Biodiversity of Helminth associated to amphibians of southern Ceará, Brazil

• Grant number: 12/24945-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: July 01, 2013
• End date: June 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Biology
• Principal Investigator: Reinaldo José da Silva
• Grantee: Drausio Honorio Morais
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IBB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Botucatu , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The knowledge about biological diversity existing on Earth is still scarce. Parasites represent a "hidden diversity" within the explicit diversity that we are able to see with "naked eyes", playing an important role in biodiversity for all ecosystems. Parasites in an ecosystem contribute to the regulation of local diversity of hosts, and they are also important in environmental management plans and wildlife. However, systematic helminthes inventory associated with wild animals in several Brazilian biomes are scarce, mainly in diverse physiognomic vegetation of Northeastern Caatinga. The main objective of this project is to characterize the composition and structure of helminth component community associated with amphibians in five distinct physiognomic vegetation found in six localities Caatinga biome: the municipalities of Crato, Barbalha, Aiuaba, Barro, Araripe and Missão Velha, in the South of Ceará state. Additionally, ecological parameters of host-parasite interactions will be related to biological, ecological and phylogenetic features of host species.

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

ALINE GOUVEIA DE SOUZA LINS; ALINE AGUIAR; DRAUSIO HONORIO MORAIS; LIDIANE APARECIDA FIRMINO DA SILVA; ROBSON WALDEMAR ÁVILA; REINALDO JOSÉ DA SILVA. Helmintofauna de Leptodactylus syphax (Anura: Leptodactylidae) do bioma da Caatinga, Nordeste do Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária, v. 26, n. 1, p. 74-80, 2017-03-00. (12/24945-1)

ALCANTARA, E. P.; FERREIRA-SILVA, C.; SILVA, L. A. F.; LINS, A. G. S.; AVILA, R. W.; MORAIS, D. H.; DA SILVA, R. J.. Helminths of Dermatonotus muelleri (Anura: Microhylidae) from Northeastern Brazil. Journal of Parasitology, v. 104, n. 5, p. 550-556, OCT 2018. (12/24945-1)

MORAIS, D. H.; AGUIAR, A.; MUELLER, M. I.; NARCISO, R. B.; DA SILVA, L. A. F.; DA SILVA, R. J.. Morphometric and phylogenetic analyses of Serpentirhabdias viperidicus n. sp (Nematoda: Rhabdiasidae) from the lancehead snake Bothrops moojeni Hoge, 1966 (Reptilia: Serpentes: Viperidae) in Brazil. JOURNAL OF HELMINTHOLOGY, v. 91, n. 3, p. 360-370, MAY 2017. (12/24945-1, 11/20186-6)

MUELLER, MARIA I.; MORAIS, DRAUSIO H.; COSTA-SILVA, GUILHERME J.; AGUIAR, ALINE; AVILA, ROBSON W.; DA SILVA, REINALDO J.. Diversity in the genus Rhabdias (Nematoda, Rhabdiasidae): Evidence for cryptic speciation. ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA, v. 47, n. 5, p. 595-607, SEP 2018. (12/24945-1)

AGUIAR, ALINE; MORAIS, DRAUSIO HONORIO; FIRMINO SILVA, LIDIANE A.; DOS ANJOS, LUCIANO ALVES; FOSTER, OTTILIE CAROLINA; DA SILVA, REINALDO JOSE. iodiversity of anuran endoparasites from a transitional area between the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado biomes in Brazil: new records and remark. Zootaxa, v. 4948, n. 1, p. 1-41, MAR 18 2021. (12/24945-1, 18/25554-2, 11/20186-6)

DE SOUZA LINS, ALINE GOUVEIA; AGUIAR, ALINE; MORAIS, DRAUSIO HONORIO; FIRMINO DA SILVA, LIDIANE APARECIDA; AVILA, ROBSON WALDEMAR; DA SILVA, REINALDO JOSE. Helminth fauna of Leptodactylus syphax (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Caatinga biome, northeastern Brazil. REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE PARASITOLOGIA VETERINARIA, v. 26, n. 1, p. 7-pg., 2017-01-01. (12/24945-1)