Conspicuous color signals are commonly used by a wide diversity of animals to advertise some specific aspect of their competitive ability. In particular, orange and red colors are often used as an aggressive signal to potential rivals. The iconic Australian frillneck lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii) has a large and extensible frill that varies geographically in the extent of yellow, orange, and r...

Landscape-scale population genetic structure in vagile vertebrates was commonly considered to be a contradiction in terms whereas recent studies have demonstrated behaviour and habitat associated structure in several such species. We investigate whether landscape features influence morphological and genetic differentiation in a widespread, mobile raptor. To accurately describe genetic different...

Nonhuman primates host a plethora of potentially zoonotic microbes, with simian retroviruses receiving heightened attention due to their roles in the origins of human immunodeficiency viruses type 1 (HIV-1) and HIV-2. However, incomplete taxonomic and geographic sampling of potential hosts, especially the African colobines, has left the full range of primate retrovirus diversity unexplored. Blo...

Quaternary climatic fluctuations have had profound effects on the phylogeographic structure of many species. Classically, species were thought to have become isolated in peninsular refugia, but there is limited evidence that large, non-polar species survived outside traditional refugial areas. We examined the phylogeographic structure of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), a species that shows high ec...

 Cochlodinium polykrikoides was bloomed in the Persian Gulf for the first time in September 2008, started from the Strait of Hormuz and then spread out towards the northern parts covering most of the areas of the Gulf and lasted 8 months. In order to find out environmental conditions during the bloom, a monthly sampling program was carried out in seven surface stations in 2008-2009. At each sta...

A survey of 143 hunter-harvested red deer for tuberculosis was conducted in an Alpine area in Western Austria over two subsequent years. There, single tuberculosis cases caused by Mycobacterium caprae had been detected in cattle and red deer over the preceding decade. The area under investigation covered approximately 500 km(2), divided into five different hunting plots. Lymph nodes of red deer...

Journal of Plant Registrations, Vol. 3, No. 1, January 2009 51 W heat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) is one of the most common, and devastating, diseases impacting wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production in the western Great Plains of North America. Annual production losses of 5% have been estimated, although severe local WSMV infection can result in complete crop failure (French and Stenger, Regis...

Published Ahead of Print 15 October 2008. 2009, 83(1):428. DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01725-08. J. Virol. Peeters Locatelli, Valérie Courgnaud, Eric Delaporte and Martine Florian Liégeois, Bénédicte Lafay, Pierre Formenty, Sabrina Forest in Ivory Coast ) from the Taï Piliocolobus badius badius Strains from Western Red Colobus ( Pbb ) and New SIVwrc Procolobus verus Lineage (SIVolc) from Olive Colobus ( N...

background: role of dietary modifications on the treatment and management of diabetes and complications was shown by many researchers. this study was designed to examine the association of major dietary patterns with diabetes-related cardio-metabolic risk factors in iranian diabetes. methods: totally, 525 type 2 diabetic subjects with mean age 55 ± 10 yr were included in this cross-sectional st...

A new species of pseudamine cardinalfish, Pseudamiops springeri, is described from five specimens collected in the Red Sea. It may be distinguished from the four known species of Pseudamiops in having 13 pectoralfin rays, pseudobranch with 2-4 filaments, no canine teeth on the vomer, anterior nostril with a conspicuous skin flap and genital opening flanked by two slender papillae. Pseudamiops s...