Multiple-omics profiling to reveal tropical myxozoan biodiversity in freshwater fish hosts from the Amazon Basin

• Grant number: 19/17427-3
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: November 01, 2020
• End date: October 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Fishery Resources and Fishery Engineering - Inland Water Fishery Resources
• Agreement: King's College London
• Principal Investigator: Edson Aparecido Adriano
• Grantee: Edson Aparecido Adriano
• Principal researcher abroad: Paul Frederick Long
• Institution abroad: King's College London, England
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Ambientais, Químicas e Farmacêuticas (ICAQF). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Diadema. Diadema , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Beth Okamura ; Bruno Fiorelini Pereira ; Juliana Naldoni

Abstract

By bringing together people at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), King's College London (KCL) and the Natural History Museum, London this project would unite expertise in the application of cutting edge molecular approaches, bioinformatics, molecular diagnostics, fish parasitology, myxozoan biology and fieldwork to expand understanding of myxozoan biodiversity in tropical environments. The project would engender substantial training for early career researchers based in Brazil, promote scientific visits, and establish the first academic exchange between KCL and UNIFESP and establish new techniques in the laboratory of the UNIFESP applicant. Characterising myxozoan biodiversity by genome skimming and gene expression studies on the basis of bisulphite sequencing libraries will provide a major advance in the field by demonstrating the application of these techniques for the first time in a group only recently recognized as a major radiation of endoparasitic cnidarians whose diversity may rival that of their iconic free-living relatives including jellyfish, anemones and corals. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

FIGUEREDO, RAYLINE T. A.; MULLER, MARIA I.; LONG, PAUL F.; ADRIANO, EDSON A.. Myxozoan Ceratomyxids Infecting the Gallbladder of Amazonian Ornamental Cichlid Fish: Description of Ellipsomyxa santarenensis n. sp. and Report of Ceratomyxa amazonensis in a New Host. DIVERSITY-BASEL, v. 15, n. 7, p. 14-pg., 2023-07-01. (17/16546-3, 19/17427-3)

MUELLER, MARIA I.; FIGUEREDO, RAYLINE T. A.; ATKINSON, STEPHEN D.; BARTHOLOMEW, JERRI L.; ADRIANO, EDSON A.. Henneguya correai n. sp. (Cnidaria, Myxozoa) Parasitizing the Fins of the Amazonian Fish Semaprochilodus insignis. DIVERSITY-BASEL, v. 15, n. 6, p. 11-pg., 2023-06-01. (17/16546-3, 19/17427-3, 21/06692-8, 18/24980-8)

ADRIANO, EDSON A.; ZATTI, SUELLEN A.; OKAMURA, BETH. ow to build single-celled cnidarians with worm-like motility: Lessons from Myxozo. Journal of Anatomy, v. 240, n. 3, OCT 2021. (18/01425-9, 15/19463-6, 19/17427-3, 18/19285-9, 16/22047-7)