Fish skin is essential for survival, maintenance of body shape, and protection against the shock and infection. During week 1 of sturgeon larval development, the epidermis is thin and not differentiated in various layers yet, but by week 4-6 the thickness increases and various layers appear, depending upon the region of the body. Mucous cells differentiate early in development on the surface of...

Background: Argas persicus has a great importance for health and veterinary, it can transmit many infectious agents such as Borrelia anserina (avian spirochetosis) and Aegyptianella pullorum. Distinguishing Argasidae due to close morphological relationship is difficult. OBJECTIVES: In the present study, we performed molecular analyses based on PCR and sequencing of Amplicon derived from 16S rRN...

background: this study purposed to assess the health risks of heavy metals including nickel (ni), chromium (cr), mercury (hg), and lead (pb) in three widely-consumed fish from the coast of bandar abbas (persian gulf) and to determine the maximum amounts allowed for consumption according to the degree of contamination. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in the summer and fall of 2...

in this study, the diversity and distribution of economical bony fishes in less-than-ten-meter depths, cpue and population features such as total length, weight and age were investigated in the southern part of the caspian sea in 1385-6. sampling was done in five regions: amir abad, larim, izdeh, kheyroud, and nashtarood with gilnet in mesh sizes of 26, 33, 40, 60, 100, and 150 mm. in total, 22...

Late Triassic plant macro-remains are extremely rare in an equatorial belt stretching across the North of Gondwana from northern South America to Arabia. Located between Laurussian floral province and South, this large area, is almost entirely lacking palaeobotanical data. Thus, region special interest our knowledge provincialism distribution. Based on impressions ferruginous crusts, first reco...