15 articles in this issue
Isabela de Sousa Leal Lopes, Bruna de Alcobaça Castelo Branco Teixeira, Pedro Olímpio Barros Cavalcante Cortez, Guilherme Rodrigues da Silva, Antônio Isidora de Sousa Neto, Noelia Maria de Sousa Leal (Autor)
The Human Anatomy is the study of human body structure and it has been related to the use of cadavers through the history. The aim of this research was to investigate the use of human cadavers in practical classes of human anatomy in Brazilian medical sch... see more
Liliane Stedile Matos, João Otávio dos Santos Silva, Marcos Alencar Beckmann, Paula Sueli Andrade Moreira, André Soares de Oliveira, Lucélia Nobre Carvalho (Autor)
In the Teles Pires River watershed, one of the most common techniques currently used by fishermen to catch fish is to provide a food supplement commonly known as “cevas”. The purpose of this study was to compare the chemical composition of fillets f... see more
João Marcelo Silva Lima, Jose Odair Pereira, Ieda Hortêncio Batista, Raimundo Carlos Pereira Junior, Hileia dos Santos Barroso, Pedro de Queiroz Costa Neto, Ani Beatriz Jackisch Matsuura, Suzelei de Castro França, João Lúcio Azevedo (Autor)
Endophytic bacteria isolated from Eichhornia crassipes (Mart) Solms., collected in oil contaminated wastewater of effluent generated by Petrobras refinery in Manaus were investigated to determine their potential for producing biosurfactants. Assay w... see more
Geisiany Maria de Queiroz-Fernandes, Bruna Letícia Martins, Cynthia Barbosa Rustiguel (Autor)
The production of enzymes using agro-industrial waste is a low cost alternative for the reuse of byproducts, with the subsequent impact decrease on the environment. Current analysis produced xylanase using fungus Aspergillus niger, with two types of waste... see more
Naiara Zanatta, Laryssa Helena Ribeiro Pazianoto, Vivian de Mello Cionek, Patrícia Almeida Sacramento, Evanilde Benedito (Autor)
The aim of this study was to identify the population structure of the ichthyofauna in an urban stream within an environmental protection area in southern Brazil. Quarterly samplings were conducted between October 2009 and August 2010. Poecilia retic... see more
Eliana Maria Galdioli, Carmino Hayashi, Claudemir Martins Soares, Telma Soares, Liu Wolff (Autor)
Aiming to study the changes in the diet of Astyanax altiparanae in the early developmental stages, in the presence of Eichhornia crassipes (EC) and Lemna sp. (LM), larvae of Astyanax altiparanae were stocked in eight tanks of 900 L (500 ind. tank-1)... see more
Hernando Rivera-Jiménez, Bruno César Rossini, Evandro Vagner Tambarussi, Elizabeth Ann Veasey, Bruna Ibanes, Celso Luis Marino (Autor)
Growers appreciate Cattleya walkeriana and C. loddigesii due to striking shape and rarity. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of DNA barcode regions, namely ITS1, ITS2 and rpoC1, to discriminate between C. walkeriana and C. loddigesi... see more
Liégie Alher Marques, Erasmo Renesto (Autor)
Hemiodus orthonops is a small fish of the Hemiodontidae family, order Characiformes, with a maximum of 25 cm standard length. Until recently, H. orthonops was an endemic species from the Paraná-Paraguay basin and it was absent from the upper Paraná ... see more
João Ricardo Gonçalves de Oliveira, Geraldo Milanez de Resende, Natoniel Franklin de Melo, Adriana Mayumi Yano-Melo (Autor)
The aim of this study was to evaluate three plant species native to Caatinga (Aspidosperma pyrifolium, Ziziphus joazeiro and Pseudobombax simplicifolium) in response to inoculation with two arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (autoctone: Claroideoglomus etunicat... see more
Jucileuza Conceição dos Santos, Ieda Hortêncio Batista, Hiléia Santos Barroso, João Marcelo Silva Lima, Pedro de Queiroz Costa Neto, Andrea Ghelfi, José Odair Pereira (Autor)
The biocidal agrochemicals commonly used in agriculture can remain in the soil, affecting the environmental conditions and causing serious risks to health. Knowing that soil microorganisms, especially those from the rhizosphere, can degrade environm... see more
Silvio Felipe Barbosa Lima, Rudá Amorim Lucena, Vinicius Queiroz, Carmen Regina Parisotto Guimarães, André Breves (Autor)
This paper describes the epibiosis of Ostrea cf. puelchana on Callinectes exasperatus (Gerstaecker, 1856), both collected from the estuary of the Paraíba River, in the state of Paraíba, northeastern Brazil. The basibiont crab was captured using a tr... see more
Débora de Oliveira Prudente, Renato Paiva, Fernanda Carlota Nery, Wesley Pires Flausino Máximo, Luciano Coutinho Silva (Autor)
Hancornia speciosa is a fruitful species from Cerrado biome with high economic potential. However, the intense and disordered extractivism have caused a reduction of its population in its endemic area. In addition, seed recalcitrance negatively affe... see more
Francislainy Pereira de Azevedo, Adilva de Souza Conceição (Autor)
Senna includes about 300 species with circumtropical distribution, widely represented in the Americas, also occurring in Africa, Australia, Asia and Oceania. The genus is represented in Brazil by 80 species, of which 26 are endemic. The Serra Geral ... see more
João Paulo Souza, Nayara Magry Jesus Melo, Alessandro Dias Halfeld, Jéssica Naiara Reis (Autor)
Enterolobium contortisiliquum occurs in native forests formations from southeast to northeast Brazil, and too in Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. The objective of this study was to evaluate shading effects in the early growth of E. contortisiliquum ... see more
Marcos Tavares Dias (Autor)
This paper describes the first study on parasite diversity in Auchenipterus nuchalis Spix & Agassiz, 1829 (Auchenipteridae). In 31 fish caught in a tributary of the Amazon River, 10,708 parasites were collected, such as Ichthyophthirius multifiliis,... see more