Project Outputs

Publications 

Abstracts in conference proceedings

• Ferreira AO, Barroso C, Cruz J, Duarte S, Egas C, Gomes P, Oliveira C, E. Vieira P, Piecho-Santos AM, Costa FO (2022). Testing COI primers for ichthyoplankton metabarcoding and their capability to assess local mesozooplankton communities. ARPHA Conference Abstracts 5: e87495. https://doi.org/10.3897/aca.5.e87495 

Communications

Oral communications in conferences

• Costa FO (2022). DNA-based approaches for fisheries. Virtual side event “Biomolecular observations in support of conservation and sustainable development”, Ocean Biomolecular Observing Network (OBON), UN Ocean Conference, 30 June, Lisbon.

• Fontes JT, Landi M, Barradas A, Barri I, Sobrino I, Carneiro M, Martins R, Soares P, Costa FO (2022). Updated phylogeography of the widely distributed John Dory (Zeus faber, Actinopterygii: Zeiformes) reaffirms the prevalence of at least two deeply divergent evolutionary lineages. Honorable Mention at the XVIII National Meeting of Evolutionary Biology 2022, December 15-16, Braga, Portugal.

• Ferreira AO, Azevedo OM, Barroso C, Duarte S, Egas C, Fontes JT, Ré P, Piecho-Santos AM, Costa FO (2023). A proof-of-concept study to use DNA metabarcoding as a tool for species identification in ichthyoplankton samples. 46th Larval Fish Conference, May 7-11, Lisbon, Portugal.

• Fontes JT, K Katoh, Pires R, Soares P, Costa FO (2023). Comparing the species discriminatory power of commonly used markers and amplicons in marine fish (e)DNA metabarcoding. IV International Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Genetics, October 19-20, Braga, Portugal.

• Machado C, Barroso C, Baylina N, Duarte S, Egas C, Fernandes M, Oliveira C, Piecho-Santos AM, Soares P, E. Vieira P, Costa FO (2024). Environmental DNA for detecting marine fish species.  CBMA Open Day & II PhD Bio Symposium, 2 February , Braga, Portugal.

Poster communications in conferences

• Ferreira AO, Barroso C, Cruz J, Duarte S, Egas C, Gomes P, Oliveira C, E. Vieira P, Piecho-Santos AM, Costa FO (2022). Testing COI primers for ichthyoplankton metabarcoding and their capability to assess local mesozooplankton communities. International Conference on DNA Barcoding and Biodiversity (ICDBB), May 25-27, Sofia, Bulgaria, mixed event. 

• Machado C, Barroso C, Baylina N, Duarte S, Egas C, Fernandes M, Oliveira C, Piecho-Santos AM, E. Vieira P, Costa FO (2022). Testing the efficiency of environmental DNA metabarcoding for detecting marine fish species using a public aquarium. ICES Annual Science Conference 2022, September 19–22, Dublin, Ireland, mixed event.

• Ferreira AO, Barroso C, Cruz J, Duarte S, Egas C, Gomes P, Oliveira C, Piecho-Santos AM, Costa FO (2022). COI metabarcoding of mesozooplankton communities: the impact of OTU versus ASV-based pipelines on recovered diversity. XVIII Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva, December 15-16, Braga, Portugal, mixed event. 

• Machado C, Barroso C, Baylina N, Duarte S, Egas C, Fernandes M, Oliveira C, Piecho-Santos AM, Soares P, E. Vieira P, Costa FO (2022). Environmental DNA for detecting marine fish species: testing the volume of sampled water, markers and primers in a public oceanarium. XVIII Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva, December 15-16, Braga, Portugal, mixed event.

• Azevedo OM, Cruz J, Ré P, Machado C, Ferreira AO, Teodósio A,  Duarte S, Costa FO, Piecho-Santos AM (2023). Old meets new: 1. Morphological analyses of Guadiana ichthyoplankton as a support for DNA-based approaches. 46th Larval Fish Conference, May 7-11, Lisbon, Portugal.

• Machado C, Azevedo OM, Barroso C, Duarte S, Egas C, Fontes JT, Oliveira C, Piecho-Santos AM, Costa FO (2023). Old meets new: 2. eDNA metabarcoding vs morphological analyses for detecting ichthyoplankton in the Guadiana estuary. 46th Larval Fish Conference, May 7-11, Lisbon, Portugal.

• Ferreira AO, Azevedo OM, Barroso C, Duarte S, Egas C, Fontes JT, Ré P, Piecho-Santos AM, Costa FO (2023). DNA Metabarcoding as a tool to identify fish species in zooplankton samples: a proof-of-concept study on the Portuguese coast. IV International Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Genetics, October 19-20, Braga, Portugal.

• Machado C, Azevedo OM, Barroso C, Duarte S, Egas C, Fontes JT, Oliveira C, Piecho-Santos AM, Costa FO (2023). A comparison of eDNA metabarcoding and morphological analyses for detecting ichthyoplankton in the Guadiana estuary. IV International Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Genetics, October 19-20, Braga, Portugal.

Theses

PhD

• André Ferreira. DNA-based monitoring of ichthyoplankton for application to fish biodiversity conservation and fisheries management (DFA/BD/6653/2020). PhD in Environmental and Molecular Biology, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, ongoing. 

• Cláudia Machado. Exploring the use of environmental DNA to monitor the ichthyofauna and provide data to assist fish stock assessment in the Atlantic (UMINHO/BID/2021/36). PhD in Biology, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, ongoing. 

• João Tadeu Fontes. Meta-species screening for genetic divergence and phylogeographic reconstruction in Atlantic marine fish species (UI/BD/150910/2021). PhD in Molecular and Environmental Biology, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, ongoing.

• Cristina Bernardo. Identificação e caracterização da comunidade ictioplanctônica do estuário do Rio Ribeira de Iguape, São Paulo, Brasil, através de DNA metabarcoding. Institute of Biosciences (IB), Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil, ongoing