Cats are usually spreaders of allergens that are critical for sensitive people; the Siberian cat is a breed supposed to be low level allergenic, according to some breeders' statements. The sequence of the two genes, namely Ch1 and Ch2, that code for the allergen Fel d 1, the major allergen responsible for outbreaks of allergy symptoms, is not yet known in the Siberian cat, and finding this was ...

Tiger is a cryptographic hash function proposed by Anderson and Biham in 1996 and produces a 192-bit hash value. Recently, weaknesses have been shown in round-reduced variants of the Tiger hash function. Collision attacks have been presented for Tiger reduced to 16 and 19 (out of 24) rounds at FSE 2006 and Indocrypt 2006. Furthermore, Mendel and Rijmen presented a 1-bit pseudo-near-collision fo...

http://www.revistadechimie.ro 1055 Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) is viral, lethal disease caused by a feline coronavirus, with immune-mediated mechanism. The disease has been reported in a variety of species, mountain lion (Felis concolor), caracal (Caracal caracal), lion (Panthera Leo), tiger (Panthera tigris), jaguar (Panthera onca), sand cat (Margarita felis), shaving ( Lynx lynx) and ...

Department of Natural Resources. The form and content of this report and the interpretations of the data are the responsibility of the University of Illinois and the Illinois Natural History Survey and not the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. References Tables Figures Evaluation of muskellunge and tiger muskellunge stocking program. Executive Summary Size specific survival of muskellun...

The isolation and characterization of Escherichia coli O157:H7 strains from 22 out of 174 fecal samples from petting zoo animals representing twenty-two different species (camel, lion, goats, zebra, bear, baboon monkey, Siberian monkey, deer, elk, llama, pony, horses, fox, kangaroo, wolf, porcupine, chickens, tiger, ostrich, hyena, dogs, and wildcats) were investigated. One petting Al-Zawraa zo...

The tiger is one of the most iconic extant animals, and its origin and evolution have been intensely debated. Fossils attributable to extant pantherine species-lineages are less than 2 MYA and the earliest tiger fossils are from the Calabrian, Lower Pleistocene. Molecular studies predict a much younger age for the divergence of modern tiger subspecies at <100 KYA, although their cranial morphol...

Conservation investment, particularly for charismatic and wide-ranging large mammal species, needs to be evidence-based. Despite the prevalence of this theme within the literature, examples of robust data being generated to guide conservation policy and funding decisions are rare. We present the first published case-study of tiger conservation in Indochina, from a site where an evidence-based a...

BACKGROUND Cyperus esculentus tubers (tiger nut) are one of the ancient food sources known to humanity. It is traditionally used in the Middle East to stimulate sexual arousal in men. However, there has been no scientific evidence about its assumed aphrodisiac properties. This study aimed to investigate the influence of tiger nut on the copulatory behavior of sexually active male rats. METHOD...