Chitotriosidase (ChT) is an endoglucosaminidase enzyme that cleaves chitinous substrates and has been strongly associated with innate immune activity and the ability to identify non-selftissues. This enzyme activity w...
Serum samples from all 23 extant crocodilian species were tested for phospholipase A2 (PLA2) activity against nine different bacterial species. The data were used?to generate a PLA2 activity profile for each crocodili...
Paolo Piras had access to the collections of the Natural History Museum in London,the Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles in Bruxelles and the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris thanks to the SYNTHESYS program,and to the collection of the Field Museum in Chicago thanks to the Visiting Scholarship Program.Funds from the Geological Science Department of‘Roma Tre’University made possible the visit to the American Museum of Natural History,New York.Part of this research was conducted during a postdoctoral visit by Paolo Piras,supervised by Jorge Cubo,to the UniversitéPierre et Marie Curie.Funds were also provided by Project CGL-2009-11838 from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion Cientifica,Spain.
We explored the morphological organization of the skull within Crocodylidae,analyzing functional and phylogenetic interactions between its 2 constituent functional modules:the rostrum and the postrostrum.We used geom...