COASTAL YORUBALAND: HABITABILITY, INHABITANCE, AND INHERITANCES

Coastal Yorubaland: Habitability, Inhabitance, and Inheritances

Although the conference from which this Special Issue derives was convened by two prominent historians, this article is multi-disciplinary; both within and outside the boundaries of history.The purpose is to merge various ideas in different disciplines to argue that the study of Coastal Yorubaland as an important unit of analysis should, on the one

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Correlation between pollution and decline of Scleractinian Cladocora caespitosa (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Gulf of Gabes

During an expedition in 2014 in the Gulf of Gabes that aimed to evaluate the impact of the pollution of the phosphate industry on the marine environment, numerous dead coral fragments were retrieved from several stations along a 18 km long transect in front of the industry complex of Gabes.Detailed taxonomy of these coral fragments shows clearly th

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Proteomic approach to understanding the maternal effect in the flesh fly, Sarcophaga bullata (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)

Progeny of the flesh fly Sarcophaga bullata exposed to short day length show lycogel a maternal effect that prevents the expression of pupal diapause.Although ecological aspects of this effect are well studied, not enough is known about the molecular mechanisms underlying this maternal effect.In this study, two-dimensional electrophoresis was perfo

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