A5002765254- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Calpain Protease Function and Regulation
- RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
- Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
- Research Data Management Practices
- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
- Parasites and Host Interactions
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- AI-based Problem Solving and Planning
- Veterinary Pharmacology and Anesthesia
- Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
- Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
- Congenital heart defects research
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Silkworms and Sericulture Research
National Research Council
2024-2025
Neuroscience Institute
2024
University of Salento
2024
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
2014-2022
University of Sannio
2020
Clonally transmissible cancers are tumour lineages that transmitted between individuals via the transfer of living cancer cells. In marine bivalves, leukaemia-like cancers, called hemic neoplasia (HN), have demonstrated ability to infect from different species. We performed whole-genome sequencing in eight warty venus clams were diagnosed with HN, two sampling points located more than 1000 nautical miles away Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea Coasts Spain. Mitochondrial genome analysis...
ABSTRACT Amplicon sequencing tools such as metabarcoding are commonly used for thorough characterisation of microbial diversity in natural samples. They mostly rely on the amplification conserved universal markers, mainly ribosomal genes, allowing taxonomic assignment barcodes. However, linking classification with functional traits is not straightforward and requires knowledge each group to confidently assign taxa a given trait. Zoosporic parasites highly diverse yet understudied, many...
Here we analyze existing quantitative data available for cephalopod brains based on classical contributions by J.Z. Young and colleagues, to cite some. We relate the relative brain size of selected regions (area and/or lobe), with behavior, life history, ecology distribution several species here considered. After hierarchical clustering identify describe ten clusters grouping 52 species. This allows us cerebrotypes, i.e., differences composition in different species, as a sign their...
Abstract Research on animal venoms and their components spans multiple disciplines, including biology, biochemistry, bioinformatics, pharmacology, medicine, more. Manipulating analyzing the diverse array of data required for venom research can be challenging, relevant tools resources are often dispersed across different online platforms, making them less accessible to nonexperts. In this article, we address multifaceted needs scientific community involved in toxin-related by identifying...
The DNA base composition is well known to be highly variable among organisms. Bio-physic studies on the effect of GC increments structure have shown that GC-richer sequences are more bendable. result was keystone hypothesis proposing metabolic rate as major force driving content variability, since an increased resistance torsion stress mainly required during transcription process avoid breakage. Hence, aim present work test if both salinity and migration, suggested affect teleostean fishes,...
Dbx1 is a homeodomain transcription factor involved in neuronal fate specification belonging to widely conserved family among bilaterians. In mammals, was proposed act as transcriptional repressor by interacting with the Groucho corepressors allow of neurons essential biological functions such locomotion or breathing.Sequence alignments proteins from different species allowed us identify two domains related Groucho-dependent Engrailed domain (RD), well newly described composed clusterized...
A growing body of evidence suggests that the biological effects polyphenols are not restricted to antioxidant activity, but they exert a wide range modulatory on metabolic pathways, cellular signaling and gene expression. In this study, we tested minimum safe concentration gallic acid (GA) in 72 hpf zebrafish larvae order evaluate central nervous system behavioral response. We showed short exposure (30 min) induces depletion two main excitatory inhibitory neurotransmitters, Glu GABA,...
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A comparative analysis of five teleostean genomes, namely zebrafish, medaka, three-spine stickleback, fugu and pufferfish was performed with the aim to highlight nature forces driving both length base composition introns (i.e., bpi GCi). An inter-genome approach using orthologous intronic sequences carried out, analyzing independently variables in pairwise comparisons. average shortening observed at increasing GCi values. The result not affected by masking transposable repetitive elements...
Abstract Venom research is a highly multidisciplinary field that involves multiple subfields of biology, informatics, pharmacology, medicine, and other areas. These different facets are often technologically challenging pursued by teams lacking connection with each other. This lack coordination hampers the full development venom investigation applications. The COST Action CA19144–European Network was recently launched to promote synergistic interactions among stakeholders foster at European level.
ABSTRACT Clonally transmissible cancers are tumour lineages that transmitted between individuals via the transfer of living cancer cells. In marine bivalves, leukemia-like cancers, called hemic neoplasia, have demonstrated ability to infect from different species. We performed whole-genome sequencing in eight warty venus clams were diagnosed with two sampling points located more than 1,000 nautical miles away Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea Coasts Spain. Mitochondrial genome analysis...
This paper presents the collaborative efforts of Working Group 1 (WG1 - Occurrence and detection zoosporic parasites) 2 (WG2 Drivers underlying dynamic diseases) within ParAqua COST Action, a research initiative focused on understanding parasites their interactions with algae. Initially conceived as an interactive web page, one deliverables WG1 has evolved into centralised database for data gathered by scientific community ParAqua. In this we present summary our work, carried out from July...
Venomous fish have independently evolved venom-delivery systems multiple times throughout their evolution. Despite the remarkable convergence of such structures, a large variety in structures morphology does occur across species. This review is aimed at delving into species’ peculiarities, exploring diversity venom glands and potential ecological roles relation to habitats associated food webs. A detailed knowledge anatomy highly diverse fundamental prerequisite developing new effective...
A comparative analysis of polychaete species, classified as motile and low-motile forms, highlighted that the former were characterized not only by a higher metabolic rate (MR), but also genomic GC content. The fluctuation both variables was affected phylogenetic relationship species. Thus, present results further support very active lifestyle affects MR at same time, showing an unexpected similarity between invertebrates vertebrates. In teleosts, indeed, similar pattern has been observed in...
Abstract The three spine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus is a specific obligatory intermediate host for the cestode worm Schistocephalus solidus . This system commonly used to investigate host-parasite interaction in fishes. Despite interesting attempts which have been made quantify impact of parasite over respiration rate fish, none previous reports took consideration that diversified different ecotypes according its ability reproductive migration, from and sea. Here oxygen consumption...