Population variability of mangrove crabs in North America: morphological and molecular analyzes

• Grant number: 14/11659-6
• Support type: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate (Direct)
• Effective date (Start): September 01, 2014
• Effective date (End): November 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology
• Principal researcher: Fernando Luis Medina Mantelatto
• Grantee: Raquel Correa Buranelli
• Supervisor abroad: Darryl L. Felder
• Home Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil
• Research place: University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL), United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 12/06299-5 - Populational variability among decapod crustacean species from mangroves: morphological and molecular analysis, BP.DD

Abstract

Mangroves are ecosystems that represent unique morphological and physiological characteristics in which species form population structures that follow the one-dimensional stepping-stone model. This structure allows us to infer that these systems are discrete and isolated habitats, indicating limited gene flow among the populations of the species that inhabit them. Studies on population structure allow the establishment of biodiversity conservation strategies, revealing which geographic areas harbor the greatest genetic diversity within the population of a particular species. Therefore, this project aims to analyze the population variability of crab species living in mangrove areas of the North Atlantic (Gulf of Mexico and the Florida peninsula) by means of morphological and molecular analyzes, using mitochondrial 16S and COI as well as the nuclear H3 markers. It is planned to thus assess the hypothesis of existence of stepping-stone model among mangrove crab populations by means of quantifying intraspecific variability of these species. Evidence of similarities and differences between population sand relationships between them will help identify genetic diversity of each species and the possibility of population structure. (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)

BURANELLI, RAQUEL C.; FELDER, DARRYL L.; MANTELATTO, FERNANDO L. Genetic diversity among populations of the Western Atlantic mangrove crab Ucides cordatus (Linnaeus, 1763) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae): evidence for panmixia and useful data for future management and conservation. JOURNAL OF CRUSTACEAN BIOLOGY, v. 39, n. 4, p. 386-395, JUL 2019. Web of Science Citations: 0.