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Using historical data to highlight population declines in the iconic Australian platypus
2018
Long-term population data is essential for accurately assessing species status and for the correct management of endangered species. However, not all species are easily monitored and have been historically overlooked, giving inadequate data to form population estimates. Analysis of historical data is a relatively new technique for conservation management, often providing long-term population changes which would be otherwise undetectable using contemporary ecological monitoring. In this study we investigated long-term population changes for the iconic Australia platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), by collating 257 years of historical data from newspaper archives, museums, natural history boo…
Effects of satellite transmitters on survival in Snowy Owls Bubo scandiacus
2017
The use of tracking devices to monitor birds is extensive, but the effects of such instruments on equipped individuals are still insufficiently taken into account. Here we evaluate potential effects of backpack-mounted satellite transmitters (platform terminal transmitters; PTTs) on survival of 28 Snowy Owls Bubo scandiacus. Six confirmed deaths were all probably related to natural and human-induced causes. Although PTT operational time was significantly shorter than expected lifetime of Snowy Owls, five owls were observed alive after transmissions ceased. Additionally four PTTs stopped due to low battery levels, indicating end of transmitter life and not owl mortality. We found no evidence…
Adherence and concordance of vaccination coverage against influenza and pertussis in Spain.
2019
Background: Pregnant women should receive two vaccines during pregnancy due to maternal-foetal complications and risks as well as the influenza and pertussis vaccinations. The goal was to evaluate vaccination coverage against influenza and pertussis in pregnant women, following midwife professional advice during the pregnancy follow-up; Methods: Prospective cohort study of 1017 pregnancies during the vaccination campaign in 2015-2016. To estimate the degree of consistency between the coverage declared by mothers and that registered in the Nominal Vaccination Registry (NVR), we used the Cohen's kappa index (k); Results: 95.4% were registered in the NVR. Vaccination coverage recorded against …
Fenotipaje de individuos del género fasciola linnaeus, 1758 (trematoda: fasciolidae) de areas endemicas con caracteristicas heterogeneas
2016
Fascioliasis is a zoonotic disease emerging in numerous parts of the world. Fascioliasis is an important food-borne parasitic disease caused by the two trematode species, Fasciola hepatica and Fasciola gigantica. The characterisation and di erentiation of Fasciola populations is crucial to control the disease, given the di erent transmission, epidemiology and pathology characteristics of the two species. Furthermore, in any endemic area, the characterisation of scenarios and patterns of infection must always be considered the starting point before implementing any control measure. Morphometric analyses were made with a computer image analysis system (CIAS) applied on the basis of standardis…
Quiste óseo esencial : comparación del tratamiento quirúrgico con la inyección intraquística de corticoides
1988
The results obtained from the study of seventeen cases of unicameral bone cyst surgically treated are compared with the results in sixteen cases treated with intracyst corticosteroid injection. However, although there is a great proportion of the healed cysts injected, the healing is more secure with surgery. The cyst activity is the most important factor in bad results with surgical treatment, but not in final results obtained in a cyst treated with intracyst corticosteroid injection. It is recommended to control the distribution of the corticosteroid inside the cyst on previous injection of radiographic contrast.
Oral Myiasis: a review
2011
Myiasis is the infestation of tissues, organs of living vertebrate, animals and humans by certain dipterans fly larvae which feed on the host’s tissues and body fluids, often causing extensive damage to the host tissues if left untreated. Oral Myiasis is a rare pathology and is associated with poor oral hygiene, alcoholism, senility, suppurating lesions, severe halitosis. It arises from invasion of body tissues or cavities of living animals by maggots or larvae of certain species of flies. It occurs in tropical areas with poor living conditions and insufficient public and personal hygiene. Mouth-breathing during sleep, alcoholism, mental handicap, cerebral palsy and hemiplegia may facilitat…
cayol_texte_tables_figures_ESM from Borrelia afzelii alters reproductive success in a rodent host
2018
Supplementary material from "Borrelia afzelii alters reproductive success in a rodent host". Detailed material and methods, supplementary tables, figures and results.
Additional file 1: of An SNP-based saturated genetic map and QTL analysis of fruit-related traits in Zucchini using Genotyping-by-sequencing
2017
Phenotyped traits in the RIL population. (DOCX 13 kb)
Additional file 2 of Interleukin-25-mediated resistance against intestinal trematodes does not depend on the generation of Th2 responses
2020
Additional file 2: Fig. S1. Treatment of mice with rIL-4 or rIL-13 induces a Th2 response and RELM-β overexpression in response to primary Echinostoma caproni and infection but not resistance to infection. (A) expression of cytokine mRNA in the intestinal tissue of rIL-4-treated or rIL-13-treated mice at 2 weeks post-primary infection with E. caproni; (B) expression of RELM-β mRNA in the intestinal tissue (F) of naïve mice, non-infected rIL-4- or rIL-13-treated mice and infected rIL-4- or rIL-13-treated mice at 2 weeks post-primary infection. The relative quantities (RQ) of cytokine genes are shown after normalization with β-actin and standardization of the relative amount against day 0 sam…
Sheep herd management during the Early Neolithic in the inland of the Iberian Peninsula. Isotopic analyses of El Mirador cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, S…
2021
The beginning of husbandry in the Iberian Peninsula has been documented from the second half of the 6th millennium BCE and was based on the breeding of domestic caprines, mainly sheep. The first evidence of these practices comes from the Mediterranean region, but they quickly expanded inland. Previous studies have reported on the importance of the El Mirador sheepfold cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain) for understanding the process of the adoption of a farming economy in this inland region. In this study, we focus on husbandry and sheep management occurring in the 6th and 5th millennium cal BCE occupations of El Mirador cave by means of sequential oxygen (δ18O) and carbon (δ13C) isot…