This paper aims to elucidate the structure and design of radulae of 2 species of limpet, namely Patella caerulea and P. rustica. Samples were examined by light microscope and SEM. Although the general formula is the same, the pattern of each dentition differed between the 2 species. General morphology and histology of odontophore showed structural significance of the organ, suggesting a further...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) approaches are increasingly being used to generate multi-locus data for phylogeographic and evolutionary genetics research. We detail the applicability of a restriction enzyme-mediated genome complexity reduction approach with subsequent NGS (DArTseq) in vertebrate study systems at different evolutionary and geographical scales. We present two case studies using...

Cryptic species are widespread across the phylum Porifera making the identification of non-indigenous species difficult, an issue not easily resolved by the use of morphological characteristics. The widespread order Haplosclerida is a prime example due to limited and plastic morphological features. Here, we study the reported introduction of Haliclona (Soestella) caerulea from the Caribbean to ...

The mountains of New Guinea are home to species-rich but poorly understood communities stream or torrent-breeding pelodryadid treefrogs. Here we describe a new species moderately sized Litoria from the Papua Province, Indonesia. is most similar dorsivena differs that in aspects body size, skin texture and especially shape snout. Based on recent collections, also present data distribution colour...

in this study, two reared chalcid wasps are newly recorded from fars province, iran, as the natural enemies of fig soft scale, eulecanium sp. (hemiptera: coccidae): (1) scutellista caerulea (fonscolombe) (pteromalidae: eunotinae) and (2) blastothrix hungarica erdã¶s (encyrtidae: encyrtinae). both species were collected from estahaban (may 2005) and darab (september 2005; june 2006).

Ten wet grassland species were fumigated with four concentrations of ozone (charcoal-filtered air, non-filtered air and non-filtered air plus 25 or 50 nl l(-1) ozone) in open-top chambers during one growing season to investigate the long-term effect of this air pollutant on various growth variables. Only Eupatorium cannabinum showed ozone-related foliar injury, while five species reacted with s...

Mitochondrial DNA sequences from 16S rRNA and ATPase8 genes were used to investigate phylogeographic patterns of the land snail Albinaria (Gastropoda: Clausiliidae) in the Aegean archipelago. Forty-two populations of Albinaria were analyzed, mainly A. turrita, A. caerulea and A. brevicollis, collected from 22 Aegean islands and certain surrounding regions. Maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood ...