background: angiostrongylus cantonensis is a zoonotic public health concern that causes human severe eosinophilic meningitis in southeast asia and china. as a medically important intermediate host of a. cantonensis , bellamya lithophaga (gastrop-oda: viviparidae) is often confused with other morphologically similar sibling spe-cies of genus bellamya , such as b. aeruginosa and b. purificata in ...

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 & bianco, 1998). the chromosomes of these fishes were investigated by examining metaphase chromosome spreads ...

Molecular tools have revolutionized the exploration of biodiversity, especially in organisms for which traditional taxonomy is difficult, such as for microscopic animals (meiofauna). Environmental (eDNA) metabarcode surveys of DNA extracted from sediment samples are increasingly popular for surveying biodiversity. Most eDNA surveys use the nuclear gene-encoding small-subunit rDNA gene (18S) as ...

The article examines an unpublished inscription conserved in the Nerantzia Castle of Kos (Greece). It consists four elegiac couplets that Coan scholar Stamatios K. Pantelidis (Παντελίδης) composed some time before 1879. was supposed to be located facade school founded year indicated inscription. Seemingly, after earthquake which devastated 1933, it relocated warehouse northern along with many o...