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Research Interests
I am Evolutionary Biologist of Parasites, i work with molecular data and geographical distribution, with a particular focus on helminth fauna of vertebrate and invertebrate of aquatic wildlife.
My lines of research are:
> Molecular Evolution
> Phylogeny and Genealogy of molecular data
> Parametric and Historical Biogeography
> Coevolution and Cophylogenetics between host-symbiont associations
> Ecological effects of parasites on communities and biodiversity
> Evolutionary Ecology of Parasites
> Integrative Taxonomy
My research involves using molecular tools, distributional data and information on the type of parasitic interactions and their ecological relationships to understand the mechanisms, processes and patterns of evolution of the aforementioned host-parasite association. I am particularly interested in combining population genetics and phylogeography with morphological phylogenetics and cophylogenetic analyses to understand how the geographical areas and phylogentic relationships between and among hosts and parasites promote population differentiation and lineage divergence.
Research Interests
In collaboration with Dr. Leopoldina Aguirre Macedo and Dr. Víctor Vidal-Martínez, we investigate the genetic diversity of helminth parasites of Paralichthyidae, marine fishes from Mexico Gulf such part of Mega-Project from CIGoM Consortium.
In this moment, I m begin in the FC-UABC to explore surfing the parasitic diversity on Californian waters, to understand the ecological and evolutionary nets of the parasitic life.
A. Martínez-Aquino
Biologist
Ms. Sc. Systematics
PhD. Biological Sciences
Post-PhD 1. Museo de La Plata
Post-PhD 2. Cinvestav
SNI 1: Conacyt
Current Address:
Research Professor
FC-UABC
Evolutionary Biology of Parasites Lab
(BEP-UABC),
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Carretera Transpeninsular #3917, Fraccionamiento Playitas, Ensenada, Baja California, México
Zip Code:
22860
Lab phone:
01 (646) 174-45 60
Ext. 218
Emails:maandres_@hotmail.com /
Publications
Lenguas Francavilla M, Negrete L, Martínez-Aquino A, Damborenea C, F. Brusa. In press. Two new freshwater planarian species (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Dugesiidae) partially sympatric in Argentinean Patagonia (ISSN: 0008-4301 print; 1480-3283 online) Canadian Journal of Zoology (FI = 1.645; Q1).
Paredes-Trujillo A., Martínez-Aquino A., Rodiles-Hernández R., González-Solís D. 2020. Metazoan parasite communities of three endemic cichlid fish species from the upper Grijalva River, Chiapas, Mexico (ISSN: 0440-6605 print; 1336-9083 online) Helminthologia 57 (4): 344–352 (FI = 0.674; Q3). https://doi.org/10.2478/helm-2020-0041
Martínez-Aquino A., García-The GJ., Ceccarelli FS., Aguilar-Aguilar R., Vidal-Martínez VM, Aguirre-Macedo ML. 2020. New morphological and molecular data for Xystretrum solidum (Gorgoderidae: Gorgoderinae) from Sphoeroides testudineus (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) in
Mexican waters Zookeys 925: 141–161 https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.925.49503
Martínez-Aquino A, Vidal-Martínez VM, Ceccarelli FS, Méndez O, Soler-Jiménez LC, Aguirre-Macedo ML. 2020. Phylogeny, genetics, and the partial life cycle of Oncomegas wageneri in the Gulf of Mexico. Current Zoology. https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoz045
Aguilera-Molina VM., Munguía-Ortega KK., López-Reyes E., Martínez-Aquino A, Ceccarelli FS. 2019. Climate change and forest plagues: assessing current and future impacts of diprionid sawflies on the pine forests of north-western Mexico. 7:e7220 PeerJ
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7220
Martínez-Aquino A., Chan-Martin AJ, García-The GJ, Ceccarelli FS and Aguirre-Macedo Ma L. 2019. Metacercariae of Haplorchis pumilio (Looss, 1896) in Carassius auratus (Linnaeus, 1758) from Mérida City, Yucatán, Mexico: a co-introduced parasite. BioInvasions Records (Online 22421300 electronic version) (FI = 1.198; Q2) 8 (3): 712–728 https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2019.8.3.29
Aguilar-Aguilar R., Ruíz-Campos G., Martorelli S., Montes M. and A. Martínez-Aquino. 2019. A new species of Ascarophis (Nematoda: Cystidicolidae) parasitizing Clinocottus analis (Pisces: Cottidae) from Baja California, Mexico. 105(4): 524–532. Journal of Parasitology
http://dx.doi.org/10.1645/19-14
May-Tec*, A.L., A. Martínez-Aquino*, Aguirre-Macedo Ma.L., and V.M. Vidal-Martínez. 2019. Molecular evidence linking the larval and adult stages of Mexiconema cichlasomae (Dracunculoidea: Daniconematidae) from Celestun coastal lagoon, Yucatán, México, with notes on its phylogenetic position among Dracunculoidea. 93: 580–588 Journal of Helminthology * = equal contribution.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X18000524
Martínez-Aquino, A., V.M. Vidal-Martínez and Ma. L. Aguirre-Macedo. 2017. A phylogenetic appraisal of the acanthostomines Acanthostomum and Timoniella and their position within Cryptogonimidae (Trematoda: Opisthorchioidea). 5:e4158. PeerJ
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4158
Martínez-Aquino, A., J. Vigliano-Relva, F. Brusa and C. Damborenea. 2017. Historical biogeography of Temnocephalida (Platyhelminthes, Rhabdocoela): testing the Gondwanan hypothesis. 15(4): 327–345. Systematics and Biodiversity http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2016.1252441
Aguirre-Macedo Ma. L., A.L. May-Tec, A. Martínez-Aquino, F. Cremonte and S.R. Martorelli. 2017. Diversity of helminth parasites in aquatic invertebrate hosts in Latin America: How much do we know? 9:1-13. Journal of Helminthology http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X16000547
Castro R, Montes M., Martorelli S., D. Sepulveda, S. Tapia and A. Martínez-Aquino. 2016. Integrative taxonomy of Peniculus, Metapeniculus and Trifur (Siphonostomatoida: Pennellidae), copepod parasites of marine fishes from Chile: species delimitation analyses using DNA barcoding and morphological evidence. 14 (5):466-483. Systematics and Biodiversity. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14772000.2016.1158213#.VzeSzb71aY8
Martínez-Aquino, A. 2016. Phylogenetic framework for coevolutionary studies: a compass for exploring jungles of tangled trees. Current Zoology. 62(4):393-403.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cz/zow018
Pérez-Ponce de León G., A. Martínez-Aquino and B. Mendoza- Garfias. 2015. Two new species of Phyllodistomum Braun, 1899 (Digenea: Gorgoderidae), from freshwater fishes (Cyprinodontiformes: Goodeidae: Goodeinae) in central Mexico: An integrative taxonomy approach using morphology, ultrastructure and molecular phylogenetics. Zootaxa 4013 (1): 87-99. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4013.1.6
Martínez-Aquino A., Fadia S. Ceccarelli, Luis E. Eguiarte, E. Vázquez-Domínguez and G. Pérez-Ponce de León. 2014. Do the historical biogeography and evolutionary history of the digenean Margotrema spp. across central Mexico mirror those of their freshwater fish hosts (Goodeinae)? PLOS One 9 (7): e101700http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101700
Martínez-Aquino, A., F. Brusa and C. Damborenea. 2014. Checklist of freshwater symbiotic temnocephalans (Platyhelminthes, Rhabditophora, Temnocephalida) from the Neotropics. Zoosystematics and Evolution 90 (2): 147-162. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.90.8688
Martínez-Aquino, A., C.A. Mendoza-Palmero, R. Aguilar-Aguilar and G. Pérez-Ponce de León. 2014. Checklist of helminth parasites of Goodeinae (Osteicthyes: Cyprinodontiformes: Goodeidae), an endemic subfamily of freshwater fishes from Mexico. Zootaxa 3856 (2): 151-191.
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3856.2.1
Aguilar-Aguilar R., A. Martínez-Aquino, H. Espinosa-Pérez and G. Pérez-Ponce de León. 2014. Helminth parasites of freshwater fishes from Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila, in the Chihuahuan desert of Mexico: Inventory and biogeographical implications. Integrative Zoology 9: 328-339. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12038
Martínez-Aquino A., Fadia. S. Ceccarelli, and G. Pérez-Ponce de León. 2013. Molecular phylogeny of the genus Margotrema (Digenea: Allocreadiidae), parasitic flatworms of goodeid freshwater fishes across central Mexico: species boundaries, host-specificity and geographical congruence. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168: 1-16.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12027
Pérez-Ponce de León G., Martínez-Aquino A., and B. Mendonza-Garfías. 2013. A new species of Margotrema (Digenea, Allocreadiidae) from the leopard splitfin Xenotaenia resolanae (Cyprinodontiformes, Goodeidae) from west-central Mexico. Zootaxa 3670: 94-96. http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3670.1.10
Choudhury A., Zheng S., Pérez-Ponce de León G., Martínez-Aquino A., Brosseau Ch. and E. Gale. 2013. The invasive Asian fish tapeworm, Bothriocephalus acheilognathi Yamaguti, 1934, in the Chagres River/Panama Canal drainage, Panama. BioInvasions Records 2: 99-104. http://dx.doi.org/10.3391/bir.2013.2.2.01
Martínez-Aquino A., R. Pérez-Rodríguez, D. I. Hernández-Mena, L. Garrrido-Olvera, R. Aguilar-Aguilar, and G. Pérez-Ponce de León. 2012. Endohelminth parasites of seven goodein species (Cyprinodontiformes: Goodeidae) from Zacapu Lake, Michoacán, Central Mexico Plateau. Hidrobiológica 22 (1): 89-93.
http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0188-88972012000100011
Martínez-Aquino A., D. I. Hernández-Mena, R. Pérez-Rodríguez, R. Aguilar-Aguilar, and G. Pérez-Ponce de León. 2011. Endohelminth parasites of the freshwater fish Zoogoneticus purhepechus (Cyprinodontiformes: Goodeidae) from two springs in Lower Lerma River, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 82 (4): 1132-1137.
http://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/bio/article/view/28771
Aguilar-Aguilar R., R. Rosas-Valdez, A. Martínez-Aquino, R. Pérez-Rodríguez, O. Domínguez-Domínguez and G. Pérez-Ponce de León. 2010. Helminth fauna of two cyprinid fish (Campostoma ornatum and Codoma ornata) from the upper Piaxtla River, Northwestern Mexico. Helminthologia 47 (4): 251-256.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/s11687-010-0039-2
Martínez-Aquino, A., R. Aguilar-Aguilar, R. Pérez-Rodríguez and G. Pérez-Ponce de León. 2009a. Helminth Parasites of Xenotaenia resolanae (Osteichthyes: Goodeidae) From the Cuzalapa Hydrological System, Jalisco, Mexico. Journal of Parasitology 95 (5) : 1221-1223.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1645/ge-1925.1
Martínez-Aquino, A., M.E. Reyna-Fabián, R. Rosas-Valdez, U. Razo-Mendivil, G. Pérez-Ponce de León and J.M. García-Varela. 2009b. Detecting a Complex of Cryptic Species within Neoechinorhynchus golvani (Acanthocephala: Neoechinorhynchidae) inferred from ITSs and LSU rDNA Gene Sequences. Journal of Parasitology 95 (5): 1040-1047. http://dx.doi.org/10.1645/GE-1926.1Aguilar-Aguilar, R., Martínez-Aquino, A., Pérez-Rodríguez, R. and G. Pérez-Ponce de León. 2009. Digenea, Heterophyidae, Centrocestus formosanus metacercariae: Distribution extension for Mexico, new state record, and geographic distribution map. Check List 5 (2): 357-359.
http://www.checklist.org.br/archive?vol=5&num=2
Aguilar-Aguilar, R., G. Salgado-Maldonado, R. Contreras-Medina and Martínez-Aquino, A. 2008. Richness and endemism of helminth parasites of freshwater fishes in Mexico. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 94 (2): 435-444. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.00994.x
Martínez-Aquino, A. and R. Aguilar-Aguilar. 2008. Helminth parasites of the pupfish Cyprinodon meeki (Pisces: Cyprinodontiformes), an endemic freshwater fish from North-Central Mexico. Helminthologia 45 (1): 48-51.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/s11687-008-0008-1
Martínez-Aquino, A., G. Salgado-Maldonado, R. Aguilar-Aguilar, G. Cabañas-Carranza and C. A. Mendoza-Palmero. 2007. Helminth parasites communities of Characodon audax and Characodon lateralis (Pisces: Goodeidae), endemic freshwater fishes from Durango, Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist 52 (1): 125-130.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1894/0038-4909(2007)52[125:HPCOCA]2.0.CO;2
Martínez-Aquino, A., G. Salgado-Maldonado, R. Aguilar-Aguilar, G. Cabañas-Carranza and M. P. Ortega-Olivares. 2004. Helminth parasites of Chapalichthys encaustus (Pisces: Goodeidae), an endemic freshwater fish from Lake Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico. Journal of Parasitology 90 (4) : 889-890.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1645/GE-255R
Book Chapters
Lagunas-Calvo O., Aguilar-Aguilar, R., Islas-Ortega, A y A. Martinez-Aquino. 2016. Parásitos de peces dulceacuícolas de la porción oaxaqueña de la provincia biogeográfica. En: Luna I., Espinosa D. y R. Contreras-Medina (Editores). Biodiversidad de la Sierra Madre del Sur: Una síntesis preliminar. Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México, Ciudad de México. pp. 313-323.
Martínez-Aquino, A., R. Aguilar-Aguilar, H.O. Santa Anna del Conde-Juárez y R. Contreras-Medina. 2007. Empleo de herramientas panbiogeográficas para detectar áreas para conservar: Un ejemplo con taxones dulceacuícolas. En: Luna I., J.J. Morrone y D. Espinosa (Editores). Biodiversidad de la Faja Volcánica Transmexicana. Las Prensas de Ciencias, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México, D.F. pp. 449-460.
Aguilar-Aguilar, R., R. Contreras-Medina, A. Martínez-Aquino, G. Salgado-Maldonado y A. González-Zamora. 2005. Aplicación del Análisis de Parsimonia de Endemismos (PAE) en los sistemas hidrológicos de México: Un ejemplo con helmintos parásitos de peces dulceacuícolas. En: Llorente J. y J.J. Morrone (Editores). Biogeografía en Iberoamérica. Regionalización: aspectos históricos, metodológicos y aplicaciones. Las Prensas de Ciencias, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México. D.F. pp. 227-239.
Articles for the General Public
Martínez-Aquino A., F. Brusa y C. Damborenea. 2014. Los temnocéfalos: simbiontes dulceacuícolas. CONABIO Biodiversitas 116: 12-16. AVAILABLE FROM:http://www.biodiversidad.gob.mx/Biodiversitas/biodiversitas.php
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