• Mycotoxin Contamination of Beverages Obtained from Tropical Crops 

      Granados Chinchilla, Fabio; Redondo Solano, Mauricio; Jaikel Víquez, Daniela (2018)
      This review is mainly centered on beverages obtained from tropical crops, including tea, nut milk, coffee, cocoa, and those prepared from fruits. After considering the epidemiological data found on the matrices above, ...
    • Myonecrosis induced in mice by a basic myotoxin isolated from the venom of the snake Bothrops nummifer (jumping viper) from Costa Rica 

      Gutiérrez, José María; Chaves Mora, Fernando; Gené, José Antonio; Lomonte, Bruno; Camacho Mora, Zianne; Schosinsky Nevermann, Karl (1989)
      The mode of action of a basic myotoxin isolated from Bothrops nummifer venom was studied. This myotoxin is a basic polypeptide of 13,000 mol.wt, with a high content of lysine and aspartate, as well as of hydrophobic amino ...
    • Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) clinical subtypes and CTCF site methylation status flanking the CTG expansion are mutant allele length-dependent 

      Morales Montero, Fernando; Corrales Acuña, Eyleen Vanessa; Zhang, Baili; Vásquez Cerdas, Melissa; Santamaría Ulloa, Carolina; Quesada Leitón, Hazel; Sirito, Mario; Estecio, Marcos Roberto; Monckton, Darren G.; Krahe, Ralf (2021)
      Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is a complex disease with a wide spectrum of symptoms. The exact relationship between mutant CTG repeat expansion size and clinical outcome remains unclear. DM1 congenital patients (CDM) ...
    • Myotoxic and cytolytic activities of dimeric Lys49 phospholipase A2 homologues are reduced, but not abolished, by a pH-induced dissociation 

      Angulo Ugalde, Yamileth; Gutiérrez, José María; Soares, Andreimar Martins; Cho, Wonhwa; Lomonte, Bruno (2005-09-01)
      Lys49 phospholipase A2 (PLA2) homologues are myotoxic proteins devoid of catalytic activity. Their toxic determinants map to the C-terminal region 115–129, which plays an effector role in membrane damage. The dimeric state ...
    • Myotoxic phospholipases A2 in Bothrops snake venoms: Effect of chemical modifications on the enzymatic and pharmacological properties of bothropstoxins from Bothrops jararacussu 

      Andrião Escarso, Silvia H.; Soares, Andreimar Martins; Rodrigues, Veridiana M.; Angulo Ugalde, Yamileth; Díaz Oreiro, Cecilia; Lomonte, Bruno; Gutiérrez, José María; Giglio, José Roberto (2000-08)
      Venoms from eight Bothrops spp. were fractionated by ion-exchange chromatography on CM-Sepharose at pH 8.0 for the purification of myotoxins. Chromatographic profiles showed differences regarding myotoxic components among ...
    • Myotoxin II from Bothrops asper (Terciopelo) venom is a lysine-49 phospholipase A2 

      Francis, Brian; Gutiérrez, José María; Lomonte, Bruno; Kaiser, Ivan I. (1991)
      A basic, dimeric myotoxic protein, myotoxin II, purified from Bothrops asper venom has a similar molecular weight and is immunologically cross-reactive with antibodies raised to previously isolated B. asper phospholipases ...
    • Myotoxin-neutralizing peptides 

      Lohse, Brian; Laustsen, Andreas Hougaard; Fernández Ulate, Julián; Cob, Saioa; Lomonte, Bruno; Gutiérrez, José María (2018-03-27)
      The present invention relates to polypeptides having myotoxin-neutralizing properties and their use for treatment of envenomation. The present invention further relates to methods for neutralizing a venom using the polypeptide ...
    • Myoxanthus Poepp. & Endl. 

      Rojas Alvarado, Carlos Alonso; Pupulin, Franco (2020)
      The genus Myoxanthus was created by Eduard Poeppig and Stephan Endlicher in 1836 when they described M. monophyllus on the basis of a plant collected by Poeppig during his journey to South America, in the region of Huánuco, ...
    • Myoxanthus vittatus (Orchidaceae), a new species from Costa Rica 

      Pupulin, Franco; Blanco Coto, Mario Alberto (2001-10)
      The taxonomic position of Myoxanthus Poepp. & Endl. (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) is discussed and Silenia Luer is maintained as a subgenus of Myoxanthus. A new species of Myoxanthus is described and illustrated. ...
    • Mysidopsis gemina n. sp. (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae) from the northern Pacifc coast of Costa Rica 

      Price, W. Wayne; Heard, Richard W.; Vargas Castillo, Rita (2019-12-02)
      Mysidopsis gemina n. sp. is described from protected and exposed beach habitats in the provinces of Puntarenas and Guanacaste on the northern Pacifc coast of Costa Rica. Morphologically, M. gemina most closely resembles ...
    • The mystery of how spiders extract food without masticating prey 

      Eberhard Chabtree, William G.; Barrantes Montero, Gilbert (2006)
      Standard accounts of how spiders obtain food without masticating their prey are probably largely wrong. Species in the families Uloboridae, Thomisidae, Araneidae and Theridiidae do not inject digestive fluid into the prey’s ...
    • Myxomycete assemblage turnover across a moisture and elevation gradient in Costa Rica 

      Arenas Taborda, Alejandra; García Chaves, María Carolina; Niño García, Juan Pablo; Rojas Alvarado, Carlos Alonso (2021-07-13)
      The formation of sporocarps in myxomycetes depends on environmental characteristics, among which, moisture and temperature seem to be relevant in tropical areas. Since temperature is linked to elevation, the effect of both ...
    • Myxomycete colonization on translocated and non-translocated dead leaves from temperate and tropical forests 

      Rojas Alvarado, Carlos Alonso; Stephenson, Steven L.; Rojas Camacho, Pedro (2020-11)
      Samples of dead leaves on the forest floor were collected from a locality in central Costa Rica and another locality in northwest Arkansas in the United States and then were placed in fine-mesh nylon bags, autoclaved and ...
    • Myxomycete diversity in Costa Rica 

      Rojas Alvarado, Carlos Alonso; Rojas Camacho, Pedro; Lado Rodríguez, Carlos (2018-04)
      An updated analysis of myxomycete diversity in Costa Rica is provided herein as a product of an extensive data mining-based study intended to normalize the information on myxomycetes from that country. Within the context ...
    • Myxomycete ecology along an elevation gradient on Cocos Island, Costa Rica 

      Rojas Alavarado, Carlos Alonso; Stephenson, Steven L. (2008)
      The marine biota of Cocos Island is well known; however, the terrestrial biota is poorly understood. In an effort to document the myxomycetes of the island and to determine their ecological distribution along an elevation ...
    • Myxomycete ecology in urban areas: rapid assessment from two cities 

      Rincón Marín, Carolina; García Chaves, María Carolina; Valverde González, Randall; Rojas Alvarado, Carlos Alonso (2021-02-25)
      Urban ecology has been an understudied topic in myxomycete research. For that reason, the present investigation aimed to generate data related to myxomycetes in urban areas of the Neotropical region. With an approach of ...
    • Myxomycetes associated with bryophyte mats in San Ramón, Costa Rica 

      Rojas Alvarado, Carlos Alonso; Stephenson, Steven L. (2022)
      Myxomycete-bryophyte associations have been studied mostly in temperate regions of the world. Data from tropical regions are much more limited. The interesting landscape configuration of the San Ramón area in Costa Rica, ...
    • Myxomycetes associated with three different types of Neotropical urban landscapes 

      Rojas Alvarado, Carlos Alonso; Valverde González, Randall; Rojas Camacho, Pedro (2022-12-05)
      Urban ecology is a research field gaining momentum due to contextual pressures to study macroecological effects on biodiversity. Herein, we evaluated the occurrence of myxomycetes in three urban Neotropical environments ...
    • Myxomycetes collected in the eastern United States and patterns of relative biodiversity 

      Stephenson, Steven L.; Stauffacher, Richard; Rojas Alvarado, Carlos Alonso (2020-01-05)
      A total of 68 315 digitised records of myxomycetes from the eastern United States were compiled from all readily available sources. After cleaning the database for inconsistencies, 58 594 records remained that were ...
    • Myxomycetes of Thailand 

      Ko Ko, Thida Win; Hanh, Tran T.M.; Stephenson, Steven L.; Mitchell, David William; Rojas Alvarado, Carlos Alonso; Hyde, Kevin David; Lumyong, Saisamong; Bahkali, Ali H. (2010)
      After the first report of myxomycetes from Thailand in 1902, there were only a few papers dealing specifically with these organisms over the following 85 years. In 2004, intensive ecological studies of myxomycetes began ...