Abstract The llama (Lama glama) is the largest domesticated animal species from South America and is today found worldwide. Andean peoples have used the llama for millennia for meat, wool, packing, spiritual etc. In order to know the history of the llama, we must learn about the peoples that have known t...
Wild fish domestication can be considered a strategic approach to endangered species conservation, supporting studies and reducing economic and environmental costs. Three of the most important strategies in the domestication processes of fish are the adaptation of wild fish to captivity, the reproduction...
Resumo Neste artigo são discutidos aspectos concernentes ao início do convívio entre cães e humanos e às diferenças culturais que afetam as relações entre as duas espécies. O estudo das interações entre humanos e cães precisa trazer à tona a pluralidade de fenômenos interconectados: o proce...
El aguacate es un cultivo de consumo a nivel mundial, y según teorías recientes, se sugiere a la región de la Sierra Nevada, en California, como centro de origen y, a Guatemala, como uno de los principales centros de domesticación. Mediante caracterizaciones morfológicas se ha reportado una alta div...
Volatiles compounds are involved in defensive induction against insects, playing an important role in insect-plant interaction being induced by response to mechanical damage. However, they could decrease according to the domestication degree in cultivated plants. Currently, it has been established that s...
Myrtaceae/química,
Insectos/fisiología,
Domesticación,
Aceites Volátiles/química,
Vida Silvestre,
Cromatografía de Gases y Espectrometría de Masas,
Monoterpenos/análisis,
Sesquiterpenos/análisis,
Myrtaceae/microbiología,
Monoterpenos/metabolismo,
Sesquiterpenos/metabolismo,
Myrtaceae/metabolismo,
Aceites Volátiles/metabolismo,
Larva/fisiología
The author in this short text remembers the passing of a beloved pet cat. Cats are beautiful animals and wonderful companions. They evolved together with humans in Africa, subsequently spread over the five continents with them, and became the subject of many human cultural activities, including art, poet...
Over the last 20 years, the two uniparentally inherited marker systems, namely mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome have been widely employed to solve questions about origin and prehistorical range expansions, demographic processes, both in humans and domestic animals. The mtDNA and the Y chromosome, with ...
Partimos de la idea de no saber qué es aquello que resulta natural en el ser humano. Pero sí sabemos que lo más natural es la inespecificidad siendo el criterio cultural el determinante. El hombre y la mujer obtienen su racionalidad de condiciones extrañas y se inspiran para ello en la domesticación...
