Augusto J. Montiel-Castro

• PhD
• Associate Lecturer-Researcher at Metropolitan Autonomous University

Despite being perceived as a warm country, winters in the Central Mexican Plateau frequently reach temperatures below zero Celsius. Prolonged exposures to low temperatures resulting in heart and respiratory morbidities are estimated to be responsible for 50% of the reported illness in the plateau, attributable primarily to the design of homes ill-s...

The emergent concept of the social microbiome implies a view of a highly connected biological world, in which microbial interchange across organisms may be influenced by social and ecological connections occurring at different levels of biological organization. We explore this idea reviewing evidence of whether increasing social complexity in prima...

Objetivo: evaluar la sustentabilidad económica del cultivo de maíz criollo (Zea mays L.) en Acambay, Estado de México. Diseño/metodología/aproximación: El área de estudio fue el municipio de Acambay, del estado de México. Se aplicó un cuestionario a 50 productores de maíz de los ejidos y comunidades agrarias de la Soledad, Pueblo Nuevo, Loma Linda,...

Animals harbor an extensive, dynamic microbial ecosystem in their gut. Gut microbiota (GM) supposedly modulate various host functions including fecundity, metabolism, immunity, cognition and behavior. Starting by analyzing the concept of the holobiont as a unit of selection, we highlight recent findings suggesting an intimate link between GM and an...

Microbiota, the community of microorganisms in a particular site (e.g., the gut) has been related to a variety of physiological and behavioural processes including influences on individual survivorship and reproductive success. Its similarities across distinct subjects may be dependent on factors such as diet and phylogenetic relationships. Yet, as...

The possibility that microbiota mediates social behaviour and the implications of such relationship, is still a relatively recent field of research that starts to attract the interest of the scientific community. The present review compiles studies suggesting that microbiota is homogenized between different individuals through social interactions,...

The possibility that microbiota mediates social behaviour and the implications of such relationship, 5is still a relatively recent field of research that starts to attract the interest of the scientific community. The present review compiles studies suggesting that microbiota is homogenized between different individuals through social interactions,...

The precise mechanisms for the onset of labor at term remain unknown, yet several studies in humans reveal the role of cytokines in the initiation and maintenance of labor, showing many of the hallmarks of inflammation. Recent findings suggest a possible relationship between the activity of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and the vagal anti-infl...

The concept of “liberty” has been revised in great depth by multiple authors of a great variety of disciplines. However, only at the beginning of the XIX century that the modern evolutionary theory opens the possibility of studying it as an evolutionary capacity and a cognitive process. Is it then possible to identify its components in other specie...

By focusing on studies on primate behaviour and human neuroscience, we describe how different neurological processes are the base of proximate aspects of social-decision making. We also reviewed the fact that distinct aspects of animal behaviour are not under conscious or abstract control and that instead they may be regulated by adaptive ´rules of...

Recent data suggest that the human body is not such a neatly self-sufficient island after all. It is more like a super-complex ecosystem containing trillions of bacteria and other microorganisms that inhabit all our surfaces; skin, mouth, sexual organs, and specially intestines. It has recently become evident that such microbiota, specifically with...

Recent comparative evidence suggests that some nonhuman species feel empathy towards fellow group members and empathy is a necessary capacity for the presence and evolution of morality. On the other hand, the Social Brain Hypothesis suggests relationships between the evolution of brain's neocortex in primates and the size of their social groups. Th...

Recent comparative evidence suggests that some nonhuman species feel empathy towards fellow group members and empathy is a necessary capacity for the presence and evolution of morality. On the other hand, the Social Brain Hypothesis suggests relationships between the evolution of brain's neocortex in primates and the size of their social groups. Th...