the brush-tailed mice of the genus calomyscus are distributed in the mountains of central asia and the middle east. the genus calomyscus represents five nominate species from iran (c. bailwardi, c. grandis, c. hotsoni, c. urartensis and c. elburzensis). in total 64 specimens from four species of calomyscus were studied for morphometric analyses the morphological differences among 10 populations...

genus rattus from the subfamily murinae has a wide geographical distribution throughout the world. three species of this genus have been reported in iran so far. they are norway or brown rat (rattus norvegicus), black rat (rattus rattus), and himalayan rat (rattus pyctoris). in order to verify the possibility of using electrophoretic patterns of special proteins, in biosystematic analysis of th...

Multiple sclerosis is a demyelinating disease of the central nervous system with a presumed autoimmune etiology. Previous microarray analyses identified conserved gene expression signatures in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with autoimmune diseases. We used quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction analysis to identify a minimum number of genes of which transcript levels ...

Background Methods for haplotyping and DNA copynumber typing of single cells are paramount for studying genomic heterogeneity and enabling genetic diagnosis. Before analyzing the DNA of a single cell by microarray or next-generation sequencing, a whole-genome amplification (WGA) process is required, but it substantially distorts the frequency and composition of the cell’s alleles. As a conseque...