scholarly journals Schistosoma mansoni Sambon, 1907: comparative morphologica studies of some Brazilian strains

1995 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 441-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Roberto Machado-Silva ◽  
Cleber Galvão ◽  
Regina Maria Figueiredo de Oliveira ◽  
Octavio Augusto França Presgrave ◽  
Delir Corrêa Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Schistosoma Mansoni ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Morphological Changes ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Natural Host ◽  
The Other ◽  
Normal Position ◽  
Laboratory Conditions ◽  
Janeiro State

The morphology of Schistosoma mansoni adult male worms from three strains which have been maintained in albino mice for several generations, was compared to a strain that has been isolated from the natural host Nectomys squamipes (Rodentia: Muridae) captured in Sumidouro (Rio de Janeiro State) and have been maintained in the same sylvatic rodent under laboratory conditions. Total length of specimens, distance between suckers, the number of testes and extention of testes grouping were the taxonomic characters analysed. The worms recovered from N. squamipes showed expressive differences (p< 0.01) compared to the other strains regarding the considered morphological characters. The strains that were maintained in mice presented statistical differences (p< 0.01) in several characters. Some adult worms besides the normal position of the testes also showed an atypical arrangement of these glands. It can be concluded that the morphology of adult worms may be used to distinguish S. mansoni strains and that morphological changes in adult worms are not induced by successive inoculations of a strain in mice.

scholarly journals Two new species of Fannia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Fanniidae)

2004 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 767-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. S. Couri
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Neotropical Species ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Janeiro State

Fannia Robineau-Desvoidy is known from 63 neotropical species, 24 of them with occurence in Rio de Janeiro State. Two new species from Rio de Janeiro State are added to the genus: F. tibialis, sp. n and F. unica, sp. n. Male specimens of both are described. Morphological characters and terminalia are illustrated. Each species is briefly discussed.

The Neotropical sharpshooter genus Ruppeliana Young (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae): four new species, key to males, and new synonyms

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4329 (5) ◽  
pp. 436
Author(s):  
RODNEY R. CAVICHIOLI ◽  
RACHEL A. CARVALHO ◽  
GABRIEL MEJDALANI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
The Other ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
New Synonyms ◽  
Minas Gerais State ◽  
Janeiro State

Four new Brazilian species of Ruppeliana are described and illustrated: R. barbarensis sp. nov., R. grossii sp. nov., R. longiphallus sp. nov., and R. serrana sp. nov., the first from Minas Gerais State and the other three from Rio de Janeiro State. The new taxa can be easily distinguished from other Ruppeliana species by their color pattern and male genitalia morphology. Ruppeliana coronulifera (Stål, 1862) and R. taschenbergi (Berg, 1899) are synonymized with R. signiceps (Stål, 1862). Additionally, a diagnosis of the genus and a key to species are provided. 

scholarly journals Evaluation of photographs supporting an FFQ developed for adolescents

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandra Page Brito ◽  
Celso Pereira Guimarães ◽  
Rosangela Alves Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Food Intake ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Portion Size ◽  
The Other ◽  
Visual Aids ◽  
Portion Sizes ◽  
Janeiro State ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate the validity of food photographs used to support the reporting of food intake with an FFQ designed for adolescents from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.DesignA set of ninety-five food photographs was elaborated. The photographs’ evaluation process included the acknowledgement of foods and portions in the pictures. In the identification of foods (ninety-five photographs) and typical portions (twelve photographs), the adolescents were requested to answer a structured questionnaire related to the food photographs. The identification of the portion size of amorphous foods (forty-three photographs) was performed using three different portion sizes of actual preparations. The proportions (and 95 % confidence intervals) of adolescents who correctly identified foods and portion size in each photograph were estimated.SettingA public school in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil.SubjectsSixty-two adolescents between 11·0 and 18·9 years old, randomly selected.ResultsAt least 90 % of adolescents correctly identified the food in ninety-two photographs and the food in the three remaining photographs was recognized by 80–89 % of the adolescents. At least 98 % of the adolescents correctly identified eleven typical or natural portions in the food photographs. For amorphous foods, at least 70 % of teenagers correctly identified the portion size in the photograph of thirty-one foods; for the other photographs, the portion size was correctly recognized by 50–69 % of the adolescents for eight foods and by less than 50 % of adolescents for four foods.ConclusionsThe analysed photographs are appropriate visual aids to the reporting of food consumption by adolescents.

Population structure of the invasive bivalve Isognomon bicolor on rocky shores of Rio de Janeiro State (Brazil)

2009 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Breves-Ramos ◽  
A.O.R. Junqueira ◽  
H.P. Lavrado ◽  
S.H.G. Silva ◽  
M.A.G. Ferreira-Silva
Keyword(s):  
Population Structure ◽  
Temporal Variation ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
The Other ◽  
Rocky Shores ◽  
Reef Structure ◽  
Janeiro State

The aim of this study was to compare the population structure of the invasive bivalve Isognomon bicolor in three different areas on the coast of Rio de Janeiro State and to verify its temporal variation. All the areas presented high densities, reaching more than 1000 live individuals per 100 cm2. The number of dead individuals and recruits was higher in Ilha do Brandão (Angra dos Reis) than in the other areas. The individuals sampled at Praia Vermelha (Rio de Janeiro) presented the highest maximum and mean sizes, compared to those found at Ilha do Brandão. In this area, vermetid molluscs are dominant and build a complex reef structure where only a few individuals of I. bicolor can really grow.

A 15-year follow-up study on schistosomiasis in a low-endemic area in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

2009 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.P. Igreja ◽  
M.F. Gusmão ◽  
M.G.M. Barreto ◽  
M.T. Paulino ◽  
J.F. da Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Schistosoma Mansoni ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Endemic Area ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Young Males ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Low Prevalence ◽  
Janeiro State ◽  
Epidemiological Situation

AbstractFifteen years after our first investigation, a follow-up study was carried out with the purpose of assessing the evolution of schistosomiasis in the locality of Sabugo, Paracambi, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, an area with low prevalence of the disease. The coprological techniques adopted were spontaneous sedimentation and Kato-Katz. Out of the 1356 individuals assessed, 13 (1%) were infected with Schistosoma mansoni. From those, 10 were males, 12 were over 15 years old, and at least 11 had been infected in Sabugo. All patients presented either the intestinal or the hepato-intestinal form of the disease, and 8 (61.5%) harboured light parasitic loads. In 1990, there were 27 (2.7%) infected individuals; less than half harboured light parasitic loads, with the predominance of moderate and heavy forms. Although our results indicate an improvement in the epidemiological situation of schistosomiasis in Sabugo, transmission of the disease in the locality is still active, especially among young males, and tends to be acquired during leisure activities.

Note on a Cycloptic Specimen of Lamachus sp. (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

1959 ◽  
Vol 91 (12) ◽  
pp. 814-815
Author(s):  
Thelma Finlayson
Keyword(s):  
Adult Male ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Normal Position ◽  
Normal Specimen

An abnormal adult male of Lamachus sp., with a single eye, was reared in the summer of 1939 at Belleville, Ont., from a second-generation cocoon of the spruce sawfly, Diprion polytomum (Htg.), collected at Milicin, Czechoslovakia, in September, 1938. The eye (Figs. 1 and 2) occupies the normal position on either side of the head but is continuous over the vertex and extends anteriorly to the antenna1 sutures. The bases of the antennae are closer together than, and arise from the head in a position slightly ventral to, normal. There are no ocelli present. The head is about three-quarters the length and five-eighths the width of that of an average normal specimen, and gives the appearance of being globular in shape. The other appendages of the head appear normai in shape and position.

Amorphinopsis (Halichondrida: Demospongiae) from the Atlantic Ocean, with the description of a new species

2004 ◽  
Vol 84 (5) ◽  
pp. 925-930 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana de S. Carvalho ◽  
Eduardo Hajdu ◽  
Beatriz Mothes ◽  
Rob W.M. van Soest
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
The Other ◽  
Exposed Surface ◽  
Paulo State ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Janeiro State ◽  
Northern Sector

A species of the genus Amorphinopsis is described for the first time for the Atlantic Ocean. The new species was described based on the study of 25 specimens, collected in the area of the São Sebastião Channel and its environs (northern sector of São Paulo State coastline) and in the Cabo Frio region (Rio de Janeiro State). The form is massive cushion-shaped, lobate, occasionally encrusting. The megascleres are styles [160–260 (N=20)/5–10 (N=10) μm; length/thickness] and oxeas [150–900 (N=100)/5–18 (N=20) μm]. Amorphinopsis atlantica sp. nov. differs from the other species of Amorphinopsis by its colour, dark-greyish-green with or without yellow tinges on the exposed surface, and the smaller size of its oxeas. Amorphinopsis excavans is the closest species to the Brazilian material, but can still be set apart by a series of smaller traits, such as oxeas and styles never overlapping (the smaller oxea is always larger than the larger style).

Stenochironomus munteanpurin sp. n., a new leaf-mining species from Brazil (Diptera: Chironomidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4382 (3) ◽  
pp. 553
Author(s):  
GIZELLE AMORA ◽  
NEUSA HAMADA ◽  
LUIZ. C. PINHO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
The Other ◽  
Immature Stages ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
Santa Catarina ◽  
Leaf Mining ◽  
The One

Stenochironomus munteanpurin sp. n. is described and illustrated in all life stages, except eggs, from Brazil. The male is very similar to Stenochironomus quadrinotatus Borkent, 1984 due to same overall pattern of pigmentation. The new species can be distinguished from the other related species principally in immature stages: larva with labral lamella arranged in two groups with one or two conical-shaped teeth, spicules of pecten epipharyngis arranged in a row, unequal and irregularly distributed sizes, SI bifurcated, SII pinnate, SIII pinnate setae and, larval exuviae is compacted; pupa with shagreens being in all TI, less number of hooklets in TII, TVII without shagreens and presence of shagreen in conjunctive III/IV and IV/V. Adult male is very similar to the one of S. quadrinotatus but can be distinguished by combination of the TIX with more than 25 setae medially and phallapodeme curved anteriorly. The new species were collected in the following Brazilian states: Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, Bahia and Acre. 

scholarly journals Relação do índice de gastos com pessoal e a crise fiscal do estado do Rio de Janeiroum estudo comparativo interestadual

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Rogelio Gerônimo-Santos ◽  
Renato Rugene de Carvalho ◽  
Sidnei Pereira do Nascimento
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Econometric Model ◽  
Federal District ◽  
The Other ◽  
Subprime Crisis ◽  
Personnel Expenses ◽  
Distrito Federal ◽  
State Index ◽  
Janeiro State ◽  
Personnel Expenditure

Este estudo tem como objetivo avaliar o índice de gastos com pessoal dos estados e do Distrito Federal no período de 2000 a 2015 a partir do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, após o início da crise subprime, em 2008. A metodologia empregada foi o modelo econométrico de Diferença em Diferença com Ajuste de Poligonais. Os resultados demonstraram que todos estados aumentaram seus índices de gastos com pessoal após o ano de 2008. Todavia, o índice do Estado do Rio de Janeiro superou, comparativamente, aos demais estados da Confederação, após o início da crise subprime, em 2008. ABSTRACT The objective of this study is to evaluate the personnel expenditure of the states and the Federal District between 2000 to 2015 from the State of Rio de Janeiro after the start of the subprime crisis in 2008. The methodology used was the econometric model of Difference in Difference with Polygonal Adjustment. The results showed that all states increased their personnel expenses after 2008. However, the Rio de Janeiro state index surpassed compared to the other states of the Confederation e o Federal District, after the start of the subprime crisis in 2008. Keywords: Subprime Crisis; State Finances; Index of Personnel Expenses; Rio de Janeiro;

scholarly journals Cianobactérias psâmicas em sedimentos marginais da lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-49
Author(s):  
Fernanda C Magina ◽  
Loreine Hermida da Silva e Silva
Keyword(s):  
Dissolved Oxygen ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Chemical Parameters ◽  
Water And Sediment ◽  
Physical Chemical ◽  
Janeiro State

The Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon is a brackish aquatic body, lies within the coordinates 22º57'02"- 22º52'09" S and 43º11'09" -43º13'03" W, in the Rio de Janeiro State. The psammic cyanobacteria live in the surface of the sediment and between the clastic grains, mainly quartz. The objective of the present study was identification of the psammic cyanobacteria found in the marginal portion of the lagoon and the determination of physical -chemical parameters (dissolved oxygen, salinity, temperature of the water and sediment and pH) in the places of sampling of the psammic cianobacteria. Sampling during the year of 2007 had been carried through, in the period of ebb tide of the lagoon, where five sample stations had been established. The taxonomic analisys was made with fresh and permanent slides, through optic microscope mensuration, that allowed to observe its classic morphological characteristics. The families Chroococcaceae Nägeli 1849 and Synechococcaceae Komárek & Anagnostidis 1995 is most frequent, for 41% and 18,2% respectively of the joined species. The other observed families presented the following percentages: Phormidiaceae Anagnostidis & Komárek 1988 with 13,4%; Entophysalidaceae Geitler 1925; Schizothrichaecae Anagnostidis & Komárek 1988; Oscillatoriaceae former (Harvey) Kirchener 1898 and Nostocaceae Kutzing 1943 each one with 4,5%

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