Global climate underwent a major reorganization when the Antarctic ice sheet expanded ~14 million years ago (Ma) (1). This event affected global atmospheric circulation, including the strength and position of the westerlies and the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), and, therefore, precipitation patterns (2-5). We present new shallow-marine sediment records from the continental shelf of Aus...

Frequent vaccination failures have occurred in the broiler farms in Eurasian countries during Newcastle disease outbreaks. The disease is enzootic in many countries of the region, especially in southwest Asia. I-2 vaccine has been used successfully in village chickens in many Asian and African countries. Our preliminary study showed good efficacy of the vaccine in broiler chickens. Therefore th...

Aim The negative impacts of climate change on mammals have been largely based assessments total species’ assemblages or individual species at broad scales. Here, we evaluate how the predicted magnitude and velocity in arid region southwest Asia might affect regional functional groups terrestrial mammals. Location Iran. Methods We gathered data from 186 to map diversity hotspots 12 groups, threa...

The number of Late Pleistocene hominin species and the timing of their extinction are issues receiving renewed attention following genomic evidence for interbreeding between the ancestors of some living humans and archaic taxa. Yet, major gaps in the fossil record and uncertainties surrounding the age of key fossils have meant that these questions remain poorly understood. Here we describe and ...

[1] We performed an intensive comparison of an isotope‐incorporated atmospheric general circulation model with vapor isotopologue ratio observation data by two quasi‐global satellite sensors in preparation for data assimilation of water isotope ratios. A global Isotope‐incorporated Global Spectral Model simulation nudged toward the reanalysis wind field, atmospheric total column data from Scann...

Abstract Background and Aims: Akabane disease causes epidemics of abortions, stillbirths and congenital malformations manifested as arthrogryposis and hydranencephaly or microanencephaly in sheep, goats and cattle. Akabane virus replicates in arthropods and is transmitted by either mosquitoes or midges. Outbreaks of the Akabane virus have been reported from many countries in Southeast Asia...

Melocanninae is sister to other subtribes of Paleotropical woody bamboos with some 90 species mainly concentrated in Asia. However, phylogenetic relationships within the subtribe are poorly known. Here, we filled gaps complete plastome data Melocanninae, reconstructed phylogeny and further estimated divergence time ancestral distribution range. Our results showed that two major genera, Cephalos...

Pancorius Simon, 1902 is a relatively large genus of jumping spider family Salticidae and currently contains 42 valid species that are mainly distributed in South East Asia, 11 which recorded from China. A new the Guiyang City southwest China, described under name P. guiyang Yang, Gu & Yu, sp. nov. Detailed descriptions photographs provided. DNA barcodes (a partial fragment mitochondrial cy...

We performed an intensive comparison of an isotope-incorporated atmospheric general circulation model with vapor isotopologue ratio observation data by two quasi global satellite sensors in preparation for data assimilation of water isotope ratios. A global IsoGSM simulation nudged toward the reanalysis wind field, atmospheric total column data from SCIAMACHY on Envisat, and mid-tropospheric (8...

Cytogenetic studies were performed on 150 cases of Down's syndrome (DS) in Iran. The standard trisomy 21 was found in 132 (88 % ) and translocation-trisomy 21 (+21) in 18 (12%) patients, i.e., t(21,21) in 1(0.63%) and mosaicism in 17(11.33%) cases. The comparison of the frequencies for mosaicism between different populations such as Denmark, Hungary, Egypt, Iraq, India, Australia and Iran ...