Morphological variation and its phylogenetic signal in marine colonial organisms: a study with the family Campanulariidae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa)

• Grant number: 11/22260-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: May 01, 2012
• End date: April 09, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Antonio Carlos Marques
• Grantee: Amanda Ferreira e Cunha
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 13/25874-3 - Morphological variability and its phylogenetic signal in marine colonial organisms: a case study with the family Campanulariidae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa), BE.EP.DR

Abstract

Intraspecific variation is the basis for evolutionary processes to occur, whether accompanied by genetic differentiation or not. This variation can be adaptive and contribute to lineage diversification above the species level, functioning as an important macroevolutionary mechanism. In the taxonomic level, characterizing the patterns of intra and interspecific variation is not simple, and it complicates the delimitation of species. The family Campanulariidae presents variable morphological characters from the intraspecific level to the suprageneric, being, therefore, an interesting model for studying morphological variation. Our study aims to evaluate the taxonomic levels in which the morphological variation in Campanulariidae is expressed as a phylogenetic signal, correlating this variation to lineages delimitation and testing the current taxonomy structure of the family. For this, the patterns obtained from morphometric (traditional and geometric) and molecular analyses will be correlated to the morphological variation present in successive taxonomic levels, and will be accompanied by evolutionary inferences of character state reconstruction. (AU)

Scientific publications

(5)

(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)

CUNHA, AMANDA F.; COLLINS, ALLEN G.; MARQUES, ANTONIO C.. Phylogenetic relationships of Proboscoida Broch, 1910 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa): Are traditional morphological diagnostic characters relevant for the delimitation of lineages at the species, genus, and family levels?. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, v. 106, p. 118-135, JAN 2017. (11/22260-9, 13/50484-4, 11/50242-5, 13/25874-3, 04/09961-4)

CUNHA, AMANDA F.; COLLINS, ALLEN G.; MARQUES, ANTONIO C.. When morphometry meets taxonomy: morphological variation and species boundaries in Proboscoida (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, v. 190, n. 2, p. 417-447, OCT 2020. (17/00641-7, 11/22260-9, 13/50484-4, 11/50242-5, 18/24781-5, 13/25874-3, 04/09961-4)

CUNHA, AMANDA F.; MARONNA, MAXIMILIANO M.; MARQUES, ANTONIO C.. Variability on microevolutionary and macroevolutionary scales: a review on patterns of morphological variation in Cnidaria Medusozoa. ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION, v. 16, n. 3, p. 431-442, SEP 2016. (11/22260-9, 13/50484-4, 11/50242-5, 13/25874-3)

MIRANDA, THAIS P.; CUNHA, AMANDA F.; MARQUES, ANTONIO C.. Status of the names of some hydroid species (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa), described from the Atlantic coast of Patagonia. Zootaxa, v. 4171, n. 3, p. 595-600, SEP 29 2016. (14/24407-5, 11/22260-9, 13/50484-4, 11/50242-5, 10/06927-0, 04/09961-4)

CUNHA, AMANDA F.; GENZANO, GABRIEL N.; MARQUES, ANTONIO C.. Reassessment of Morphological Diagnostic Characters and Species Boundaries Requires Taxonomical Changes for the Genus Orthopyxis L. Agassiz, 1862 (Campanulariidae, Hydrozoa) and Some Related Campanulariids. PLoS One, v. 10, n. 2, FEB 27 2015. (11/22260-9, 13/50484-4, 11/50242-5, 04/09961-4)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

CUNHA, Amanda Ferreira e. From morphological variability to taxonomic diversity in Proboscoida (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa): phylogenetic and morphometric inferences for lineages delimitation. 2016. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Biociências (IBIOC/SB) São Paulo.