scholarly journals Conservation genetics and population history of the threatened European mink Mustela lutreola, with an emphasis on the west European population

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 2373-2388 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. MICHAUX ◽  
O. J. HARDY ◽  
F. JUSTY ◽  
P. FOURNIER ◽  
A. KRANZ ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Genetics ◽  
European Population ◽  
Population History ◽  
Mustela Lutreola ◽  
The West ◽  
European Mink ◽  
History Of ◽  
West European

scholarly journals The Archaeological and Genetic Foundations of the European Population during the Late Glacial: Implications for ‘Agricultural Thinking’

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clive Gamble ◽  
William Davies ◽  
Paul Pettitt ◽  
Lee Hazelwood ◽  
Martin Richards
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Genetic Data ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
European Population ◽  
Population History ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
History Of ◽  
Initial Results ◽  
Made In

This article presents the initial results from the S2AGES data base of calibrated radiocarbon estimates from western Europe in the period 25,000–10,000 years ago. Our aim is to present a population history of this sub-continental region by providing a chronologically-secure framework for the interpretation of data from genetics and archaeology. In particular, we define five population events in this period, using dates-as-data, and examine the implications for the archaeology of Late Glacial colonization. We contrast this detailed regional approach to the larger project which we call the cognitive origins synthesis that includes historical linguistics in the reconstruction of population history. We conclude that only archaeology can currently provide the framework for population history and the evaluation of genetic data. Finally, if progress is to be made in the new interdisciplinary field of population history then both disciplines need to refrain from inappropriate agricultural thinking that fosters distorting models of European prehistory, and they should also pay less, if any, attention to historical linguistics.With comments from L.G. Straus, J.-P. Bocquet-Appel, P.A. Underhill & R. Housley and followed by a reply from the author.

Philip Harris (1926-2018)

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (03) ◽  
pp. 371-373
Author(s):  
Michael Hodgetts
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Reading Room ◽  
The West ◽  
Birkbeck College ◽  
Final Project ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
History Of ◽  
West European

Philip Harris, who died on 21 July 2018 at the age of ninety-one, was born in Woodford, Essex, and educated at St Anthony’s School in Woodford (1932-7), St Ignatius College in London (1937-44), Birkbeck College, London, and the Institute of Historical Research. In 1953 he was awarded an M.A. for a thesis on ‘English Trade with the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late 16th Century’. From 1947 onwards he was on the staff of the British Museum (of which the Library was then part), becoming Assistant Secretary in 1959, Deputy Superintendent of the Reading Room in 1963 and Deputy Keeper in 1966. He was in charge in turn of the Acquisitions, the English and North European, and the West European Branches of the Department of Printed Books. In 1998 he published his History of the British Museum Library, the fruit of more than ten years’ research after his ‘retirement’ in 1986.1 His final project there, almost complete when he died, was on the Old Royal Library donated to the Museum by George II.2 At his funeral the first reading was read by a former head of the Chinese Department there.

scholarly journals Fifty Years of Research on European Mink Mustela lutreola L., 1761 Genetics: Where Are We Now in Studies on One of the Most Endangered Mammals?

Genes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1332
Author(s):  
Jakub Skorupski
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Genetics ◽  
Mammalian Species ◽  
Molecular Ecology ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mustela Lutreola ◽  
European Mink ◽  
Current State ◽  
Standard Karyotype ◽  
Management Approaches

The purpose of this review is to present the current state of knowledge about the genetics of European mink Mustela lutreola L., 1761, which is one of the most endangered mammalian species in the world. This article provides a comprehensive description of the studies undertaken over the last 50 years in terms of cytogenetics, molecular genetics, genomics (including mitogenomics), population genetics of wild populations and captive stocks, phylogenetics, phylogeography, and applied genetics (including identification by genetic methods, molecular ecology, and conservation genetics). An extensive and up-to-date review and critical analysis of the available specialist literature on the topic is provided, with special reference to conservation genetics. Unresolved issues are also described, such as the standard karyotype, systematic position, and whole-genome sequencing, and hotly debated issues are addressed, like the origin of the Southwestern population of the European mink and management approaches of the most distinct populations of the species. Finally, the most urgent directions of future research, based on the research questions arising from completed studies and the implementation of conservation measures to save and restore M. lutreola populations, are outlined. The importance of the popularization of research topics related to European mink genetics among scientists is highlighted.

scholarly journals Insular Celtic population structure and genomic footprints of migration

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross P Byrne ◽  
Rui Martiniano ◽  
Lara M Cassidy ◽  
Matthew Carrigan ◽  
Garrett Hellenthal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Association Studies ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Population History ◽  
Population Substructure ◽  
Isolated Populations ◽  
The West ◽  
Haplotypic Diversity ◽  
Genetic Landscape ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk

AbstractPrevious studies of the genetic landscape of Ireland have suggested homogeneity, with population substructure undetectable using single-marker methods. Here we have harnessed the haplotype-based method fineSTRUCTURE in an Irish genome-wide SNP dataset, identifying 23 discrete genetic clusters which segregate with geographical provenance. Cluster diversity is pronounced in the west of Ireland but reduced in the east where older structure has been eroded by historical migrations. Accordingly, when populations from the neighbouring island of Britain are included, a west-east cline of Celtic-British ancestry is revealed along with a particularly striking correlation between haplotypes and geography across both islands. A strong relationship is revealed between subsets of Northern Irish and Scottish populations, where discordant genetic and geographic affinities reflect major migrations in recent centuries. Additionally, Irish genetic proximity of all Scottish samples likely reflects older strata of communication across the narrowest inter-island crossing. Using GLOBETROTTER we detected Irish admixture signals from Britain and Europe and estimated dates for events consistent with the historical migrations of the Norse-Vikings, the Anglo-Normans and the British Plantations. The influence of the former is greater than previously estimated from Y chromosome haplotypes. In all, we paint a new picture of the genetic landscape of Ireland, revealing structure which should be considered in the design of studies examining rare genetic variation and its association with traits.Author summaryA recent genetic study of the UK (People of the British Isles; PoBI) expanded our understanding of population history of the islands, using newly-developed, powerful techniques that harness the rich information embedded in chunks of genetic code called haplotypes. These methods revealed subtle regional diversity across the UK, and, using genetic data alone, timed key migration events into southeast England and Orkney. We have extended these methods to Ireland, identifying regional differences in genetics across the island that adhere to geography at a resolution not previously reported. Our study reveals relative western diversity and eastern homogeneity in Ireland owing to a history of settlement concentrated on the east coast and longstanding Celtic diversity in the west. We show that Irish Celtic diversity enriches the findings of PoBI; haplotypes mirror geography across Britain and Ireland, with relic Celtic populations contributing greatly to haplotypic diversity. Finally, we used genetic information to date migrations into Ireland from Europe and Britain consistent with historical records of Viking and Norman invasions, demonstrating the signatures of these migrations the on modern Irish genome. Our findings demonstrate that genetic structure exists in even small isolated populations, which has important implications for population-based genetic association studies.

NEW APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY OF IMPERIALISM

2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 587-592
Author(s):  
D. K. FIELDHOUSE
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
New World ◽  
The West ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global World ◽  
West European

The world and the West: European challenge and the overseas response in the age of empire. By Philip D. Curtin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv+294. ISBN 0-521-77135-8. £19.95.The global world of Indian merchants. 1750–1947: traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama. By Claude Markovits. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xv+327. ISBN 0-521-62285-9. £40.00.New frontiers: imperialism's new communities in East Asia 1842–1953. Edited by Robert Bickers and Christian Henrito. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp. xii+290. ISBN 0-7190-5604-7. £45.00.Colonial writing and the New World, 1583–1671: allegories of desire. By Thomas Scanlan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. x+242. ISBN 0-521-64305-8. £37.50.

scholarly journals History of Russian Reception of Drama I.-V. Goethe’s “Torquato Tasso”

2020 ◽  
pp. 286-302
Author(s):  
D. N. Zhatkin ◽  
N. L. Vasiliev
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Torquato Tasso ◽  
National Library ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of ◽  
West European

The history of Russian translations of the I.-V. Goethe’s drama “Torquato Tasso” (1789) is discussed in the article. Responses testifying to the familiarity with this work of many Russian writers, in particular, V. A. Zhukovsky, N. V. Kukolnik, N. A. Polevoy, I. V. Kireevsky, N. I. Nadezhdin, I. S. Turgenev, A. I. Herzen and others are systematized. The history of Russian Reception of the “Torquato Tasso”, dating back to the 1840s (A. N. Strugovschikov, N. M. Satin, A. N. Yakhontov, etc.), and its influence on aesthetic reflection in the era of romanticism and afterwards is discussed in the article. Particular attention is paid to the previously unknown translation of V. G. Benediktov (presumably the 1850s), preserved in the archives of the writer in the Russian National Library. Subsequent translations created by V. A. Sorgenfrey (1920-1921) and S. M. Soloviev (1933) are also analyzed. With the involvement of diary, epistolary and memoir materials, the activity of A. A. Blok as a translation editor by V. A. Sorgenfrey is conceptualized. The relevance of the study is due to the need to clarify the large-scale picture of the translation and literary critical reception of the West European classics in Russia.

scholarly journals “Results of Synodal Era Will Be Positively Exposed”. Anton V. Kartashev’s Letters to George I. Novitskii. 1957

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2 (26)) ◽  
pp. 145-155
Author(s):  
Aleksandr V. Antoshchenko
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The West ◽  
Church Administration ◽  
History Of ◽  
West European

This publication continues to acquaint the readers with letters written by the historian and professor of the St. Sergius Theological Institute in Paris, Anton V. Kartashev, to his friend George I. Novitskii, who lived in New York. At the beginning of the year, A. V. Kartashev was still thinking about the second edition of his book “The Restoration of Holy Russia”, supplemented by a polemic with its critics. However, the main event in the life of the historian this year was the preparation of “Essays on the History of the Russian Church”. Despite his illness, he managed to prepare a manuscript of the book. A. V. Kartashev paid special attention to assessments of the Synodal period, which, unlike the pre-revolutionary tradition, he characterized positively. A significant place in the letters was occupied by the description of intrigues in the diocesan administration of the West European exarchate of the Russian parishes of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in connection with the anniversary of Metropolitan Vladimir (Tikhonitsky). A. V. Kartashev consistently upheld the principle of collegiality in church administration, and also sought to maintain the high authority of the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute and its rector Bishop Cassian (Bezobrazov). The text of letters is aline with current spelling standards with preservation of some features of author's spelling of separate words and punctuation.

scholarly journals “Probably in a Week Both My Volumes Will Go on Sale”. Anton V. Kartashev’s Letters to George I. Novitskii. 1958-1960

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1 (25)) ◽  
pp. 227-235
Author(s):  
Aleksandr V. Antoshchenko
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The West ◽  
Financial Condition ◽  
Journal Publications ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
West European ◽  
Summer Vacations

This publication completes the readers' acquaintance with letters written by the historian and professor of the St. Sergius Theological Institute in Paris A. V. Kartashev to his friend G. I. Novitsky, who lived in New York. The historian focused on preparing for the publication of his final works, “Essays on the History of the Russian Church” and “Ecumenical Councils”, which he wrote and dictated during the summer vacations. No less space in the letters was given by their author to traditional questions - about the financial condition of the institute and the peculiarities of training students in it, as well as about the relationship of its professors with the hierarchs of the West European Exarchate of Russian Parishes of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The text of the letters is brought into line with modern spelling standards while preserving some features of the author’s spelling of individual words and punctuation. Comments include data on newly mentioned persons, and information on re-meeting ones can be found in previous journal publications for 2016-2019.

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