Francesca De Rossi's scientific contributions

... The illicia here analyzed, all from November, showed a light edge, corresponding to the WLZ, with a preceding NDZ formed several months earlier, probably corresponding to the aforementioned second quarter (Fig. 2). The age criteria was based on: i) the counting carried out in the area where good contrast between annuli is found (Fig. 2); ii) unlike otoliths, where the annuli widths decrease toward the edge, the annuli in illicia remain a similar width throughout the section (Fig. 2); iii) based on recommendations from the micro-increment studies in European anglerfish La Mesa andDe Rossi, 2008, Hernández et al., 2015), the first well defined growth increment in the illicia was not counted as an annual increment in the age estimations done in the present study. Illicia were aged by two readers and those with disagreement were examined again. ...