[PDF] Top 20 Genetic improvement of Nellore cattle in the semi-arid region of northeastern Brazil

... ABSTRACT. The semi-arid region of Brazil represents approximately 57% of the northeastern ...territory. The main economic activity in this ... See full document

... consists of extensive livestock breeding and (partly irrigated) cultivation of subsis- tence crops along the river margins or in the form of recession agriculture on the ... See full document

... For the medicinal category, the bark received the largest percentage of citations ...(2007) in Mexico and Bezerra et al. (2008) in the city of Patos, ... See full document

... In the present study, potential risk factors for ...and the Sequeiro location for sheep (Table ...method in the region, which involves releasing animals into the native ... See full document

... one of the characteristics of helminth component community for herbivorous reptiles is that they are not infected with helminths heteroxenous life ...by the review studie by Ávila and Silva ... See full document

... values of air temperature (AT), relative humidity (RH), air velocity (VV), temperature and humidity index (THI) and globe temperature index and humidity (GTIH) are presented in Table 3, where it is observed ... See full document

... treatment of identical or similar conditions in humans, except those administered for uterus prolapse and bovine gangrenous ...modes of administration of remedies (McCorkle and Martin 1998, ... See full document

... brasiliana, in Brazil known by several common names such as “berbigão”, “vôngole”, “maçunin”, “chumbinho”, and “búzio”, is distributed from the West Indies to Uruguay, and occurs throughout ... See full document

... performed in two areas in the State of Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil (Figure 1) differentiated mostly by size, vegetation cover, rainfall pattern and land use, and separated ... See full document

... climate of the region is characterized by relatively reduced and infrequent rainfall, with annual precipitation of approximately 500 mm, distributed mainly between April and August, the ... See full document

... form of controlling parasitic diseases is the use of chemical compounds with a broad spectrum of action; the producers mostly administer anthelmintics empirically (CEZAR et ...Among ... See full document

... populations in order to increase the concentration of favorable alleles in commercial bulb yield, associated with the thickness and the dark yellow color of the ... See full document

... vivax. In South America, this hemoprotozoan is transmitted by hematophagous diptera, mainly tabanids (GARDINER, 1989; OTTE; ABUABARA, 1991; JONES; DÁVILA, ...2001). In the Brazilian territory, T. ... See full document

... In the studied community, ...among the knowledge shown by men and for women; A. pyrifolium was also one of the main species, followed by ...men. The literature suggests that ... See full document

... goal of this study was to analyse the vertical structure of the phytoplankton community at the Mundaú reservoir, located in the semi-arid region ... See full document

... located in the semi-arid region of northeastern ...evaluated in order to determine the effects of organic enrichment induced by aquaculture on ... See full document

... existence of more favorable foraging periods during the year, with a combination of lower temperature and in- creased potential prey abundance, may lead to seasonal size variation in ... See full document

... Seasonality of insects in the semi-arid Caatinga of northeastern ...functioning. In semi-arid regions, the increase in abundance and/or ... See full document

... represented in the semi-arid region by at least 42 species, 20 genera and 11 families, distributed in the northeastern states (except Maranhão) and Minas Gerais ... See full document

... most of the studies on drought phenomenon usually deal with physical aspects, such as its severity, extension, and periodicity, neglecting other aspects of the region such as its ... See full document