Leishmania infantum, an etiologic agent of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (VL), is spreading in Iran. Dogs are the main reservoirs but L.infantum has been detected in jackals, foxes and wild rodents too. Despite high number of rodents in the world, the exact role of them in epidemiology of VL is not clear. In recent years the number of sporadic cases of dogs and humans VL has been increased in...

background: this study was conducted to collect informative data on the parasitic infection of wild rodents, emphasizing on finding parasites, which have medical importance to human. methods:   during 2012-2014, a total number of 91 wild rodents were captured from rural areas of turkmen sahra, golestan province, using handmade traps. animals were anesthetized, surveyed for any ectoparasite and ...

over the past 20 years since tribenuron-methyl herbicide registration in iran, reports of erratic control of broadleaf weeds with it have increased in wheat fields of aq qala. in order to evaluate the incidence of resistance in wild mustard (sinapis arvensis) and turnipweed (rapistrum rugosum) to tribenuron-methyl herbicide, dose-response assays were conducted during the years 1390 and 1391 at ...

the antimicrobial activity of methanolic extracts from different parts of 11 indigenous wild plantspecies used in traditional medicines of iran were tested against nine species of microorganisms: escherichiacoli, staphylococcus aureus, staphylococcus epidermis, pseudomonas aeruginosa, klebsiella pneumoniae,salmonella typhi, bacillus subtilis, aspergillus niger and candida albicans. the antimicr...

Studies of domestication genetics enrich our understanding how shapes genetic and morphological diversity. We characterized patterns variation in two independently domesticated pumpkins their wild progenitors to assess compare consequences domestication. To diversity pre- post-domestication identify genes targeted by selection during domestication, we analyzed ∼15,000 SNPs 48 unrelated accessio...