Parasites have accompanied the human species since its origin and through their migrations around the world. Evidence of ancient parasitic diseases has been recovered from ancient human remains since 1910. The present work ...

The diversity of Actinobacteria associated with ants that do not grow fungi was determined in the Guánica subtropical dry forest. Actinobacteria produces secondary metabolites used as antibiotics antifungals and antivirals. ...

Integrons are genetic elements with a site-specific recombination system which includes an integrase (IntI) capable of capturing and expressing promoterless, circular DNA molecules known as gene cassettes. Although integrons ...

Studies focused on the distribution of understory species associated with mangrove forests are very scarce. This research provides a detailed description of the understory community and their environmental requirements at ...

The Neotropical genus Pselaphomorphus Motschulsky, 1855 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae: Jubini Raffray) is revised, including the redescription of P. sculpturatus Motshulsky, 1855 (Panama), P. longiceps Raffray, ...

Dramatic advances in nanomaterials synthesis and characterization provide promising possibilities for biomedical applications. Consequently, there is a growing demand for well- characterized, low cost toxicity assays for ...

Most of the microbial diversity in an environment cannot be studied through laboratory standard media culture methods. For this, an emerging science, coined “Metagenomics”, has been developed as an effort to access the ...

This thesis reports the use of two anaerobic batch reactors (ABRs) to transform a protein solid waste into a renewable energy source. The “heart” of this type of reactor depends on the microbial community within the reactor, ...

The ants in the tribe Attini cultivate a fungus (Basidiomycota: Agaricales) as food and protect it from specific mycoparasites, Escovopsis (Ascomycota: Hypocreales), using the antibiotic production capacity of Actinobacteria ...

Invasive species are a major focus within conservation biology. The widely introduced cane toad, Rhinella marina, has gained particular interest in studies of effects of invasive species on native communities. In this study ...