Abstract According to COI DNA barcoding testing, the marine bivalve mollusc Mactra chinensis , which is native Asia-Pacific region, diverged into three species. These species were preliminary characterized as M. clade I, II and III. To find out whether it possible morphologically distinguish samples representing genetic clades, we examined color of shells structure spermatozoa. It was found tha...

  Glyphosate, N–(phosphonomethyl) glycine, has been widely used to control agricultural weeds in the north of Iran. However, it is also supposed to have adverse effects on natural sturgeon population. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the acute toxicity of glyphosate to three different sturgeon species (Huso huso, Acipenser stellatus, and A. persicus) under laboratory conditions. Fis...

Background: Pharmaceutical industries around the world are struggling for finding new approaches to fight cancer and many researchers are involved in this process to find new drug candidates. Aims: The current study aimed at investigating the new marine natural products with anticancer potential from the three Persian Gulf Holothuria sea cucumbers. <st...

this study provides new data on chromosomal characteristics and dna barcoding of three endemic loaches of iran: spiny southern loach cobitis linea (heckel, 1847), persian stream loach oxynoemacheilus persa (heckel, 1848) and tongiorgi stream loach oxynoemacheilus tongiorgii (nalbant &amp; bianco, 1998). the chromosomes of these fishes were investigated by examining metaphase chromosome spreads ...