38 documents found, page 1 of 4
Chitosan Coating Functionalized with Flaxseed Oil and Green Tea Extract as a Bi...
Mendes, CG; Martins, JT; Ludtke, F; Geraldo, A; Pereira, A; Vicente, AA; Vieira, JEcological and safe packaging solutions arise as pivotal points in the development of an integrated system for sustainable meat production. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of a combined chitosan (Ch) + green tea extract (GTE) + essential oil (thyme oil, TO; flaxseed oil, FO; or oregano oil, OO) coating on the safety and quality of vacuum-packaged beef during storage at 4 C. An optimized bio-based...
Towards Resilient and Sustainable Rail and Road Networks: A Systematic Literatu...
Vieira, J; Martins, JP; de Almeida, NM; Patricio, H; Morgado, JGThe digital transformation of engineering assets has been receiving increased attention from the scientific community in the last few years. In this regard, Digital Twins (DTs) have been widely applied in the industry and are now reaching the civil infrastructures domain. At the same time, infrastructure managers face an increasing need to improve the sustainability and resilience of their assets. This paper ai...
Flood Risk Assessment at the Douro River Estuary
Weber de Melo, W; Pinho, J; Iglesias, I; Bio, A; P. Avilez-Valente; Vieira, J; Bastos, L; Veloso Gomes, FEstuaries have huge socio-economic and environmental importance. They are a shelter for many species and their natural resources are exploited by human activities. However, the intensification of flood events and the sea-level rise (SLR), caused by climate change (CC), can jeopardize its complex dynamics. This work characterizes the hydrodynamic behaviour of the Douro river estuary, located in northern Portugal...
Drosophila Evolution over Space and Time (DEST): A New Population Genomics Reso...
Kapun, M; Nunez, JCB; Bogaerts-Márquez, M; Murga-Moreno, J; Paris, M; Outten, J; Coronado-Zamora, M; Tern, C; Rota-Stabelli, O; García Guerreiro, MPDrosophila melanogaster is a leading model in population genetics and genomics, and a growing number of whole-genome data sets from natural populations of this species have been published over the last years. A major challenge is the integration of disparate data sets, often generated using different sequencing technologies and bioinformatic pipelines, which hampers our ability to address questions about the ev...
The discovery, distribution, and diversity of DNA viruses associated with Droso...
Wallace, MA; Coffman, KA; Gilbert, C; Ravindran, S; Albery, GF; Abbott, J; Argyridou, E; Bellosta, P; Betancourt, AJ; Colinet, H; Eric, KDrosophila melanogaster is an important model for antiviral immunity in arthropods, but very few DNA viruses have been described from the family Drosophilidae. This deficiency limits our opportunity to use natural host-pathogen combinations in experimental studies, and may bias our understanding of the Drosophila virome. Here, we report fourteen DNA viruses detected in a metagenomic analysis of 6668 pool-sequen...
Assessment of a Sand Spit Morphodynamics Under Extreme Flood Events
Pinho, J; Iglesias, I; Melo, W; Bio, A; P. Avilez-Valente; Vieira, J; Bastos, L; Veloso-Gomes, F<jats:p><p>Spits are landforms that present a complex morphology, which depends on currents, waves, sediment transport, tidal range and anthropic-induced changes. Their position and shape is subject to extreme events like flood river discharges and storms. They can also respond to processes that take place at larger time scales, as plate tectonics, sea level rise or even climatological patterns with telec...
Future estuarine circulation patterns characterization based on a hydrodynamic ...
Iglesias, I; Pinho, JL; Bio, A; P. Avilez-Valente; Melo, W; Vieira, J; Bastos, L; Veloso-Gomes, F<jats:p><p>Estuarine regions are strategically important from an environmental, economic, and social point of view. To reduce vulnerability and increase resilience, it is crucial to know their dynamics that usually are poorly understood. Numerical models have proven to be an appropriate tool to improve this knowledge and simulate scenarios for future conditions. However, as the modelling results may be in...
The identification of the Rosa S-locus and implications on the evolution of the...
Vieira, J; Pimenta, J; Gomes, A; Laia, J; Rocha, S; Heitzler, P; Vieira, CPIn Rosaceae species, two gametophytic self-incompatibility (GSI) mechanisms are described, the Prunus self-recognition system and the Maleae (Malus/Pyrus/Sorbus) non-self- recognition system. In both systems the pistil component is a S-RNase gene, but from two distinct phylogenetic lineages. The pollen component, always a F-box gene(s), in the case of Prunus is a single gene, and in Maleae there are multiple ge...
Multiple loci linked to inversions are associated with eye size variation in sp...
Reis, M; Wiegleb, G; Claude, J; Lata, R; Horchler, B; Ha, NT; Reimer, C; Vieira, CP; Vieira, J; Posnien, NThe size and shape of organs is tightly controlled to achieve optimal function. Natural morphological variations often represent functional adaptations to an ever-changing environment. For instance, variation in head morphology is pervasive in insects and the underlying molecular basis is starting to be revealed in the Drosophila genus for species of the melanogaster group. However, it remains unclear whether s...
Hydro- and Morphodynamic Impacts of Sea Level Rise: The Minho Estuary Case Study
Melo, W; Pinho, J; Iglesias, I; Bio, A; P. Avilez-Valente; Vieira, J; Bastos, L; Fernando Veloso GomesThe understanding and anticipating of climate change impacts is one of the greatest challenges for humanity. It is already known that, until the end of the 21st century, the mean sea level (MSL) will rise at a global scale, but its effects at the local scale need to be further analyzed. In this context, a numerical modelling tool and a methodological approach for the river Minho estuary (NW of the Iberian Penin...