CV Lattes
Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto (FCFRP) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at Biological Sciences from Universidade de São Paulo (2005), master's and PhD at Zoology from Universidade de São Paulo (2008). Has experience in Entomology, focusing on Animal Behavior and Chemical Ecology, acting on the following subjects: kin recognition in stingless bees, chemical ecology of social insects and reproductive conflicts in stingless bees. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Apiculture is an important sector of Worls economy, being responsible for approximately U$$ 730 million in the US in 2018, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). 41 % of this value (US$302 million) correspond to pollination services, 46% (US$333 million) correspond to honey commercialisation and 13% (US$ 95 million) correspond to the commercialisation of other co…
Insect pollination is essential to the production of more than 70% of the food crops in the world. Among pollinating insects with the highest economic importance, bees stand out, especially the honeybee Apis mellifera L.. Honeybee pollination services contribute more than US$200 billion annualy to the world economy. However, pollination services have been afected lately by a worldwide fen…
There was an initial struggle to understand the presence of a sterile caste in social insects on the light of natural selection. An altruistic behaviour can became evolutionarily stable if the obtained indirect fitness overcomes the losses with direct reproduction. In this model, workers of social hymenopterans are favoured by queens' fertility if she produces females, but there are repro…
Recent studies showed that the cuticular waxes of queens from different species of social hymenoptera are used in the maintenance of reproductive monopoly. Social regulation by the use of such compounds has been described for stingless bees and ants species. Even though honeybees present much higher amount of information concerning such regulation by the queen, the homogeneity of this gro…
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