six species of rove beetles (coleoptera: staphylinidae), belonging to the genus philonthus stephens 1829, are reported for the first time from iran. they include philonthus juvenilis peyron, 1858, philonthus micans (gravenhorst, 1802), philonthus spinipes sharp, 1874, philonthus longicornis stephens 1832, philonthus viridipennis fauvel 1875, and philonthus wuesthoffi bernhauer 1939. all specime...

Litchi chinensis is the “queen of fruits”, and pollination an essential requirement for fruit set production. The present study was conducted in litchi orchards to diversity/abundance insect visitors, impact on quantitative parameters, different modes pollination. results showed that 75 species during flowering were reported including Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Coleoptera. In natural po...

feel that the results we show, particularly in Figure 6, are on much more complex examples and that we have processed much larger number of buildings than reported in the previous literature ([5], [2], and [9]). We feel that our method has advantage over monocular systems such as ([5]) due to its ability to infer 3-D more directly and of having several views to validate the hypotheses. We feel ...

the rice fields consist of diverse fauna of arthropoda because of both subterranean and aquatic ecosystems. in this research, the fauna of predator beetles including carabidae, coccinellidae, staphylinidae, malachiidae, and their population fluctuation were studied in mazandaran province during 2002-2006. a number of 13 carabid species, one staphylinid species, six coccinellid species, and two ...

Obesity is a growing health problem in the U.S. As a complex trait, obesity involves multiple genes and gene-gene and gene-environment interactions that contribute to its pathogenesis. Here we report significant linkage from a scan of a large sample segregating extreme obesity and normal weight. We have used 382 microsatellite markers in 1,297 individuals from 260 European-American families. We...

This is the first study based on a planned and intensive sampling effort that describes the community composition and structure of the ground-dwelling arthropod assemblage of Península Valdés (Patagonia). It was carried out using pitfall traps, opened for two weeks during the summers of 2005, 2006 and 2007. A total of 28,111 individuals were caught. Ants(Hymenoptera: Formicidae) dominated this ...