March 2009

Volume 34 Issue 03

/AWARD INTERCIENCIA – 2009/ 153
/Editorial/

Pierre Noreau and Michel Bergeron

WHEN CITIZENS HOLD A MIRROR TO THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY

155
 /Articles/

Ricardo Ocaña-Riola

MARKOV MODELS APPLIED TO HEALTH SCIENCES RESEARCH (in Spanish)

157

Héctor R. Rangel, Domingo Garzaro and Flor H. Pujol

GENETIC DIVERSITY OF HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS IN THE AMERICAS, WITH EMPHASIS ON THE VENEZUELAN EPIDEMICS (in Spanish)

163

Arianna Michelle Hernández Sánchez, Jacqueline Capataz Tafur, Mario Rodríguez-Monroy and Gabriela Sepúlveda-Jiménez

ARABINOGALACTAN PROTEINS IN PLANT CELL CULTURES (in Spanish)

170

Ofelia Angulo and Michael O’Mahony

FOOD PREFERENCE TESTS ARE MORE COMPLEX THAN IT IS THOUGHT (in Spanish)

177

André R. Terra Nascimento, Aécio Amaral dos Santos, Renata C. Martins and Terezinha A. Borges Dias

PALM COMMUNITIES IN THE KRAHÒ INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, TOCANTINS, BRAZIL: BIODIVERSITY AND ETHNOBOTANICAL FEATURES (in Portuguese)

182
/Reports/

Sílvio Júnio Ramos, Evaristo Mauro de Castro, Sheila Isabel do Carmo Pinto, Valdemar Faquin, Cynthia de Oliveira and Giuslan Carvalho Pereira

SILICON USE TO ALLEVIATE ZINC TOXICITY TO EUCALYPTUS SEEDLINGS (in Portuguese)

189

Dirk R. Thielen, Daniel R. Cabello, Guillermo Bianchi-Pérez and Paolo Ramoni-Perazzi

REARING CYCLE AND OTHER REPRODUCTIVE PARAMETERS OF THE XEROPHITIC MOUSE OPOSSUM Marmosa xerophila (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) IN THE PENINSULA OF PARAGUANA, VENEZUELA (in English)

195

Paulo Roberto Duarte Lopes, Jailza Tavares de Oliveira-Silva, Camilla da Cruz Martins and George Olavo

Hollardia hollardi Poey, 1861: FIRST RECORD OF FAMILY TRIACANTHODIDAE (Actinopterygii: Tetraodontiformes) FROM BRAZILIAN MARINE WATERS (in English)

199

Antulio S. Prieto, Dwight Arrieche and Yelitza García

POPULATION DYNAMICS ASPECTS OF Perna viridis (Linnaeus, 1758) IN THE MORRO DE GUARAPO, ARAYA PENINSULA, VENEZUELA (in Spanish)

202

Mayday I. Salazar-Vega, J. Gabriel Rosado-Rubio, Luis A. Chel-Guerrero, David A. Betancur-Ancona and Arturo F. Castellanos-Ruelas

COMPOSITION IN ALPHA LINOLENIC ACID (ω3) OF EGG AND BROILER MEAT USING CHIA (Salvia hispanica L.) IN POULTRY FEEDSTUFF (in Spanish)

209

Monika I. Hamann, Arturo I. Kehr, Cynthya E. González, Marta I. Duré and Eduardo F. Schaefer

PARASITE AND REPRODUCTIVE FEATURES OF Scinax nasicus (Anura: Hylidae) FROM A SOUTH AMERICAN SUBTROPICAL AREA (in English)

214
/Essays/

Guillermo Whittembury, Máximo Drets and Fernando Mañé-Garzón

THE ONLY EXTANT MANUSCRIPT OF CLAUDE BERNARD’S FIRST COURSE ON EXPERIMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY IN COLLÈGE DE FRANCE DURING THE WINTER OF 1847-1848 (in English)

219