BACKGROUND:Ticks are obligatory blood sucking arthropodsthat can transmit important pathogens. OBJECTIVES: Thedistribution and diversity of ticks fauna were last studied in the northof Iran in 2007. Mazandaran province has a humid climate, whichis favourable to animal husbandry such as sheep breeding. Due tohumid climate, the likelihood of exposure to tick infestation isincreasing. The aim of t...

O hemoparasita Erlichia canis, uma bactéria Gram negativa da ordem Rickettsiales e ao gênero spp., é um parasita intracelular obrigatório com tropismo por leucócitos mononucleados. Transmitida através inoculação feita pelo carrapato Rhipicephalus sanguineus. Ao adentrar os aos quais tem a forma agrupamentos chamados mórulas. A doença possui três fases, aguda, subclínica crônica. No estudo foram...

The present paper deals with the ethnomedicinal knowledge of 19 plant species belonging to 19 angiospermic families as gathered from tribals viz., Pawara, Bhil, Tadvi and Vanjara communities, besides other rural people of Jalgaon district (Maharashtra ). Out of 19 plant species studied, 05 species are used against dog bite, 05 species against snake bite, 06 species against scorpion sting, 05 sp...

An optimum-sized dog guide weighs 18 to 32 kg and measures 53 to 64 cm in height at the withers when mature body size is attained. Effects of selection index with and without restrictions, independent trait selection, directional selection, stabilizing selection, and negative assortative mating were modeled using data from German shepherd dogs and Labrador retrievers raised by the Seeing Eye, I...

The screening for extracellular oxidases and peroxidases from autochthonous filamentous fungi isolated from different substrates is an important step towards the detection of extracellular fungal oxidative systems. Thirty-one autochthonous fungal strains from Argentina, belonging to different ecophysiological and taxonomic groups, were plate-screened for their ability to produce extracellular o...

The Asian shore crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus (De Haan, 1853) has recently established populations in the North Sea and now occurs within the native ranges of the green crab Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758). To determine potential competitive effects and to assess the progress of the invasion, species-specific population characteristics (numerical abundances, biomasses, and size distributions) of...