GIACOMO ROSA

Simple Summary Exploitative competition and interference competition differ in the way access to resources is modulated by a competitor. Exploitative competition implies resource depletion and usually produces spatial segregation, while interference competition is independent from resource availability and can result in temporal niche...

The niche variation hypothesis (NVH) suggests that populations released from competition are able to expand their realized ecological niche. This increase in total niche width (TNW) can arise by 1) increasing heterogeneity among individuals' niche through individual specialization, i.e. inter-individual variation in resource use, (IS) occurring...

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Many different amphibian skin peptides have been characterized and proven to exert various biological actions, such as wound-healing, immunomodulatory, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-diabetic effects. In this work, the possible anti-steatotic effect of macrotympanain A1 (MA1) (FLPGLECVW), a skin peptide isolated from the Chinese...