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Landscape Genetics for the Empirical Assessment of Resistance Surfaces: The European Pine Marten (Martes martes) as a Target-Species of a Regional Ecological Network

Ruiz González, Aritz; Gurrutxaga San Vicente, Mikel; Cushman, Samuel A.; Madeira García, María José; Randi, Ettore; Gómez Moliner, Benjamín Juan (Public Library Science, 2014-10-16)

Coherent ecological networks (EN) composed of core areas linked by ecological corridors are being developed worldwide with the goal of promoting landscape connectivity and biodiversity conservation. However, empirical ...

The Interplay between Natural Selection and Susceptibility to Melanoma on Allele 374F of SLC45A2 Gene in a South European Population

López López, Saioa; García, Óscar; Yurrebaso, Iñaki; Flores, Carlos; Acosta-Herrera, Marialbert; Chen, Hua; Gardeazabal, Jesús; Careaga, Jesús María; Boyano López, María Dolores; Sánchez, Ana; Ratón-Nieto, Juan Antonio; Sevilla Mambrilla, Arrate; Smith Zubiaga, Isabel; García de Galdeano Zaldivar, María Alicia; Martínez-Cadenas, Conrado; Izagirre Arribalzaga, Neskuts; De la Rúa Vaca, Concepción; Alonso Alegre, Santos (Public Library Science, 2014-08-05)

We aimed to study the selective pressures interacting on SLC45A2 to investigate the interplay between selection and susceptibility to disease. Thus, we enrolled 500 volunteers from a geographically limited population ...

Fishing Long-Fingered Bats (Myotis capaccinii) Prey Regularly upon Exotic Fish

Aizpurua Arrieta, Ostaizka; Garín Atorrasagasti, Ignacio; Alberdi Estibaritz, Antton; Salsamendi Pagola, Egoitz; Baagoe, Hans; Aiartza Azurtza, José Ramón (Public Library of Science, 2013-11-27)

The long-fingered bat Myotis capaccinii is a European trawling bat reported to feed on fish in several Mediterranean locations, but the ecological circumstances of this behavior have not yet been studied. To elucidate the ...

Inferring Population Genetic Structure in Widely and Continuously Distributed Carnivores: The Stone Marten (Martes foina) as a Case Study

Vergara Rosa, María; Basto, Mafalda P.; Madeira García, María José; Gómez Moliner, Benjamín Juan; Santos-Reis, Margarida; Fernandes, Carlos; Ruiz González, Aritz (Public Library Science, 2015-07-29)

The stone marten is a widely distributed mustelid in the Palaearctic region that exhibits variable habitat preferences in different parts of its range. The species is a Holocene immigrant from southwest Asia which, according ...

Identification of Sex and Female’s Reproductive Stage in Commercial Fish Species through the Quantification of Ribosomal Transcripts in Gonads

Rojo Bartolomé, Iratxe; Diaz de Cerio Arruabarrena, Oihane; Diez, Guzman; Cancio Uriarte, Ibon (Public Library Science, 2016-02-26)

The estimation of maturity and sex of fish stocks in European waters is a requirement of the EU Data Collection Framework as part of the policy to improve fisheries management. On the other hand, research on fish biology ...

Comparison of the Transcriptional Profiles of Melanocytes from Dark and Light Skinned Individuals under Basal Conditions and Following Ultraviolet-B Irradiation

López López, Saioa; Smith Zubiaga, Isabel; García de Galdeano Zaldivar, María Alicia; Boyano López, María Dolores; García, Oscar; Gardeazábal, Jesús; Martinez-Cadenas, Conrado; Izagirre Arribalzaga, Neskuts; De la Rúa Vaca, Concepción; Alonso Alegre, Santos (Public Library Science, 2015-08-05)

We analysed the whole-genome transcriptional profile of 6 cell lines of dark melanocytes (DM) and 6 of light melanocytes (LM) at basal conditions and after ultraviolet-B (UVB) radiation at different time points to investigate ...

New Nuclear SNP Markers Unravel the Genetic Structure and Effective Population Size of Albacore Tuna (Thunnus alalunga)

Laconcha, Urtzi; Iriondo Orensanz, Mikel; Arrizabalaga, Haritz; Manzano Basabe, Carmen; Markaide Nafarrete, Pablo; Montes Asperilla, Iratxe; Zarraonaindia Martínez, Iratxe; Velado Fernández, Igor; Bilbao Castellanos, Eider; Goñi, Nicolás; Santiago, Josu; Domingo, Andrés; Karakulak, Saadet; Oray, Işık; Estomba Recalde, Miren Andone (Public Library Science, 2015-06-19)

In the present study we have investigated the population genetic structure of albacore (Thunnus alalunga, Bonnaterre 1788) and assessed the loss of genetic diversity, likely due to overfishing, of albacore population in ...

Mechanisms of Toxicity of Ag Nanoparticles in Comparison to Bulk and Ionic Ag on Mussel Hemocytes and Gill Cells

Katsumiti Kodo Filho, Alberto; Gilliland, Douglas; Arostegui Madariaga, Inmaculada; Cajaraville Bereciartua, Miren Pilare (Public Library Science, 2015-06-10)

Silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) are increasingly used in many products and are expected to end up in the aquatic environment. Mussels have been proposed as marine model species to evaluate NP toxicity in vitro. The objective ...

The Foraging Ecology of the Mountain Long-Eared Bat Plecotus macrobullaris Revealed with DNA Mini-Barcodes

Alberdi Estibaritz, Antton; Garín Atorrasagasti, Ignacio; Aizpurua Arrieta, Ostaizka; Aiartza Azurtza, José Ramón (Public Library of Science, 2012-04-24)

Molecular analysis of diet overcomes the considerable limitations of traditional techniques for identifying prey remains in bat faeces. We collected faeces from individual Mountain Long-eared Bats Plecotus macrobullaris ...

DNA Damage and Transcriptional Changes in the Gills of Mytilus galloprovincialis Exposed to Nanomolar Doses of Combined Metal Salts (Cd, Cu, Hg)

Rosani, Umberto; Manfrin, Chiara; Cajaraville Bereciartua, Miren Pilare; Raccanelli, Stefano; Pallavicini, Alberto; Venier, Paola (PloS ONE, 2013)

[ENG]Aiming at an integrated and mechanistic view of the early biological effects of selected metals in the marine sentinel organism Mytilus galloprovincialis, we exposed mussels for 48 hours to 50, 100 and 200 nM solutions ...