Sónia Rocha

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University of Porto

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Dr. Sónia Rocha is an Assistant Professor at Universidade do Porto, Portugal. Her research focuses on integrative taxonomy, the characterization of new species within various parasitic groups, and the morphological and molecular analysis of myxozoans and microsporidia. Dr. Rocha's recent contributions include studies on the taxonomy of Hediste and Myxosporea species, as well as lab-based production and purification of aquatic organisms.

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Recognition of the development of myxosporean parasites (Cnidaria, Myxozoa) and molecular crosstalk with the fish host, using Kudoa dicentrarchi as in vivo model

Open Date: 2025-01-01

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Myxosporea meet genomics – studying key aspects of host recognition, invasion and immune response

Open Date: 2023-03-01

Close Date: 2029-02-28

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Myxosporea – life cycle and genomics of fish host recognition and invasion

Open Date: 2021-06-01

Close Date: 2023-02-28

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Myxosporea - parasite development, host recognition and invasion: ultrastructural and molecular insights

Open Date: 2014-06-01

Close Date: 2019-06-01

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DIRDAMyx – Dinâmica de Infecção em Robalo e Dourada de Aquacultura por Myxozoa

Open Date: 2012-06-01

Close Date: 2014-05-31

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Lamjed Mansour

SAUDI ARABIA

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Luis Filipe Rangel

Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental

PORTUGAL

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Marta Santos

Assistant Professor

ICBAS, University of Porto

PORTUGAL

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Pedro Rodrigues

Full Professor

University of Porto

PORTUGAL

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Maria João Faria Leite Dias dos Santos

Associate Professor

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia

PORTUGAL

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Carlos Azevedo

Professor Catedrático Jubilado

University of Porto

PORTUGAL

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Filling in another piece of the puzzle: Using Integrative Taxonomy to establish yet another new species of Hediste (Annelida, Polychaeta, Nereididae)

Sustained production and purification of Ellipsomyxa mugilis actinospores in a laboratory mesocosm

Description of Kentmoseria sirinensis n. sp. and Kentmoseria lusitanica n. comb. (Sirin et al., 2018) (Cnidaria, Myxosporea) from Common Two-Banded Seabream Diplodus vulgaris (Teleostei, Sparidae)

Taxonomy and systematics of 2 new species of myxozoans (Cnidaria: Myxobolidae) parasitizing the gills of Iheringichthys labrosus (Teleostei: Pimelodidae) from southeastern Brazil

Investigating the palps of the polychaete Hediste diversicolor (Müller, 1776) through histochemistry and transmission electron microscopy

Ultrastructural and molecular characterization of Glugea sp. (microsporidia), a parasite of the Red Sea fish Carangoides bajad (Carangidae)

Characterization of novel aurantiactinomyxon types (Cnidaria, Myxosporea) from the oligochaete Ilyodrilus templetoni (Southern, 1909), with a comprehensive phylogeny of the collective group

Synopsis of the species of Ortholinea Shulman, 1962 (Cnidaria: Myxosporea: Ortholineidae)

Morphological and molecular characterization of Henneguya cardii n. sp. (Cnidaria: Myxosporea) from the bulbus arteriosus of European seabass Dicentrarchus labrax (Teleostei: Moronidae)

Morphological, histopathological, ultrastructural and phylogenetic analysis of Henneguya archosargus n. sp. (Cnidaria, Myxosporea) infecting the sparid fish Archosargus probatocephalus in Brazilian waters

Collaborators (6)

Lamjed Mansour

Luis Filipe Rangel

Marta Santos

Pedro Rodrigues

Maria João Faria Leite Dias dos Santos

Carlos Azevedo

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