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Quantitative Physiology Approaches to Understand and Optimize Reducing Power Availability in Environmental Bacteria
(2015-06-04)
The understanding of how carbon fluxes are distributed through a metabolic network offers an overview of the pathways that a given microorganism uses to produce energy, reducing power, and biomass. These invaluable data ...
Chapter 6: Founder variations in isolated populations
(2020)
Isolated populations, also called population isolates and genetic isolates, present several characteristic features that make them useful in the study of the genetic basis of both Mendelian and complex disorders. The ...
Marine Insects
(2008)
Although insects are one of the most diverse groups of organisms on earth, relatively few species are found associated with marine habitats. The majority of these marine species live in intertidal or coastal habitats and ...
Costa Rica
(2014)
Costa Rica is a country with abundant and diverse freshwater ecosystems, which are influenced and characterized by different orographic precipitation regimes. This variety of habitats harbors great biological diversity, ...
Freshwater Decapod Diversity and Conservation in Central America and the Caribbean
(2016)
This chapter provides an overview of the species diversity and conservation status of the freshwater decapods in Central America and the Caribbean islands that date back to the late 1800s in both areas. The majority of the ...
Aristolochiaceae
(2020)
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica is a concise, illustrated guide to all of the species of native, naturalized and commercially cultivated vascular plants of this Central American country, which lies between Nicaragua and ...
Current approaches to the isolation and structural elucidation of active compounds from natural products
(2018)
The essence of medicinal plants, either as pure compounds or as standardized extracts, provides unlimited opportunities for new drug leads because of the unmatched availability of chemical diversity. Due to an increasing ...
Maternal health in Central America: The role of medicinal plants in the pregnancy-related health and well-being of indigenous women in Central America
(2018)
Over the past 20 years, Central America (CA) has made considerable progress in improving the health status of its populations. However, in some countries, the overall health status remains below average with poor outcomes ...