Maria do Carmo Estanislau do Amaral (born 1959) is a Brazilian botanist, biologist, curator, and academic., who has worked, since 2011, on teaching and research in the Department of Biology, Universidad Estatal de Campinas.

Biography

In 1980, she obtained a Bachelor of Biological Sciences from the

University of São Paulo The University of São Paulo ( pt, Universidade de São Paulo, USP) is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian public university and the country's most prestigious educational institution, the best ...

, and in 1985, a Master in Biological Sciences (Botany) from the same institution, defending the thesis supervised by Dr. Antonio Salatino, ''Epicuticular wax of aquatic plants''. In 1990, she obtained a PhD in Natural Sciences from the

Universität Hamburg The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vor ...

, Germany. Since 1993 she has been a professor at the Universidad Estatal de Campinas. She works in botany, with an emphasis on seed plant taxonomy, researching the following topics: phylogenetic systematics, macromolecular systematics, interactive multiple access keys,

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Orchidaceae Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering ...

, aquatic plants, and the flora of

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. In 2012, she worked on post-doctorate research at the

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, with a grant from the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, FAPESP, Brazil.

Selected publications

Some of her most cited publications are: *MCE Amaral, 1991, Phylogenetische systematik der Ochnaceae, ''Bot. Jahrb. Syst'' 113 (1), 105-196 *AM Giulietti, MCE Amaral, V Bittrich, 1995, Phylogenetic analysis of inter-and infrageneric relationships of Leiothrix Ruhland (Eriocaulaceae), ''Kew Bulletin'', 55-71 *V Bittrich, MCE Amaral, 1996, Flower morphology and pollination biology of some Clusia species from the Gran Sabana (Venezuela), ''Kew Bulletin'', 681-694 *V Bittrich, MCE Amaral, 1996, Pollination biology of Symphonia globulifera (Clusiaceae), ''Plant Systematics and Evolution'' 200 (1-2), 101-110 *V Bittrich, MCE Amaral, 1997, Floral biology of some Clusia species from Central Amazonia, ''Kew Bulletin'', 617-635 *ALM Porto, SMF Machado, CMA de Oliveira, V Bittrich, ..., 2000, Polyisoprenylated benzophenones from Clusia floral resins, ''Phytochemistry'' 55 (7), 755-768 *MG Reis, AD Faria, V Bittrich, MCE Amaral, AJ Marsaioli, 2000, The chemistry of flower rewards—Oncidium (Orchidaceae), ''Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society'' 11 (6), 600-608 *MG Reis, AD de Faria, MCE do Amaral, AJ Marsaioli, 2003, Oncidinol—a novel diacylglycerol from Ornithophora radicans Barb. Rodr.(Orchidaceae) floral oil, ''Tetrahedron Letters'' 44 (46), 8519-8523 *A Flach, RC Dondon, RB Singer, S Koehler, EA Maria do Carmo, ..., 2004, The chemistry of pollination in selected Brazilian Maxillariinae orchids: floral rewards and fragrance, ''Journal of Chemical Ecology'' 30 (5), 1045-1056 *RB Singer, A Flach, S Koehler, AJ Marsaioli, MCE Amaral, 2004, Sexual mimicry in Mormolyca ringens (Lindl.) Schltr.(Orchidaceae: Maxillariinae), ''Annals of Botany'' 93 (6), 755-762 *MCE Do Amaral, E Hardy, EM Hebling, A Faúndes, 2005, Menstruation and amenorrhea: opinion of Brazilian women, ''Contraception'' 72 (2), 157-161 *A Ruiz, EG Magalhães, AF Magalhães, AD Faria, MCE Amaral, ..., 2005, Avaliação da atividade tóxica em Artemia salina e Biomphalaria glabrata de extratos de quatro espécies do gênero Eleocharis (Cyperaceae), ''Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia'' 15 (2), 98-102 *A Flach, AJ Marsaioli, RB Singer, EA Maria Do Carmo, C Menezes, ..., 2006, Pollination by Sexual Mimicry in Mormolyca ringens: A Floral Chemistry that Remarkably Matches the Pheromones of Virgin Queens of Scaptotrigona sp., ''Journal of Chemical Ecology'' 32 (1), 59-70 *MG Reis, AD de Faria, IA Dos Santos, EA Maria do Carmo, AJ Marsaioli, 2007, Byrsonic acid—the clue to floral mimicry involving oil-producing flowers and oil-collecting bees, ''Journal of chemical ecology'' 33 (7), 1421-1429 *MCE Amaral, 2008, ''Guia de campo para plantas aquáticas e palustres do Estado de São Paulo'', Holos Editora *ER Pansarin, MCE Amaral, 2008, Reproductive biology and pollination mechanisms of Epidendrum secundum (Orchidaceae). Floral variation: a consequence of natural hybridization?, ''Plant Biology'' 10 (2), 211-219 *MW Chase, NH Williams, AD de Faria, KM Neubig, MCE Amaral, ...., 2009, Floral convergence in Oncidiinae (Cymbidieae; Orchidaceae): an expanded concept of Gomesa and a new genus Nohawilliamsia, ''Annals of Botany'' 104 (3), 387-402 *ER Pansarin, MCE do Amaral, 2009, Reproductive biology and pollination of southeastern Brazilian Stanhopea Frost ex Hook.(Orchidaceae), ''Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants'' 204 (3), 238-249 *DC Zappi, FLR Filardi, P Leitman, VC Souza, BMT Walter, JR Pirani, ..., 2015, Growing knowledge: an overview of seed plant diversity in Brazil, ''Rodriguésia'' 66 (4), 1085-1113 *FLR Filardi, F Barros, JFA Baumgratz, CEM Bicudo, TB Cavalcanti, ..., 2018, Brazilian Flora 2020: innovation and collaboration to meet Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC), ''Rodriguésia'' 69 (4), 1513-1527

Memberships

* Sociedad Botánica de Brasil

Periodical reviewer

* 2010–present:

Phytotaxa ''Phytotaxa'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal for rapid publication on any aspect of systematic botany. It publishes on a wide range of subjects, but focuses on new species, monographs, floras, revisions, reviews, and typification issues. ...

(online) * 2009–present:

Novon The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw. Its herbarium, with more than 6.6 million s ...

(Saint Louis, Mo.) * 2010–present:

Brittonia ''Brittonia'' is a quarterly, peer-reviewed botanical journal, publishing articles on plants, fungi, algae, and lichens. Published since 1931, it is named after the botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton. Since 2007, the journal has been published by Spr ...

(Bronx, N.Y.) * 2010–present: Revista Brasileira de Botânica (print) * 2011–present: Rodriguésia (print) * 2011–present:

Acta Botanica Brasilica ''Acta Botanica Brasilica'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Brazilian Society of Botany. It was established in 1987 and publishes original articles in all areas of botany, basic or applied. Articles are in Portugue ...

(print) * 2012–present:

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society The ''Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society'' is a scientific journal publishing original papers relating to the taxonomy of all plant groups and fungi, including anatomy, biosystematics, cytology, ecology, ethnobotany, electron microscopy, mo ...

(print) * 2016–present: F.R.L.M.S.S.

Research Projects Supervisor

* 2000–present: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico * 1995–present: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo * 2008–present: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst * 2007–present: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia * 2000–present: Serviço de Apoio ao Estudante - UNICAMP

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