elham ahmadi   agricultural zoology research department, iranian research institute of plant protection, tehran, iran       received: 16 november 2010 accepted: 21 april 2011     *corresponding author: email: [email protected]       abstract     one of the effective managing methods for slugs control is cultural method. a field study on the effect of different irrigation times on slug (agriol...

The invasive non-native earthworm Amynthas agrestis (Goto and Hatai, 1899) has recently been documented invading forests of the Appalachian Mountains in the southeastern United States. This epigeic earthworm decreases the depth of organic soil horizons, and this may play a role in the decrease of millipede richness and abundance associated with A. agrestis invasion. To investigate the mechanism...

Membrane vesicles (MVs) are secreted from a wide range of microbial species and transfer their content to other cells. Although MVs play critical roles in bacterial communication, whether MVs selectively interact with bacterial cells in microbial communities is unclear. In this study, we investigated the specificity of the MV-cell interactions and evaluated the potential of MVs to target bacter...

The phylogeography of the filed vole (Microtus agrestis) in Eurasia was thoroughly examined using mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) cytochrome b (cytb) gene. However, former conclusions about genetic variability and contact zone eastern western lineages Lithuania were based on analysis a very limited number individuals. In present study, we 74 M. agrestis individuals trapped four sites eastern, norther...

On an inclined glass plate the slug Agriolimax orients and creeps upward or downward. The angle of orientation on the plane (theta) is proportional to the logarithm of the component of gravity in the creeping plane. The coefficient of variability of the measured values of (theta) decreases linearly as the logarithm at the gravity component in the creeping plane increases. The cosine of the angl...

A method is described which measures the excitation of Agriolimax by light, during the progress of light adaptation, by assuming that the orientating effect of continuous excitation is expressed as a directly proportionate tension difference in the orienting muscles of the two sides of the body. The tendency toward establishment of such a tension difference is caused to work against a similar g...

MI agar is routinely used for quantifying Escherichia coli in drinking water. A suspect E. coli colony isolated from a water sample was identified as Buttiauxella agrestis. The whole genome sequence of B. agrestis was determined to understand the genetic basis for its phenotypic resemblance to E. coli on MI agar.