The Upper Pleistocene to Holocene sediments on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa(Italy)

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 537-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Giraudi
Keyword(s):  
Upper Pleistocene ◽  
Holocene Sediments ◽  
Mediterranean Island ◽  
The Mediterranean

scholarly journals Extensive introgression and mosaic genomes of Mediterranean endemic lizards

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Weizhao Yang ◽  
Nathalie Feiner ◽  
Catarina Pinho ◽  
Geoffrey M. While ◽  
Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Mediterranean Islands ◽  
The Past ◽  
Island Endemics ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Mediterranean Island ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

AbstractThe Mediterranean basin is a hotspot of biodiversity, fuelled by climatic oscillation and geological change over the past 20 million years. Wall lizards of the genus Podarcis are among the most abundant, diverse, and conspicuous Mediterranean fauna. Here, we unravel the remarkably entangled evolutionary history of wall lizards by sequencing genomes of 34 major lineages covering 26 species. We demonstrate an early (>11 MYA) separation into two clades centred on the Iberian and Balkan Peninsulas, and two clades of Mediterranean island endemics. Diversification within these clades was pronounced between 6.5–4.0 MYA, a period spanning the Messinian Salinity Crisis, during which the Mediterranean Sea nearly dried up before rapidly refilling. However, genetic exchange between lineages has been a pervasive feature throughout the entire history of wall lizards. This has resulted in a highly reticulated pattern of evolution across the group, characterised by mosaic genomes with major contributions from two or more parental taxa. These hybrid lineages gave rise to several of the extant species that are endemic to Mediterranean islands. The mosaic genomes of island endemics may have promoted their extraordinary adaptability and striking diversity in body size, shape and colouration, which have puzzled biologists for centuries.

scholarly journals A Sociolinguistic Comparison Between Algerian and Maltese

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Nassima Kerras ◽  
Moulay-Lahssan Baya E.
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Official Language ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
Foreign Occupation ◽  
Mediterranean Island ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Official Status

A sociolinguistic study is made of the Maltese language to compare it to the Algerian language. Algerian is not the official language in Algeria, although it is the national one, and in this article an empirical study is undertaken to question the particularities of Algerian and its formation, comparing it with Maltese which has itself gained official status. Maltese, or “the language of the kitchen” as it is known, has gained important status on the island after decades of foreign occupation and linguistic influence from various civilizations that left palpable paw prints on the Mediterranean island. Maltese has managed to successfully confirm its linguistic identity, through a noticeable influence of Arabic, Italian and English amongst other languages that have imposed themselves and had a hand in forming the Maltese language. A sociolinguistic and historical study is made to explain the formation of Algerian comparing it to Maltese and the influence of history in both languages. A historical study is made to compare and observe the historic diachronic of both countries, and we compare the influence of foreign languages in Algeria and Malta. Likewise, an empirical study is undertaken to question the use of Algerian from various angles, and to examine the linguistic identity in Algeria.

scholarly journals Subfossil statoblasts of Lophopodella capensis (Sollas, 1908) (Bryozoa, Phylactolaemata, Lophopodidae) in the Upper Pleistocene and Holocene sediments of a montane wetland, Eastern Mau Forest, Kenya

2016 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin J. Courtney Mustaphi ◽  
Esther N. Githumbi ◽  
Lauren R. Shotter ◽  
Stephen M. Rucina ◽  
Rob Marchant
Keyword(s):  
Upper Pleistocene ◽  
Holocene Sediments ◽  
Eastern Mau

Hybridizing the Myth, Allegorizing Algeria

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
Keyword(s):  
Nation Building ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
National Myth ◽  
The Core ◽  
Mediterranean Island ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mediterranean

This chapter teases out the ways in which Kateb Yacine’s Nedjma resists the cohesive power of the Algerian myth of origins elaborated around the time of independence to reveal a Mediterranean transnationalism. The chapter starts by interrogating the conflicted history of the colonial concept of Mediterranean hybridity as both cultural syncretism and biological assimilation from the 1890s to the late colonial period. It then examines exile and the predominance of subjective estrangement in Kateb’s writing. In light of virtually unknown fragments cut out of Nedjma, it shows that the quest for Algeria’s identity cannot be completed without spatial deployment in the Mediterranean island of Djerba. Djerba supplies a model of felicitous mixing between strata of Mediterranean migrations, providing late colonial Algeria with a mythical space where to hone the very workings of its nation-building aspirations in a plural context evocative of Algeria’s own diversity. Kateb’s text reveals a Mediterranean ethos at the core of Algeria’s founding narrative, performing what writer Nabile Farès later dubbed the “re-allegorization of national myth” in a Mediterranean mode.

scholarly journals Data of food challenges of an outpatients’ pediatric allergy clinic in the Mediterranean island of Crete, Greece

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (S3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Evangelia Stefanaki ◽  
Georgia Chatzitzanou ◽  
Maria Anatoliotaki ◽  
Sofia Stefanaki ◽  
Vassiliki Aggelakou
Keyword(s):  
Allergy Clinic ◽  
Pediatric Allergy ◽  
Mediterranean Island ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Food Challenges

Additional data on the herpetological collection of Louis Amédée Lantz (1886–1953), with emphasis on specimens in the Natural History Museum, London

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4638 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
IVAN INEICH ◽  
IGOR V. DORONIN ◽  
MARC CHEYLAN ◽  
PATRICK D. CAMPBELL
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Additional Data ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Mediterranean Islands ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Mediterranean Island ◽  
Lacerta Viridis ◽  
The Mediterranean

Several recent papers have reviewed the life and work of French herpetologist Louis Amédée Lantz. They have detailed the composition of his collections deposited in several museums. However, since then, several other important specimens from his collections deposited at the Natural History Museum (NHM, UK) have come to light and we here present all of them in detail. We discovered paralectotypes of Lacerta saxicola obscura Lantz & Cyrén (BMNH 1918.11.21.5–7), syntypes of Lacerta boemica Sukhov (BMNH 1960.1.4.26–30, BMNH 1965.337–342) and Lacerta viridis media Lantz & Cyrén (BMNH 1960.1.4.25, 1966.512). We also identified numerous specimens from the French Mediterranean islands in Lantz’s collection deposited at the NHM, some of which represent the first reported specimens of their species from certain islands. We here provide data on all these specimens. We also place the Mediterranean island specimens from the Lantz collection in their historical context and emphasize the historical and taxonomic value of these collections. 

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