Sobre la migración de Ciconia nigra

[ES] El día 16-X-1960 nos son mostradas las dos alas de un individuo juvenil de esta especie, cobrado por un cazador alrededor del 15-X- 1960 en las salinas del Cabo de Gata (Almería). El día 2-IX-77, a las 18:50 horas, con el sol recién puesto y a unos 11 kms. Al NE de Cehegin (Murcia), espantamos del suelo dos individuos de esta especie que se posan en un gran Pinus halepensis. Se trata de dos jóvenes, a juzgar por la coloración de patas y pico. Posteriormente emprenden vuelo hacia el S pero después de recorrer unos 500m, dan vueltas en círculos y vuelven hacia el N. observándolas en franco vuelo de aterrizaje hacia la cola del embalse de Argos, situado en las proximidades.

Producción de biomasa y calidad nutricional de la asociación pasto kikuyo (pennisetumclandestinum) y Sauco (sambucus nigra) en el trópico alto

Tesis (Zootecnista). -- Universidad de La Salle. Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias. Programa de Zootecnia, 2014

Evaluación del efecto insecticida de los extractos vegetales de Sambucus nigra (Caprifoliacea) en el control de Collaria scenica (Hemiptera: Miridae) en condiciones de laboratorio

Bogotá (Colombia): Universidad de La Salle. Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias. Programa de Zootecnia

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Foglio 027 Bolzano. Studio petrografico delle vulcaniti permiane del settore Val di Tires – Passo Nigra, Alta Val d’Ega, Bolzano

Il presente lavoro di tesi si inquadra nel programma di rilevamento geologico del Foglio 027 Bolzano, nell’area della Val di Tires – Passo Nigra, Alta Val d’Ega (Bolzano), la cui realizzazione è in corso a cura della Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano, nell’ambito del progetto CARG. Durante la campagna di rilevamento sono stati prelevati 33 campioni presso Tires, in Alta Val d’Ega, appartenenti alle vulcaniti permiane del Gruppo Vulcanico Atesino (GVA), 18 dei quali sono stati sottoposti ad analisi ottico-petrografica e chimica in XRF. I campioni sono stati prelevati dalle tre principali formazioni geologiche affioranti nell’area: la Formazione di Gargazzone (IGG), la Formazione di Cornedo (COR) e la Formazione di Ora (ORA). Dalle analisi è emerso che i campioni prelevati dalla Formazione di Gargazzone risultano di composizione riodacitica, quelli della Formazione di Cornedo hanno composizione andesitica e andesitico-dacitica, quelli della Formazione di Ora hanno composizione riolitica e riodacitica. Sono state distinte tre litofacies all’interno della Formazione di Ora: una litofacies basale, caratterizzata da un’elevata concentrazione di componenti litiche; una litofacies intermedia, decisamente più massiccia ed omogenea, che presenta al suo interno sporadici corpi lenticolari di ignimbriti ricche in pomici; una litofacies di tetto, ricca in pomici. Generalmente le ignimbriti della Formazione di Ora si caratterizzano per la composizione riolitica ricca in sanidino, ma la presenza di ignimbriti di composizione riodacitica all’interno della formazione e precisamente nell’area di studio, si può imputare alla modificazione della composizione mineralogica e chimica originaria a causa dei fenomeni metasomatici, particolarmente intensi lungo il bordo calderico. Sono stati inoltre prelevati cinque campioni che tagliano le formazioni affioranti, due dei quali hanno composizione riolitica, due hanno composizione basaltica e uno ha composizione alcali-basaltica.

Microsatellite In Aeschynomene Falcata (leguminosae): Diversity, Cross-amplification, And Chromosome Localization.

Aeschynomene falcata is an important forage species; however, because of low seed production, it is underutilized as forage species. Aeschynomene is a polyphyletic genus with a challenging taxonomic position. Two subgenera have been proposed, and it is suggested that Aeschynomene can be split in 2 genera. Thus, new markers, such as microsatellite sequences, are desirable for improving breeding programs for A. falcata. Based on transferability and in situ localization, these microsatellite sequences can be applied as chromosome markers in the genus Aeschynomene and closely related genera. Here, we report the first microsatellite library developed for this genus; 11 microsatellites were characterized, with observed and expected heterozygosities ranging from 0.0000 to 0.7143 and from 0.1287 to 0.8360, respectively. Polymorphic information content varied from 0.1167 to 0.7786. The departure from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium may have resulted from frequent autogamy, which is characteristic of A. falcata. Of the 11 microsatellites, 9 loci were cross-amplified in A. brevipes and A. paniculata and 7 in Dalbergia nigra and Machaerium vestitum. Five of these 7 cross-amplified microsatellites were applied as probes during the in situ hybridization assay and 2 showed clear signals on A. falcata chromosomes, ensuring their viability as chromosome markers.

Transport, storage and mobilization of nitrogen by trees and shrubs in the wet/dry tropics of northern Australia

Xylem sap from woody species in the wet/dry tropics of northern Australia was analyzed for N compounds. At the peak of the dry season, arginine was the main N compound in sap of most species of woodlands and deciduous monsoon forest. In the wet season, a marked change occurred with amides becoming the main sap N constituents of most species. Species from an evergreen monsoon forest, with a permanent water source, transported amides in the dry season. In the dry season, nitrate accounted for 7 and 12% of total xylem sap N in species of deciduous and evergreen monsoon forests, respectively In the wet season, the proportion of N present as nitrate increased to 22% in deciduous monsoon forest species. These results suggest that N is taken up and assimilated mainly in the wet season and that this newly assimilated N is mostly transported as amide-N (woodland species, monsoon forest species) and nitrate (monsoon forest species). Arginine is the form in which stored N is remobilized and transported by woodland and deciduous monsoon forest species in the dry season. Several proteins, which may represent bark storage proteins, were detected in inner bark tissue from a range of trees in the dry season, indicating that, although N uptake appears to be limited in the dry season, the many tree and shrub species that produce flowers, fruit or leaves in the dry season use stored N to support growth. Nitrogen characteristics of the studied species are discussed in relation to the tropical environment.

A review of the Apocreadiidae Skrjabin, 1942 (Trematoda : Digenea) and description of Australian species

The Apocreadiidae is reviewed and is considered to include genera recognised previously within the families Apocreadiidae, Homalometridae, Schistorchiidae, Sphincterostomatidae and Trematobrienidae. Key features of the family are extensive vitelline follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in forebody, I-shaped excretory vesicle, no cirrus-sac and genital pore opening immediately anterior to the ventral sucker (usually) or immediately posterior to it (Postporus Manter, 1949). Three subfamilies and 18 genera are recognised within the Apocreadiidae. The Apocreadiinae comprises Homalometron Stafford, 1904 (new syn. Barbulostomum Ramsey, 1965), Callohelmis n. g., Choanodera Manter, 1940, Crassicutis Manter, 1936, Dactylotrema Bravo-Hollis & Manter, 1957, Marsupioacetabulum Yamaguti, 1952, Microcreadium Simer, 1929, Myzotus Manter, 1940, Neoapocreadium Siddiqi & Cable, 1960, Neomegasolena Siddiqi & Cable, 1960, Pancreadium Manter, 1954, Procaudotestis Szidat, 1954 and Trematobrien Dollfus, 1950. The Schistorchiinae comprises Schistorchis Luhe, 1906, Sphincterostoma Yamaguti, 1937, Sphincteristomum Oshmarin, Mamaev & Parukhin, 1961 and Megacreadium Nagaty, 1956. The Postporinae comprises only Postporus. A key to subfamilies and genera of the Apocreadiidae is provided. It is argued that there is no convincing basis for the recognition of the genus Apocreadium Manter, 1937 and all its constituent species are combined with Homalometron. The following new combinations are proposed for species previously recognised within Apocreadium: Homalometron balistis (Manter, 1947), H. caballeroi (Bravo-Hollis, 1953), H. cryptum (Overstreet, 1969), H. longisinosum (Manter, 1937), H. manteri (Overstreet, 1970), H. mexicanum (Manter, 1937) and H. vinodae (Ahmad, 1985). Apocreadium uroproctoferum Sogandares-Bernal, 1959 is found to lack a uroproct and is made a synonym of H. mexicanum. Homalometron verrunculi nom. nov. is proposed to replace the secondarily pre-occupied H. caballeroi Lamothe-Argumedo, 1965. Barbulostomum is made a synonym of Homalometron and H. cupuloris (Ramsey, 1965) n. comb. is proposed. Neochoanodera is made a synonym of Choanodera and Choanodera ghanensis (Fischthal & Thomas, 1970) n. comb. is proposed. Species within the Apocreadiinae and Postporinae are reviewed and the following are recorded or described from Australian fishes: Homalometron wrightae n. sp. from Achlyopa nigra (Macleay), H. synagris (Yamaguti, 1953) n. comb. from Scolopsis monogramma (Cuvier), H. stradbrokensis n. sp. from Gerres subfasciatus Cuvier, Marsupioacetabulum opallioderma n. sp. from G. subfasciatus, Neoapocreadium karwarensis (Hafeezullah, 1970) n. comb. from G. subfasciatus, N. splendens n. sp. from S. monogramma and Callohelmis pichelinae n. g., n. sp. from Hemigymnus melapterus (Bloch), H. fasciatus (Bloch), Stethojulis bandanensis (Bleeker) andChoerodon venustus (De Vis). Callohelmis is recognised by the combination of absence of tegumental spines, caeca terminating midway between the testes and posterior end of body, ventral sucker enclosed in a tegumental pouch, prominent muscles radiating through the body from the ventral sucker, vitelline follicles not extending into the forebody, and a very short excretory vesicle that opens ventrally. New combinations for species previously recognised within Crassicutis are proposed as follows: Neoapocreadium caranxi (Bilqees, 1976) n. comb., N. gerridis (Nahhas & Cable, 1964) n. comb., N. imtiazi (Ahmad, 1984) n. comb. and N. marina (Manter, 1947) n. comb. The host-specificity and zoogeography of the Apocreadiinae are considered.

The Cholinergic System in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer`s Disease: An In Vivo MRI and DTI study

Few studies have investigated in vivo changes of the cholinergic basal forebrain in Alzheimer`s disease (AD) and amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI), an at risk stage of AD. Even less is known about alterations of cortical projecting fiber tracts associated with basal forebrain atrophy. In this study, we determined regional atrophy within the basal forebrain in 21 patients with AD and 16 subjects with MCI compared to 20 healthy elderly subjects using deformation-based morphometry of MRI scans. We assessed effects of basal forebrain atrophy on fiber tracts derived from high-resolution diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) using tract-based spatial statistics. We localized significant effects relative to a map of cholinergic nuclei in MRI standard space as determined from a postmortem brain. Patients with AD and MCI subjects showed reduced volumes in basal forebrain areas corresponding to anterior medial and lateral, intermediate and posterior nuclei of the Nucleus basalis of Meynert (NbM) as well as in the diagonal band of Broca nuclei (P < 0.01). Effects in MCI subjects were spatially more restricted than in AD, but occurred at similar locations. The volume of the right antero-lateral NbM nucleus was correlated with intracortical projecting fiber tract integrity such as the corpus callosum, cingulate, and the superior longitudinal, inferior longitudinal, inferior fronto-occipital, and uncinate fasciculus (P < 0.05, corrected for multiple comparisons). Our findings suggest that a multimodal MRI-DTI approach is supportive to determine atrophy of cholinergic nuclei and its effect on intracortical projecting fiber tracts in AD. Hum Brain Mapp 32: 1349-1362, 2011. (C) 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Characterization of Pinus spp. needles by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry: Application to plant-insect interactions

Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Ciências do Ambiente pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecn

Sobre representações linguísticas

Podi a fazer hoje os mesmos comentários que fiz num artigo publicado no n°.3 da Re vista da Faculdade, em 1989, em que comecei citando um título de Jackendoff (1988) - "Why are they say ing these things ab out us?". Então como agora a incompreensão manifestada por muitos sobre o trabalho desenvol vido em gramática generativa resulta, creio eu, da impossibilidade de acompanhar os avanços teóricos que se têm vindo a processar a um ritmo acelerado. Os sucessivos modelos introduziram uma linguagem sofisticada só compreensível para os que com ela trabalham . Nos últimos anos, poucos meses de afastamento podem ser suficientes para que surjam sérias dificuldades no entendimento de hipóteses teóricas novas. E nós, os que aqui estamos interessados na teoria linguística, é com esforço que seguimos o que vai acontecendo lá fora, dadas as muitas dificuldades que ainda temos nesta extremidade da Europa. Por curiosidade, recordo que, enquanto no início do séc ulo XIII, em Inglaterra, Roger Bacon (Some rset, 1214?-Oxford, 1294) reflectia sobre gramática considerando que "Grammar is substantia lIy the sarne in alI langu ages, even thou gh it may va ry accide nta lIy", aqui, pela mesma altura (1214?) , alguém escrevia o que se julga ser o mais antigo texto em português - a Noticia de Torto - , um relato terrível de acontecimentos violentos: "E ora inista tregua fura - a Veraci- amazaru-li os omeess errnaru- Ii X casaes seu torto al rec ."

Quantificação da Neuromelanina

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Biomédica