OBJECTIVE This work sought to compare the reproductive calendar of the Zenú and Embera ethnicities of the Eyabida and Chamibida subgroups in Antioquia, Colombia from 2011 to 2013. METHODOLOGY This was a sociodemographic study of purposive sampling through the reproductive history technique, conducted with 165 indigenous women older than 10 years of age. RESULTS The reproductive calendar is ...

The analysis presented in this paper is constructed to determine the pattern of resource allocations among competing individuals of the same and/or different species in some defined habitat. Competing individuals have at their disposal various activities which can be run at different intensities and consume or produce resources in the habitat linearly. The linearity of resource utilization rest...

Guayule (Parthenium argentatum Gray, Asteraceae) is a latex-producing perennial desert shrub native to southwestern Texas and north central Mexico. It is potentially an economically viable new crop for the desert Southwest, with the advantages of having low water requirements and producing non-allergenic latex (Thompson and Ray 1988). Diploid guayule plants reproduce predominantly sexually, and...

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a technique that was first applied in humans in 1990 (Handyside et al., 1990; Verlinsky et al., 1990). Thirty years on an estimated 15000 children have been conceived and born using PGD, a number dwarfed by the huge number of children already conceived via conventional in vitro fertilisation. In contrast to numerous reports on reproductive outcome in c...

The objective of this research was determining the effect of the A192G polymorphism in some productive and reproductive traits in Antioquia Holstein cows. To achieve this, the technique PCR-RFLP was used to amplify a segment of 249 bp of the bovine inhibin alpha gene (INHA) which was digested with the restriction enzyme MspI. The effect of the INHA genotypes on the productive and reproductive t...

it is well established that reproduction is sensitive to the state of energy reserves, and that there is a balance between energy homeostasis and fertility. in this view, this study examined the effects of different diets on growth and reproductive performance of fresh water angelfish. twenty four pairs of angelfish (weighing 3.58 ± 0.24 g) were fed with four types of diets including live earth...

background: breast variations play an important role in breastfeeding success. it seems that this issue has not gained enough attention. the present study was designed to measure the prevalence of breast variations among women of reproductive age in an iranian community. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, a sample of 402 pregnant women who were referred to the only maternal h...

background:   objective: the aim of our study was to assess the effect of storage duration of frozen embryo on art outcome.   materials and methods: in this retrospective study the data of 651 frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles were assessed over a 36-months period. our patients were categorized according to storage time of freeze. group i: less than 90 days, group ii: between 90-365 days. gr...