Firstly, we want to convey our sincerest wishes for your good health and wellbeing during these difficult days of the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope that you can stay healthy and positive during this time, and recover swiftly from any illness. Your work in global amphibian conservation is so important, but depends on your welfare and safety. May you get all the time and space you need to look after yourselves, your families, your friends, and your colleagues. Leer más.
Un equipo internacional de investigadores, liderado por el Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, ha estudiado los efectos de un virus del género Ranavirus, que está diezmando las poblaciones de anfibios del norte de España. El patógeno analizado, que es capaz de infectar a distintos hospedadores, ofrece una oportunidad para entender cómo los virus, cada vez más resistentes, cruzan las barreras entre especies. Leer más.
Whether hybridization generates or erodes species diversity has long been debated, but to date most studies have been conducted at small taxonomic scales. Salamanders (order Caudata) represent a taxonomic order in which hybridization plays a prevalent ecological and evolutionary role. Leer más.
The Lesser Antilles, in the Eastern Caribbean, is inhabited by three Iguana species: the Lesser Antillean iguana Iguana delicatissima, which is endemic to the northernmost islands of the Lesser Antilles, the introduced common iguana from South America, Iguana iguana iguana, represented also by the two newly described endemic subspecies Iguana iguana sanctaluciae from Saint Lucia and Iguana iguana insularis from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Grenada, and the introduced Iguana rhinolopha from Central America. Leer más.
El viernes 17, Celia López nos presentará cómo participar en iniciativas de Ciencia Ciudadana en la lucha contra las especies exóticas invasoras, en el Ciclo de Charlas Un Mundo por Descubrir. Lo realizaremos a través del Canal de Youtube de ANSE y esperamos poder repetirlo pronto de forma presencial. Leer más.
