Agnese Petraccioli

TL;DR: The results demonstrated that 14% of the caviar products examined have a label that does not indicate the species from which the eggs were originated, confirming that the COIBar-RFLP is a useful approach for routine screening of seafood products due to its ease and rapid execution, as the results of screening can be obtained within 7 h, by-passing the need for sequencing.

TL;DR: The quantitative analyses and qualitative analysis suggest that the PjHhaI sat may be considered as the most ancients of DNA described so far, which remained “frozen” during molluscan evolution.

TL;DR: The results identify a third mechanism of increase in chromosome numbers among pipid frog species, the addition of B chromosomes in Hymenochirus, besides the known processes of polyploidization in Xenopus / Silurana, and centric fission in Pipa.

TL;DR: Using a combination of molecular and FISH analyses, it is proved that male specific Restriction site-Associated DNA sequences (RADseq) isolated in C. calyptratus are conserved in C.'s chamaeleon and located the putative XY chromosomes on the second chromosome pair.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that embryo exposure to different sex determining temperatures induces differential expression of several genes that are involved not only in gonadal differentiation, but also in neural differentiation and metabolic pathways (GP1, RPS15, and NADH12).