Systematics and biogeography of the tribe Oryzomyini (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) in South America

• Grant number: 16/20055-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: August 21, 2017
• End date: August 20, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Alexandre Reis Percequillo
• Grantee: Alexandre Reis Percequillo
• Host Investigator: Mark Wilkinson
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Natural History Museum, London, England

Abstract

Remarkable advances on the knowledge of the Tribe Oryzomyini were achieved in the last years, but important aspects regarding its diversity and evolutionary and biogeographic history remain to be established. Important issues are: the four clades obtained in several analyses with the molecular markers cytochrome b and IRBP [A, B, C and D], will also be recovered in analysis with denser taxonomic sampling? These four clades will be recovered with distinct datasets and methodological approaches, as in phylogenomic analyses? Which are the phylogenetic relationships within these clades? Which is the ancestral area for the tribe? Which it the tempo of diversification of the main lineades of Oryzomyini? Basal groups were penta or tetralophodonf, from forested or open habitats? These are some of the questions that I intend to answer in this proposal. My aim is to analyze specimens (conventional and tissue samples) and through phylogenetic inference employing morphological and molecular matrices (phylogenomic approach) as well as combined datasets, obtain hypothesis for the relationships of the genera of the tribe. Based on these inferences, I will establish hypothesis on the timing of diversification and on the ancestral areas of origin for the recovered lineages. Comparing these results with data on the geological history of South American, I also intend to establish hypothesis on the evolutionary history of this group in the continent. (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)

MOREIRA, CAMILA DO NASCIMENTO; VENTURA, KAREN; PERCEQUILLO, ALEXANDRE REIS; YONENAGA-YASSUDA, YATIYO. A review on the cytogenetics of the tribe Oryzomyini (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae), with the description of new karyotypes. Zootaxa, v. 4876, n. 1, p. 1-111, NOV 6 2020. (16/20055-2, 09/16009-1)

CHIQUITO, ELISANDRA ALMEIDA; PERCEQUILLO, ALEXANDRE REIS. The taxonomic status of Nectomys saturatus Thomas, 1897 (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae). Zootaxa, v. 4550, n. 3, p. 321-339, JAN 25 2019. (12/03381-2, 09/16009-1, 16/20055-2, 10/18846-5)

GONCALVES, PABLO R.; CHRISTOFF, ALEXANDRE U.; MACHADO, LEONARDO F.; BONVICINO, CIBELE R.; PETERS, FELIPE B.; PERCEQUILLO, ALEXANDRE R.. Unraveling Deep Branches of the Sigmodontinae Tree (Rodentia: Cricetidae) in Eastern South America. JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION, v. 27, n. 1, p. 139-160, MAR 2020. (16/20055-2, 09/16009-1)

ABREU, EDSON FIEDLER; JUNG, DIEGO MARQUES HENRIQUES; CHRISTOFF, ALEXANDRE UARTH; VALIATI, VICTOR HUGO; JANSA, SHARON A.; PERCEQUILLO, ALEXANDRE REIS. Systematics of Brucepattersonius Hershkovitz, 1998 (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae): molecular species delimitation and morphological analyses suggest an overestimation in species diversity. SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY, v. 19, n. 6, p. 544-570, AUG 18 2021. (10/14633-7, 12/15928-6, 09/16009-1, 16/20055-2)

DALAPICOLLA, JERONYMO; ABREU, EDSON FIEDLER; DO PRADO, JOYCE RODRIGUES; CHIQUITO, ELISANDRA DE ALMEIDA; DE OLIVEIRA ROTH, PAULO RICARDO; DE GOES BRENNAND, PAMELLA GUSMAO; D'OLIVEIRA PAVAN, ANA CAROLINA; PEREIRA, ALEX; MENDES, FABIANA ROCHA; DEL VALLE ALVAREZ, MARTIN ROBERTO; et al. reas of endemism of small mammals are underprotected in the Atlantic Fores. JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, v. 102, n. 5, p. 1390-1404, OCT 2021. (10/14633-7, 16/24464-4, 16/20055-2, 13/25441-0, 14/01986-0, 14/18800-6, 15/02853-6, 12/15928-6)

BRANDAO, MARCUS VINICIUS; CARMIGNOTTO, ANA PAULA; PERCEQUILLO, ALEXANDRE REIS; CHRISTOFF, ALEXANDRE UARTH; MENDES-OLIVEIRA, ANA CRISTINA; GEISE, LENA. A new species of Akodon Meyen, 1833 (Rodentia: Cricetidae) from dry forests of the Amazonia-Cerrado transition. Zootaxa, v. 5205, n. 5, p. 35-pg., 2022-11-10. (00/06642-4, 19/05374-2, 09/16009-1, 16/20055-2)

MOREIRA, CAMILA DO NASCIMENTO; PERCEQUILLO, ALEXANDRE REIS; FERGUSON-SMITH, MALCOLM ANDREW; YONENAGA-YASSUDA, YATIYO; VENTURA, KAREN. Chromosomal evolution of tribe Oryzomyini (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae). Mammalian Biology, v. 102, n. 2, p. 24-pg., 2022-03-17. (09/16009-1, 16/20055-2, 18/09553-6)

DALAPICOLLA, JERONYMO; DO PRADO, JOYCE RODRIGUES; PERCEQUILLO, ALEXANDRE REIS; KNOWLES, L. LACEY. unctional connectivity in sympatric spiny rats reflects different dimensions of Amazonian forest-associatio. Journal of Biogeography, v. 48, n. 12, NOV 2021. (15/02853-6, 16/20055-2, 16/24464-4, 09/16009-1)

PRADO, JOYCE R.; PERCEQUILLO, ALEXANDRE R.; PIRANI, RENATA M.; THOMAZ, ANDREA T.. henotypic and genomic differences between biomes of the South America marsh rat, Holochilus brasiliensi. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 135, n. 1, p. 98-116, JAN 2022. (16/20055-2, 14/22444-0, 09/16009-1, 12/24099-3)

DALAPICOLLA, JERONYMO; DE OLIVEIRA ROTH, PAULO RICARDO; PERCEQUILLO, ALEXANDRE REIS. First record of albinism in spiny rats of genus Proechimys (Rodentia: Echimyidae) from Western Amazon. MAMMALIA, v. 84, n. 6, p. 605-609, NOV 2020. (16/20055-2, 09/16009-1, 15/02853-6, 14/19126-7, 16/20693-9)

PRADO, JOYCE R.; PERCEQUILLO, ALEXANDRE R.; THOMAZ, ANDREA T.; KNOWLES, L. LACEY. Similar but different: Revealing the relative roles of species-traits versus biome properties structuring genetic variation in South American marsh rats. Journal of Biogeography, v. 46, n. 4, p. 770-783, APR 2019. (16/20055-2, 12/24099-3, 09/16009-1, 14/22444-0)

BRANDAO, MARCUS VINICIUS; PERCEQUILLO, ALEXANDRE REIS; D'ELIA, GUILLERMO; PARESQUE, ROBERTA; CARMIGNOTTO, ANA PAULA. A new species of Akodon Meyen, 1833 (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) endemic from the Brazilian Cerrado. JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, v. 102, n. 1, p. 22-pg., 2021-03-17. (16/20055-2, 00/06642-4, 19/05374-2, 09/16009-1)