First insular population of the critically endangered Cistus heterophyllus subsp. carthaginensis on Cabrera Archipelago National Park (Balearic Islands, Spain)

Balearic archipelago: three islands, three beta-thalassemia population patterns.

The mutation spectrum of 175 β-thalassemia (β-thal) carriers, identified in pilot carrier screening on 22,713 individuals from Balearic Islands (Spain), is reported. The β(0) CD39 (C>T) mutation is the most frequent (61.1%), followed by β(+) IVS-I-110 (G>A) (12.0%), β(+) IVS-I-6 (T>C) and β(0) IVS-1-1 (G>A) (3.4% both) and eight other rare mutations (2.9-0.6%); with a distinct prevalence and di...

Antioxidant Capacity as a Marker for Assessing the In Vitro Performance of the Endangered Cistus heterophyllus

Cistus heterophyllus subsp. carthaginensis is an endemic and endangered species from the SE Mediterranean coastal region of Spain. Within the framework of the efforts aiming to species conservation, in vitro culture techniques could be of interest. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antioxidant capacity of C. heterophyllus shoot cultures as a possible marker of in vitro performance. The ...

Population studies of migratory birds in Virgin Islands National Park

The First Commers in Tourism Industry: the Balearic Islands

1. The economic bases that facilitated tourism The great transformation of the Balearic economy developed between the late 1940s and the first petroleum crisis of 1973. In fact, it was the nearly thirty years spanning between 1945 and 1973 that would redefine the model for economic growth on the islands. One could speak of a genuine boom as of 1960, which was fostered and spurred by the spectac...

First report of the exotic blue land planarian, Caenoplana coerulea (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae), on Menorca (Balearic Islands, Spain)

In April 2009 two specimens of a terrestrial flatworm were collected from under a rock in an orchard at Ciutadella de Menorca on the easternmost Balearic island of Menorca (Spain). Their external morphology suggested that both specimens belonged to the invasive blue planarian Caenoplana coerulea, a species which is native to eastern Australia. Sequence data of a fragment of the mitochondrial cy...