Anti-ALPI polyclonal antibody

Sampling carried out in the framework of the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory project in the Mercantour-Alpi Marittime national parks (southwestern Alps) provided a number of Collembola species new to the region, including several taxa new to science. Two species are described in this paper: Orogastrura tetrophthalma n. sp. (Hypogastruridae) and Deutonura jeromoltoi n. sp. (Neanuridae). O. tetrophthalma n. sp. is the first species of the genus found in the southwestern Alps. It differs from all other species of Orogastrura Deharveng & Gers, 1979 by the large size of its postantennal organ (more than twice as long as eye diameter) and the presence of 4+4 eyes. Deutonura jeromoltoi n. sp. is the third species of the genus recorded from the southwestern Alps, and the first Deutonura Cassagnau, 1979 endemic to this region. It is closely related to D. igilica Dallai, 1983 from Sardinia, from which it differs by having height-nine dorso-lateral chaetae on Abd. IV (vs seven in D. igilica), and a different arrangement of chaetae on the central cephalic area (B-B: A-B = 1.1, vs 0.9 in D. igilica). The complete pattern of pseudopores is described for Deutonura jeromoltoi n. sp. and its potential interest as a diagnostic character at supra-generic levels within the order Poduromorpha is discussed.

The reconstruction of the thermal history of folded and thrust units is crucial to define the pattern of tectonic loading and the time-space evolution of an orogen where tectonic exhumation processes occurred at shallow crustal levels. In the present study, a well-constrained reconstruction of the thermal maturity in the axial zone of the southern Apennines has been achieved by the combined use of different thermal indicators in diagenesis. The major results are: (i) documentation of a jump in thermal maturity from the Apenninic Platform derived tectonic unit (from immature to early mature stages of hydrocarbon maturation) to the Lagonegro Basin derived tectonic units (late diagenetic zone); (ii) documentation of along-strike slighter variations in the Lagonegro units, concerning thermal maturity (thus maximum burial temperatures). This can be related to changes in amounts of tectonic burial and erosion/exhumation because of the lack of cylindricity of contractional structures; (iii) recognition of an independent thermal evolution of the allochthonous chain compared with the Apulian Platform tectonic unit with Mt Alpi area (in the late mature stage of hydrocarbon generation) interpreted as a sector of localized, intense exhumation within the External Zone of the orogen.