Background Bovine mastitis is the most economically significantdisease in dairy farming, with Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus chromogenes asprominent agents, the former posing a major threat. As principal immune sentinels in themammary gland, macrophages orchestrate early pathogen recognition and immune activation,critically influencing the trajectory and outcome of infection. Thus, this study aimed tocharacterize the...

The enhancement in agricultural productivity has been achieved through the application of pesticides and nutrients, mainly of synthetic origin. This practice has led to a dependence on the use of agrochemicals in order to obtain better results. However, the overuse application has created environmental and toxicological problems, so other alternatives are needed. For this reason, this study focused on evaluating the biostimula...

The ecology of the Greater Caribbean manatee ( Trichechus manatus manatus ) remains underexplored in southern Central America, particularly in Panama and Costa Rica. This study presents, for the first time, significant information about their local and regional movements, connectivity, and residence times in various wetlands. Since 2016, we have employed acoustic monitoring to track the manatee population, identifying individu...

Key message QTL associated with whitefly resistance were identified in a cassava F 2 population and KASP markers applicable in selection for the trait were validated. Abstract Whitefly species pose a major threat to cassava production in tropical regions causing direct plant damage and transmitting viruses that lead to devastating cassava diseases. Aleurotrachelus socialis whitefly is one of the pests that affect cassava in So...

Introduction This work presents an unsupervised learning-based methodology to identify and count unique manatees using underwater vocalization recordings. Methods The proposed approach uses Scattering Wavelet Transform (SWT) to represent individual manatee vocalizations. A Manifold Learning approach, known as PacMAP, is employed for dimensionality reduction. A density-based algorithm, known as Hierarchical Density-Based Spatia...

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) allow identifying genomic regions related to traits of economic importance in animals of zootechnical interest. The objective of this research was to conduct a genome-wide association study on meat quality traits using the Illumina OvineSNPs50 BeadChip array. The animals were sampled in the departments of Córdoba, Cesar, and Valle del Cauca. The genotypes obtained with the Illumina OvineS...