Fortunian scalidophoran worms have shown high diversity, with 7 genera and species 10 indeterminate forms. Current studies mainly focused on morphology as well early evolution, ontogeny not been carried out due to the limited number of specimens. Here, we report new material an Orsten-type preserved Indeterminate Form 3 from Zhangjiagou section. Collected specimens different annulus widths indi...

What are they? Ediacarans are a highly distinctive assemblage of fossil organisms, apparently all marine. Most typical are frondose, discoidal and segmented forms. Their overall taxonomic diversity is modest, but there is considerable disparity and they include one rather bizarre group with prominent three-fold body symmetry. A striking feature of many forms is their modular construction and th...

Jujube production is threatened by jujube witches’ broom (JWB) disease, which caused JWB phytoplasma. The TCP transcription factor (TF) ZjTCP16 may be involved in the interaction of plants with In this study, qRT-PCR proved that expression pattern was altered gene functions were analyzed its overexpression Arabidopsis and jujube, as well knock-down in. resulted dwarfism small leaves, while zjtc...

[This corrects the article on p. 379 in vol. 11, PMID: 27994807.].

OBJECTIVE To assess the growth pattern of children in Yazd, and compare it with standards outlined by the World Health Organisation. METHODS The cross-sectional study, which was conducted in 2009, involved 20 guidance schools of Yazd city. A total of 1921 children were chosen by simple cluster method and general demographic and anthropometric information regarding the subjects was extracted f...