General Objective: Study the impact of anthropogenic activities, such as aquaculture, tourism and the presence of wetlands on the water microbiome of a coastal marine system during the El Niño event.
Specific objectives:
- Study the water microbiome present in the coastal environment and how it changes due to the presence of shrimp larviculture, tourist activities and other anthropogenic activities. The results that will be obtained after specific objective 1 are the relative abundance, alpha and beta diversity of microbial communities from coastal systems: shrimp larviculture, wetlands, and other anthropogenic activities. Microorganisms preserved in PBS and glycerol (microbiological culture) for future research.
- Identify potential pathogenic microorganisms, antibiotic resistance genes, virulence genes in bacteria and other microorganisms with biotechnological potential present in the water of the marine-coastal system. The results that will be obtained at the end of the execution of specific objective 2 will be DNA sequences of the metagenomes uploaded to the NCBI SRA platform of the data from the study, a manuscript with the microbial characterization of biomarkers associated with each system studied and a report. of the microorganisms found and their potential biotechnological application.
Participating Institutions:
ESPOL, ESPE, UTMACH.
Participants:
Project Director Guillermo Antonio Reyes Román
- Martha Edith Borbor Suarez
- Bonny Narcisa Bayot Arroyo
- Luis Enrique Trujillo Toledo
- Lita Scarlett Sorroza Ochoa
- Irma Guadalupe Betancourt Villa
- Betsy Elena Andrade Eugenio
- Cristhian Eduardo Preciado Guzmán
- Juan Carlos Munoz Reyes
- Ramiro Antonio Solorzano Plaza
- Jessica Karina Reyes Delgado
- Fanny Argentina Panchana González
- Rosa Elena Malavé Orrala
Awarded budget: $43985,37
Project status: In process
