• Bovine neosporosis in dairy cattle from the southern highlands of Ecuador 

      Maldonado Rivera, J.E.; Vallecillo, A.J.; Pérez, C.L; Cirone, Karina Mariela; Dorsch, M.A.; Scioli, V.; Hecker, Yanina; Fiorani, Franco; Canton, German Jose; Moore, Prando Dadin (Elsevier, 2020-01-25)
      The aim of this study was to describe bovine neosporosis in dairy cattle from the Sierra region, Ecuador. A case-control study was performed on 841 dairy cattle from 5 dairy herds. The overall seroprevalence was 23.4% ...
    • First Case Reports of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) Lung Disease in Ecuador: Important Lessons to Learn 

      Echeverria, Gustavo; Rueda, Veronica; Espinoza, Wilson; Rosero, Carlos; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Waard, Jacobus H. de (MDPI, 2023-04)
      Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) lung infections are often misdiagnosed as tuberculosis, which can lead to ineffective antibiotic treatments. In this report, we present three cases of NTM lung infections in Ecuador that ...
    • History and status of local cotton Gossypium spp. in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador 

      Arriel, N.H.C.; Cerón, M.; Cardoso, K.C.M.; Dileo, Pablo Nahuel; González, C.; Hoffmann, L.V.; Jiménez, H.; Klein, Lorena Marina; Lima, M.M. de A.; Medina, C.; Larrañaga-Monsalve, J.F.; Monteros-Altamirano, Á.; Muchut, Robertino José; Paytas, Marcelo Javier; Rodríguez-Mosquera, M.E.; Salgado Funes, E.F.; Spoljaric, Mónica (Springer, 2023-06)
      Cotton (Gossypium spp.) contains more than 45 diploid (2n = 26) and at least five allotetraploid (2n = 4x = 52) species. The five allotetraploid (genome A and D) lineages that belong to the primary gene pool are indigenous ...
    • Inter-community and on-farm asymmetric organic matter allocation patterns drive soil fertility gradients in a rural Andean landscape. 

      Caulfield, Mark E.; Fonte, Steven J.; Tittonell, Pablo Adrian; Vanek, Steven J.; Sherwood, Stephen; Oyarzun, Pedro; Borja, Ross Mary; Dumble, Sam; Groot, Jeroen C.J. (Wiley, 2020-12)
      Soil fertility in agricultural landscapes is driven by complex interactions between natural and anthropogenic processes, with organic matter (OM) inputs playing a critical role. Asymmetric allocation patterns of these ...
    • Mapeo digital de carbono orgánico en suelos de Ecuador 

      Loayza, Verónica; Sevilla, Víctor; Olivera, Carolina; Guevara, Mario; Olmedo, Guillermo Federico; Vargas, Ronald; Oyanarte, Cecilio; Jimenez, Wilmer (Asociacion española de Ecologia Terrestre (aeet), 2020-05)
      Los suelos son el mayor reservorio terrestre de carbono orgánico (COS), en comparación con los océanos, la vegetación terrestre y la atmósfera. El carbono orgánico del suelo (COS) es dinámico y debido a la acción antropogénica ...
    • Population fluctuation of Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Liviidae) and survey of some natural enemies in Ecuador 

      Chavez, Y.; Castro, C.; González, Guillermo F.; Castro, Jessenia; Peñarrieta Bravo, Soraya; Perez-Almeida, Iris; Chirinos, Dorys Terezinha; Kondo Rodríguez, Demian Takumasa (Ediciones INTA, 2019-12)
      Diaphorina citri detected in Ecuador for the first time in 2013, is an insect pest of global relevance. It is the main vector of the phloem-limited bacterium Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus, the causal agent of Huanglongbing ...