financially supported in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior-Brasil(CAPES)-Finance Code 001 through a fellowship awarded to the first author and grants from Fundação de AmparoàPesquisa do Estado de São Paulo(FAPESP)(2002/13898-0,2018/099947-4,2015/50683-2,and 2016/50384-8);M.D.is also grateful to CAPES(PROTAX II-grant 440597/2015-3);Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico(grants 305905/2012-0,311083/2015-3,312190/2018-2,and 150178/2019-0);Universidade de São Paulo(Projeto 1,Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa).
INTRODUCTION Pollination is a critical phenomenon for global diversity and food production,largely facilitated by animal pollinators(Klein et al.2007;Hahn&Brühl 2016),which are endangered by anthropogenic changes(Car...
Lana Resende de Almeida received CAPES(Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel from Brazil)Ph.D.scholarships:88882.439375/2019-01;Rufford Foundation Small Grant(25871-1);Maria João Ramos Pereira was supported by a CNPq(National Council for Scientific and Technological Development)Productivity Grant(311297/2018-8)。
Chemical profiles of non-invasive biological material,such as feces,have great potential to study elusive animals or those with low population densities.Here,we use a metabolomic approach to evaluate Neotropical mustel...
We thank Fernando Costa,Macarena Gonzalez,Anita Aisenberg,Soledad Ghione,Rodrigo Postiglioni and Carlos Toscano-Gadea for their help in the collection of spiders.We thank Nicolas Grasso and Wanda Iriarte for kindly helping with the techniques and software images.We also would like to thank Fernando Costa for the constructive discussions,Estefania Stanley and Ted Henderson for the English corrections and 3 anonymous referees for valuable comments on the manuscript.
Preliminary genetic studies in Trechaleidae spider family show high variation in sex chromosomes and high heterocigocity,suggesting high chromatin plasticity.The trechaleids Paratrechalea ornata,Trechalea bucculenta a...