Phylogenetic analysis of the relationships and diversification patterns of Trichomycteridae (Teleostei, Siluriformes) using DNA sequences

• Grant number: 14/06853-8
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): July 01, 2014
• Effective date (End): March 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Genetics - Animal Genetics
• Cooperation agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal researcher: Claudio de Oliveira
• Grantee: Luz Eneida Ochoa Orrego
• Home Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IBB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Botucatu , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 15/13382-4 - Phylogenetic relationships of Trichomycteridae inferred from ultraconserved elements (UCE's): a phylogenomic perspective on the evolution of pencil catfishes, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

Trichomycteridae is one of the families with the greatest number of species within the superfamily Loricarioidea and its members are widely distributed over Neotropical drainages of South and Central America, inhabiting the most varied ecosystems and adopting different life strategies, for example parasitism. Phylogenetic relationships among members of this group and with other families have been the subject of several studied. The hypotheses of relationships proposed in the literature are mainly supported by morphological characters and few number of species, currently there is no relationship hypothesis including a significant percentage of species of Trichomycteridae, moreover of analysis using molecular characters, as well as a great number of genes. Furthermore, the main studies focus in the Trichomycterinae, and the relationships of the members of the other subfamilies remain poorly studied. This study is part of a larger project that has been developed in the Laboratório de Biologia e Genética de Peixes (LBP) and its main objective is study the diversity and the evolutionary processes responsible for the great number of species of the superfamily Loricarioidea. In these sense, this project pretend to test the hypotheses on which the Trichomycteridae family, as well as its subfamilies are monophyletic groups, and also study the pattern of relationships between members of these groups. For this we will insert a lot of species, representing all genera of Trichomycteridae, and will use traditional methods of molecular phylogenetic analyzes by sequencing mitochondrial and nuclear genes that are currently used to study the pattern of relationship within Siluriformes. We also intend to conduct an analysis using methodologies of second-generation sequencing of UCE (Ultra Conserved Elements) that will be developed with international partnerships. Based on the obtained phylogenies, it also intends to identify patterns of origin and diversification of the group, therefore seeking to contribute about the understanding of macroevolutionary processes that have shaped the diversity of neotropical fishes. (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)

MATEUSSI, NADAYCA T. B.; MELO, BRUNO F.; OTA, RAFAELA P.; ROXO, FABIO F.; OCHOA, LUZ E.; FORESTI, FAUSTO; OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIO. Phylogenomics of the Neotropical fish family Serrasalmidae with a novel intrafamilial classification (Teleostei: Characiformes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, v. 153, DEC 2020. Web of Science Citations: 0.

FAIRCLOTH, BRANT C.; ALDA, FERNANDO; HOEKZEMA, KENDRA; BURNS, MICHAEL D.; OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIO; ALBERT, JAMES S.; MELO, BRUNO F.; OCHOA, LUZ E.; ROXO, FABIO F.; CHAKRABARTY, PROSANTA; SIDLAUSKAS, BRIAN L.; ALFARO, MICHAEL E. A Target Enrichment Bait Set for Studying Relationships among Ostariophysan Fishes. Copeia, v. 108, n. 1, p. 47-60, MAR 2020. Web of Science Citations: 0.

OCHOA, LUZ E.; DATOVO, ALESSIO; DONASCIMIENTO, CARLOS; ROXO, FABIO F.; SABAJ, MARK H.; CHANG, JONATHAN; MELO, BRUNO F.; SILVA, GABRIEL S. C.; FORESTI, FAUSTO; ALFARO, MICHAEL; OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIO. Phylogenomic analysis of trichomycterid catfishes (Teleostei: Siluriformes) inferred from ultraconserved elements. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v. 10, n. 1 FEB 14 2020. Web of Science Citations: 2.

LUZ E. OCHOA; BRUNO F. MELO; JORGE E. GARCÍA-MELO; JAVIER A. MALDONADO-OCAMPO; CAMILA S. SOUZA; JUAN G. ALBORNOZ-GARZÓN; CRISTHIAN C. CONDE-SALDAÑA; FRANCISCO VILLA-NAVARRO; ARMANDO ORTEGA-LARA; CLAUDIO OLIVEIRA. Species delimitation reveals an underestimated diversity of Andean catfishes of the family Astroblepidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes). Neotropical Ichthyology, v. 18, n. 4, p. -, 2020. Web of Science Citations: 0.

ROXO, FABIO F.; OCHOA, LUZ E.; SABAJ, MARK H.; LUJAN, NATHAN K.; COVAIN, RAPHAEL; SILVA, GABRIEL S. C.; MELO, BRUNO F.; ALBERT, JAMES S.; CHANG, JONATHAN; FORESTI, FAUSTO; ALFARO, MICHAEL E.; OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIO. Phylogenomic reappraisal of the Neotropical catfish family Loricariidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes) using ultraconserved elements. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, v. 135, p. 148-165, JUN 2019. Web of Science Citations: 6.

OCHOA, LUZ E.; ROXO, FABIO F.; DONASCIMIENTO, CARLOS; SABAJ, MARK H.; DATOVO, ALESSI; ALFARO, MICHAEL; OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIO. Multilocus analysis of the catfish family Trichomycteridae (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Siluriformes) supporting a monophyletic Trichomycterinae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, v. 115, p. 71-81, OCT 2017. Web of Science Citations: 7.

OCHOA, LUZ E.; SILVA, GABRIEL S. C.; COSTA E SILVA, GUILHERME J.; OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIO; DATOVO, ALESSIO. New species of Trichomycterus (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) lacking pelvic fins from Paranapanema basin, southeastern Brazil. Zootaxa, v. 4319, n. 3, p. 550-560, SEP 13 2017. Web of Science Citations: 2.

MELO, BRUNO F.; OCHOA, LUZ E.; VARI, RICHARD P.; OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIO. Cryptic species in the Neotropical fish genus Curimatopsis (Teleostei, Characiformes). ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA, v. 45, n. 6, p. 650-658, NOV 2016. Web of Science Citations: 19.

SILVA, GABRIEL S. C.; ROXO, FABIO F.; OCHOA, LUZ E.; OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIO. Description of a new catfish genus (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) from the Tocantins River basin in central Brazil, with comments on the historical zoogeography of the new taxon. ZOOKEYS, n. 598, p. 129-157, 2016. Web of Science Citations: 8.

OCHOA, LUZ ENEIDA; PEREIRA, LUIZ HENRIQUE G.; COSTA-SILVA, GUILHERME JOSE; ROXO, FABIO F.; BATISTA, JACQUELINE S.; FORMIGA, KYARA; FORESTI, FAUSTO; OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIO. Genetic structure and historical diversification of catfish Brachyplatystoma platynemum (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) in the Amazon basin with implications for its conservation. ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, v. 5, n. 10, p. 2005-2020, MAY 2015. Web of Science Citations: 14.

ROXO, FABIO F.; SILVA, GABRIEL S. C.; OCHOA, LUZ E.; OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIO. Description of a new genus and three new species of Otothyrinae (Siluriformes, Loricariidae). ZOOKEYS, n. 534, p. 103-134, 2015. Web of Science Citations: 12.