Daniel Aguilera Olivares

Áreas de Investigación

• Entomología
• Ecología
• Evolución

Líneas de Investigación

• Termitas
• Insectos sociales
• Insectos de importancia forestal

Proyectos de Investigación Destacados

• 2022-2019 “Ajustes fisiológicos y conductuales de tolerancia al frío en gradiente latitudinal en Porotermes quadricollis (Blattodea: Stolotermitidae)”. Investigador principal. Financiamiento: Proyecto FONDECYT postdoctoral N° 3190381.
• 2019-2017 “Masticated wood fragments in tunnels of Coptotermes formosanus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae): ectosymbiosis and nitrogen fixation as precursors of evolution of fungus-growing termites”. Investigador principal. Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, University of Florida
  Financiamiento: Becas-Chile (CONICYT) postdoctorado N°288006.
• 2016-2012 “Nest-mate and kin recognition, colony defense and inbreeding avoidance in the one-piece termite, Neotermes chilensis”. Colaborador. Financiamiento: FONDECYT Grant N° 1120210.
• 2014-2012 “Genetic and phenotypic variation among bees using alternative nesting hostplants: the carpenter bees as a new model to study host specialization”. Colaborador. Financiamiento: FONDECYT Grant N° 11110075.

Últimas Publicaciones

Alves FR, Aguilera-Olivares D, Rocha MM, Arab A. 2022. Termites are the main dung removals in a degraded landscape in Brazil. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Aceptado (doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.982602) 

Aguilera-Olivares D, Torres-Guzmán B, Arab A, Flores-Prado L, Niemeyer HM. 2022. Body size and symmetry properties of termite soldiers under two intraspecific competition scenarios. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10:882357 (doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.882357)

Tong RL, Aguilera-Olivares D, Chouvenc T, Su N-Y. 2021. Nitrogen content of the exuviae of Coptotermes gestroi (Wasmann). (Blattodea:Rhinotermitidae). Heliyon 7: e06697 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06697)

Arab A, Issa S, Aguilera-Olivares D. 2021. Editorial: Advances in the Evolutionary Ecology of Termites. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9:698937 (doi: 10.3389/fevo.2021.698937)

Lee S-B, Mullins A, Aguilera-Olivares D, Chouvenc T, Su N-Y. 2019. Fused colonies as alternative materials for laboratory experiments with subterranean termites. Journal of Economic Entomology 112: 2311-2315 (DOI: 10.1093/jee/toz154).

Torrico-Bazoberry D, Cáceres-Sánchez L, Flores-Prado L, Aguilera-Olivares D, Fontúrbel FE, Niemeyer HM, Pinto CF. 2018. Kin recognition in a subsocial treehopper (Hemiptera: Membracidae). Ecological Entomology 43: 342-350 (DOI: 10.1111/een.12506).

Aguilera-Olivares D, Palma-Onetto V, Flores-Prado L, Zapata V, Niemeyer HM. 2017. X-ray computed tomography reveals distal factors affecting soldier differentiation in a one-piece nesting termite. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 163: 26–34. (DOI: 10.1111/eea.12557).

Aguilera-Olivares D, Rizo-Massu J, Burgos-Lefimil C, Flores-Prado L, Niemeyer HM. 2016. Nestmate recognition in defense against nest invasion by conspecifics during swarming in a one-piece nesting termite. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 89: 11. (DOI 10.1186/s40693-016-0063-9).

Aguilera-Olivares D, Burgos-Lefimil C, Meléndez W, Flores-Prado L, Niemeyer HM. 2016. Chemical basis of nestmate recognition in a defense context in a one-piece nesting termite. Chemoecology 26: 163-172 (DOI 10.1007/s00049-016-0217-x).

Aguilera-Olivares D, Flores-Prado L, Véliz D, Niemeyer HM. 2015. Mechanisms of inbreeding avoidance in the drywood termite Neotermes chilensis (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) determined with microsatellite markers. Insectes Sociaux 62: 237-245. (DOI 10.1007/s00040-015-0399-1).