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Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Instituto de Biociências (IBB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Reinaldo José da Silva in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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Fishes are the vertebrates with the largest number of host-parasite associations, encompassing parasites from different phyla and even different kingdoms. It is estimated that only 6% of Brazilian fish species have been studied regarding their parasitic fauna and, therefore, knowledge about the biodiversity of fish parasites is still incipient in Brazil. Among fish parasites, helminths st…
Fish are the vertebrates with the highest number of host-parasite associations, both with parasites from different phyla even from different kingdoms. It is estimated that only 6% of Brazilian fish species have been studied regarding their parasitic fauna and, therefore, the biodiversity of fish parasites is still incipient in Brazil. Among the main groups of fish parasites, ergasilids, m…
Estuarine environments are places of high productivity and diversity. The different profiles presented by these regions allow the fixation of many organisms, which will be exposed to the high chemical and physical variability present in the estuaries. In the surroundings of most Brazilian estuaries, many human groups have been established for many years, promoting the most diverse types o…
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With an immense hydrographic network, Brazil stands out for its freshwater ichthyofauna diversity, which is also equivalent to the great variety of fish parasites. These parasites, in turn, still need to be studied further due to their importance in the ecosystem, such as in stabilizing the food chain and regulating the populations of their hosts, in addition to being indicators of enviro…
Parasites play important roles in the ecosystems they occupy, which contribute to the diversification and structuring of communities formed by their hosts. Due to this importance, understanding the process of the historical association between parasites and their hosts is fundamental, as this understanding is the basis for monitoring changes in the patterns of parasitic associations, espe…
South America has the highest diversity of freshwater fishes in the world. Fishes of the order Siluriformes and cichlids of the genus Cichla (Cichlidae), besides their high economic and recreational value, represent an important fraction of these ecosystems, playing an essential ecological role for the maintenance of the local biological diversity. Likewise, the proteocephalidean cestodes…
The Neotropical region is known for its high diversity of freshwater fishes, totaling more than 6,000 described species. Equally diverse is the parasitic fauna of these freshwater fishes, which can indicate various biological aspects of their hosts, such as diet, feeding behavior, migration, recruitment, phylogeny, and biogeography. In recent years, several rivers in Southeast Brazil have…
Brazil has one of the richest freshwater fish faunas in the world. In proportion to the diversity of freshwater fish, the richness of parasites associated is also quite expressive in Brazil, however little of this richness has been explored to date. Metynnis lippincottianus (Cope, 1870) is a species native to the basins of northern South America and is being documented in the rivers of so…
Provided with a vast hydrographic system, Brazil stands out for the ichthyofaunistic freshwater diversity, which is also equivalent to the wide variety of fish parasites. These parasites however still need to be studied further due to their importance in the ecosystem, such as the stabilization of the food chain and regulation of the population of their hosts, also, as indicators of envir…
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Animal diversification has intrigued evolutionary biologists over decades and is still a matter of intense debate. However, most of the discussions are related to free-living taxa. At the same time, life within other organisms, such as proteocephalid tapeworms (Eucestoda, Onchoproteocephalidea) that parasitize fish, has often been overlooked. Although proteocephalids represent the planet'…
Crustaceans inhabit a wide variety of habitats ranging from marine to terrestrial and exhibit different lifestyles from free-living to parasitism. In freshwater, the family of parasitic copepods Ergasilidae Burmeister, 1835 stands out as one of the most specious taxa with more than 270 species worldwide. Traditionally, taxonomic studies in Ergasilidae are based on morphological data as th…
Fish parasites are important study targets, especially due to their impact on host health and concerns about aquaculture worldwide. Myxozoans are some of the agents responsible for diseases in fish, which can cause significant economic losses, with high mortality rates. Myxozoans are a group of parasitic cnidarians that have a complex life cycle, including a vertebrate host, mainly fish, …
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| 3 / 3 | Ongoing scholarships in Brazil |
| 42 / 26 | Completed scholarships in Brazil |
| 7 / 7 | Completed scholarships abroad |
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