, Planta de Cría y Esterilización Moscamed (2017)
Experiencia profesional
- Research assistant, CSIRO Entomology – Mexican Field Station (2005-2010)
- Investigador Asociado C, Instituto de Ecología, A.C. (2017-2018)
Publicaciones recientes
- Brena-Melendez, A., Garcia-Amezquita, L. E., Liceaga, A., Pascacio-Villafán, C., & Tejada-Ortigoza, V. (2024). Novel food ingredients: Evaluation of commercial processing conditions on nutritional and technological properties of edible cricket (Acheta domesticus) and its derived parts. Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies, 103589. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifset.2024.103589
- Pascacio-Villafán, C., Caravantes-Villatoro, L. A., Osorio-Paz, I., Guillén, L., García, H. S., Enciso-Ortiz, E., Altúzar-Molina, A., Barran-Prios, R. & Aluja, M. (2023). Larval Rearing and Nutrition of the Polyphagous Tephritid Pest Anastrepha ludens on Artificial Diets with Calcium Alginate, Agar, or Carrageenan as Gelling Agents at Various Concentrations and across Extreme Larval Density Conditions. Insects, 14(12), 952. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14120952
- Pascacio-Villafán, C., & Cohen, A. C. (2023). How Rearing Systems for Various Species of Flies Benefit Humanity. Insects, 14(6), 553. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14060553
- Pascacio-Villafán, C., Guillén, L., Altúzar-Molina, A., Tellez-Mora, J. A., Cruz-Hernández, E., & Aluja, M. (2023). Feeding on the Fruit Waste Orange Bagasse Modifies Immature Protein Content, Body Weight, Scent Bouquet Composition, and Copula Duration in Males of a Tephritid Frugivorous Fly. Biology, 12(5), 739. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology12050739
- Castro-López, C., Pascacio-Villafán, C., Aluja, M., García, H. S., González-Córdova, A. F., Vallejo-Cordoba, B., & Hernández-Mendoza, A. (2022). Safety Assessment of the Potential Probiotic Bacterium Limosilactobacillus fermentum J23 Using the Mexican Fruit Fly (Anastrepha ludens Loew, Diptera: Tephritidae) as a Novel In Vivo Model. Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12602-022-10034-6
- Guillén, L., Pascacio-Villafán, C., Osorio-Paz, I., Ortega-Casas, R., Enciso-Ortíz, E., Altúzar-Molina, A., Velázquez, O. & Aluja, M. (2022). Coping with global warming: Adult thermal thresholds in four pestiferous Anastrepha species determined under experimental laboratory conditions and development/survival times of immatures and adults under natural field conditions. Frontiers in Physiology, 13, 991923. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.991923
- Pascacio‐Villafán, C., Righini, N., Nestel, D., Birke, A., Guillén, L., & Aluja, M. (2022). Diet quality and conspecific larval density predict functional trait variation and performance in a polyphagous frugivorous fly. Functional Ecology, 36(5), 1163-1176. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14042
- Pascacio-Villafán, C., Quintero-Fong, L., Guillén, L., Rivera-Ciprian, J. P., Aguilar, R., & Aluja, M. (2021). Pupation Substrate Type and Volume Affect Pupation, Quality Parameters and Production Costs of a Reproductive Colony of Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) VIENNA 8 Genetic Sexing Strain. Insects, 12, 337. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects12040337
- Aluja, M., Cabagne, G., Altúzar-Molina, A., Pascacio-Villafán, C., Enciso, E., & Guillén, L. (2020). Host Plant and Antibiotic Effects on Scent Bouquet Composition of Anastrepha ludens and Anastrepha obliqua Calling Males, Two Polyphagous Tephritid Pests. Insects, 11, 309. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11050309
- Aluja, M., Pascacio-Villafán, C., Altúzar-Molina, A., et al. (2020). Insights into the Interaction between the Monophagous Tephritid Fly Anastrepha acris and its Highly Toxic Host Hippomane mancinella (Euphorbiaceae). Journal of Chemical Ecology, 46, 430-441. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-020-01164-8
- Pascacio-Villafán, C., Guillén, L., & Aluja, M. (2020). Agar and Carrageenan as Cost-Effective Gelling Agents in Yeast-Reduced Artificial Diets for Mass-Rearing Fruit Flies and Their Parasitoids. Insects, 11, 131. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11020131
- Guillén, L., Pascacio-Villafán, C., Stoffolano Jr, J. G., López-Sánchez, L., Velázquez, O., Rosas-Saito, G., Altúzar-Molina, A., Ramírez, M. & Aluja, M. (2019). Structural differences in the digestive tract between females and males could modulate regurgitation behavior in Anastrepha ludens (Diptera: Tephritidae). Journal of Insect Science, 19(4), 7.
- Pascacio-Villafán, C., Guillén, L., Williams T. & M. Aluja. (2018). Effects of larval density and support substrate in liquid diet on productivity and quality of artificially reared Anastrepha ludens (Diptera: Tephritidae). Journal of Economic Entomology, 111: 2281-2287
- Pascacio-Villafán, C., Birke, A., Williams, T. & M. Aluja. (2017). Modeling the cost-effectiveness of insect rearing on artificial diets: a test with a tephritid fly used in the sterile insect technique. Plos One, 12: e0173205. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173205.
- Nestel, D., Papadopoulos, N. T., Pascacio-Villafan, C., Righini, N., Altuzar-Molina, A. R., & Aluja, M. (2016). Resource allocation and compensation during development in holometabolous insects. Journal of Insect Physiology, 95: 78-88.
- Pascacio-Villafán, C., Williams, T., Birke, A., & Aluja, M. (2016). Nutritional and non-nutritional food components modulate phenotypic variation but not physiological trade-offs in an insect. Scientific reports, 6, 29413.
Formación de Recursos Humanos
Licenciatura
- Julio Alberto Tellez Mora. "Parámetros de producción y calidad, y composición química de los volátiles de machos de la Mosca Mexicana de la Fruta (Anastrepha ludens) criados en una dieta artificial y en una dieta con base en esquilmos agrícolas". Facultad de Ciencias Agrícolas, Universidad Veracruzana. Concluida en abril de 2021.
- Rashim Omar Torres García. "Evaluación de dietas artificiales de preparación instantánea para la cría de la Mosca Mexicana de la Fruta, Anastrepha ludens (Loew) (Diptera: Tephritidae), una especie plaga de importancia económica". Universidad Tecnológica de Gutiérrez Zamora. En proceso.
Doctorado
- Roxana Yvette Barran Prior. "Ecología nutricional de Anastrepha ludens (Loew) (Diptera: Tephritidae): estudio integrativo con una perspectiva de microscopía avanzada y un enfoque bioquímico/molecular". Posgrado del INECOL. Codirección con Dr. Martín Aluja. En proceso.
Espacio personal
Editor Invitado del número especial "Feeding Biology and Nutrition in Insects" en la revista Biology
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/biology/special_issues/YC1Q62ZH6Y