We used mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite loci to examine the phylogeographic patterns of the most broadly distributed lizard in eastern North America, the five-lined skink (Eumeces fasciatus). We infer that longitudinal phylogeographic patterns in E. fasciatus are consistent with fragmentation due to refugial and post-glacial dynamics, but that deep divergences within the species imply hist...

Urbanization is one of the major forms of habitat alteration occurring at the present time. Although this is typically deleterious to biodiversity, some species flourish within these human-modified landscapes, potentially leading to negative and/or positive interactions between people and wildlife. Hence, up-to-date assessment of urban wildlife populations is important for developing appropriat...

This study determined whether the orientation of dorsoplantar and oblique foot radiographs has an effect on radiograph interpretation. A test set of 50 consecutive foot radiographs were selected (25 with fractures, and 25 normal), and duplicated in the horizontal orientation. The images were randomly arranged, numbered 1 through 100, and analysed by six image interpreters. Vertical and horizont...

Interactions between hosts and associated microbial communities can fundamentally shape the development and ecology of 'holobionts', from humans to marine habitat-forming organisms such as seaweeds. In marine systems, planktonic microbial community structure is mainly driven by geography and related environmental factors, but the large-scale drivers of host-associated microbial communities are ...

The Miankaleh Biosphere Reserve with a surface area of 68800 hectares is located in 12 km N of Behshahr (MazandaranProvince, N. Iran) between 53˚ 35' - 54˚ 2' eastern longitude and 36˚ 45' - 36˚ 55' northern latitude. The vegetation of MiankalehPeninsula was studied, using the Braun-Blanquet (Zygmatist) method. Based on the analysis of phytosociological data using the Anaphyto software and AFC ...

pared with 61% of vagotomy and drainage patients. In the gastrectomy group only 30% gained weight compared with 54% of the other group. In the vagotomy and drainage group the results were simili after either truncal or selective vagotomy and after either pyloroplasty or gastrojejunostomy. True dumping as distinct from small-stomach syndrome is rare in patints on a rice diet, and was seen less o...

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The 60-GHz band of atmospheric oxygen was studied in the temperature range of 281 to þ60 1C at atmospheric pressure by means of a resonator spectrometer with absorption-variation sensitivity of 0.002 dB/km. The experimental data obtained have sufficient signal-to-noise ratio to take second-order mixing into account, increasing the accuracy of the millimeter-wave propagation model (MPM). A refin...