Carlos A. Pascacio Villafán

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Línea de investigación

Ecología nutricional y cría artificial de insectos con énfasis en Moscas de la Fruta (Diptera: Tephritidae).

Licenciatura en Biología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Veracruzana (2005)

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.

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.

Editor Invitado del número especial "Feeding Biology and Nutrition in Insects" en la revista Biology