Current Projects

 

Hummingbirds & Bats:

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1. Using nutritional geometry to obtain insights into nutrient regulation and energy metabolism in nectarivorous taxa, with particular emphasis on the role of protein (with Jorge Schondube)

2. Analysis of the hummingbird intestinal microbiota (with Jorge Schondube and Rodolfo Martínez Mota)

 

Fruit flies:

 

1. Remediation of  negative effects of physiological stress across different developmental stages in Anastrepha ludens, a polyphagous fruit fly with a high behavioral and physiological plasticity (with Carlos Pascacio-Villafán, David Nestel, Andrea Birke, Larissa Guillén and Martín Aluja)

 

Primates:

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1. Nutritional strategies of free-ranging black howler monkeys, Alouatta pigra (with Paul Garber, Jessica Rothman, and David Raubenheimer)

2. Interactions between endocrinology, parasitism, and nutrition in black howler monkeys (with Rodolfo Martínez Mota, Tom Gillespie and Rupert Palme)

3. Effects of energy balance, nutrient intake, and health status (glucocorticoid hormone metabolites and gastrointestinal parasites) on gastrointestinal microbial composition of black howler monkeys (with Rodolfo Martínez Mota and Katherine Amato)

4. Evidence of seasonal and interspecific differences in the nutrient regulation strategies of Alouatta pigra and A. caraya (with Vanina Fernández and Jessica Rothman)

5. Nutritional strategies of an endangered Asian colobine, Rhinopithecus roxellana (with Songtao Guo, Paul Garber and David Raubenheimer)

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