Canary Islands

The success of the Keck telescopes led to a Spanish project Gran Telescopic Canarias (GTC) to build a 10-m telescope on the Canary Islands in La Palma. This telescope is similar to the Keck, and should be operational in 2006. 

Acknowledgment We gratefully acknowledge hnancial support by the Spanish MICIIN (CTQ2008-06806-C02-01/BQU) and Canary Islands ACIISI (PI 2007/022). 

Perhaps the most unusual observation in this study, other than the unique pigment profile in S. angulatus, is the simple and identical flavonoid profile in the Kenyan, Madagascaran, and Canary Islands specimens. A close relationship between the two varieties from East Africa is not difficult to appreciate. The occurrence of this profile in specimens from the Canary Islands, however, points to a closer relationship than the distance between these areas might suggest. There is no way to know, at least from the data presented, whether this represents a case of convergence of flavonoid biosynthetic capacities involving unrelated species, whether it points to a relationship based... 

Todaroa is a small genns endemic to the Canary Islands. According to Gonzdlez et al. (1988), who were interested in secondary metabolites of the genus, T. aurea Pari, was regarded tentatively as a single species endemic to the four westernmost islands of the archipelago. Chemical analysis of specimens collected on two islands. 

Anguita, F. and Hernan, F. 2000. The Canary Islands origin a unifying model. J. Volcanol. Geoth. Res. 103 1-26. 

Bramwell, D. 1972. Endemism in the flora of the Canary Islands. Pages 141-159 in D. H. Valenhne (ed.) Taxonomy, phytogeography, and evolution. Academic Press, New York. 

The endemic flora of the Canary Islands. Pages 207-240 In Biogeography and... 

Carracedo, J. C. 1994. The Canary Islands an example of structural control on the growth of large oceanic-island volcanoes. 1. Volcan. Geotherm. Res. 60 225-241. 

Tank vessel Khark55 12-19-89 400 miles north of Las Palmas, Canary Islands 452,400... 

Hernandez, O. M., Fraga, J. M. G., Jimenez, A. 1., Jimenz, F., and Arias, J. J. (2005). Characterization of honey from the Canary Islands Determination of the mineral content by atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Food Chem. 93,449 58. 

Thomas LE, Hawkesworth CJ, Van Calsteren P, Turner SP, Rogers NW (1999) Melt generation beneath ocean islands A U-Th-Ra isotope study from Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 63 4081-4099... 

Another evaluation of the pyroxenite hypothesis can be found in the evaluation of a suite of data from the Canaries islands (Thomas et al. 1999). These authors estimated the maximum mode of residual garnet for the 1730-1736 Lanzarote eruption modelling... 

The relentless search for new and cheaper colors produced its own casualties. The Empress aldehyde green was swept aside by iodine green, methyl green, malachite green, and so on. Natural dyes were also falling by the wayside. Canary Island farmers who raised cacti for tiny cochineal beetles were bankrupted 70,000 of the dried beetles made only 1 pound of crimson dye, and the new synthetic colors were much cheaper. 

Millions of corpses, of humans as well as of pet animals, were embalmed and mummified in the period between 4000 b.c.e. and the present time, not only in Egypt but in other parts of the world as well. Ancient Ethiopian tribes mummified their dead in a manner similar to that of the Egyptians. So did the indigenous inhabitants of the Canary Islands, about 900 b.c.e. The ancient Persians and the people of Mesopotamia, on the other hand, preserved corpses by placing them in jars filled with honey or wax to prevent air, and therefore oxygen and bacteria, from accessing the corpses, thus preventing their decay. 

The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, Apartado de Correos 321, E-38700 Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain... 

Forster MP, Rodriguez Rodriguez E and Diaz Romero C. Differential characteristics in the chemical composition of bananas from Tenerife (Canary Islands) and Ecuador. 2002. J Agric Food Chem 50 7586—... 

Garnett, D.R. 2004, in C. Esteban, R. J. Garcia L6pez, A. Herrero F. Sanchez (eds.), XIII Canary Islands Winter School on Astrophysics, Cosmochemistry, Cambridge Cambridge University Press, pp. 204, 208-209,482. 

Canary Islands Cancer Research Institute Department of Biochemistry and Physiology Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria... 

Punta Del Hidalgo, Tenerife, Canary Islands, July 1994 MBL-III Clean 28° 18 N, 16°30 W 3.7xl0-7... 

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