The white backed planthopper, Sogatella furcifera (Hemiptera: Delphacidae), is a serious pest of rice in Asia. In the present study, inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) markers were employed to investigate the genetic diversity and differentiation of 47 populations sampled from 14 prefectures of the Greater Mekong Subregion. A total of 14 selected primers yielded 121 bright and discernible band...

A total of 600 faecal and hair samples (200 of dog faecal, 200 dog’s hair and 200 dog owner’s stool samples) were collected and examined for the presence of Toxocara canis eggs. Toxocara canis eggs were found in 74(37percent) faecal samples, 25 (12.5percent) in hair samples and in 47 (23.5percent) dog owner’s stool samples. Prevalence was higher in pups and children than adults. Twenty five egg...

Bacterial strains resistant to various antibiotic drugs are frequently encountered in clinical infections, and the rapid identification of drug-resistant strains is highly essential for clinical treatment. We developed a locked nucleic acid (LNA)-based quantitative real-time PCR (LNA-qPCR) method for the rapid detection of 13 antibiotic resistance genes and successfully used it to distinguish d...

Lori K. Holleran Steiker, PhD, is Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austiti. Felipe Gotizález Castro, PhD, is Professor, Psychology Departmetit, Arizona State University. Karol Kumpfer, PhD, is Professor of Health Promotion and Education, The University of Utah, PI and Program Developer of the Strengthening Families Program (SFP) in the United States and countri...

27 28 Culturing of bacteria from bronchial secretions in respiratory patients has low 29 sensitivity and does not allow for complete assessment of microbial diversity across the 30 different bronchial compartments. In addition, a significant number of clinical studies 31 are based on sputum samples and it is not known to what extent they describe the real 32 diversity of the mucosa. In order to...

this contribution determines suitable fingerprinting properties for sediment source discrimination within theamrovan and atary catchments in semnan province, iran. these catchments are representative of a range of geology formations and should therefore provide a meaningful basis for a general assessment of the degree of sediment source discrimination afforded by a range of fingerprint properti...

For graphs of bounded maximum degree, we consider acyclic t-improper colourings, that is, colourings in which each bipartite subgraph consisting of the edges between two colour classes is acyclic and each colour class induces a graph with maximum degree at most t. We consider the supremum, over all graphs of maximum degree at most d, of the acyclic t-improper chromatic number and provide t-impr...

An experiment consisting of 2 identically designed trials was conducted to determine the nutrient composition and AMEn content of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) to develop prediction equations for AMEn in broilers. Fifteen samples of DDGS ranging in ether extract (EE) from 3.15 to 13.23% (DM basis) were collected from various dry-grind ethanol plants and were subsequently fed to b...