Hedging their bets? Male and female chacma baboons form friendships based on likelihood of paternity Liza R. Moscovice *, Anthony Di Fiore , Catherine Crockford , Dawn M. Kitchen , Roman Wittig , Robert M. Seyfarth , Dorothy L. Cheney f Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University, NY, U.S.A. Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, NY, U.S.A. c School of Psycholog...

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...

mercury is the most toxic heavy metal in the aquatic ecosystems which originates both from natural and industrial resources and is ultimately deposited in sediments as methyl mercury. this metal is quickly transferred through the food chain and accumulated in organisms. in this study, the human health risk due to consumption of mullet ( liza aurata ) in the caspian sea, were evaluated by measur...

Functional traits as predictors of vital rates across the life cycle of tropical trees Marco D. Visser*, Marjolein Bruijning, S. Joseph Wright, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Eelke Jongejans, Liza S. Comita and Hans de Kroon Department of Experimental Plant Ecology & Animal Ecology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands; De...

from patients with myelodysplastic syndromes Verena Schildgen, Jessica Lüsebrink, Ramona Liza Tillmann, Michael Wulfert, Norbert Gattermann, Oliver Schildgen Institut für Pathologie, Klinken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Hospital of the Private University Witten ⁄ herdecke, Cologne, Germany. University Hospital Düsseldorf, Clinics for Hematology, Oncology, and Clinical Immunology, Düsseldorf, Germany. ...