Studies conducted on volcanic islands have greatly contributed to our current understanding of how organisms diversify. The Canary Islands archipelago, located northwest of the coast of northern Africa, harbours a large number of endemic taxa. Because of their low vagility, mygalomorph spiders are usually absent from oceanic islands. The spider Titanidiops canariensis, which inhabits the easter...

Fusarium wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. canariensis has caused the death of hundreds of Canary Island date palms, Phoenix canariensis, in Sydney where they have been used prominently in landscape plantings. The fungus is spread in soil, by transplanting palms and on contaminated pruning implements and possibly by seed, birds and insects. Vegetative compatibility groupings (VCGs) were u...

Introduction The aim of this study was to correlate lesion depth of natural caries, measured with Polarized Light Microscopy (PLM), to Canary Numbers (CN) derived from The Canary System™ (CS), numerical readings from DIAGNOdent (DD), and lesion scores from ICDAS II. Methods A total of 20 examination sites on extracted human molars and premolars were selected. The selected examination sites co...

The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MFSD, 2008/56/EC), is the main instrument for the protection of the marine environment in Europe. According to the MSFD’s descriptor 8, the concentrations of contaminants should be at levels not giving rise to pollution effects. The Spanish initial assessment of the quality status of their national marine waters by the end of 2012, for compliance with MF...