The banana weevil (Cosmopolites sordidus) and the burrowing nematode Radopholus similis represent two of most important pests bananas. Previously, colonization plants by non-pathogenic Fusarium oxysporum (isolate V5w2) entomopathogenic Beauveria bassiana WA) have been shown to increase host resistance various diseases. However, there is limited data on how combined inoculation these isolates wo...

Phylogenetic analysis of 25 morphological characters among the 12 species of Haemonchus resulted in 1 most parsimonious tree (60 steps; consistency index = 0.67, retention index = 0.80). Monophyly for Haemonchus was diagnosed by 3 unequivocal synapomorphies, including the asymmetric origin of the dorsal ray, relative size of the ventral rays, and the presence of a barb on each spicule tip. Spec...

the parasitoid wasps of the genera leiophron nees and euphorus nees were studied in northern iran (guilan, mazandaran and alborz provinces). the specimens were collected using malaise traps from different habitats during 2010-2011. four species of both genera were collected and identified, of which three species, euphorus pallidistigma (curtis), e. similis (curtis) and leiophron fascipennis (ru...

during a survey conducted on syrphidae fauna in guilan province (masuleh & lakan) in august 2006, some species of the genus eristalis latreille were collected and identified, of which e. similis (fallen) is newly reported from iran. the identification was confirmed by heikki hippa, swedish musem of natural history.

We used Woods Population Surface Method to estimate stage-specific mortality rates for populations of Calanus finmarchicus, Pseudocalanus elongatus, and Oithona similis from abundance data obtained during the Fladen Ground Experiment (FLEX 1976) in the northern North Sea. Temperatures from the day and night depth distributions of each developmental stage were used to force temperature functions...

Herbivorous insect species with narrow diet breadth are expected to be more prone to genetic differentiation than insect species with a wider diet breadth. However, a generalist can behave as a local specialist if a single host-plant species is locally available, while a specialist can eventually behave as a generalist if its preferred host is not available. These problems can be addressed by c...

Percentage composition of protein, lipid, carbohydrate and amino acids of copepods, Acartia spinicauda and Oithona similis collected from Parangipettai coastal waters were estimated following standard methodologies. Of the principal biochemical constituents, protein formed the major component followed bylipid and carbohydrate. Biochemical composition analysis of wild copepods indicated their nu...

Seventeen collections of the genus Parasola from Croatia were studied with integrative taxonomic methods. papillatospora is described as a new species, based on morphology and multigene phylogenetic analyses. Its basidiomata growing soil in temperate deciduous forests (Quercus petraea, Fagus sylvatica, Carpinus betulus) two different localities NW Croatia. Based publicly available molecular dat...