Bridging two oceans: small toothed cetaceans (Odontoceti) from the Late Miocene Chagres Formation, eastern Caribbean (Colon, Panama)
Biol Lett. 2023 Jun;19(6):20230124. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0124. Epub 2023 Jun 21.ABSTRACTFossil cetaceans are often found in Miocene marine outcrops across the globe. However, because this record is not homogeneous, the dissimilar increase in occurrences, along with the sampling bias has created regions with extensive records and others with great scarcity. Among these, the Caribbean has remained enigmatic due to the lack of well-preserved cetacean fossils. Here, we report new Caribbean fossil cetaceans from the Upper Miocene Chagres Formation exposed along Piña beach, Eastern Panama, including a scaphokogiine kogiid, an...
Source: Biology Letters - June 21, 2023 Category: Biology Authors: Aldo Benites-Palomino Jorge V élez-Juarbe Carlos De Gracia Carlos Jaramillo Source Type: research
Bridging two oceans: small toothed cetaceans (Odontoceti) from the Late Miocene Chagres Formation, eastern Caribbean (Colon, Panama)
Biol Lett. 2023 Jun;19(6):20230124. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0124. Epub 2023 Jun 21.ABSTRACTFossil cetaceans are often found in Miocene marine outcrops across the globe. However, because this record is not homogeneous, the dissimilar increase in occurrences, along with the sampling bias has created regions with extensive records and others with great scarcity. Among these, the Caribbean has remained enigmatic due to the lack of well-preserved cetacean fossils. Here, we report new Caribbean fossil cetaceans from the Upper Miocene Chagres Formation exposed along Piña beach, Eastern Panama, including a scaphokogiine kogiid, an...
Source: Biology Letters - June 21, 2023 Category: Biology Authors: Aldo Benites-Palomino Jorge V élez-Juarbe Carlos De Gracia Carlos Jaramillo Source Type: research
Bridging two oceans: small toothed cetaceans (Odontoceti) from the Late Miocene Chagres Formation, eastern Caribbean (Colon, Panama)
Biol Lett. 2023 Jun;19(6):20230124. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0124. Epub 2023 Jun 21.ABSTRACTFossil cetaceans are often found in Miocene marine outcrops across the globe. However, because this record is not homogeneous, the dissimilar increase in occurrences, along with the sampling bias has created regions with extensive records and others with great scarcity. Among these, the Caribbean has remained enigmatic due to the lack of well-preserved cetacean fossils. Here, we report new Caribbean fossil cetaceans from the Upper Miocene Chagres Formation exposed along Piña beach, Eastern Panama, including a scaphokogiine kogiid, an...
Source: Biology Letters - June 21, 2023 Category: Biology Authors: Aldo Benites-Palomino Jorge V élez-Juarbe Carlos De Gracia Carlos Jaramillo Source Type: research
Bridging two oceans: small toothed cetaceans (Odontoceti) from the Late Miocene Chagres Formation, eastern Caribbean (Colon, Panama)
Biol Lett. 2023 Jun;19(6):20230124. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0124. Epub 2023 Jun 21.ABSTRACTFossil cetaceans are often found in Miocene marine outcrops across the globe. However, because this record is not homogeneous, the dissimilar increase in occurrences, along with the sampling bias has created regions with extensive records and others with great scarcity. Among these, the Caribbean has remained enigmatic due to the lack of well-preserved cetacean fossils. Here, we report new Caribbean fossil cetaceans from the Upper Miocene Chagres Formation exposed along Piña beach, Eastern Panama, including a scaphokogiine kogiid, an...
Source: Biology Letters - June 21, 2023 Category: Biology Authors: Aldo Benites-Palomino Jorge V élez-Juarbe Carlos De Gracia Carlos Jaramillo Source Type: research
Bridging two oceans: small toothed cetaceans (Odontoceti) from the Late Miocene Chagres Formation, eastern Caribbean (Colon, Panama)
Biol Lett. 2023 Jun;19(6):20230124. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0124. Epub 2023 Jun 21.ABSTRACTFossil cetaceans are often found in Miocene marine outcrops across the globe. However, because this record is not homogeneous, the dissimilar increase in occurrences, along with the sampling bias has created regions with extensive records and others with great scarcity. Among these, the Caribbean has remained enigmatic due to the lack of well-preserved cetacean fossils. Here, we report new Caribbean fossil cetaceans from the Upper Miocene Chagres Formation exposed along Piña beach, Eastern Panama, including a scaphokogiine kogiid, an...
Source: Biology Letters - June 21, 2023 Category: Biology Authors: Aldo Benites-Palomino Jorge V élez-Juarbe Carlos De Gracia Carlos Jaramillo Source Type: research
Bridging two oceans: small toothed cetaceans (Odontoceti) from the Late Miocene Chagres Formation, eastern Caribbean (Colon, Panama)
Biol Lett. 2023 Jun;19(6):20230124. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0124. Epub 2023 Jun 21.ABSTRACTFossil cetaceans are often found in Miocene marine outcrops across the globe. However, because this record is not homogeneous, the dissimilar increase in occurrences, along with the sampling bias has created regions with extensive records and others with great scarcity. Among these, the Caribbean has remained enigmatic due to the lack of well-preserved cetacean fossils. Here, we report new Caribbean fossil cetaceans from the Upper Miocene Chagres Formation exposed along Piña beach, Eastern Panama, including a scaphokogiine kogiid, an...
Source: Biology Letters - June 21, 2023 Category: Biology Authors: Aldo Benites-Palomino Jorge V élez-Juarbe Carlos De Gracia Carlos Jaramillo Source Type: research
Viruses, Vol. 15, Pages 1395: Hantavirus in Panama: Twenty Years of Epidemiological Surveillance Experience
González
Heydy Nuñez
Susana Hesse
Fernando Rivera
George Edwards
Ricardo Chong
Ovidio Mendoza
Martín Meza
Milagro Herrera
Rudick Kant
Raul Esquivel
Dora Estripeaut
Demetrio Serracín
Bernardino Denis
Esthefani Robles
Yaxelis Mendoza
Gloria Gonzalez
Felicia Tulloch
Juan Miguel Pascale
Jonathan L. Dunnum
Joseph A. Cook
Anibal G. Armién
Fernando Gracia
Gladys Alicia Guerrero
Itza de Mosca
Twenty years have passed since the emergence of hantavirus zoonosis in Panama at the beginning of this millennium. We provide an overview of epidemiological surveillance of hantavirus ...
Source: Viruses - June 19, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Blas Armi én Carlos Mu ñoz Hector Cede ño Jacqueline R. Salazar Tybbyssay P. Salinas Publio Gonz ález Jos é Trujillo Deyanira S ánchez Jamileth Mari ñas Ayvar Hern ández Harmodio Cruz Leisy Yovany Villarreal Elba Grimaldo Samuel Gonz ález Heydy N Tags: Article Source Type: research
Viruses, Vol. 15, Pages 1390: Two Decades of Wildlife Pathogen Surveillance: Case Study of Choclo orthohantavirus and Its Wild Reservoir Oligoryzomys costaricensis
Armien
Joseph A. Cook
Blas Armien
The Costa Rican pygmy rice rat (Oligoryzomys costaricensis) is the primary reservoir of Choclo orthohantavirus (CHOV), the causal agent of hantavirus disease, pulmonary syndrome, and fever in humans in Panama. Since the emergence of CHOV in early 2000, we have systematically sampled and archived rodents from >150 sites across Panama to establish a baseline understanding of the host and virus, producing a permanent archive of holistic specimens that we are now probing in greater detail. We summarize these collections and explore preliminary habitat/virus associations to ...
Source: Viruses - June 17, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Publio Gonzalez Jacqueline R. Salazar Tybbysay P. Salinas Mario Avila Jocelyn P. Colella Jonathan L. Dunnum Gregory E. Glass Gloria Gonzalez Enos Juarez Kimberly Lindblade Edwin Pile Yaxelis Mendoza Juan Miguel Pascale Anibal G. Armien Joseph A. Cook Blas Tags: Article Source Type: research
Rare blue dye faces risky path from rainforest to product
Polines, Colombia—
The road ends in Luz del Mundo. A few kilometers’ walk from here, just across the Chigorodó River, lies Polines, a scattering of open-sided houses on the edge of the forest. It’s a settlement of Indigenous Emberá people, about 80,000 of whom live in communities across Colombia and Panama. On a recent hot day, an Emberá man named Alirio Niaza scaled a large tree. Standing on one of the lower branches, he wielded a long pole with shears at the end. He carefully positioned the tip against a tiny branch, then pulled a cord that closed the blades. With a thud, a green, fist-size fruit landed in ...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - June 15, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
EE188 Budget Impact Analysis of Faricimab for Treating Patients with Diabetes Macular Edema or Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Panama
Diabetic Macular Edema (DME) and neovascular Age-related Macular Degeneration (nAMD) cause vision loss leading to loss of health-related quality of life. Faricimab is a bispecific antibody that binds and inhibits both VEGF-A and angiopoietin-2. The aim is to estimate the budget impact (BI) of using Faricimab on Panama's healthcare system. (Source: Value in Health)
Source: Value in Health - June 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: J. Hidalgo, J. Ordo ñez, P. Ávlia, J.M. Muñoz Source Type: research
EE185 Budget Impact of Anti-Inflammatory Reliever Therapy with Budesonide-Formoterol Combination in the Treatment of Mild Asthma in Panama
Asthma is a heterogeneous disease characterized by airway inflammation. Daily inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) plus short-acting beta-agonist (SABA) as a reliever is the standard of care (SoC) in Panama for mild asthma. Anti-inflammatory reliever (AIR) therapy with budesonide –formoterol (Bud-Form) as needed is at least as effective as ICS monotherapy plus SABA as a reliever in reducing oral corticosteroid use, emergency room (ER) visits and hospitalizations; however, in Panama, the information on the budget impact of the efficacy of AIR in patients with mild asthma is unknown. (Source: Value in Health)
Source: Value in Health - June 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: J. Ordo ñez, R. Buitrago, L. Noriega, E. Hevia Source Type: research
EE74 The Burden of Disease of Diabetic Macular Edema and Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Panama
Diabetic Macular Edema (DME) and neovascular Age-related Macular Degeneration (nAMD) cause vision loss leading to morbidity and loss of health-related quality of life. Treatment in the country is based on laser (public market) and anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) (private market). Our objective is to estimate the economic burden generated by these diseases in Panama to have information that allows decision-makers to estimate the magnitude of this problem in the country. (Source: Value in Health)
Source: Value in Health - June 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: J Hidalgo, J Ordo ñez, P Ávlia, JM Muñoz Source Type: research
< em > Theama japonica < /em > sp. nov., an Interstitial Polyclad Flatworm Showing a Wide Distribution along Japanese Coasts
Zoolog Sci. 2023 Jun;40(3):262-272. doi: 10.2108/zs220105.ABSTRACTWe establish a new interstitial polyclad species, Theama japonica sp. nov., based on specimens collected from coarse-sandy habitats in three Japanese main islands (Hokkaido, Honshu, and Shikoku) along the coasts of the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan. Theama japonica is characterized by i) two pairs of cerebral eyespots and four to six precerebral eyespots; ii) eosinophilic secretion glands distributed in the distal half of the inner ventral part of the prostatic vesicle; iii) a conical penis papilla, bent up dorsally, with a sclerotized inner wall; iv) t...
Source: Zoological Science - May 31, 2023 Category: Zoology Authors: Aoi Tsuyuki Yuki Oya Naoto Jimi Natsumi Hookabe Shinta Fujimoto Hiroshi Kajihara Source Type: research
< em > Theama japonica < /em > sp. nov., an Interstitial Polyclad Flatworm Showing a Wide Distribution along Japanese Coasts
Zoolog Sci. 2023 Jun;40(3):262-272. doi: 10.2108/zs220105.ABSTRACTWe establish a new interstitial polyclad species, Theama japonica sp. nov., based on specimens collected from coarse-sandy habitats in three Japanese main islands (Hokkaido, Honshu, and Shikoku) along the coasts of the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan. Theama japonica is characterized by i) two pairs of cerebral eyespots and four to six precerebral eyespots; ii) eosinophilic secretion glands distributed in the distal half of the inner ventral part of the prostatic vesicle; iii) a conical penis papilla, bent up dorsally, with a sclerotized inner wall; iv) t...
Source: Zoological Science - May 31, 2023 Category: Zoology Authors: Aoi Tsuyuki Yuki Oya Naoto Jimi Natsumi Hookabe Shinta Fujimoto Hiroshi Kajihara Source Type: research
< em > Theama japonica < /em > sp. nov., an Interstitial Polyclad Flatworm Showing a Wide Distribution along Japanese Coasts
Zoolog Sci. 2023 Jun;40(3):262-272. doi: 10.2108/zs220105.ABSTRACTWe establish a new interstitial polyclad species, Theama japonica sp. nov., based on specimens collected from coarse-sandy habitats in three Japanese main islands (Hokkaido, Honshu, and Shikoku) along the coasts of the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan. Theama japonica is characterized by i) two pairs of cerebral eyespots and four to six precerebral eyespots; ii) eosinophilic secretion glands distributed in the distal half of the inner ventral part of the prostatic vesicle; iii) a conical penis papilla, bent up dorsally, with a sclerotized inner wall; iv) t...
Source: Zoological Science - May 31, 2023 Category: Zoology Authors: Aoi Tsuyuki Yuki Oya Naoto Jimi Natsumi Hookabe Shinta Fujimoto Hiroshi Kajihara Source Type: research
