Control of the Panama Canal Basin transfers from the United States of America to the Republic of Panama on the last day of 1999. The Panamanian and United States governments are concerned that the rapid deforestation of the Panama Canal Basin will jeopardize the future operation of the Panama Canal, the capacity and quality of potable water supplied to Panama City, and the diverse rain forest e...

The Panama grunt is an abundant and commercially important species in the southeastern Gulf of California, but the research undertaken on this species is scarce despite its ecological and economic importance. We studied the feeding habits of Panama grunt through stomach content analyses as a first step towards understanding the biology of this species in the study area. Our results indicate tha...

trends within the forest, intraand interspecific trait variability, and taxonomic signals Gunnar Petter*, Katrin Wagner, Wolfgang Wanek, Eduardo Javier S anchez Delgado, Gerhard Zotz, Juliano Sarmento Cabral and Holger Kreft Biodiversity, Macroecology & Conservation Biogeography Group, University of G€ ottingen, G€ ottingen, Germany; Functional Ecology Group, Institute of Biology and Environmen...

Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) is a reemerging, mosquito-borne viral disease of the neotropics that is severely debilitating and sometimes fatal to humans. Periodic epidemics mediated by equine amplification have been recognized since the 1920s, but interepidemic disease is rarely recognized. We report here clinical findings and genetic characterization of 42 cases of endemic VEE detected...

The Panamanian government is executing an aggressive economic growth initiative to transform the country into a regional logistics hub, like Singapore or Dubai. Two elements of the initiative are expansion of the Panama Canal and development of the Panama Pacifico Project, a large logistics park. The government initiative is analyzed with respect to the logistics hubs in Singapore and Dubai by ...

We provide new data on the distribution and biology of three Stenodynerus species (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from Panama: iolans (Cameron, 1905) is recorded for first time Panama; several localities are added to known in Panama S. farias (Saussure, 1857); otomitus 1857), currently as a ground-nester, was found emerging exposed cells together with Ipsiura pilifrons 1888) Chrysididae).

background: there is no published data on the association between serum biochemical and ultrasonographic markers and adverse pregnancy outcomes. therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the factors associated with perinatal outcomes in singleton pregnancies using ultrasound and maternal serum markers during the first trimester in panamanians. materials and methods: this was a prospecti...