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Marcos Sidney Brito Oliveira

Researcher at Universidade Federal do Amapá

Publications -  55
Citations -  430

Marcos Sidney Brito Oliveira is an academic researcher from Universidade Federal do Amapá. The author has contributed to research in topics: Species richness & Ichthyophthirius multifiliis. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 48 publications receiving 297 citations. Previous affiliations of Marcos Sidney Brito Oliveira include Federal University of Western Pará & Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária.

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Antiparasitic activity of the essential oil of Lippia alba on ectoparasites of Colossoma macropomum (tambaqui) and its physiological and histopathological effects

TL;DR: The essential oil of L. alba showed great potential for antiparasitic treatment, given that it had high in vitro efficacy against monogenoideans and in vivo efficacy against the protozoon I. multifiliis.
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Ecology and seasonal variation of parasites in wild Aequidens tetramerus, a Cichlidae from the Amazon

TL;DR: The parasites showed seasonal variation in their infection dynamics associated with environmental changes during the Amazonian drainage season, except the infection with I. multifiliis, which is new records for A. tetramerus.
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Seasonal pattern in parasite infracommunities of Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus and Hoplias malabaricus (Actinopterygii: Erythrinidae) from the Brazilian Amazon.

TL;DR: Seasonal variation in this infection levels was due to the host’s feeding behavior and habits and the availability of infectious forms of parasites with heteroxenic life cycles.
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Metazoan parasite communities of wild Leporinus friderici (Characiformes: Anostomidae) from Amazon River system in Brazil

TL;DR: The existence of variation in infracommunity and community of parasites for the same host species from different localities indicates the presence of an uneven distribution in terms of species and density of parasites, which are intermediate hosts, and some of them constitute food items for L. friderici in the localities surveyed.