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Validación de una prueba serológica para detectar la infección por Helicobacter pylori en Costa Rica
(2020)Helicobacter pylori es una bacteria Gram negativa capaz de sobrevivir y multiplicarse en la mucosa gástrica humana. Es el factor más importante en el desarrollo de gastritis atrófica crónica, ... -
Shade tolerance within the context of the successional process in tropical rain forests
(2019)Abstract: Shade tolerance (the capacity to survive and grow over long periods under shade) is a key component of plant fitness and the foundation of current theories of forest succession in tropical rain forests. It serves ... -
Crustacean fauna (Stomatopoda: Decapoda) associated with the deepwater fishery of Heterocarpus vicarius (Decapoda: Pandalidae) along the Pacific coast of Costa Rica
(2007)Commercial bottom trawling is a successful and commonly used method to catch marine shrimps. However, the shrimp fishing gears are poorly selective, and in addition to the target species they catch and retain large quantities ... -
Distribution and reproduction of Ambidexter panamense and Palaemonetes schmitti in Pacific Costa Rica (Crustacea, Decapoda)
(1990)Este constituye el primer registro de las especies de carídeos P. schmitti y A. panamense para Costa Rica. Adultos de ambas especies fueron colectados en el estero de Punta Morales, Golfo de Nicoya, de enero a diciembre ... -
Essential oils of Baccharis trinervis (Asteraceae) from Costa Rica
(2017)Baccharis is an Asteraceae genus of flowering plants, which has about 340 to 400 species, ranging from the Southern United States to the Southern extreme of Argentina and Chile through Central America and the Caribbean ... -
New record of the starfish Ophidiaster ludwigi (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) from the Pacific of Mexico and Costa Rica
(2017)Ophidiaster ludwigi had been reported only from Panama and Peru. Here we add record of the genus and species for Mexico and Costa Rica; and, first time its bathymetric distribution (0-156 m) -
Equinodermos del Museo de Zoología de la Universidad de Costa Rica
(2017)El Museo de Zoología de la Universidad de Costa Rica (MZUCR) se funda en 1966 y alberga la colección de organismos vertebrados e invertebrados más completa de Costa Rica. El MZUCR cuenta actualmente con 24 ... -
Indicator-based management recommendations for an artisanal bottom-longline fishery in Costa Rica, Central America
(2017)There is a growing need to strengthen the small-scale fishing sector with emerging governance methods that improve fishers’ threatened livelihoods. Therefore, this study’s aim was to develop management ... -
El arrecife coralino de Punta Cocles, costa Caribe de Costa Rica
(2004)This paper describes the Punta Cocles reef (Limón, Costa Rica). Data were obtained by sampling nine transects along the coast and observations done by skin diving between September and November of 2002.This reef consist ... -
Abundance of Petrolisthes armatus (Crustacea: Porcellanidae) on a tropical estuarine intertidal rocky beach, Gulf of Nicoya estuary, Costa Rica
(2016-09-22)Se estudió, de diciembre de 1997 a noviembre de 1998 (14 fechas), la población del cagrejo porcelánido Petrolisthes armatus en dos sitios en una playa rocosa de entre mareas en el Golfo de Nicoya, costa pacífica de Costa ... -
Plecoptera
(2010-12)El orden Plecoptera (“Plecos”=“Plegar”, “Pteros”=“Alas”), también conocido como moscas de la piedra, es un grupo relativamente pequeño de insectos. Las ninfas de la región centroamericana se reconocen fácilmente por tener ... -
Crecimiento y reproducción de Strombus galeatus (Gastropoda: Strombidae) en el Pacífico de Costa Rica
(1998)Strombus galeatus is a gastropod distributed from the Gulf of California in Mexico to the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador, and as other strombid species, in the costarican coast is a resource of high overfishing with no ... -
Características poblacionales del cambute, Strombus galeatus (Gastropoda: Strombidae) en el Parque Marino Ballena, Pacífico, Costa Rica (1999-2003)
(2008-12)Marine parks and reserves are important for biodiversity conservation and as sustainable places for recovery of fishery resources, especially for those species of economic importance such as the Pacific conch Strombus ... -
Ultraestructura del bambú Guadua macclurei (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) de Costa Rica
(2006-08-20)Se evaluaron ultraestructuralmente secciones de la lámina de la hoja, vaina de la hoja y rama, de una planta adulta de Guadua macclurei. Las brácteas del culmo carecen de setas orales. En la superficie adaxial de la lámina ... -
Ultraestructura del bambú Guadua paniculata (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) de Costa Rica
(2006-12)Sections of leaf lamina, leaf sheath and branches of adult Guadua paniculata collected in Costa Rica, were studied ultrastructurally. Diagnostic ultrastructural characteristics include the cellular pattern of the adaxial ... -
Ultraestructura del bambú Guadua amplexifolia (Poaceaea: Bambusoideae) presente en Costa Rica
(2006-12)Se estudió la ultraestructura anatómica de la lámina y la vaina de la hoja, así como de la bráctea del culmo, de Guadua angustifolia var. Bicolor, por medio de los micros-copio electrónico de barrido. Se encontraron ... -
Ultraestructura del bambú Guadua angustifolia var. bicolor (Poaceae: Bambusoideae), presente en Costa Rica
(2006-08-20)Sections of leaf lamina, leaf sheath and branches of adult Guadua paniculata collected in Costa Rica, were studied ultrastructurally. Diagnostic ultrastructural characteristics include the cellular pattern of the adaxial ... -
Caracterización anatómica ultraestructural de las variantes “Atlántica”, “Sur” y “Cebolla” del bambú, Guadua angustifolia (Poaceae: Bambusoideae), en Costa Rica
(2006-08-20)We present an ultrastructural characterization of three variants or “forms” of Guadua angustifolia and of the closely related Guadua sp., from Costa Rican populations. Their ultrastructure is similar. Differences are: ... -
Estudios sobre la estabilidad del virus del rayado fino del maíz por degradación enzimática del ARN viral y microscopia electrónica de las partículas
(1986)The stability of "Maize Rayado Fino Virus" capsids was studied correlating enzymatic degradation analysis of the RNA in full capsids with electron microscopy of negatively stained particles. The great thermal stability of ... -
Una doble infección viral en orquídeas del género Cymbidium
(1986)A double -viral infection in Cymbidium hybrids is described. Virions were discovered by negative staining of sick plant sap, which showed a rigid type and a flexible virus. Two types of viral-cytoplasmatic inclusions, ...