António Lobo Antunes

Angling sport fishing in Lobo-Broa reservoir (Itirapina, SP, Brazil).

The objective of this paper was to study angling from September, 2002 to September, 2004 in the Lobo-Broa Reservoir, Itirapina, SP (22 degrees 15' S and 47 degrees 49' W). Interviews (total 1,027) with sport fishers were accomplished in the three main fishing sites (Horto, Píer and Praia). This fishing was practiced with a simple fishing rod and reel, mainly in Horto, where the catches and fish...

The constant philopater hypothesis : a new life history invariant for dispersal evolution 1 ! 2 ! António

Letter by Lambertucci and Antunes regarding article, "pulmonary vascular disease in the developing world".

Article, “Pulmonary Vascular Disease in the Developing World” To the Editor: We read with great interest the article by Butrous et al1, in which the authors presented a comprehensive review of pulmonary vascular disease in the developing world. Relative to pulmonary hypertension in schistosomiasis, however, it is important to further comment on some information presented by the authors. The aut...

Variation between geographical populations of Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) whitmani (Antunes & Coutinho, 1939) sensu lato (Diptera:Psychodidae:Phlebotominae) in Brazil.

Phylogenetic analysis of morphometric and biological characters indicated that there are two distinct forms of Lutzomyia whitmani in Brazil: one is present both north and south of the River Amazonas in the State of Pará while the other occurs in northeast Brazil, in the State of Ceará, and further south, including the type locality in State of Bahia. The Amazonian form is reportedly neither str...

The importance of protozoan bacterivory in a subtropical environment (Lobo-Broa Reservoir, SP, Brazil).

This study evaluated the importance of heterotrophic nanoflagellates (HNF) and ciliates bacterivory in a mesotrophic subtropical environment (Lobo-Broa Reservoir, Brazil) by the quantification of their ingestion rates. The in situ experiments using fluorescently labelled bacteria (FLB) were carried out bimonthly over one year (three surveys in the dry season and three in the rainy one) at the s...