• A submitted manuscript is the author's version of the article upon submission and before peer-review. There can be important differences between the submitted version and the official published version of record. People interested in the research are advised to contact the author for the final version of the publication, or visit the DOI to the publisher's website. • The final author version ...

Knowledge of demographic parameters of most cetacean populations is scarce because of problems associated with sampling open populations of wide-ranging animals. In recent years, capture–recapture models have been developed to address these problems. We used a photo-identification dataset collected from a population of bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus between 1999 and 2004 around 2 island...

The presence of unusual two RBCs patterns (so-called "quatrefoil RBCs," qRBCs) on canine blood smears at Optical Microscope (OM) was seen during routine evaluation of CBCs. Two consecutive retrospective investigations were arranged including about 7,000 CBCs and clinical records and laboratory data from dogs showing qRBCs. Few samples with qRBCs were prepared for Scanning Electron Microscope (S...

CYSTICERCOSIS of the brain has been known for centuries and most of the earlier reports came from central Europe. MacArthur (1934) and Dixon and Hargreaves (1944) have aroused interest in the problem of cerebral cysticercosis recently. From India very many reports have been published about the cerebral manifestations of cysticercosis (Dogra and Ahern, 1935; Menon and Veliath, 1940; McRobert, 19...

BACKGROUND Estimates of fishing and natural mortality are important for understanding, and ultimately managing, commercial and recreational fisheries. High reward tags with fixed station acoustic telemetry provides a promising approach to monitoring mortality rates in large lake recreational fisheries. Kootenay Lake is a large lake which supports an important recreational fishery for large Bull...

The bud is all in the timing new study by Schenkman et al. on page 829 reveals that the subcellular localization of yeast budding proteins can be determined by the time the genes are expressed. The genes BUD8 and BUD9 are required for establishment of the bipolar budding pattern in normal diploid cells, in which both poles are specified as potential bud sites. Although the two proteins are simi...

The Kapiti and D’Urville Islands populations of little spotted kiwi (Apteryx owenii) are the only two long-standing populations of this species that have survived the decline of kiwi in the 20th century. The populations were compared to determine their conservation status and to provide a basis for management decisions for the two surviving birds from D’Urville Island. Measurements, voice, ecto...