A5076972593- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Marine and fisheries research
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Marine animal studies overview
- Crustacean biology and ecology
- Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution
- Mollusks and Parasites Studies
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Marine and environmental studies
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Morphological variations and asymmetry
University of Palermo
2015-2024
Marina Del Rey Hospital
2023
National Biodiversity Institute
2023
University of Palermo
2023
Background DNA barcoding enhances the prospects for species-level identifications globally using a standardized and authenticated DNA-based approach. Reference libraries comprising validated barcodes (COI) constitute robust datasets testing query sequences, providing considerable utility to identify marine fish other organisms. Here we test feasibility of assign species tissue samples from collected in central Mediterranean Sea, major contributor European ichthyofaunal diversity....
The beach flea Orchestia stephenseni was originally described by Cecchini (1928), and successively Karaman (1973). description of this species will be herein revised focusing on the variation gnathopod 2 in males, as detected during its growth period. An analysis DNA Barcoding performed to support assignment taxonomic five morphotypes. As type specimen has not yet been designated, a neotype is assigned. name here presented valid it satisfies requirements Reversal Principle Priority: takes...
The re-examination of marine alien species or Non-indigenous (NIS) reported in Italian Seas by December 2018, is here provided, particularly focusing on establishment success, year first record, origin, potential invasiveness, and likely pathways. Furthermore, their distribution assessed according to subregions outlined the European Union (EU) Marine Strategy Framework Directive: Adriatic Sea (ADRIA), Ionian Central Mediterranean (CMED), Western (WMED). In Italy, 265 NIS have been detected...
Little attention has been paid to the consequences of last landbridge between Africa and Sicily on Mediterranean biogeography. Previous paleontological scarce molecular data suggest possible faunal exchange later than well-documented in Messinian (5.3 My); however, a African origin recent terrestrial Sicilian fauna not thoroughly tested with methods. To gain insight into phylogeography region, we examine two mitochondrial nuclear markers (one is newly adapted intron marker) green toads (Bufo...
Cartilaginous fish are particularly vulnerable to anthropogenic stressors and environmental change because of their K-selected reproductive strategy. Accurate data from scientific surveys landings essential assess conservation status develop robust protection management plans. Currently available often incomplete or incorrect as a result inaccurate species identifications, due high level morphological stasis, especially among closely related taxa. Moreover, several diagnostic characters...
A survey has been carried out at four Israeli rocky sites to evaluate the diversity of amphipod fauna on various hard substrates, still scarcely monitored, as potential pabulum for crustacean species.A shallow reefs along Mediterranean coast Israel recovered 28 species and integrated Amphipoda checklist country ofIsrael with 12 newly-recorded species. Such renewed national list includes Maera schieckei Karaman & Ruffo, 1971, a rare endemic Sea, recorded here first time from southern Levant...
This study examined genetic variation across the range of Brachidontes variabilis to produce a molecular phylogeography. Neighbour joining (NJ), minimum evolution (ME) and maximum parsimony (MP) trees based on partial mitochondrial DNA sequences 16S-rDNA cytochrome oxidase (COI) genes revealed three monophyletic clades: (1) pharaonis s.l. from Mediterranean Sea Red Sea; (2) B. Indian Ocean; (3) western Pacific Ocean. Although clades have never been differentiated by malacologists employing...
The Sicilian wolf remained isolated in Sicily from the end of Pleistocene until its extermination 1930s-1960s. Given long-term isolation on island and distinctive morphology, genetic origin remains debated. We sequenced four nuclear genomes five mitogenomes seven existing museum specimens to investigate ancestry, relationships with extant extinct wolves dogs, diversity. Our results show that is most closely related Italian but carries ancestry a lineage European Eneolithic Bronze Age dogs....
Micro and nanoplastics are harmful to marine life due their high level of fragmentation resistance degradation. Over the past two decades, coastal sediment has shown an increasing amount microplastics being a sort trap for debris wastes or chemicals. In such environment some species may be successful candidates used as monitors environmental health hazards can considered mirror threats natural habitats. Such play key role in food web littoral systems since they litter-feeders, prey fishes...
The present study, based on microsatellite markers, describes a population genetic analysis of the small-spotted catshark Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758), representing one most abundant and commonly caught cartilaginous fishes in Mediterranean Sea adjacent areas. analyses were performed to unravel features (variability, connectivity, sex-biased dispersal) their relative geographic populations, both at small (around coast Sardinia, Western Sea) larger spatial scale (pan-Mediterranean...
Innovative technological approaches are crucial to enhance naturalistic museum collections and develop information repositories of relevant interest science, such as threatened animal taxa. In this context, museomics is an emerging discipline that provides a novel approach the enhancement exploitation these collections. present study, discovery neglected lion skeleton in Museum Zoology “Pietro Doderlein” University Palermo (Italy) offered opportunity undertake multidisciplinary project. The...
Abstract Maggio, T., Lo Brutto, S., Garoia, F., Tinti, and Arculeo, M. 2009. Microsatellite analysis of red mullet Mullus barbatus (Perciformes, Mullidae) reveals the isolation Adriatic Basin in Mediterranean Sea. – ICES Journal Marine Science, 66: 1883–1891. The is commercially one most important demersal fish resources Mediterranean. Molecular data on its genetic population structure throughout are reported. Six microsatellite loci displayed a high degree expected heterozygosity allele...
Horton, Tammy, Claude De Broyer, Denise Bellan-Santini, Charles Oliver Coleman, Denis Copilaș-Ciocianu, Laure Corbari, Mikhail E. Daneliya, Jean-Claude Dauvin, Wim Decock, Lucia Fanini, Cene Fišer, Rebeca Gasca, Michal Grabowski, José M. Guerra-García, Ed A. Hendrycks, Lauren Elizabeth Hughes, Damia Jaume, Young-Hyo Kim, Rachael King, Sabrina Lo Brutto, Anne-Nina Lörz, Tomasz Mamos, Cristiana S. Serejo, André R. Senna, Jesser F. Souza-Filho, Anne Helene Tandberg, Michael H. Thurston, Vader,...
Abstract The deep‐sea habitat, from 200 to 2000 m depth, has long been thought as an ecosystem where biotic and abiotic factors vary very little consequently species are not disturbed by processes phenomena which could promote fast evolutionary mechanisms. Unfortunately, biological information relating deep water is limited, especially regarding the population genetics of inhabiting Mediterranean Sea, general patterns cannot be inferred. In this study we report data on genetic structure...