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I am a marine biologist, working mainly on taxonomy and phylogeny of calcareous sponges using morphological and molecular tools. I also carry on projects on population genetics, reproduction and ecology of sponges. My focus, however, is on the development of a phylogeny based classification for calcareous sponges. In this sense, I have projects on molecular phylogeny and search for morphological signal in these phylogenies. I am also interested on population genetics, in order to understand how populations are connected, and in invasive sponge species and their reproduction and population structure.
Since 2010, I am editor of the class Calcarea in the World Porifera Database in WoRMS. Currently I am head of the Graduate course on Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Taxonomic term: Porifera [WoRMS]
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- WPD: de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Accessed at https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera on yyyy-mm-dd, more
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