Skeletal muscle is crucial for glucose regulation and amino acid storage, significantly influencing overall metabolic balance. Its function is tightly regulated by complex mechanisms, with histone acetylation as a key epigenetic control point. Our previous work identified eIF6 as a key regulator of muscle energy homeostasis and demonstrated its role in modulating histone acetylation in the liver. However, whether similar epige...

Water temperature and dietary lipid levels are key factors influencing fish growth and metabolic homeostasis in aquaculture. This study aimed to understand the interactive effects on growth performance, metabolic response, gut microbiota, and gut evacuation dynamics in flathead grey mullet ( Mugil cephalus ). A 100-day feeding trial was carried out to assess the effects of two dietary lipid levels (10%, L10; 15%, L15) at 22 °C...

The round sardinella (Sardinella aurita Valenciennes, 1847) is a widely distributed migratory pelagic fish inhabiting the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern Atlantic coasts. The species is heavily exploited and represents a valuable resource for global fisheries. In the Mediterranean area, uptakes of round sardinella are particularly high in the Ionian and Levant regions, where landings have shown fluctuating yet significant pe...

The European endemic barbels represent important bioindicators of river quality and are nowadays threatened by changing environmental conditions and hybridization with the invasive alien Barbus barbus . It is therefore fundamental to investigate interactions among species and adaptability to climate changes in protected areas of Northern Apennines. An investigation was carried out considering 248 barbel samples that were analy...

In this study, an analysis of hourly air temperatures in four groups of 32 stations from the UK highland (5 stations), UK lowland (4 stations), Italian highland (11 stations), and Italian lowland (12 stations) at different altitudes was carried out over the period from 2002 to 2021. The study aimed to examine the trends of each hour of the day during this period, over different averaging time windows (10‐day, 30‐day, and 60‐da...

Marine biodiversity monitoring in the Mediterranean’s increasingly threatened ecosystems is crucial for effective ecosystem conservation and management. Here, we leveraged the Mediterranean International Trawl Survey program (MEDITS) to implement eDNA sampling through the recently tested ‘metaprobe’ procedure and characterize fish assemblages in three separate areas off the Italian coasts: Northern Adriatic Sea (NoAS), Liguria...

It is well established that neurological and non-neurological autoimmune disorders can be triggered by viral infections. It remains unclear whether SARS-CoV-2 infection induces similar conditions and whether they show a distinctive phenotype. We retrospectively identified patients with acute inflammatory CNS conditions referred to our laboratory for antibody testing during the pandemic (March 1 to August 31, 2020). We screened...

Collection from jugular vein (JV) or intrathoracic cavity is the traditional procedure for blood sampling dead wildlife, but it is often source of preanalytical biases. Cavernous sinus of dura mater (CS) is an alternative site for withdrawal that may help to solve these issues but it has been used only for serology, while no data are available for biochemistry. This work compares metabolic profiles from CS and JV blood in red...