Inbreeding depression refers to a decrease in fitness components in the offspring of closely related sexual pairs. Given the disadvantages of inbreeding depression, it is of interest to study the mechanisms involved in ...

Psychosocial stress is associated with altered immunity, anxiety and depression. Previously we showed that repeated social defeat (RSD) promoted microglia activation and social avoidance behavior that persisted for 24 ...

Objective: To analyze the variations and differentials in avoidable mortality in Brazil. This paper is presented as a series of scientific articles according to the specific objectives: review of literature on avoidable ...

Abstract: Epidemiological studies have identified numerous environmental and individual characteristics underlying the heterogeneity of gastrointestinal parasitism within host populations. However, the contribution of ...

Inbreeding can have negative consequences on population viability because of the reduced fitness of the progeny. In general, most species have developed mechanisms to minimize inbreeding such as dispersal and kin avoidance ...