the larsemann hills range is an ice-free oasis on the ingrid christensen coast of princess elizabeth land, east antarctica, which includes bharti island, fisher island, mcleod island, broknes peninsula, stornes peninsula, and several other islands, promontories, and nunataks. the larsemann hills is an ice-free area of approximately 50 km2, located halfway between the vestfold hills and the amer...

Different species of gazelles are among the most endangered mammals on the Asian steppes and occur in the central, southern and northwestern regions of Iran. The previous conservation efforts in this region have been incomplete due to confusion about the phylogenetic relationship among various populations. So that, different conservation programs such as ex-situ breeding and transfer of captive...

background: free-living amoebae (fla) are group of protozoa distributed worldwide in many habitats mainly water and soil related sources. some members of fla are able to act as opportunistic pathogens and are environmental carriers of other pathogenic agents such as bacteria and viruses. vermamoeba vermiformis is a highly abundant fla species in water bodies and has recently gained environmenta...

In the past decade, the investment in fisheries development has grown remarkably in the Persian Gulf region. A 1800 km of northern coastline of the Persian Gulf, the Oman Sea and more than 14 islands belong to Iran have provided great possibilities of economic activities. In-shore marine islands such as Kish, Farour, Hendurabi, Tonb made a good opportunity for fishing and harvesting of ornament...

b a ckground: pa sseromyia is a muscid genus previously known from the old world afrotropical and oriental re- gions and eastwards from australia and the west pacific. the genus is known from nest-dwelling larvae which may be parasites of the nestlings. this study was aimed to identify of the passeromyia species in the iranian persian gulf islands. m e t hods: the flies were collected during ap...