Cephalopods form important components of marine trophic systems worldwide, including those in the South Pacific. Moroteuthopsis ingens (Onychoteuthidae) is one most abundant deep–sea squids Aotearoa New Zealand region and preyed upon by predators such as sperm whale orange roughy. However, despite many publications on M. ingens’ diet, knowledge its feeding ecology remains limited. In this study...

New data on the distribution of fossil fish together with floral and tetrapod evidence are used to develop an internal correlation of the strata of the early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup of eastern North America. Within the Newark, we recognize five informal biostratigraphic zones, each characterized by a particular fish fauna. These fish zones are then related to other Mesozoic freshwater deposi...

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) enzyme catalyses the first step in pentose phosphate pathway (conversion of glucose-6-phosphat to 6-phospho gluconat) which provides cells with pentoses and reduction power in the form of NADPH. In the present study we have analyzed the G6PD gene mutations in 76 patients with a history of favism in Khorasan province in Iran. DNA samples were analyzed for...