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Neuropsychological Test Performance in Cognitively Normal Spanish-speaking Nonagenarians with Little Education
(2016-06)
To find associations of age, sex, and education with neuropsychological test performance in cognitively normal Spanish-speaking Costa Rican nonagenarians with little education; to provide norms; and to compare their ...
El diagnóstico en psiquiatría: una discusión teórica y práctica para el abordaje clínico
Diagnosis in psychiatry: a theoretical and practical discussion for clinical assessment
(2017)
El artículo aborda las dificultades en el diagnóstico psiquiátrico por las características propias de estos trastornos que, junto con la definición de lo patológico desde la prescripción de lo moralmente aceptado y los ...
Papel de la bacteria endosimbionte Wolbachia en el control de enfermedades vectoriales: dengue, zika y chikunkunya
(2017)
Wolbachia es un género de bacterias perteneciente al orden Rickettsiales, que participa en diversas relaciones simbióticas con varios organismos, principalmente artrópodos y nematodos. Debido a su capacidad para inducir ...
Effect of exposition to chlorpyrifos upon plasmatic cholinesterases, hematology and blood biochemistry values in Bothrops asper (Serpentes: Viperidae)
(2018)
The terciopelo (Bothrops asper), is one of the most important venomous snakes in Costa Rica and common on agriculture where insecticides are frequently used for pest control. To assess the exposure to
organophosphates on ...
Myxomycetes within ecotones in temperate and tropical forests
Mixomicetes en ecotonos forestales de bosques templados y tropicales
Mixomicetos em ecótonos florestais de bosques temperados e tropicais
(2021)
Ecotones are interesting portions of forests where microorganisms can be studied for monitoring and
diversity purposes. Given the faster life cycle of these organisms, their study in such a context is important
to develop ...
Comparative analysis on datasets of myxomycetes associated with boreal, temperate and tropical regions of North America
(2020-10)
Datasets from boreal (Denali National Park, United
States), temperate (Great Smoky Mountains National Park, United States) and tropical (La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica) regions of North America
were subjected ...
Freshwater crabs as predators and prey: the case of Ptychophallus uncinatus Campos & Lemaitre, 1999 (Brachyura, Pseudothelphusidae) from Costa Rica, Central America
(2019)
Primary freshwater crabs are an important component of the food web in aquatic ecosystems, but our knowledge about the role of these decapods as predators and as prey is far from complete. Here we report observations of ...
Neotropical freshwater crabs (Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae) shred leaves
(2020)
Freshwater crabs are macroconsumers that are commonly found in Neotropical headwater streams that may play a key role in energy flow and nutrient cycling in detrital food webs. Although studies have examined the feeding ...
Caracterización de diversidad genética en poblaciones cultivadas de Cas (Psidium friedrichsthalianum (O. Berg) Nied) utilizando descriptores citogenéticos y moleculares para fines de mejoramiento genético
(2020-07)
Psidium friedrichsthalianum (O. Berg) Nied es una especie cultivable de origen tropical de
la familia Myrtaceae, subfamilia Myrtoideae, tribu Myrteae (Lucas et al. 2019).Actualmente, no
hay información sobre la cantidad ...
Air-exposure behavior: a restricted or a common conduct among intertidal hermit crabs?
(2020)
A new behavior related to shell care was recently reported for the intertidal hermit crab Clibanarius erythropus (Latreille, 1818) in the Gulf of Cádiz (southwestern Europe). It also has been observed in other species of ...