Background: The genetic diversity of Neotropical fish fauna is underrepresented in public databases. This distortion is evident for the order Siluriformes, in which the suborders Siluroidei and Loricarioidei share equivalent proportion of species, although far less is known about the genetics of the latter clade, endemic to the Neotropical Region. Recently, this information gap was evident in a study about the ...
Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T16:38:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-06-23; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ); Ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (EROD) activity is considered an important biomarker for aquatic environmental contamination. Although EROD activity has been widely used as a biomarker of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in fis...