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DNA barcoding and methods to uncover freshwater biodiversity: some examples from the neotropics.
A biologist from the Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala (National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM), graduate studies in the Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico (Doctor in Sciences). Speciality in Lake Zooplankton in Ghent University, Belgium. During 18 years was an academician in the Faculty Iztacala (UNAM) where reached the level of Professor in Zoology. Here he was awarded the Academic Merit distinction in 1996. Later he received the best research article and best academic career in the state (Council of Science, Quintana Roo, 2011). More than 100 research publications and three books with zooplankton topics. Since 1997, he is a senior researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Chetumal unit, where his primary focus of research is ecological and taxonomic studies on freshwater zooplankton using integrative taxonomy, in particular from the waterbodies from the Yucatan Peninsula and curator of the zooplankton collection.
