The Last Caspian Tiger

Mitochondrial Phylogeography Illuminates the Origin of the Extinct Caspian Tiger and Its Relationship to the Amur Tiger

The Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata) flourished in Central Asian riverine forest systems in a range disjunct from that of other tigers, but was driven to extinction in 1970 prior to a modern molecular evaluation. For over a century naturalists puzzled over the taxonomic validity, placement, and biogeographic origin of this enigmatic animal. Using ancient-DNA (aDNA) methodology, we genera...

the caspian sea s role in energy supply to china

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TIGER TRANSFER From LFG Structures to the TIGER Treebank

The Tiger Video Fileserver

Tiger is a distributed, fault-tolerant real-time fileserver. It provides data streams at a constant, guaranteed rate to a large number of clients, in addition to supporting more traditional filesystem operations. It is intended to be the basis for multimedia (video on demand) fileservers, but may also be used in other applications needing constant rate data delivery. The fundamental problem add...

Tiger in the bank

natural resources,” he says. But much of the trade is black, illegal. “A villager in Madagascar for whom a dollar is a day’s salary can take a radiated tortoise, resplendent in its starburst shell, and sell it at a profit of five dollars to a local middleman. That tortoise will be smuggled in a suitcase or false-bottomed crate to a distribution point in Asia, perhaps Singapore or Bangkok, and t...