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Camilo Angarita Yanes
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Cabassous centralis(Cingulata: Dasypodidae) [PDF]
Cabassous centralis (northern naked-tailed armadillo) is a small armadillo with a slender tail. The distinctive tail has widely spaced, thin plates that are gray-pink in color. This fossorial armadillo occurs in diverse tropical habitats and has a distributional range from southern Mexico, through Central America, and into northern South America ...
Virginia Hayssen +3 more
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Avril Figueroa-de-León +2 more
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Shotgun Mitogenomics Provides a Reference Phylogenetic Framework and Timescale for Living Xenarthrans. [PDF]
Xenarthra (armadillos, sloths, and anteaters) constitutes one of the four major clades of placental mammals. Despite their phylogenetic distinctiveness in mammals, a reference phylogeny is still lacking for the 31 described species. Here we used Illumina
Gibb GC +7 more
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An oversimplification of physiological principles leads to flawed macroecological analyses [PDF]
Macrophysiological analyses are useful to predict current and future range limits and improve our understanding of endotherm macroecology, but such analyses too often rely on oversimplifications of endothermic thermoregulatory and energetic physiology, which lessens their applicability.
Justin G. Boyles +7 more
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Inventario de mamíferos no voladores en remanentes de bosque seco tropical en el valle del río Cauca, Cartago, Colombia [PDF]
El estudio de la diversidad local de los mamíferos en el bosque seco tropical (BST) es importante, debido al valor cultural que tienen para las comunidades locales como fuente de alimento y medicina. Además, la información sobre estos ensamblajes es útil
Julián Ricardo Henao-Isaza +5 more
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The northern naked-tailed armadillo in the Lacandona rainforest, Mexico: new records and potential threats [PDF]
We review historic occurrences in Mexico of one of the least known Xenarthra of Mesoamerica – the northern naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous centralis Miller, 1899).
Arturo González Zamora
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The naked-tailed armadilloCabassous centralis(Miller 1899): a new host toParacoccidioides brasiliensis. Molecular identification of the isolate [PDF]
The natural habitat of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis remains undefined but the repeated demonstration of infection by this fungus in the nine-banded armadillo Dasypus novemcinctus has opened interesting research avenues. We report here the isolation of this fungus from the spleen of a naked-tailed armadillo Cabassous centralis (Miller 1899) captured in
Germán Corredor +9 more
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Abstract: The Northern naked-tailed armadillo Cabassous centralis is distributed from México to Ecuador (0-3 000 m asl) in numerous habitats from dry forests to subparamo, tolerating some habitat modification and mixed landscapes including agriculture.
Cristian A. Cruz-Rodríguez +7 more
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The faunal drugstore: animal-based remedies used in traditional medicines in Latin America. [PDF]
Zootherapy is the treatment of human ailments with remedies made from animals and their products. Despite its prevalence in traditional medical practices worldwide, research on this phenomenon has often been neglected in comparison to medicinal plant ...
Alves RR, Alves HN.
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