GENÉTICA Y ECOLOGÍA EVOLUTIVA

Director:  Dr. Nicolás Bonel
Investigador Adjunto, CONICET
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Líneas de investigación

• Diferenciación fenotípica adaptativa en especies de amplia distribución
• Infecciones parasitarias sex-specific en caracoles acuáticos
• El rol de la epigenética en la depresión endogámica
• Filogeografia de caracoles Galba (Hygrophila, Lymnaeidae)
• Diversidad genética y estructura de poblaciones del parásito Fasciola hepática y de otros parásitos del ganado
• Parásitos y alteraciones ambientales que afectan las estrategias de reproducción en organismos hermafroditas

• Pizá J, Guerrero Spagnuoli J., Dop NS, Cazzaniga NJ (2023). From the Mediterranean to Yungas and Patagonia. Dispersal of the non-native gastropod Rumina decollata in Argentina. Biología, 78(3), 865-871.
• Alba, A, Grech-Angelini, S, Vázquez, AA, Alda, P, Blin, Q, Lemmonier, L, ... & Quilichini, Y (2023). Fasciolosis in the Mediterranean island of Corsica (France): Insights from epidemiological and malacological investigations. Food and Waterborne Parasitology, 30, e00188.
• Hünicken LA, Sylvester F, Bonel N (2022). Fitness-related traits are maximized in recently introduced, slow-growing populations of a global invasive clam. Invertebrate Biology, 141(1), e12364.
• Rau AI, Beltramino AA, Serniotti EN, Pizá J, Caffetti JD, Vogler RE (2022). The exotic snail Rumina decollata (Linnaeus, 1758) (Gastropoda, Achatinidae) in Argentina: new records, range extension and areas of origin of Argentine populations. Check List 18 (1):91–102. https://doi.org/10.15560/18.1.91
• Vázquez AA, Alba A, Alda P, Vittecoq M, Hurtrez-Boussès S. (2022). On the arrival of fasciolosis in the Americas. Trends in Parasitology, 38 (3):195-204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2021.12.001
• Bonel N, Pointier JPP, Alda P (2021). Environmental stressors induced strong small-scale phenotypic differentiation in a wide-dispersing marine snail. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 674: 143–162 https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13836
• Janicke T, Chapuis E, Meconcelli S, Bonel N, Delahaie B, David P (2021). Environmental effects on the genetic architecture of fitness components in a simultaneous hermaphrodite. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91(1), 124-137.
• Coughlan NE, Cunningham EM, Cuthbert R N, Joyce PWS, Anastácio P, Banha F, Bonel N, et al.  (2021). Biometric conversion factors as a unifying platform for comparative assessment of invasive freshwater bivalves. Journal of Applied Ecology, 58(9), 1945-1956.
• Loker ES, Dolginow S, Pape S, Topper C, Alda P, Pointier J-P, Ebbs E, DeJong R, Brant, SV, Laidemitt MR (2021). An outbreak of canine schistosomiasis in Utah: acquisition of a new snail host (Galba humilis) by Heterobilharzia americana, a pathogenic parasite on the move. One Health, 13, 100280.
• Vázquez AA, Sabourin E, Alda P, Leroy C, Leray C, Carron E, Mulero S, Caty C, Hasfia S, Boisseau M, Saugné L, Pineau O, Blanchon T, Alba A, Faugère D, Vittecoq M, Hurtrez-Boussès S. (2021). Genetic diversity and relationships of the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica (Trematoda) with native and introduced definitive and intermediate hosts. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.13882
• Alda P, Lounnas M, Vázquez AA, Ayaqui R, Calvopiña M, Celi-Erazo M, Dillon R Jr, González Ramírez LC, Loker ES, Muzzio-Aroca J, Orlando Nárvaez A, Noya O, Pereira AE, Martini Robles L, Rodríguez-Hidalgo R, Uribe N, David P, Jarne P, Pointier J-P, Hurtrez-Boussès S. (2021).  Systematics and geographical distribution of Galba species, a group of cryptic and worldwide freshwater snails. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 157:107035 doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.107035 Also reviewed by three reviewers and recommended for publication by Dr. Fabien Condamine for PCI Evolutionary Biology.
• Celi-Erazo M, Alda P, Montenegro-Franco M, Pavon D, Minda-Aluisa E, Calvopiña M, Pointier, J-P, Hurtrez-Boussès S, Cevallos W, Benítez-Ortíz W, Rodríguez-Hidalgo R. (2020). Prevalence of Fasciola hepatica infection in Galba cousini and Galba schirazensis from an Andean region of Ecuador. Veterinary Parasitology: Regional Studies and Reports, 20:100390  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vprsr.2020.100390c
• Vázquez AA, de Vargas M, Alba A, Sánchez J, Alda P, Sabourin E, Vittecoq M, Alarcón-Elba PM, Pointier J-P, Hurtrez-Boussès S. (2019). Reviewing Fasciola hepatica transmission in the West Indies and novel perceptions from experimental infections of sympatric vs. allopatric snail/fluke combinations. Veterinary Parasitology, 275:108955. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vetpar.2019.108955
• Alda P, Bonel N, Cazzaniga NJ, Martorelli SR & Lafferty K. (2019). A strong colonizer rules the trematode guild in an intertidal snail host. Ecology, 100(6):e02696.
• Hünicken LA, Abrameto M, Bonel N (2019). Corbicula at its southernmost invasion front in Patagonia: unusual low density and asymmetric trait responses to varying environmental conditions. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 85 (1), 143-153.
• Noël E, Fruitet E, Lelaurin D, N. Bonel N, A Ségard A, V Sarda V, Jarne P, David P (2019). Sexual selection and inbreeding: two efficient ways to limit the 1 accumulation of deleterious mutations. Evolution Letters, 3 (1), 80-92.
• Bonel N*, Noël E*, Janicke T, Sartori K, Chapuis E, Ségard A, Meconcelli S, Pélissié B, Sarda V, David P (2018). Asymmetric evolutionary responses to sex-specific selection in a hermaphrodite. Evolution 72 (10): 2181-2201. (* equal contributions)
• Vázquez AA, Alda P, Lounnas M, Sabourin E, Alba A, Pointier J-P, Hurtrez-Boussès S (2018). Lymnaeid snails hosts of Fasciola hepatica and Fasciola gigantica (Trematoda: Digenea): a worldwide review. CAB Reviews, 13(062):1–15.
• Sabourin E, Alda P, Vazquez A, Hurtrez-Boussès S & Vittecoq M (2018). Impact of human activities on fasciolosis transmission. Trends in Parasitology, 34 (10): P891–903.
• Alda P, Lounnas M, Vázquez AA, Ayaqui R, Calvopiña M, Celi-Erazo M, Dillon Jr R, Jarne P, Loker ES, Muñiz Pareja FC, Muzzio-Aroca J, Nárvaez AO, Noya O, Martini Robles L, Rodríguez-Hidalgo R, Uribe N, David P, Pointier J-P, Hurtrez-Boussès S (2018). A new multiplex PCR assay to distinguish among three cryptic Galba species, intermediate hosts of Fasciola hepatica. Veterinary Parasitology, 251:101–105.

• Alda P, Bonel N, Alba A, Aksenova OV, Bolotov IN, Kondakov A, Jarne P. (2023) Chapter 5. Molecular techniques for the study of ecological and evolutionary processes in lymnaeids. In: The Lymnaeidae: a handbook on their natural history and parasitological significance. Eds: Vinarski MV and Vázquez AA. Springer.
• Vinarski MV, Aksenova OV, Bolotov IN, Vázquez AA, Alda P, Pointier, JP, Hurtrez-Boussès S. (2023). Chapter 7. Biogeography of the living Lymnaeidae, in: The Lymnaeidae: a handbook on their natural history and parasitological significance. Eds: Vinarski MV and Vázquez AA. Springer.
• Bonel N, Nakadera Y, Pizá J, Vázquez AA, Koene Y, David P, Jarne P, Alda P. (2023) Chapter 10. Reproductive strategies, genetic diversity, and invasive ability in Lymnaeidae. In: The Lymnaeidae: a handbook on their natural history and parasitological significance. Eds: Vinarski MV and Vázquez AA. Springer. 
• Hurtrez-Boussès S, Alba A, Alda P, Chapuis E, Faugere D, Gourbal B, Pointier JP, Sánchez J, Vittecoq M, Vázquez AA. (2023). Chapter 12. Overview of interactions between parasitic digenea and their molluscan hosts, with special emphasis on the Lymnaeidae, in: The Lymnaeidae: a handbook on their natural history and parasitological significance. Eds: Vinarski MV and Vázquez AA. Springer.

• Vázquez AA, Alba A, Alda P, Vittecoq M, Chapuis E, Faugere D, Pointier, JP, Hurtrez-Boussès S. (2023) Chapter 13. Lymnaeid snails and the transmission of fasciolosis: understanding the differential risks from local to global scale. In: The Lymnaeidae: a handbook on their natural history and parasitological significance. Eds: Vinarski MV and Vázquez AA. Springer.

• Martorelli S, Marcotegui P, Montes M, Alda P. (2020). Chapter 13: Parasite, symbionts and microorganism of Neohelice granulata. In Book: Neohelice granulata, a model species for studies on crustaceans, volume I: life history and ecology. Eds: Luppi TA and Rodriguez EM. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
   

Premios Recibidos, 2022
“Bueno, bonito y barato”. Segundo premio,  Mejor Artículo de divulgación del CERZOS

Participación y Organización de Eventos científicos

• Michelle SCIBERRAS,UNS-CONICET, Bahía Blanca
• Néstor J. CAZZANIGA, UNS-CIC, Bahía Blanca
• Luciano LA SALA, INBIOSUR-CONICET, Bahía Blanca
• Sergio R. MARTORELLI, CEPAVE-CONICET, La Plata
• Paula MARCOTEGUI, CEPAVE-CONICET, La Plata
• Leandro A. HÜNICKEN, CIMAS-CONICET, San Antonio Oeste
• Soledad AVACA, CIMAS-CONICET, San Antonio Oeste
• Matías MERLO, IIMyC, Mar del Plata
• Mariela PARIETTI, IIMyC, Mar del Plata
  
• Francisco SYLVESTER, IEBI-UNSA, CONICET, Salta

• Julio LORDA (UABC, Baja California)

Integrantes:

Dra. Pilar ALDA
Investigadora Adjunta, CONICET
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Dra. Julia PIZÁ
Investigadora Asistente, CONICET
Profesora Adjunta, UNS
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Lic. Sebastián DOP
Lic. en Ciencias Biológicas.
Becario Doctoral, CONICET-UNS
Tema: Aportes de la perspectiva semanticista y la reflexión metacognitiva a la enseñanza de la biología evolutiva centrada en debates de relevancia social en estudiantes universitario/as
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Matias ABAFATORI
Estudiante de grado
Becario: EVC-CIN, CONICET-UNS
Tema: Filogeografía deL caracol de agua dulce Pectinidens diaphanus  (Lymnaeidae), potencial transmissor de Fascuila hepática en el sur argentino
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Lara CIFOLA
Estudiante de grado
Tema: Variación en los rasgos de historia vida de un caracol terrestre expuesto a diferentes niveles de desecación
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Melisa PERL
Estudiante de grado
Becaria EVC-CIN, CONICET-UNS
Tema: Estrategias reproductivas en un caracol hermafrodita
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Micaela MÜLLER
PhD Student, ARTS-IRD, Francia
Tema: Une maladie négligée en Patagonie : Mesurer le risque de la fasciolose dans la zone la plus méridionale de son aire de répartition mondiale.
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