Patella ferruginea is an endemic limpet of the Western Mediterranean Sea, presently considered the most threatened marine macroinvertebrate in the region and included in several international conservation directives. Its populations were widespread throughout the Western Mediterranean in the late Pleistocene (Tyrrhenian period), still largely distributed until the 19th century and presently confined into small populations in f...

Summary Biological interactions in the microbial communities of the rhizosphere continuously shape the gene expression patterns of each individual microorganism. A dual RNA‐Seq approach was applied to obtain a comprehensive overview of the molecular mechanisms activated during the interaction between the biocontrol rhizobacterium Lysobacter capsici AZ78 and the soilborne phytopathogenic oomycete Phytophthora infestans . The RN...

The Water Framework Directive (WFD) 2000/60/EC, adopted by the European Community in 2000 with the goal of maintaining and improving the aquatic environments, requires that member states achieve and maintain a good ecological status of all water bodies by 2015. In the marine context, the ecological status has to be quantified applying indexes based on appropriate key biological elements, which allow the categorization of water...

We compared the speciation of Hg in two estuaries, Lavaca Bay (Texas) and the Venice Lagoon (Italy). Both are large, shallow embayments that are contaminated by direct discharges from mercury‐cell chlor‐alkali plants and dominated by rapid tidal flushing. Although contaminated by discharges into Lavaca Bay from 1966 to 1979 and into the Venice Lagoon from 1951 to 1989, Hg concentrations have dwindled to similar moderate levels...