Entropy of non-equilibrium stationary measures of boundary driven TASEP

Prova tipográficaWe examine the entropy of non-equilibrium stationary states of boundary driven totally asymmetric simple exclusion processes. As a consequence, we obtain that the Gibbs-Shannon entropy of the non equilibrium stationary state converges to the Gibbs-Shannon entropy of the local equilibrium state. Moreover, we prove that its fluctuations are Gaussian, except when the mean displacement of particles produced by the bulk dynamics agrees with the particle flux induced by the density reservoirs in the maximal phase regime.FCT, Égid

OCCURRENCE OF Calodium hepaticum (BANCROFT, 1893) MORAVEC, 1982 EGGS IN FECES OF DOGS AND CATS IN LAGES, SANTA CATARINA, BRAZIL

This study aims to report the incidence of Calodium hepaticum among dogs and cats, pets or stray animals, captured by the Zoonosis Control Center (CCZ) in Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Fecal samples from 108 pet dogs and eight pet cats, and from 357 stray dogs and 97 stray cats, captured by CCZ, were analyzed within the period from July 2010 to November 2012. Coproparasitological exams were performed by techniques of sedimentation, centrifuge-flotation, and simple flotation. Among 465 fecal samples from dogs and 105 from cats, the overall spurious infections for C. hepaticum eggs were 1.05%. For dogs, this positivity was 0.43% and for cats it was 3.81%. The two positive dogs were stray and out of the four cats, three were stray and one was a pet. Although the occurrence of C. hepaticum eggs was low, these data reveal the existence of infected rodents, especially in public places, since, out of the six infected animals, five (83.33%) were stray. These results are discussed and analyzed with an emphasis on the risk to public health

Componentes genéticos aditivos e não aditivos em maracujazeiro-azedo

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar os componentes genéticos aditivos e não aditivos em caracteres qualitativos e produtivos de maracujazeiro, para determinar a ocorrência de efeitos genéticos dominantes. Foram estudados 12 híbridos F1, obtidos entre duas populações distintas, com uso do delineamento II de Comstock e Robinson. Durante o primeiro e o segundo ano (safrinha e primeira safra, respectivamente), foram avaliados os seguintes caracteres: número de frutos por planta, produção estimada, massa de fruto, massa de casca, massa de polpa, comprimento longitudinal, diâmetro equatorial, espessura de casca, teor de sólidos solúveis totais, acidez titulável total e coloração da polpa. A produção do biênio 2004/2005 foi estimada a partir do número total de frutos, multiplicado pela massa média dos frutos. Foram observados efeitos de dominância e, portanto, de heterose, no primeiro ano, para massa de matéria fresca, massa de polpa, massa de casca e diâmetro equatorial do fruto e, no segundo ano, para diâmetro equatorial do fruto e coloração da polpa. Houve predominância dos efeitos aditivos para número de frutos e massa de fruto. Os valores de herdabilidade são indicativos de que a população avaliada pode ser utilizada para a formação da população-base, para promover seleção recorrente

Adaptive Developmental Delay in Chagas Disease Vectors: An Evolutionary Ecology Approach

The developmental time of vector insects is important to their population dynamics, evolutionary biology, epidemiology of the diseases they transmit, and to their responses to global climatic change. In various triatomine species vectors of Chagas disease (Triatominae, Reduviidae), a delay in the molt of a small proportion of individuals has been observed, and from an evolutionary ecology approach, we propose the hypothesis that the developmental delay is an adaptation to environmental stochasticity through a spreading of risk (bet-hedging) diapause strategy. We confirmed, by means of a survey among specialists, the existence of the developmental delay in triatomines. Statistical descriptions of the developmental time of 11 species of triatomines showed some degree of bi-modality in nine of them. We predicted by means of an optimization model which genotype, coding for a given frequency of developmental diapause, is expected to evolve. We identified a series of parameters that can be measured in the field and in the laboratory to test the hypothesis of an optimal diapause frequency. We also discuss the importance of these findings for triatomines in terms of global climatic change and epidemiological consequences such as their resistance to insecticides