background: free-living amoebae (fla) are group of protozoa distributed worldwide in many habitats mainly water and soil related sources. some members of fla are able to act as opportunistic pathogens and are environmental carriers of other pathogenic agents such as bacteria and viruses. vermamoeba vermiformis is a highly abundant fla species in water bodies and has recently gained environmenta...

background: free-living amoebae (fla) are protozoa that are widely distributed in the environment mainly in water and soil related habitats. thermophilic amoebae are among the most common fla in water bodies, being vermamoeba vermiformis one of the most common species reported worldwide from these sources. interestingly, v. vermiformis has often been reported to survive at high temperatures and...

Bacallado, J. J., G. Ortega, G. Delgado, and L. Moro. . La fauna de Canarias. Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands: Gobierno de Canarias, Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Ordenación Territorial, Centro de la Cultura Popular Canaria. Bramwell, D., and Z. Bramwell. . Wild fl owers of the Canary Islands, nd ed. Madrid: Editorial Rueda. Brito, A., P. J. Pascu...

Alluaudomyia canariensis Szadziewski & Dominiak sp. nov. from the Canary Islands and A. wyskokensis Szadziewski & Dominiak sp. nov. from Poland and Ukraine are described and illustrated. The genus Alluaudomyia is reported from the Canary Islands for the first time. The article is supplemented with a checklist and an identification key for the species so far recorded from Europe and the Canary I...

BACKGROUND An exceptionally high incidence of diabetes-related end-stage renal disease (DM-ESRD) has been reported in the Canary Islands. This phenomenon was attributed to an increased prevalence of diabetes in this community. We compared the incidence of DM-ESRD in the Canary Islands with the rest of Spain among the estimated number of individuals at risk (people with diabetes in the populatio...

In a biogeographical context, the term Macaronesia broadly embraces the North Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores, Madeira, Selvagens, the Canary Islands, and Cape Verde. The peculiar arid climatic conditions in some of these places have led to the development of marine salt exploitations, which can be counted among the hypersaline habitats of the brine shrimp Artemia (Branchiopoda, Anostraca)....

In a biogeographical context, the term Macaronesia broadly embraces the North Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores, Madeira, Selvagens, the Canary Islands, and Cape Verde. The peculiar arid climatic conditions in some of these places have led to the development of marine salt exploitations, which can be counted among the hypersaline habitats of the brine shrimp Artemia (Branchiopoda, Anostraca)....

To discover the relation between mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) polymorphism and the geographic population structure of Drosophila subobscura previously established for other genetic traits, a wide Paleartic survey was carried out. A total of 24 nucleomorphs was observed among 261 isofemale lines assayed by 11 restriction endonucleases with 38 different sites in the mtDNA cleavage map. The different...

The Chrysodeixis chalcites single nucleopolyhedrovirus (ChchSNPV) infects and kills C. chalcites larvae, an important pest of banana crops in the Canary Islands. Five genotypes present in the most prevalent and widespread isolate in the Canary Islands were sequenced, providing genetic data relevant to the genotypic and phenotypic diversity of this virus.

Antonio G. González, Elsa M. Rodrí guez Pérez, Consuelo E. Hernández Padrón*, and Jaime Bermejo Barrera Centro de Productos Naturales Orgänicos Antonio Gonzalez, I.P.N.A. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas Carretera La Esperanza 2, La Laguna, 38206 Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain * Departamento de Botanica, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, S...