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Bedoya-Roqueme E, Tizo-Pedroso E. How Can Climate Change Limit the Distribution of Cooperative Pseudoscorpions in Brazil? NEOTROPICAL ENTOMOLOGY 2023; 52:24-35. [PMID: 36447114 DOI: 10.1007/s13744-022-01006-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2022] [Accepted: 11/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Pseudoscorpions are arachnids that inhabit all terrestrial ecosystems, and are distributed in the tropical, subtropical, and even circumpolar regions. Paratemnoides nidificator (Balzan, 1888) was originally distributed in the continental zone of South America, but subsequently dispersed to Central and North America and the Caribbean. This species was also recorded in coastal marine environments and forest areas in continental and insular regions. Paratemnoides nidificator is the only cooperatively social pseudoscorpion species recorded in South American. However, its distribution limitations are poorly understood. In this study, we used ecological niche models to investigate this species' current and future distribution potential. Similarly, we defined range limits and demonstrated the potential species distribution towards the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest biomes in the Brazilian territory in future scenarios of climate change, and land use and land cover changes. The annual mean temperature was the most important variable, suggesting that a physiological limitation prevents P. nidificator from occupying areas with extreme mean temperatures. Furthermore, the loss of vegetation cover and the expansion of agricultural frontiers may reduce the occurrence of P. nidificator in environmentally unstable areas because P. nidificator is sensitive to anthropogenic activities. Therefore, the biological response is the relationship between the tolerance limit of P. nidificator and the predicted amplitude of the factor, which appears to lie in its maximum tolerance range.
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- Edwin Bedoya-Roqueme
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Recursos Naturais do Cerrado, Lab de Ecologia Comportamental de Aracnídeos, Univ Estadual de Goiás, Anápolis, Goiás, Brazil
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- Lab de Ecologia Comportamental de Aracnídeos, Centro de Ensino e Aprendizagem em Rede, Univ Estadual de Goiás, Anápolis, Goiás, Brazil.
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Parthasarathy B, Müller M, Bilde T, Schneider JM. Hunger state and not personality determines task participation in a spider society. Anim Behav 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Loftus JC, Perez AA, Sih A. Task syndromes: linking personality and task allocation in social animal groups. Behav Ecol 2021; 32:1-17. [PMID: 33708004 PMCID: PMC7937036 DOI: 10.1093/beheco/araa083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2018] [Revised: 08/04/2020] [Accepted: 08/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Studies of eusocial insects have extensively investigated two components of task allocation: how individuals distribute themselves among different tasks in a colony and how the distribution of labor changes to meet fluctuating task demand. While discrete age- and morphologically-based task allocation systems explain much of the social order in these colonies, the basis for task allocation in non-eusocial organisms and within eusocial castes remains unknown. Building from recent advances in the study of among-individual variation in behavior (i.e., animal personalities), we explore a potential mechanism by which individuality in behaviors unrelated to tasks can guide the developmental trajectories that lead to task specialization. We refer to the task-based behavioral syndrome that results from the correlation between the antecedent behavioral tendencies and task participation as a task syndrome. In this review, we present a framework that integrates concepts from a long history of task allocation research in eusocial organisms with recent findings from animal personality research to elucidate how task syndromes and resulting task allocation might manifest in animal groups. By drawing upon an extensive and diverse literature to evaluate the hypothesized framework, this review identifies future areas for study at the intersection of social behavior and animal personality.
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- J C Loftus
- Department of Anthropology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA.,Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Radolfzell, Germany.,Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.,Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Entomology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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Pacheco PSM, Del-Claro K. Spatio-temporal variation influences the division of labour in Pseudomyrmex concolor Smith (Formicidae: Pseudomyrmecinae). J ETHOL 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s10164-021-00695-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Moura RF, Tizo-Pedroso E, Del-Claro K. Can morphological and behavioral traits predict the foraging and feeding dynamics of social arachnids? Curr Zool 2020; 67:183-190. [PMID: 33854536 PMCID: PMC8026155 DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoaa058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2020] [Accepted: 09/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Complex social insect species exhibit task specialization mediated by morphological and behavioral traits. However, evidence of such traits is scarce for other social arthropods. We investigated whether the social pseudoscorpion Paratemnoides nidificator exhibits morphologically and behaviorally specialized individuals in prey capture. We measured body and chela sizes of adult pseudoscorpions and analyzed predation processes. Larger individuals spent more time moving through the colony and foraging than smaller pseudoscorpions. Individuals that captured prey had increased body and absolute chelae sizes. Although larger individuals had relatively small chelae size, they showed a higher probability of prey capture. Larger individuals manipulated prey often, although they fed less than smaller pseudoscorpions. Individuals that initiated captures fed more frequently and for more time than the others. Natural selection might be favoring individuals specialized in foraging and colony protection, allowing smaller and less efficient adults to avoid contact with dangerous prey. To our knowledge, there is incipient information regarding specialized individuals in arachnids, and our results might indicate the emergence of a morphologically specialized group in this species.
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- Renan F Moura
- Laboratório de Ecologia Comportamental e de Interações, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, 38402-020, Brazil
- Address correspondence to Renan F. Moura. E-mail:
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- Centro de Ensino e Aprendizado em Rede, Universidade Estadual de Goiás, Anápolis, GO, 75123-315, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia Comportamental e de Interações, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, 38402-020, Brazil
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Wright CM, Lichtenstein JLL, Doering GN, Pretorius J, Meunier J, Pruitt JN. Collective personalities: present knowledge and new frontiers. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-019-2639-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Ribeiro RF, Gomes FC, Tizo AFS, Tizo-Pedroso E, Del-Claro K. Cooperative foraging in neotropical pseudoscorpions: effects of prey changes on behavioral adjustments of colonies. Acta Ethol 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s10211-018-0294-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Moura RF, Tizo-Pedroso E, Del-Claro K. Colony size, habitat structure, and prey size shape the predation ecology of a social pseudoscorpion from a tropical savanna. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-018-2518-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Capture of large prey and feeding priority in the cooperative pseudoscorpion Paratemnoides nidificator. Acta Ethol 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s10211-018-0288-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Lacava M, González-Gómez J, Valenzuela-Rojas J, Moncayo C, Cardozo L, Tizo-Pedroso E, García L. New cases of social parasitism among pseudoscorpions from Colombian populations. ETHOL ECOL EVOL 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2015.1077891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- M. Lacava
- Grupo de investigación BEA, Corporación de Turismo del Huila, Carrera 5 No 8-67, Neiva, Huila, Colombia
- Laboratorio de Ecología del Comportamiento, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Avenida Italia 3318, Montevideo, Uruguay
- Sección Entomología, Facultad de Ciencias, Iguá 4225, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Grupo de investigación BEA, Corporación de Turismo del Huila, Carrera 5 No 8-67, Neiva, Huila, Colombia
- Universidad Surcolombiana, Semillero INVUSCO, Avenida Pastrana Borrero - Carrera 1, Neiva, Huila, Colombia
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- Grupo de investigación BEA, Corporación de Turismo del Huila, Carrera 5 No 8-67, Neiva, Huila, Colombia
- Universidad Surcolombiana, Semillero INVUSCO, Avenida Pastrana Borrero - Carrera 1, Neiva, Huila, Colombia
- COLCIENCIAS, Avenida Pastrana Borrero - Carrera 1, Neiva, Huila, Colombia
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- Grupo de investigación BEA, Corporación de Turismo del Huila, Carrera 5 No 8-67, Neiva, Huila, Colombia
- Universidad Surcolombiana, Semillero INVUSCO, Avenida Pastrana Borrero - Carrera 1, Neiva, Huila, Colombia
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- Grupo de investigación BEA, Corporación de Turismo del Huila, Carrera 5 No 8-67, Neiva, Huila, Colombia
- Universidad Surcolombiana, Semillero INVUSCO, Avenida Pastrana Borrero - Carrera 1, Neiva, Huila, Colombia
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- Universidade Estadual de Goiás, Câmpus Morrinhos, Laboratório de Ecologia Comportamental de Aracnídeos, Goiás, Brazil
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- Grupo de investigación BEA, Corporación de Turismo del Huila, Carrera 5 No 8-67, Neiva, Huila, Colombia
- Laboratorio de Ecología del Comportamiento, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Avenida Italia 3318, Montevideo, Uruguay
- Sección Entomología, Facultad de Ciencias, Iguá 4225, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
- Current affiliation: Universidad de la República, Centro Universitario Regional Este, Trenta y tres, Uruguay
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Holbrook CT, Wright CM, Pruitt JN. RETRACTED: Individual differences in personality and behavioural plasticity facilitate division of labour in social spider colonies. Anim Behav 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.09.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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de Oliveira MPA, Ferreira RL. Aspects of the behavior and activity rhythms of Rowlandius potiguar (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae). PLoS One 2014; 9:e91913. [PMID: 24643024 PMCID: PMC3958419 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2013] [Accepted: 02/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Although organisms of the order Schizomida are not widely distributed in caves throughout the world, they can, eventually, be abundant in certain regions, becoming a major faunal element in some caves. The majority of works on this order includes species descriptions, with rare references to behavioral aspects. As such, the present study describes the behavioral repertoire, and the activity and feeding periods of Rowlandius potiguar (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae) in the laboratory. The specimens were maintained in a terrarium, in an aphotic room, with temperature and humidity levels similar to the cave of origin. We used the focal-animal and ad libitum methods to describe behavior with qualitative and quantitative evaluations of behavioral acts. We witnessed nineteen behavioral acts, which is considered representative for observations in captivity. Two activity periods were observed: between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. and between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m., characterizing an ultradian rhythm. In adaptive terms, this condition may be important for population maintenance in oligotrophic environments such as caverns. Necrophagy and cannibalism were also registered and could have been selected in the subterranean environment due to oligotrophy. The observation of rare and unprecedented behavior in this group, as well as the presence of rhythmicity in activity patterns, contribute to a better understanding of the ecological aspects of the species of this still little known Order.
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- Marcus Paulo Alves de Oliveira
- Laboratório de Ecologia Subterrânea, Departamento de Biologia/Setor de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, Brasil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia Subterrânea, Departamento de Biologia/Setor de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, Brasil
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Jeanson R, Weidenmüller A. Interindividual variability in social insects - proximate causes and ultimate consequences. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2013; 89:671-87. [PMID: 24341677 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2013] [Revised: 11/15/2013] [Accepted: 11/19/2013] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Individuals within social groups often show consistent differences in behaviour across time and context. Such interindividual differences and the evolutionary challenge they present have recently generated considerable interest. Social insects provide some of the most familiar and spectacular examples of social groups with large interindividual differences. Investigating these within-group differences has a long research tradition, and behavioural variability among the workers of a colony is increasingly regarded as fundamental for a key feature of social insects: division of labour. The goal of this review is to illustrate what we know about both the proximate mechanisms underlying behavioural variability among the workers of a colony and its ultimate consequences; and to highlight the many open questions in this research field. We begin by reviewing the literature on mechanisms that potentially introduce, maintain, and adjust the behavioural differentiation among workers. We highlight the fact that so far, most studies have focused on behavioural variability based on genetic variability, provided by e.g. multiple mating of the queen, while other mechanisms that may be responsible for the behavioural differentiation among workers have been largely neglected. These include maturational, nutritional and environmental influences. We further discuss how feedback provided by the social environment and learning and experience of adult workers provides potent and little-explored sources of differentiation. In a second part, we address what is known about the potential benefits and costs of increased behavioural variability within the workers of a colony. We argue that all studies documenting a benefit of variability so far have done so by manipulating genetic variability, and that a direct test of the effect of behavioural variability on colony productivity has yet to be provided. We emphasize that the costs associated with interindividual variability have been largely overlooked, and that a better knowledge of the cost/benefit balance of behavioural variability is crucial for our understanding of the evolution of the mechanisms underlying the social organization of insect societies. We conclude by highlighting what we believe to be promising but little-explored avenues for future research on how within-colony variability has evolved and is maintained. We emphasize the need for comparative studies and point out that, so far, most studies on interindividual variability have focused on variability in individual response thresholds, while the significance of variability in other parameters of individual response, such as probability and intensity of the response, has been largely overlooked. We propose that these parameters have important consequences for the colony response. Much more research is needed to understand if and how interindividual variability is modulated in order to benefit division of labour, homeostasis and ultimately colony fitness in social insects.
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- Raphaël Jeanson
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062 Cedex 9, Toulouse, France; Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062 Cedex 9, Toulouse, France
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Stefani V, Garcia K, Vecchia C, Silva LA, Guimarães B, Tizo-Pedroso E, Machado EO, Brescovit AD, Del-Claro K. Mating behaviour, nympho-imaginal development and description of a new Mesabolivar species (Araneae: Pholcidae) from the Brazilian dry forest. J NAT HIST 2012. [DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2012.707243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- Vanessa Stefani
- a Universidade Presidente Antônio Carlos, UNIPAC,/Facisa/Campus Araguari , MG , Brazil
- b Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação dos Recursos Naturais , Universidade Federal de Uberlândia , 38400-902 , Uberlândia , MG , Brazil
- f Laboratório Ecologia Comportamental e de Interações, LECI, Inst. de Biologia, PPGECRN , Universidade Federal de Uberlândia , 38400-902 , Uberlândia , MG , Brazil
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- a Universidade Presidente Antônio Carlos, UNIPAC,/Facisa/Campus Araguari , MG , Brazil
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- a Universidade Presidente Antônio Carlos, UNIPAC,/Facisa/Campus Araguari , MG , Brazil
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- a Universidade Presidente Antônio Carlos, UNIPAC,/Facisa/Campus Araguari , MG , Brazil
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- a Universidade Presidente Antônio Carlos, UNIPAC,/Facisa/Campus Araguari , MG , Brazil
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- d Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas , Instituto Butantan , Av. Vital Brazil, 1500, 05503-900 , Butantã, São Paulo , SP , Brazil
- e Departamento de Zoologia , Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo , Brazil
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- d Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas , Instituto Butantan , Av. Vital Brazil, 1500, 05503-900 , Butantã, São Paulo , SP , Brazil
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- f Laboratório Ecologia Comportamental e de Interações, LECI, Inst. de Biologia, PPGECRN , Universidade Federal de Uberlândia , 38400-902 , Uberlândia , MG , Brazil
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Nascimento FS, Souza DI, Tannure-Nascimento IC, Dantas JO. Social facilitation and food partitioning in the queenless ant Dinoponera quadriceps (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J NAT HIST 2012. [DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2012.700333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- Fabio S. Nascimento
- a Universidade de São Paulo, FFCLRP, Departamento de Biologia, Ribeirão Preto , São Paulo , Brazil
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- b Universidade Federal de Sergipe, CCBS, Departamento de Biologia, São Cristóvão , Sergipe , Brazil
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- b Universidade Federal de Sergipe, CCBS, Departamento de Biologia, São Cristóvão , Sergipe , Brazil
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