Prior to the advent of fMRI, the primary means of examining the mechanisms underlying learning were restricted to studying human behavior and non-human neural systems. However, recent advances in neuroimaging technology have enabled the concurrent study of human behavior and neural activity. We propose that the integration of behavioral response with brain activity provides a powerful method of...

Cetaceans can be considered good natural samplers of biodiversity due to the different hunting strategies they adopt. In this study, stomach contents 28 Tursiops truncatus (15 females and 13 males), stranded along Tuscany coasts, NW Mediterranean, between 2008 2021, were analyzed. The prey items identified at lowest taxonomic level possible, assessed in terms abundance, weight, frequency occurr...

Environmental DNA (eDNA) is increasingly being used to assess community composition in marine ecosystems. Applying eDNA approaches across broad spatial scales now provide the potential inform biogeographic analyses. However, date, few studies have employed this technique patterns multiple taxonomic groups. Here, we compare eDNA-derived communities of bony fishes and invertebrates, including cor...

heterophyidosis is a fish-transmitted disease in khuzestan province, therefore a total of 900 fresh water fishes belonging to cyprinus carpio, liza abtt and gambosia affinis, were collected from canals of mazreeh district in the central area of khuzestan. in 44%, metaccrcariae of three small flukes of human including haplorchis taickut, haplorchis pumilio, stellanichasmus falcamtus were found. ...