Canine Babesiosis is an important worldwide, tick-born disease caused by apicomplexan hemoparasitic from genus Babesia. The aim of the present survey was to identify the current state of Babesia infection in urban and rural dogs in Ahvaz district, southwest of Iran. For this reason, 200 rural dogs from 5 village around Ahvaz and 200 urban dogs (stratified random sampling) referred to the veteri...

extended abstractintroductionsiberian high-pressure is one of the most important systems in climatology, which has been focused by all climatologists because of its influence area and expansion zone.unique features of this system including the expansion zone,the intensity of central pressure,which sometimes amounts to more than1075hp pressure at its core,its temperature and moisture characteris...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the differences fatty acids and hormonal parameters in the spawning and non-spawning season between the diploid and induced triploid Far Eastern catfish, Silurus asotus. The measured triploids were produced by cold shock for 50 min at 4℃ in May 2014, the spawning season of diploid was in May, and the non-spawning season was designated in January. Estr...

We thank Dr Athyros and colleagues for their interest in our study and comments comparing their study with ours. There are a few differences between the studies. Although Karagiannis et al reported a seasonal variation in stroke occurrence using hospital-based data,1 we focused on mortality from cardiovascular disease (CVD) using cohort-based data.2 However, it is certain that CVD occurrence an...

Seed morph, abiotic conditions and time of germination can affect plant fitness, but few studies have tested their combined effects on plasticity of plant life history traits. Thus, we tested the hypothesis that seed morph, germination season and watering regime influence phenotypic expression of post-germination life history traits in the diaspore-heteromorphic cold desert winter annual/spring...

We present gridded sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) for the Atlantic basin (45 °S–60°N) as averages over the period AD1790–1825, based on early-instrumental SST data. The original measurements were compiled by Major James Rennell and made by numerous British naval vessels on behalf of the British Admiralty. We describe the digitization of this dataset and the reconstruction of spatially coherent...

This study aimed at evaluating the effect of sex, age, breed and reproductive status on platelet count and total protein, and also to demonstrate the relationship between the two variables in goats during the cold-dry season. At the peak of the cold-dry season, 56 male and female goats belonging to Red Sokoto (n = 28) and Sahel (n = 28) as well as 14 Red Sokoto goats in the last trimester of ge...

BACKGROUND Recent toxicological and epidemiological studies have shown associations between particulate matter (PM) and adverse health effects, but which PM components are most influential is less well known. OBJECTIVES In this study, we used time-series analyses to determine the associations between daily fine PM [PM ≤ 2.5 µm in aerodynamic diameter (PM2.5)] concentrations and daily mortalit...

The seasonal variation of the protozooplanktonic community (ciliates and testate amoebae) was studied in a tropical oligotrophic reservoir in Brazil, which was under the influence of two contrasting climatic seasons (rainy/warm and dry/cold). The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of these climatic changes on physical, chemical and biological variables in the dynamic of this community...