Styela plicata
Interest
Invasive species of anthropic structures in harbours and aquaculture facilities. Potential bioindicator of environmental contamination.
Distribution and origin of the sample
Global distribution. The sample is from Barcelona harbour.
Principal investigator
Carles Galià-Camps, Carlos Carreras, Marta Pascual. Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística i l’Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat, Universitat de Barcelona (IRBio-UB).
Xavier Turon. Centre d’Estudis Avançats de Blanes, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CEAB-CSIC), Carrer Accés Cala Sant Francesc 14, 17300 Blanes, Spain
Carola Greve. LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (LOEWE-TBG), Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Funding
Biodiversidad marina y genómica: de las poblaciones a las comunidades (PopCOmics) CTM2017-88080-C2-2-R, LOEWE Translational Biodiversity Genomics (LOEWE-TBG)
Links
https://www.ub.edu/portal/web/dp-genmicrostat/genetica-evolutiva
https://tbg.senckenberg.de/
Photography
Carles Galià-Camps