Background Leishmaniasis is one of the most important vector-borne diseases and it represents
a serious world health problem affecting millions of people. High levels of Leishmania …

Using next-generation sequencing, we obtained for the first time a complete mitochondrial
DNA genome from a museum specimen of the extinct wolf (Canis lupus) population of the …

Background Polymorphisms of the prion protein gene may influence scrapie susceptibility in
small ruminants through modified protein conformation. At least 47 amino acid substitutions …

In last decades, biotechnologies have enabled a deep development of knowledge in all
fields of life sciences, allowing the collection of a wide range of data. Furthermore, the …

The Archaelogical Park of Selinunte (S.-W.- Sicily) is included in the SIC (Sites of
Community Interest) named “Dunal system Capo Granitola, Porto Palo e Foce del Belice” (code …

In this regard, there is a growing interest in the application, in the field of animal health, of
the skills and methodologies developed in the field of individual genetic traceability for the …

Venturella et al. [1] described a new taxon named Pleurotus eryngii (DC.) Quél. var.
thapsiae Venturella, Zervakis & Saitta (Madonie Mts) on Thapsia garganica L. and provided …

The most representative sheep in Sicily are Belicina, Comisana, Pinzirita, Barbaresca and
the crossbred derived sheep from all this species. In this study, the allelic frequencies of the …

We used whole-genome sequencing (WGS) technology to identify known antimicrobial
resistance genes in 20 samples of Salmonella enterica Serovar Infantis (Enterobacteriales …

Trypanosomatidae is a group of kinetoplastid excavates distinguished by having only a
single flagellum. All members are exclusively parasitic, found primarily in insects. The custom …