Project/scholarship details
- Project/scholarship ID
117688
- Reference
PTDC/AAC-AMB/117688/2010
- FundRef URI
- Funder
FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
- Funder's country
Portugal
- Funding program
5876-PPCDTI
- Funding amount
150,000.00 €
- Start date
2012-03-01
- End date
2015-02-28
Documents
Development and multiplexing of microsatellite loci for the near threatened fre...
Froufe, Elsa; Sobral, Carina; Teixeira, Amílcar; Lopes, Anabela; Sousa, Ronaldo Gomes; Varandas, Simone; Lima, Manuel Lopes1. The Unionidae are among the most endangered fauna in the world and globally in decline. They are particularly vulnerable to habitat loss and fragmentation, susceptible to flow, pollution and climatic disturbances and introduction of invasive species. Despite their well-recognized ecological and conservation importance, there is a surprising lack of genomic resources currently available for European species. ...
Genetic diversity of the pan-european freshwater mussel Anodonta anatina (bival...
Froufe, Elsa; Sobral, Carina; Teixeira, Amílcar; Sousa, Ronaldo Gomes; Varandas, Simone; Aldridge, David C.; Lima, Manuel Lopes1. The duck mussel, Anodonta anatina, has been described as abundant and widespread in Europe. However, it is listed as near threatened or threatened in several countries owing to severe declines in abundance and/or spatial distribution. 2. Despite its potential ecological importance and conservation status almost nothing is known regarding its genetic diversity. 3. As a preliminary analysis, variation within t...
Biology and conservation of freshwater bivalves : past, present and future pers...
Lima, Manuel Lopes; Teixeira, Amílcar; Froufe, Elsa; Lopes, Anabela; Varandas, Simone; Sousa, Ronaldo GomesFreshwater bivalves have been highly threatened by human activities, and recently their global decline has been causing conservational and social concern. In this paper, we review the most important research events in freshwater bivalve biology calling attention to the main scientific achievements. A great bias exists in the research effort, with much more information available for bivalve species belonging to ...
First results on the genetic diversity of the invasive signal crayfish Pacifast...
Froufe, E.; Varandas, S.; Teixeira, A.; Sousa, Ronaldo Gomes; Filipová, L.; Petrusek, A.; Edsman, L.; Lima, M. LopesThe introduction of non-native crayfish in aquatic ecosystems is very common due to human activities (e.g. aquaculture, recreational and commercial fisheries). The signal crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus (Dana, 1852), is one of the most widespread invasive species in Europe. Although several important ecological and economic impacts of this species have been reported, its European population genetic character...
Who lives where? Molecular and morphometric analyses clarify which Unio species...
Froufe, Elsa; Gonçalves, Duarte V.; Teixeira, Amílcar; Sousa, Ronaldo Gomes; Varandas, Simone; Ghamizi, Mohamed; Zieritz, Alexandra; Lima, Manuel LopesMany doubts still exist about which freshwater mussel Unio species inhabit Northwest Africa. While some authors refer to the presence of Unio delphinus in the Atlantic North African basins of Morocco, a recent International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assessment performed on Moroccan Unio species, recognised the existence of a distinct species, Unio foucauldianus, with a critically endangered conser...
Newly developed microsatellite markers for the pan-European duck mussel, Anodon...
Lima, Manuel Lopes; Sousa, Ronaldo Gomes; Teixeira, Amílcar; Varandas, Simone; Riccardi, Nicoletta; Aldridge, David C.; Froufe, Elsa1. Freshwater mussels of the family Unionidae are one of the most threatened groups worldwide and have suffered severe decline over recent decades. Although the freshwater duck mussel, Anodonta anatina (Linnaeus, 1758), is still widespread, this species has shown evidence of recent declines and is already protected in some European countries. 2. Informed conservation efforts must take into account patterns in g...
The male and female complete mitochondrial genome sequences of the Endangered f...
Froufe, Elsa; Han Ming Gan; Yin Peng Lee; Carneiro, João; Varandas, Simone; Teixeira, Amílcar; Zieritz, Alexandra; Sousa, Ronaldo GomesFreshwater mussels of the family Unionidae exhibit a particular form of mitochondria inheritance called double uniparental inheritance (DUI), in which the mitochondria are inherited by both male and female parents. The (M)ale and (F)emale mitogenomes are highly divergent within species. In the present study, we determine and describe the complete M and F mitogenomes of the Endangered freshwater mussel Potomida ...
Phylogeny, phylogeography, and evolution in the Mediterranean region: news from...
Froufe, Elsa; Prié, Vincent; Faria, João; Ghamizi, Mohamed; Gonçalves, Duarte V.; Gürlek, Mustafa Emre; Karaouzas, Ioannis; Kebapçi, ÜmitThe Potomida genus (Bivalvia, Unionida) has a Circum-Mediterranean distribution and like other freshwater mussel species, its populations have suffered dramatic declines. Although this genus is currently considered as monotypic, it has a long history of taxonomic revisions and presently many aspects of its systematics and evolutionary history are unclear. We sampled a total of 323 individuals from 39 different ...
Conservation status of freshwater mussels in Europe: state of the art and futur...
Lima, Manuel Lopes; Sousa, Ronaldo Gomes; Geist, Juergen; Aldridge, David C.; Araujo, Rafael; Bergengren, Jakob; Bespalaya, Yulia; Bódis, ErikaFreshwater mussels of the Order Unionida provide important ecosystem functions and services, yet many of their populations are in decline. We comprehensively review the status of the 16 currently recognized species in Europe, collating for the first time their life-history traits, distribution, conservation status, habitat preferences, and main threats in order to suggest future management actions. In northern,...
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