La fauna silvestre es de crucial importancia en la construcción social, económica y cultural las comunidades campesinas; aunque su uso puede generar amenazas para estabilidad poblaciones silvestres más explotadas. Este articulo determinó desde un punto vista etnozoológico los usos que recibe una localidad rural Plato Magdalena. Se realizaron 70 entrevistas estructuradas, empleando fichas ilustr...

A battery of allelic markers at highly polymorphic microsatellite loci was developed and employed to confirm genetically, the clonal nature of sibships in nine-banded armadillos. This phenomenon of consistent polyembryony, otherwise nearly unknown among the vertebrates, was capitalized upon to describe the micro-spatial distributions of numerous clonal sibships in a natural population of armadi...

The microniche of the dimorphic fungus Paracoccidiodes brasiliensisremains undefined in spite of the many attempts to isolate it from natural sources. Until recently, knowledge was also scanty concerning the presence of natural infections in animals; however, in the last decade, the fungus has been repeatedly isolated from the nine-banded armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctusin Brazil. A study aimed ...

Mycobacterium leprae, the aetiological agent of leprosy in humans, gives rise to a chronic granulomatous disease that affects primarily the skin and peripheral nerves, and secondarily some internal organs such as the testis and the eye; viscera are seldom involved. Depending on host resistance, leprosy may present as a benign disease (tuberculoid leprosy) or as a malignant disease (lepromatous ...

The nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus mexicanus Peters) was chosen for this study so that a comparison could be made of the salivary mucus glycoproteins of an ancient mammalian species with those derived from previously studied, more highly evolved species. Two mucus glycoproteins, armadillo submandibular glycoprotein A and armadillo submandibular glycoprotein B, were prepared from th...