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The European mink Mustela lutreola is an endangered species due to the sharp decline that has suffered its population during the last century. He is considered one of the most threatened mammals, both locally and internationally.
 The researcher’s doctoral thesis at the UPV / EHU Cabria Maria Teresa Garrido, who is entitled Development and application of molecular markers to study the biology and conservation of European mink, Mustela lutreola (Linnaeus, 1761) studying this species. With this thesis has been advanced in the knowledge of different relevant aspects of the genetics of populations of European mink and its interaction with the rat Mustela putorius.
Cabria has developed a method for identifying species from noninvasive samples collected in the field,
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A study conducted by the magazine Laborjournal [1] comes to designate the Tübingen researchers in plant biology and developmental biology as germanophones best researchers in the field.
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Get mushrooms at home is a natural process is simpler than the general population believes. This ensures, Pablo Casares, technical Cabrillanes Environment and researcher in the Department of Botany, University of Leon.
 Mushroom productivity expert, Casares has shown Valdeon Posada (Leon municipality located in Picos de Europa) scientists from different disciplines of laboratory techniques for the extraction and culture of mycelium of a fungus body made up of filaments which are distributed by wood and soil, that mushrooms are the fruit. Through these techniques it is possible to produce this food both industrial and home.
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The journal Science is today publishing a special issue on Ardipithecus ramidus, a species of hominid that lived 4.4 million years ago in the region that is now Ethiopia. The research, conducted by an international team of scientists, contains 11 studies and summaries of the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees oldest known who lived a million years before Australopithecus afarensis, Lucy.
 The team of more than 47 researchers from 10 different countries provides for the first time in the special issue of Science, the description of the fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus, which includes the partial skeleton of a female, nicknamed ‘Ardi’.
Although ‘Ardi’, who lived 4.4 million years ago, is not the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees, as scientists believe it is a hominid that lived more than six million years, but shares many features with it. The analysis of the skull, teeth, pelvis, hands, feet and other bones show that ‘Ardi’ had a number of primitive traits shared with their predecessors: Miocene primates (more than 5.3 million years).
The researchers, most notably as lead authors Tim White, University of California at Berkeley (USA),
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 Tyrrhenoleuctra antoninoi, here is the name given to this new insect species discovered in the Balearic Islands. It was named in honor of the scientist Antoni Sanchez-Ortega, who died in 2002, has dedicated much of his life studying the Tyrrhenoleuctra in the Iberian Peninsula.
Discovered by a team of European researchers co-led by Jose Manuel Tierno de Figueroa (Universidad de Granada), individuals of this species are dark and do not measure more than half a centimeter (see photo).
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