Alberto Juan Solari
Alberto Juan Solari Rodríguez, Argentine cytogeneticist (Buenos Aires 04 February 1934 – Discovered XY pair in the meiosis of placental mammals The behavior of the XY pair in mammals. Intern. Review Cytology 38:273-317, 1974 First to study the set of synaptonemal complexes in human spermatocytes Synaptonemal complexes and associated structures in microspread human spermatocytes. Chromosoma 81(3):315-37, 1980 With M.I. Pigozzi. First demonstration of the substructure of recombination nodules. Biocell 22 (3): 177-86, 1998 With L.F. Rossi. Nueva organela compuesta de citoqueratina en los ovocitos del armadillo Chaetophractus villosus (2017) DEVELOPED METHODS / SOME DISCOVERIES With C.J. Tandler. An “axis-like” material in the centromeric region of the metaphase I chromosomes from mouse spermatocytes. Genetica 84(1):39-49, 1991 With C.J. Tandler. Presence of a centromeric filament during meiosis. Genome 34(6):888-94, 1991 With C.J. Tandler. Methanol-acetic anhydride: an efficient blocking agent for electron microscope cytochemistry. Its application to mouse testis and other tissues. Histochemistry 76(3):351-61, 1982 With M.J. Moses. Positive contrast staining and protective drying of surface spreads: electron microscopy of a synaptonemal method complex by a new method. J. Ultrastruct. Res. 54 (1):109-114, 1976 Relevant papers With B. Kiefer, H. Sakai & D. Mazia. The molecular unit of the microtubules of the mitotic apparatus. J. Mol. Biol. 20 (1):75-9, 1966 With E.A. Videla & E.B. Del Castillo. Chromosomes in germinal aplasia. The Lancet 282 (7313): 886, 1963 With A.B. Sverdlick & E.R. Viola. Chromosome abnormality in myeloid metaplasia. The Lancet 280 (7256): 613, 1962
Alberto José de Sampaio
Alberto José de Sampaio, Brazilian botanist and geographer (Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro State 05 February 1881- Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro State 30 December 1946) From Portuguese and French descent Authored 174 works Presented a new phytogeographic division of Brazil used worldwide DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Genera (With Kuhlmann) Clinostemon 1928 (Lauraceae) Pseudocalymma 1933(Bignoniaceae) Species Acianthera acuminatipetala 1916 Acianthera gouveiae 1916 Adenocalymma biternata 1938 Adenocalymma longilineum 1936 Adianthum multisorum 1916 Adiantum rondonii 1916 Barbosella dusenii 1909 Clinostemon mahuba 1917 Cyathea uleana 1923 Diplazium mattogrossense 1916 Elaphoglossum jurunae 1916 Hemitelia caesariana 1935 Martinella iquitoensis 1935 Memorea cinnabarina 1938 Memorea cuminaensis 1938 Memorea madeirensis 1938 Memorea rondonii 1938 Memorea tridenticalyx 1938 Microstylis humicola 1923 Miscanteca duckei 1917 Octomeria duckei 1923 Pecluma hoehnii 1916 Pleurothallis organensis 1923 Polypodium kuhlmannii 1916 Tanaecium duckei 1935 HONORS Sampaiella Gomes 1948 (Bignoniaceae) Sampaiosia Mello Leitão 1930 (Arachnida)
Agustín Stahl
Anton Adolf August Stahl or Agustín Stahl, Puerto Rican physician, naturalist, archaeologist and ethnologist (Curaçao 21 January 1842 – Bayamón 12 July 1917) From German father and Dutch mother Described Clusia gundlachii and Marialva elliptica in 1884 Besides collecting plants, gathered 2,300 animal specimens and 800 indigenous artifacts SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Pictografias indo-boricanas del litoral (1907-17) Un caso de neurosis vasomotora de las extremidades. Erytromelalgia Bol. Asoc. Med. Puerto Rico 6(71), 1908 Demonstración de dos casos de neuropatias y dos de teratologia. Bol. Asoc. Med. Puerto Rico 6(65), 1908 Dos nuevas entidades patológicas. Bol. Asoc. Med. Puerto Rico 1(8-9), 1903 Estudios Etnologicos de los indios Borinqueños (1889) Estudios sobre la flora de Puerto Rico (1883-8) Catalogo de gabinete zoológico (1882) Informe sobre la enfermedad de la cana de azúcar (1878) El tortugo amarillo de Puerto Rico y las sapotáceas. Anales Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. (1874) Notas de la flora de Puerto Rico y Islas Vírgenes HONORS Stahlia Bello 1881 (Fabaceae)
Ady Raul da Silva
Ady Raul da Silva, Brazilian plant geneticist (Rio de Janeiro 02 August 1917 – 18 September 2011) Developed 26 wheat (IAS13, IAS20, São Borja, Piratini) and 2 oatmeal cultivars With J.M.V. Andrade & J.C. Leite. Duas novas cultivares de trigo para a região do Brasil Central: BR9 Cerrados e BR10 Formosa. Pesq. Agrop. Bras. 19:109-13, 1984 Improved selection methods for wheat varieties resistant to rust and other diseases Identified new races of wheat rust Estudos preliminaries para a produção de variedades de trigo resistentes as ferrugens no Brasil. Serv. Nac. Pesq. Agron. B1 (1947) (isolated seven races of leaf rust) With E.T. Coelho & A.V. da Silva. Identificação de raças de ferrugem da folha do trigo, no Brasil pelo uso de um novo grupo de variedades. Robigo 10:7-22, 1960 With E.T. Coelho. Novas raças fisiológicas de ferrugem do colmo no Rio Grande do Sul. Robigo (1964) Other contributions With E.T. Coelho. The identification of physiologic races of Puccinia graminis var. tritici by wheat isogenic or substitution lines, carrying genes for resistance. Wheat Inform. Serv. 17:33-4, 1964 Discovered that wheat male sterility (sterile spikelets) is due to an interaction of climactic factors and the boron (1977) Pointed out the tolerance to toxic aluminium that a number of plants present Showed that is possible distinguish the seeds of red rice from those of cultivars by translucidity
Adrien Sumichrast
Adrien Louis Jean François Sumichrast, Swiss-born Mexican naturalist and collector (Yvorne, Vaud Canton 15 October 1828 – Tonale, Chiapas State 26 December 1882) Performed collections of many animal and plant species mainly birds and reptiles SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Notes sur une collection de reptiles et de batraciens de la partie occidentale de l’isthme de Tehauntepec. Bull. Soc. Zool. France 15:162-90, 1906 Observations sur les moeurs de l’Heloderma horridum. C.R. Hebd. Seances Acad. Sci. 80:676-9, 1875 The geographical distribution of the native birds of the Department of Vera Cruz with a list of the migratory species. Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1:542-63, 1869 Note on habits of certain species of Mexican Hymenoptera. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 1868 On the habits of the Mexican species of the genus Ecitron Latr. Trans. Amer. Entom. Soc. 1868 Notes on habits of some Mexican Reptiles. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 3(13):497-507, 1864 Note sur les moeurs des quelques reptiles du Mexique. Bibl. Univ. Rev. Suisse 19:45-61, 1864 HONORS Sumichrastia Townsend 1916 (Diptera)
Adelmo Scivittaro
Adelmo Scivittaro, Brazilian agronomist and entomologist (27 May 1932 – DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA Genera Schoenfeldtiopsis 1977 with Soares Taphroderoides 1975 Taphroderopsis 1975 Species (with Soares) Claeoderes kirschi 1977 Hyperephanus proseni 1977 Hyphantus dentipes 1977 Hyphantus desbrochersi 1977 Hyphantus diringshofeni 1977 Hyphantus ignotus 1977 Hyphantus inoratus 1977 Hyphantus sulcatus 1977 Hyphantus vaurieae 1977 Hyphantus zikani 1977 Nemobrenthus bechynei 1979 Nemobrenthus pereirai 1979 Proteramocerus appendiculatus 1972 Proteramocerus forcipula 1972 Schoenfeldtiopsis zikani 1977 (Alone) Hephebocerus soaresi 1981 Monrosiaia inpai 1976 Monrosiaia kleinei 1975 Monrosiaia monicae 1975 Monrosiaia sulcata 1978 Monrosiaia walkyriae 1975 Taphroderes bolivianus 1975 Taphroderes dimidiatus 1975 Taphroderes monnei 1975 Taphroderes venezuelanus 1975 Taphroderopsis abdominalis 1975 Taphroderopsis bicolor 1975 Taphroderopsis claviger 1975 Taphroderopsis goianus 1975 Taphroderopsis mammillatus 1975 Taphroderopsis marisae 1975 Taphroderopsis mendax 1975 Taphroderopsis patriciae 1975 Taphroderopsis similis 1975 Taphroderopsis soaresi 1975 Taphroderopsis ubirajarai 1975