Amanda Costa Rodrigues, Érica Fernanda Gonçalves Gomes de Sá, Filipe Martins Santos, Nayara Yoshie Sano, Julia Gindri Bragato Pistori, Pedro Cordeiro-Estrela, Caio Lucca Cação Tognini Ozório, Heitor Miraglia Herrera, Gisele Braziliano de Andrade
Small mammals have a short lifetime and are strictly associated with their environment. This work aimed to use histopathology to assess the health of Holochilus chacarius in a rice agroecosystem in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso do Sul. During necropsy, fragments of the lung, kidney, skin, liver, and reproductive system of 33 animals were collected and submitted to histological processing. Tissue damages were evaluated as mild, moderate, and severe and arranged in a matrix for further statistical analysis. Furthermore, we used generalized linear models to verify the influence of tissue changes on the body condition, obtained by a regression between body mass and length...
April 2, 2024: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment