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Uncovering Trophic Interactions in Arthropod Predators through DNA Shotgun-Sequencing of Gut Contents by Paula, Débora P, Linard, Benjamin, Crampton-Platt, Alex, Srivathsan, Amrita, Timmermans, Martijn J T N, Sujii, Edison R, Pires, Carmen S S, Souza, Lucas M, Andow, David A, Vogler, Alfried P

“…Characterizing trophic networks is fundamental to many questions in ecology, but this typically requires painstaking efforts, especially to identify the diet…”
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Organization of the macroinvertebrate community in a tropical annual agroecosystem into modules by Andow, David A, Fontes, Eliana M G, Pires, Carmen S S, Paula, Débora P

“…The structure of macroinvertebrate communities in agroecosystems has been assumed to be modular and organized around key herbivore pests. We characterized the…”
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Detection and decay rates of prey and prey symbionts in the gut of a predator through metagenomics by Paula, Débora P., Linard, Benjamin, Andow, David A., Sujii, Edison R., Pires, Carmen S. S., Vogler, Alfried P.

“…DNA methods are useful to identify ingested prey items from the gut of predators, but reliable detection is hampered by low amounts of degraded DNA. PCR‐based…”
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Mutually beneficial pollinator diversity and crop yield outcomes in small and large farms by Garibaldi, Lucas A., Carvalheiro, Luísa G., Vaissière, Bernard E., Gemmill-Herren, Barbara, Hipólito, Juliana, Freitas, Breno M., Ngo, Hien T., Azzu, Nadine, Sáez, Agustín, Åström, Jens, An, Jiandong, Blochtein, Betina, Buchori, Damayanti, García, Fermín J. Chamorro, da Silva, Fabiana Oliveira, Devkota, Kedar, de Fátima Ribeiro, Márcia, Freitas, Leandro, Gaglianone, Maria C., Goss, Maria, Irshad, Mohammad, Kasina, Muo, Filho, Alípio J.S. Pacheco, Kiill, Lucia H. Piedade, Kwapong, Peter, Parra, Guiomar Nates, Pires, Carmen, Pires, Viviane, Rawal, Ranbeer S., Rizali, Akhmad, Saravia, Antonio M., Veldtman, Ruan, Viana, Blandina F., Witter, Sidia, Zhang, Hong

“…Ecological intensification, or the improvement of crop yield through enhancement of biodiversity, may be a sustainable pathway toward greater food supplies…”
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Ten policies for pollinators by Dicks, Lynn V., Viana, Blandina, Bommarco, Riccardo, Brosi, Berry, del Coro Arizmendi, María, Cunningham, Saul A., Galetto, Leonardo, Hill, Rosemary, Lopes, Ariadna V., Pires, Carmen, Taki, Hisatomo, Potts, Simon G.

“…What governments can do to safeguard pollination services Earlier this year, the first global thematic assessment from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy…”
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Negative impacts of dominance on bee communities: Does the influence of invasive honey bees differ from native bees? by Garibaldi, Lucas A., Pérez-Méndez, Nestor, Cordeiro, Guaraci D., Hughes, Alice, Orr, Michael, Alves-dos-Santos, Isabel, Freitas, Breno M., de Oliveira, Favízia Freitas, LeBuhn, Gretchen, Bartomeus, Ignasi, Aizen, Marcelo A., Andrade, Patricia B., Blochtein, Betina, Boscolo, Danilo, Drumond, Patricia M., Gaglianone, Maria Cristina, Gemmill-Herren, Barbara, Halinski, Rosana, Krug, Cristiane, Maués, Márcia Motta, Kiill, Lucia H. Piedade, Pinheiro, Mardiore, Pires, Carmen S. S., Viana, Blandina Felipe

“…Invasive species can reach high abundances and dominate native environments. One of the most impressive examples of ecological invasions is the spread of the…”
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Uptake and transfer of a Bt toxin by a Lepidoptera to its eggs and effects on its offspring by Paula, Débora Pires, Andow, David A, Timbó, Renata Velozo, Sujii, Edison R, Pires, Carmen S S, Fontes, Eliana M G

“…Research on non-target effects of transgenic crop plants has focused primarily on bitrophic, tritrophic and indirect effects of entomotoxins from Bacillus…”
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Invasion of the coccinellid community associated with a tropical annual agroecosystem by Andow, David A., Fontes, Eliana M. G., Pires, Carmen S. S., Souza, Lucas M., Paula, Débora P.

“…Detailed understanding of the mechanisms enabling or limiting the impacts of invasive generalist predators is needed. Harmonia axyridis is an invasive…”
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Effect of ultraviolet and green radiation and temperature on flight activity and foraging of three tropical stingless bees by Ramos, Davi de L., Menezes, Cristiano, Bustamante, Mercedes M. C., Pires, Carmen S. S.

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Limitations in dose–response and surrogate species methodologies for risk assessment of Cry toxins on arthropod natural enemies by Paula, Débora P, Andow, David A, Bellinati, André, Timbó, Renata Velozo, Souza, Lucas M, Pires, Carmen S. S, Sujii, Edison R

“…Dose–response assays and surrogate species are standard methods for risk analysis for environmental chemicals. These assume that individuals within a species…”
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Brazilian female researchers do not publish less despite an academic structure that deepens sex gap by Hipólito, Juliana, Shirai, Leila Teruko, Halinski, Rosana, Guidolin, Aline Sartori, Querino, Ranyse Barbosa, Quintela, Eliane Dias, Pini, Nivia da Silva Dias, Pires, Carmen Sílvia Soares, Fontes, Eliana Maria Gouveia

“…In the 21st century, we still need to talk about gender inequality in science. Even with the sharp growth of studies on this theme over the last decades, we…”
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Landscape conservation and local interactions with non-crop plants aid in structuring bee assemblages in organic tropical agroecosystems by Assunção, Rafaela M., Camargo, Nícholas F., Souza, Luan S., Rocha, Eneas M., Tostes, Gustavo M., Sujii, Edison R., Pires, Carmen S. S., Togni, Pedro H. B.

“…Landscape structure and local floral resources can modulate bee diversity and ecological interactions in agroecosystems. Theory predicts that, at different…”
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The stingless bee species, Scaptotrigona aff. depilis, as a potential indicator of environmental pesticide contamination by de Souza Rosa, Annelise, I'Anson Price, Robbie, Ferreira Caliman, Maria Juliana, Pereira Queiroz, Elisa, Blochtein, Betina, Sílvia Soares Pires, Carmen, Imperatriz-Fonseca, Vera Lucia

“…Neonicotinoids have the potential to enter the diet of pollinators that collect resources from contaminated plants. The species Scaptotrigona aff. depilis…”
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Scrutinizing the enemy release hypothesis: population effects of parasitoids on Harmonia axyridis and local host coccinellids in Brazil by Paula, Débora P., Togni, Pedro H. B., Costa, Valmir A., Souza, Lucas M., Sousa, Alex A. T. C., Tostes, Gustavo M., Pires, Carmen S. S., Andow, David A.

“…The Enemy Release Hypothesis (ERH) has been a factor influencing the establishment of some exotic species worldwide. We tested if the ERH could be influencing…”
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Dynamics of predatory and herbivorous insects at the farm scale: the role of cropped and noncropped habitats by Togni, Pedro H. B., Venzon, Madelaine, Souza, Lucas M., Sousa, Alex A. T. C., Harterreiten‐Souza, Érica S., Pires, Carmen S. S., Sujii, Edison R.

“…Natural enemy conservation is known to be affected by ecological processes that range from local to landscape scales. At the farm scale, there are cropped and…”
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Consumption of the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam during the larval stage affects the survival and development of the stingless bee, Scaptotrigona aff. depilis by Rosa, Annelise de Souza, Teixeira, Juliana Stephanie Galaschi, Vollet-Neto, Ayrton, Queiroz, Elisa Pereira, Blochtein, Betina, Pires, Carmen Sílvia Soares, Imperatriz-Fonseca, Vera Lucia

“…In Brazil, where the use of neonicotinoids is allowed in bee-attracting flowering crops, we investigated whether thiamethoxam intake during the larval stage of…”
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Brazilian budget cuts further threaten gender equality in research by Hipólito, Juliana, Shirai, Leila Teruko, Diele-Viegas, Luisa Maria, Halinski, Rosana, Soares Pires, Carmen Sílvia, Fontes, Eliana Maria Gouveia

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Impacts of pests and diseases on the decline of managed bees in Brazil: a beekeeper perspective by Dias de Freitas, Catarina, Oki, Yumi, Resende, Fernando M., Zamudio, Fernando, Simone de Freitas, Geusa, Moreira de Rezende, Keila, Amaro de Souza, Franklin, De Jong, David, Quesada, Mauricio, Siqueira Carvalho, Andréa, Silvia Soares Pires, Carmen, Fernandes, Geraldo Wilson

“…Brazilian beekeepers have experienced massive colony losses in recent years. Possible causes include bee pests and diseases, although there have been few…”
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Pesticide Exposure Assessment Paradigm for Stingless Bees by Cham, Karina O, Nocelli, Roberta C. F, Borges, Leandro O, Viana-Silva, Flávia Elizabeth C, Tonelli, Carlos Augusto M, Malaspina, Osmar, Menezes, Cristiano, Rosa-Fontana, Annelise S, Blochtein, Betina, Freitas, Breno M, Pires, Carmen Silvia S, Oliveira, Favízia F, Contrera, Felipe Andres L, Torezani, Karoline R. S, Ribeiro, Márcia de Fátima, Siqueira, Maria A. L, Rocha, Maria Cecília L. S. A

“…Although the importance of bees as the pollinators responsible for maintaining gene flow for many native and cultivated plants in ecosystems around the world…”
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Two new species of Chytriomycetaceae: Morphological, phylogenetic, and ultrastructural characterization by Jesus, Ana L., Jerônimo, Gustavo H., Pires-Zottarelli, Carmen L. A.

“…Systematics of Chytridiales has been deeply influenced by analyses of molecular loci and zoospore ultrastructure. Even though the Chytridiales is the largest…”
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