Acid phosphatases (AcPs) are known to provide phosphate to tissues that have high energy requirements, especially during development, growth and maturation. During spermatogenesis AcP activity is manifested in heterophagous lysosomes of Sertoli cells. This phagocytic function appears to be hormone-independent. We examined the expression pattern of AcP during the reproductive period of four spec...

The Nycteribiidae is a group of ectoparasitic and hematophagous flies associated with bats barely known in Colombia. revision previously collected material additional fieldwork through various regions Colombia let us to identify fly species their bats. Particularly, this the first record Basilia tiptoni Guimarães, 1966, for Colombia, on bat Gardnerycteris keenani (Handley, 1960) (Mammalia: Chir...

We present a haplotype resolved, diploid genome assembly from male Meles meles (European badger; Chordata; Mammalia; Carnivora; Mustelidae) using the trio binning approach. The sequence is 2,739 megabases in span. majority of (95.16%) scaffolded into 23 chromosomal pseudomolecules with X and Y sex chromosomes assembled. complete mitochondrial was also assembled 1...

We describe here a new species of the bovid Criotherium, from the late Miocene of Bulgaria. The genus was previously known to definitely occur only in Samos (Greece) and Kemiklitepe (Western Turkey), with the single species C. argalioides. The new species, C. nikolovi, is more primitive than the latter, although both are probably contemporaneous, suggesting the occurrence of two lineages in the...