Introduction: Epigenetic mechanisms regulate expression of the genome to generate various cell types during development or coordinate cellular responses to external stimulus. While epigenetics is of fundamental importance in eukaryotes, it plays a different role in bacteria. This article uncovers the most important recent data on how bacteria can alter epigenetic marks and can also contribute t...

The Aligoudarz granitoid occurs in the central part of the Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone, western Iran. It comprises three distinct facies mainly of tonalite, granodiorite and granite composition. Magmatic microgranular enclaves (ME) extensively occur in granodiorite. Field, textural, whole rock and mineral chemistry data of the ME and the host rocks does not support magma mixing as the ME-forming mecha...

The barite and the behavior of REE in its crystallo-chemical structure have been a major category of research done by scientists for a long time. There are various barite mineralization in Northwest Iran. These sediment-hosted resources as a type of tectonic-controlled-vein mineralization bear unconformity to their shale host rocks at Precambrian age (Riphean). The REE geochemical studies are c...