Acoustically interacting males of the tropical katydid Mecopoda elongata synchronize their chirps imperfectly, so that one male calls consistently earlier in time than the other. In choice situations, females prefer the leader signal, and it has been suggested that a neuronal mechanism based on directional hearing may be responsible for the asymmetric, stronger representation of the leader sign...

Most Neisseria species are gram-negative cocci or diplococci; currently, N. elongata is the only species of human origin with a bacillary morphology. Here, we report isolation and characterization of eight strains of another bacillary Neisseria species from human infections. The organisms caused or contributed to either oral cavity-related or respiratory tract infections, and two strains were i...

This study refers to the helminth fauna of the Spotted Nothura, Nothura maculosa (Temminck, 1815), on the basis of samples deposited in the Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, and also on bibliographical data. The helminth survey of N. maculosa is represented by the digenetic trematode Brachylaemus (Centrodes) centrodes (Braun, 1901) Travassos & Kohn, 1964, by two cestode...

The spatial extent and temporal decay of copepod-generated hydrodynamic disturbances during cruise and escape behavior were examined using the particle image velocimetry technique combined with theoretical models. Our study compared results for two species in the genus Euchaeta: the larger E. elongata living in colder water of higher viscosity versus the smaller E. rimana living in warmer water...

The article presents the results of studying effect light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on efficiency micropropagation valuable woody plants. Commercial use requires optimization various parameters, including light quality and lighting regime. Nowadays, LED have become an alternative source illumination for plant tissue culture, Recently, along with medicinal herbaceous plants, tree crops also widely ...

Preference tests and meal pattern analyses were conducted to examine the feed intake response of weanling pigs to spray-dried porcine plasma (SDPP). In Exp. 1, 36 weanling pigs (mean +/- SD; 6.2 +/- .8 kg and 26 d of age) were allowed to choose between a SDPP diet (8.5% SDPP, 20% dried whey, 10% lactose, and .13% DL-methionine) and a dried skim milk (DSM) diet (20% each of DSM and dried whey) t...

Surgical Medicine Open Access Journal Approaches to the Management of Elective Patients in General Surgery During Covid-19 Pandemic Meric S, Aktokmakyan TV*, Tokocin M, Bugdayci N, Valiyev O, Hacim NA and Yavuz E Department Surgery, Istanbul Bagcilar Training Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey *Corresponding author: TV, Merkez mah. Education Bagcilar, Turkey, Email: [email protected] Submissio...

The independence of Pseudomarshallagia and its placement among the medium stomach worms of ungulates, Ostertagiinae, is confirmed based on comparative morphological studies of the synlophe and genital attributes among male and female specimens. An emended description of Pseudomarshallagia elongata is presented based on a series of specimens in sheep from northern Ethiopia. Pseudomarshallagia el...

The challenge in defining conservation units so that they represent evolutionary entities has been to combine both genetic properties and ecological significance. Here we make use of the complexity of the European Alps, with their genetic landscape shaped by geographical barriers and postglacial colonization, to examine the correlation between ecological and genetic divergence. Montane species,...