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Appearances are deceiving
C. brevipedunculata Visitors to Ibitipoca State Park in southeastern Minas Gerais State might be rewarded with glimpses of bright red flowers hanging from trees. They are orchids of a genus quite...
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Aquatic America
Fish diversity in South America is greater than scientists had thought. Whereas less than 20 years ago the estimate of 8,000 species was considered an exaggeration, the more than 100 new species...
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Leaf invaders
Fungi of the genus Calonectria often cause damage to ornamental plants and agricultural crops, especially trees such as eucalyptus and pine. The infected leaves acquire spots that reduce the tree’s...
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Frog equipped with ant-repellant
Lithodytes lineatus: shield allows young to develop inside anthills Yellow-striped Amazonian frogs (Lithodytes lineatus) lay their eggs inside foam nests that they build amidst colonies of...
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The harmful effects of illegal hunting
For export: 183,000 jaguars … The period from 1930 to 1960 is called a “fantasy era” in many parts of Amazonia. “Fantasy” referred to the felid furs exported to the American and European fashion...
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Tilapia’s turn
Specimens of Saint Peter, tilapia’s generic name, at the Fisheries Institute in São Paulo Originating in Africa’s Nile River, Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) was consumed by the ancient...
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The moon and bat hunger
Moonlight intensity did not change the foraging activity of four of the five bat species studied On moonlit nights in the tropics, insect-eating bats are thought to decrease their foraging activity,...
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The Ginkgo biloba genome
The gingko tree, which emerged 270 million years ago, has nearly 41,000 genes and is regarded as a living fossil It was a challenging task to complete the first version of the genome for Ginkgo...
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A life devoted to anatomy
The professor in 2011, in her office in the Department of Botany Botanist Berta Lange de Morretes, a professor at the Biosciences Institute of the University of São Paulo (IB-USP) for over 70 years,...
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