Ph. D. Student
Integrative Marine Ecology Department
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Villa Comunale
80121 Napoli - Italia
Tel.: +39 3890964703
E-mail: renato.aco.alburqueque(at)gmail.com
Director of Studies: Simonetta Mattiucci & Mario Santoro
Program: Dottorato di Ricerca in “Ecologia e gestione sostenibile delle risorse ambientali” XXXVII ciclo, a.a. 2021/2022, Università della Tuscia di Viterbo.
Research Interests
My research interest focus to investigate by using an integrated approach, food-webs transmitted endoparasites in order to add knowledge on the state of the biodiversity of the marine ecosystem of the Mediterranean Sea waters and consider those target parasites as indirect indicators of marine food webs integrity. This follows the hypothesis according to which parasitic load, genetic variability, and effects on the host, of those endoparasites, are correlated with the abundance of host populations, i.e. target fish, squids, and invertebrate species - linked to each other by trophic relationships. I specially focus on the family of Anisakidae (Nematoda) and the order of Trypanorhyncha (Cestoda). Those parasites have a complex life cycles, often requiring hosts from different trophic levels to complete their life-cycle. cetaceans and elasmobranchs serves as definitive host respectively, with crustaceans, squids, and fish as intermediate/transport hosts.
Selected Publications
Palomba M, Santoro M, Aco-Alburqueque R, Cipriani P, Mattiucci S. (2021). First molecular detection of the parasites Molicola uncinatus and Hepatoxylon trichiuri (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha) infecting the silver scabbardfish Lepidopus caudatus from the Central Mediterranean Sea: Implications for the seafood quality and safety. Food Control 122(10780).
Aco Alburqueque R, Palomba M, Santoro M, Mattiucci S. (2020). Molecular Identification of Zoonotic Parasites of the Genus Anisakis (Nematoda: Anisakidae) from Fish of the Southeastern Pacific Ocean (Off Peru Coast). Pathogens. 9(11): 910. doi:10.3390/pathogens9110910.
Renato Aco, Javier Mamani, Ricardo Grandez. (2020). Characterization of canine neoplasms diagnosed by histopathology at the laboratory of Histology and Pathology Veterinary of the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia: period 2003-2015. Rev Inv Vet Perú. 31(2): e16155.
My research interest focus to investigate by using an integrated approach, food-webs transmitted endoparasites in order to add knowledge on the state of the biodiversity of the marine ecosystem of the Mediterranean Sea waters and consider those target parasites as indirect indicators of marine food webs integrity. This follows the hypothesis according to which parasitic load, genetic variability, and effects on the host, of those endoparasites, are correlated with the abundance of host populations, i.e. target fish, squids, and invertebrate species - linked to each other by trophic relationships. I specially focus on the family of Anisakidae (Nematoda) and the order of Trypanorhyncha (Cestoda). Those parasites have a complex life cycles, often requiring hosts from different trophic levels to complete their life-cycle. cetaceans and elasmobranchs serves as definitive host respectively, with crustaceans, squids, and fish as intermediate/transport hosts.
