Gustavo Mendes de Oliveira Castro, Brazilian biologist
(Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro 24 January 1904 - Rio de Janeiro 22 November 1978) ACHIEVEMENTS
Enunciated law of phylogenesis and succession Filogenese e sucessão. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 18(2):121-5, 1946 Co-authored with
Stanley A. Cain Manual of vegetation analysis (1959), an influent book on
phytosociology With J.M. Pires &
N.T. da Silva authored the paper Application of some phytosociological
techniques to Brazilian rain forest. Amer. J. Bot. 43(10):911-41, 1956 with
great repercussion in this field METHODS / DEVICES Um método de análise de populações vegetais. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 45(3):572-86, 1947 Developed a staining method for protozoan and bacteria Developed a staining method for Koch bacilli nodules Staining nodules of the leprosy bacillus. Lepr.Rev. 18(2-3):45-9, 1947 Emprego da ocular interferencial de Françon no exame de réplicas de material biológico. Rev. Bras. Biol. 21(4):467-70, 1961 Sobre a causa das “cores metálicas” dos olhos dos Tabanidas assim como uma técnica para restabelecer as mesmas em exemplares secos de museus. Jorn. Comm. (1935) Invented two types of shovels for collecting mosquito larvae samples Developed Castro aspirator for collecting Diptera DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Chrysochiton 1936 with Lutz Culex carcinoxenus 1932 Esenbeckia arcusta 1935 with Lutz Laphromyia longipalpis 1937 with Lutz Limatus flavisetosus 1935 with Lutz HONORS
Subgenus Castromyia 1942 Mangabeira Filho (Diptera) His son, Gustavo de Oliveira Castro, neurophysiologist (Rio de Janeiro 20 May 1931 – 2002) Authored Branching pattern of amacrine cell processes. Nature 212:832-4, 1966 Described the changes of optical features in avian retina With H. Martins Ferreira. Light-scattering changes accompanying spreading depression in isolated retina. J. Neurophysiol. 29:715, 1966 Proposed the retina as experimental model of spreading cortical depression With H. Martins Ferreira. Deformations and thickness variations accompanying spreading depression in the retina. J. Neurophysiol. (1970) Proposed circling wave for studying the retina model
With C.J. Struchiner. H.M. Ferreira & P.S. Rodrigues. Circling spreading depression in isolated chick retina. J. Neurophysiol. 37:773-84, 1974 |
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