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Publicaciones Científicas

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Materials & Design

(2025) 

Functional elongational and adhesive strategies in the microstructured exoskeleton of the kissing bug Mepraia spinolai

Nicolás Padilla-Manzano, Lisa Shafroth, Laura Tamayo, Nicol Quiroga, Carezza Botto-Mahan, Francisco Melo

Acta Tropica 

(2026) 273

​The dynamic of Trypanosoma cruzi transmissibility in field-caught Mepraia spinolai (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) of contrasting seasons: A developmental stage-dependent study

Nicol Quiroga, Francisca Farías, Angélica Lopez, Carezza Botto-Mahan & Aldo Solari

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Molecular Ecology 

(2025) 34:e17697

Genetic Architecture of the Thermal Tolerance Landscape in Drosophila melanogaster

Juan Soto, Francisco Pinilla, Patricio Olguín, Luis Castañeda

Veterinary Parasitology: Regional Studies and Reports

55 (2024) 101113

Detection of Trypanosoma cruzi DNA in lizards: Using non-lethal sampling techniques in a sylvatic species with zoonotic reservoir potential in Chile

Carla Ponce-Revello, Nicol Quiroga, Esteban San Juan, Juana P. Correa, Carezza Botto-Mahan.

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PeerJ

(2025)

Cross-tolerance evolution is driven by selection on heat tolerance in Drosophila subobscura

Luis Castañeda.

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Wellcome Open Research in the Tree of Life Gateway

(2025) 

The genome sequence of the kissing bug, Triatoma infestans (Klug, 1834) (Hemiptera: Reduviidae)

Antonella Bacigalupo, Esteban San Juan, Carla Ponce‑Revello, Martin S. Llewellyn, José A. Segura, Alonso Parra, Luis E. Castañeda, Carezza Botto‑Mahan 

Journal of entomological science

(2025)

Geometric Morphometrics as a Diagnostic Tool for Cryptic Agricultural Pests: Insights from Nezarini Stink Bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)

Alan Smith-Pardo, Rolan Lupoli, Hugo Benítez. 

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 Journal of Mathematical Biology

(2025)

Studying the role of phenotypic change in biological invasion success through mathematical modeling

Rivera-Estay, Viviana, Felipe N. Moreno-Gómez, Fernando Córdova-Lepe, Rodrigo Gutiérrez & Hugo Benítez

Entomologia Generalis 

(2025)

Integrated monitoring of Lobesia botrana using LED traps and allelochemicals in pheromone-disrupted vineyards

Islam, Yasir; Preti, Michele; Knight, Alan L.; Basoalto, Esteban; Bosch-Serra, Dolors; Peñalver-Cruz, Ainara; Rodríguez, Marcela A.; Fuentes-Contreras, Eduardo

Frontiers in Insect Science

(2025)

Unlocking species identity: geometric morphometrics of head and thorax shapes in invasive and non-invasive quarantine-significant thrips (Thysanoptera: Terebrantia)

Alan Smith-Pardo, Laura M. Pérez, Hugo Benítez. 

Animals

(2025) vol. 15

Wing Shape Fluctuating Asymmetry in Flies: Insights into Environmental and Public Health Risk

Hugo A. Benítez, Rocío Oróstica-Pinochet, Manuel J. Suazo, Laura M. Pérez ,Jordan Hernández-Martelo, Cristian Valdes, María Teresa Muñoz-Quezada & Margarita Correa

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Pest Management Science

(2025) vol. 81

Water deficit and aphid resilience on wheat: examining Sitobion avenae F. and their bacterial symbionts interplay under controlled laboratory conditions

Alison M. Díaz-Hernández, Daniela A. Sepúlveda, Angélica González-González, Lucía M. Briones, Margarita C.G. Correa, Christian C. Figueroa

PLOS One

(2025)

Tracing the invasion: Wing morphometrics reveal population spread and adaptation patterns of Halyomorpha halys (Stål, 1855) across Southern Europe

Martina Pajač Beus, Darija Lemic , Hugo A. Benítez , Laura M. Pérez,
Mojca Rot, Aleksandra Konjević, Stefanos S. Andreadis, Ivana Pajač Živković

 

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