Background: COVID-19, as an emerging disease, is characterized by acute respiratory syndrome and caused a coronavirus. The disease was first seen in China gradually spread across other parts of the world. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate COVID-19 characteristics Eastern Mediterranean Region. Methods: data confirmed cases related deaths different countries were extracted from reports ...

The Mediterranean region has been characterised by a number of pre-historical and historical demographic events whose legacy on the current genetic landscape is still a matter of debate. In order to investigate the degree of population structure across the Mediterranean, we have investigated Y chromosome variation in a large dataset of Mediterranean populations, 11 of which are first described ...

The European purple sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) is considered to be a key herbivore throughout its distribution range--North-East Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. It was also abundant in its eastern distributional edge, on rocky habitats of the coastline of Israel, but its populations have recently collapsed, and today it is an extremely rare species in the region. Field and laboratory ex...