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A series of sampling activities in the Tyre Coast Nature Reserve, on the Southern coast of Lebanon, in the context of the project Blue Tyre - Local Partnership for Sustainable Marine and Coastal Development, allowed for the collection of material to study the polychaete fauna of the area, with particular focus on Non-Indigenous Species (NIS). The detection of several taxonomical novelties resulted in the description of five ne...
Interpretable deep learning reveals spatiotemporal MRI features of brain aging that align with neurodegenerationNARA Subscribed
Cortical thinning and atrophy are hallmarks of brain aging that have been characterized using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Brain aging involves many neuroanatomic features whose effects on brain structure remain unexplored. To address this challenge, we trained interpretable deep neural networks (DNNs) to estimate brain age (BA) from T 1 -weighted ( T 1 w) MRI. By identifying MRI features unapparent to humans, DNNs can fi...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) disproportionately affects women and carriers of the apolipoprotein E ε4 allele (APOE4), yet little is known about how sex and APOE interact to influence white matter (WM) integrity during disease progression. We integrated diffusion MRI and matched blood transcriptomic data to investigate these interactions and their underlying biological mechanisms. WM microstructure was quantified using diffusion te...
The new species Bispira causioi sp. nov. is here described. This taxon shares several morphological features, such as the shape of both uncini and companion chaetae, with other Bispira species mostly of tropical origin. The first observation of this taxon, along the Apulian coast, dates back to 2012 and was never recorded before. At the present, it occurs along the whole Italian Coasts, being reported in several pictures by th...
The Levantine Basin is the first region of the Mediterranean Sea to be impacted by climate warming and the arrival of non-indigenous species (NIS) via the Suez Canal. Although Levantine zooplankton has been studied previously, recent datasets capable of detecting the occurrence of new taxa, or shifts in community composition, especially in the easternmost part of the basin, are lacking. The present study provides updated infor...
Arrivals and departures: exploring sea slug diversity (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Salento Peninsula harboursNARA Subscribed
This study investigates the Heterobranchia species present in the harbours of the Salento Peninsula, in southern Italy, in the central Mediterranean Sea. A total of 158 specimens from 21 families and 54 species were recorded from 2020 to 2025, including five non-indigenous species (NIS): Anteaeolidiella lurana , Bermudella polycerelloides , Camachoaglaja africana , Polycera hedgpethi and Stiliger cf . auarita . Among the total...
Predicting the progression of MCI and Alzheimer’s disease on structural brain integrity and other features with machine learningNARA Subscribed
Machine learning (ML) on structural MRI data shows high potential for classifying Alzheimer’s disease (AD) progression, but the specific contribution of brain regions, demographics, and proteinopathy remains unclear. Using Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) data, we applied an extreme gradient-boosting algorithm and SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) values to classify cognitively normal (CN) older adults, th...
Sampling activities conducted in the Tyre Coast Nature Reserve, southern Lebanon, to study the marine annelid fauna of the area, allowed for the revision of the diversity of this group in Lebanon. We particularly focused on non-indigenous species (NIS), which were characterised from morphological and molecular points of view. A total of 116 taxa were collected; 10 species are reported here for the first time in the Mediterrane...
Effect of temperature and body size on anterior and posterior regeneration in Hermodice carunculata (Polychaeta, Amphinomidae)NARA Subscribed
In recent years, population outbreaks of the annelid Hermodice carunculata (Polychaeta, Amphinomidae) are recurrently detected along the coastal zone of the Salento peninsula (Southern Italy), with impacts on marine benthic ecosystems. Annelida are renowned for their remarkable regeneration potential, enabling them to reform lost body parts. A handful of studies have reported posterior regeneration of H. carunculata , but ante...
Non-indigenous polychaetes along the Salento Peninsula: new records and first molecular dataOA Marine
The Salento Peninsula represents the eastern-most edge of the Italian Peninsula, and one of the first areas to be invaded by thermophilic non-indigenous species. The diversity of non-indigenous polychaetes occurring along the Salento Peninsula is reviewed based on literature data and new samples. Overall, fifteen non-indigenous polychaetes were recorded; among them, Syllis similisunzima is reported for the first time in the Me...
The seagrass Halophila stipulacea (Forsskål) Ascherson (Hydrocharitaceae) is a non-indigenous species (NIS) for the MediterraneanSea. This species is expected to have a high potential for invasiveness based on models predicting the present and futuresuitability of the Mediterranean coasts with respect to the plant requirements. This species was recorded for the first time alongthe Apulian coast in the Otranto harbor in 2011....
This paper is part of a series of studies aimed at understanding the potential exploitation of the biomass of the polychaete worm Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1791), which is obtained as a by-product of an innovative Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) system. IMTA systems are designed according to an ecosystem approach with the aim to reduce marine monoculture impact while further increasing production via exploitati...
Observations on the reproductive behavior and larval development of the bristled fireworm Hermodice carunculata, a common inhabitant of shallow marine rocky bottoms in the Southern Mediterranean Sea, are reported here. In recent years, an increase in abundance and a northward expansion of the populations along the Southern Italian coast were jointly detected, presumably linked to rising water temperature in the Mediterranean S...
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