Molecular biodiversity and conservation of sharks: gene bank, population structure and international scientific network of collaboration

• Grant number: 11/23787-0
• Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Young Investigators Grants
• Start date: November 01, 2012
• End date: October 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Genetics - Animal Genetics
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Fernandes Mendonça
• Grantee: Fernando Fernandes Mendonça
• Host Institution: Instituto de Saúde e Sociedade (ISS). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Baixada Santista. Santos , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 15/06445-0 - Genetic diversity and population structure of the blue shark Prionace glauca in the Atlantic Ocean, BP.IC; 12/12069-2 - Molecular biodiversity and conservation of sharks: gene bank, population structure and international scientific network of collaboration, AP.BTA.JP

Abstract

The latest global assessments about marine fish stocks have shown alarming population declines of several species of sharks and rays, placing them in the lists of imminent risk of extinction. Considering the current lack of information that could enable mitigation measures of this trend and the obvious necessity of combined efforts for the universal conservation of worldwide species, this proposal aims to create an international center of genetic material deposition from elasmobranchs (International Bank of Shark DNA), establishing the first systematic center of management and representative biodiversity of this group, providing a nucleus for genetic studies (NUPEGE - Núcleo de Pesquisas Genéticas em Elasmobrânquios) that could provide knowledge and staff training, inserted into a global researchers network focused on the conservation of sharks and rays. The consolidation of this center is initially structured in the development of studies about genetic diversity and phylogeography using nuclear and mitochondrial markers in species of sharks worldwide distributed, heavily exploited by fishing and classified at some level as threat of extinction. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(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)

DA SILVA FERRETTE, BRUNO LOPES; MENDONCA, FERNANDO FERNANDES; COELHO, RUI; VASCONCELOS DE OLIVEIRA, PAULO GUILHERME; VIEIRA HAZIN, FABIO HISSA; ROMANOV, EVGENY V.; OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIO; SANTOS, MIGUEL NEVES; FORESTI, FAUSTO. High Connectivity of the Crocodile Shark between the Atlantic and Southwest Indian Oceans: Highlights for Conservation. PLoS One, v. 10, n. 2, FEB 17 2015. (11/23787-0, 10/51903-2)

ARMININI MORALES, MILLKE JASMINE; MENDONCA, FERNANDO FERNANDES; MAGALHAES, CAROLINA OLIVEIRA; OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIO; COELHO, RUI; SANTOS, MIGUEL NEVES; CRUZ, VANESSA PAES; PIERCY, ANDREW; BURGESS, GEORGE; HAZIN, FABIO VIEIRA; et al. Population genetics of the bigeye thresher shark Alopias superciliosus in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans: implications for conservation. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, v. 28, n. 4, p. 941-951, DEC 2018. (11/23787-0)

CAMARGO, SAMIA M.; COELHO, RUI; CHAPMAN, DEMIAN; HOWEY-JORDAN, LUCY; BROOKS, EDWARD J.; FERNANDO, DANIEL; MENDES, NATALIA J.; HAZIN, FABIO H. V.; OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIO; SANTOS, MIGUEL N.; et al. Structure and Genetic Variability of the Oceanic Whitetip Shark, Carcharhinus longimanus, Determined Using Mitochondrial DNA. PLoS One, v. 11, n. 5, MAY 17 2016. (11/23787-0)

DA SILVA FERRETTE, BRUNO LOPES; DOMINGUES, RODRIGO RODRIGUES; ROTUNDO, MATHEUS MARCOS; MIRANDA, MARINA PROVETTI; BUNHOLI, INGRID VASCONCELLOS; DE BIASI, JULIANA BELTRAMIN; OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIO; FORESTI, FAUSTO; MENDONCA, FERNANDO FERNANDES. DNA Barcode Reveals the Bycatch of Endangered Batoids Species in the Southwest Atlantic: Implications for Sustainable Fisheries Management and Conservation Efforts. GENES, v. 10, n. 4, APR 2019. (11/23787-0, 17/02420-8)

DA SILVA FERRETTE, BRUNO LOPES; DOMINGUES, RODRIGO RODRIGUES; FREGADOLLI USSAMI, LUIS HENRIQUE; MORAES, LETICIA; MAGALHAES, CAROLINA DE OLIVEIRA; DE AMORIM, ALBERTO FERREIRA; SILVA HILSDORF, ALEXANDRE WAGNER; OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIO; FORESTI, FAUSTO; MENDONCA, FERNANDO FERNANDES. DNA-based species identification of shark finning seizures in Southwest Atlantic: implications for wildlife trade surveillance and law enforcement. BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION, v. 28, n. 14, p. 4007-4025, DEC 2019. (11/23787-0, 17/02420-8, 09/54660-6)

DA SILVA FERRETTE, BRUNO LOPES; MOURATO, BRUNO; VIEIRA HAZIN, FABIO HISSA; AROCHA, FREDDY; WILLIAMS, SAMUEL MACKEY; RODRIGUES JUNIOR, CARLOS EGBERTO; PORTO-FORESTI, FABIO; DE AMORIM, ALBERTO FERREIRA; ROTUNDO, MATHEUS MARCOS; COELHO, RUI; et al. lobal phylogeography of sailfish: deep evolutionary lineages with implications for fisheries managemen. Hydrobiologia, v. 848, n. 17, p. 3883-3904, OCT 2021. (16/09204-6, 17/17605-3, 18/20610-1, 14/26508-3, 11/23787-0)

CARMO, CAMILA B.; FERRETTE, BRUNO L. S.; CAMARGO, SAMIA M.; ROXO, FABIO F.; COELHO, RUI; GARLA, RICARDO C.; OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIO; PIERCY, ANDREW N.; BORNATOWSKI, HUGO; FORESTI, FAUSTO; et al. A new map of the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) genetic population structure in the western Atlantic Ocean: Hypothesis of an equatorial convergence centre. AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, v. 29, n. 5, p. 760-772, MAY 2019. (11/23787-0)

LOPES DA SILVA FERRETTE, BRUNO; COELHO, RUI; PEDDEMORS, VICTOR MARTEN; OVENDEN, JENNIFER R.; DE FRANCO, BRUNO ALEXANDRE; OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIO; FORESTI, FAUSTO; MENDONCA, FERNANDO FERNANDES. Global phylogeography of the smooth hammerhead shark: Glacial refugia and historical migration patterns. AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, v. 31, n. 9, JUN 2021. (17/17605-3, 11/23787-0)

MENDES, NATALIA J.; CRUZ, VANESSA P.; ASHIKAGA, FERNANDO Y.; CAMARGO, SAMIA M.; OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIO; PIERCY, ANDREW N.; BURGESS, GEORGE H.; COELHO, RUI; SANTOS, MIGUEL N.; MENDONCA, FERNANDO F.; et al. Microsatellite loci in the tiger shark and cross-species amplification using pyrosequencing technology. PeerJ, v. 4, AUG 30 2016. (11/23787-0, 13/14555-4)

MENDES, N. J.; CRUZ, V. P.; MENDONCA, FERNANDO FERNANDES; PARDO, B. G.; COELHO, R.; ASHIKAGA, F. Y.; CAMARGO, S. M.; MARTINEZ, P.; OLIVEIRA, C.; SANTOS, M. N.; et al. Microsatellite loci in the oceanic whitetip shark and cross-species amplification using pyrosequencing technology. CONSERVATION GENETICS RESOURCES, v. 7, n. 2, p. 585-589, JUN 2015. (10/51903-2, 13/14555-4, 11/23787-0)