The length- length (LLRs), length-weight (LWR) relationships and relative condition factor (Kn) of 505 specimens of pike, (Esox lucius Linnaeus, 1798) from Anzali Wetland, southwest of the Caspian Sea, were studied from April 2012 through March 2013. The length-length relationships among total length (TL), fork length (FL) and standard length (SL) for pike were found to be highly significan...

Polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) and phylogenetic analysis were used for molecular identification of lactic acid bacteria (LABs) isolated from Apis mellifera. Eighteen honeybee workers were collected from three different apiaries in West Azerbaijan. LABs from the gut of honeybees were isolated and cultured using routine biochemical proce...

introduction corn and wheat are the grains most routinely used in commercial poultry diets. for consumption of these cereals, there are a competition between humans and mono-gastric animals. due to corn crop limitation in iran, approximately 50% of the corn required for poultry nutrition is supplied through imports. since triticale is more resistant to various diseases, dry weather and in simil...

agus, stomach, pre-umbilical intestine, post-umbilical intestine, hindgut), but overall it was significantly shorter compared with controls. In talpid3 gut, although neural crest-derived ENS precursors (shown with HNK-1 immunohistochemistry) and TuJ1-positive enteric neurons were distributed along the length of the gut, similar to controls, there were dramatic differences in their patterning ac...