Macrobrachium indianum new species is described from the Pambar River, Kerala, S. India. The species shares certain characters with M. gurudeve Jayachandran & Raji, 2004, M. bombayense Almelker & Sankolli, 2006 and M. kulkarnii Almelker & Sankolli, 2006, while it differs remarkably from these three species in distinctive diagnostic characters: rostral formula 7-8/3-4 with 1 postorbital teeth, o...

Rostrum dace (Leuciscus leuciscus burdigalensis) from the River Viaur were found to be infested with the ectoparasite Tracheliastes polycolpus (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae). Samples from five study sites along the river revealed different patterns of parasite infestation. Heavily infested fish were found at the upper study sites whereas much lower infestation levels were observed at the lower stud...

The present paper reports two new species of Glyphocrangon (Crustacea, Caridea, Glyphocrangonidae) collected respectively from the East China Sea and the Philippines. G. singularis sp. nov., from the East China Sea, is similar to G. fimbriata Komai & Takeuchi, 1994 with the presence of fringe of setae on dactyl of the third to fifth pereopods, but differs from G. fimbriata by the rostrum shape ...

The istiophorid family of billfishes is characterized by an extended rostrum or 'bill'. While various functions (e.g. foraging and hydrodynamic benefits) have been proposed for this structure, until now no study has directly investigated the mechanisms by which billfishes use their rostrum to feed on prey. Here, we present the first unequivocal evidence of how the bill is used by Atlantic sailf...

A new species, Cherax warsamsonicussp. n., endemic to the Warsamson River drainage, in the western part of the Kepala Burung (Vogelkop) peninsula, West Papua, Indonesia, is described, figured and compared with its closely related species, Cherax misolicus Holthuis, 1949. The new species may be easily distinguished from C. misolicus by the shape of the rostrum, absence of setae on the rostrum, t...

The use of uncoated fused silica capillary columns and hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose (HPMC) in capillary electrophoresis (CE) to separate DNA ladders and plasmids is described. In these studies HPMC is used as a sieving matrix to separate DNA. Many previous studies have focused on using coated and gel-filled capillaries to *Correspondence: F. A. Gomez, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, ...

Vertical aerial photographs were collected of gray whales migrating along the California Coast between 1994 and 1998 to readdress some published findings on biology life history this population based examination specimens. For each whale, an attempt was made measure standard total length, width whale at its widest point, distance from tip rostrum flukes. southbound whales, early migrants longer...

Recently Pogány and Süli [Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 137(7) (2009), 2363–2368] derived a closed-form integral expression for Neumann series of Bessel functions of the first kind Jν . In this paper our aim is to establish analogous integral representations for the Neumann-type series of modified Bessel functions of the first kind Iν and for Bessel functions of the second kind Yν , Kν , and to give l...