Non-volant small mammals of Estação Ecológica de Bananal: molecular analyses

• Grant number: 12/15928-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Effective date (Start): November 12, 2012
• Effective date (End): May 11, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Alexandre Reis Percequillo
• Grantee: Edson Fiedler de Abreu Júnior
• Supervisor: Sharon A. Jansa
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• Research place: University of Minnesota (U of M), United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 10/14633-7 - Non-volant small mammals of Estação Ecológica de Bananal: diversity and natural history, BP.MS

Abstract

The group of non-volant small mammals, consisting of marsupials and small rodents, is the most diverse ecological group of mammals in Neotropical forests. It represents more than one third of the diversity of mammalian species of the Atlantic Forest, comprising 105 of 298 species. However, the biogeographic and taxonomic knowledge of this group still has many gaps in the Atlantic Forest, especially referring to genera presenting complex and confusing taxonomy with cryptic species. For these, methodological advances in molecular biology in recent decades have been of great value, helping to solve many problems, especially when associated to morphological analyses of specimens in scientific collections. Thus, the main objective of this research internship is to learn and to apply molecular methods for two purposes: first, identify by molecular analyses (i. d. DNA Barcoding) taxa that could not be defined only by morphological characters; and second, run phylogeographic analyses with one rodent species (Euryoryzomys russatus) and one marsupial genus (Marmosops), which are widely distributed in the Atlantic Forest, in order to reveal their patterns of genetic structure and compare them with the patterns reported in the literature for different species of vertebrates and with the biogeographical models proposed of the Atlantic Forest. (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)

DALAPICOLLA, JERONYMO; ABREU, EDSON FIEDLER; DO PRADO, JOYCE RODRIGUES; CHIQUITO, ELISANDRA DE ALMEIDA; DE OLIVEIRA ROTH, PAULO RICARDO; DE GOES BRENNAND, PAMELLA GUSMAO; D'OLIVEIRA PAVAN, ANA CAROLINA; PEREIRA, ALEX; MENDES, FABIANA ROCHA; DEL VALLE ALVAREZ, MARTIN ROBERTO; et al. reas of endemism of small mammals are underprotected in the Atlantic Fores. JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, v. 102, n. 5, p. 1390-1404, OCT 2021. (10/14633-7, 16/24464-4, 16/20055-2, 13/25441-0, 14/01986-0, 14/18800-6, 15/02853-6, 12/15928-6)

ABREU, EDSON FIEDLER; JUNG, DIEGO MARQUES HENRIQUES; CHRISTOFF, ALEXANDRE UARTH; VALIATI, VICTOR HUGO; JANSA, SHARON A.; PERCEQUILLO, ALEXANDRE REIS. Systematics of Brucepattersonius Hershkovitz, 1998 (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae): molecular species delimitation and morphological analyses suggest an overestimation in species diversity. SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY, v. 19, n. 6, p. 544-570, AUG 18 2021. (10/14633-7, 12/15928-6, 09/16009-1, 16/20055-2)