The Middle Period of the Atacama oases, North Chile, has been characterized as a time of peace, uniform abundance, and widespread access to exotic materials. In the present work, we test this notion through a comparison of Middle Period human isotopic data (δCco, δ Nco, and δCap) representing two distinct ayllus, Solcor and Tchecar, in the San Pedro de Atacama oases. We employ Bayesian mixture ...

BACKGROUND De novo transcriptome assembly of short reads is now a common step in expression analysis of organisms lacking a reference genome sequence. Several software packages are available to perform this task. Even if their results are of good quality it is still possible to improve them in several ways including redundancy reduction or error correction. Trinity and Oases are two commonly us...

In arid ecosystems environmental factors such as geoclimatic conditions and agricultural practices are of major importance in shaping the diversity and functionality of plant-associated bacterial communities. Assessing the influence of such factors is a key to understand (i) the driving forces determining the shape of root-associated bacterial communities and (ii) the plant growth promoting (PG...

UNLABELLED This paper describes a new instrument for evaluating the experience of the stuttering disorder from the perspective of individuals who stutter. Based on the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health [World Health Organization (2001). The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, & Health. Geneva: World Health Organi...

Nine freshwater fish species were sampled from 13 bodies of water in Baja California Sur state, on the Baja California peninsula, Mexico. Twenty-four helminth parasite species of 19 genera and from 13 families were recorded. All are new records for the region, but have been recorded previously in Mexico. No endemic helminth species were identified. Most helminths were larval forms of generalist...

The leaf-beetle genus Timarcha Latreille comprises about four subgenera, 125 species and 30 subspecies, spread in eastern North America and around the Mediterranean basin. They are absent from Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Egypt, where very probably European and African species once met, but were eradicated during the Pleistocene desertification. In Libya, it survives along the coast on the weste...

Abstract Dry leaves of date palms (DPs) are by-products cultivation that often mismanaged in oasis agroecosystems. Ideally, they should be upcycled a circular agriculture model before producing and exporting high-value products. Compost inputs enhance soil organic matter conserve soil. This study investigated composting four mixtures based on farming system requirements the availability resourc...