Vol. 62 No. 4 (2014): Volume 62 – Regular number 4 – December 2014

Sergio Aguilar

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CREDITOS Y CONTENIDO

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SPECIAL ARTICLE

Carlos O. Morales

1261–1272

Legado imperecedero de un botánico costarricense singular – Jorge Gómez Laurito (1947-2014) in memoriam

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Edgardo E. Díaz-Ferguson, Gregory R. Moyer

1273–1284

History, applications, methodological issues and perspectives for the use environmental DNA (eDNA) in marine and freshwater environments

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BIOMEDICINE

Alejandro Leal, Corinna Berghoff, Martin Berghoff, Melissa Rojas-Araya, Carolina Ortiz, Dieter Heuss, Bernd Rautenstrauss

1285–1293

Una familia costarricense afectada por la enfermedad de Charcot-Marie-Tooth, debido a la mutación p.thr124Met en la proteína mielina cero (MPZ) compartida con el haplotipo belga

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Fenella Mary War Nongkhla, S. R. Joshi

1295–1308

Epiphytic and endophytic bacteria that promote growth of ethnomedicinal plants in the subtropical forests of Meghalaya, India

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AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES

Marcela Ruiz Guerrero, Jorge López-Portillo

1309–1330

Spatial-temporal variation of the macroinvertebrate epibiont community on red mangrove prop roots Rhizophora mangle (Rhizophoraceae) at La Mancha coastal lagoon, Veracruz, Mexico

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Babak Tizkar, Alireza Seidavi, Jesús Trinidad Ponce-Palafox, Parastoo Pourashoori

1331–1341

The effect of astaxanthin on resistance of juvenile prawns Macrobrachium nipponense (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) to physical and chemical stress

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Joanne R. Peel, María del Carmen Mandujano

1343–1352

Impact of minimum catch size on the population viability of Strombus gigas (Mesogastropoda: Strombidae) in Quintana Roo, Mexico

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AQUATIC VERTEBRATES

Omar Domínguez-Castanedo, Ángel Toledano-Olivares, David Martínez-Espinosa, Alejandro Ávalos-Rodríguez

1353–1363

Morphological changes in gametes of tiger barb Puntius tetrazona (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) and the implementation of in vitro fertilization

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Mauro Nirchio, Nicolás Eheman, Raquel Siccha-Ramirez, Julio Eduardo Pérez, Anna Rita Rossi, Claudio Oliveira

1365–1373

Karyotype of the invasive species Pterois volitans (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae) from Margarita Island, Venezuela

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TERRESTRIAL INVERTEBRATES

Mervin W. Nielson, Richard S. Zack, Francesco Poggi, Herbert Nickel

1375–1383

New leafhopper species of Jikradia from Mesoamerica with new records, revised key to species, distribution, origin, and checklist (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae: Teruliini)

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Narcís Prat, Juan David González-Trujillo, Rodulfo Ospina-Torres

1385–1406

Key to chironomid pupal exuviae (Diptera: Chironomidae) of tropical high Andean streams

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TERRESTRIAL VERTEBRATES

Iván Lira-Torres, Miguel Briones-Salas, Gerardo Sánchez-Rojas

1407–1419

Relative abundance, population structure, habitat preferences and activity patterns of Tapirus bairdii (Perissodactyla: Tapiridae), in Chimalapas forest, Oaxaca, Mexico

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Gabriela Pérez-Irineo, Antonio Santos-Moreno

1421–1432

Density, distribution, and activity of the ocelot Leopardus pardalis (Carnivora: Felidae) in Southeast Mexican rainforests

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Malinalli Cortés-Marcial, Miguel Briones-Salas

1433–1448

Diversity, relative abundance and activity patterns of medium and large mammals in a tropical deciduous forest in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico

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Stephanny Arroyo-Arce, James Guilder, Roberto Salom-Pérez

1449–1458

Habitat features influencing jaguar Panthera onca (Carnivora: Felidae) occupancy in Tortuguero National Park, Costa Rica

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Albert Burgas, Ronit Amit, Bernat C. Lopez

1459–1467

Do attacks by jaguars Panthera onca and pumas Puma concolor (Carnivora: Felidae) on livestock correlate with species richness and relative abundance of wild prey?

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Dennis Denis Ávila

1469–1480

Application of the elliptic Fourier functions to the description of avian egg shape

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Consuelo Lorenzo, Eugenia C. Sántiz, Darío A. Navarrete, Jorge Bolaños

1481–1494

Causas y consecuencias de las tasas de cambio en el hábitat del puerco espín tropical amenazado, Sphiggurus mexicanus (Rodentia: Erethizontidae), en Oaxaca, México: implicaciones para su conservación

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Eddy Pérez L., Luis F. Pacheco

1495–1507

Wildlife damage mitigation in agricultural crops in a Bolivian montane forest

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Alexis Herminio Plasencia Vázquez, Griselda Escalona Segura

1509–1522

Área de distribución geográfica potencial de las especies de aves psitácidas de la Península de Yucatán, México

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Tamara Rioja-Paradela, Arturo Carrillo-Reyes, Eduardo Espinoza-Medinilla

1523–1533

Effect of temporal lakes on avifaunal composition at the Southeast of Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico

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ECOLOGY

Elizabeth A. Lacey, Ligia Collado-Vides, James W. Fourqurean

1535–1548

Morphological and physiological responses of seagrasses (Alismatales) to grazers (Testudines: Cheloniidae) and the role of these responses as grazing patch abandonment cues

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Sebastián R. Zeballos, Paula A. Tecco, Marcelo Cabido, Diego E. Gurvich

1549–1563

Woody species composition in invaded communities from mountains of central Argentina: their relations with local environmental factors

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Helven Naranjo Madrigal, Silvia Salas Márquez

1565–1586

Spatio-temporal dynamics of fishing effort in a multi-species artisanal diving fishery and its effects on catch variability: Insights for sustainable management

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BOTANY

Georgea Santos Nogueira-Melo, Paulo Jorge Parreira Santos, Tatiana Baptista Gibertoni

1587–1595

The community structure of macroscopic basidiomycetes (Fungi) in Brazilian mangroves influenced by temporal and spatial variations

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Daiane M. Freitas, Ademir Reis, Roseli L. da Costa Bortoluzzi, Marisa Santos

1597–1608

Características morfológicas y micromorfológicos de frutos Desmodium (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae)

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Luis A. Lara-Pérez, Juan Carlos Noa-Carrazana, Ángel de Jesús Landa López, Sergio Hernández-González, Iván Oros-Ortega, Antonio Andrade Torres

1609–1623

Colonization and structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi community in Alsophila firma (Cyatheales: Cyatheaceae) from a tropical montane cloud forest in Veracruz, México

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Damelis Jáuregui, Mercedes Castro, Thirza Ruíz-Zapata, Marlene Lapp

1625–1636

Anatomy of the vegetative organs of two species of Atriplex (Chenopodiaceae), growing in Venezuela

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Minghui Fu, Lihua Jiang, Yuanmei Li, Guohua Yan, Lijun Zheng, Jinping Peng

1637–1648

Identification of gene fragments related to nitrogen deficiency in Eichhornia crassipes (Pontederiaceae)

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Luquan Yang, Md. Asaduzzaman Khan, Zhiqiang Mei, Manman Yang, Tiandan Zhang, Chunli Wei, Weichan Yang, Li Zhu, Yan Long, Junjiang Fu

1649–1657

Development of RAPD-SCAR markers for Lonicera japonica Thunb. (Caprifolicaceae) variety authentication by improved RAPD and DNA cloning

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Carolina Céspedes-Garro, Gerardo Jiménez-Arce, María-Eugenia G. Naranjo, Ramiro Barrantes, Adrián LLerena, Autor institucional

1659–1671

Ethnic background and CYP2D6 genetic polymorphisms in Costa Ricans

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Mónica Marcela Galicia Jiménez, Alejandra Buenrostro S., Jesús García G.

1673–1681

Diversidad específica bacteriana en murciélagos de distintos gremios alimenticios en la sierra sur de Oaxaca, México

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