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View our privacy policy. × The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click "Accept" below then you are consenting to this Close A 53-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the deaths of his wife stepchildren and brother-in-law after they were poisoned by a New Year's Day meal Francisco Pereira was taken into custody Wednesday morning in the northeastern city of Parnaíba, Brazil, just one week after he allegedly contaminated the rice in the family's lunch Cops also revealed the suspected chilling motivation for his crime stating that Pereira was driven by anger at his wife and her two children that the relationship between them was troubled He did not speak to any of his wife's children and had a specific feeling of hatred towards Francisca Maria the children's mother,' Piauí Civil Police chief Abimael Silva said at a press conference following the arrest 'This feeling of hatred was so great that even with her on her deathbed he couldn't hide it in his statement,' Silva added 'He said that when he looked at her he felt disgust and anger Eight family members and a neighbor fell ill after consuming the rice beans and fish meal and were rushed to area hospitals including Pereira's wife's four-year-old daughter She remains hospitalized and in critical condition In his statement Pereira told investigators that he hated Francisca's children Silva added the arrest was made as possible due to the varying accounts that Pereira provided which were different from what was provided by the rest of the people who live at the home but we should not anticipate the judgment," Silva said Pereira was led into a local police station in handcuffs and told reporters that the court would be who determines who was responsible for the New Year's Day tragedy Pereira was placed in pretrial detention for 30 days Authorities said the family gathered for dinner on December 31 and had rice They met the afternoon of January 1 and reheated the rice and beans and served with it fish that had been donated by a couple told Fantastico news magazine that it was likely that a person entered the home and added the poison to the rice while everyone was asleep Authorities initially thought the family was poisoned by the fish before investigators analyzed leftover portions and blood from the victims and discovered traces of terbufos a substance found in pesticides and agriculture chemicals Its sale for residential use is banned under Brazilian law who oversees the Piauí Institute of Legal Medicine told G1 that there were 'visible granules' of terbufos in the rice The tragedy comes months after da Silva's two oldest children died after eating poisoned cashews João died five days later and Ulisses spent nearly three months hospitalized and died November 11 The Piauí Civil Police said that the two incidents are not related The New Year's Day family tragedy comes as Brazilian authorities were also tied up with the investigation surrounding a poisoned Christmas cake and the deaths of three family members in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul on December 23.  Major terror attack 'was just HOURS away' before it was foiled by the special forces and police:... 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No one seems to have shared their thoughts on this topic yetLeave a comment so your voice will be heard first. {{message}} The ad-free version is ready for purchase on iOS mobile app today we couldn't find that page";var n=e.querySelector("h2");return n&&n.remove(),{staticContent:e,title:t}},d=function(e){var t=document.createElement("button");return t.innerText=e,t.classList.add("error-page-button"),t},f=function(e){var t=document.createElement("div");t.id="recirculation-404",t.classList.add("brand-hint-bg");var n="\n \n \n \n \n \n '.concat(e,' Tick here if you would like us to send you the author’s response Volume 11 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1117947 Trilobites inhabited all environments of Paleozoic seas ranging from estuaries to continental slopes Although their functional morphology and phylogenetic relations are established by well-preserved body fossils the behavior of trilobites has received less attention Three well-known trace fossils are interpreted to be produced by trilobitomorphs when preserved in Paleozoic rocks Those trace fossils unveil some aspects of trilobite behavior but they were not investigated to test paleoecologic strategies based on morphometric parameters This study uses Rusophycus to access the paleoecologic strategies of trilobites in storm-dominated shallow marine deposits of the Pimenteira and Cabeças formations (Middle to Upper Devonian It was conducted a detailed analysis of the Rusophycus specimens in a section that represents the transition between the Pimenteira and Cabeças formations (Parnaíba Basin) The width and length of the Rusophycus were measured and statistical analyses were performed to understand the population characteristics Relatively small-sized Rusophycus are dominant in such deposits suggesting the dominance of young tracemakers and inferred r-strategist populations The here reported multiple-Rusophycus assemblage reveals paleoecologic strategies of the population and tiers relationship (cross-cutting epistratal and shallow-tier trace fossils such as Bergaueria and Protopaleodictyon) indicate deep Rusophycus The main reason for those burrowing activities deep in the substrate might be protection during ecdysis and depth of Rusophycus suggest molting activity as the trigger for their production in storm-influenced beds of the Pimenteira Formation Trilobites have been reported in Devonian strata of the Parnaíba Basin (Kegel, 1953; Castro, 1968; Carvalho et al., 1997; Meira et al., 2016); however, there has been a lack of ethological studies based on their trace fossils. Considering that Rusophycus dimensions might evidence ontogenetic phases and paleoecologic strategies of trilobites (Levi-Setti, 1995) this study aims to (i) discuss the preservational bias represented by multiple-Rusophycus assemblages in a storm-dominated setting and (ii) infer the paleoecological strategies of trilobites in this context (B) Position of Picos at Piauí state (C) Location of study area at Picos City (adapted from Google Earth) In the studied section it was recognized eight sedimentary facies (Table 1; Figure 2) from proximal (ME1) to distal (ME6) marine environments: (M1) Facies Sh and Sl are represented by stratified (horizontal stratification or low angle cross-stratification) deposited in shoreface settings; (ME2) facies Sw represented by very fine- to fine-grained sandstone with wave cross-lamination locally with asymmetric ripples deposited in shoreface settings; (ME3) facies St and Sp characterized by fine- to medium-grained sandstone bearing trough or planar cross-stratification representing deposition in shoreface settings; (ME4) facies Shcs characterized by interbedded very fine-grained sandstone with hummocky cross-stratification and siltstone reflecting a mix of suspension and tractive processes and indicating transitional offshore settings; (ME5) facies F characterized by moderately bioturbated heterolithic deposits alternating siltstone and fine-grained sandstone showing parallel lamination and locally lenticular to wavy bedding reflecting deposition in upper offshore settings close to storm-wave base; and (ME6) facies M represented by parallel-laminated siltstone with low to locally high bioturbation reflecting deposition in relatively quiet environments in offshore settings Sedimentary facies and geologic context of studies section (A) Geologic section and ichnofacies distribution of studied section (B) General view of fine-grained sandstone with hummocky cross-stratification from the topmost section (C) Detail of interbedded siltstones and fine-grained sandstone in wavy bedding (D) Erosive contact between fine-grained sandstone and siltstones All Rusophycus specimens used for statistical analysis came from the same bed (I) Suite C represented by Phycosiphon (Ph) Details of Rusophycus from the studied section (A–C,A′–C′) Rusophycus (highlighted in red) in association with Protopaleodyction (highlighted in yellow) (D,D′) Rusophycus (highlighted in red) in association with Bergaueria and Palaeophycus (highlighted in yellow) (E–G,E′–G′) Detail of the morphology of Rusophycus Rusophycus also overlaps Palaeophycus (white arrow) in (E,G) (H,H′) Rusophycus (highlighted in red) in association with Cruziana (highlighted in yellow) (A) Histogram of the length of the Rusophycus ichnospecimens with the inclusion of the Gaussian fit model (density line) with three groupings of components (ml1–3) (B) Histogram and density plot of the width (mm) of Rusophycus specimens (C) Scatterplot with linear regression (red line) showing a high correlation between length and width of the ichnospecimens (D) Density plot of the length/width ratio It is possible to observe a population trend of smaller organisms in (A) and (B) and the accumulation of smaller specimens in the scatterplot The positive skewness visually corroborates the a and b density plots mean length of the Gaussian components; μ We used a density estimate of the Gaussian mixture model to observe the multi-distribution in the length of the ichnospecimens and the analysis suggested three main components (ml1−3) with means of 34.70 mm (ml1) The length/width ratio was also examined to determine if it could be used to distinguish between different animal groups producing the same ichnogenus (Figure 5D). According to the results, the data follow a normal distribution (W = 0.971, p = 0.104). There is a small peak related to specimens with a greater length/width ratio (Figure 5D) but there is no statistical basis for attesting that there is more than one mode in the data (Dip = 0.036 and no skewness was observed (skew = 0.198 and the prevalence of a 1.5:1 length/width ratio (μ = 1.52 ± 0.22) in the majority of Rusophycus specimens suggest that these traces were most likely produced by the same trilobite species A strong linear correlation was found between the length and width of the specimens (R2 = 0.8988 in the transition between the Pimenteira and Cabeças formations the Cruziana ichnofacies dominate in a lower shoreface to offshore setting and the trilobites had their trace fossils preferentially preserved in an offshore transition zone Considering that not all observed Rusophycus in this study bear a clear pattern of scratches leading to slightly greater growth in length than in width Trilobites are generally considered marine organisms, although some trace fossils attributed to trilobites were found in estuarine settings (Mángano et al., 2021) the Rusophycus occur at the bottom of a storm-influenced bed but were generated in the fine-grained deposits of facies F and M characterizing pre-depositional colonization Reconstitution of the molting strategy of trilobites while producing Rusophycus and tier relation of commonly associated trace fossils the spawning of trilobites was seasonal (once a year) resulting in populations of high rates of small organisms compared to holaspis individuals Although the spawning behavior of trilobites could explain the record of a population with a higher number of young adults compared with the mature ones there is no evidence of seasonal events in the studied deposits The erosive nature of the sandy beds that preserved the trilobite burrows suggests episodic storm events The presence of sedimentary structures that suggest continental input reinforces the hypothesis of sporadic salinity stress as the most parsimonious cause of stress for the studied section homalonotids occur associated with shallow sandy subaquatic deposits accumulated just in and/or above the fair-weather wave base zone and calmoniids are more common in muddy facies (flooding surfaces) generated below the storm wave base zone considering this paleoenvironmental distribution calmoniids might be considered as the main potential tracemaker of the studied Rusophycus specimens it is possible that both calmoniids and homalonotids have produced the Rusophycus traces reported in this study The trace fossil suites in the studied section are an expression of proximal and distal Cruziana ichnofacies in lower shoreface to offshore settings The suite with multiple Rusophycus can be interpreted as a pre-depositional suite and cast by the sandy sediments carried by storm-generated and combined current flows in transitional offshore to offshore settings Most Rusophycus can be attributed to a tracemaker in meraspis and few holaspids stages This distribution suggests an r-strategist population The random distribution in low energy depositional setting and high deep of Rusophycus allowed the assumption that a molting activity is the triggered behavior to the production of Rusophycus in those storm-influenced beds from Pimenteira Formation while Cruziana represents detritus-feeding strategy The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/Supplementary material further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author CM: visualization and writing—original draft All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version This work was supported by Brazilian Scientific and Technological Research Council—CNPq (159548/2018-7 Coordination of Superior Level Staff Improvement—CAPES (master’s grant Finance Code 1 88887.569703/2020-00 and doctorate grant 88887.799772/2022-00) and the reviewers for valuable discussions which greatly improved the paper The authors would like to 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This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited in accordance with accepted academic practice distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms *Correspondence: Daniel Sedorko, c2Vkb3Jrb0Btbi51ZnJqLmJy Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher 94% of researchers rate our articles as excellent or goodLearn more about the work of our research integrity team to safeguard the quality of each article we publish Metrics details Deltas are dynamic and productive systems of enormous ecological significance encompassing unique and biologically diverse wetland habitats we present the first data on the molecular diversity of the fish fauna of the Parnaíba Delta the largest deltaic formation of the Americas Partial sequences (626 bp) of the mitochondrial COI gene (Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I) were used to barcode 402 individuals The most abundant orders were the Perciformes and BIN analyses produced 103 molecular clusters while the Automatic Barcode Gap Discovery (ABGD) and Maximum Likelihood (ML) approaches revealed 102 clusters congeneric and confamilial genetic distances were 0.33% Intraspecific divergence ranged from 0.0% to 1.4% with the exception of two clusters of Cathorops spixii (OTU 96 and OTU 103) which were separated by a low interspecific distance (1.2%) which overlaps the maximum intraspecific genetic distance (1.4%) The barcode data provide new insights into the fish diversity of the Parnaíba Delta which will be important for the development of further research on this fauna the composition of the fish fauna of the Parnaíba Delta was diagnosed by DNA Barcoding providing new insights into the local fish diversity in this important coastal complex while also expanding the global barcoding database with five of these species being identified only to the genus level (Pomadasys sp. Even though they were identified by both morphological and barcoding analyses and Gymnura sp.) were assigned only to genus because they lack comparable sequences in the BOLD system The most abundant orders were the Perciformes (43.8%) All other orders contributed less than 3.9% of the total abundance The Sciaenidae was the most diverse family is classified as vulnerable by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) and two others (Lutjanus analis and Lutjanus synagris) are classified as near-threatened (1.8% of the total) while the vast majority (76.4%) are least concern although 15.5% of the species have yet to be evaluated while Mugil curema is widely distributed in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans Neighbor-Joining tree based on the fish COI barcodes obtained from the Parnaíba Delta The values at the nodes are the bootstrap values Barcoding gap: Maximum intraspecific Kimura 2-parameter (K2P) distances compared with the minimum interspecific K2P distances recorded in fish from the Parnaíba Delta The graphs show the overlap of the maximum and mean intra-specific distances with the inter-specific (NN = nearest neighbor) distances The NJ topology indicated a lack of monophyly in eight families (Eleotridae, Gobiidae, Sciaenidae, Gerreidae, Carangidae, Ariidae, Loricariidae, and Paralichthyidae). The ML and BI topologies nevertheless recovered monophyletic clusters for all families represented by more than a single genus, except the Gobiidae in the Bayesian Inference (Fig. S2) This study of the ichthyofauna of the Parnaíba Delta is the first to compile the data in a sequence library which contributes to the Fish Barcode of Life (FISH-BOL) in the Barcode of Life Data (BOLD) Systems Relationships among the species are shown in the topology of the NJ tree in which each terminal node represents an OTU The BIN analysis found a maximum intraspecific distance of 1.40% while the minimum interspecific distance was 1.22% recorded between Cathorops spixii (OTU 96) and Cathorops spixii (OTU 103) There is thus no absolute gap between the maximum intraspecific distance and the minimum interspecific distance if C spixii is considered to be two distinct clusters mean genetic distances between congeners are three and a half times greater than those between individuals of the same species when C given that the next largest interspecific distance is 4.9% which indicates the COI was reliable for the precise delimitation of the species of the Parnaíba Delta in particular for the groups that are difficult to diagnose due to their considerable morphological similarities and these findings were attributed to a possible recent process of sympatric speciation a similar situation may account for the closely-related C spixii clusters identified in the BIN analysis although this can only be confirmed through a more detailed analysis of the population-level differentiation between the two clusters which is widely distributed in the river systems of the Amazon Such initiatives are important mainly because these fish (tarpon and snapper) are targeted by commercial fisheries and many other species are being overfished The findings of the present study thus represent an important first step toward the implementation of effective measures for the conservation and sustainable use of the region’s biodiversity and aquatic resources Study area, the Parnaíba Delta, in northeastern Brazil. The yellow dots indicate the fish sampling sites. Landscapes: (A) Aquatic macrophytes in Araioses, (B) Barra Grande, (C) Grass banking in Araioses, (D) Confluence with the Iguaraçú River, and (E) Channels near Canárias Islands. Map created using QGIS 3.4.0 (Geographic Information System. 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The authors declare no competing interests Publisher’s note: Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations Download citation DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43930-z Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: a shareable link is not currently available for this article Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science Hiking through dense vegetation in Brazil’s Parnaíba Delta Flávia Miranda stops suddenly and plucks a wheat-colored ball of fur from the tangle of mangrove branches the tennis ball–sized silky anteater raises its forepaws defensively like a boxer a researcher in conservation medicine at the State University of Santa Cruz in Brazil then releases the elusive animal back into the forest Silky anteaters are the smallest anteaters and were the first to evolve these fluffy little canopy dwellers inhabit low-altitude rainforests and mangroves from southern Mexico to northern Bolivia When they’re not gorging on ants and termites they spend much of their two-year life span sleeping Until recently, scientists believed that all silky anteaters belonged to the same species. But in 2017, Miranda published an analysis of silky anteater DNA from across the Americas “I always had this feeling that there was more than one species,” says Miranda “I’d noticed differences in the fur color of populations in different regions.” Miranda is investigating the possibility that the sleepy animal she sampled in the Parnaíba Delta living thousands of kilometers from their nearest known kin in the Amazon Basin and a swath of tropical rainforest to the southeast may be a relic left over from 11,000 years ago when the Amazon rainforest stretched to the Parnaíba Delta Miranda’s genetic analysis indicates that the delta population has been diverging from other silky anteater species for roughly two million years the DNA tests need to be corroborated with physical characteristics to confirm that the delta’s anteaters form a new species That’s why Miranda and her field assistant Alexandre Martins are continuing to collect blood samples and take measurements of animals that they find in the mangroves we’re certain that this population is evolutionarily distinct and in the process of becoming [a separate species],” she says Scientists don’t know how many silky anteaters live in Brazil’s Parnaíba Delta Densely vegetated mangroves make it difficult to count the elusive animals who chairs the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s group of anteater experts describes Miranda’s research as groundbreaking “Silky anteaters are the most understudied of all the [sloths The Parnaíba Delta’s dense mangroves make it almost impossible for Miranda and her colleagues to count how many delta anteaters there might be it has become clear that the delta is not a safe refuge for anteaters Local people harvest the mangroves for fencing Farmers also let their cows and pigs range freely in the delta where the livestock overgraze and trample young trees Miranda began recruiting the community to reforest the mangroves in a nursery for replanting in the delta and fenced these areas off from livestock Although residents are mostly focused on protecting mangroves their ongoing efforts are also benefitting the silky anteater and other wildlife “Our community’s survival is threatened by climate change the delta has sparked a bigger interest in yet-undiscovered silky anteaters perhaps occupying the dry forests between the Parnaíba Delta and the distant rainforests “I’ve got a feeling there are more ‘missing link’ populations,” she says Part of the Tula Foundation and Hakai Institute family We're sorry but the page you're looking for is not on our website 43,000+ global companies doing business in the region news and interviews about your industry in English On Sunday morning (10), about 300 women from the Terra Nossa encampment, organized by the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST, in Portuguese) occupied an area controlled by the São Francisco and Parnaíba Valley Development Company (Codevasf in Portuguese) in the rural area of Juazeiro According to the movement, the occupation is a way to pressure the federal government and other authorities to regularize the situation of the encampment where families have been living said the encampment has been without water for almost a year The Terra Nossa encampment was installed in April last year and according to the person Brasil de Fato talked with while there is a 51 hectares private water reservoir in front of the encampment,” the person said regarding the Codevast area The MST affirms that, since 2008, there has been an agreement signed between Codevasf, the National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform (Incra the federal government and the movement to settle 1,000 families only 192 families were settled and not much more than 5,500 hectares of land were regularized :: Women from the Landless Workers’ Movement hold a demonstration in front of Taurus arms company in São Paulo :: “We are in Terra Nossa with more than 300 families without access to water to produce [food] but we also want water to grow food,” said the leadership “The production of healthy food is fundamental to satisfy the hunger of Brazil's population our task here is to put this topic on the agenda particularly the democratization of access to water We will continue fighting for our bodies and territories,” the leader added Brasil de Fato contacted Codevasf and Incra Codevasf said "The water available in the Salitre Public Irrigation Project (Bahia state) is intended for farmers who are regularly installed in the project Most of the producers served by the project are family farmers: 255 family producers and 68 business producers working on 5,100 hectares The grant issued by the regulatory agency is specific to water use in the Salitre Project." 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