Massimiliano Delpero's research while affiliated with Università degli Studi di Torino and other places

... The needle-clawed galagos (Euoticus Gray, 1863) was inferred as sister to the remaining genera, followed by the western dwarf galagos (Galagoides Smith, 1833). In turn, the lesser (Galago É. Geoffroy, 1796) and eastern dwarf galagos (Paragalago Masters et al., 2017) were recovered as sister-taxa. The squirrel galagos (Sciurocheirus Gray, 1872) was inferred as the sister of Otolemur. ...

... The exposure to airborne pollutants can result in harmful health effects, depending on the chemical agents, the time of exposure, and the individual susceptibility [1]. Several studies have focused on hospital workers and their occupational risks [1][2][3][4][5], e.g., operating theatre nurses and pathologists, including those who are chronically exposed to formaldehyde (FA) [6][7][8]. ...

... This value is accepted as a norm in the IAEA recommendations, although according to the data from numerous studies, it can fluctuate within fairly wide limits. Thus, in various articles devoted to the comparison of background levels of chromosome damage detected by different cytogenetic laboratories, the average frequencies of dicentrics (per 1000 cells) varied from 0.30 to 2.99 [28][29][30][31]. ...

... Moreover, it has been demonstrated that the level of the genomic damage also depends on the different individual susceptibility, and single-gene polymorphisms can in uence the susceptibility to MNi formation [16,17]. This susceptibility is in large part due to polymorphisms in metabolic genes, such as cytochrome P450 (CYP) and glutathione-S-transferase (GST) family genes or DNA repair genes as XRCC and XPC genes [17,18,19,20]. ...

... In fact, they enhance the rate of the DNA strand breaks, leading to chromosomal rearrangements and/or the loss of genetic information, genomic instability, and micronucleus formation [57]. Studies on human peripheral blood lymphocytes show mutagenic activity in alcoholics, with an increased sister chromatid exchange frequency, indicating alterations in the DNA replication or repair processes [58]. Acetaldehyde and other toxic aldehydes produced by lipid peroxidation, such as MDA and 4-hydroxynonenal (4-HNE), damage DNA, as is described in both animal and human studies [59,60]. ...

... Among lemurs, selection for a short life history led to a Table 1. Angiosperm genera comprising species producing seeds dispersed by birds and lemurs (Atsalis, 2008;Birkinshaw, 2001;Bollen et al., 2004), and possible dates of first arrival of the families on Madagascar from Africa associated with three proposed continuous (Palaeocene and Oligocene) and discontinuous (Miocene) land connections [from Masters et al. (2021) reduction of body size in the Cheirogaleidae (Masters et al., 2014(Masters et al., , 2021. Phyletic dwarfing was associated with a dietary shift towards exudativory, i.e. the consumption of gum and nectar (Génin et al., 2010;Andrews et al., 2016), leading to unique plant-animal associations, possibly including other newcomers like the Burseraceae, and with some benefit to the trees [e.g. the cleaning hypothesis of Andrews et al. (2016)]. ...

... The only one proposal that is maintainable, of all this epoch, is the identification of speciesgroup conjugating systematics and homologous chromosomal features [2,14,15]. The fission-fusion theory has been early marginalised by the potentiality of molecular chromosome painting that is now facing a discussion in consideration of the rate of homoplasy that characterizes chromosomal dynamics [16]. Nevertheless, recent cytogenetic results deny a separation of the tribe in two subgroups [17]. ...

... Cytogenetic biomarkers as Sister-Chromatid Exchanges (SCEs), assessed in cultured peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL), are reliable tools widely employed in human biomonitoring to assess FA-related DNA damage level and, in turn, genotoxic effects (Norppa 2004;Santovito et al. 2014Santovito et al. , 2015Costa et al. 2019). SCEs are the result of DNA replication product interchanges between sister chromatids at apparently homologous loci (Norppa 2004). ...

... asthma, allergy; Farhat et al. 2011). In addition, PBMCs participate in the transport of xenobiotics that is why the analysis of the mechanism of interaction of PS-NPs with this cell type is fully justified (Santovito, Cervella, and Delpero 2014). ...

... Call types and use also differ with sex in Eulemur coronatus (Gamba and Giacoma, & Mutschler, 2006). These species are the largest extant lemurs, and their estimated pairwise divergence time ranges between 18 (Federman et al., 2016;Kistler et al., 2015;Masters et al., 2013) and 29-36 MYA (Antonelli et al., 2017;Fabre et al., 2009;Fritz et al., 2009;Roos et al., 2004). Propithecus diadema lives in multimale/ multifemale groups of two to eight individuals (Irwin, 2008;Powzyk, 1997;Weir, 2014), whereas I. indri groups range from 2 to 5 individuals Glessner & Britt, 2005;Torti et al., 2017;Torti et al., 2018), usually comprising a monogamous reproductive pair and their offspring . ...