Background and Aims: Toxocariasis is a zoonotic parasitic disease with worldwide distribution caused by the larval stage of ascaridoid nematodes of dogs (Toxocara canis) and cats (Toxocara cati). The study was accomplished to determine the sequence variation in ITS2 and COX1 genes within isolates of Toxocara canis. Materials and Methods: Two hundred Stool samples were collected randomly from d...

background: ccl22 is a chemokine that induces the migration of th2- and regulatory t cells to the inflammatory sites. the aim of this study was to investigate the association of a single nucleotide polymorphism (snp), rs4359426, in ccl22 gene, with multiple sclerosis (ms) in patients from southeast of iran. materials and methods: the blood samples collected from 150 patients with ms and 150 hea...

castor (ricinus communis l.) is one of the most ancient medicinal oil crops in the world. it has been vastly distributed in different parts of iran. in the present study, the inter simple sequence repeat (issr) markers were used to evaluate the molecular genetic diversity among and within 12 castor accessions collected from 7 regions of iran. totally, 16 issr primers amplified 166 loci, of whic...

the genetic variation and diversity among fifty-eight polyvoltine silkworm genotypes was estimated by using ten economic traits. the results revealed that the single shell weight showed higher genetic variation such as pcv% (17.20%), gcv% (12.93%), and heritability (56.5%) followed by single cocoon weight, shell ratio and matured larval weight. the d2 (mahalonobis? distance) statistics revealed...

Molecular germplasm characterization is essential for gathering information on favorable attributes and varietal improvement. The current study evaluated the genetic divergence population structure of 80 potato genotypes collected from Punjab, Pakistan, using polymorphic retrotransposon-DNA-based markers (iPBS). A total 11 iPBS primers generated 787 alleles with a mean value 8.9 per primer, whi...