By catch fauna: a chemical universe to be investigated

• Grant number: 12/19419-9
• Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Regular Research Grants
• Start date: April 01, 2013
• End date: March 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry - Organic Chemistry
• Principal Investigator: Wagner Vilegas
• Grantee: Wagner Vilegas
• Host Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus Experimental do Litoral Paulista. São Vicente , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Tânia Marcia Costa ; Wagner Cotroni Valenti

Abstract

Waste of resources from biodiversity is huge in Brazil and worldwide.The wide variety of marine organisms (algae, molluscs, sponges, corals, etc.) that are caught together with fish and shrimp is completely ignored as a source of new molecules. Due to the low economic value, the fishermen despise them, because they are not marketable as food.The shrimp fishery is one of the most striking marine ecosystems: the use of systems of seabed trawling causes the destruction of all the region where it is employed, capturing up to 21kg of accompanying fauna / kg of shrimp.Several substances found in marine organisms are (and can be) widely applied in many areas to improve the quality of life of humanity, including the areas of food, power generation and medicine.Therefore, this project aims to study the chemical species of the by-catch fauna of the shrimp fishery on the coast of São Paulo, in order to obtain molecules of potential economic interest, which can increase the value of this wasted material. (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)

MARINSEK, GABRIELA PUSTIGLIONE; DE LIMA VILIOD, MARCELA COFFACCI; MARI, RENATA DE BRITTO. Ecomorphology of the digestive tract of the brazilian electric ray Narcine brasiliensis (Olfers, 1831) (Torpediniformes: Narcinidae). ACTA ZOOLOGICA, v. 98, n. 3, p. 229-236, JUL 2017. (13/25766-6, 12/19419-9)

THOMPSON, FABIANO; KRUGER, RICARDO; THOMPSON, CRISTIANE C.; BERLINCK, ROBERTO G. S.; COUTINHO, RICARDO; LANDELL, MELISSA F.; PAVAO, MAURO; MOURAO, PAULO A. S.; SALLES, ANA; NEGRI, NAIANE; et al. Marine Biotechnology in Brazil: Recent Developments and Its Potential for Innovation. FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE, v. 5, JUL 9 2018. (12/19419-9, 13/50228-8)

TANGERINA, MARCELO M. P.; CORREA, HEBELIN; HALTLI, BRAD; VILEGAS, WAGNER; KERR, RUSSELL G.. Bioprospecting from cultivable bacterial communities of marine sediment and invertebrates from the underexplored Ubatuba region of Brazil. Archives of Microbiology, v. 199, n. 1, p. 155-169, JAN 2017. (11/23159-0, 12/19419-9)

PEREIRA TANGERINA, MARCELO MARUCCI; CESARIO, JULIA PIZARRO; RAGGI PEREIRA, GERSON RODRIGUES; COSTA, TANIA MARCIA; VALENTI, WAGNER COTRONI; VILEGAS, WAGNER. Chemical Profile of the Sulphated Saponins from the Starfish Luidia senegalensis Collected as by-Catch Fauna in Brazilian Coast. NATURAL PRODUCTS AND BIOPROSPECTING, v. 8, n. 2, p. 83-89, APR 2018. (12/19419-9, 11/23159-0)