Our understanding of infectious endocarditis (IE) has grown in conjunction with some of the major advances in the history of medicine (1). One of the earliest reports of the disease comes from Lazere Riviere, who in 1646 reported on a patient who suffered from progressive shortness of breath and a palpable murmur over the heart. At autopsy, Riviere found “small round outgrowths, the largest of ...

The first record of the terrestrial green alga Trentepohlia aurea for Croatia was made in 1890 area Krka River, and has remained until this day only globally widespread species country. During studies related to aquatic vegetation, finally rediscovered from Plitvice Lakes, Gorski kotar region near Vukova Gorica village, after 130 years during which no records were made. All recorded populations...

Traditional methods for identifying individual amphibians in capture–mark–recapture (CMR) studies have been primarily confined to post-metamorphic stages, using artificial markers that come with a variety of limitations. An alternative may open CMR earlier life stages involves the use species' natural external photo-based identification. In this study, we investigated whether it was possible di...

Seventy-two morphological characters and three ecological characteristics were measured to assess variation phylogenetic relationships among twelve species infraspecific taxa of the genus Spathoglottis from Peninsular Malaysia Borneo. The analyses divided into two main groups based on colours flower: Purple-Flowered Yellow-Flowered Spathoglottis. Species within groupings further classified size...

Tool selection can affect the success of a tool-based feeding task, and thus tool-using animals should select appropriate tools when processing foods. We performed a field experiment on Piak Nam Yai Island in Laem Son National Park, Thailand, to test whether Burmese long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea) selected stone tools according to food type. We baited the island's shores with s...

During the preparation of the Vascular Flora of the Marquesas Islands four new species of Bidens (Coreopsideae, Asteraceae) have come to light and are described herein: Bidens woodii W.L. Wagner, J.R. Clark & Lorence, sp. nov. from Ua Pou, and Bidens microcephala W.L. Wagner, J.R. Clark & Lorence sp. nov., Bidens evapelliana W.L. Wagner, J.R. Clark & Lorence, sp. nov., and Bidens wichmanii W.L....