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First record of Toxoplasma gondii in Chaetophractus villosus in Argentina [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular apicomplexan parasite that causes abortion and reproductive disorder in domestic animals. T. gondii is a common worldwide disease in homeothermic animals, including birds and humans.
Casanave, Emma Beatriz   +3 more
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Current Distribution of the Nine-Banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) in the United States

open access: yesDiversity
The nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus: hereafter armadillo) was first recorded in the United States (U.S.) in the state of Texas in 1849 and has been expanding its range northward and eastward since then.
Brett A. DeGregorio, Anant Deshwal
doaj   +1 more source

Terrestrial mammal responses to habitat structure and quality of remnant riparian forests in an Amazonian cattle-ranching landscape [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Extensive 1970–2010 deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has generated a ~ 1.5 Mha fragmented region known as the ‘arc of deforestation’. Farmers and cattle ranchers throughout Brazil are legally required to set-aside riparian forest strips within their
Machado, Ricardo Bomfim   +2 more
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WILDLIFE USE BY RURAL COMMUNITIES IN THE CATAZAJÁ - LA LIBERTAD WETLANDS, CHIAPAS, MÉXICO [PDF]

open access: yesRa Ximhai, 2011
The use of wild vertebrates was analyzed for rural communities in Catazajá and La Libertad municipalities, Chiapas state. From interviews (n=190) and two workshops (January 2007-December 2008) applied to four communities (Playas, Punta Arena, Morelos and
Yasminda García-Del Valle   +3 more
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Diversity of medium and large neotropical mammals in an area of mixed rain forest

open access: yesActa Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2018
  Medium and large mammals (> 1 kg) were studied using camera traps with active sensors in a Conservation Unit located in an area of Mixed Rain Forest or Araucaria Forest (Atlantic Forest at altitude) in the South of Brazil, as a method for investigating
Rosane Vera Marques, Marta Elena Fabián
doaj   +1 more source

Evolution of trappin genes in mammals

open access: yesBMC Evolutionary Biology, 2010
Background Trappin is a multifunctional host-defense peptide that has antiproteolytic, antiinflammatory, and antimicrobial activities. The numbers and compositions of trappin paralogs vary among mammalian species: human and sheep have a single trappin-2 ...
Furutani Yutaka   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Epidemiological factors related to the transmission risk of Trypanosoma cruzi in a Quilombola community, State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

open access: yesRevista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2011
INTRODUCTION: This work was an epidemiological investigation of the risk of Trypanosoma cruzi transmission in the rural Quilombola community of Furnas do Dionízio, State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
Marlon Cezar Cominetti   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adakah Kaitan antara Penyakit Kusta Kerbau (Lepra Bubalorum) dan Penyakit Kusta Manusia (Lepra Humanum) di Sulawesi ? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Lepra bubalorum or leprosy in water buffaloes, is an exotic disease in buffaloes. It is a very interesting phenomenon in Veterinary Medicine because until to date it has been found only in Indonesia.
Budiarso, I. T. (Iwan)
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Ocorrência de tatu-de-rabo-mole, Cabassous unicinctus (Cingulata, Dasypodidae) no Pantanal, Brasil. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Há poucos registros na literatura científica sobre a ocorrência de tatu-de-rabo-mole (Cabassous unicinctus) na planície do Pantanal e nos planaltos adjacentes.
ARAGONA, M.   +12 more
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Phylogenetic multi-locus codon models and molecular clocks reveal the monophyly of haematophagous reduviid bugs and their evolution at the formation of South America.

open access: yes, 2010
We previously constructed a single molecular clock to date insect evolution that remains a cornerstone within entomological dating. The insect clock predicts that triatomine bugs, the vectors of South American trypanosomiasis, originated with the ...
Gaunt, Michael W, Patterson, James S
core   +1 more source

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