Search Results - "Ruano, Sonia"
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Nest Bacterial Environment Affects Microbiome of Hoopoe Eggshells, but Not That of the Uropygial Secretion
Published in PloS one (13-07-2016)“…The study of associations between symbiotic bacterial communities of hosts and those of surrounding environments would help to understand how bacterial…”
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Mosquito Microbiome Dynamics, a Background for Prevalence and Seasonality of West Nile Virus
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (04-04-2017)“…Symbiotic microbial communities augment host phenotype, including defense against pathogen carriage and infection. We sampled the microbial communities in 11…”
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A new symbiotic lineage related to Neisseria and Snodgrassella arises from the dynamic and diverse microbiomes in sucking lice
Published in Molecular ecology (01-05-2021)“…The phylogenetic diversity of symbiotic bacteria in sucking lice suggests that lice have a complex history of symbiont acquisition, loss, and replacement…”
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Microbiomes of North American Triatominae: The Grounds for Chagas Disease Epidemiology
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (13-06-2018)“…Insect microbiomes influence many fundamental host traits, including functions of practical significance such as their capacity as vectors to transmit…”
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Methodological Insight Into Mosquito Microbiome Studies
Published in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology (17-03-2020)“…Symbiotic bacteria affect competence for pathogen transmission in insect vectors, including mosquitoes. However, knowledge on mosquito-microbiome-pathogen…”
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Ontogeny, species identity, and environment dominate microbiome dynamics in wild populations of kissing bugs (Triatominae)
Published in Microbiome (11-10-2020)“…Kissing bugs (Triatominae) are blood-feeding insects best known as the vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas' disease. Considering the…”
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The Allium Derivate Propyl Propane Thiosulfinate Exerts Anti-Obesogenic Effects in a Murine Model of Diet-Induced Obesity
Published in Nutrients (19-01-2022)“…species and their organosulfur-derived compounds could prevent obesity and metabolic dysfunction, as they exhibit immunomodulatory and antimicrobial…”
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The Hoopoe's Uropygial Gland Hosts a Bacterial Community Influenced by the Living Conditions of the Bird
Published in PloS one (07-10-2015)“…Molecular methods have revealed that symbiotic systems involving bacteria are mostly based on whole bacterial communities. Bacterial diversity in hoopoe…”
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Preening as a Vehicle for Key Bacteria in Hoopoes
Published in Microbial ecology (01-11-2015)“…Oily secretions produced in the uropygial gland of incubating female hoopoes contain antimicrobial-producing bacteria that prevent feathers from degradation…”
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Microbiome of the Uropygial Secretion in Hoopoes Is Shaped Along the Nesting Phase
Published in Microbial ecology (01-07-2016)“…Microbial symbiont acquisition by hosts may determine the effectiveness of the mutualistic relationships. A mix of vertical and horizontal transmission may be…”
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Multi-Country and Multi-Horizon GDP Forecasting Using Temporal Fusion Transformers
Published in Mathematics (Basel) (01-06-2023)“…This paper applies a new artificial intelligence architecture, the temporal fusion transformer (TFT), for the joint GDP forecasting of 25 OECD countries at…”
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Seasonal and Sexual Differences in the Microbiota of the Hoopoe Uropygial Secretion
Published in Genes (11-08-2018)“…The uropygial gland of hoopoe nestlings and nesting females hosts bacterial symbionts that cause changes in the characteristics of its secretion, including an…”
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Egg Production in Poultry Farming Is Improved by Probiotic Bacteria
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (24-05-2019)“…Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most serious threats for human health in the near future. Livestock has played an important role in the appearance…”
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Nestedness of hoopoes' bacterial communities: symbionts from the uropygial gland to the eggshell
Published in Biological journal of the Linnean Society (01-08-2016)“…How microbial symbionts are established and maintain on their hosts is a leading question with important consequences for the understanding of the evolution…”
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Bacterial density rather than diversity correlates with hatching success across different avian species
Published in FEMS microbiology ecology (01-03-2018)“…Bacterial communities within avian nests are considered an important determinant of egg viability, potentially selecting for traits that confer embryos with…”
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Enhancing Earth and Environmental Science Undergraduate Students’ Perception of Geographic Information Systems through Short Clips
Published in Education sciences (01-09-2024)“…Geographic Information Systems (GISs) cover a wide range of Earth and environmental science disciplines that have become essential for spatial data management,…”
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Analysis of the promoters involved in enterocin AS-48 expression
Published in PloS one (04-03-2014)“…The enterocin AS-48 is the best characterized antibacterial circular protein in prokaryotes. It is a hydrophobic and cationic bacteriocin, which is ribosomally…”
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Firm productivity and export markets: a non-parametric approach
Published in Journal of international economics (01-08-2002)“…This paper examines total factor productivity differences between exporting and non-exporting firms. These differences are documented on the basis of a sample…”
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Firm productivity, heterogeneity, sunk costs and market selection
Published in International journal of industrial organization (01-09-2005)“…The main objective of this paper is to explore whether or not patterns of entry and exit are systematically related to productivity differences at the firm…”
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How does bank competition affect credit risk? Evidence from loan-level data
Published in Economics letters (01-11-2020)“…This paper studies how loan credit risk depends on competition in the banking sector. We estimate an empirical model of credit risk using data from the Spanish…”
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