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Brito Dias V, Martello F, Regolin AL, Tomas WM, Ribeiro MC. Forest amount determines the occupancy of the arboreal rodent Oecomys cleberi (Rodentia: Cricetidae) in Atlantic Forest fragmented landscapes. STUDIES ON NEOTROPICAL FAUNA AND ENVIRONMENT 2023. [DOI: 10.1080/01650521.2023.2183656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/15/2023]
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- Viviane Brito Dias
- Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brasil
- Programa de Pós-graduação em Biodiversidade, Universidade Estadual Paulista -UNESP, Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas, São José do Rio Preto, Brasil
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- Biodiversidade e Serviços Ecossistêmicos, Instituto Tecnológico Vale, Belém, Brasil
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás - UFG, Goiânia, Brasil
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- Departamento de Biodiversidade, Laboratório de Ecologia Espacial e Conservação –LEEC, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista -UNESP, Rio Claro, Brasil
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Lima de Miranda V, Gurgel-Gonçalves R, Moreira de Souza RDC, Abad-Franch F. Triatoma costalimai, a neglected vector of Trypanosoma cruzi in the Cerrado savannas of South America: A comprehensive review. CURRENT RESEARCH IN PARASITOLOGY & VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES 2022; 2:100102. [PMID: 36479576 PMCID: PMC9720413 DOI: 10.1016/j.crpvbd.2022.100102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2022] [Revised: 10/06/2022] [Accepted: 10/31/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Triatoma costalimai is a little-known triatomine-bug species whose role as a vector of Chagas disease remains poorly understood. To address this gap, we conducted a comprehensive review of the literature and assessed the evidence base from a public-health perspective. We found 89 individual documents/resources with information about T. costalimai. DNA-sequence and cytogenetic data indicate that T. costalimai belongs, together with Triatoma jatai, in a distinct clade within the 'pseudomaculata group' of South American Triatoma. Triatoma costalimai is probably a narrow endemic of the Cerrado on the upper Tocantins River Basin and associated ranges/plateaus; there, the species thrives in the sandstone/limestone outcrops typical of the "Cerrado rupestre" (rocky-soil savanna) and "mata seca decídua calcária" (limestone-soil dry forest) phytophysiognomies. Wild T. costalimai appear to feed on whatever vertebrates are available in rocky outcrops, with lizards and rodents being most common. There is persuasive evidence that house invasion/infestation by T. costalimai has increased in frequency since the 1990s. The bugs often carry Trypanosoma cruzi, often defecate while feeding, have high fecundity/fertility, and, under overtly favorable conditions, can produce two generations per year. Current knowledge suggests that T. costalimai can transmit human Chagas disease in the upper Tocantins Basin; control-surveillance systems should 'tag' the species as a potentially important local vector in the Brazilian states of Goiás and Tocantins. Further research is needed to clarify (i) the drivers and dynamics of house invasion, infestation, and reinfestation by T. costalimai and (ii) the genetic structuring and vector capacity of the species, including its wild and non-wild populations.
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- Vinícius Lima de Miranda
- Laboratório de Parasitologia Médica e Biologia de Vetores, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Parasitologia Médica e Biologia de Vetores, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
- Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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Rengifo EM, D'Elía G, García G, Charpentier E, Cornejo FM. A New Species of Titi Monkey, Genus Cheracebus Byrne et al., 2016 (Primates: Pitheciidae), from Peruvian Amazonia. MAMMAL STUDY 2022. [DOI: 10.3106/ms2022-0019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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- Edgardo M. Rengifo
- Universidade de São Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz”, Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Programa de Pós-Graduação Interunidades em Ecologia Aplicada. Avenida Pádua Dias, 11, São Dimas, CEP 13418-900, Piracicaba, SP, Bra
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- Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Austral de Chile. Campus Isla Teja s/n, Valdivia, Chile
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- Asociación Equipo Primatologico de Loreto EPL, Calle Internacional Mz M Lote 43, Iquitos, Perú
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- Asociación Equipo Primatologico de Loreto EPL, Calle Internacional Mz M Lote 43, Iquitos, Perú
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- Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences (IDPAS), Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4364, USA
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Brandão MV, Garbino GST, Rezende GC, Tenório SF, Reis SF. Taxonomic and natural history notes on Oecomys cleberi (Rodentia: Cricetidae) and first records in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil. STUDIES ON NEOTROPICAL FAUNA AND ENVIRONMENT 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/01650521.2022.2046962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Marcus Vinicius Brandão
- Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Laboratório de Mamíferos, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz,” Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Mamíferos, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz,” Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil
- Departamento de Biologia Animal, Museu de Zoologia João Moojen, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil
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- IPÊ – Institute for Ecological Research, Nazaré Paulista, Brazil
- Graduate Program in Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Institute of Biosciences, Rio Claro, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia Animal, Museu de Zoologia João Moojen, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil
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Pilatti P, Moratelli R, Aguiar LMS, Astúa D. Distribution and Morphological Variation of Xeronycteris vieirai Gregorin and Ditchfield, 2005 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae). ACTA CHIROPTEROLOGICA 2022. [DOI: 10.3161/15081109acc2021.23.2.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Patricia Pilatti
- Laboratório de Mastozoologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Avenida Professor Moraes Rêgo, s/n, Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, 50670-901, Brazil
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- Fiocruz Mata Atlântica, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Rua Sampaio Corrêa s/n, Colônia Juliano Moreira, Taquara, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22713-375, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Biologia e Conservação de Morcegos, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade de Brasília, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Asa Norte, Brasília, DF, 70910-900, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Mastozoologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Avenida Professor Moraes Rêgo, s/n, Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, 50670-901, Brazil
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Feijó A, Brandão MV. Taxonomy as the first step towards conservation: an appraisal on the taxonomy of medium- and large-sized Neotropical mammals in the 21st century. ZOOLOGIA 2022. [DOI: 10.1590/s1984-4689.v39.e22007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Furtado LO, Felicio GR, Lemos PR, Christianini AV, Martins M, Carmignotto AP. Winners and Losers: How Woody Encroachment Is Changing the Small Mammal Community Structure in a Neotropical Savanna. Front Ecol Evol 2021. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.774744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Years of fire suppression, decreases in herbivores, and global climate change have led to shifts in savannas worldwide. Natural open vegetation such as grasslands and shrublands is increasing in wood density, but the effects for small mammals are not well understood. While most of the mammal studies from the Brazilian Cerrado are concentrated in the core area of this large Neotropical savanna, its southern portions are suffering from biome shifting through woody encroachment. Herein, we surveyed a small mammal community from the southeastern boundary of Cerrado (Santa Bárbara Ecological Station) and evaluated the micro and macro environmental variables shaping community structure in order to investigate how the woody encroachment in the last 15 years may have influenced this assemblage. We recorded 17 species of marsupials and rodents along five distinct habitats in a gradient from grasslands to woodlands. Although richness was not affected by microhabitat variables, total and relative abundance varied according to habitat type and in relation to herbaceous, shrub, and tree density. Rodents such as Calomys tener and Clyomys laticeps were positively affected by increasing herb cover, Cerradomys scotti and Oligoryzomys nigripes by shrub cover, while the marsupial Didelphis albiventris had higher association with increasing tree cover. We detected an increase of 27.4% in vegetation density (EVI) between 2003 and 2018 in our study site, and this woody encroachment negatively affected the abundance of some small mammals. The open-area specialists Cryptonanus chacoensis and C. scotti had a decrease in abundance, while D. albiventris and O. nigripes were favored by woody encroachment. Our data suggest that woody encroachment is shifting community composition: small mammals often associated with grasslands and open savannas are likely to be negatively affected by woody encroachment; while species that rely on tree-covered habitats are likely to benefit from an increasing woody landscape. Therefore, forest-dwellers are gradually replacing open-vegetation inhabitants. Active management of open formations (e.g., with prescribed burning) may be needed to maintain Cerrado biodiversity, especially considering the open-area endemics.
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Duarte MA, Campos FS, Araújo Neto OF, Silva LA, Silva AB, Aguiar TC, Santos RN, Souza UJB, Alves GB, Melo FL, Ardisson-Araujo DMP, Aguiar RWS, Ribeiro BM. Identification of potential new mosquito-associated viruses of adult Aedes aegypti mosquitoes from Tocantins state, Brazil. Braz J Microbiol 2021; 53:51-62. [PMID: 34727360 DOI: 10.1007/s42770-021-00632-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2021] [Accepted: 10/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Medically important arboviruses such as dengue virus (DENV), Zika virus (ZIKV), and chikungunya virus (CHIKV) are primarily transmitted by the globally distributed mosquito Aedes aegypti. Increasing evidence suggests that the transmission of some viruses can be influenced by mosquito-specific and mosquito-borne viruses. Advancements in high-throughput sequencing (HTS) and bioinformatics have expanded our knowledge on the richness of viruses harbored by mosquitoes. HTS was used to characterize the presence of virus sequences in wild-caught adult Ae. aegypti from Tocantins (TO) state, Brazil. Samples of mosquitoes were collected in four cities of Tocantins state and submitted to RNA isolation, followed by sequencing at an Illumina HiSeq platform. Our results showed initially by Krona the presence of 3% of the sequenced reads belonging to the viral database. After further analysis, the virus sequences were found to have homology to two viral families found in insects Phenuiviridae and Metaviridae. Three possible viral strains including putative new viruses were detected and named Phasi Charoen-like phasivirus isolate To-1 (PCLV To-1), Aedes aegypti To virus 1 (AAToV1), and Aedes aegypti To virus 2 (AAToV2). The results presented in this work contribute to the growing knowledge about the diversity of viruses in mosquitoes and might be useful for future studies on the interaction between insect-specific viruses and arboviruses.
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- Matheus A Duarte
- Faculdade de Agronomia E Veterinária, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, 70.910-900, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Bioinformática E Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal Do Tocantins, Campus de Gurupi, Gurupi, TO, 77.402-970, Brazil.
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- Laboratório de Bioinformática E Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal Do Tocantins, Campus de Gurupi, Gurupi, TO, 77.402-970, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia Celular, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, 70.910-900, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Bioinformática E Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal Do Tocantins, Campus de Gurupi, Gurupi, TO, 77.402-970, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Bioinformática E Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal Do Tocantins, Campus de Gurupi, Gurupi, TO, 77.402-970, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Bioinformática E Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal Do Tocantins, Campus de Gurupi, Gurupi, TO, 77.402-970, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Bioinformática E Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal Do Tocantins, Campus de Gurupi, Gurupi, TO, 77.402-970, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Biologia Molecular, Universidade Federal Do Tocantins, Campus de Gurupi, Gurupi, TO, 77.402-970, Brazil
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- Departamento de Fitopatologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, 70.910-900, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Virologia de Insetos, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, 97.105-900, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Biologia Molecular, Universidade Federal Do Tocantins, Campus de Gurupi, Gurupi, TO, 77.402-970, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia Celular, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, 70.910-900, Brazil
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Menezes FH, Feijó A, Fernandes‐Ferreira H, da Costa IR, Cordeiro‐Estrela P. Integrative systematics of Neotropical porcupines of
Coendou prehensilis
complex (Rodentia: Erethizontidae). J ZOOL SYST EVOL RES 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Fernando Heberson Menezes
- Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia) Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza Universidade Federal da Paraíba João Pessoa ParaíbaBrazil
- Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Sistemática, Uso e Conservação da Biodiversidade Centro de Ciências Universidade Federal do Ceará Fortaleza CearáBrazil
- Laboratório de Mamíferos Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza Universidade Federal da Paraíba João Pessoa ParaíbaBrazil
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution Institute of Zoology Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
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- Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Sistemática, Uso e Conservação da Biodiversidade Centro de Ciências Universidade Federal do Ceará Fortaleza CearáBrazil
- Laboratório de Conservação de Vertebrados Terrestres (Converte) Universidade Estadual do Ceará Quixadá Ceará Brazil
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- Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Sistemática, Uso e Conservação da Biodiversidade Centro de Ciências Universidade Federal do Ceará Fortaleza CearáBrazil
- Departamento de Biologia Centro de Ciências Universidade Federal do Ceará Fortaleza CearáBrazil
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- Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia) Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza Universidade Federal da Paraíba João Pessoa ParaíbaBrazil
- Laboratório de Mamíferos Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza Universidade Federal da Paraíba João Pessoa ParaíbaBrazil
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Where does the fox stay? First camera trap records of the threatened hoary fox Lycalopex vetulus (Carnivora, Canidae) in a xeric habitat of a neotropical dry forest–savanna ecotone. MAMMAL RES 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s13364-021-00606-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Prado JR, Knowles LL, Percequillo AR. A new species of South America marsh rat (Holochilus, Cricetidae) from northeastern Brazil. J Mammal 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyab104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Marsh rats of the genus Holochilus are broadly distributed and inhabit several distinct environments throughout South America. As an enigmatic group with a somewhat uncertain taxonomy, the composition and names of taxa have shifted throughout history, including the boundaries of Holochilus sciureus, a species formerly distributed in the lowlands of the Guianas, Peru, Bolivia, and northern, central, and northeastern of Brazil. Based on a combination of morphological and morphometric traits, and genomic sequences, we redefined species boundaries and split this wide concept of H. sciureus into three separated species, including a redefined H. sciureus, the newly erected from synonymy H. nanus, and an unnamed taxon. We describe this unnamed species, and provide emended diagnoses for the two redefined species. The newly named taxon inhabits the northeastern part of Brazil and differs from the other congeners by a unique combination of phenotypic and genomic characters.
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- Joyce R Prado
- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Escola Superior de Agricultura ‘Luiz de Queiroz’, Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Escola Superior de Agricultura ‘Luiz de Queiroz’, Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil
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Silva DS, Ribeiro MV, Soares FH. Medium and large-sized mammals of a private protected wetland in the Cerrado-Amazon biological corridor, Brazil. BRAZ J BIOL 2021; 83:e243666. [PMID: 34495145 DOI: 10.1590/1519-6984.243666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2020] [Accepted: 04/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Brazil is the world's richest country in biodiversity, including mammal species. In the Brazilian Cerrado biome, mammalian diversity is vast, with about 251 species, 32 of them are endemic and 22 listed as threatened species. In this work, we investigated species diversity of medium- and large-sized mammals in the private protected area RPPN Pontal do Jaburu (RPPN-PJ) and its surroundings, which is a flooded area located in an important biological corridor in the Cerrado-Amazon ecotone zone, a priority area for biodiversity conservation in Brazil. We used camera-trapping, active search (night and day), and track survey during dry season (Apr - Aug 2016). We recorded 29 mammal species, being the Carnivora order the most representative with 11 species. Regarding threat status, 35.7% of the recorded species were listed as threatened in Brazil and 32.1% worldwide. We highlight the high relative frequency of threatened species records such as Tapirus terrestris, Panthera onca, Blastocerus dichotomus, Pteronura brasiliensis, Priodontes maximus, and other, as well as the presence of the newly described aquatic mammal species Inia araguaiaensis. We stress the importance of RPPN-PJ and its surroundings for mammal conservation, which include complex habitats (wetlands) located in an important ecotone zone.
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- D S Silva
- Universidade Federal de Goiás - UFG, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Programa de Pós-graduação em Biodiversidade Animal, Goiânia, GO, Brasil.,Associação Guardiões do Cerrado - AGC, Serranópolis, GO, Brasil
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- Associação Guardiões do Cerrado - AGC, Serranópolis, GO, Brasil.,Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz - UESC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade, Ilhéus, BA, Brasil
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- Associação Guardiões do Cerrado - AGC, Serranópolis, GO, Brasil
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Quintela FM, DA Rosa CA, FeijÓ A. Updated and annotated checklist of recent mammals from Brazil. AN ACAD BRAS CIENC 2020; 92 Suppl 2:e20191004. [PMID: 32813766 DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765202020191004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2019] [Accepted: 12/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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An updated and annotated checklist of mammals occurring in Brazil is presented. A total of 751 native species, distributed in 249 genera, 51 families and 11 orders were recorded to the country. The Brazilian mammalian fauna shows an elevated rate of endemism (30%; 223 species). Among the species evaluated by IUCN (668 species; 90%), a total of 80 (10.6% of total mammalian fauna) are Threatened, 28 (3.9%) are considered as Near Threatened, two species (0.3%) are presumable Extinct, 96 (12.8%) are considered with Deficient Data for conservation and 462 (61.6%) are considered as Least Concern. Fifteen new species were described since the last national compilation (published in 2017), which associated to new records to the country and synonimizations resulted in an increment of 30 species. Eight non-native species were introduced to the country, including the recently established Asiatic cervids Rusa unicolor (sambar) and Axis axis (chital). Seven native species (five primates and two hystricomorph rodents) have been translocated from their areas of natural occurrence to other areas inside the country.
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- Fernando Marques Quintela
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia de Ambientes Aquáticos Continentais, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Ribeiro R, Ricklefs RE, Marinho-Filho J. Partitioning beta diversity to unravel mechanisms underlying the distributions of nonvolant small mammls in Brazil’s Cerrado. J Mammal 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyaa085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Species distributions and the mechanisms that produce patterns in the occupation space are recurrent themes in community ecology. Here, we examine beta diversity among assemblages of small mammals in the Cerrado domain of Brazil to partition the effects of turnover and nestedness on species distributions. Our objective was to evaluate whether balanced spatial variation in abundance (β bal) and abundance gradients (β gra) are congruent within and among habitats and localities of the Brazilian Cerrado. In addition, we wanted to understand whether ecological mechanisms, such as dispersal limitation, habitat filtering, and species sorting, drive the distribution patterns of the Cerrado small mammals. We analyzed the occurrence and abundances of small mammals from 16 localities widely distributed across the Cerrado biome, and grouped our data with respect to two distinct spatial scales. Baselga’s Bray–Curtis index of dissimilarity and its respective partitions, i.e., balanced variation in abundance (β bal) and abundance gradients (β gra), were estimated between sampling units at the two spatial scales. Thus, we used exponential models to search for distance decay in species similarity between pairs of localities and between similar habitats. Our results show that differences between small mammal assemblages in the Cerrado are driven mainly by species replacement rather than independent gain or loss of species, both at small and large scales. The spatial turnover patterns of small mammals in the Cerrado biome are determined by a combination of large scale (biogeographic, spatial) and local mechanisms (low dispersal and habitat specificity). However, processes occurring at small scales seem to be more important in species sorting than processes occurring at large scales. The spatial configuration of the landscape and the extent and quality of habitats strongly influence the rate of species turnover in Cerrado. Thus, protecting the different types of habitats should be of prime importance to conserving the diversity of Cerrado small mammals.
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- Raquel Ribeiro
- Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade de Brasilia, CEP Brasília, DF, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, University of Missouri at St. Louis, One University Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de Brasília, CEP Brasilia, DF, Brazil
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Delgado‐Jaramillo M, Aguiar LMS, Machado RB, Bernard E. Assessing the distribution of a species‐rich group in a continental‐sized megadiverse country: Bats in Brazil. DIVERS DISTRIB 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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- Mariana Delgado‐Jaramillo
- Laboratório de Ciência Aplicada à Conservação da Biodiversidade Departamento de Zoologia Centro de Biociências Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Recife Brazil
- Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Biologia Animal Departamento de Zoologia Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Recife Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ciência Aplicada à Conservação da Biodiversidade Departamento de Zoologia Centro de Biociências Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Recife Brazil
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Weber MM, Novaes RLM, Delgado-Jaramillo M, Barbier E, Cláudio VC, Bernard E, Moratelli R. Is Myotis lavali (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) endemic to the South American dry diagonal? J Mammal 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyz141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Myotis lavali was described from the M. nigricans complex based on museum specimens from the Caatinga of northeastern Brazil. Current records of the species from about 10 localities suggest that M. lavali seems to occur throughout the South American dry corridor, with peripheral records in the Atlantic Forest. Based on new distribution records, we assess if M. lavali is endemic to the South American dry diagonal corridor through species distribution modeling using an ensemble approach. We obtained 35 occurrences for the species and built a consensus scenario based on 12 algorithms to model its distribution. Even using different thresholds to assign presence and absence of M. lavali, 95–99% of its predicted distribution is within the dry corridor, with few areas in the boundary of the Atlantic Forest, especially in deciduous forests. Therefore, our results support that M. lavali is indeed very likely restricted to the dry diagonal and, although it occupies forested areas, the core of its distribution lies in the Caatinga and in the Cerrado regions of Brazil.
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- Marcelo M Weber
- Departamento de Zootecnia e Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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- Fiocruz Mata Atlântica, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Gutiérrez EE, Heming NM, Penido G, Dalponte JC, Lacerda ACR, Moratelli R, Bubadué JDM, da Silva LH, Wolf MM, Marinho-Filho J. Climate change and its potential impact on the conservation of the Hoary Fox, Lycalopex vetulus (Mammalia: Canidae). Mamm Biol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2019.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Laurindo RDS, Toledo FRN, Teixeira EM. Mammals of medium and large size in Cerrado remnants in southeastern Brazil. NEOTROPICAL BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION 2019. [DOI: 10.3897/neotropical.14.e37653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The Cerrado is the second largest biome in Brazil and considered a global biodiversity hotspot due to its high species richness, elevated amount of endemisms, and several anthropogenic threats. The Cerrado has more than 250 species of mammals, and about 15% are endemic. However, fragmentation and the consequent loss of native habitat threaten the maintenance of mammalian populations. In this context we carried out an inventory of medium- and large-sized mammals in Cerrado remnants in Matutina, Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. Sampling was performed in four remnants of Cerrado and adjacent agricultural matrices for 18 days and 16 nights in March and July 2015 with camera traps, diurnal and nocturnal censuses, and by searching for tracks and other indirect evidence. We recorded 19 species of mammals, including top predators and species vulnerable to extinction. The original vegetation cover in the study area has become severely reduced and fragmented due to agricultural expansion. However, the remnants still retain considerable diversity of medium- and large-sized mammals, making them important for the maintenance of biological diversity.
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Soares FA, da Rocha PA, Bocchiglieri A, Ferrari SF. Structure of a bat community in the xerophytic Caatinga of the state of Sergipe, Northeastern Brazil. MAMMALIA 2019. [DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2018-0029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The Caatinga, a Brazilian biome that covers an area of 740,000 km2, is characterized by semi-arid climatic conditions with high temperatures and irregular rains throughout the year. The present study verified the structure of the local bat community and the seasonal variation in the abundance of bats and their diversity. We sampled four points on Serra dos Macacos and Serra de Antenor, in the municipality of Tobias Barreto, Sergipe. Field campaigns were conducted monthly between February and November 2011 in the region of the Serra dos Macacos, with the same sampling effort being applied in the dry and rainy seasons. A total sampling effort of 95,040 m2⋅h resulted in the capture of 104 specimens, representing 15 species belonging to the families Phyllostomidae (12 sp.), Vespertilionidae (2 sp.) and Mormoopidae (1 sp.). The Jackknife 1 estimate indicated the occurrence of 21.3±2.07 species in the study area. There was no difference in species diversity between the two stations (t=0.65, p=0.51). The guild of frugivorous and nectarivorous bats were the most abundant in both seasons, and most representative in the rainy season. Significant seasonal difference was found in the abundance of bats between the dry and rainy seasons (χ2=16.96; df=1; p<0.05). The results were consistent with other Caatinga studies in terms of species richness and diversity, and community structure, with a predominance of nectarivorous bats and seasonal variation in the community structure.
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Garbino GST, Serrano-Villavicencio JE, Gutiérrez EE. What is in a genus name? Conceptual and empirical issues preclude the proposed recognition of Callibella (Callitrichinae) as a genus. Primates 2019; 60:155-162. [PMID: 30661171 DOI: 10.1007/s10329-019-00714-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2018] [Accepted: 01/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In a recent article, Silva et al. (Zool Scr 47:133-143, 2018) proposed the relocation of the dwarf marmoset, Mico humilis, to the so far unrecognized genus Callibella. We contend that a taxonomic scheme that recognizes Callibella as if it were a valid genus is inadequately supported, and to some extent contradicted, by the ecological and morphological information provided by the authors. We discuss why the criterion of sympatry, invoked by Silva et al. to justify the recognition of Callibella at the genus level, is uninformative for taxonomic decisions above the species level. We also show that the morphological characteristics used by Silva et al. to separate Mico humilis from the other Mico are individually variable and present in every analyzed species of the genus. Moreover, we demonstrate that the Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) metric, employed by those authors to attempt to justify their taxonomic proposition, makes no sense in a taxonomic context. Conceptually, the use of autapomorphies and plesiomorphies to justify using Callibella goes against one of the main objectives of a meaningful classification, that is, to allow for all kinds of inferences based on previous observations (i.e., to be inductively projectible). Based on these arguments, we demonstrate that regarding Callibella as a subgenus of Mico is the most suitable way of making the Linnean taxonomy of marmosets congruent with the phylogenetic information available for the group.
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- Guilherme S T Garbino
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 31270-901, Brazil.
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- Pós-graduação, Mastozoologia, Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Avenida Nazaré, 481, Ipiranga, São Paulo, 04263-000, Brazil.,Centro de Investigación Biodiversidad Sostenible (BioS), Calle Francisco de Zela, 1556, Lima, Peru
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade Animal, Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, 97105-900, Brazil.,Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, 70910-900, Brazil
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In this note, I discuss the advantages of the usage of subgenera as a practical taxonomic rank in mammalian taxonomy. Use of this category preserves traditional usage, reduces nomenclatural instability and avoids unnecessary change of names. Subgenera are useful to label diagnosable clades of closely related species, especially in morphologically and ecologically diverse monophyletic genera, without alteration of traditional binomial usage. Contrary to informal names such as “divisions” or “groups”, subgenera are governed by the rules of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), having usage constrained (and stability promoted) by typification and priority.
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- Pablo Teta
- División Mastozoología , Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Avenida Ángel Gallardo 470 , C1405DJR Buenos Aires , Argentina
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Vargas-Mena JC, Alves-Pereira K, Barros MAS, Barbier E, Cordero-Schmidt E, Lima SMQ, Rodríguez-Herrera B, Venticinque EM. The bats of Rio Grande do Norte state, northeastern Brazil. BIOTA NEOTROPICA 2018. [DOI: 10.1590/1676-0611-bn-2017-0417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Abstract Rio Grande do Norte is one of the smallest states in Brazil but has a rich diversity of ecosystems, including Caatinga vegetation, remnants of Atlantic Forest, coastal habitats, mangroves and large karstic areas with caves. However, its chiropteran fauna is little known, and the state contains conspicuous gaps of information on the occurrence and distribution of bats in Brazil. In order to reduce this information gap, based on a review of scientific literature and regional mammal collections, we list 42 species of bats, including new occurrences for 13 species and discussion on their conservation status. Results show that more than half (54%) of the recorded species are phyllostomid bats, and about one third of the bats in the state roosts in underground cavities. The Caatinga harbored the highest bat richness in the state, including the occurrence of four vulnerable species (Furipterus horrens, Lonchorhina aurita, Natalus macrourus and Xeronycteris vieirai). The Atlantic Forest needs to be more sampled, including mangroves, coastal habitats and areas of Caatinga in the central region of the state (Borborema highlands), which are virtually unsurveyed. Although the recent increase of studies on bats in the state, future studies should complement conventional mistnetting with active roost search and bioacoustical records in order to obtain better data for unraveling the bat fauna of Rio Grande do Norte.
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Carvalho AL, Rivas LR, Céspedes R, Rodrigues MT. A New Collared Lizard (Tropidurus: Tropiduridae) Endemic to the Western Bolivian Andes and Its Implications for Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests. AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES 2018. [DOI: 10.1206/3896.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- André L.G. Carvalho
- Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Herpetology), American Museum of Natural History
- Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History
- Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
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- Museo de Historia Natural Alcide d'Orbigny, Cochabamba, Bolivia
- Universidad Autónoma del Beni “Mcal. José Ballivián,” Trinidad, Beni, Bolivia
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Silva FE, Costa‐Araújo R, Boubli JP, Santana MI, Franco CLB, Bertuol F, Nunes H, Silva‐Júnior J, Farias I, Hrbek T. In search of a meaningful classification for Amazonian marmosets: Should dwarf marmosets be considered
Mico
congenerics? ZOOL SCR 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Felipe E. Silva
- School of Environment and Life Sciences University of Salford Salford UK
- Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá Tefé Brazil
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- Programa de pós‐graduação em Ecologia Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Manaus Brazil
- Laboratório de Evolução e Genética Animal (LEGAL) Universidade Federal do Amazonas Manaus Brazil
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- School of Environment and Life Sciences University of Salford Salford UK
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- Faculdade de Agronomia e Medicina Veterinária Universidade de Brasília, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro Brasília Brazil
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- Laboratório de Evolução e Genética Animal (LEGAL) Universidade Federal do Amazonas Manaus Brazil
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- Escola Estadual de Ensino Medio Prof. Olivina Olivia Carneiro da Cunha Joao Pessoa Brazil
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- Laboratório de Evolução e Genética Animal (LEGAL) Universidade Federal do Amazonas Manaus Brazil
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- Laboratório de Evolução e Genética Animal (LEGAL) Universidade Federal do Amazonas Manaus Brazil
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Pine RH, Gutiérrez EE. What is an ‘extant’ type specimen? Problems arising from naming mammalian species-group taxa without preserved types. Mamm Rev 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/mam.12108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Ronald H. Pine
- Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum; University of Kansas; Lawrence KS 66045 USA
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade Animal; Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas, Av. Roraima n. 1000, Prédio 17, sala 1140- D; Universidade Federal de Santa Maria; Santa Maria RS 97105-900 Brazil
- Division of Mammals; National Museum of Natural History, NHB 390, MRC 108; Smithsonian Institution; P.O. Box 37012 Washington DC 20013-7012 USA
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Garbino GST, Martins-Junior AMG. Phenotypic evolution in marmoset and tamarin monkeys (Cebidae, Callitrichinae) and a revised genus-level classification. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2017; 118:156-171. [PMID: 28989098 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2017] [Revised: 08/15/2017] [Accepted: 10/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Marmosets and tamarins (Cebidae, Callitrichinae) constitute the most species-rich subfamily of New World monkeys and one of the most diverse phenotypically. Despite the profusion of molecular phylogenies of the group, the evolution of phenotypic characters under the rapidly-emerging consensual phylogeny of the subfamily has been little studied, resulting in taxonomic proposals that have limited support from other datasets. We examined the evolution of 18 phenotypic traits (5 continuous and 13 discrete), including pelage, skull, dentition, postcrania, life-history and vocalization variables in a robust molecular phylogeny of marmoset and tamarin monkeys, quantifying their phylogenetic signal and correlations among some of the traits. At the family level, our resulting topology supports owl monkeys (Aotinae) as sister group of Callitrichinae. The topology of the callitrichine tree was congruent with previous studies except for the position of the midas group of Saguinus tamarins, which placement as sister of the bicolor group did not receive significant statistical support in both Maximum Parsimony and Bayesian Inference analyses. Our results showed that the highest value of phylogenetic signal among continuous traits was displayed by the long call character and the lowest was exhibited in the home range, intermediate values were found in characters related to osteology and skull size. Among discrete traits, pelage and osteology had similar phylogenetic signal. Based on genetic, osteological, pelage and vocalization data, we present an updated genus-level taxonomy of Callitrichinae, which recognizes six genera in the subfamily: Callimico, Callithrix, Cebuella, Mico, Leontopithecus and Saguinus. To reflect their phenotypic distinctiveness and to avoid the use of the informal "species group", we subdivided Saguinus in the subgenera Leontocebus, Saguinus and Tamarinus (revalidated here).
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- Guilherme S T Garbino
- PPG-Zoologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
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- Laboratório de Genética e Evolução, Instituto Federal do Pará, Campus de Tucuruí, Brazil; Centro de Genômica e Biologia de Sistemas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil
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Gutiérrez EE, Helgen KM, McDonough MM, Bauer F, Hawkins MTR, Escobedo-Morales LA, Patterson BD, Maldonado JE. A gene-tree test of the traditional taxonomy of American deer: the importance of voucher specimens, geographic data, and dense sampling. Zookeys 2017; 697:87-131. [PMID: 29134018 PMCID: PMC5673856 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.697.15124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2017] [Accepted: 08/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The taxonomy of American deer has been established almost entirely on the basis of morphological data and without the use of explicit phylogenetic methods; hence, phylogenetic analyses including data for all of the currently recognized species, even if based on a single gene, might improve current understanding of their taxonomy. We tested the monophyly of the morphology-defined genera and species of New World deer (Odocoileini) with phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial DNA sequences. This is the first such test conducted using extensive geographic and taxonomic sampling. Our results do not support the monophyly of Mazama, Odocoileus, Pudu, M. americana, M. nemorivaga, Od. hemionus, and Od. virginianus. Mazama contains species that belong to other genera. We found a novel sister-taxon relationship between "Mazama" pandora and a clade formed by Od. hemionus columbianus and Od. h. sitkensis, and transfer pandora to Odocoileus. The clade formed by Od. h. columbianus and Od. h. sitkensis may represent a valid species, whereas the remaining subspecies of Od. hemionus appear closer to Od. virginianus. Pudu (Pudu) puda was not found sister to Pudu (Pudella) mephistophiles. If confirmed, this result will prompt the recognition of the monotypic Pudella as a distinct genus. We provide evidence for the existence of an undescribed species now confused with Mazama americana, and identify other instances of cryptic, taxonomically unrecognized species-level diversity among populations here regarded as Mazama temama, "Mazama" nemorivaga, and Hippocamelus antisensis. Noteworthy records that substantially extend the known distributions of M. temama and "M." gouazoubira are provided, and we unveil a surprising ambiguity regarding the distribution of "M." nemorivaga, as it is described in the literature. The study of deer of the tribe Odocoileini has been hampered by the paucity of information regarding voucher specimens and the provenance of sequences deposited in GenBank. We pinpoint priorities for future systematic research on the tribe Odocoileini.
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- Eliécer E. Gutiérrez
- PPG Biodiversidade Animal, Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas, Av. Roraima n. 1000, Prédio 17, sala 1140-D, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS 97105-900, Brazil
- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de Brasília, 70910-900 Brasília, DF, Brazil
- Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
- Center for Conservation Genomics, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences and Environment Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
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- Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
- Center for Conservation Genomics, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
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- Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Natural History Collections, Dresden, Germany
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- Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
- Center for Conservation Genomics, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
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- Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, circuito exterior s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, CP04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL60605, USA
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- Center for Conservation Genomics, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
- Environmental Science & Policy, George Mason University, 4400 University Dr., Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
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