BACKGROUND This paper includes 2742 specimens of 18 species of black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) collected from 132 lotic sites in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, in the early summer of 2002 and 2003 and the spring of 2005 and 2006. NEW INFORMATION All species are recorded from this region for the first time, and Metacnephianigra (Rubtsov, 1940) is a new record for Turkey. Distri...

a participatory rural appraisal technique (prat) was used to obtain information from 132 randomly selected turkey farmers in two out of four agricultural development zones in kwara state, nigeria. data were obtained on socio-occupational status of farmers, their production objectives, experience, flock structure, management practices, marketing and consumption of turkey eggs. the results showed...

a survey was conducted to identify leafminer flies (diptera: agromyzidae) in shiraz from april 2004 to november 2005. among the collected specimens, five species are new records for iran. the identifications were confirmed by dr. civelek (turkey) and dr. henshaw (uk). all specimens were deposited in the insect collection of jahrom azad university.

Mechanism of Photoinitiated Free Radical Polymerization by Thioxanthone Anthracene in the Presence of Air Demet Karaca Balta, Nergis Arsu,* Yusuf Yagci,* Arun K. Sundaresan, Steffen Jockusch,* and Nicholas J. Turro Department of Chemistry, Yildiz Technical University, Davutpasa Campus, Istanbul 34210, Turkey Department of Chemistry, Istanbul Technical University, Maslak, Istanbul 34469, Turkey ...

no domestic availability to breeder turkey stocks and turkey hatching eggs prompted the present experiment that aimed to evaluate the feasibility of a conventional artificial insemination (ai) procedure in british united turkey (but) for the first time in iran. broiler turkeys were restrictedly fed, grown for 46 weeks, and used for the current study (10 turkey toms and 24 turkey hens in total)....

A new species, Collyria pronotalis Yurtcan and Kolarov sp. n. (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Collyriinae), from Turkey is described and illustrated. A key for identification of the species of Collyria Schiødte, 1839 is provided. Moreover, additional records are reported for Collyria coxator (Villers, 1789) from Turkey.