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PUBLICATIONS

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Galindo-Malagón, X. A., Morales, I., & Ospina-Garcés, S. M. (2022). Morphometric tools to solve species complexes: The case of Rhagovelia angustipes (Hemiptera: Veliidae). Arthropod Structure & Development, 70, 101192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2022.101192

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Sandra M. Ospina-Garcés, Livia  León-Paniagua. 2022. The influence of geography in the cranial diversification of the bulldog bats of the genus Noctilio (Noctilionidae: Chiroptera). Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 1-23.

 

Pedro Aguilar-Rodríguez, Aline Méndez-Rodríguez, Sandra M. Ospina-Garcés, María Cristia MacSwiney G., Yossi Yovel 2022. Free-ranging Van Gelder’s bat Bauerus dubiaquercus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) preying on dung beetles in southern Mexico. Mammalia, 86(3), 252-256.

 

Ana E. Gutiérrez-Cabrera, Raúl B. Montaño, Lorena González, Sandra M.  Ospina-Garcés, Alex Córdoba-Aguilar. 2022. Body shape and fluctuating asymmetry following different feeding sources and feeding time in a triatomine, Triatoma pallidipennis (Stål, 1892). Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 98, 105199.

 

Sandra M. Ospina-Garcés, Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales, Rodrigo A. Medellín. 2021. Cranial Morphology of the Flat-Headed bat Myotis planiceps (Chiroptera:Vespertilionidae) in the Context of American Myotis. Acta Chiropterologica 23(1): 45-58. https://doi.org/10.3161/15081109ACC2021.23.1.004

 

Sandra M. Ospina-Garcés, Luis Ibarra-Juarez, Federico Escobar, Andrés Lira-Noriega. 2021. Growth temperature effect on mandibles’ ontogeny and sexual dimorphism in the ambrosia beetle Xyleborus affinis (Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Arthropod Structure and Development 61: 101029. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2021.101029

 

Adriana Calahorra-Oliart, Sandra M. Ospina-Garcés, Livia León-Paniagua. 2021. Cryptic species in Glossophaga soricina: does morphological data support molecular evidence? Journal of Mammalogy 102(1): 54- 68. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyaa116

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Sandra  M. Ospina-Garcés, Livia León-Paniagua. 2021. Sexual dimorphism and geographic variation of the skull of the fishing bat Noctilio leporinus (Chiroptera: Noctilionidae) in Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 92(1): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/ib.20078706e.2021.92.3518

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Sandra M. Ospina-Garcés, Luis Ibarra-Juarez, Federico Escobar, Andrés Lira-Noriega. Evaluating sexual dimorphism in the ambrosia beetle Xyleborus affinis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) using geometric morphometrics,.Florida Entomologist 2020. In press.

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Sara Gabriel Villegas, Sandra M. Ospina-Garcés, Juan Fornoni, Cesar A. Domínguez, Raúl Ernesto Alcalá. 2020. Effects of crossing distance on fitness components in the carnivorous plant Pinguicola moranensis (Lentibulariaceae). Plant Science Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1442-1984.12271

 

Sandra M. Ospina-Garcés, Federico Escobar, Martha Lucia Baena, Adrian Davis, Clarke Scholtz. 2018. Do dung beetles show interrelated evolutionary trends in wing morphology, flight biomechanics and habitat preference?. Journal of Evolutionary Ecology 32(6): 663-682. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-018-9958-z

 

Sandra M. Ospina-Garcés, Efraín De Luna, Luis Gerardo Herrera-Montalvo, Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales, José Juan Flores-Martínez. 2018. Bite force and cranial morphometrics in the piscivorous Myotis vivesi (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Revista de Biología Tropical 66 (4).  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v66i4.32904

 

Sandra M. Ospina-Garcés, Victor H. Toledo-Hernández, Angélica M. Corona- López, Alejandro Flores-Palacios. 2018. Head shape variation in relation to the host plant selection in Cerambycid saproxilic beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Arthropod Structure and Development 47(1): 2–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2017.11.005

 

Sandra M. Ospina-Garcés, Efraín De Luna. 2017. Phylogenetic analysis of landmark data and the morphological evolution of cranial shape and diets in species of Myotis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Zoomorphology 136: 251-265. DOI 10.1007/s00435-017-0345-z

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Michelle L. Hayne, Mirian T. N. Tsuchiya, Sandra M. Ospina-Garcés, Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales, Rodrigo A. Medellín, Oscar J. Polaco, Jesús Maldonado. 2016. Placement of the rediscovered Myotis planiceps (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) within the Myotis phylogeny. Journal of Mammalogy 97: 701-712. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyw064

 

​Sandra M. Ospina-Garcés, Efraín De Luna, Luis G. Herrera-Montalvo, José J. Flores-Martínez. 2016.  Cranial shape and diet variation in species from genus Myotis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae): testing the relationship between form and function. Acta Chiropterologica 18:163 – 180. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.1.007

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SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

 

Co-author Electronic publication. Orden Chiroptera. In Imama: Mamíferos silvestres del valle de Aburrá. Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá editores. http://www.metropol.gov.co/mamiferos/Pages/inicio.aspx

 

Arroyo-Cabrales, J. and Ospina-Garcés, S. 2016. The IUCN Red List of

Threatened Species: Myotis sodalis: http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.20161.RLTS.T14136A22053184.en

M. findleyi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.20161.RLTS.T14159A22058800.en.

M. planiceps http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.20161.RLTS.T14191A22066742.en.  

M. peninsularis: http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T14189A22066405.en.

M. vivesi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.20161.RLTS.T14209A22069146.en

 

Badillo R, Falcão J, Ospina Garcés SM, García Ramírez A, Jiménez Vázquez B, Reyes J, Narváez Vázquez L, Tolentino L, Lira- Noriega A. Abejas: Joyas de nuestros bosques. Ciencia hoy, agosto 2019. https://www.inecol.mx/inecol/index.php/es/ct-menu-item-25/ct-menu-item-27/17-ciencia-hoy/947-abejas-joyas-de-nuestros-bosques

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