The present study describes antioxidant properties of six wild mushrooms (Boletus edulis Bull., Boletus regius Krombh., Leccinum pseudoscaber Kallenb., Boletus impolitus Fr., Lactarius volemus Fr., and Lactarius deliciosus (L.) Gray) collected in Serbia. The antioxidant properties were assessed through the evaluation of the reducing power and radical scavenging ability of the samples. The Bolet...

Intraspecific morphological variation in fish is typically associated with sexual dimorphism, or one of three common environmental gradients: variation in intensity of predation, variation in water velocity, or variation in feeding niche. The preponderance of examples of environment-associated morphological variation within fish species has been documented in freshwater systems. It is not clear...

Boid inclusion body disease (BIBD) is a fatal disorder of boid snakes that is suspected to be caused by a retrovirus. In order to identify this agent, leukocyte cultures (established from Python molurus specimens with symptoms of BIBD or kept together with such diseased animals) were assessed for reverse transcriptase (RT) activity. Virus from cultures exhibiting high RT activity was banded on ...

Consumption is the basis of metabolic and trophic ecology and is used to assess an animal's trophic impact. The contribution of activity to an animal's energy budget is an important parameter when estimating consumption, yet activity is usually measured in captive animals. Developments in telemetry have allowed the energetic costs of activity to be measured for wild animals; however, wild activ...

By F. M. Caird, F.R.C.S., Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery, University of Edinburgh Tuberculous peritonitis is familiar to us as a disease of childhoou and infancy. It is rarer in adult life. Thus in the years fr?nl March igoo to the end of 1910, of 6366 adults admitted to the general surgical wards under my charge in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary we only met with 31 cases of tuberculous pe...