Produção e avaliação das aplicações de enzimas quitinolíticas e queratinolíticas

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Uma nova ofensiva do capital?: impactos do neoliberalismo e da reestruturação produtiva na ação sindical e no setor calçadista de Franca - SP

Pós-graduação em História - FCHS

Prevalência dos antígenos eritrocitários caninos em cães domésticos (Canis familiaris) e investigação dos parâmetros hematológicos e da ocorrência de antígenos eritrocitários em lobos-guará (Chrysocyon brachyurus) e cachorros-do-mato (Cerdocyon thos) criados no Brasil

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Detecção sorológica e caracterização moleculares de agentes anaplasmataceae, micoplasmas hemotróficos, piroplasmas e Hepatozoon sp. em carnívoros selvagens mantidos em cativeiro no Brasil

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Assimilação, depuração e contaminação do ermitão Clibanarius vittatus pelo poluente Tributilestanho (TBT) e sua relação com a intersexualidade em ermitões

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Hepatozoon spp. em carnívoros neotropicais presentes em vida livre no Parque Nacional das Emas, em Goiás, Brasil

Pós-graduação em Medicina Veterinária - FMVZ

Distribuição ecológica dos Brachyura (Crustacea, Decapoa) do sublitoral rochoso de ilhas continentais do litoral norte do Estado de São Paulo

Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia) - IBB

Bioaccumulation of tributyltin by blue crabs

This study evaluated the bioaccumulation of tributyltin (TBT) by the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus). Animals were fed with contaminated food containing 30 µg g-1 of TBT expressed as Sn. The analytes were determined in the gills, hepatopancreas and muscle. Acid digestion was used in the total Sn determination, and a solid-phase extraction technique was used for the selective determination of TBT. Limits of detection of 44.6 and 4.46 ng g-1 were found for HG-ICP OES (hydride generation-inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy) and ICP-MS (ICP-mass spectrometry), respectively. The results for non-contaminated animals were below 50 ng g-1, while the animals subjected to the contaminated food showed higher tissue concentrations of Sn (until 6229 ng g-1) and TBT (until 3357 ng g-1) related to the number of exposure days. According to the results, Sn is bioaccumulated by the blue crab in higher concentrations in the hepatopancreas. For most of these animals, the results suggest that Sn is bioaccumulated as TBT.

Gastrintestinal helminths Of Cerdocyon thous (Linnaeus, 1766-Smith, 1839) from the caatinga area of the Paraiba State, Brazil

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Burrow morphology of Uca uruguayensis and Uca leptodactylus (Decapoda: Ocypodidae) from a subtropical mangrove forest in the western Atlantic

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Ontogenetic distribution of Callinectes ornatus (Decapoda, Portunoidea) in southeastern Brazil

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

JUVENILE DEVELOPMENT OF DILOCARCINUS PAGEI STIMPSON, 1861 (BRACHYURA, TRICHODACTYLIDAE) REARED IN THE LABORATORY, WITH EMPHASIS ON SETAE MORPHOLOGY

The juvenile development of the freshwater crab Dilocarcinus pagei Stimpson, 1861 was studied under laboratory conditions, focusing on setae morphology. The ovigerous females were collected manually associated with water hyacinth at the Municipal Dam of Sao Jose do Rio Preto (Sao Paulo, Brazil). The specimens were raised in the laboratory under constant aeration, photoperiod (12: 12 h) and temperature (27 +/- 1 degrees C). Twelve juvenile stages were obtained with descriptions of the main morphological characters that allow their identification are presented. Fourteen types of setae were discovered: dentate, denticulate, serrulate, papposerrate, cuspidate, plumose, plumodenticulate, plumoserrulate, simple, pappose, brush, curved, nail and setules. The greatest diversity of setae was found on the mouth appendages, especially the maxillule. The gill ontogeny and sexual dimorphism becomes apparent from the second juvenile stage onwards. At the third juvenile stage, the carapace begins to exhibit a wider shape, becoming similar to that of the adults.

Intraspecific, interspecific, and seasonal differences in the diet of three mid-sized carnivores in a large neotropical wetland

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Biologia e ecologia de ermitões (Crustacea, Anomura) do sublitoral não consolidado do sudeste brasileiro

Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia) - IBB

GASTROPOD SHELLS USED BY Dardanus insignis (Decapoda, Anomura) NEAR ISLANDS IN THE UBATUBA REGION, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL

The use of gastropod shells by hermit crabs is determined by the availability of shells in the environment or through selection for size and volume. This study analyzed patterns in the use of shells by Dardanus insignis (Saussure, 1858). From January 1998 to December 1999, 386 individuals were collected from two islands at Ubatuba, Sao Paulo. The crabs were measured for cephalothoracic shield length (CSL) and wet weight (CWW). The gastropod shells occupied by hermit crabs were identified, and the shell aperture width (SAW), dry weight (SDW) and internal volume (STY) were measured. The relationships between the dimensions of the gastropod shell and the hermit crabs were evaluated by linear regression analysis. Among the 11 species of gastropod shells used by D. insignis, the most often used was Olivancillaria urceus (31%), followed by Strombus pugilis (22%) and Siratus tenuivaricosus (18%). The shell of O. urceus was used most probably due to its high availability on Couves and Mar Virado islands. The most significant biometric parameter was shell aperture width (F=18.231; p<0.0001), highlighting the importance of this variable for the shell choice by D. insignis at both sites.