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Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo
Researcher at Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Publications - 15
Citations - 795
Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo is an academic researcher from Instituto Politécnico Nacional. The author has contributed to research in topics: Epinephelus & Perkinsus marinus. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 14 publications receiving 699 citations. Previous affiliations of Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo include University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Ecosystem energetic implications of parasite and free-living biomass in three estuaries
Armand M. Kuris,Ryan F. Hechinger,Jenny C. Shaw,Kathleen L. Whitney,Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo,Charles A. Boch,Andrew P. Dobson,Eleca J. Dunham,Brian L. Fredensborg,Todd C. Huspeni,Julio Lorda,Luzviminda Mababa,Frank T. Mancini,Adrienne B. Mora,Maria Pickering,Nadia L. Talhouk,Mark E. Torchin,Kevin D. Lafferty +17 more
TL;DR: It is shown that parasites have substantial biomass in these ecosystems and that the annual production of free-swimming trematode transmission stages was greater than the combined biomass of all quantified parasites and was also greater than bird biomass.
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Species of Ascocotyle Looss, 1899 (Digenea: Heterophyidae) of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, and notes on their life-cycles.
TL;DR: The heron Casmerodius albus represents a new definitive host of adults of all the above-mentioned species excluding A. (A.) chandleri, which is reported from Mexico for the first time.
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Factors associated with the prevalence of Perkinsus marinus in Crassostrea virginica from the southern Gulf of Mexico
M. Gullian-Klanian,J. A. Herrera-Silveira,Rossanna Rodríguez-Canul,Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo +3 more
TL;DR: The data suggest that freshwater input associated with high nutrient concentrations during the rainy and north-wind seasons has a strong negative effect on P. marinus prevalence and also influences the oysters' physiology.
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Richness and distribution of tropical oyster parasites in two oceans.
Katrina M. Pagenkopp Lohan,Kristina M. Hill-Spanik,Mark E. Torchin,Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo,Robert C. Fleischer,Gregory M. Ruiz +5 more
TL;DR: Perkinsus species were the most frequently detected and most geographically widespread among parasite groups, and species richness was higher for the protistan parasites than for the metazoans, with haplosporidian richness being higher than Perkinsus richness.
Philometra margolisi n.sp. (Nematoda: Philometridae) from the gonads of the red grouper,
TL;DR: A new nematode species, Philometra margolisi n.sp., was described from the gonads of the serranid fish Epinephelus morio from Mexico (localities Telchac, Chuburna, Progreso, and Rio Lagartos, Yucatan).