CV Lattes
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia (IB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Bachelor's degree in Biological sciences (2010) and master's degree in Ecology (2013) at Universidade Estadual de Campinas, advised by Paulo S. Oliveira. PhD at PhD at University of Denver (CO) under supervision of Shannon Murphy. Post-doctoral researcher at Syracuse University from 2018 to 2021. Currently an Assistant Professor at UMass Boston. Major area of interest: insect-plant interaction, multitrophic interactions, mutualism, entomology, hebivory, speciation and specialization. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Qualea grandiflora is a typical tree of the Brazilian cerrado that bears paired extrafloral nectaries (NEFs) along its stems. Plants bearing this NEFs can maintain mutualism with aggressive ants that visit and defend them against herbivores insects. Through field observation we could find larvae of Diptera of the genus Medetera that bild theirs shelter with a stick secretion over the NEF …
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