• A novel spotted fever group Rickettsia infecting Amblyomma parvitarsum (Acari: Ixodidae) in highlands of Argentina and Chile 

      Ogrzewalska, María; Nieri-Bastos, Fernanda A.; Marcili, Arlei; Nava, Santiago; González-Acuña, Daniel; Muñoz-Leal, Sebastian; Ruiz-Arrondo, Ignacio; Venzal, José Manuel; Mangold, Atilio Jose; Labruna, Marcelo B. (2016)
      The tick Amblyomma parvitarsum (Acari: Ixodidae) has established populations in Andean and Patagonic environments of South America. For the present study, adults of A. parvitarsum were collected in highland areas (elevation ...
    • Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi from argentinean highland puna soils unveiled by propagule multiplication 

      Covacevich, Fernanda; Hernandez Guijarro, Keren; Crespo, Esteban; Lumini, Erica; Rivero Mega, María Soledad; Lugo, Mónica (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2021-08-30)
      Low arbuscular-mycorrhizal (AM) sporulation in arid field soils limits our knowledge of indigenous species when diversity studies are based only on spore morphology. Our aim was to use different approaches (i.e., spore ...
    • Variation in alpine plant diversity and soil temperatures in two mountain landscapes of South Patagonia 

      Lencinas, María Vanessa; Soler Esteban, Rosina Matilde; Cellini, Juan Manuel; Bahamonde, Héctor Alejandro; Pérez Flores, Magalí; Monelos, Lucas H.; Martínez Pastur, Guillermo José; Peri, Pablo Luis (MDPI, 2021-07-08)
      Alpine environments and their temporal changes are rarely studied at high latitudes in the southern hemisphere. We analyzed alpine plants, soil temperatures, and growing-season length in mountains of two landscapes of South ...