DNA barcode and the genus Laeonereis (Phyllodocida: Nereididae), a recent approach to a pass impasse.

• Grant number: 17/06167-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Effective date (Start): January 21, 2018
• Effective date (End): January 20, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Antonia Cecília Zacagnini Amaral
• Grantee: Bruno Rodrigues Sampieri
• Supervisor: Filipe Jose Oliveira Costa
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biologia (IB). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Research place: Universidade do Minho (UMinho), Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 15/25623-6 - Phylogeny and Biogeography of the genus Laeonereis (Phyllodocida: Nereididae): a contribuition to ecotoxicology and integrative taxonomy, BP.PD

Abstract

Polychaeta's phylogeny has been discussed and reviewed in the last decades, and with the advent of molecular biology the group has been shown to be invalid and polyphyletic. Similar situations occur in lower clades as is the case of members of the Nereididae family, and the genus Laeonereis deserves special attention given the conflicts of information in the literature about their real number of species and geographical distribution. Officially, four species of this genus are considered valid, being Laeonereis culveri the one of wider distribution and that comprises two different lines, tropical and temperate. The advent of molecular biology and DNA barcode brings new possibilities in the solution of divergences of this order, as already demonstrated for other metazoan groups. Thus, the present proposal aims to review the occurrence of L. culveri on the American Atlantic coast, as compared to another species of the genus of occurrence restricted to the Mediterranean Sea, Laeonereis glauca, as well as to review the taxonomy, phylogeography and phylogeny of the genus , Seeking to update their taxonomic and systematic status.

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)

TEIXEIRA, MARCOS A. L.; VIEIRA, PEDRO E.; PLEIJEL, FREDRIK; SAMPIERI, BRUNO R.; RAVARA, ASCENSAO; COSTA, FILIPE O.; NYGREN, ARNE. Molecular and morphometric analyses identify new lineages within a large Eumida (Annelida) species complex. ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA, v. 49, n. 2, DEC 2019. (17/06167-5)

BRUNO R. SAMPIERI; TATIANA M. STEINER; PRISCILA C. BARONI; CAMILA FERNANDA DA SILVA; MARCOS A. L. TEIXEIRA; PEDRO E. VIEIRA; FILIPE O. COSTA; ANTÔNIA C. Z. AMARAL. Como análises de oogênese combinadas com DNA barcode podem elucidar ambiguidades taxonômicas: uma abordagem baseada em estudos com poliquetas. Biota Neotropica, v. 20, n. 3, 2020-07-31. (11/50317-5, 15/25623-6, 17/06167-5)

SAMPIERI, BRUNO R.; VIEIRA, PEDRO E.; TEIXEIRA, MARCOS A. L.; SEIXAS, VICTOR C.; PAGLIOSA, PAULO R.; AMARAL, ANTONIA CECILIA Z.; COSTA, FILIPE O.. Molecular diversity within the genus Laeonereis (Annelida, Nereididae) along the west Atlantic coast: paving the way for integrative taxonomy. PeerJ, v. 9, MAY 27 2021. (18/10313-0, 17/06167-5, 11/50317-5, 15/25623-6)