On the geographic distribution of Nemognatha plaumanni Borchmann, 1942 (Coleoptera: Meloidae): new records from Venezuela, with a 4500 km range extension

Nemognatha plaumanni Borchmann, 1942 (Coleoptera: Meloidae: Nemognathinae) was described from a single specimen found in Brazil, and since its description no additional information has been published on the species. During a field survey in Venezuela, we found one individual morphologically assignable to the species. In this note, we report and discuss this finding, which, together with the revision of the entomological collections of the Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum (Hungarian Natural History Museum, HNHM, Budapest, Hungary), the Natural History Museum (NHM, London, UK), and the Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA, Maracay, Venezuela), has led us to acknowledge the presence of the species in Venezuela, therefore extending the known distribution range of the species by more than 4500 km. We discuss the possibility that N. plaumanni might in fact correspond to a complex of cryptic species distributed over this vast range, an hypothesis that has to be tested with further field- and lab-work.This work has been funded by the project grant CGL2010–15786 (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain).Peer reviewe

Los yacimientos de Atxoste (Vírgala, Álava) y Mendandia (Sáseta, C. de Treviño)

Se presentan las características del componente cerámico correspondiente a los niveles del Neolítico antiguo de ambos yacimientos

Cerámicas, Estilo y Neolitización: estudio comparativo de algunos ejemplos de la Meseta Norte y Alto Valle del Ebro

El estudio de las colecciones cerámicas de diversos yacimientos situados en el entorno de Alto Ebro y la Meseta Norte permite aproximarnos a la caracterización de las primeras producciones cerámicas en esta área del interior peninsular. En base a ello, se proponen dos horizontes cronológicos consecutivos caracterizados por formas diferentes de decorar las cerámicas

La Cueva de la Vaquera (Torreiglesias, Segovia)

Se realiza una valoración de uno de los conjuntos cerámicos más notables de todo el interio peninsula

Molecular evidence for cryptic candidate species in Iberian Pelodytes (Anura, Pelodytidae)

Species delineation is a central topic in evolutionary biology, with current efforts focused on developing efficient analytical tools to extract the most information from molecular data and provide objective and repeatable results. In this paper we use a multilocus dataset (mtDNA and two nuclear markers) in a geographically comprehensive population sample across Iberia and Western Europe to delineate candidate species in a morphologically cryptic species group, Parsley frogs (genus Pelodytes). Pelodytes is the sole extant representative of an ancient, historically widely distributed anuran clade that currently includes three species: P. caucasicus in the Caucasus; P. punctatus in Western Europe, from Portugal to North-Western Italy; and P. ibericus in Southern Iberia. Phylogenetic analyses recovered four major well-supported haplotype clades in Western Europe, corresponding to well demarcated geographical subdivisions and exhibiting contrasting demographic histories. Splitting times date back to the Plio-Pleistocene and are very close in time. Species-tree analyses recovered one of these species lineages, corresponding to P. ibericus (lineage B). , as the sister taxon to the other three major species lineages, distributed respectively in: western Iberian Peninsula, along the Atlantic coast and part of central Portugal (lineage A); Central and Eastern Spain (lineage C); and North-eastern Spain, France and North-western Italy (lineage D). The latter is in turn subdivided into two sub-clades, one in SE France and NW Italy and the other one from NE Spain to NW France, suggesting the existence of a Mediterranean-Atlantic corridor along the Garonne river. An information theory-based validation approach implemented in SpedeSTEM supports an arrangement of four candidate species, suggesting the need for a taxonomic revision of Western European Pelodytes.This work was supported through Project “Genomics and Evolutionary Biology” cofinanced by North Portugal Regional Operational Programme 2007/2013 (ON.2 – O Novo Norte), under the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF); the Program Operacional Factores de Competitividade (COMPETE), and by national funds from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), through the research Projects PTDC/BIA-BEC/099915/2008 and PTDC/BIA-BEC/105083/2008 to HG and FS, respectively; and grants CGL2008-04271-C02-01/BOS and CGL2011-28300 (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain, and FEDER) and PPII10-0097- 4200 (Junta de Comunidades de Castilla la Mancha and FEDER) to IMS, who was funded by Project “Biodiversity, Ecology and Global Change”, co-financed by North Portugal Regional Operational Programme 2007/2013 (ON.2–O Novo Norte), under the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and is currently supported by funding from the Spanish Severo Ochoa Program (SEV-2012-0262). Additional funds were provided by grants: “Anfibios Endémicos de Andalucía” (Consejería de Medio Ambiente, Junta de Andalucía, Spain), and CGL2005-02931/BOS (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain) to MT. JDR is supported by a PhD grant from FCT (SFRH/BD/70631/2010), HG and FS are supported by postdoctoral grants from FCT (SFRH/BPD/26555/2006 and SFRH/BPD/87721/2012, respectively) and TSN by a research grant (BI) from ICETA/UP.Peer Reviewe

El Valle de Ambrona y la provincia de Soria: La Lámpara, La Revilla del Campo y el Abrigo de la Dehesa/Carlos Álvarez

SE hace una presentación de las características de las producciones cerámicas recuperadas en los diversos yacimientos excavados en el área del Valle de Ambrona (Soria)

El Molino de Arriba (Buniel, Burgos)

Se presenta los datos de una interesante sepultura individual localizada en el transcuso de unas intervenciones de urgencia. Dentro del ajuar recuperado se hace especial mención a los tres recipientes cerámicos que formaban parte del mismo y que, a falta de dataciones radiocarbónicas, permiten adscribir la sepultura al Neolítico antiguo

Computational Modeling and Design of New Inhibitors of Carbapenemases: A Discussion from the EPIC Alliance Network

The EPIC consortium brings together experts from a wide range of fields that include clinical, molecular and basic microbiology, infectious diseases, computational biology and chemistry, drug discovery and design, bioinformatics, biochemistry, biophysics, pharmacology, toxicology, veterinary sciences, environmental sciences, and epidemiology. The main question to be answered by the EPIC alliance is the following: “What is the best approach for data mining on carbapenemase inhibitors and how to translate this data into experiments?” From this forum, we propose that the scientific community think up new strategies to be followed for the discovery of new carbapenemase inhibitors, so that this process is efficient and capable of providing results in the shortest possible time and within acceptable time and economic costs.This study has been funded by Instituto de Salud Carlos III through the project AC20/00012 co-funded by European Regional Development Fund, ERDF, “A way to make Europe”). This project has been supported under the framework of the JPIAMR—Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance

Lung Function and Symptoms of Exposure to the Volcanic Eruption in the Canary Islands: First Follow-Up of the ASHES Study

Introduction: Exposure to gases and particulate matter released during volcanic eruptions can prove harmful to population health. This paper reports the preliminary results of the ASHES study, aimed at ascertaining the respiratory health effects of the 2021 volcanic eruption in La Palma Island (Spain) on the adult population without previous respiratory disease. Methods: Ambispective cohort study on the healthy adult population. Three exposure groups were considered: Group 1, high exposure; Group 2, moderate exposure; and Group 3, minor or no exposure. We carried out a descriptive analysis of symptoms during and after the eruption, as well as measure lung function after the eruption (through forced spirometry and diffusing capacity of carbon monoxide). Results: The analysis included 474 subjects: 54 in Group 1, 335 in Group 2, and 85 in Group 3. A significant increase in most symptoms was observed for subjects in the groups exposed during the eruption. After the eruption, this increase remained for some symptoms. There seems to be a dose-response relationship, such that the higher the exposure, the higher the odds ratio. A prebronchodilator FEV1/FVC ratio < 70% was observed in 13.0% of subjects in Group 1, 8.6% of subjects in Group 2, and 7.1% of subjects in Group 3. Conclusions: This study is the first to report a dose-response relationship between exposure to volcanic eruptions and the presence of symptoms in adults. Furthermore, there is a tendency toward obstructive impairment in individuals with higher exposure. (c) 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Espana, S.L.U. on behalf of SEPAR. This is an open access article under the CCBY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Early Neolithic tombs from the interior of Iberia: new data for an updating of the empirical evidences

[EN] Together with the publication of new tombs and radiocarbon dates from the Early Neolithic, an analysis is made about the complete catalogue of graves known of this chronology in the interior of the Iberian Peninsula and the Ebro Valley: the structure of the tomb used, the nature of the burial deposition, the sex and age of the individuals, the grave offerings (presence or absence) as well as the position and orientation of the deceased inside the grave. The aim is to show a general overview of the burial evidences of the first farmers in this region.[ES] A la vez que dar a conocer tumbas y cronologías inéditas de los inicios del Neolítico en el interior peninsular, se pretende analizar con el detalle que nos permite en cada contexto la bibliografía existente, todos los casos de tumbas de esta fase en el interior peninsular y en el Valle del Ebro. Serán analizados con detalle el tipo de estructura utilizada y la naturaleza del depósito funerario, la edad y el sexo de los enterrados, el tipo de ajuar, su presencia o ausencia en cada caso, así como la posición y la orientación de los difuntos en la tumba. Todo ello con la intención de ofrecer una visión integral de las evidencias funerarias en los inicios de la economía con rendimientos diferidos.Peer reviewe