the fishes of capoeta genus are living in different fauna regions of iranian freshwater fishes. the parasitological studies of these fishes are important on subjects of ecology and life cycles in different fishes. the aim of this study was to study the parasites of capoeta spp. in halil-rud river, kerman province. samples were collected from the freshwater fishes (between oct. 2007 to sep. 2008...

Annual and diurnal African biomass burning temporal dynamics G. Roberts, M. J. Wooster, and E. Lagoudakis King’s College London, Environmental Monitoring and Modeling Research Group, Department of Geography, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK Received: 20 June 2008 – Accepted: 5 August 2008 – Published: 9 September 2008 Correspondence to: G. Roberts ([email protected]) Published by Copernicu...

S. K. Samaddar,1 J. N. De,1 X. Viñas,2 and M. Centelles2 1Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India 2Departament d’Estructura i Constituents de la Matèria and Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Facultat de Fı́sica, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain (Received 15 April 2008; revised manuscript received 11 August 2008; published 19 Septemb...

I. K. Ortega, T. Kurtén, H. Vehkamäki, and M. Kulmala Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Physical Sciences, P.O. Box 64, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland Received: 9 January 2008 – Accepted: 13 February 2008 – Published: 17 March 2008 Correspondence to: I. K. Ortega ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Un...

A multilateral approach that includes both biotic and climatic data was developed to detect the main variables that affect the ecology and population dynamics of woolly apple aphid Eriosoma lanigerum (Hausmann). Crawlers migrated up and down the trunk mainly from spring to autumn and horizontal migration through the canopy was observed from May to August. Winter temperatures did not kill the ca...

The genera Tenupedunculus Schultz, 1982 and Stenobermuda Schultz, 1979 are recorded for the first time from beyond the Southern Ocean, at the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Tenupedunculus serrulatussp. n. and Stenobermuda waroogasp. n. are described from Heron Island and Lizard Island respectively, both in the Great Barrier Reef. The genus Tenupedunculus is revised and a new diagnosis presented...

Behavioral tactics play a crucial role in the evolution of species and are likely to be found in host-parasitoid interactions where host quality may differ between host developmental stages. We investigated foraging decisions, parasitism and related fitness in a gregarious ectoparasitoid, Sclerodermus harmandi in relation to two distinct host developmental stages: larvae and pupae. Two colonies...

The effects of biotic and abiotic factors on stem borer parasitoid diversity, abundance, and parasitism were studied in cultivated and natural habitats in four agroecological zones in Kenya. Comparing habitat types, we found partial support for the "natural enemy" hypothesis, whereby, across all localities, parasitoid diversity was higher in more diverse host plant communities in natural habita...

Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, heim and Hongkham 1996). Multiple egg clutches may California 95616 be selected for if the additional eggs serve as ‘‘insurance eggs,’’ thereby increasing the probability that one offSubmitted November 10, 1997; Accepted May 19, 1998 spring will successfully emerge from a host (Rosenheim 1993; Rosenheim and Hongkham 1996). Once multiple...

A large number of repeats of a satellite DNA (stDNA) family have been cloned and sequenced from species and populations of the genus Pimelia (Tenebrionidae, Coleoptera). The beetles were collected in the Canary Islands, Morocco, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Balearic Islands in order to analyze the evolutionary forces and processes acting on abundant stDNAs conserved at the genus level. This r...