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Materias / palabras clave: Medicina; Medicine

Materias / palabras clave: Medicina; Medicine

Recent research into decomposition has shed light on the intricate interplay within multi-kingdom communities, with microbial populations emerging as key players in the breakdown process and emphasizing their interaction...

Materias / palabras clave: Educación; General; Education; Evaluación; Evaluation

Materias / palabras clave: Social Science; Anthropology; General; Ciencias sociales; Antropología

Materias / palabras clave: Political science; Colombia; Public administration; Ciencia política; Administración pública

Feeding decisions under predation risk can be a key in the life of scavenger organisms, and tuned recognition of predation alarm cues and flexibility in the response are fundamental. The effect of injured conspecifics on...

ABSTRACT Bird droppings are an unusual food resource for coprophagous insects and used mostly by opportunistic decomposers. Among them, dung beetles feed mainly on dung, although the species differ in their trophic plast...

Transhumance is the traditional livestock practice consisting in the seasonal movement of herds between winter and summer pastures. Transhumance have important effects on the ecosystem functions from local to regional sc...

Twenty nests of Coprophanaeus (Coprophanaeus) cyanescens (Olsoufieff) were studied in the field and described herein for the first time. They are paracoprid, subterranean (simple), and basically L-shaped. Nine pear-shape...

Evidence suggesting that statins may contribute to renoprotection has been provided in experimental 28 and clinical studies. Statins restore endothelial nitric oxide (NO) levels by mechanisms including up-reg- 29 ulation...

Thyroid hormones play a key role in adipose tissue development and function. Hypothyroidism (HypoT) can delay mammary tumor development in rats, possibly by altering mammary adipose tissue (MAT) and its interaction with ...

The fossil record of New World vultures (Cathartidae) and hawks (Accipitridae) in South America is extensive but still remains patchy, with relatively few records coming from northern South America. The aim of the presen...

Rare earth based nanostructures constitute a type of functional materials widely used and studied in the recent literature. The purpose of this review is to provide a general and comprehensive overview of the current sta...

We explore the hidden diversity of the terrestrial frog genus Niceforonia, based on phylogenetic and morphological evidence, we describe two new species. Both species are found in pristine unexplored old-growth forest of...