Search Results - "Aires, Tânia"
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Glacial vicariance drives phylogeographic diversification in the amphi-boreal kelp Saccharina latissima
Published in Scientific reports (18-01-2018)“…Glacial vicariance is regarded as one of the most prevalent drivers of phylogeographic structure and speciation among high-latitude organisms, but direct links…”
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Seaweed Loads Cause Stronger Bacterial Community Shifts in Coastal Lagoon Sediments Than Nutrient Loads
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (09-01-2019)“…The input of nutrients from anthropogenic sources is the leading cause of coastal eutrophication and is usually coupled with algal/seaweed blooms. Effects may…”
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Host Differentiation and Compartmentalization of Microbial Communities in the Azooxanthellate Cupcorals Tubastrea coccinea and Rhizopsammia goesi in the Caribbean
Published in Frontiers in Marine Science (06-11-2018)“…We investigated the microbial communities associated with surface layer mucus, tissue and gastrovascular cavity of two azooxanthellate Caribbean cup corals…”
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Species Specificity of Bacteria Associated to the Brown Seaweeds Lobophora (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) and Their Potential for Induction of Rapid Coral Bleaching in Acropora muricata
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (21-03-2016)“…While reef degradation is occurring worldwide, it is not uncommon to see phase shifts from coral to macroalgal dominated reefs. Numerous studies have addressed…”
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Regional microbiome differentiation of the invasive Sargassum muticum (Fucales, Phaeophyceae) follows the generalist host hypothesis across the North East Atlantic
Published in European journal of phycology (03-07-2023)“…Over 90% of introduced marine species are seaweeds. Seaweeds rely on their microbiome for host settlement, nutrition, development and health. As such, it is…”
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Summer shifts of bacterial communities associated with the invasive brown seaweed Sargassum muticum are location and tissue dependent
Published in PloS one (05-12-2018)“…Seaweed-associated microbiota experience spatial and temporal shifts in response to changing environmental conditions and seaweed physiology. These shifts may…”
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Impact of persistently high sea surface temperatures on the rhizobiomes of Zostera marina in a Baltic Sea benthocosms
Published in Global change biology (01-05-2024)“…Persistently high marine temperatures are escalating and threating marine biodiversity. The Baltic Sea, warming faster than other seas, is a good model to…”
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eDNA metabarcoding for diet analyses of green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas)
Published in Marine biology (2022)“…Understanding sea turtle diets can help conservation planning, but their trophic ecology is complex due to life history characteristics such as ontogenetic…”
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Invasion is a community affair: Clandestine followers in the bacterial community associated to green algae, Caulerpa racemosa, track the invasion source
Published in PloS one (16-07-2013)“…Biological invasions rank amongst the most deleterious components of global change inducing alterations from genes to ecosystems. The genetic characteristics…”
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Host and Environmental Specificity in Bacterial Communities Associated to Two Highly Invasive Marine Species (Genus Asparagopsis)
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (21-04-2016)“…As habitats change due to global and local pressures, population resilience, and adaptive processes depend not only on their gene pools but also on their…”
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The interaction between the proliferating macroalga Asparagopsis taxiformis and the coral Astroides calycularis induces changes in microbiome and metabolomic fingerprints
Published in Scientific reports (20-02-2017)“…Mediterranean Sea ecosystems are considered as hotspots of biological introductions, exposed to possible negative effects of non–indigenous species. In such…”
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Characterization and Comparison of Bacterial Communities of an Invasive and Two Native Caribbean Seagrass Species Sheds Light on the Possible Influence of the Microbiome on Invasive Mechanisms
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (03-08-2021)“…Invasive plants, including marine macrophytes, are one of the most important threats to biodiversity by displacing native species and organisms depending on…”
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Draft genome of the marine bacterium Alteromonas gracilis strain J4 isolated from the green coenocytic alga Caulerpa prolifera
Published in Microbiology resource announcements (18-07-2024)“…Here, we present the draft genome sequence of strain J4, isolated from the green macroalga . The draft genome is 4,492,914 bp in size and contains 4,719 coding…”
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Acidification increases abundances of Vibrionales and Planctomycetia associated to a seaweed-grazer system: potential consequences for disease and prey digestion efficiency
Published in PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) (30-03-2018)“…Ocean acidification significantly affects marine organisms in several ways, with complex interactions. Seaweeds might benefit from rising CO through increased…”
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Characterization of 12 polymorphic microsatellite markers in the sugar kelp Saccharina latissima
Published in Journal of applied phycology (01-10-2016)“…Saccharina latissima is an ecologically and economically important kelp species native to the coastal regions of the Northern Hemisphere. This species has…”
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Microbial Surface Biofilm Responds to the Growth-Reproduction-Senescence Cycle of the Dominant Coral Reef Macroalgae Sargassum spp
Published in Life (Basel, Switzerland) (06-11-2021)“…Macroalgae play an intricate role in microbial-mediated coral reef degradation processes due to the release of dissolved nutrients. However, temporal…”
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Evolutionary history of the seagrass genus Posidonia
Published in Marine ecology. Progress series (Halstenbek) (01-01-2011)“…Seagrasses are the structural species of one of the most important coastal ecosystems worldwide and support high levels of biodiversity and biomass production…”
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SELECTIVE ELIMINATION OF CHLOROPLASTIDIAL DNA FOR METAGENOMICS OF BACTERIA ASSOCIATED WITH THE GREEN ALGA CAULERPA TAXIFOLIA (BRYOPSIDOPHYCEAE)
Published in Journal of phycology (01-04-2012)“…Molecular analyses of bacteria associated with photosynthetic organisms are often confounded by coamplification of the chloroplastidial 16S rDNA with the…”
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Expressed sequence tags from heat-shocked seagrass Zostera noltii (Hornemann) from its southern distribution range
Published in Marine genomics (01-09-2011)“…Predicted global climate change threatens the distributional ranges of species worldwide. We identified genes expressed in the intertidal seagrass Zostera…”
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Lyme borreliosis spirochetes in questing ticks from mainland Portugal
Published in International journal of medical microbiology (01-04-2004)“…In Portugal, Ixodes ricinus ticks have been shown to contain DNA of several spirochetes belonging to the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex, with major…”
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