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Early Pleistocene lineages of Bagre bagre (Linnaeus, 1766) (Siluriformes: Ariidae), from the Atlantic coast of South America, with insights into the demography and biogeography of the species
(Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia, 2016) SILVA, Wemerson Clayton da; MARCENIUK, Alexandre Pires; SALES, João Bráullio de Luna; SILVA, Juliana Araripe Gomes da
Coastal and marine environments are characterized by a lack of evident physical barriers or geographic isolation, and it may be difficult to understand how divergence can arise and be sustained in marine environments. The identification of 'soft' barriers is a crucial step towards the understanding of gene flow in marine environments. The marine catfishes of the family Ariidae are a demersal group with restricted migratory behavior, no pelagic larval stages, and mechanisms of larval retention, representing a potentially useful model for the understanding of historical processes of allopatric speciation in the marine environment. In the present study, two lineages of the Coco sea catfish, Bagre bagre , were recognized from their complete segregation at both mitochondrial and morphological levels. One lineage is distributed between Venezuela and the northern coast of Brazil, including the semiarid northeast coast, while the second lineage is found on the eastern coast of Brazil, including the humid northeast coast. Based on distribution area, habitats preference, and genetic variability, inferences are made in relation to biogeography and demography of lineages in Atlantic coast of South America.
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Genética de populações de pirarucus (Arapaima gigas) da Reserva Mamirauá e considerações sobre estrutura genética para a espécie
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2008-10-24) SILVA, Juliana Araripe Gomes da; SCHNEIDER, Horacio; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3621033429800270
The pirarucu (Arapaima gigas) is an important fishing resource in the Amazon which has been exploited since the XIXth century. There are indications of a decrease in population size in some parts of its distribution. Management is one of the strategies adopted to maintain fishing activity associated to the conservation of the species. We evaluate aspects of pirarucu populations in two places in the Mamirauá Reserve (Jarauá and Maraã), and compare these populations with those of Santarém and Tucuruí, analyzing their genetic variability and structure. In order to achieve this, seven microsatellite loci were genotyped for 463 pirarucus from Mamirauá Reserve collected along five years. Our results show a greater genetic diversity for this population in comparison to populations from Santarém and Tucuruí. Analyses indicate that management has been ecologically efficient, since there were no significant change in genetic diversity over the five years of study. Lateral migration, associated with a possible standardized return to lakes without spacial fidelity seems to have great importance for local genetic admixture. However, this admixture is limited in space, with a small degree of genetic differentiation seem between pirarucus from Jarauá and Maraã. When including more distant localities to the analysis, the differentiation is greater though geographic distance cannot explain all of this. We believe that a population decline in intermediate localities, probably caused by overexploiting is influencing the connectivity among the localities studied.
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Molecular analyses reveal the occurrence of three new sympatric lineages of velvet worms (Onychophora: Peripatidae) in the eastern Amazon basin
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2017-03) CUNHA, Williana Tamara Rocha da; SANTOS, Rita de Cassia Oliveira dos; SILVA, Juliana Araripe Gomes da; SAMPAIO, Maria Iracilda da Cunha; SCHNEIDER, Horacio; RÊGO, Péricles Sena do
In the present study, we investigated the possible existence of new lineages of peripatids through comparisons between known Neotropical species and specimens obtained from two locations in Pará, a state in eastern Brazilian Amazonia using a molecular approach based on sequences of the mtDNA genes COI, 16Sr RNA, and 18S RNA. The analyses included also sequences of Asian and African taxa for a more systematic understanding of the phylogenetic relationships within the group. The analysis of the COI, 16S rRNA and 18S RNA sequences permitted the identification of three distinct lineages (A, B and C) based on two different phylogenetic approaches (Bayesian methods and ML). The three lineages presented here are completely distinct from all other peripatid taxa so far defined by molecular data. The presence of specimens of three independent onychophoran lineages occurring in sympatry in the Amazon basin was confirmed in all the analyses, providing consistent support for the phylogenies presented in this study. These findings reinforce the importance of the Amazon region in the diversification of Neotropical peripatids, and indicate that onychophoran diversity is much greater than previously thought, given that the number of taxa found at a single site was equivalent to the total number of allopatric species described for the entire region.
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Tocantins river as an effective barrier to gene flow in Saguinus niger populations
(2006) SOUZA, Marcelo Nazareno Vallinoto de; SILVA, Juliana Araripe Gomes da; RÊGO, Péricles Sena do; TAGLIARO, Claudia Helena; SAMPAIO, Maria Iracilda da Cunha; SCHNEIDER, Horacio
The Saguinus represent the basal genus of the Callitrichinae subfamily. Traditionally this genus is divided into three groups: Hairy, Mottled and Bare-face, however, molecular data failed to validate these groups as monophyletic units, as well as raised some subspecies to the species status. This is the case of the former subspecies Saguinus midas midas and S. midas niger, which are now considered as different species. In the present study, we sequenced a portion of the D-loop mtDNA region in populations from the East bank of the Xingu and from both banks of the Tocantins river, in order to test the effectiveness of large rivers as barriers to the gene flow in Saguinus. According to our results, the populations from the East and West banks of the Tocantins river are more divergent than true species like S. mystax and S. imperator. The Tocantins river may be acting as a barrier to gene flow, and consequently these very divergent populations may represent distinct taxonomic entities (species?).