STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE The gray whale formerly occurred in the North Atlantic Ocean (Fraser 1970), but is currently only found in the North Pacific (Rice et al. 1984). The following information was considered in classifying stock structure of gray whales based on the Dizon et al. (1992) phylogeographic approach: 1) Distributional data: isolated geographic distribution in the Nort...

Ayurveda has a long history of being enriched by different types of contributions from different stages befitting their geographical, climatic and cultural situations, and based on their thinking and living patterns, especially the practical aspects. Kerala has its own great role in this prcess of enrichment. It is unique and invaluable. The historical aspects the literary contributions by Kera...

Little is known about the natural history of dengue in Papua New Guinea (PNG). We assessed dengue virus (DENV)-specific neutralizing antibody profiles in serum samples collected from northern and southern coastal areas and the highland region of New Guinea between 1959 and 1963. Neutralizing antibodies were demonstrated in sera from the northern coast of New Guinea: from Sabron in Dutch New Gui...

Background: The South-west coast of India is known to have very high levels of natural background radiation due to the monazite beach sand. Uranium is the heaviest trace element found in all terrestrial substances at varying levels with chemical and radio toxicities. It supports several short-lived radioisotopes in its decay series including radium. Uranium in drinking water is importa...

Dept. of Pharmaceutics, St James College of Pharmaceutical sciences, Chalakudy, Kerala Dept. of Pharmaceutical analysis, St James College of Pharmaceutical sciences, Chalakudy, Kerala Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, St James College of Pharmaceutical sciences, Chalakudy, Kerala Dept. of Pharmacy Practice, St James College of Pharmaceutical sciences, Chalakudy, Kerala Dept. of Pharmaceutical ...

This work reports climate change signals and long-term trend analysis of variables, meteorological drought, extreme indexes over the tropical state Kerala in India. The reveals statistically significant decrease annual southwest monsoon rainfall (as much as 63 mm 55 per decade, respectively). A number rainy days (up to 2.8 days/decade) is also reported. Temperature indicates an increasing with ...

1Alexander, 2Sherry Peter, 3Sheela Nampoothiri, 4Latha Rao, 5Ajith Nambiar 4Ravi Veeraraghavan, 4Ushass Puthalath 1Professor, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Amrita School of Dentistry, Kochi, Kerala, India 2Consultant, Head and Neck Institute, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, Kerala, India 3Professor, Department of Pediatric Genetics, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences...

Seaside Sparrows (Ammodramus maritimus) along the Gulf of Mexico are currently recognized as four subspecies, including taxa in Florida (A. m. juncicola and A. m. peninsulae) and southern Texas (Ammodramus m. sennetti), plus a widespread taxon between them (A. m. fisheri). We examined population genetic structure of this "Gulf Coast" clade using microsatellite and mtDNA data. Results of Bayesia...