during an investigation on edaphic mite fauna of wheat fields in abarkooh (yazd province) and citrus orchards in jahrom (fars province), some specimens belonging to the family oplitidae were collected and identified as oplitis paradoxa (canestrini & berlese). this is the first report of this species from iran.

phosphoric acid (h3po4) and zinc chloride (zncl2) catalyzed shea nut shells, subjected to a one way activation scheme was employed to study the adsorption kinetics and mode of diffusion of industrial dye uptake. thermodynamics data obtained in this study indicate that the sorption of dye spontaneously increases with time and decreases after equilibration was reached. the adsorption follows the ...

Intestinal helminths are reported from four species of scincid lizards from southern Africa: Mabuya occidentalis, Mabuya spilogaster, Mabuya striata and Mabuya variegata. The helminth fauna consisted of one species of Cestoda, Oochoristica truncata and five species of Nematoda, Abbreviata paradoxa, Maxvachonia dimorpha, Parapharyngodon rotundatus, Spauligodon petersi and Thubunaea fitzsimonsi. ...

We report the nucleotide sequence of gene nadA and its location on cyanelle (= plastid) DNA of the unicellular alga Cyanophora paradoxa. The gene is located on the circular (-128 kbp) (2) cyanelle chromosome. It is flanked by gene apcD (7), and it is close to a recently identified SI0-spc nbosomal protein gene cluster (8), the expression of which we study. The sequence, 1305 nucleotides in leng...

Currently, 15 species of Nephtyidae (Annelida) are known from the Sea of Okhotsk (north-western Pacific). A new user-friendly identification key is presented with a brief description for each species. The taxonomic positions of three closely related species, Nephtys brachycephala Moore, 1903, N. schmitti Hartman, 1938 and N. paradoxa Malm, 1874, are revised. The distributions of two species, Ne...

The Glaucocystophyta (e.g., Cyanophora paradoxa) form a morphologically distinct group of photosynthetic protists that is primarily distinguished by its cyanelles (= plastids). To elucidate their evolutionary relationships, we determined nuclear-encoded small-subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) coding regions for four taxa classified in the Glaucocystophyta (C. paradoxa, Glaucocystis nostochinearu...