A5052992226- Marine and fisheries research
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Marine animal studies overview
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
- Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
- Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
University of Messina
1936-2024
The lack of data on the chronic effects chloroacetanilide herbicide metabolites non-target aquatic organisms creates a gap in knowledge about comprehensive impacts excessive and repeated pesticide use. Therefore, this study evaluates long-term propachlor ethanolic sulfonic acid (PROP-ESA) after 10 (T1) 20 (T2) days at environmental level 3.5 μg.L−1 (E1) its 10x fold multiply 35 (E2) model organism Mytilus galloprovincialis. To end, PROP-ESA usually showed time- dose-dependent trend,...
Otolith features are useful tools for studying taxonomy, ecology, paleontology, and fish biology since they represent a permanent record of life history. Nevertheless, the functional morphology otoliths remains an open research question that is to completely understand their eco-morphology. This study aims deepen knowledge intra- interspecific variation in sagitta three congeneric seabreams, how such variability could be related lifestyles each species. Therefore, sagittae (n = 161) 24...
Otoliths are used in taxonomy and ichthyology as they can provide a wide range of information about specimens. They an essential tool to monitor the most sensitive species for sustainable exploitation level. Despite increasing use sagittae research, their inter- intra-specific variability eco-functionality still poorly explored. This paper aims investigate Mugilidae using morphological morphometrical analysis, well scanning electron microscopy shape analysis. The 74 specimens belonging three...
Data on the biology and ecology of Galeus melastomus are old/absent for Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, despite there being numerous studies in wider area. A total 127 specimens G. from southern collected 2018–2019 using trawling nets, were analyzed to investigate size at sexual maturity, sex ratio, length–weight relationships, feeding habits. To our best knowledge, this is first time which all these features investigated Sea melastomus. The stomach content analysis showed that had intermediate...
Improve the knowledge base on ecomorphological adaptation of teleost species to different environments, trying reconstruct how habitat can shape sagittae , is essential for conservational purposes, evolutionary evaluations, and population dynamics studies. Here provided a comparative study between features, growth rates age composition two Scorpaena porcus populations inhabiting Mediterranean waters, one from Strait Messina (Central Sea) Split area (Adriatic Sea). Additionally, stomach...
Merluccius merluccius is one of the most important Mediterranean benthopelagic predators. It represents a key species for ecosystem’s functioning due to its fundamental role in energy transferal between different domains and depth strata. The aim this study was explore feeding habits European hakes southern central Sea, also analyze timescale variations ontogenetic shift five size length classes. A total 411 stomachs collected from 2018 2020 were analyzed assess diet habits. Results...
Mesopelagic species are enjoining increasing attention due to the growing impact of fisheries activities on deep marine biocenosis. Improving knowledge base mesopelagic is required enhance their conservation gaps regarding many and families. In this context, otoliths can be fundamental assessing life history, ecomorphological adaptation environment stock composition. The present paper aims explore saccular utricular morphology intra-specific variability hatchetfish, Argyropelecus hemigymnus,...
Abstract The garfish Belone belone represents the only valid endemic species for Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean. It shows a wide global distribution range, with high commercial value ecological relevance in pelagic domain. Despite this, there needs to be more knowledge regarding otoliths of this species, total absence descriptions asterisci lapilli from populations lack studies on reliability shape analysis its sagittae. present paper aims provide first main contours...
This Collective Article presents information on 20 taxa belonging to five (5) Phyla: Cnidaria (2), Mollusca (8), Arthropoda (4), Echinodermata (1) and Chordata recorded from the Alboran Sea Levantine Sea. These new records were found in seven (7) different ecoregions as follows: Sea: record of rare football octopus Ocythoe tuberculata harbour Algeciras (Spain); Western Mediterranean first isopod Arcturinella deltensis Ligurian Sea, third whole Sea; site for Muricidae Coralliophila ahuiri...
Pharmaceuticals are widely recognized as potentially hazardous to aquatic ecosystems. In the last two decades, constant intake of biologically active chemicals used in human healthcare has been related growing release these agents into natural environments. As reported by several studies, various pharmaceuticals have detected, mainly surface water (seas, lakes, and rivers), but also groundwater drinking water. Moreover, contaminants their metabolites can show biological activity even at very...
The introduction of pollutants, such as thiacloprid and benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P), into the waters urbanized coastal estuarine areas through fossil fuel spills, domestic industrial waste discharges, atmospheric inputs, continental runoff poses a major threat to fauna flora aquatic environment can have significant impact on internal defense system invertebrates mussels. Using monoclonal polyclonal anti-Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) anti-inducible nitric oxide synthetase (iNOS) antibodies for first...
Abstract The skin of snakes acts as the first interface between these reptiles and environment they live in. It plays an important role in ecology organisms, specialised structures, such tactile corpuscles, are crucial sensing a wide variety stimuli. This study, by examining presence, localisation colocalisation serotonin, substance P, PGP 9.5 tubulin, wants to demonstrate sensory that structures play Green whip snake Hierophis viridiflavus (Lacépède, 1789). study presents evaluation nerve...
The present paper represents the first description of abnormal hermaphroditism in Galeus melastomus (Rafinesque, 1810). black mouth cat shark specimen, collected summer from southern Tyrrhenian Sea at entrance Salerno gulf, showed a basic intersexuality characterized by presence male secondary and female primary sexual characters. reproductive system has been described with an accurate morphological analysis, also including histological assessment oocytes. Results only right clasper, not...
In the present note an adult female of Tremoctopus violaceus delle Chiaje, 1830, is recorded from Strait Messina. Species family Tremoctopodidae are widely distributed in tropical oceans, but rare coastal waters. The morphological characteristics coincide with those described by other authors. Necroscopic examination performed did not reveal any peculiar pathology. Morphometrical characteristics, photos and general information given, expanding knowledge about these cephalopods Mediterranean basin.
Understanding the interaction between marine biota and litter is essential to comprehend how organisms face continuous alteration of their habitats due anthropogenic pressure. The evidence here reported, based on both direct in situ observations citizen science obtained information, refer interactions two Mediterranean Cephalopoda species natural environments, and, more specifically, between: i) Octopus vulgaris a plastic bin used for laying eggs inside, ii) Sepia officinalis an artificial...