Benthic hydroids in sub Antarctic and Antarctic region endemism areas and their dispersion mechanisms influence on marine biogeographic patterns

• Grant number: 14/24407-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: April 01, 2015
• End date: July 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Antonio Carlos Marques
• Grantee: Thaís Pires Miranda
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 11/50242-5 - Dimensions of marine life: patterns and process of diversifications in planktonic and benthic cnidarians, AP.BTA.TEM

Abstract

Benthic hydroids are organisms with a metagenetic life cycle involving the stages of polyp and medusa, the latter being the main stage of dispersal in Hydrozoa. Considering the historical and faunistic connectivity of the Antarctic and subantarctic regions and the changes of biogeographic patterns with different strategies of dispersal of the marine species, this project aims (1) to propose hypotheses of areas of endemism to the Antarctic and subantarctic benthic hydroids through the use of parsimony and optimization methods in biogeography, (2) to contrast the patterns found with the different strategies of life cycle in Hydrozoa. A dataset with 249 species of benthic hydroids distributed along the region between 20°S and 70°S will be used to construct presence and absence matrices according to the different type of life cycle in Hydrozoa. The matrices will be analyzed through different strategies of search using the Parsimony Analysis of Endemicity (PAE), and the Analysis of Endemicity (AE) carried out by the software NDM-VNDM. This project will be developed along 20 months, representing a large contribution to clarify the marine biogeographic patterns at the Antarctic and subantarctic regions, involving benthic organisms with different reproductive strategies. The applicant indicated has excellent qualifications to perform the project, a strong background in Hydrozoa's systematics and marine biogeography, experience with all the methods and analyses expected in the project, besides the wide knowledge concerning the biological system in question. (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)

MARONNA, MAXIMILIANO M.; MIRANDA, THAIS P.; CANTERO, ALVARO L. PENA; BARBEITOS, MARCOS S.; MARQUES, ANTONIO C.. Towards a phylogenetic classification of Leptothecata (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa). SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v. 6, JAN 29 2016. (14/24407-5, 13/50484-4, 11/50242-5, 10/06927-0, 04/09961-4)

MIRANDA, THAIS P.; FERNANDEZ, MARINA O.; GENZANO, GABRIEL N.; PENA CANTERO, ALVARO L.; COLLINS, ALLEN G.; MARQUES, ANTONIO C.. Biodiversity and biogeography of hydroids across marine ecoregions and provinces of southern South America and Antarctica. POLAR BIOLOGY, v. 44, n. 8, p. 1669-1689, AUG 2021. (14/24407-5, 10/06927-0, 12/21453-0, 11/50242-5, 13/10821-1, 18/04257-0)

GENZANO, GABRIEL; BREMEC, CLAUDIA S.; DIAZ-BRIZ, LUCIANA; COSTELLO, JOHN H.; MORANDINI, ANDRE C.; MIRANDA, THAIS P.; MARQUES, ANTONIO C.. Faunal assemblages of intertidal hydroids (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) from Argentinean Patagonia (Southwestern Atlantic Ocean). Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, v. 45, n. 1, p. 177-187, MAR 2017. (13/50484-4, 14/24407-5, 11/50242-5)

MORALES-GUERRERO, ADRIANA; MIRANDA, THAIS P.; MARQUES, ANTONIO C.. Comparison between Parsimony Analysis of Endemicity (PAE), Endemicity Analysis (EA), and an alternative coding of Three-Distribution Statements based on hypothetical distributions. SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY, v. 15, n. 5, p. 391-398, 2017. (13/50484-4, 11/50242-5, 14/24407-5)

MIRANDA, THAIS PIRES; NESTOR GENZANO, GABRIEL; MARQUES, ANTONIO CARLOS. Areas of endemism in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean based on the distribution of benthic hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). Zootaxa, v. 4033, n. 4, p. 484-506, OCT 27 2015. (14/24407-5, 13/50484-4, 11/50242-5, 10/06927-0, 04/09961-4)

MIRANDA, THAIS P.; CUNHA, AMANDA F.; MARQUES, ANTONIO C.. Status of the names of some hydroid species (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa), described from the Atlantic coast of Patagonia. Zootaxa, v. 4171, n. 3, p. 595-600, SEP 29 2016. (14/24407-5, 11/22260-9, 13/50484-4, 11/50242-5, 10/06927-0, 04/09961-4)