Prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.) are highly susceptible to Yersinia pestis and significant reservoirs of plague for humans in the western United States. A recombinant raccoon poxvirus, expressing the F1 antigen of Y. pestis, was incorporated into a palatable bait and offered to 18 black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) for voluntary consumption; 18 negative control animals received placebo...

Prairie hay meadows are important reservoirs of grassland biodiversity in the tallgrass prairie regions of the central United States and are the object of increasing attention for conservation and restoration. In addition, there is growing interest in the potential use of such low-input, high-diversity (LIHD) native grasslands for biofuel production. The uplands of eastern Kansas, USA, which pr...

Fig 1 is incorrect in the published article. The authors have provided a corrected version here. Copyright: © 2015 Zhao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

The following science fiction prototypes explore AI’s potential threats to not only our personal and professional lives but also the security of corporations and nations. They expose areas for further research as well as debate. And they reveal the need for engineering and process tools to establish safeguards and for checks and balances to disrupt, mitigate, and recover from these possible dar...

background :  q fever is an important widespread reemerging zoonosis. the presence of coxiella burnetii in 100 tick-infested dogs was assessed in this study. methods :  the blood samples from 100 referred dogs were acquired and evaluated by nested-pcr. results :   c. burnetii was detected in 11 out of 100 (11%) blood samples. most of the positive dogs were kept outdoor and fed on raw diet. base...

The authors would like to correct panel H in Fig 3 to show the correct MFI values of PD-L1 expression on human CD4+ T cells. The error occurred during preparation of the figure for manuscript revision. The percentages of infected CD4 cells expressing PD-L1 were accidentally duplicated from panel I in Fig 3. Please see the corrected version of Fig 3 here. open access article distributed under th...

A partial order P = (X; < P) is a semi-order if it is an interval order admitting an interval representation such that all the intervals are of unit length. The semi-order dimension of P is the smallest k for which there exist k semi-order extensions of P which realize P. In HKM] the question whether semi-order dimension is a comparability invariant was posed. We prove that for k = 2 this is th...

stray dogs are considered as an important health problem in societies because they can carry dangerous diseases such as hydatidosis, toxocariasis and coenurus cerebralis to humans and animals. therefore, the study of helminthes infections in all parts of iran for evaluation of infection state, and provision of the infection control programs is essential. the aim of this study, was to determine ...

Koshi Saito, Ken-Ichi Miyakawa, Takayuki Murata and Yuji Enomoto Department of Bioscience and Technology, School of Engineering, Hokkaido Tokai University, Sapporo 005, Japan Z. Naturforsch. 53c, 828-832 (1998); received August 14, 1997/April 16, 1998 Mogami-Benibana, Dyer’s Saffron (C. tinctorius) Cultivar. Red Colour Appearance, Flower Floret, Phytohormone Mediated Induction Gibberellic acid ...