Primeras experiencias de cultivo larvario del medregal negro ("Seriola rivoliana", Valenciennes 1833) en Canarias

Máster Oficial en Cultivos Marinos. VI Máster Internacional en Acuicultura. Trabajo presentado como requisito parcial para la obtención del Título de Máster Oficial en Cultivos Marinos, otorgado por la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), el Instituto Canario de Ciencias Marinas (ICCM), y el Centro Internacional de Altos Estudios Agronómicos Mediterráneos de Zaragoza (CIHEAM)

Un proyecto de arsenal para la Barceloneta (1743)

[ES] En 1743 el ingeniero militar Miguel Marín diseñó un arsenal naval en Barcelona. En este artículo se estudia el contexto inmediato de este proyecto. Primeramente, la voluntad de trasladar la principal base naval mediterránea de Cartagena a la capital catalana. En segundo lugar, la relación centro-periferia y el papel del lobby catalán dentro del proceso.

Revision of Trogulidae Sundevall, 1833 (Arachnida: Opiliones)

The relationship and phylogeny of the western Palearctic harvestmen family Trogulidae is investigated. The traditional system of seven genera and approximately 40 species appeared to be artificially composed but a phylogenetic approach and a comprehensive revision has long been sought after. Species are poorly characterised due to their uniform morphology and species evaluation is furthermore complicated by the variability of the few characters used for species delineation. To meet these demands a molecular genetic analysis is accomplished using the nuclear 28S rRNA gene and the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. This analysis incorporates most genera and species of Trogulidae as well as a comprehensive set of Nemastomatidae and Dicranolasmatidae as outgroup taxa. Phylogenetic results of Bayesian analysis, Maximum Parsimony, Maximum Likelihood and Neighbor Joining are compared with distributional data, morphological characters and results of canonical discriminant analysis of morphometric characters and general congruence of these data sets is shown. To demonstrate the applicability of this method the revision of two species-groups within Trogulus is set out in detail. The Trogulus hirtus species-group and the Trogulus coriziformis species-group are revised. The former is in the central and north-western Balkan Peninsula. T. tricarinatus ssp. hirtus is raised to species level and four new species are described (T. karamanorum [man.n.], T. melitensis [man.n.], T. pharensis [man.n]; T. thaleri [man.n.]). The Trogulus coriziformis species-group is confined to the western Mediterranean area. T. coriziformis, T. aquaticus are re-described, T. cristatus and T. lusitanicus are re-established and four species are described as new (T. balearicus, T. huberi, T. prietoi, T. pyrenaicus). In both species-groups two further cryptic species probably exist but were not described. The species groups are shown to represent different phylogenetic levels and this information is used for the revisional work on the genus Trogulus as well as for the generic system of Trogulidae. Family status of Dicranolasmatidae is rejected and Dicranolasma is shown to be best incorporated within Trogulidae. Calathocratus, Platybessobius and Trogulocratus appear to be polyphyletic and are best to be united within Calathocratus, the oldest name of this set. The cryptic diversity within Trogulidae, especially in Trogulus and the composed genus Calathocratus rates to 150-235% and is thereby remarkably high for a group of the generally well researched European fauna. Genetic features of the group such as heteroplasmy, the possibility of major gene rearrangements and usability of the cytochrome b gene for phylogenetic studies in Opiliones are outlined.

Distribuzione spazio-temporale di Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833) e Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) nel Golfo di Taranto

Il Golfo di Taranto è una baia storica all’interno del Mar Ionio Settentrionale, Mar Mediterraneo Orientale. Sebbene il Mar Mediterraneo rappresenti meno dell’1% della superficie oceanica, presenta un alto livello di diversità biologica e si inserisce tra i primi 25 Biodiversity Hot Spot a livello globale. Esso purtroppo è anche uno dei bacini più antropizzati del mondo; tali pressioni mettono a serio rischio la conservazione di numerose specie, tra cui i Cetacei. Attualmente non sono presenti lavori riportanti dati di abbondanza dei Cetacei nel Golfo di Taranto: la mia ricerca vuole contribuire a colmare questo vuoto conoscitivo ed aggiungere nuove conoscenze sull’abbondanza dei Cetacei nel Mar Mediterraneo. Le aree di studio prese in esame si trovano nel Golfo di Taranto, sono contigue ed hanno la stessa superficie. Utilizzando il metodo del transetto lineare ed il software Distance 6.0 è stato possibile, raccogliere i dati di abbondanza dei delfinidi Stenella coeruleoalba e Truncatus truncatus ed analizzarli, ottenendo delle stime di abbondanza da confrontare con la serie storica disponibile (2009-2014). L’utilizzo del metodo del Distance Sampling, applicato per la prima volta nel Golfo di Taranto, è stato fondamentale perché ha permesso di colmare una lacuna conoscitiva sulla consistenza numerica associata alla nota presenza dei Cetacei nel Mar Ionio Settentrionale. I risultati ottenuti hanno reso possibile il confronto delle stime di abbondanza ottenute nel Golfo di Taranto con quelle del bacino ligure-corso-provenzale del Mediterraneo (Santuario Pelagos). Infatti è stato possibile rilevare che S. coeruleoalba presenta abbondanze generalmente inferiori ed un trend in diminuzione nel Santuario Pelagos, in netto contrasto con le maggiori abbondanze ed il trend in incremento evidenziato nel Golfo di Taranto e sintetizzato in questa tesi. Si evince, quindi la massima urgenza nell’implementare lo studio nel Golfo di Taranto, laddove la presenza di differenti specie di Cetacei e le stime di abbondanza di S. coeruleoalba e T. truncatus evidenziano la necessità di interventi di gestione finalizzati alla conservazione del patrimonio di diversità biologica del Mediterraneo.

Human TOP1 residues implicated in species specificity of HIV-1 infection are required for interaction with BTBD2, and RNAi of BTBD2 in old world monkey and human cells increases permissiveness to HIV-1 infection

Host determinants of HIV-1 viral tropism include factors from producer cells that affect the efficiency of productive infection and factors in target cells that block infection after viral entry. TRIM5 restricts HIV-1 infection at an early post-entry step through a mechanism associated with rapid disassembly of the retroviral capsid. Topoisomerase I (TOP1) appears to play a role in HIV-1 viral tropism by incorporating into or otherwise modulating virions affecting the efficiency of a post-entry step, as the expression of human TOP1 in African Green Monkey (AGM) virion-producing cells increased the infectivity of progeny virions by five-fold. This infectivity enhancement required human TOP1 residues 236 and 237 as their replacement with the AGM counterpart residues abolished the infectivity enhancement. Our previous studies showed that TOP1 interacts with BTBD1 and BTBD2, two proteins which co-localize with the TRIM5 splice variant TRIM5 in cytoplasmic bodies. Because BTBD1 and BTBD2 interact with one HIV-1 viral tropism factor, TOP1, and co-localize with a splice variant of another, we investigated the potential involvement of BTBD1 and BTBD2 in HIV-1 restriction.

Did John really promise Mary to leave?

This paper contrasts finite and non-finite complement constructions containing the matrix verb promise. Using data from the British National Corpus, I show that when no explicit mention is made of the promissee the non-finite form of complement is overwhelmingly preferred to its finite counterparts. The exact opposite is the case when the promissee is mentioned between the matrix verb and the complement clause. In addition, the promiser in the x promise y to infinitive construction is almost always pronominal. I suggest that these two facts, the dispreference for the to infinitive form of complement when the promissee is mentioned and the pronominal encoding of the promiser in such cases, are both related to the very rarity of this form of construction in English. Data is adduced showing that another rare construction, the so-called possessive -ing construction, also occurs with a disproportionate number of pronominal subjects. It is suggested that the preference for pronominal subjects in these constructions may be related to a wish to reduce the overall processing complexity of the predications in question.