lactoferrin (lf) is an iron-binding multi-functional glycoprotein which has numerous physiological functions such as iron transportation, anti-microbial activity and immune response. in this study, different in silico approaches were exploited to investigate lf protein properties in a number of mammalian species. results showed that the iron-binding site, dna and rna-binding sites, signal pepti...

Ursus Linnaeus, 1758:47. Type species Ursus arctos Linnaeus. Melursus Meyer, 1793:155. Type species Bradypus ursinus Shaw. Arceus Goldfuss, 1809:301. Type species Arceus niger Goldfuss. Prochilus Illiger, 1811:109. Type species Bradypus ursinus Shaw. Chondrorhynchus Fisher, 1814:142. Type species unspecified. Evidently a sloth bear from India. Helarctos Horsfield, 1826:221. Type species Helarct...

CONTEXT AND CONTENT. Order Artiodactyla, Family Bovidae, Subfamily Bovinae, Tribe Tragelaphini. The genus Tragelaphus contains eight living species (Van Gelder, 1977). The large gap between the western and eastern ranges of T. eurycerus and the isolation of Kenyan populations suggests that there may be several subspecies. However, the nominal subspecies have been described on the basis of chara...

DIAGNOSIS. Leptonycteris yerbabuenae (Fig. 1) is 1 of 4 North American bats with a nose leaf. L. yerbabuenae can be distinguished from Choeronycteris mexicana and Macrotus californicus by the absence of a conspicuous tail and presence of brownish pelage in L. yerbabuenae (Arita 1999). Pelage of L. yerbabuenae is shorter and denser in comparison to the longer and fluffier pelage of L. nivalis (D...

mammals are increasingly affected by ongoing trend of extinction and one fourth of the world’s existing known mammalian species are endangered. lack of proper conservation strategy can lead to non-suitable allocation of resources to larger species and ingoring smaller taxa. despite iran’s rich diversity of mammalian fauna which is predominantly comprised from smaller species (more than 150 spec...