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Alfredo Castro-Vazquez
PeerJ Author & Reviewer
505 Points

Contributions by role

Author 470
Reviewer 35

Contributions by subject area

Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
Zoology
Anatomy and Physiology
Histology
Freshwater Biology
Evolutionary Studies

Alfredo Castro-Vazquez

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Research interests
I have contributed to the integrative biology of representatives of the South American fauna, and has concentrated recently in Neotropical apple snails, mainly Pomacea canaliculata (Caenogastropoda, Ampullariidae). I have supervised fourteen PhD thesis works.

Academic Qualifications
1993 Ph.D., Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina.
1971 M.D., Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

University Positions
2013- Professor Emeritus, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo,
Mendoza, Argentina.
2011-2015 Organizing Director, Institute of Physiology,
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina.
1995-2011 Chair Professor of Physiology, Universidad Nacional
de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina.
1986-1995 Adjunct Professor, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo,
Mendoza, Argentina.

National (Argentine) Research Council Positions
1994- Principal Researcher
1984-1994 Independent Researcher
1976-1984 Adjunct Researcher

Developmental Biology Freshwater Biology Histology Zoology

Past or current institution affiliations

Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

Work details

Principal Researcher

Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
September 2001
Instituto de Histología y Embriología “Dr. Mario H. Burgos” (IHEM-CONICET/UNcuyo
I am the head of a research team including two associate researchers, two postdocs and one technician.

Websites

  • ResearchGate

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 4
  • Reviewed 1
April 14, 2021
Morphological grounds for the obligate aerial respiration of an aquatic snail: functional and evolutionary perspectives
Cristian Rodriguez, Guido I. Prieto, Israel A. Vega, Alfredo Castro-Vazquez
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10763 PubMed 33954023
December 6, 2019
A multiple comparative study of putative endosymbionts in three coexisting apple snail species
Federico A. Dellagnola, Cristian Rodriguez, Alfredo Castro-Vazquez, Israel A. Vega
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8125 PubMed 31824764
July 31, 2019
Functional and evolutionary perspectives on gill structures of an obligate air-breathing, aquatic snail
Cristian Rodriguez, Guido I. Prieto, Israel A. Vega, Alfredo Castro-Vazquez
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7342 PubMed 31396441
October 12, 2018
Assessment of the kidney and lung as immune barriers and hematopoietic sites in the invasive apple snail Pomacea canaliculata
Cristian Rodriguez, Guido I. Prieto, Israel A. Vega, Alfredo Castro-Vazquez
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5789 PubMed 30345179

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October 29, 2018
Egg perivitelline fluid of the invasive snail Pomacea canaliculata affects mice gastrointestinal function and morphology
Matías Giglio, Cintia Garro, Enrique Caviedes-Vidal, Horacio Heras
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5314 PubMed 30397537