The Greater Caribbean biogeographic region is the high-diversity heart of the Tropical West Atlantic, one of four global centers of tropical marine biodiversity. The traditional view of the Greater Caribbean is that it is limited to the Caribbean, West Indies, southwest Gulf of Mexico and tip of Florida, and that, due to its faunal homogeneity, lacks major provincial subdivisions. In this scena...

Widespread basaltic volcanism occurred in the region of the West Siberian Basin in central Russia during Permo-Triassic times. New 40Ar/39Ar age determinations on plagioclase grains from deep boreholes in the basin reveal that the basalts were erupted 249.4 +/- 0.5 million years ago. This is synchronous with the bulk of the Siberian Traps, erupted further east on the Siberian Platform. The age ...

this report presents a new record of iranolacerta brandtii brandtii from 30 km south of tekab city, west azarbaijan province and 130 km south of the previously known distribution range of the subspecies; a new record of iranolacerta zagrosica in kaljonun mountain peak, lorestan province, about 70 km northwest of the type locality; a new record of apathya cappadocica urmiana in the manesht prote...

Ixodid ticks were collected during the period September 1991 to August 1993 from cattle belonging to small-scale farmers utilising 4 communal grazing areas. Three of these were in North West Province and 1 in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. Ten tick species were collected in North West Province and 7 in Mpumalanga. The adults of Amblyomma hebraeum, Rhipicephalus appendiculatus and Rhipicepha...

This study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence of bluetongue virus antibodies in sheep in Kurdistan province in west of Iran during 2011-2012. According to results, the seropositive rates of sheep in Kurdistan were 45.9%. The results showed that in area there is widespread presence of the bluetongue virus antibodies in the sheep population as 123 sheep’s out of 268 were affected.

The study area of Marand city is 45 ° 46 'east longitude and 38 ° 26' north latitude and is located in the northwest of East Azarbaijan province and 60 km northwest of Tabriz province. Unfortunately, in recent years, the development of countries, including Iran, has led to more exploitation and improper use of groundwater resources, which reduces these resources and does not control the amount ...

1 Department of Pharmacy, Xuzhou Medical College, 84 West Huaihai Road, Xuzhou, 221002, Jiangsu, China 2 Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Anesthesiology, Xuzhou Medical College, 84 West Huaihai Road, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221002, China 3 Environment Protection Research Institute of Xuzhou, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China 4 Department of Anesthesia, Xuzhou Medical College, 84 West Huaihai Road, Xuzh...