Evidence for the first multi-species shark nursery area in Atlantic Africa (Boa Vista Island, Cabo Verde)

Migration, Remittances and Development: A case study of Senegalese labour migrants on the island Boa Vista, Cape Verde

Cabo Verde Ardinas

The research reported in this chapter takes part of the results of the project Cultura, Matemática e Cognição — Pensar a Aprendizagem em Portugal e Cabo Verde, especially in what concerns understanding the idea of “learning as an integral part of generative social practice in the lived-in world” (Lave & Wenger, 1991, p.35) together with the perspective that addresses “learning as increasing par...

Mitochondrial portrait of the Cabo Verde archipelago: the Senegambian outpost of Atlantic slave trade.

In order to study the matrilineal genetic composition in Cabo Verde (Republic of Cape Verde), an archipelago that used to serve as a Portuguese entrepôt of the Atlantic slave trade, we have analysed a total of 292 mtDNAs sampled from the seven inhabited islands for the hypervariable segment I (HVS-I) and some characteristic RFLPs of the coding regions. The different settlement history of the no...

Susceptibility profile of Aedes aegypti from Santiago Island, Cabo Verde, to insecticides.

In 2009, Cabo Verde diagnosed the first dengue cases, with 21,137 cases reported and Aedes aegypti was identified as the vector. Since the outbreak, chemical insecticides and source reduction were used to control the mosquito population. This study aimed to assess the susceptibility of A. aegypti populations from Santiago, Cabo Verde to insecticides and identify the mechanisms of resistance. Sa...

First record of seagrass in Cape Verde, eastern Atlantic

Background: The Cape Verde archipelago consists of 10 volcanic islands in the eastern Atlantic Ocean located 570 km off the coast of Western Africa. While the shallow benthic communities have been studied in some detail no seagrasses have been previously reported for the Republic of Cape Verde. Results: The seagrass Halodule wrightii Ascherson was found and described at one location at Praia, S...