Rafael Marques Porto
CV Lattes
Secretaria da Saúde (São Paulo - Estado). Instituto Butantan (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Rafael Marques Porto in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
- Dermatophagy in caecilians (Amphibia, Gymnophiona): a behavioral, morphological and biochemical study, BP.PD
Abstract
Among vertebrates, the amphibians show the larger diversity of reproductive modes, including varied forms of parental care, which is very common in the Gymnophiona. Our group recently described (Nature, 440, 926-929, 2006) in the oviparous African caecilian Boulengerula taitanus a new type of parental care, in which the young feed on the female's skin (dermatophagy). In contrast, the vi...
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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)
FREITAS‚ L.H.G.; PORTO‚ R.M.; PIRRIT‚ L.A.; SCHENKMAN‚ S.; SCHERF‚ A.; OTHERS. Identification of the telomere in Trypanosoma cruzi reveals highly heterogeneous telomere lengths in different parasite strains. Nucleic Acids Research, v. 27, n. 12, p. 2451-2456, 1999.