Evolutionary Genetics Lab at ISPA

22/02/2025

Parabéns Ana Pereira!

🌊🔬 Investigação do Ispa impulsiona a genómica da biodiversidade marinha

A Professora Ana Pereira, docente e investigadora do Ispa - Instituto Universitário, viu aprovada a nomeação da anémona-do-mar Actinia mediterranea para sequenciação genómica no âmbito do ERGA-BGE (Biodiversity Genomics Europe). Este avanço representa um contributo significativo para o estudo da biodiversidade marinha e para a conservação dos ecossistemas oceânicos. 🧬🌍

📌 A importância deste projeto:
🔹 A sequenciação do genoma desta espécie já foi concluída e os resultados serão publicados em breve.
🔹 O estudo permitirá uma compreensão mais aprofundada da adaptação da Actinia mediterranea às mudanças ambientais, da sua resistência ao stress e das interações com outras espécies.
🔹 O projeto ERGA-BGE reúne cientistas de toda a Europa com o objetivo de mapear os genomas da fauna e flora, contribuindo para a monitorização da biodiversidade e para o desenvolvimento de estratégias de conservação.

A Professora Ana Pereira destaca que “o aumento do número de genomas de espécies impulsiona a investigação e o conhecimento sobre a sua biologia e ecologia, especialmente para espécies sem interesse comercial.”

A participação neste projeto sublinha o impacto da investigação realizada no Ispa, reforçando a relevância da ciência portuguesa no panorama internacional.

🔗 Saiba mais na notícia completa disponível no site do Ispa: https://bit.ly/3D3iX1i

17/07/2024

Novo artigo!
New paper!

The Importance of Baseline Health Surveillance Efforts in Freshwater Fish Conservation Using the Threatened Iberian Leuciscids as an Example
Grilo, M.L., Sousa-Santos, C., Robalo, J.I., Oliveira, M.
Journal of wildlife diseases, 2024, 60(3), pp. 561–571

Freshwater fish species are experiencing the highest decline among vertebrates in this century. Although a great effort has been made to identify and tackle threats to the conservation of this taxa, several knowledge gaps still exist particularly for noncommercial endangered species, including consi...

04/09/2023

Short paper on fish external parasites!

FiSHMED journal, is a forum to share information related to the ecology, biology and conservation of fish in aquatic environments in Mediterranean.

21/04/2023

New paper on Fish Physiology and Biochemistry!

Hernández-Rodríguez, A., Sousa-Santos, C., Gil, F. et al. Assessment of male reproductive traits in endangered leuciscids from the Iberian Peninsula: first attempts to store gametes both at short- and long-term. Fish Physiol Biochem (2023).

During the spring of 2022, several endangered leuciscid species (Anaecypris hispanica, Squalius aradensis, Anachondrostoma Occidentale, and Iberochondrostoma lusitanicum) were sampled both at the Vasco da Gama aquarium facilities and in some rivers of the Algarve region, Portugal. S***m samples were...

09/10/2022

New paper on Nature Scientific Reports!

S. Perea, S. L. Mendes, C. Sousa-Santos, P. Ondina, R. Amaro, J. Castro, E. San-Miguel, C. S. Lima, M. Garcia, V. Velasquez, P. Garcia-Roves, D. Fernández, R. Araujo, V. C. Sousa & J. Reis (2022) Applying genomic approaches to delineate conservation strategies using the freshwater mussel Margaritifera margaritifera in the Iberian Peninsula as a model.

Effective conservation actions to counteract the current decline of populations and species require a deep knowledge on their genetic structure. We used Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) to infer the population structure of the highly threatened freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margar...

29/08/2022

New paper!

Pereira, A., Silva, M., & Mateus, O. (2022). First record of Phymactis papillosa (Lesson, 1830), a Pacific south sea anemone in European shores. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 1-4. doi:10.1017/S0025315422000571

First record of Phymactis papillosa (Lesson, 1830), a Pacific south sea anemone in European shores

06/12/2021

Estamos finalmente a participar em carne e osso numa reunião científica ☺
Finally on site at a scientific meeting

Joana Robalo and Sara Francisco at the 6th Internacional Marine Connectivity Conference.

30/09/2021

Today we are at the First Stakeholder Workshop of project GenClim GenClim - Biodiversity on the run: evolutionary and socio-economic consequences of shifting distribution ranges in commercially exploited marine fishes.
Joana Robalo coordinates Work Package 2: Sampling.

13/07/2021

E continua...
And it goes on...

"The Endangered Achondrostoma occidentale (Robalo, Almada, Sousa Santos, Moreira and Doadrio 2005) Freshwater Fish—A Portuguese Endemism at the Brink of Extinction"
Cristina Lima Carla Sousa Santos Joana Isabel Robalo
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128211397000866?via%3Dihub&fbclid=IwAR13vgOU6ECqjNHB1B8nHL0iDvTf5-ttBuLKq0eJr5f0ylZEQH8kFA9z5s4

Fish species from Mediterranean type rivers endure extreme natural conditions that have been aggravated by climate change. The western ruivaco (Achond…

13/07/2021

😊🤩
Que semana! | What a week!

"Genetic hypervariability of a Northeastern Atlantic venomous rockfish."
Francisco SM, Castilho R, Cristina Lima, Frederico Almada, Rodrigues F, Šanda R, Vukić J, Pappalardo AM, Ferrito V, Joana Isabel Robalo. 2021. PeerJ 9:e11730

https://peerj.com/articles/11730/?fbclid=IwAR3XDfgpEV6YLL3DogtRz-bZjzQ-nyf2Dd-bJ42zEaZ116x5X5yGEKwbYnk

Background Understanding the interplay between climate and current and historical factors shaping genetic diversity is pivotal to infer changes in marine species range and communities’ composition. A phylogeographical break between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean has been documented for several...

08/06/2021

O Kids Dive ganhou um projeto National Geographic Society 🤿👍