First evidence of plastics in coypu (Myocastor coypus)'s platforms.

Platforms are structures built by coypus for various purposes, such as reproduction, resting, and thermoregulation. In a coastal wetland of central Italy, during a study aimed at investigating the characteristics of coypu's platforms, it was recorded, for the first time worldwide, the presence of plastic in these structures. Through a transect survey, we censused 83 platforms, among which three (3.

FRET-Sensing of Multivalent Protein Binding at the Interface of Biomimetic Microparticles Functionalized with Fluorescent Glycolipids.

Cell adhesion is a central process in cellular communication and regulation. Adhesion sites are triggered by specific ligand-receptor interactions inducing the clustering of both partners at the contact point. Investigating cell adhesion using microscopy techniques requires targeted fluorescent particles with a signal sensitive to the clustering of receptors and ligands at the interface.

Imaging and Measuring Vesicular Acidification with a Plasma Membrane-Targeted Ratiometric pH Probe.

Tracking the pH variation of intracellular vesicles throughout the endocytosis pathway is of prior importance to better assess the cell trafficking and metabolism of cells. Small molecular fluorescent pH probes are valuable tools in bioimaging but are generally not targeted to intracellular vesicles or are directly targeted to acidic lysosomes, thus not allowing the dynamic observation of the vesicular acidification. Herein, we designed Mem-pH, a fluorogenic ratiometric pH probe based on chromenoquinoline with appealing photophysical properties, which targets the plasma membrane (PM) of cells and further accumulates in the intracellular vesicles by endocytosis.

Fishing lines and fish hooks as neglected marine litter: first data on chemical composition, densities, and biological entrapment from a Mediterranean beach.

We reported first data on the densities and chemical composition of fishing lines and fish hooks deposited on a Mediterranean beach. On a sampling area of 1.5 ha, we removed a total of 185,028 cm of fishing lines (density 12.

Habitat-specific diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Europe, exemplified by data from Latvia.

The distribution of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato genospecies in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks from ecologically distinct habitats in Latvia was analyzed. A significant variation in the frequency of the genospecies across sites was observed, pointing to the importance of the host community in the ecology of Lyme borreliosis.