Estudo ultra-estrutural e citoquímico da relação entre o desenvolvimento da musculatura do vôo e a demanda por vôo dos componentes de colônias de abelhas eussociais

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

Farfantepenaeus brasiliensis (Crustacea : Penaeoidea): morfologia do hepatopâncreas e sua relação com os metais pesados encontrados no litoral sul do Espírito Santo

Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Biologia Celular e Molecular) - IBRC

Controles do desenvolvimento ovariano em abelhas africanizadas adultas, Apis mellifera Linné, 1758 (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Biologia Celular e Molecular) - IBRC

Estudos anatômicos de Cyperaceae (Poales) com ênfase na anatomia Kranz

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Efeito do estádio do ciclo estral e adição de hormônios ao meio de cultivo in vitro sobre a morfologia do complexo cumulus-oócito canino

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

Efeito in vitro de inibidores de proteases sobre trofozoítos de Giardia duodenalis

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Doença de chagas e biologia de triatomíneos (Heteroptera, Triatominae), com ênfase aos aspectos da espermatogênese

Pós-graduação em Genética - IBILCE

Espermatogênese de Zaprionus indianus e Zaprionus sepsoides (Diptera: Drosophilidae): caracterização citoquímica, estrutural e ultraestrutural

Pós-graduação em Genética - IBILCE

Plasma e ou extrato de levedura em dietas de leitões nos períodos pré e pós-desmame

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

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.

Aspectos ultraestruturais do espermatozóide de Natica marochiensish (Gmelin) (Mollusca, Gastropoda) do litoral norte do Brasil

Spermatozoa of Natica marochienssish (Gmelin, 1791) is described by light and electron microscopy. The spermatozoon is of the primitive type with head contains a conical acrosomal complex with an acrosomal vesicle of dense matrix having a basis occupied by the subacrosomal space. The middle piece shows the centriolar complex surrounded by mitochondria and the tail contains the axoneme with a 9+2.

Estrutura fina do espermatozóide de Acestrorhynchus falcatus Bloch (Teleostei, Characidae) da região norte do Brasil

Spermatozoa of amazon fish, Acestrorhynchus falcatus Bloch, 1794 were investigated by optical microscopy (DIC) and electron microscopy (TEM). Spermatozoa have no acrosome, the head is ovoid, and the midpiece region cylindrical, contains spherical mitochondria. The centriolar complex is located at the lateral side of the nucleus, formed by nine peripheral pairs of microtubules and arranged in a right angle to each other. The flagellum consists of nine pairs of peripheral and two central microtubules.

Estrutura fina do espermatozóide de Mellita quinquiesperforata Leske (Echinodermata) do litoral norte do Brasil

The fine structure of the spermatozoon in the Mellita quinquiesperforata Leske, 1778 was studied. Collected from the Amazon region, were described by light and transmission electron microscopy. The spermatozoon consisted of a acrosome complex, nucleus, four to six mitochondria, two centrioles and flagellum. The acrosome was composed of a acrosome complex, the acrosomal vesicle and the subacrosomal space. The nucleus are composed by dense material. The middle piece contains 4-6 mitochondria which are arranged around the centrioles, the 9p+0, whose axoneme has the classic 9p+2 microtubular construction.

Ultrastructural description of Ceratomyxa microlepis sp. nov. (Phylum Myxozoa): a parasite infecting the gall bladder of Hemiodus microlepis, a freshwater teleost from the Amazon River

A new ceratomyxid parasite was examined for taxonomic identification, upon being found infecting the gall bladder of Hemiodus microlepis (Teleostei: Hemiodontidae), a freshwater teleost collected from the Amazon River, Brazil. Light and transmission electron microscopy revealed elongated crescent-shaped spores constituted by two asymmetrical shell valves united along a straight sutural line, each possessing a lateral projection. The spores body measured 5.2 ± 0.4 µm (n = 25) in length and 35.5 ± 0.9 µm (n = 25) in total thickness. The lateral projections were asymmetric, one measuring 18.1 ± 0.5 µm (n = 25) in thickness and the other measuring 17.5 ± 0.5 µm (n = 25) in thickness. Two equal-sized subspherical polar capsules measuring 2.2 ± 0.3 µm in diameter were located at the same level, each possessing a polar filament with 5-6 coils. The sporoplasm was binucleate. Considering the morphometric data analyzed from the microscopic observations, as well as the host species and its geographical location, this paper describes a new myxosporean species, herein named Ceratomyxa microlepis sp. nov.; therefore representing the first description of a freshwater ceratomyxid from the South American region.

Myxidium volitans sp. nov., a parasite of the gallbladder of the fish, Dactylopterus volitans (Teleostei: Triglidae) from the Brazilian Atlantic coast: morphology and pathology

Myxidium volitans sp. nov. (Myxozoa: Myxidiidae) parasitizing the hypertrophied green-brownish gallbladder of the teleost Dactylopterus volitans, collected in the Atlantic coast near Niterói, Brazil was described based on ultrastructural studies. The spores were fusiform, sometimes slightly crescent-shaped on average 21.7 ± 0.3 µm (mean ± standard deviation) (n = 50) long and 5.6 ± 0.4 µm (n = 30) wide. The spore wall was thin and smooth, comprising two equally-sized valves joined by a hardly visible sutural ridge. Spores containing two pyriform polar capsules (PC) (5.0 ± 0.4 × 2.3 ± 0.3 µm) (n = 30) are situated in each extremity of the spore. The PC wall was composed of hyaline layer (0.20-0.29 µm thick) and by a thin external granular layer. Each PC contains a polar filament (PF) with irregular arrangements that was projected from its apical region to the bases of PC and coiled laterally from bases to the tip of PC. Some regular striations and S-like structures in the periphery of the PFs with four-five irregular sections were observed. Based on the spore morphology, ultrastructural differences and the specificity of the host we describe this parasite as a new myxosporidian, named M. volitans sp. nov.