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Unusual Microbial Xylanases from Insect Guts
(2004-06-07)
Recombinant DNA technologies enable the direct isolation and expression of novel genes from biotopes containing complex consortia of uncultured microorganisms. In this study, genomic libraries were constructed from microbial ...
Recolecta de artrópodos para prospección de la biodiversidad en el Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica
(Revista de Biología Tropical 52(1): 119-132, 2004, 2004)
This study describes the results and collection practices for obtaining arthropod samples to be studied as potential sources of new medicines in a bioprospecting effort. From 1994 to 1998, 1800 arthropod samples of 6-10 g ...
Empleo de técnicas y materiales biológicos en la búsqueda de productos activos contra la malaria
(2001)
Se describen los métodos empleados en el estudio del efecto de extractos de insectos preparados en el Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad de Costa Rica, sobre un tipo de malaria murina producida por el Plasmodium bergheim. ...
Efecto de extractos de artrópodos sobre la multiplicación del Toxoplasma gondii dentro de macrófagos peritoneales de ratón
(Rev. Biol. Trop. 51(2): 317-320, 2003, 2003)
Treatment of toxoplasmosis usually causes secondary effects. It is important to find active substances extracted from natural organisms. In this work we studied some arthropod extracts that have effect against Toxoplasma ...
Biodiversity for Bioindustries
http://adpcollege.ac.in/online/attendence/lib/1629380628.pdf#page=268
(1997)
Biodiversity refers to the variety and variability of living material and ecological
complexes in a given area and comprises species, genetic and
ecosystem diversity. Biodiversity is not only the basis of life on earth, ...
Costa rican international cooperative biodiversity group: using insects and other arthropods in biodiversity prospecting
In: J. Rosenthal (Ed.). Drug discovery, economic development and conservation: The International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups. Pharm. Biol. Vol 37, Supplement, pp. 55-68.
(Pharmaceutical Biology 37(Supplement):55–68. 1999, 1999)
This paper describes the Costa Rican International Collaborative Biodiversity Group (ICBG), which was designed to introduce insects and other arthropods as a source of pharmaceutical compounds, and to generate knowledge ...