The survival of the tiger (Panthera tigris) is seriously threatened by poaching to provide raw materials for Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCMs). Most highly prized are the tiger's bones, which are used in combination with other animal and plant derivatives in pills and plasters for the treatment of rheumatism and other ailments. Hundreds of patent remedies have been produced which claim to co...

Tiger Shark is a scalable, parallel file system designed to support interactive multimedia applications, particularly large-scale ones such as interactive television (ITV). Tiger Shark runs under the IBM AIX® operating system, on machines ranging from RS/6000 desktop workstations to the SP2® parallel supercomputer. In addition to supporting continuous-time data, Tiger Shark provides scalabilit...

Occupying only 7% of their historical range and confined to forested habitats interspersed in a matrix of human dominated landscapes, tigers (Panthera tigris) typify the problems faced by most large carnivores worldwide. With heads of governments of tiger range countries pledging to reverse the extinction process and setting a goal of doubling wild tiger numbers by 2022, achieving this target w...

An integrated approach including analyses of different biological traits is a proven and powerful tool used to assess the population structures fish species, which vital for fishery stock conservation management wild resources. This study evaluates use three natural tags (i.e., microsatellites, parasites, otolith nucleus chemistry) in order describe structure spinyhead croaker, Collichthys luci...

The Bali (Panthera tigris balica) and Javan (P. t. sondaica) tigers are recognized as distinct tiger subspecies that went extinct in the 1940s and 1980s, respectively. Yet their genetic ancestry and taxonomic status remain controversial. Following ancient DNA procedures, we generated concatenated 1750bp mtDNA sequences from 23 museum samples including 11 voucher specimens from Java and Bali and...

The majority of wild Sumatran tigers are believed to live in 12 Tiger Conservation Landscapes covering approximately 88,000 km(2) . However, the actual distribution of tigers across Sumatra has never been accurately mapped. Over the past 20 years, conservation efforts focused on the Sumatran tigers have increased, but the population continues to decline as a result of several key threats. To id...

We describe the draft genome sequence of Pseudomonas plecoglossicida strain NB2011, the causative agent of white nodules in cultured large yellow croaker (Larimichthys crocea) in China. The draft genome sequence of the bacterium consists of 5.41 million bp, with a G+C content of 62.8%. A total of 4,952 genes were identified.

BACKGROUND The fish family Sciaenidae has numerous species that produce sounds with superfast muscles that vibrate the swimbladder. These muscles form post embryonically and undergo seasonal hypertrophy-atrophy cycles. The family has been the focus of numerous passive acoustic studies to localize spatial and temporal occurrence of spawning aggregations. Fishes produce disturbance calls when han...

the best method of fish breeding is the isolation of pure lines having high-producing hybrids. the decline in heterosis (dih) resulted from inbreeding, maternal effects, general combining ability (gca) and specific combining ability (sca) on reproductive traits (e.g., egg production, number of hatched egg, and hatchability of pure lines and crosses) of tiger, green, and albino barbie hybrids we...

In the endorsement business, golf has been the leading sports industry to have endorsers.[11] “The Fortunate 50”, a list of the 50 top earning American athletes in salary, endorsement and appearance fees compiled by Sports Illustrated, ranked Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson 1st and 2nd, respectively in their 2008 and 2009 rankings.[4] It is documented that Tiger Woods has consistently earned sig...