Professor Marco Antonio Tonus Marinho, researcher at the Department of Ecology, Zoology and Genetics of the Institute of Biology at UFPel, published in the journal Plos One the description of a fly in amber that dates back to 15-20 million years. The publication had the collaboration of international researchers, among them David Grimaldi from the Museum of Natural History, in New York. On top of other research lines, Professor Marco Antonio is studying the diversity and evolution of caliptrados dipterans, working mainly in the areas of molecular systematics and phylogeny.
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