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The environmental impacts related to food production are of growing concern, with the phases of production and distribution that significantly contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. Among the call for sustainable food supply chains, Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) have emerged as alternatives to Large-Scale Retail (LSR), striving to promote a more sustainable food system. Research related to AFNs has primarily delved into th...
Seismic hazard for the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP). Part 2: broadband scenarios at the Fier Compressor Station (Albania)NARA Subscribed
To ensure environmental and public safety, critical facilities require rigorous seismic hazard analysis to define seismic input for their design. We consider the case of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), which is a pipeline that transports natural gas from the Caspian Sea to southern Italy, crossing active faults and areas characterized by high seismicity levels. For this pipeline, we develop a Probabilistic Seismic Hazard As...
Seismic hazard for the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP). Part 1: probabilistic seismic hazard analysis along the pipelineNARA Subscribed
The design of critical facilities needs a targeted computation of the expected ground motion levels. The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) is the pipeline that transports natural gas from the Greek-Turkish border, through Greece and Albania, to Italy. We present here the probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) that we performed for this facility, and the deaggregation of the results, aiming to identify the dominant seismic so...
NEOTROPICAL ALIEN MAMMALS: a data set of occurrence and abundance of alien mammals in the NeotropicsNARA Subscribed
Biological invasion is one of the main threats to native biodiversity. For a species to become invasive, it must be voluntarily or involuntarily introduced by humans into a nonnative habitat. Mammals were among first taxa to be introduced worldwide for game, meat, and labor, yet the number of species introduced in the Neotropics remains unknown. In this data set, we make available occurrence and abundance data on mammal specie...
Museum samples could help to reconstruct the original distribution of Salmo trutta complex in ItalyNARA Subscribed
Partial D‐loop sequences of museum specimens of brown trout and marble trout ( Salmo trutta species complex ) collected from Mediterranean rivers in the late 19th century were analysed to help to describe the native distribution of these species. All the individuals studied carried native haplotypes, the geographic distribution of which is consistent with published data. These results indicate that museum specimens from the 19...
The Anopheles gambiae complex of mosquitoes includes malaria vectors at different stages of speciation, whose study enables a better understanding of how adaptation to divergent environmental conditions leads to evolution of reproductive isolation. We investigated the population genetic structure of closely related sympatric taxa that have recently been proposed as separate species ( An. coluzzii and An. gambiae ), sampled fro...
Twelve microsatellite loci were isolated from and characterized for the black goby Gobius niger . These loci were tested on a total of 48 individuals from two geographically distant locations (Orbetello and Cattolica) and the number of alleles ranged from two to 18, with expected ( H e ) and observed ( H o ) heterozygosities ranging from 0·042 to 0·941 and from 0·042 to 0·917, respectively. The loci described were used to cros...
Two mitochondrial genes were examined to compare an isolated population of the Adriatic brook lamprey Lampetra zanandreai in central Italy with other populations in the species range (Po plain) and with parasitic and freshwater lampreys. A single haplotype, identical to one in a Venetian sample, was found in 10 individuals from the isolated population. The reduced variability is consistent with a history of dispersal after the...
Genetic diversity of brown trout in central ItalyNARA Subscribed
Genetic diversity was analysed in brown trout Salmo trutta populations living in an area of central Italy using RFLP analysis of two mtDNA segments and of the nuclear locus LDH‐C1 *. The data indicated a genetic structure profoundly altered by repeated stockings with allochthonous material of Atlantic origin. In fact, four and 11 of the haplotypes detected were, respectively, identical or genetically very close to haplotypes f...
The reproductive biology of the crystal goby with a comparison to that of the transparent gobyNARA Subscribed
A histological analysis of the gonad of the pelagic crystal goby Crystallogobius linearis , from the coastal central area of the Adriatic Sea, showed it to be a truly semelparous species; after the first spawning the mature gonads of both males and females appeared to have lost the capability for further spawning. Mature females had very low fecundity (200–700 mature oocytes) and small egg size (0·2–0·55 mm) similarly to other...
Short lifespan and apoptosis in Aphia minutaNARA Subscribed
Evidence is presented that apoptosis of intestinal enterocytes is implicated in adult mortality immediately after the breeding season in Aphia minuta , a paedomorphic goby that spends its whole life cycle of
Pattern of gonad maturation and the question of semelparity in the paedomorphic goby Aphia minutaNARA Subscribed
At variance with previous reports, the paedomorphic goby Aphia minuta does not show semelparity, but abbreviate iteroparity like other small Mediterranean gobiid species. In spring, the mature ovary contains several batches of eggs at different stages of vitellogenesis. This indicates that the breeding season of A. minuta is quite long and that spawning takes place at least twice during its short lifespan, involving in each ov...
The diploid complement of the paedomorphic goby Aphia minuta ranged from 44 to 41 due to Robertsonian fusions (fundamental number=44). Data on spermatogenesis suggest that structural heterozygotes are fertile and that these chromosomal changes are not involved in a speciation process.