The available information on capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) meat, an important
resource for the subsistence of many traditional communities in several South American …

Background Brazilian Spotted Fever (BSF), caused by the bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii, is
the tick-borne disease that generates the largest number of human deaths in the world. In …

Recent studies have analyzed and described the endocranial cavities of caviomorph
rodents. However, no study has documented the changes in the morphology and relative …

Three different species of hemoplasmas have been described in rodents, Mycoplasma
coccoides,'Candidatus Mycoplasma haemomuris' and 'Candidatus Mycoplasma …

Human activities are changing landscape structure and function globally, affecting wildlife
space use, and ultimately increasing human-wildlife conflicts and zoonotic disease spread …

Simple Summary Capybaras are known hosts for various tick species, but there are limited
data regarding the tick-borne pathogens they can carry. We assessed the presence of …

Presentamos la actualización más completa, a la fecha, de la lista de mamíferos de Bolivia.
Incorporamos y describimos cambios taxonómicos recientes y nuevos registros para el país …

Metabarcoding of environmental DNA is based on primers specific to the target taxa (eg
bacteria, zooplankton, fishes). However, because of commonly used protocols, regardless of …

Fossil capybaras were long regarded as composed of numerous taxa, each one endemic to
a particular area, a scenario completely different from the one shown by the living species …

There are a huge number of pathogens with multi-component transmission cycles, involving
amplifier hosts, vectors or complex pathogen life cycles. These complex systems present …