The article highlights data on the first sighting of bearded vulture Gypaetus barbatus territory Ustyurt State Nature Reserve (Kazakhstan) after 2013. It has been suggested that is periodically visiting from Great Balkan Range (Western Turkmenistan) and subspecies bird encountered.

A new leptodirine leiodid beetle species, Pholeuonopsis (Pholeuonopsis) sljivovicensis sp. n., from a cave in western Serbia is described and diagnosed. The views of both male and female genitalia and other taxonomically important characters are imaged. The new species is clearly distinct from the closest relatives. It probably belongs to an old phyletic lineage of Mesogeid origin, like other k...

The conflict in Kosovo created mass displacement and a fractured health system. Roma, Ashkali, and Balkan Egyptian communities are particularly vulnerable to discrimination and exclusion from institutions. We aimed to examine Roma, Ashkali, and Balkan Egyptian disparities in quantity and quality of antenatal care received. We conducted a cross-sectional study in August 2012 with 603 women aged ...

We explored the diversification of southern European Euphorbia verrucosa alliance applying molecular (amplified fragment length polymorphism fingerprinting [AFLP], sequencing nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer), karyological (relative genome size estimations, chromosome counts) and morphometric methods. The AFLP data inferred four main phylogenetic lineages corresponding to western-s...

global warming and predictions of climatic changes additionally put breeding for drought tolerance in the focus of breeding programmes for maize. extensive studies on the existing gene bank collection of the maize research institute “zemun polje“ have been performed with the aim to identify and form initial sources for the development of maize inbreds more tolerant to drought. all accessions (a...