There is no mention in the available literature on the subject, in English or French, of naturally-occurring rabies in tortoises. Street virus, however, has been injected into brains of turtles and proved by passage into rabbit brain to have persisted for months. In the brains of Testudo mauritanica and Clemmys leprosa (a fresh-water species) it persisted for 302 and 150 days, respectively (Rem...

Blood samples, fecal samples, and cloacal swabs were collected from 42 bog turtles (Clemmys muhlenbergii). including 14 wild males, 22 wild females, three captive males, and three captive females, in Virginia and North Carolina, USA. Samples were analyzed for hematologic and plasma chemistry values, Mycoplasma sp. antibodies, intestinal parasites, and normal cloacal flora.

Mauremys reevesii (Geoemydidae) is one of the most common and widespread semi-aquatic turtles in East Asia. The unusually long lifespan of some individuals makes this turtle species a potentially useful model organism for studying the molecular basis of longevity. In this study, pooled total RNA extracted from liver, spleen and skeletal-muscle of three adult individuals were sequenced using Ill...

Recent investigations of Southeast Asian white toothed shrews belonging to the genus Crocidura have revealed discrepancies between the results of morphological and molecular studies. The following study concerns three species of Crocidura occurring in Vietnam, namely Crocidura attenuata, Crocidura tanakae and Crocidura wuchihensis, and an undescribed fourth species revealed by molecular analysi...

The dysderid spider genus Dysderella Dunin, 1992 is surveyed. currently comprises two species: D. caspica (Dunin, 1990) from Azerbaijan and North Caucasus transcaspica (Dunin & Fet, 1985) Turkmenistan north-eastern Iran. Herein, elburzica sp. nov. described based on male specimens collected in Tehran Province, northern All three species are illustrated their distributions mapped.

В статье приводятся сведения о вирусологическом и серологическом скрининге герпесвирусов в популяции каспийских тюленей. Показана устойчивая циркуляция тюленей первого типа (PhHV-1) среди Отмечено, что PhHV-1 является эндемичным для и, возможно, вызывает постоянную вирусную нагрузку на здоровье тюленей, которая усугубляется провоцирующими факторами. The article provides information on virologic...