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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia (IB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
bachelor's at Ciências Biológicas from Universidade de São Paulo (1998), master's at Zoology from Universidade Federal do Paraná (2002) and doctorate at Zoology from Universidade Federal do Paraná (2006). Has experience in Zoology, acting on the following subjects: meiofauna, polychaeta, sistemática, taxonomia and análise cladística. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Meiofauna is a guild of microscopic organisms (delimited by the mesh of two sieves, upper 500 ¼m and lower 44 ¼m) that inhabit the sediment grains and periphyton of terrestrial and aquatic environments (both freshwater and marine). Despite that this term is an operational definition, the common environment inhabited by these microorganisms presents specific ecological challenges that allo…
Tardigrades are free-living micrometazoans measuring 50 µm to 1mm, known since the XVII century. About 1.200 species are widely distributed in marine and terrestrial environments biomes but distribution patterns are considered poorly known. Some studies suggest a future description of at least a double of species registered nowadays. Lacks of information on this group reflect in actual st…
Gastrotrichs are aquatic microinvertebrates (less than 1 mm) and an important component of the benthos and phytofauna of marine and freshwater habitats. Despite the large number of specimens in different habitats, this taxon is poor studied possibly due to the small size and fragility of their bodies. Moreover, although the taxonomic studies of the group initiated in the end of nineteenth…
The taxon Tardigrada, belonging to the supertaxon Panarthropoda and commonly known as "water bears," comprises minute organisms (50 to 1200 ¿m) with a robust, barrel-shaped body covered by a non-calcified cuticle. They possess four pairs of locomotor appendages equipped with claws or adhesive glands and a specialized buccopharyngeal apparatus. Tardigrades are remarkable for their ability …
The class Pycnogonida consists of exclusively marine, benthic, cosmopolitan chelicerates, occurring from the intertidal zone to great depths. Although they are common in phyto- and encrusting communities, Pycnogonida is considered a neglected taxon worldwide, possibly due to their cryptic habits and small size. In Brazil, studies are limited to records for faunistic inventories and descri…
Polychaetes represent the most diverse group within Annelida species with 17000 species, which the majority occur in marine environment and only 2% live in freshwater or terrestrial ones. Among these freshwater taxa, Aeolosomatidae is one of the most specious and can be found on virtually every continent. This group was originally described as belonging to the Oligochaeta and recently was…
Gastrotricha is a small phylum of microinvertebrates found in virtually every aquatic ecosystem in the world. Exception for the majority of the phylum's organisms, which live associated with benthos, the representatives of the Dasydytidae family present several morphological modifications that allow the peculiar habit of semi-planktonic life, associated with the periphyton. Although the d…
Tardigrades are aquatic microinvertebrates, which measure less than 1 mm in length and feature four pairs of "telescopic" legs terminated in claws or adhesive discs, and have a very characteristic buccal apparatus. These animals are known for their extreme resistance to adverse conditions, which inspires biomedical, biochemical and spatial research. They are distributed from the polar reg…
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