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A presente dissertação teve como principal intuito a caracterização parasitológica gastrointestinal numa amostra do efetivo de equinos do 3º e 4º Esquadrões a Cavalo da Guarda Nacional Republicana de Lisboa. Do 3º Esquadrão a Cavalo – Ajuda, foram colhidas amostras fecais de 38 …

This thesis consists of three studies of surface processes on Earth: 1. Age and isotopic constraints of pluvial episodes in the Western Desert of Egypt. North Africa has undergone drastic climatic change over the past several hundred thousand years. Timing of humid intervals cal…

Trichuriasis, caused by the intestinal nematode Trichuris, is a disease that affects up to a billion people worldwide. To date, most of our knowledge of this disease comes from the mouse model, Trichuris muris, which has been successfully used to dissect the immune-mediated effe…

Environmental fluctuations are ubiquitous in nature and can serve to drive phenotypic differences among individuals in an environment-specific manner, a phenomenon known as phenotypic plasticity. Phenotypic plasticity can have implications for an organism’s fitness. Here, I addr…