Danilo Ferreira Borges Santos

Danilo Ferreira Borges Santos
Pennsylvania State University | Penn State · Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences

Master of Science

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Introduction
I am currently a PhD student at the Penn State University and a researcher in The Kersch-Becker lab. I've got a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia and Master's of Science at Universidade de São Paulo. My research interests are in plant-insect interactions, plant defenses, chemical ecology, microbiome, and plant volatiles. More specifically I want to understand the defensive mechanisms used by plants and how they impact insect gut microbiome.
Education
August 2022 - December 2026
Pennsylvania State University
Field of study
  • Ecology
February 2018 - February 2020
University of São Paulo
Field of study
  • Entomology
March 2014 - December 2017

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Publications (17)
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Shelter‐building insects are important ecosystem engineers, playing critical roles in structuring arthropod communities. Nonetheless, the influence of leaf shelters and arthropods on plant–associated microbiota remains largely unexplored. Arthropods that visit or inhabit plants can contribute to the leaf microbial community, resulting in significan...
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Two species may share a mutualistic interaction if the benefits gained by the interaction outweigh the costs incurred. In this study, we tested experimentally how the identity of ants (pinned) and floral visitors of an extrafloral nectary (EFN)-bearing plant can affect plant fitness. We quantified ant activity and floral visitor visitation overlap...
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Shelter-building insects are important ecosystem engineers, playing critical roles in structuring arthropod communities. Nonetheless, the influence of leaf shelters and arthropods on plant-associated microbiota remains largely unexplored. Arthropods that visit or inhabit plants can contribute to the leaf microbial community, resulting in significan...
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In ant–plant mutualisms mediated by plant-based liquid resources (e.g., extrafloral and pericarpial nectar), third-party exploiters are often present. Usually, the costs of having exploiters species seem to have little to no effect on ant–plant mutualistic interaction. However, little is known about how and to what extent exploiters affect mutualis...
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The mutualism of ants and extrafloral nectary (EFN)-bearing plants is known to reduce rates of herbivory. However, ants may have negative impacts on other mutualisms such as pollination, constituting an indirect cost of a facultative mutualism. For instance, when foraging on or close to reproductive plant parts ants might attack pollinators or inhi...
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The concept of ecosystem engineering, although more often used to describe the effects of a single organism on its environment, can also be applied to plant-animal interactions in order to better understand their non-trophic effects on ecosystems. Here, we provide justification for and examples of how the ecosystem engineering concept has been and...
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An Ectatomma tuberculatum (Ectatomminae) ant standing on Lafoensia pacari (Lythraceae), a tree with extrafloral nectaries at the tip of each leaf. This image was captured on a very hot, sunny morning in the tropical savanna of central Brazil. Photograph by Denise Lange. See related article by Calixto et al. pp 639–651.
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Interactions between ants and plants bearing extrafloral nectaries (EFNs) are among the most common mutualisms in Neotropical regions. Plants secrete extrafloral nectar, a carbohydrate‐rich food that attracts ants, which in return protect plants against herbivores. This ant–plant mutualism is subjected to temporal variation, in which abiotic factor...
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Aquaculture is the cultivation of aquatic organisms through a controlled cultivation process. Currently, half the fish consumed by the world population is produced by aquaculture activity. This review, and informed data, trends, and the general panorama of aquaculture in Brazil and worldwide, as well as the scenario of the tilapia (Oreochromis nilo...
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The ant-plant interaction, in which ants are attracted to a plant bearing extrafloral nectaries (EFNs), is a type of mutualism. The plants offer extrafloral nectar in exchange for ant defense of the plant against its herbivores. This interaction has been widely studied; however, many studies have focused only on the mutualistic role of interactors...
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The ant-plant interaction, in which ants are attracted to a plant bearing extrafloral nectaries (EFNs), is a type of mutualism. The plants offer extrafloral nectar in exchange for ant defense of the plant against its herbivores. This interaction has been widely studied; however, many studies have focused only on the mutualistic role of interactors...
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Plantas podem apresentar complexos sistemas de defesa contra herbívoros e alocando diferentes defesas em diferentes estruturas e defesas. A defesa biótica mediada por nectários extraflorais (NEFs) é comum em comunidades de plantas neotropicais e tem sido considerada eficiente pela ação de formigas. Nesse estudo, nós testamos a teoria da defesa ótim...

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