Hemoprotozoa are microorganisms that parasitize the blood and possess intricate life cycles. Despite complexity of their nature, little is known about biology hemoprotozoa in reptilian hosts. In this study, we conducted disease surveillance on samples collected from six black spiny-tailed iguanas (Ctenosaura similis) exhibiting clinical signs. We found two different types hemoparasites films fu...

Morphological and morphometric analyses were conducted on the genus Paratylenchus, based on documented data in the literature and characters of Iranian populations of twelve species, including P. arculatus, P. colinus, P. conicephalus, P. coronatus, P. neoamblycephalus, P. neoprojectus, P. obtusicaudatus, P. paraperaticus, P. similis, P. straeleni, P. variabilis and P. veruculatus. Moreover, ma...

The native range of Ctenosaura similis extends from southern Mexico through Panama. From an initial introduction of 3 animals in 1979, the species now numbers in the thousands on Gasparilla Island in southwest Florida. In response to complaints of property damage from residents and threats to native species, local officials and the US Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services began a removal ...

Fourteen adult frogs including six banded frog, Rana camerani and eight marsh frog, Rana ridibunda ridibunda were collected from two sites of Chahar Mahal-o-Bakhtiari province at the southwest of Iran and then were examined for helminth parasites. Only Dolichosaccus rastellus  (50%) was found in R. camerani, Skrjabinoeces similis (50%) and metacercarian cysts of Codonocephalus urniger (12.5%) w...

Multilocus sequence analysis of 417 strains of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis revealed that it is a complex of four populations, three of which have been previously assigned species status [Y. pseudotuberculosis sensu stricto (s.s.), Yersinia pestis and Yersinia similis] and a fourth population, which we refer to as the Korean group, which may be in the process of speciation. We detected clear sig...

Envenomation by Loxosceles bites is characterized by dermonecrotic and/or systemic features that lead to several clinical signs and symptoms called loxoscelism. Dermonecrotic lesions are preceded by thrombosis of the dermal plexus. Recent studies show that atheromatous plaque is prone to thrombosis due to endothelial cell apoptosis. To the best of our knowledge, there are no reports of microsco...

A first phylogenetic hypothesis is proposed for Protopolybia Ducke, 1905 based on cladistic analysis of 31 species. New evidence in support of monophyly of the genus is presented. A revision of the Protopolybia exigua species-group is also presented. Protopolybia diligens (Smith, 1857), stat. resurr. is revalidated. Four new species are described: P. collombiana Santos, Silveira & Carpenter, sp...

Chun-Shun Li, Xiao-Ming Li, Chuan-Ming Cui, and Bin-Gui Wang Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanhai Road 7, Qingdao 266071, P. R. China Reprint requests to Prof. Dr. Bin-Gui Wang. Fax: +86-532-82880645. E-mail: [email protected] Z. Naturforsch. 2010, 65b, 87 – 89; received October 10, 2009 One new sesquiterpenoid, aristolan...

Cytoskeletons of Dunaliella bioculata, the biflagellate wallless green alga, were isolated and analyzed using a monoclonal and a polyclonal antibody raised against SF-assemblin, the major protein of the two striated microtubule-associated fibers of the alga Spermatozopsis similis. Indirect immunofluorescence showed antigenic structures associated with the four microtubular flagellar roots. SDS-...