In September 2014, seven sperm whales were stranded along Italy's Adriatic coastline. Postmortem investigations on 3 female adult whales and 1 male fetus carried by the largest female revealed molecular and immunohistochemical evidence of dolphin morbillivirus infection. A possible role of the virus in the stranding event was considered.

In the framework of the Mediterranean Forecasting System (MFS) project, the performance of regional numerical ocean forecasting systems is assessed by means of model-model and model-data comparison. Three different operational systems considered in this study are: the Adriatic REGional Model (AREG); the Adriatic Regional Ocean Modelling System (AdriaROMS) and the Mediterranean Forecasting Syste...

Annual number of days with exceeded ozone threshold values at the ground level measuring stations in Slovenia ranges from a few days in the interior of the country to up to 25 days at the Mediterranean stations. The highest number of ozone exceedances is usually recorded in the southwestern part of Slovenia, close to the Adriatic Sea, where favorable meteorological conditions enhance ozone form...

Noncommuting spatial coordinates and fields can be realized in actual physical situations. Plane wave solutions to noncommuting photodynamics exhibit violaton of Lorentz invariance (special relativity). Feza Gursey Institute, Istanbul, Turkey – June 2001 “Symmetry Methods in Physics”, Yerevan, Armenia – July 2001 “CPT and Lorentz Symmetry II”, Bloomington, IN – August 2001 “Particles and String...

The base-line frequency of micronucleated cells was measured in g111 tissue of Mytilus ga l loprov~nc~ahs Lmk. from 2 ~Mediterranean areas (northern Tyrrhenian and northern Adriatic Seas), and turned out to be a function of water temperature and age of the animals.

We report here four draft genome sequences belonging to clade F of the cyanobacterium "Candidatus Synechococcus spongiarum" of the marine sponge Aplysina aerophoba, which were collected from two nearby locations in the northern Adriatic Sea. The sequences provide the basis for within-clade comparisons between members of this widespread group of cyanobacterial sponge symbionts.

Photosynthetic picoplankton, represented primarily by the genera Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus, are major contributors of biomass and primary production in oligotrophic oceanic ecosystems (JOHNSON & SIEBURTH, 1979; WATERBURY et al., 1979; PARTENSKY et al., 1999a). In the oligotrophic Mediterranean Sea, picophytoplankton has a great contribution to total phytoplankton biomass and production ...