length-weight relationship and condition factor were investigated in seven fish species, including barbus cyri , capoeta gracilis , alburnoides eichwaldi , acanthalbarnus microlepis , ponticola cyrius , cobitis keyvani and oxynemacheilus bergianus from totkabon river. a total of 570 specimens ranging from 25.90 to 146.97 mm in total length and 0.1 to 260.3 g in total weight were collected. base...

The infection prevalence of Ligula colymbi plerocercoids in the spined loach Cobitis taenia inhabiting brackish waters of the Baltic Sea, and the effects of the parasite on the reproduction and growth of the host were studied. There was no significant trend in the infection rate among the different sampling dates in May–July. In total, 24.6% of females and 15.4% of males were infected. In most ...

The ability of self-replicating RNA (replicon) vaccine vectors derived from the Australian flavivirus Kunjin (KUN) to induce protective alphabeta CD8+ T-cell responses was examined. KUN replicons encoding a model immunogen were delivered by three different vaccine modalities: (i) as naked RNA transcribed in vitro, (ii) as plasmid DNA constructed to allow in vivo transcription of replicon RNA by...

Stream acidifi cation across the northeastern US impacts fi sh abundance and fi sh communities. In this study, we document a fi sh community shift in the upper mainstem of Hubbard Brook (NH) from the presence of at least three species in the 1960s to the presence of only one species today. Cottus cognatus (Slimy Sculpin) and Rhinichthys atratulus (Blacknose Dace) are no longer present in this s...

Ru(bpy)3-doped silica nanoparticle DNA probe for the electrogenerated chemiluminescence detection of DNA hybridization Zhu Chang a,b, Jingming Zhou a, Kun Zhao a, Ningning Zhu c, Pingang He a, Yuzhi Fang a,∗ a Department of Chemistry, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China b Department of Chemistry, Shangqiu Teachers College, Shangqiu 476000, China c Department of Chemistry, Shang...