Molecular systematics of marine benthic macroalgae with emphasis on taxa of economic and ecological importance

• Grant number: 13/23538-6
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Duration: April 01, 2014 - August 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Botany - Plant Taxonomy
• Principal Investigator: Mariana Cabral de Oliveira
• Grantee: Mariana Cabral de Oliveira
• Visiting researcher: Carlos Frederico Deluqui Gurgel
• Visiting researcher institution: University of Adelaide, Australia
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This proposal aims at the inclusion of Dr. Carlos Frederico Gurgel Deluqui from the University of Adelaide, Australia, as a Visiting Researcher at the Laboratory of Marine Algae (LAM). Dr Gurgel is a specialist in molecular systematics of marine algae, having extensive experience in phycology, including traditional taxonomy approaches, as well as the use of molecular data and phylogeny, and specializes in Gracilariales, a group including species of great economic importance, but with difficult taxonomy which has been the focus of studies in our research group. Among the scientific activities proposed are the studies of the diversity and phylogeny of groups of marine macroalgae of both ecological and economic importance. Molecular markers will be used to analyze thousands of samples collected extensively on the coast of Brazil and Australia to better understand the species diversity and their biogeographic affinities. Among his major contributions to projects developed in LAM, is the application of new methods for the analysis of molecular data, such as the optimization of gene partitioning in multiple alignments of molecular markers and analysis of macro and micro-evolutionary processes. (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)

LYRA, GOIA DE M.; GURGEL, CARLOS FREDERICO D.; COSTA, EMMANUELLE DA S.; DE JESUS, PRISCILA B.; OLIVEIRA, MARIANA C.; OLIVEIRA, EURICO C.; DAVIS, CHARLES C.; DE CASTRO NUNES, JOSE MARCOS. DELIMITATING CRYPTIC SPECIES IN THE GRACILARIA DOMINGENSIS COMPLEX (GRACILARIACEAE, RHODOPHYTA) USING MOLECULAR AND MORPHOLOGICAL DATA. JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY, v. 52, n. 6, p. 997-1017, DEC 2016. (13/23538-6, 13/11833-3)

NAUER, FABIO; DELUQUI GURGEL, CARLOS FREDERICO; AYRES-OSTROCK, LIGIA MARIA; PLASTINO, ESTELA MARIA; OLIVEIRA, MARIANA CABRAL. Phylogeography of the Hypnea musciformis species complex (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta) with the recognition of cryptic species in the western Atlantic Ocean. JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY, v. 55, n. 3, p. 676-687, JUN 2019. (13/23538-6, 13/11833-3)

LYRA, GOIA DE MATTOS; DELUQUI GURGEL, CARLOS FREDERICO; COSTA, EMMANUELLE DA SILVA; DE JESUS, PRISCILA BARRETO; CAIRES, TAIARA AGUIAR; GAMA DE MATOS, JOAO CARLOS; OLIVEIRA, MARIANA CABRAL; OLIVEIRA, EURICO CABRAL; DE CASTRO NUNES, JOSE MARCOS. A New Tropical Species of Gracilariaceae (Rhodophyta, Gracilariales): Gracilaria silviae sp. nov.. PHYTOTAXA, v. 222, n. 3, p. 199-210, AUG 19 2015. (13/23538-6)