Background and Purpose: Cryptococcus species are pathogenic and non-pathogenic basidiomycete yeasts that are found widely in the environment. Based on phenotypic methods, this genus has many species; however, its taxonomy is presently being re- evaluated by modern techniques. The Cryptococcus species complex includes two sibling taxa of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii. We aimed ...

The present study represents a comprehensive molecular assessment of some family of freshwater fishes in Iran. We analyzed cytochrome oxidase I (COI) sequences for five genus of cypriniform fishes from Iran. The present investigation provides data on genetic structure of some species of Nemachilidae including Paraschistura bampurensis, Oxynoemacheilus kiabii and Turcinemacheilus saadii and Leuc...

different species of gazelles are among the most endangered mammals on the asian steppes and occur in the central, southern and northwestern regions of iran. the previous conservation efforts in this region have been incomplete due to confusion about the phylogenetic relationship among various populations. so that, different conservation programs such as ex-situ breeding and transfer of captive...

both urban and rural cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) are endemic in different parts of iran and have long been recognized in most provinces. however, there is no report of endemicity of cl in rural areas of kashan, 200 km north of isfahan and 260 km south of tehran, iran. to our knowledge, this is the first report of outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis in this area. to study and identify the natur...

This paper presents a machine learning technique for bird species identification at large scale. It automatically identifies about a thousand different species in a large number of audio recordings and provides the basis for the winning solution to the LifeCLEF 2015 Bird Identification Task. To process the very large amounts of audio data and to achieve similar good results compared to previous...

Ecological surveys of tropical tree communities have provided an important source of data to study the forces that generate and maintain tropical diversity. Accurate species identification is central to these studies. Incorrect lumping or splitting of species will distort results, which may in turn affect conclusions. Although ecologists often work with taxonomists, they likely make some identi...

The identification of flowering plants using DNA barcoding proposed in last decades has slowly gained ground Africa, where it been successfully used to elucidate the systematics and ecology several plant groups, understand their evolutionary history. Existing inferences on effectiveness identify African trees are mostly based lowland forests, whereas adjacent montane forests significantly diffe...

Abstract: Identification of tree species plays a key role in forestry related tasks like forest conservation, disease diagnosis and plant production. There had been debate regarding the part to be used for differentiation, whether it should leaves, fruits, flowers or bark. Studies have proven that bark is utmost importance as will present despite seasonal variations provides characteristic iden...

for maintaining of zagros forests role in wild life, water and soil conservation, the suitable solutions and methods for assessing the existing conditions and planning for management of this forests should be given. to detection of suitable sampling method to study tree density in the northern zagros forest, blake forest, in baneeh region, kurdistan province, and west of iran was selected. 40 s...