Estrutura fina do espermatozóide de Tagelus plebeius (Lightfoot) (Mollusca, Bivalvia) do litoral norte do Brasil

It is described the sperm ultraestructure differentiation during spermiogenesis of Tagelus plebeius (Lightfoot, 1786). The spermatozoon is an uniflagellated cell of the primitive type. The head region contains a rounded or conical nucleus surrounded by acrosome. The middle piece contains four mitochondria which are arranged around the axoneme. The flagellum contains the usual microtubular axoneme.

Avaliação sanitária de água de cultivo e de ostras da zona do salgado, nordeste do Estado do Pará - Brasil

O cultivo de espécies de ostras do gênero Crassostrea está em expansão no nordeste do estado do Pará, Brasil. Este estudo analisa a qualidade sanitária das ostras e da água em que são cultivadas nos municípios de São Caetano de Odivelas e Curuçá. As coletas foram realizadas mensalmente entre junho de 2009 e maio de 2010. As amostras de águas foram coletadas nas marés enchente e vazante, e cerca de 15 ostras foram obtidos a cada mês durante a maré vazante. Concentrações de coliformes foram determinadas usando a Técnica de Fermentação de Tubos Múltiplos, seguida pela identificação bioquímica das bactérias e determinação do perfil de suscetibilidade de Escherichia coli isoladas a partir de amostras de águas e ostras. A média geométrica das concentrações de coliformes termotolerantes na água foi de 119 mL MPN/100 em São Caetano de Odivelas e 163,21 MPN/100 mL em Curuçá, valores bem acima do limite de 43 mL MPN/100 estabelecido pelo Conselho Nacional do Meio Ambiente Brasileiro (CONAMA). Como a legislação brasileira relacionada à qualidade sanitária dos moluscos bivalves destina-se apenas ao produto processado, foi adotada a legislação da União Europeia, que classifica as ostras para o consumo cru em três classes sanitárias. Em São Caetano de Odivelas, apenas duas das amostras coletadas durante este estudo foram atribuídas para a classe A, sete amostras para a classe B e três amostras para a classe C. Enquanto em Curuçá três amostras foram atribuídas à classe A, sete amostras para a classe C e duas amostras para a classe C. Os resultados sugerem a necessidade de medidas mitigatórias para garantir a qualidade sanitária das ostras, tais como a aplicação de métodos de depuração.

Geologia e paleontologia do biohermito da Formação Pirabas (Mioceno Inferior)

O presente trabalho compreende o estudo geológico e paleontológico detalhado da litofácies recifal da Formação Pirabas, Estado do Pará, aflorante na Praia do Maçarico, município de Salinópolis, como um corpo pequeno, isolado e lenticular, que deve ter se desenvolvido na rampa interna da plataforma do Mar de Pirabas. O conteúdo biótico é rico e variado, composto por três grupos de algas coralíneas, poríferos, corais, briozoários, equinoides, foraminíferos, ostracodes, e moluscos. Foram reconhecidos neste recife em mancha três estágios de sucessão ecológica, estabilização, colonização e diversificação, onde as finas crostas micríticas reconhecidas na parte superior do estágio diversificação indicam degradação das condições ambientais favoráveis à acreção recifal, provavelmente devido a continentalização do sítio deposicional. O exame petrográfico revelou apenas uma microfácies deposicional, biomicrito, sem consideráveis variações texturais e composicionais. A cimentação marinha é predominante, representada por massas microcristalinas e cimentos micríticos, localmente neomorfisados para bioesparito, e detritos carbonáticos advindos do fluxo biogênico inconsolidado, resultantes principalmente da dispersão de cristais de aragonita dos fragmentos algálicos, acumulados sob a forma de lama micrítica. Para a gênese da bioconstrução as algas foram fundamentais na consolidação e modelagem do arcabouço, principalmente as macroalgas vermelhas, decisivas para a proteção e cimentação dos demais organismos.

Estudo comparativo das associações de macroinvertebrados bentônicos e do sedimento dos reservatórios de Chavantes e Salto Grande (rio Paranapanema, SP, PR) e avaliação toxicológica da água e sedimento

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Bivalves da Formação Taciba, Cisuraliano, Grupo Itararé, Bacia do Paraná, e seu significado bioestratigráfico e paleoambiental no contexto da glaciação neopaleozóica no Gondwana central

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

Consuming viscous prey: a novel protein-secreting delivery system in neotropical snail-eating snakes

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

Shell beds from the Low Head Member (Polonez Cove Formation, early Oligocene) at King George Island, west Antarctica: new insights on facies analysis, taphonomy and environmental significance

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Análises tectono-estratigráfica e faciológico-diagenética da coquina-reservatório Lagoa Feia, Campo de Linguado, Bacia de Campos

A tectono-stratigraphic study of bivalve coquina-reservoir of Linguado Field allowed to identify two trends of permoporosity development. The delineation of these depositional-diagenetic traps were made through structural and stratigrafic cross-sections and maps. It resulted in the identification of shelf-ramp systems (tilted to SSE), it tickens from 60 to 70 meters and ends against an antithetic fault. The main coquina is bounded by fine siliciclastic units, white clay (low Gamma Ray values) or shale (high Gamma Ray values) lithologies, influencing diagenesis of basal or top coquina limestones (cimented, non-porous). Also in the middle of coquina-reservoir the “clayer” material is also associated with cemented carbonates, with also compartimentalize the reservoir into two subzones. The coquina porosity of the subzones is taken from density-neutron logs, while induction log estimates permeabilities and fluid saturations. It’s noticed the porosity development into pairs, good one followed by a regular/poor one and vice versa. These pairs form verticals succession, pair cycles where porosity improves or decreases upwards. These two scales of pore heterogeneity impose strong layering to the reservoir, and influences fluid saturations, oil-water contacts and porosity cut-offs. In a cross-section with density and induction logs, it can be observed the porosity variation along the shelf-ramp coquina (between 3LI_0004_RJS e 3RJS_0157C_RJ), the porosity is better developed in a downdip direction in the case of the two shelf wells, and also be the three ramp wells. The southern west downdip, 3RJS_0157C_RJ well, has best porosity pairs-cycles; however, its lowest structural conditions favour water saturation. Therefore it is fundamental for reservoir fluid evaluation a cross-plot analysis of RHOB-NPHI and Induction logs

Coquinas eoaptianas do sudoeste da Bacia de Campos: fácies deposicionais, eventos diagenéticos e fatores controladores da qualdade do reservatório

Pós-graduação em Geologia Regional - IGCE

Determinação de coliformes na água e no tecido mole das ostras extraídas em Cananéia, São Paulo, Brasil

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

Anatomia interna de alguns moluscos bivalves fósseis do grupo Bauru (Cretáceo Superior, Bacia Bauru), Brasil: implicações paleoecológicas

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Food Content of Six Commercial Fishes from Mississippi Sound

Specific dietary contents from six fishes collected in Mississippi Sound are recorded. In order of their importance, primary components grouped in major taxonomic categories were fishes, penaeid shrimps, and other crustaceans for Cynoscion nebulosus; Crustaceans and fishes for C. arenarius; fishes and crustaceans for C. nothus; crustaceans, pelecypods, and polychaetes for Pogonias cromis; crustaceans, molluscs, polychaetes, and fishes for Archosargus probatocephalus; and fishes and penaeid shrimps for Paralichthys lethostigma. Principal items in the diets of most of the fishes included Anchoa mitchilli, Penaeus aztecus, P. setiferus, and Callinectes sapidus. Those crustaceans show that competition exists for commercial shellfishes in Mississippi Sound. Ratios among the different dietary items vary, according at least to species of fish, length of fish, season, specific location, and abundance of available prey. Some of these variations are documented and are additionally related to selected findings by other authors sampling different localities. We suggest that examination of food items in Archosargus probatocephalus can serve as a practical means to sample and assess seasonal prevalence and abundance of a wide range of invertebrates throughout different habitats in Mississippi Sound and elsewhere.

Food of the Atlantic Croaker, Micropogonias undulatus, from Mississippi Sound and the Gulf of Mexico

The diet of the Atlantic croaker from Mississippi Sound has been examined for the first time. Over 83 taxa were encountered, or more than were reported from croaker in any other region. We also found 60 taxa, 36 of which overlapped with the above, in croaker from various offshore stations in the Gulf of Mexico. In Mississippi Sound the frequency of occurrcnce of items revealed primarily crustaceans followed by polychaetes, molluscs, fishes, and less common items, and, in the open Gulf, molluscs appeared slightly more often than in inshore croaker and than polychaetes in offshore fish. The diets were assessed according to length of fish, season, depth of water, and locality.

Vertical distribution of benthic invertebrate larvae during an upwelling event along a transect off the tropical Brazilian continental margin

Abundance and composition of marine benthic communities have been relatively well studied in the SE Brazilian coast, but little is known on patterns controlling the distribution of their planktonic larval stages. A survey of larval abundance in the continental margin, using a Multi-Plankton Sampler, was conducted in a cross-shelf transect off Cabo Frio (23 degrees S and 42 degrees W) during a costal upwelling event. Hydrographic conditions were monitored through discrete CDT casts. Chlorophyll-a in the top 100 m of the water column was determined and changes in surface chlorophyll-a was estimated using SeaWiFS images. Based on the larval abundances and the meso-scale hydrodynamics scenario, our results suggest two different processes affecting larval distributions. High larval densities were found nearshore due to the upwelling event associated with high chlorophyll a and strong along shore current. On the continental slope, high larval abundance was associated with a clockwise rotating meander, which may have entrapped larvae from a region located further north (Cabo de Sao Tome, 22 degrees S and 41 degrees W). In mid-shelf areas, our data suggests that vertical migration may likely occur as a response to avoid offshore transport by upwelling plumes and/or cyclonic meanders. The hydrodynamic scenario observed in the study area has two distinct yet extremely important consequences: larval retention on food-rich upwelling areas and the broadening of the tropical domain to southernmost subtropical areas. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Allometric growth of a common Nassariidae (Gastropoda) in south-east Brazil

The allometric growth of two groups of Nassarius vibex on beds of the bivalve Mytella charruana on the northern coast of the State of Sao Paulo, was evaluated between September 2006 and February 2007 in the bed on Camaroeiro Beach, and from March 2007 to June 2007 at Cidade Beach. The shells from Camaroeiro were longer and wider and had a smaller shell aperture than those from Cidade; a principal components analysis also confirmed different morphometric patterns between the areas. The allometric growth of the two groups showed great variation in the development of individuals. The increase of shell width and height in relation to shell length did not differ between the two areas. Shell aperture showed a contrasting growth pattern, with individuals from Camaroeiro having smaller apertures. The methodology based on Kullback-Leibler information theory and the multi-model inference showed, for N. vibex, that the classic linear allometric growth was not the most suitable explanation for the observed morphometric relationships. The patterns of relative growth observed in the two groups of N. vibex may be a consequence of different growth and variation rates, which modifies the development of the individuals. Other factors such as food resource availability and environmental parameters, which might also differ between the two areas, should also be considered.