The Yanomami are a group of South American Indians that live in the rainforest along the borderlands of Brazil and Venezuela. They depend on hunting, gardening and wild food for survival; crustaceans are a highly prized food item in their diet. Taxonomical and ethnozoological aspects of the Yanomami Indians of the Balawa-ú village, state of Amazonas, Brazil, related to the crustaceans are descr...

regions (Dobzhansky 1950, MacArthur 1969, Schemske 2002, Schemske et al. 2009). A priori, one might indeed expect that species with broad niches inhabit temperate environments, as lower productivity and more seasonal and inter-annual fl uctuations in climate and resources should select for morphological, physiological and behavioral traits that allow foraging on a broad range of food types (Was...

O Boletim da FEQ destaca nesta edição o começo das atividades do Biofabris, um dos seis Institutos Nacionais de Ciência e Tecnologia sediados na UNICAMP com financiamento do Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia, e que é coordenado pelo Prof. Dr. Rubens Maciel Filho. Também merecem destaque o concurso de professor titular prestado pela Profa. Dra. Telma Franco (leia texto abaixo), e o processo sel...

SCIENCE sciencemag.org C R E D IT : J . O . M Ú N E R A E T A L . C E L L S T E M C E L L 2 1 , 5 1 (2 0 17 ) © C E L L P R E S S refractive index of the lens is varied according to the curvature. Cai et al. show that the lenses of squid eyes have an internal structure containing a set of globular proteins that form a gradient of colloidal particles to counter spherical aberration (see the Pers...