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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Zootecnia e Engenharia de Alimentos (FZEA) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduation at Medicina Veterinaria from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (1981), master's at Parasitology from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (1985) and doctorate at Parasitology from Universidade de São Paulo (1991). Has experience in Parasitology, focusing on Parasitology, acting on the following subjects: peixes, mixozoarios, identificação molecular, peixes, imunologia helmintos diagnostico, cisticercose and imunodignostico. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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It is now known that a lineage of cnidarians diverged to become endoparasites, which compose the subphylum Myxozoa. This subphylum contains about 2,500 species, which are distributed in the classes Myxosporea and Malacosporea. Myxosporeans contain the vast majority of myxozoan species currently known, and their members infect various tissues and organs of vertebrates, mainly fish, but als…
Metazoans are mostly diploid, meaning that they have one pair of each type of chromosome in their somatic cells. However, some animal groups, such as fish, can present variations in the number of homologous chromosomes usually observed for the species, constituting a condition known as ploidy alteration. A type of alteration from the normal ploidy condition which is widely employed in fis…
Among the species of natural environment explored economically in Brazil we can highlight the pintado (Pseudoplatystoma corruscans (Spix & Agassiz, 1829) and cachara (Pseudoplatystoma reticulatum (Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889) to be a fish with high quality of meet, low fat and no intramuscular bones. However fish from natural environment and fish farm can be hosting of several parasites, …
Myxozoa are a highly diverse group of cnidarian endoparasites, that harbors approximately 2,600 species that infect various tissues and organs of vertebrates, mainly fish. These parasites affect economically important fish in aquaculture and commercial fishing, such as Bryconidae from the genera Brycon and Salminus, which are Characiformes of great economic significance in recreational an…
Catfish of the family Doradidae (Siluriformes) are endemic to the Neotropics, with 96 valid species, most of them unique to freshwater, and occurring in all major river basins of South America. During the last decade, it has been postulated that members of the Doradidae are the sister group of the Auchenipteridae, and that these fishes are excellent models to investigate large-scale chang…
Lambari (Astyanax altiparanae) is a small characiform fish found in rivers in the South American neotropical region that has been gaining prominence in national aquaculture mainly for its potential use as a snack, canned food and fishing bait. In addition, lambari is also widely used as model in research, since it has high growth rates, easy reproduction and rapid sexual maturation. The g…
Myxozoa are endoparasites cnidarians, characterized by transmission via multicellular spores. So far 2,400 species have been described, parasitizing most commonly fish and aquatic invertebrates. This group have been attracted extensive attention due to the pathogenic potential of some species, by the complexity of its life cycle, morphological simplification and its enigmatic evolution. T…
National aquaculture represents an important economic modality in constant growth and, among the species used in this modality, the yellowtail tetra (Astyanax altiparanae) is one of the most important. Due to its intrinsic characteristic, this species is an attractive target for the triploidization process, which is characterized by the induction of the occurrence of an extra chromosome i…
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Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has emerged as an effective tool for identifying species diversity across various animal taxa, including parasitic organisms. Myxozoans are a highly diverse group of cnidarian endoparasites, comprising approximately 2,600 species that infect various tissues and organs of vertebrates, primarily fish, with their biodiversity still underexplored. Aquati…
Myxozoa represents a diverse group of microscopic endoparasites with a complex life cycle involving both invertebrate (annelids and bryozoans) and vertebrate (mostly fish) hosts. They are known as one of the major groups of fish parasites as they cause disease outbreaks with serious economic impact. Phylogenomic studies have revealed that myxozoans belong to the phylum Cnidaria and have u…
Myxozoans are a diverse group of spore-forming parasites that are an emerging threat to wild and farmed fish populations worldwide, including salmon, carp, catfish and flounder. As aquaculture and farming of native fish species expands, novel species of myxozoan parasites can cause economic problems, either by non-pathogenic species emerging as pests, or by unknown species making host jum…
Worldwide production of channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus has been increasing due the high meat quality and easy of culture. Catfish production has been suffering great losses ($1.2 million annually in the US alone) caused by the protozoan Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, more popularly known as 'ich', which is responsible for the formation of white spot disease. Thus, studies involving te…
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