Synthesis - Terrestrial Invertebrates

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1 Synthesis - Terrestrial Invertebrates VIII Reunião de Avaliação do Programa BIOTA/FAPESP André V. L. Freitas Unicamp

2 Projects: Four projects will be summarized: 1) Diversity and taxonomy of feather mites (Arachnida: Acari: Astigmata) on birds (Aves) in Brazil 2) Biodiversity of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the municipal parks of São Paulo city 3) Taxonomy, systematics and phylogeography in attini systems 4) Natural History, Phylogeny and Conservation of Neotropical Lepidoptera

3 Diversity and taxonomy of feather mites (Arachnida: Acari: Astigmata) on birds (Aves) in Brazil Grant nº 2011/ Coordinator: Fabio Rau Akashi Hernandes Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, UNESP Rio Claro

4 Objectives 1) Describe new taxons of feather mites and map their associations with bird hosts. 2) Revision of problematic taxons 3) Produce identification keys for the main groups of feather mites 4) Establish a scientific collection for the group

5 Impacts Personnel: Students: A total of four students directly involved with the project, as follows: Technical training (2), Undergraduate (1), Master (1). - Collaborations with three research groups abroad: Dr. Michel Valim (USP-SP); Dr. Sergey V. Mironov (Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia), and Dr. Barry OConnor (Michigan University, Ann Arbor, EUA)

6 Impacts Collaborative network: - In addition, nearly 10 students from various states of Brazil have visited the lab to get basic training in feather mite systematics. Material was also sent from various parts of Brazil.

7 Academic research: Publications: A total of 16 publications in peer reviewed journals. Scientific meetings: The researcher and students participated in 6 meetings (1 national, 5 international) with 8 presentations (posters).

8 Left-right asymmetry: new species and new records of asymmetrical feather mites were found during the projetct. Left-right asymmetry in mites is very rare, and occurs only in 8 genera of feather mites, always in males, most noticeably in anterior legs and posterior region of body.

9 Feather mites from endangered birds: 5 feather mite species were described from endangered bird hosts during the project. Stymphalornis acutirostris (Thamnophilidae) Calcealges sp. n. (Trouessartiidae) Photo by C. Gussoni

10 A new genus of skin mites: a new genus of feather mite (family Dermationidae) was discovered, with 3 morphs of males.

11 BIODIVERSITY OF MOSQUITOES (DIPTERA: CULICIDAE) IN THE MUNICIPAL PARKS OF SÃO PAULO CITY Grant nº 2010/ Coordinator: Mauro Toledo Marrelli Departamento de Epidemiologia, Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo

12 Objectives 1. Identification of the species collected; 2. Study the ecology of these mosquitoes; 3. Describe species (morphology and molecular) 4. Characterization of populations for molecular analysis; 5. Detection of the food preferences; 6. Identify flavivirus infection in the mosquitoes; 7. Production of an educational material about mosquitoes of urban parks of São Paulo.

13 Personnel: Students: A total of five students directly involved with the project, as follow: Technical training (1), Undergraduate (1), Master (3). - Collaborations with three research groups: Dr. José Eduardo Levi, Dra. Rosely Malafronte (IMT-USP- SP); Sandro Marques (Zoonosis Control Center, PMSP), and Marcello Nardi, Elisabeth Gonçalves (Department of Parks and Green Spaces, São Paulo City Hall)

14 Academic Research Publications: A total of 9 publications in peer reviewed journals. Scientific meetings: The researchers and students participated in 5 meetings (3 national, 2 international) with 7 presentations (five posters and one oral presentation).

15 New description of immature forms: 1 species, New occurrence of species in area: 5 species (including two anophelines: malaria vector) First report of Culex flavirus in mosquitoes of the parks

16 TAXONOMY, SYSTEMATICS AND PHYLOGEOGRAPHY IN ATTINI SYSTEMS Grant nº 2011/ Coordinator: Maurício Bacci Jr Centro de Estudos de Insetos Sociais UNESP, Rio Claro

17 Objectives 1. Characterization of Attini species using morphology, genetic and behavior data; 2. Characterization of genes underlying the speciation process in model leaf-cutter ants using next gen sequencing; 3. Organization of a leaf-cutter collection at a public website; 4. Investigation of leaf-cutter ant association with microbes.

18 Personnel: Students: A total of ten students directly involved with the project: Technical training (1), Undergraduate (3), Master (2), PhD (5). Collaboration: UF Uberlândia MZUSP UNESP Botucatu Harvard University - Smtihsonian Institution University of Copenhagen

19 Academic Research Publications: 11 publications in peer reviewed journals. Scientific meetings: Participation in 5 meetings with 9 presentations.

20 Attini association with antibiotic producing bacteria; Attini association with nitrogen-fixing bacteria; Attini association with fungi; 5 NGS transcriptomes generated and annotated; ~70 genes found involved with leaf-cutter speciation.

21 Description of Attini new species and genus Sosa-Calvo J, Schultz TR, Brandão CRF, Klingenberg C, Feitosa RM, et al. (2013)Cyatta abscondita: Taxonomy, Evolution, and Natural History of a New Fungus-Farming Ant Genus from Brazil. PLoS ONE 8(11): e A Social Parasite Evolved Reproductive Isolation from Its Fungus-Growing Ant Host in Sympatry Christian Rabeling, Ted R. Schultz, Naomi E. Pierce, Maurıcio Bacci, Jr. Current Biology, 24: 1-6, 2014

22 Genetic markers, software and websites Cynara Rodovalho Mariana Lyra, Milene Ferro, Maurício Bacci Jr (2014) The Mitochondrial Genome of the Leaf-Cutter Ant Atta laevigata: A Mitogenome with a Large Number of Intergenic Spacers. PLoS ONE 9(5): e Christina Rabeling, Love Cara, Stacey Lance, Kenneth Jones, Naomi Pierce, MaurícioBacci Jr (2014). Development of twenty-one polymorphic microsatellite markers for the fungusgrowing ant, Mycocepurus goeldii (Formicidae: Attini), using Illumina paired-end genomic sequencing. Cons. Genet. Resources, 6: Sérgio Kakazu, Alessandra Sanches, Maurício Bacci Jr. (2013). Microsatellite loci characterized in the leaf-cutter ant Atta laevigata (2013). BMC Res. Notes, 6:328. Milene Ferro, Erik A Antonio, Wélliton Souza 1 and Maurício Bacci Jr (2014). ITScan: a web-based analysis tool for Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) sequences. BMC Res. Notes, 7:857. The Virtual Museum: Plants, Amphibians and Ants

23 Natural History, Phylogeny and Conservation of Neotropical Lepidoptera Grant nº 2011/ Aug/2011 Aug/2014 Coordinator: André V. L. Freitas Unicamp Team: Marcelo Duarte (MZUSP) and Karina L. Silva-Brandão (CENA-USP)

24 Objectives The Project focused in three main research lines: 1) Phylogeny and Systematics, 2) Evolution of interactions among butterflies and ants, 3) Functional and phylogenetic community structure

25 Personnel: Students: A total of more than 20 people directly involved with the project, as follow: Technical training (8), Undergraduate (10), Master (8), PhD (6), Post Doctoral (5). - In addition, more than 30 students from Brazil (from the states of SP, MG, RS, BA, PE and PA) and 4 from Colombia visited the project to got basic training in field and laboratory methods, biodiversity analysis and Lepidoptera systematics.

26 Main collaborations with other research groups: In Brazil: Dr. Olaf H. H. Mielke (UFPR - PR); Dr. Ronaldo B. Francini (Unisantos - SP); Dr. Marlon Paluch (Univ. Recôncavo, BA). Abroad: Dr. Niklas Wahlberg (Univ. Turku, Finland); Dr. Andrew Brower (Univ. Tennessee, EUA); Dr. Keith Willmott (Univ. Florida, EUA); Dr. Marianne Elias (MNHN, Paris, France); Dra. Blanca Huertas (BMNH, UK); Dra. Sandra Uribe (UNALMED, Colombia).

27 Integration with six other projects: NSF-Fapesp Dimensions of Biodiversity Structure and evolution of the amazon biota and its environment: an integrative approach (Coordinator: Lucia G. Lohmann USP and Joel Lester Cracraft, American Museum of Natural History, USA) NSF-Fapesp Dimensions of Biodiversity A multidisciplinary framework for biodiversity prediction in the Brazilian Atlantic forest hotspot. (Coordinators: Cristina Yumi Miyaki USP and Ana Carolina O. Queiroz Carnaval CUNY, USA) NSF-Fapesp Dimensions of Biodiversity Chemically mediated multi-trophic interaction diversity across tropical gradients. (Coordinators: Massuo Jorge Kato - IQ/USP and Lee A. Dyer, University of Nevada / Reno, USA) SISBIOTA-Brasil/CNPq Rede Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Lepidópteros (Coordinator: Onildo Marini Filho ICMBIO) ARTS: Phylogeny and systematic revision of the diverse and cryptic Euptychiina (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae) NSF (Coordinator Dr. Keith Willmott University of Florida, USA) ECOFOR: Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in degraded and recovering Amazonian and Atlantic Forests (Coordinator Dr. Carlos Joly Unicamp)

28 Academic Research Publications: A total of 71 publications, including 60 peer reviewed papers, 3 book chapters, 3 complete books and 5 products related to science divulgation and/or application. Scientific meetings: The researchers and students participated in 12 meetings (5 national, 7 international) with 37 presentations (posters and oral presentations).

29 Phylogeny and Systematics Description of 12 new species and 2 new genus genera

30 Phylogeny and Systematics Obtaining of phylogenetic hypothesis for 6 butterfly groups

31 Phylogeny and Systematics Obtaining of phylogenetic hypothesis for 6 butterfly groups

32 Evolution of interactions among butterflies and ants

33 Functional and phylogenetic community structure Accepted Book Chapter - Evolutionary history, functional diversity and the conservation of Neotropical mimetic butterflies Nicolas Chazot, Keith R. Willmott, André V. L. Freitas, Donna Lisa de Silva, Roseli Pellens & Marianne Elias

34 Functional and phylogenetic community structure An ongoing PhD Thesis Biogeographic diversity patterns in nymphalid butterflies in different macroecological scales Jessie P. Santos Morphological measures Colour pattern

35 Conservation Besides the three main objectives, the project produced important information relevant to conservation biology of Lepidoptera.

36 Conservation Besides the three main objectives, the project produced important information relevant to conservation biology of Lepidoptera.

37 Impacts Public policies and law application

38 Biodiversity monitoring system in Conservation Unities ICMBIO/GIZ

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40 Biodiversity monitoring system in Conservation Unities ICMBIO/GIZ

41 Perspectives Few projects focusing on terrestrial invertebrates in the last years. A need for increasing the knowledge on several poorly known invertebrate groups. Incentives for expanding knowledge on previously studies groups. Specific strategies to encourage submission of projects through FAPESP research calls focusing on terrestrial invertebrates

42 Thank you! André V. L. Freitas Dep. Biologia Anima IB - Unicamp baku@unicamp.br