Five Iranian native silkworm groups: Baghdad, Khorasan Orange, Guilan Orange, Khorasan Pink, Khorasan Lemon, and 107 and 110 commercial lines (12 families from each breed) were randomly selected and reared during 2003-2005 (five generations in spring and autumn). In each family, 30 male and 30 female cocoons were individually recorded for weight, shell weight and shell ratio. From among the nat...

during 2010–2011, a faunistic study of the family syrphidae was carried out in torbat heydarie, roshtkhar and khaf (razavi khorasan province), northeastern iran. among the collected specimens, we found two species, paragus gussakovskii bańkowska and platycheirus immarginatus zetterstedt which are new records for the fauna of iran.

a survey was carried out to investigate the frequency of hard tick species (acari: ixodidae) on sheep in khorasan razvi province. a total of 812 ticks were collected from the sheep of different areas of khorsan razavi province five species were identified as follow: rhipicephalus turanicus (59.23%), hyalomma.marginatum turanicum (25.73%), hyalomma excavatum (14.8%), hyalomma anatolicum (8.3...

BACKGROUND The objective of this investigation was to detect the presence of Trichinella in some carnivores of Mashhad in northeast of Iran and to identify Trichinella species circulating in this area. METHODS The present study was carried out using muscle tissue collected from 120 stray dogs, 26 wild boars, 25 rodents, two foxes and two hyenas captured in Mashhad City, province of Khorasan R...

the level of ecomomic (income or expenditure) inequality in khorasan province has been unknown. this paper tries to estimate and compare the trends of expenditure (income) inequality in khorasan province and the whole iran during 1971-2001 in two categories of urban and rural regions. for this purpose, inequality indices (gini coefficient and income deciles) were estimated parametrically. the r...

This paper has been attempted to compare the effect of market sale and contract strategies on yield, using a 90 survey data from tomato farmers in Khorasan-Razavi province, Iran on 2007 and applying the game theory approach. The results showed that the effect of no-contract strategy with tomato processing factories is more than contracted strategy on tomato yield in farm level. With respect to ...

We have described a new case of accidental intestinal myiasis that had occurred due to Eristalis tenax in Iran. A 4-year-old girl living in rural area near Bajestan city located in the south of Khorasan Razavi province visited the hospital lab with complaints of one live larva in feces and did not have other symptoms, except anal itching. This case had a history of consuming subterranean villag...