Functional and Evolutionary Insights from the Genomes of Three Parasitoid Nasonia Species

We report here genome sequences and comparative analyses of three closely related parasitoid wasps: Nasonia vitripennis, N. giraulti, and N. longicornis. Parasitoids are important regulators of arthropod populations, including major agricultural pests and disease vectors, and Nasonia is an emerging genetic model, particularly for evolutionary and developmental genetics. Key findings include the identification of a functional DNA methylation tool kit; hymenopteran-specific genes including diverse venoms; lateral gene transfers among Pox viruses, Wolbachia, and Nasonia; and the rapid evolution of genes involved in nuclear-mitochondrial interactions that are implicated in speciation. Newly developed genome resources advance Nasonia for genetic research, accelerate mapping and cloning of quantitative trait loci, and will ultimately provide tools and knowledge for further increasing the utility of parasitoids as pest insect-control agents.

Two new species of Baetodes Needham & Murphy (Ephemeroptera : Baetidae) from Brazil

Baetodes santatereza, new species, and B. liviae, new species, are described based on nymphs collected from Sao Paulo, and Parana states, Brazil. They both possess one gill on each coxa and tubercles on metanotum and abdominal segments 1 - 9. Besides these characteristics, they can be distinguished from the other known species of the genus by the following combination of characters: B. santatereza, n. sp., glossae with two bladelike setae, one pectinate and one nonpectinate, and dorsal edge of femora with five to seven clavate setae, nearly one half the length of long, fine setae; B. liviae, n. sp., glossae with one pectinate bladelike setae, dorsal edge of femora often with 6 to 8 clavate setae, nearly the length of long fine setae, besides body color pattern and body length.

Currículo-fabulação : a curiosa metamorfose de Francis Tracart

Tem por proposta subversar a escrita linear acadêmica ao (re)fazê-la, vislumbrando as potências e transgressões da literatura menor em seus agenciamentos coletivos, políticos, em seus gaguejos e balbucios, em suas possibilidades de subversão. Fabular a escrita acadêmica e o currículo como ato político e coletivo, como reinvenção da própria língua. Trata da metamorfose de Francis Tracart em sua busca por traçar conceitos,conversações, percepções e afecções. A metodologia se dá por intermédio da pesquisa com os cotidianos e com a cartografia, buscando atentar-se a vozes, entrelinhas, efeitos, tensões, teórico-práticas e saberesfazeres dos sujeitos praticantes dos cotidianos da escola em que se realiza a pesquisa em pé de igualdade com os autores dos livros que permearam o processo de realização do trabalho de pesquisa. Os sujeitos cotidianos, tais como bibliotecária, professoras e alunos de 5º e 6º Ano, orientador, professores e alunos de Pós- Graduação, que participaram do processo de pesquisa, bem como os autores dos livros lidos, se fazem presentes nas vozes, nas falas, nos afectos e nas conversações com leituras, literaturas, currículos, cotidianos, redes de afecções, elementos éticos, estéticos e políticos, espaçostempos, com linhas de fuga, linhas molares e linhas moleculares, com os presentes politemporais,devires, conceitos, metamorfoses, com possíveis e improváveis leituras, fugas e reinvenções do leitor.

Pope Francis and the challenges of inter-civilization diplomacy

Abstract This article addresses the role of Pope Francis in the interfaith and inter-civilization dialogue of the Holy See. Specifically, it analyses the main aspects of diplomatic relations between the Holy See and Russia, China, Islamic countries and Israel, and provides perspectives on the inter-civilization diplomacy of the Holy See during the current pontificate.

Representations of gender in the writings of St. Francis Xavier: an interdisciplinary approach

Francis Xavier’s Letters and Writings are eloquent narratives of a journey that absorbed the Saint’s entire life. His experiences and idiosyncrasies, values and categorizations are presented in a clear literate discourse. The missionary is rarely neutral in his opinions as he sustains his unmistakable and omnipresent objective: the conversion of peoples and the expansion of the Society of Jesus. Parallel with this objective, the reader is introduced to the individuals that Xavier meets or that he summons in his epistolary discourse. Letters and Writings presents us with a structured narrative peopled by all those who are subject to and objects of Xavier’s apostolic mission, by helpful and unhelpful persons of influence, and by leading and secondary actors. What is then the position of women, in the collective sense as well as in the individual sense, in the travels and goals that are the centre of Xavier’s Letters and Writings? What is the role of women, that secondary and suppressed term in the man/woman binomial, a dichotomy similar to the civilized/savage and European/native binomials that punctuate Xavier’s narratives and the historic context of his letters? Women are not absent from his writings, but it would be naïve to argue in favour of the author’s misogyny as much as of his “profound knowledge of the female heart”, to quote from Paulo Durão in "Women in the Letters of Saint Francis Xavier" (1952), the only paper on this subject published so far. We denote four great categories of women in the Letters and Writings: European Women, Converted Women, Women Who Profess another Religion, and Women as the Agents and Objects of Sin, the latter of which traverses the other three categories. They all depend on the context, circumstances and judgements of value that the author chooses to highlight and articulate.