The tropical tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta, is a semi-domesticated vanya silk-producing insect of high economic importance. To date, no molecular marker associated with cocoon and shell weights has been identified in this species. In this report, we identified a randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) marker and examined its inheritance, and also developed a stable diagnostic sequence-cha...

identification of homogenous watershed sub basins allows generalization of environmental study results. for this purpose, first available data for 27 selected watersheds in north alborz regarding 21 variables including physiographic and climatic characteristics was gathered. the most important factors impacting upon soil erosion and sediment yield were equivalent rectangular length, mean annual...

We document the first confirmed Colombian records of Myotis keaysi pilosatibialis LaVal, 1973 from various localities on the Colombian Caribbean and the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes. These records confirm geographic overlap between M. k. pilosatibialis and the nominate subspecies M. k. keaysi J. A. Allen, 1914, in northeastern Colombia, questioning the subspecific status of M. k. p...

Lesser (Chen caerulescens caerulescens, LSGO) and greater snow goose atlantica, GSGO) populations have increased substantially in the past 50 years. The light conservation order established 1998 (Canada) 1999 (U.S.) aimed to increase harvest stabilize because breeding ground abundance was thought negatively impact arctic ecosystems. In Atlantic flyway, where LSGO GSGO are both available for har...

While discriminant function analysis is an inherently Bayesian method, researchers attempting to estimate ancestry in human skeletal samples often follow with the calculation of frequentist-based typicalities for assigning group membership. Such approach problematic because it fails account admixture and variation why individuals may be classifijied as outliers or nonmembers particular groups. T...