Population and functional genomics on the evolutionary study of neotropical Rhizophora species in face of historical and current climate changes

• Grant number: 14/22821-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Effective date (Start): March 16, 2015
• Effective date (End): March 15, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Genetics - Plant Genetics
• Principal Investigator: Maria Imaculada Zucchi
• Grantee: Gustavo Maruyama Mori
• Supervisor: Tadashi Kajita
• Host Institution: Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios (APTA). Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento (São Paulo - Estado). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Research place: Chiba University, Japan
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/08086-1 - Population and functional genomics and an ecophysiological approach on the evolutionary study of neotropical mangrove species in face of historical and current climate changes, BP.PD

Abstract

Global climate changes (GCC) are alterations on the climate properties whose causes may still be questioned but whose biological effects are unquestionable. Despite of its impact on living beings, they and the velocity of these changes is heterogeneous regarding the organism and the ecosystem, for example, mangrove forests are projected to be one of the most influenced environments. Recent advances achieved by many research groups including ours evidenced that these tree communities have responded to past GCC and that they are already responding to the current ones. In this context, the main objective of this project is to comprehend how mangrove trees have evolved in face of past selective pressures of historical GCC and how these organisms may face the present changing world. This approach involves genome scans of natural populations along the entire geographic distribution of West Pacific and Atlantic species of the genus Rhizophora both to understand the evolutionary history of these species and to detect natural selection signatures in the genomic level. Taking advantage of a transcriptome published for R. mangle and the gene expression we will carry out for Brazilian samples of this species, another layer of information may be added to gather more information to relate eventual selection evidences to known expressed sequences. This proposal will complement the regular Post-Doctorate fellowship project that focus neotropic Avicennia species in a way to better understand, comparatively, what processes affect these distantly related genera. It will enable the study of fundamental factors that affect the evolutionary history and genetic diversity of mangrove trees. This project is scientifically challenging with high visibility expected results and this integrative approach aims to make available valuable information for means of management and conservation in a global scale of these threatened environments. (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)

CRUZ, MARIANA VARGAS; MORI, GUSTAVO MARUYAMA; SIGNORI-MULLER, CAROLINE; DA SILVA, CARLA CRISTINA; OH, DONG-HA; DASSANAYAKE, MAHESHI; ZUCCHI, MARIA IMACULADA; OLIVEIRA, RAFAEL SILVA; DE SOUZA, ANETE PEREIRA. Local adaptation of a dominant coastal tree to freshwater availability and solar radiation suggested by genomic and ecophysiological approaches. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v. 9, DEC 27 2019. (15/24346-9, 14/22821-9, 11/52072-0, 13/08086-1, 13/26793-7)

DA SILVA, MICHELE FERNANDES; CRUZ, MARIANA VARGAS; VIDAL JUNIOR, JOAO DE DEUS; ZUCCHI, MARIA IMACULADA; MORI, GUSTAVO MARUYAMA; DE SOUZA, ANETE PEREIRA. Geographical and environmental contributions to genomic divergence in mangrove forests. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 132, n. 3, p. 573-589, MAR 2021. (13/26793-7, 18/18431-1, 14/22821-9, 20/00203-2, 13/08086-1)

FRANCISCO, PATRICIA M.; MORI, GUSTAVO M.; ALVES, FABIO M.; TAMBARUSSI, EVANDRO V.; DE SOUZA, ANETE P.. Population genetic structure, introgression, and hybridization in the genus Rhizophora along the Brazilian coast. ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, v. 8, n. 6, p. 3491-3504, MAR 2018. (14/22821-9, 13/08086-1)

MORI, GUSTAVO MARUYAMA; MADEIRA, ANDRE GUILHERME; CRUZ, MARIANA VARGAS; TSUDA, YOSHIAKI; TAKAYAMA, KOJI; MATSUKI, YU; SUYAMA, YOSHIHISA; IWASAKI, TAKAYA; DE SOUZA, ANETE PEREIRA; ZUCCHI, MARIA IMACULADA; et al. Testing species hypotheses in the mangrove genus Rhizophora from the Western hemisphere and South Pacific islands. ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE, v. 248, n. SI, JAN 5 2021. (13/26793-7, 13/08086-1, 17/12920-8, 18/02655-8, 14/22821-9)

WEE, ALISON K. S.; MORI, GUSTAVO M.; LIRA, CATARINA F.; NUNEZ-FARFAN, JUAN; TAKAYAMA, KOJI; FAULKS, LEANNE; SHI, SUHUA; TSUDA, YOSHIAKI; SUYAMA, YOSHIHISA; YAMAMOTO, TAKASHI; et al. The integration and application of genomic information in mangrove conservation. Conservation Biology, v. 33, n. 1, p. 206-209, FEB 2019. (14/22821-9)

AZEVEDO-SILVA, MARIANNE; MORI, GUSTAVO M.; CARVALHO, CAROLINA S.; CORTES, MARINA C.; SOUZA, ANETE P.; OLIVEIRA, PAULO S.. Breeding systems and genetic diversity in tropical carpenter ant colonies: different strategies for similar outcomes in Brazilian Cerrado savanna. ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, v. 190, n. 3, p. 1020-1035, NOV 2020. (14/23141-1, 17/16645-1, 14/22821-9, 13/08086-1, 17/18291-2, 14/01029-5)

CRUZ, MARIANA VARGAS; MORI, GUSTAVO MARUYAMA; OH, DONG-HA; DASSANAYAKE, MAHESHI; ZUCCHI, MARIA IMACULADA; OLIVEIRA, RAFAEL SILVA; DE SOUZA, ANETE PEREIRA. Molecular responses to freshwater limitation in the mangrove tree Avicennia germinans (Acanthaceae). Molecular Ecology, v. 29, n. 2, DEC 2019. (11/52072-0, 13/26793-7, 13/08086-1, 14/22821-9)