Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Mexico Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Mexico Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Integrating molecular and morphological approaches for characterizing parasite cryptic species: implications for parasitology.

  Steven A. Nadler;Gerardo Pérez-Ponce De León

  294
  Citations

• Testing the higher-level phylogenetic classification of Digenea (Platyhelminthes, Trematoda) based on nuclear rDNA sequences before entering the age of the 'next-generation' Tree of Life

  G. Pérez-Ponce de León;D.I. Hernández-Mena

  236
  Citations

• What We Don't Recognize Can Hurt Us: A Plea for Awareness About Cryptic Species

  Gerardo Perez-Ponce de Leon;Steven A. Nadler

  228
  Citations

• Phylogenetic relationships of Acanthocephala based on analysis of 18S ribosomal RNA gene sequences.

  M. García-Varela;G. Pérez-Ponce de León;P. de la Torre;M. P. Cummings

  160
  Citations

• Biogeography of helminth parasites of freshwater fishes in Mexico: the search for patterns and processes

  Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León;Anindo Choudhury

  136
  Citations

• Trematode parasites (Platyhelminthes) of wildlife vertebrates in Mexico

  Gerardo Pérez-Ponce De León;Luis García-Prieto;Berenit Mendoza-Garfias

  135
  Citations

• Using Ecological‐Niche Modeling as a Conservation Tool for Freshwater Species: Live‐Bearing Fishes in Central Mexico

  Omar Domínguez-Domínguez;Omar Domínguez-Domínguez;Enrique Martínez-Meyer;Luis Zambrano;Gerardo Pérez-Ponce De León

  124
  Citations

• Filling the gaps in the classification of the Digenea Carus, 1863: systematic position of the Proterodiplostomidae Dubois, 1936 within the superfamily Diplostomoidea Poirier, 1886, inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences

  David Iván Hernández-Mena;Martín García-Varela;Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León

  98
  Citations

• Taxonomic distribution of cryptic diversity among metazoans: not so homogeneous after all

  Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León;Robert Poulin

  98
  Citations

• Phylogenetic relationship among genera of Polymorphidae (Acanthocephala), inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences.

  Martín García-Varela;Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León;Francisco J. Aznar;Steven A. Nadler

  97
  Citations

• Forecasting Climate Change Effects on Salamander Distribution in the Highlands of Central Mexico1

  Gabriela Parra‐Olea;Enrique Martínez‐Meyer;Gerardo Pérez‐Ponce De León

  97
  Citations

• Phylogenetic analysis based on 18S ribosomal RNA gene sequences supports the existence of class polyacanthocephala (acanthocephala)

  Martin Garcia-Varela;Michael P. Cummings;Gerardo Perez-Ponce de Leon;Scott Lyell Gardner

  95
  Citations

• Historical biogeography of some river basins in central Mexico evidenced by their goodeine freshwater fishes: a preliminary hypothesis using secondary Brooks parsimony analysis

  Omar Domínguez‐Domínguez;Omar Domínguez‐Domínguez;Ignacio Doadrio;Gerardo Pérez‐Ponce de León

  95
  Citations

• STATUS OF CORYNOSOMA (ACANTHOCEPHALA: POLYMORPHIDAE) BASED ON ANATOMICAL, ECOLOGICAL, AND PHYLOGENETIC EVIDENCE, WITH THE ERECTION OF PSEUDOCORYNOSOMA N. GEN

  F. Javier Aznar;Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León;Juan A. Raga

  94
  Citations

• Using mitochondrial and ribosomal DNA sequences to test the taxonomic validity of Clinostomum complanatum Rudolphi, 1814 in fish-eating birds and freshwater fishes in Mexico, with the description of a new species.

  Ana L. Sereno-Uribe;Carlos D. Pinacho-Pinacho;Martín García-Varela;Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León

  91
  Citations

• Phylogenetic analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA reveals a complex of cryptic species in Crassicutis cichlasomae (Digenea: Apocreadiidae), a parasite of Middle-American cichlids

  Ulises Razo-Mendivil;Ella Vázquez-Domínguez;Rogelio Rosas-Valdez;Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León

  85
  Citations

• Catalogo de la Coleccion Nacional de Helmintos

  Daniel R. Brooks;Rafael Lamothe-Argumedo;Luis Garcia-Prieto;David Osorio-Sarabia

  83
  Citations

• A global review of problematic and pathogenic parasites of farmed tilapia

  Unknown

  82
  Citations

• Checklist of the helminth parasites of vertebrates in Costa Rica.

  Beatriz Rodríguez-Ortíz;Luis García-Prieto;Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León

  81
  Citations

• Detecting a complex of cryptic species within Neoechinorhynchus golvani (Acanthocephala: Neoechinorhynchidae) inferred from ITSs and LSU rDNA gene sequences.

  Andrés Martínez-Aquino;Miriam E. Reyna-Fabián;Rogelio Rosas-Valdez;Ulises Razo-Mendivil

  81
  Citations

• Validating the systematic position of Profilicollis Meyer, 1931 and Hexaglandula Petrochenko, 1950 (Acanthocephala: Polymorphidae) using cytochrome c oxidase (Cox 1).

  Martín García-Varela;Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León

  79
  Citations

• Differentiation of Mexican species of Haematoloechus looss, 1899 (Digenea: Plagiorchiformes): molecular and morphological evidence.

  Virginia León-Règagnon;Daniel R. Brooks;Gerardo Perez-Ponce de Leon

  75
  Citations

• Adult Endohelminth Parasites of Ictalurid Fishes (Osteichthyes: Ictaluridae) in Mexico: Empirical Evidence for Biogeographical Patterns

  Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León;Anindo Choudhury

  62
  Citations

• Species delimitation in trematodes using DNA sequences: Middle-American Clinostomum as a case study

  Gerardo Pérez-Ponce De León;Martín García-Varela;Carlos D. Pinacho-Pinacho;Ana L. Sereno-Uribe

  60
  Citations

• A hyper-diverse genus of acanthocephalans revealed by tree-based and non-tree-based species delimitation methods: Ten cryptic species of Neoechinorhynchus in Middle American freshwater fishes

  Carlos Daniel Pinacho-Pinacho;Martín García-Varela;Ana L. Sereno-Uribe;Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León

  54
  Citations

• Parasites of Neotropical Primates: A Review

  Brenda Solórzano-García;Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León

  47
  Citations

• Systematic position of Pseudocorynosoma and Andracantha (Acanthocephala, Polymorphidae) based on nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences.

  Martín García-Varela;Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León;Francisco J. Aznar;Steven A. Nadler

  42
  Citations

• Trematode diversity in freshwater fishes of the Globe II: 'New World'

  Anindo Choudhury;M. Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo;Stephen S. Curran;Margarita Ostrowski de Núñez

  41
  Citations

• A new cryptogonimid (Digenea) from the Mayan cichlid, Cichlasoma urophthalmus (Osteichthyes: Cichlidae), in several localities of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.

  Ulises Razo-Mendivil;Rogelio Rosas-Valdez;Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León

  33
  Citations

• Global analysis reveals that cryptic diversity is linked with habitat but not mode of life.

  R. Poulin;G. Pérez-Ponce de León

  32
  Citations

• Human Impacts on Drainages of the Mesa Central, Mexico, and Its Genetic Effects on an Endangered Fish, Zoogoneticus quitzeoensis

  Omar Domínguez-Domínguez;Omar Domínguez-Domínguez;Luis Boto;Fernando Alda;Gerardo Pérez-Ponce De León

  28
  Citations

• Critical Comment: What We Don’t Recognize Can Hurt Us: A Plea for Awareness About Cryptic Species

  Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León;Steven A Nadler

  7
  Citations