Prospecting myxozoans of Malacosporea class in Brazil

• Grant number: 15/19463-6
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: January 15, 2016
• End date: January 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Fishery Resources and Fishery Engineering - Inland Water Fishery Resources
• Principal Investigator: Edson Aparecido Adriano
• Grantee: Edson Aparecido Adriano
• Visiting researcher: Beth Okamura
• Visiting researcher institution: Natural History Museum, London, England
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Ambientais, Químicas e Farmacêuticas (ICAQF). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Diadema. Diadema , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Dr. Beth Okamura is a researcher at the Department of Life Sciences of the Natural History Museum in London. Her research focus has been ecology and life history of bryozoans and ecology and evolution of parasites of the phylum Myxozoa, mainly those of Malacosporea class. These organisms use bryozoans as invertebrate hosts and fish as vertebrate hosts. During the visit, Dr. Okamura will participate in collection and analysis bryozoans and freshwater fish, aiming to study Myxozoa (Malacosporea). She also will present lectures to researchers, students of UNIFESP and also will participate of meetings with researchers from other institutions of the State of São Paulo and discussions on future projects that will be developed in partnership. (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)

WOOD, TIMOTHY S.; OKAMURA, BETH. New species, genera, families, and range extensions of freshwater bryozoans in Brazil: the tip of the iceberg?. Zootaxa, v. 4306, n. 3, p. 383-400, AUG 17 2017. (15/19463-6)

WOOD, TIMOTHY S.; OKAMURA, BETH. Further species and range extensions of Amazonian bryozoans: chipping away at the iceberg. Zootaxa, v. 5169, n. 4, p. 11-pg., 2022-08-01. (15/19463-6, 18/01425-9)

NALDONI, JULIANA; OKAMURA, BETH; HARTIKAINEN, HANNA; CORREA, LINCOLN L.; ADRIANO, EDSON A.. Broad but restricted detection of malacosporeans in a Neotropical cradle of diversification. Parasitology, v. 148, n. 5, p. 511-518, APR 2021. (15/19463-6, 16/22047-7, 18/01425-9, 14/22700-7)

ADRIANO, E. A.; OKAMURA, B.. Motility, morphology and phylogeny of the plasmodial worm, Ceratomyxa vermiformis n. sp (Cnidaria: Myxozoa: Myxosporea). Parasitology, v. 144, n. 2, p. 158-168, FEB 2017. (15/19463-6, 13/21374-6)

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)