Browsing by Author "Zapata, Beatriz"
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Zapata, Beatriz; Correa, Loreto; Soto Gamboa, Mauricio; Latorre, Etel; González, Benito; Ebensperger, Luis A. (ELSEVIER, 2010)While allonursing, the provision of milk to non-offspring by females, involves a potential cost to their own offspring, allosuckling, the suckling from females other than their own mothermay allow offspring to compensate ...
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Zapata, Beatriz; González, B. A.; Marín, Juan C.; Cabello, J. L.; Johnson, W. E.; Skewesf, O. (ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2008-05)Polydactylism, a genetic defect characterized by partial or complete duplication of the digit, has been described in a wide range of vertebrates. Among ungulates, polydactyly appears to be relatively common in domestic ...
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Correa, Loreto; Zapata, Beatriz; Soto Gamboa, Mauricio (Springer, 2012)The breeding of wild animals for commercial purposes is becoming more frequent nowadays. This situation has led to an increase in contact rates between wild and domestic animals, with subsequent reciprocal transmission ...