• Fungal-Mediated Degradation of Emerging Pollutants in Sewage Sludge 

      Rodríguez Rodríguez, Carlos E.; Caminal, Glòria; Vicent, Teresa; Díaz Cruz, M. Silvia; Eljarrat, Ethel; Farré Urgell, Marinella; López de Alda, Miren; Petrović, Mira; Barceló Cullerès, Damià (2012-01-01)
      This chapter summarizes the novel approaches employed for the removal of emerging pollutants from sludge by means of fungal processes. The first part of the chapter introduces the potential application of fungi in ...
    • FungalTraits: a user-friendly traits database of fungi and fungus-like stramenopiles 

      Rojas Jiménez, Keilor Osvaldo (2021-01-19)
      The cryptic lifestyle of most fungi necessitates molecular identification of the guild in environmental studies. Over the past decades, rapid development and affordability of molecular tools have tremendously improved ...
    • Fungi for the bioremediation of pharmaceutical-derived pollutants: A bioengineering approach to water treatment 

      Akerman Sánchez, Galit; Rojas Jiménez, Keilor Osvaldo (2021-07-01)
      The excessive amount of pharmaceutical compounds (PhCs) released into aquatic environments poses a risk to humans, wildlife, and environmental health. It is a serious problem that requires urgent attention. In this work, ...
    • Fungi in aquatic ecosystems 

      Grossart, Hans-Peter; Wyngaert, Silke Van den; Kagami, Maiko; Wurzbacher, Christian; Cunliffe, Michael; Rojas Jiménez, Keilor Osvaldo (2019-03)
      Fungi are phylogenetically and functionally diverse ubiquitous components of almost all ecosystems on Earth, including aquatic environments stretching from high montane lakes down to the deep ocean. Aquatic ecosystems, ...
    • Fungi increases kelp (Ecklonia radiata) remineralisation and dissolved organic carbon, alkalinity, and dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) production 

      Perkins, Anita K.; Rose, Andrew L.; Grossart, Hans-Peter; Schulz, Kai G.; Neubauer, Darshan; Tonge, Matthew P.; Rosentreter, Judith A.; Eyre, Bradley D.; Rojas Jiménez, Keilor Osvaldo; Deschaseaux, Elisabeth; Oakes, Joanne M. (2023-09)
      Fungi are key players in terrestrial organic matter (OM) degradation, but little is known about their role in marine environments. Here we compared the degradation of kelp (Ecklonia radiata) in mesocosms with and without ...
    • Fungi with history: Unveiling the mycobiota of historic documents of Costa Rica 

      Escudero Leyva, Efraín; Vieto Fonseca, Sofía; Avendaño Vega, Roberto; Rojas Gätjens, Diego; Agüero Gamboa, Paola; Pacheco Ureña, Carlos; Montero Villalobos, Mavis Lili; Chaverri Echandi, Priscila; Chavarría Vargas, Max (2022-06-12)
      Through nondestructive techniques, we studied the physicochemical characteristics and mycobiota of five key historic documents from Costa Rica, including the Independence Act of Costa Rica from 1821. We determined that for ...
    • Fungicidal activity of a phospholipase A2-derived synthetic peptide variant against Candida albicans 

      Murillo, Luis A.; Lan, Chung Yu; Agabian, Nina M.; Larios Ramos, Silda; Lomonte, Bruno (2007-09)
      pEM-2, a 13-mer synthetic peptide variant derived from myotoxin II, a phospholipase A2 homologue present in Bothrops asper snake venom, has shown potent bactericidal activity in previous studies due to the combination of ...
    • FUNREAD: A Co-designed online learning platform to enhance english language skills and promote diversity among Costa Rican ELLs 

      Rojas Alfaro, Roberto Enrique; Montenegro Sánchez, Ana Marcela (2022)
      En esta presentación se describió la plataforma digital que se está desarrollando como parte del proyecto de investigación C2330 "Diseño e implementación del aplicativo FUNREAD: una herramienta de mediación pedagógica para ...
    • Fur mite, Listrocarpus alouattae Fain (Acari: Atopomelidae), from Alouatta palliata Gray (Primates: Cebidae) in Costa Rica 

      Troyo Rodríguez, Adriana; Solano Chinchilla, Mayra Emilia; Calderón Arguedas, Ólger; Chinchilla Carmona, Misael; Sánchez Porras, Ronald; Gutiérrez Espeleta, Gustavo A. (2002)
      Se presentan resultados preliminares de un estudio sobre ectoparásitos de monos de Costa Rica. Se evaluaron 36 monos aulladores (Alouatta palliata Gray, 1849) y 3 monos capuchinos (Cebus capucinus Linnaeus, 1758) provenientes ...
    • Furosemide Diuretic Activity Evaluation in Female Sprague-Dawley Rats 

      Castillo Henríquez, Luis; Campos Cerdas, Andrea; Chacón Durán, Rebeca (2019)
      This research article focuses on the evaluation of the diuretic activity of Furosemide administered to a group of female Sprague Dawley rats, through the use of metabolic boxes. Methods: A hydration volume of 5 mL/100 g ...
    • Further disentangling of a taxonomic puzzle: Maxillaria Ramosa, Ornithidium Pendulum, and a new species, O. Elianae (Orchidaceae) 

      Blanco Coto, Mario Alberto; Carnevali Fernández-Concha, Germán; Bogarín Chaves, Diego Gerardo; Singer, Rodrigo B. (Harvard Papers in Botany, 2008)
      McIllmurray and Oakeley (2004) demonstrated that the name Maxillaria ramosa has been misapplied to Ornithidium pendulum since 1967, and possibly corresponds to M. cassapensis. We refer Ornithidium ochraceum, O. loefgrenii, ...
    • Fusarium: more than a node or a foot-shaped basal cell 

      Willem Crous, Pedro; Lombard, Lorenzo; Sandoval Denis, ‪Marcelo; Seifert, Keith A.; Schroers, Hans Josef; Chaverri Echandi, Priscila; Gené Díaz, Josepa; Guarro Artigas, Josep; Hirooka, Yuuri; Bensch, Konstanze; Kema, Gert; Lamprecht, Sandra C.; Cai, Lei; Rossman, Amy Y.; Stadler, Marc; Summerbell, Richard C.; Taylor, John W.; Ploch, Sebastian; Visagie, Cobus Meyer; Yilmaz, Neriman; Frisvad, Jens Christian; Abdel-Azeem, Ahmed M.; Abdollahzadeh, Jafar; Abdolrasouli, Ali Reza; Akulov, Alexander; Alberts, Johanna Francina; Araújo, João P. M.; Ariyawansa, Hiran Anjana; Bakhshi, Mounes; Bendiksby, Mika; Ben Hadj Amor, A.; Bezerra, Jadson D. P.; Boekhout, Teun; Câmara, ‪Marcos Paz Saraiva; Carbia, Mauricio; Cardinali, Gianluigi; Castañeda Ruiz, Rafael Felipe; Celis Ramirez, Adriana Marcela; Chaturvedi, Vishnu; Collemare, Jérôme; Croll, Daniel; Damm‬, ‪Ulrike; Decock, Cony A.; de Vries, Ronald P.; Ezekiel, ‪Chibundu N.; Fan, ‪Xinlei; Fernández, Nicolás; Gaya, Ester; González, Cristian; Gramaje Pérez, David; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias; Grube, Martin; Guevara Suarez, ‪Marcela; Gupta, Vijai Kumar; Guarnaccia, Vladimiro; Haddaji, A.; Hagen, Ferry; Haelewaters, Danny; Hansen, Karen; Hashimoto, Akira; Hernández Restrepo, ‪Margarita; Houbraken, Jos; Hubka, V.; Hyde, Kevin David; Iturriaga, Teresa; Jeewon, Rajesh; Johnston, Peter R.; Jurjević, Željko; Karalti, Iskender; Korsten, ‪Lise; Kuramae, ‪Eiko; Kušan, Ivana; Labuda, Roman; Lawrence, Daniel P.; Lee, H. B.; Lechat, Christian; Li, H. Y.; Litovka, Yulia A.; Maharachchikumbura, Sajeewa; Marin Felix‬, ‪Yasmina; Matio Kemkuignou, Blondelle; Matocec, N.; McTaggart, Alistair; Mlčoch, Patrik; Mugnai, Laura; Nakashima, Chiharu; Nilsson, R. Henrik; Noumeur, Sara Raouia; Pavlov, Igor N.; Peralta, M. P.; Phillips, Alan J. L.; Pitt, John L.; Polizzi, Giancarlo; Quaedvlieg, William; Rajeshkumar, K. C.; Restrepo Restrepo, Silvia; Rhaiem, Azza; Robert, J.; Robert, Vincent; Rodrigues, Anderson M.; Salgado Salazar, Catalina; Samson, Robert A.; Santos, A. C. S.; Shivas, Roger; de Souza Motta, Cristina Maria; Sun, Guang-Yu; Swart, Wijnand; Szoke, S.; Tan, Yu Pei; Taylor, Joanne; Taylor, ‪Paul W. J.; Vieira Tiago, Patrícia; Váczy, Kálmán Zoltán; van de Wiele, N.; van der Merwe, Nicolaas A.; Verkley, Gerard J. M.; Vieira, W. A. S.; Vizzini, Alfredo; Weir, Bevan; Wijayawardene, Nalin N.; Xia, Ji-Wen; Yañez Morales, Maria de Jesus; Yurkov, Andrey; Zamora Senoret, Juan Carlos; Zare, Rasoul; Zhang, Chunli; Thines, Marco (2021)
      Recent publications have argued that there are potentially serious consequences for researchers in recognising distinct genera in the terminal fusarioid clade of the family Nectriaceae. Thus, an alternate hypothesis, namely ...
    • ¿Futopías “patrón FIFA”? Costa Rica en Brasil 2014 

      Villena Fiengo, Sergio (2014)
      En Costa Rica, la articulación entre fútbol y nacionalismo atraviesa distintos momentos y adquiere diversos matices ideológicos. Inicialmente, fue vehículo para las aspiraciones modernizantes de las élites liberales ...
    • Future Changes in Simulated Streamflow in Costa Rica from CMIP6 climate models 

      Hidalgo León, Hugo G.; Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Quesada Román, Adolfo (2022-06-21)
      Statistically downscaled daily data from an ensemble of five General Circulation Models (GCMs) from the Climate Model Intercomparison Program 6 (CMIP6) will be used to determine changes (with respect to a baseline historical ...
    • Future changes in the ecosystem services at Guanacaste Conservation Area, Costa Rica and their implications for the nearby communities of the Central American Dry Corridor 

      Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Moreno Díaz, Mary Luz; Hidalgo León, Hugo G. (2022)
      We present a valuation of the main ecosystem services of the Rincon de la Vieja National Park (RVNP), as part of the Guanacaste Conservation Area (GCA) in the North Pacific of Costa Rica. The analysis consisted of an ...
    • El futuro de la investigación sobre el Mosaico Dorado del frijol 

      Morales G., Francisco José (Universidad de Costa Rica, 1994)
    • Futuro de los pequeños productores de frijol en México y su relación con la agricultura comercial 

      Lépiz Ildefonso, Rogelio (Universidad de Costa Rica, 1988)
      México en los últimos 20 años ha registrado una ligera reducción en la superficie cosechada de 2.1 a 1.8 millones de hectáreas y un incremento moderado en la producción de grano, de 0.91 a 0.99 millones de toneladas anuales; ...
    • Futuro, Predicción y Profecía 

      Pacheco, Francisco Antonio
    • FUZZY GAMES 

      Alvarado Sibaja, Raúl