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Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Instituto de Biociências (IB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at Bacharelado Ciências Biológicas from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (2006) and graduate at Licenciatura em Ciências Biológicas from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (2005). Has experience in General Biology, focusing on General Biology, acting on the following subjects: bioinformática, biologia molecular, biotecnologia, tradução and biologia celular. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The 16S rRNA gene, used in metabarcoding sequencing analyses, is considered a universal molecular marker for identifying and analyzing bacterial communities. Unlike traditional cultivation techniques, this method allows for a more comprehensive analysis since not all microorganisms are cultivable in the laboratory and cultivation is often limited by the specificity of culture media, which…
The decline of bee populations represents a significant environmental concern that has garnered considerable attention in recent decades. Among the various anthropogenic factors implicated, the use of pesticides stands out as a prominent cause of bee mortality. Each year novel insecticides are introduced, accompanied by the creation of new regulations that impose restrictions or outright …
Bees play a vital role in pollination, biodiversity maintenance, and agricultural productivity. Their gut microbiota influences colony health and, consequently, the quality of commercially viable products such as honey and pollen. There are several simultaneous mechanisms for the transmission of gut microorganisms within a colony, with the main ones being trophallaxis, nest maintenance, a…
Attini ants are dependent upon cultivation of fungi for food and grouped into different types according to the cultivated fungus. All species of the basal group and the majority of the derived group use dead organic material as well as leaves, flowers, seeds and feces of arthropods to cultivate their mutualistic fungi as pest leaf-cutter ants cut and use fresh leaves. It was proposed that…
Recent work established that the fungus-farming ants (subtribe Attina) are a sister group of non-fungus-farming ants (subtribe Dacetina) and that both clades belong the Attini tribe. The first group encompasses species that maintain an obligatory mutualism with fungi for food. On the other hand, non-fungus-farming ants are specialized predators that do not cultivate fungi and with limited…
Attini ants are dependent upon cultivation of fungi for food. This ancient dependence may have been stimulated by early ant loss of arginine biosynthesis genes, so ants counterbalanced this deficiency by feeding on fungi. Ants specialized in digesting fungal hyphae, continuously increasing expression of positively selected chitinase genes. Other yet unknown ant adaptations to fungiculture…
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