Livestock insurance consists of livestock owners pooling resources together in order to hedge against the risk attacks by predators on their individual herds. We use an economic model study optimal and discuss its viability improving outcomes for owners. The benefit from depends owners' level aversion. calibrate using data Project Snow Leopard investigate potential achieving conservation goals....

In the present study, we describe an interspecific kleptoparasitic interaction between two sympatric mammalian carnivores in high altitudinal Trans-Himalaya region of Himachal Pradesh, India. The study was based on inferences drawn from circumstantial evidence (direct and indirect) noticed area Pin Valley National Park. analysis suggested a Snow Leopard Panthera uncia, Red Fox Vulpes vulpes, do...

the leopard moth, zeuzera pyrina (l.) (lepidoptera: cossidae) is a serious pest of walnut and apple trees in iran. one of the control methods for this pest is the mass trapping of males using pheromone traps. to determine the best size and color of traps, four different colors (green, yellow, white, gray) and two different sizes (delta shape with standard adhesive surface, 19 × 22 cm and trapez...

Coal combustion residues (CCRs) are documented to negatively impact oral morphology, growth, and development in larval amphibians. It is currently unclear what physiological mechanisms may mediate these effects. Corticosterone, a glucocorticoid hormone, is a likely mediator because when administered exogenously it, like CCRs, also negatively influences oral morphology, growth, and development i...

EARLIER papers (MERRELL 1953a, b; MERRELL and UNDERHILL 1956) explored the effects of competition between sex-linked and autosomal recessives and their wild-type alleles in experimental populations of Drosophila melanogaster. FALCONER (1960) has used data from one of these papers (1953b) to show the change in gene frequency under selection of a sex-linked gene, commenting that “there is no well...

We report here the draft genome sequence of a novel Xenophilus species cultured from the skin of a southern leopard frog (Rana sphenocephala). Compared to previously sequenced bacterial genomes, our novel isolate showed the most significant homology with Xenophilus azovorans The assembled genome is 3,978,285 bp, with 3,704 predicted genes and one predicted plasmid.