Systematic and host-parasite relationship of myxosporean parasites of Pimelodidae family fish in the Amazon Basin

• Grant number: 14/22700-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): March 01, 2015
• Effective date (End): March 01, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Fishery Resources and Fishery Engineering - Inland Water Fishery Resources
• Acordo de Cooperação: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Edson Aparecido Adriano
• Grantee: Juliana Naldoni
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Ambientais, Químicas e Farmacêuticas (ICAQF). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Diadema. Diadema , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 16/08831-7 - Diversity and development of Malacosporea (Myxozoa) infecting freshwater fish in Europe and Brazil, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

Myxosporean are parasites widely spread and infect mainly fish and annelids. To date approximately 2,400 species have been described. However, for South America, where is the largest fish diversity, there are still few studies considering these parasites. The Amazon basin has an extraordinary fish fauna, with species still unknown and others with large economic importance in fishing or as ornamental fish, as well as with potential for fish farm. Among the species of economic importance, for both extractive fishing and fish farm potential, are those of the Pimelodidae family. In this proposal, the aim is study the taxonomic and parasite-host relationship of myxosporeans found infecting Pseudoplatystoma triginum (caparari), Pseudoplatystoma punctifer (cachara), Phractocephalus hemiliopterus (pirarara) and Leauriua marmoratus (jundiá- the amazon) from the natural environment of the Amazon Basin, in the municipality of Santarém, state of Pará, in the meeting place of the Tapajós and Amazon rivers region. For taxonomic analysis, will be used traditional tools of morphological analysis, combined with the modern techniques of molecular biology and ultrastructure. For the study of host-parasite relationship will be used ultrastructural and histopathological analyses. (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)

NALDONI, JULIANA; OKAMURA, BETH; HARTIKAINEN, HANNA; CORREA, LINCOLN L.; ADRIANO, EDSON A.. Broad but restricted detection of malacosporeans in a Neotropical cradle of diversification. Parasitology, v. 148, n. 5, p. 511-518, APR 2021. (15/19463-6, 16/22047-7, 18/01425-9, 14/22700-7)

NALDONI, JULIANA; MAIA, ANTONIO A. M.; CORREA, LINCOLN L.; DA SILVA, MARCIA R. M.; ADRIANO, EDSON A.. New myxosporeans parasitizing Phractocephalus hemioliopterus from Brazil: morphology, ultrastructure and SSU-rDNA sequencing. DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS, v. 128, n. 1, p. 37-49, MAR 22 2018. (14/22700-7, 13/21374-6)

CAPODIFOGLIO, KASSIA R. H.; ADRIANO, EDSON A.; NALDONI, JULIANA; MEIRA, CAROLINE M.; DA SILVA, MARCIA R. M.; MAIA, ANTONIO A. M.. Novel myxosporean species parasitizing an economically important fish from the Amazon basin. Parasitology Research, v. 119, n. 4, MAR 2020. (16/22047-7, 14/22700-7, 13/21374-6, 15/07713-8)

MATHEWS, PATRICK D.; NALDONI, JULIANA; MAIA, ANTONIO A.; ADRIANO, EDSON A.. Morphology and small subunit rDNA-based phylogeny of Ceratomyxa amazonensis n. sp parasite of Symphysodon discus, an ornamental freshwater fish from Amazon. Parasitology Research, v. 115, n. 10, p. 4021-4025, OCT 2016. (13/14656-5, 14/22700-7, 13/21374-6)

MATHEWS, PATRICK D.; NALDONI, JULIANA; ADRIANO, EDSON A.. Morphology and small subunit rDNA-based phylogeny of a new Henneguya species, infecting the ornamental fish Corydoras leucomelas from the Peruvian Amazon. Acta Tropica, v. 176, p. 51-57, DEC 2017. (13/14656-5, 14/22700-7, 13/21374-6)

NALDONI, JULIANA; PEREIRA, JOSE O. L.; MILANIN, TIAGO; ADRIANO, EDSON A.; SILVA, MARCIA R. M.; MAIA, ANTONIO A. M.. Taxonomy, phylogeny and host-parasite interaction of two novel Myxobolus species infecting Brycon orthotaenia from the Sao Francisco River, Brazil. Parasitology International, v. 76, JUN 2020. (15/18807-3, 14/22700-7)

NALDONI, JULIANA; CARRIERO, MATEUS M.; MOREIRA, GABRIEL S. A.; DA SILVA, MARCIA R. M.; MAIA, ANTONIO A. M.; ADRIANO, EDSON A.. Increasing the known biodiversity of cnidarian parasites of bryconid fishes from South America: two novelMyxobolusspecies with ultrastructure and ssrDNA-based phylogeny. Parasitology Research, v. 119, n. 11, AUG 2020. (14/22700-7, 17/18562-6, 13/16738-9)