Can microsatellite data allow identification of oleaster Plio-Pleistocene refuge zones in the Mediterranean Basin?

CORRESPONDENCE Can microsatellite data allow identification of oleaster Plio-Pleistocene refuge zones in the Mediterranean Basin?

A response to Breton, C., Tersac, M. & Bervillé, A. (2006) Genetic diversity and gene flow between the wild olive (oleaster, Olea europaea L.) and the olive: several PlioPleistocene refuge zones in the Mediterranean basin suggested by simple sequence repeats analysis. Journal of Biogeography, 33, 1916–1928. In a recent paper, Breton et al. (2006) provided interesting genetic data (mainly nuclea...

Arid climate 2 . 5 Ma in the Plio - Pleistocene Valdarno Basin ( Northern Apennines , Italy )

Distinctive, eolian-dominated sandy deposits 35 m thick exposed along the SW margin of the Plio-Pleistocene Valdarno Basin in the Northern Apennines, Italy, reflect an unusually arid period in the region. Paleomagnetic investigation and Ar/Ar dating of a tephra layer, 10 m above the eolian sand, suggest that the sand was deposited between about 2.7 and 2.4 Ma. This age is coeval with the global...

determination of maximal singularity free zones in the workspace of parallel manipulator

due to the limiting workspace of parallel manipulator and regarding to finding the trajectory planning of singularity free at workspace is difficult, so finding a best solution that can develop a technique to determine the singularity-free zones in the workspace of parallel manipulators is highly important. in this thesis a simple and new technique are presented to determine the maximal singula...

Male strategies and Plio-Pleistocene archaeology.

Archaeological data are frequently cited in support of the idea that big game hunting drove the evolution of early Homo, mainly through its role in offspring provisioning. This argument has been disputed on two grounds: (1) ethnographic observations on modern foragers show that although hunting may contribute a large fraction of the overall diet, it is an unreliable day-to-day food source, purs...

Facies Analysis and Plio- Pleistocene Paleoecology