Ecological requirements of freshwater Ostracoda (Crustacea) in two limnocrene springs (Bolu, Turkey)

Extant freshwater ostracodes (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Lago Petén Itzá, Guatemala.

Ostracode taxonomy has been of great interest because of their possible use as indicator species in climate and ecosystem changes. In Central and South America, few studies have been carried out and this study includes a contribution to the group. Eleven ostracode species were collected in Lago Petén Itzá (approximately 100km2), the second largest lowland lake in Guatemala, and from its inflow ...

Arthropods: Crustacea – Ostracoda and Amphpoda

Gomphocythere besni n. sp. (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from a man-made pool (Adıyaman, Turkey).

We describe a new species (Gomphocythere besni n. sp.) from the Tavaş man-made pool in Besni town (Adıyaman, Turkey). The species has several differences from its congeners in furcal structures (forked organ, seta of caudal ramus), numbers of setae on maxillula and maxillular palp, particular ornamentation with up to eight fossae in each mesh of the reticulation and in the presence of two types...

Tetanus immunity in nursing home residents of Bolu, Turkey

BACKGROUND Tetanus is a serious but vaccine-preventable disease and fatality rate of the disease is high in the neonates and the elderly. The aim of this study was to detect the tetanus antibody prevalence in the over sixty-year age residents of the nursing homes in Bolu. METHODS A voluntary-based study was done in the residents of two nursing homes in Bolu, Turkey. Blood samples were taken f...

Cryptic Species in Putative Ancient Asexual Darwinulids (Crustacea, Ostracoda)

BACKGROUND Fully asexually reproducing taxa lack outcrossing. Hence, the classic Biological Species Concept cannot be applied. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We used DNA sequences from the mitochondrial COI gene and the nuclear ITS2 region to check species boundaries according to the evolutionary genetic (EG) species concept in five morphospecies in the putative ancient asexual ostracod gener...