Developmental osteology of Copella myers: comparisons to other Lebiasinidae

• Grant number: 12/00063-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: May 20, 2012
• End date: August 19, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Morphology of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Naercio Aquino Menezes
• Grantee: Manoela Maria Marinho Koh
• Supervisor: Ralf Britz
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Natural History Museum, London, England
• Associated to the scholarship: 09/15075-0 - Phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic revision of the species of Copella Myers, 1956 (Characiformes: Lebiasinidae), BP.DR

Abstract

The project aims to describe the ontogenetic development of Copella, to understand how ontogenies change during evolution and to establish the type of miniaturization of the group, once decreasing in size in Lebiasinidae is evident. This study will also contribute to new sources of relevant characters to the understanding of the relationships between the species of Copella, which is part of my PhD project. (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)

MATTOX, GEORGE M. T.; BRITZ, RALF; TOLEDO-PIZA, MONICA; MARINHO, MANOELA M. F.. Cyanogaster noctivaga, a remarkable new genus and species of miniature fish from the Rio Negro, Amazon basin (Ostariophysi: Characidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, v. 23, n. 4, p. 297-318, MAR 2013. (09/15075-0, 11/13735-3, 12/01075-1, 12/00063-0)