Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, Nivel 3.
Líneas de Investigación
Formación Académica
Doctor en Ciencias en Fisiología de la Reproducción y Biología Molecular. New Mexico State University (1996).
Maestro en Ciencias en Producción de Ovinos y Caprinos. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1986).
Ingeniero Agrónomo Zootecnista. Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango (1993).
Flores-Salas, J. M., Castillo-Zuñiga, M. S., Meza-Herrera, C. A., Calderon-Leyva, M. G., Bustamante-Andrade, J. A., Santiago-Miramontes, M. d. l. A. d., Moreno-Avalos, S., Alvarado-Espino, A. S., Contreras-Villarreal, V., & Véliz-Deras, F. G. (2025). Maternal Social Hierarchy, Morphometric Traits, Live Weight, and Metabolic Status as Related to the Offspring Pre-Weaning Growth in Crossbred Dairy Goats. Animals, 15(8), 1100. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani15081100
Meza-Herrera, C. A., Navarrete-Molina, C., Macias-Cruz, U., Arellano-Rodriguez, G., De Santiago-Miramontes, A., Sariñana-Navarrete, M. A., ... & Perez-Marin, C. C. (2024). Dairy Goat Production Systems: A Comprehensive Analysis to Reframe Their Global Diversity. Animals: an Open Access Journal from MDPI, 14(24), 3717. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14243717
Navarrete-Molina, C., Meza-Herrera, C. A., De Santiago-Miramontes, A., Valenzuela-Núñez, L. M., Marin-Tinoco, R. I., Soto-Cardenas, M. A., & Sariñana-Navarrete, M. A. (2024). Dairy Goat Production: Socioeconomic, Environmental, and Cultural Importance Across Time (1970–2022) and Possible Scenarios (2050). Resources, 13(12), 177. https://doi.org/10.3390/resources13120177
Legarreta-González, M. A., Meza-Herrera, C. A., Rodríguez-Martínez, R., Loya-González, D., Chávez-Tiznado, C. S., Contreras-Villarreal, V., & Véliz-Deras, F. G. (2024). Selecting a time-series model to predict drinking water extraction in a semi-arid region in Chihuahua, Mexico. Sustainability, 16(22), 9722. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16229722
LLegarreta-González, M. A., Meza-Herrera, C. A., Rodríguez-Martínez, R., Chávez-Tiznado, C. S., & Véliz-Deras, F. G. (2024). Time series analysis to estimate the volume of drinking water consumption in the city of Meoqui, Chihuahua, Mexico. Water, 16(18), 2634. https://doi.org/10.3390/w16182634
Rodriguez-Sánchez, A. J., Meza-Herrera, C. A., De Santiago-Miramontes, A., Navarrete-Molina, C., Veliz-Deras, F. G., Ordoñez-Morales, J. Z., Flores-Salas, J. M., & Marin-Tinoco, R. I. (2024). Circular Economy, Dairy Cow Feed Leftovers, and Withania somnifera Supplementation: Effects on Black Belly Ram’s Libido, Sperm Quality, Sexual Behavior, and Hemogram Values. Biology, 13(9), 656. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology13090656
Barraza-Guerrero S.I., García-De la Peña C., Meza-Herrera C.A., Siller-Rodríguez Q.K., Vaca-Paniagua F., Díaz-Velásquez C., De la Cruz-Montoya A., & Valenzuela-Núñez L.M. (2024). Understanding the long-lasting associations among humans, neglected dogs, tick-borne diseases, and core blood bacteria-related pathogenic taxa using next-generation sequencing. Int. J. One Health, 10(1): 63–73. https://doi.org/10.14202/ijoh.2024.63-73
Meza-Herrera, C. A., Machado-Ramos, M. G., De Santiago-Miramontes, A., Mellado, M., Navarrete-Molina, C., Sariñana-Navarrete, M. d. l. Á., Arévalo, J. R., Angel-García, O., Alvarado-Espino, A. S., & Rodriguez-Venegas, R. (2023). Connectedness between Intensive and Extensive Ruminant Production Systems: Using Dairy Cow Feed Leftovers to Generate Out-of-Season Bio-Economic Indices in Goats. Agriculture, 13(11), 2079. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13112079
Machado-Ramos, M. G., Meza-Herrera, C. A., De Santiago-Miramontes, A., Mellado, M., Véliz-Deras, F. G., Arellano-Rodríguez, F., Contreras-Villarreal, V., Arévalo, J. R., Carrillo-Moreno, D. I., & Flores-Salas, J. M. (2023). A Circular Economy Approach to Integrate Divergent Ruminant Production Systems: Using Dairy Cow Feed Leftovers to Enhance the Out-of-Season Reproductive Performance in Goats. Animals, 13(15), 2431. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13152431
Luna-Garcia, L. A., Meza-Herrera, C. A., Perez-Marin, C. C., De Santiago-Miramontes, A., Flores-Salas, J. M., Corona, R., Calderon-Leyva, G., Veliz-Deras, F. G., Navarrete-Molina, C., & Marin-Tinoco, R. I. (2023). Targeted Glutamate Supply Boosts Insulin Concentrations, Ovarian Activity, and Ovulation Rate in Yearling Goats during the Anestrous Season. Biology, 12(7), 1041. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology12071041
Veliz-Deras, F. G., Meza-Herrera, C. A., De Santiago-Miramontes, A., Santos-Alvarado, A., Bustamante-Andrade, J. A., Flores-Salas, J. M., Arellano-Rodríguez, F., & Mellado, M. (2023). An Enhanced Body Condition Improved Sexual Behavior, Ovarian Structure and Function, and Reproductive Fitness in Rangeland-Crossbred Dairy Goats. Agriculture, 13(7), 1337. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13071337
Rodriguez-Venegas, R., Meza-Herrera, C. A., Robles-Trillo, P. A., Angel-Garcia, O., Legarreta-Gonzalez, M. A., Sánchez-Vocanegra, H. F., & Rodriguez-Martinez, R. (2023). Effect of THI on Milk Production, Percentage of Milking Cows, and Time Lying in Holstein Cows in Northern-Arid Mexico. Animals, 13(10), 1715. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13101715
Sifuentes-Lamónt, P. I., Meza-Herrera, C. A., Véliz-Deras, F. G., Alvarado-Espino, A. S., Alvarado-Espino, A. V., Calderón-Leyva, G., Angel-Garcia, O., Carrillo-Moreno, D. I., Contreras-Villarreal, V., Delgado González, R. A., & Bustamante-Andrade, J. A. (2022). Multifaceted Interplay among Social Dominance, Body Condition, Appetitive and Consummatory Sexual Behaviors, and Semen Quality in Dorper Rams during Out-Of-Season and Transition Periods. Animals, 12(23), 3339. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12233339
Arrebola, F. A., Torres-Martell, R., González-Casquet, O., Meza-Herrera, C. A., & Pérez-Marín, C. C. (2022). Periovulatory Hormonal Profiles after Estrus Induction and Conception Rate by Fixed-Time AI in Payoya Goats during the Anestrous Season. Animals, 12(20), 2853. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12202853
Nicolás-López, P., Macías-Cruz, U., Avendaño-Reyes, L., Valadez-García, K. M., Mellado, M., Meza-Herrera, C. A., ... & Luna-Palomera, C. (2023). Ferulic acid supplementation for 40 days in hair ewe lambs experiencing seasonal heat stress: short-term effects on physiological responses, growth, metabolism, and hematological profile. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 30(5), 11562-11571. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-22962-5
Luna-García, L. A., Meza-Herrera, C. A., Pérez-Marín, C. C., Corona, R., Luna-Orozco, J. R., Véliz-Deras, F. G., Delgado-Gonzalez, R., Rodriguez-Venegas, R., Rosales-Nieto, C. A., Bustamante-Andrade, J. A., & Gutierrez-Guzman, U. N. (2022). Goats as Valuable Animal Model to Test the Targeted Glutamate Supplementation upon Antral Follicle Number, Ovulation Rate, and LH-Pulsatility. Biology, 11(7), 1015. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11071015
Rodriguez-Venegas, R., Meza-Herrera, C. A., Robles-Trillo, P. A., Angel-Garcia, O., Rivas-Madero, J. S., & Rodriguez-Martínez, R. (2022). Heat Stress Characterization in a Dairy Cattle Intensive Production Cluster under Arid Land Conditions: An Annual, Seasonal, Daily, and Minute-To-Minute, Big Data Approach. Agriculture, 12(6), 760. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12060760
Gámez-Vázquez, H. G., Rosales-Nieto, C. A., Urrutia-Morales, J., Mellado, M., Meza-Herrera, C. A., Vázquez-García, J. M., Hernández-Arteaga, L. E. S., Negrete-Sánchez, L. O., Loredo-Osti, C., Rivas-Jacobo, M. A., & Beltrán-López, S. (2022). Effect of Replacing Sorghum Stubble with Tillandsia recurvata (L.) on Liveweight Change, Blood Metabolites, and Hematic Biometry of Goats. Biology, 11(4), 517. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11040517
Macías-Cruz, U., Vicente-Pérez, R., Correa-Calderon, A., Mellado, M., Meza-Herrera, C. A., Arechiga, C. F., & Avendaño-Reyes, L. (2021). n-6 Polyunsaturated fatty acids in the feeding of late gestation hair ewes: the effects on thermoregulation, growth, and metabolism of heat-stressed growing lambs. International Journal of Biometeorology, 65(12), 2077-2086. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-021-02165-2
Santos-Jimenez, Z., Meza-Herrera, C. A., Calderon-Leyva, G., Martinez-Ros, P., Guillen-Muñoz, J. M., & Gonzalez-Bulnes, A. (2021). Efficiency of hCG for Inducing Resumption of Ovarian Cyclicity and Synchronized Ovulations during the Seasonal Anestrous in Sheep. Animals, 11(11), 3159. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11113159
Licenciatura
Sistemas de Producción de Ovinos
Maestría en Ciencias en Economía Agrícola y de los Recursos Naturales
Doctorado en Ciencias en Recursos Naturales y Medio Ambiente en Zonas áridas