Rodent-borne disease surveillance was conducted at Nightmare Range (NM-R), near the demilitarized zone in northeast Gyeonggi Province, Republic of Korea, to identify hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) risks for a mountainous high-elevation (500 m) military training site. Monthly surveys were conducted from January 2008-December 2009. A total of 1,720 small mammals were captured belong...

The soil of several floodplain areas along large European rivers shows increased levels of heavy metals as a relict from past sedimentation of contaminants. These levels may pose risks of accumulation in food webs and toxicologic effects on flora and fauna. However, for floodplains, data on heavy-metal concentrations in vertebrates are scarce. Moreover, these environments are characterised by p...

The results of a review the chelonian remains retrieved in excavations carried out Mealhada (Coimbra, central Portugal) are presented here. is Portuguese Middle Palaeolithic classical site, discovered at end 19th century, and chronologically ascribed to interglacial Riss-Würm (ca. 120 ka BP). This study has allowed identification, justification, figuration attributed three Iberian taxa, Testudi...

Several species of mitosporic fungi collected from Guilan and Mazandaran provinces were examined and as a result, four species viz.,Pestalotiopsis acaciae (on Diospyros lotus), Prathigada condensata (on Gleditschia caspica), Stigmella effigurata (on Castanea sativa), Teratosperma uniappendiculatum (on perthecia of Cryphonectria parasitica) are reported as new records for Iranian mycobiota. More...

Species of Haemogregarina are apicomplexan blood parasites that use vertebrates as intermediate hosts. Due to limited interspecific morphological characters within the genus during last decade, 18S rRNA gene sequences were widely used for species identification. As coinfection patterns recently reported from nuclear molecular data two sympatric freshwater turtles Mauremys leprosa and Emys orbic...