Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "Mexico"

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    • America's red gold: multiple lineages of cultivated cochineal in Mexico 

      Campana, Michael G; Robles García, Nelly M; Tuross, Noreen (BlackWell Publishing Ltd, 2015)
      Cultivated cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) produces carminic acid, a valuable red dye used to color textiles, cosmetics, and food. Extant native D. coccus is largely restricted to two populations in the Mexican and the ...

    • Geochemical Evidence for Slab Melting in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt 

      Ortega-Gutierrez, Fernando; Straub, Susanne; Goldstein, Steven L.; Langmuir, Charles; Gomez-Tuena, Arturo (Oxford University Press, 2007)
      Geochemical studies of Plio-Quaternary volcanic rocks from the Valle de Bravo-Zitacuaro volcanic field (VBZ) in central Mexico indicate that slab melting plays a key role in the petrogenesis of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic ...

    • Human pluripotent stem cells recurrently acquire and expand dominant negative P53 mutations 

      Merkle, Florian Tobias; Ghosh, Sulagna; Kamitaki, Nolan; Mitchell, Jana Marie; Avior, Yishai; Mello, Curtis Jay; Kashin, Seva; Mekhoubad, Shila; Ilic, Dusko; Sweetnam, Maura Charlton; Saphier Belfer, Genevieve C; Handsaker, Robert E; Genovese, Giulio; Bar, Shiran; Benvenisty, Nissim; McCarroll, Steven A.; Eggan, Kevin Carl (Springer Nature, 2017)
      Background: Depressive disorders are the second-leading cause of global disability, and an area of increasing focus in international health efforts. We describe a community health worker (CHW) program rolled out in a ...

    • Service use among Mexico City adolescents with suicidality 

      Borges, Guilherme; Benjet, Corina; Medina-Mora, Maria Elena; Orozco, Ricardo; Familiar, Itziar; Nock, Matthew K.; Wang, Philip S. (Elsevier BV, 2010)
      Background We report the lifetime and 12-month prevalence and associations of mental health treatment among Mexican adolescents with suicide-related outcomes (SROs; including ideation, plans, gestures and attempts). ...

    • Shearogovea, a New Genus of Cyphophthalmi (Arachnida, Opiliones) of Uncertain Position from Oaxacan Caves, Mexico 

      Giribet, Gonzalo (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 2011)
      Shearogovea gen. nov. is erected for Neogovea mexasca Shear, 1977, a troglobitic cyphophthalmid species from a cave system in Oaxaca, Mexico. The new genus does not show affinity to Neogovea Hinton, 1938, as it lacks the ...

    • Using Google Dengue Trends to Estimate Climate Effects in Mexico 

      Gluskin, Rebecca T.; Santillana, Mauricio; Brownstein, John S. (University of Illinois at Chicago Library, 2013)
      Objective: To evaluate the association between Dengue Fever (DF) and climate in Mexico with real-time data from Google Dengue Trends (GDT) and climate data from NASA Earth observing systems. Introduction: The incidence of ...