The Dunning-Kruger premise assumes that unqualified people are unaware of their limited skills. We tested this hypothesis in the context of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this cross-sectional study, 2487 participants had to…
The ability to identify the functional correlates of structural and sequence variation in proteins is a critical capability. We related structures of influenza A N10 and N11 proteins that have no established function to structures of proteins with…
The review highlights the main issues raised by the participants of the conference held on April 20, 2020 in the online conference mode in connection with the conditions of self-isolation applied in the framework of the COVID-19 pandemic. The…
The recent emergence of a new coronavirus (COVID-19) has gained a high cover in public media and worldwide news. The virus has caused a viral pneumonia in tens of thousands of people in Wuhan, a central city of China. This short paper gives a brief…
Abstract Canine respiratory coronavirus (CRCoV), identified in 2003, is a member of the Coronaviridae family. The virus is a betacoronavirus and a close relative of human coronavirus OC43 and bovine coronavirus. Here, we examined entry of CRCoV into…
Despite high similarity of canine respiratory coronavirus (CRCoV), bovine coronavirus, (BCoV) and human coronavirus OC43 (HCoV-OC43), these viruses differ in species specificity. For years it was believed that they share receptor specificity,…
In the Santa Marta region (El Rodadero to Guachaquita), Departamento del Magdalena (Colombian Caribbean), 372 fish species have been found. A list of species is presented and the most important oceanographic and ecologic characteristics of the region…
Libro reseñado: La pesca artesanal en el norte del Pacífico colombiano: un horizonte ambivalente. Juan Manuel Díaz Merlano, Lía Guillot Illidge y Manuel Camilo Velandia Díaz (edición). Fundación MarViva, Bogotá, 2016, 154 pp., il. La ONG Fundación…
Rubiacea de Colombia. Guía ilustrada de géneros. Humberto Mendoza, Bernardo R. Ramírez P. y Luis Carlos Jiménez. Editorial del libro reseñado: Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Bogotá, 2004, 351 págs.