The Brazil Nut (Bertholletia excelsa) is an arboreal species, native to the Amazon forest, by which there’s a concern referring to its ecological sustainability. Therefore, sequencing and assembling the genome might ...

Bee populations have declined in several parts of the world, possibly due to a combination of biotic and abiotic factors, such as pesticides, pathogens and forest fragmentation. Since the larval stage, bees are exposed to ...

Degenerative and bones inflammatory problems represents almost half of chronic diseases developed on people older than 50 years old around the world, leading to problems of prolonged pain and physical limitation. Its ...

Leishmaniasis are diseases that have been causing challenges for public health in developing countries and, for this reason, several studies have been trying to develop a more effective formulation to fight them. According ...

Future decreases in greenhouse gas emissions due the use of ethanol have been associated with the way in which changes in land use will occur for new sugarcane crops. One of the main consequences of the increases in the ...

Various contaminants can affect the aquatic ecosystem and the organisms that live in it and can interfere with their physiological processes, as they accumulate in different tissues. Therefore, the evaluation of the effects ...

In addition to environmental stressors, native Brazilian bees are continuously exposed to biotic stressors, such as parasites and pathogens, and abiotic stressors, such as pesticides and metals. Metallic contaminants such ...

The mercury (Hg) is a non-essential trace metal, that is highly toxic to living beings, is a major contaminant of water bodies. Despite the genotoxic importance of Hg, there are no studies on its genotoxicity in native ...