Partial sequences of mitochondrial 12S and 16S rRNA genes from 19 Asian frog species of the tribe Paini (Ranidae, Dicroglossinae) allowed a first molecular study of the phylogenetic relationships of this tribe. This analysis confirmed that this tribe is a monophyletic group, but suggested relationships did not agree with previous generic classification of this clade based on morphology. Two maj...

INTRODUCTION Northeastern Iran is known as a high risk area of upper gastrointestinal cancers. Recent reports have suggested a declining trend for these cancers as well as an increase in the incidence of other malignancies including breast cancer. Our present aim was to describe the epidemiological pattern of breast cancer in this region during 2004-2009. METHODS All new cancer cases from pub...

field collection in nahavand county (hamedan province, iran) revealed 9 blister beetle (col: meloidae) species from three different tribes of subfamily meloinae. in tribe mylabrini, mylabris impressa chevrolat 1837, mylabris schreibersi reiche 1865, mylabris variabilis (pallas, 1781), mylabris guerini chevrolat 1837, lydoceras bilineatus thomas 1897 and croscherichia spp. pardo alcaide identifi...

the sanjâbi or senjâwi tribe was one of the kurdish tribes in west of iranthatsupportedthetransitionalgovernment of nizam al-saltana and its nationalist supporters and united with ottoman and german forces to express its opposition to the presence and activities of russian and britishtroopsduringtheworldwari.  after the victory of russian and britisharmiesiniranianwestern regions, this tribe be...

seed protein profiles of 47 accessions belonging to eleven species and four tribes of grain legumes were studied, by extracting the total proteins from ten single seeds in each accession and performing sds-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. all eleven species were clearly recognizable from their protein banding patterns, but only phaseolus vulgaris expressed high intraspecific variations, ...

Most current methods to identify cell-specific RNA binding protein (RBP) targets require analyzing an extract, a strategy that is problematic with small amounts of material. To address this issue, we developed TRIBE, a genetic method that expresses an RBP of interest fused to the catalytic domain of the RNA editing enzyme ADAR. TRIBE therefore performs Adenosine-to-Inosine editing on candidate ...

A new issid genus in the tribe Hemisphaeriini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Issidae) is described from China: Rotundiforma gen. nov.. One new species, Rotundiforma nigrimaculata sp. nov. (China: Yunnan, Menglun), is described and illustrated. Distribution and morphological diversity of tribe Hemisphaeriini are discussed briefly. A checklist for the 14 genera of Hemisphaeriini is provided.