Nebraska’s Rainwater Basin (RWB) is a key spring migration area for millions of waterfowl and other avian species. Avian cholera has been endemic in the RWB since the 1970s and in some years tens of thousands of waterfowl have died from the disease. We evaluated patterns of avian cholera mortality in waterfowl species using the RWB during the last quarter of the 20th century. Mortality patterns...

Mesacanthus is a common and speciose genus of acanthodian fish from Lower Old Red Sandstone and Middle Old Red Sandstone assemblages (representing the Lower Devonian and Middle Devonian respectively) and is well represented in many palaeoichthyology collections in the UK. Based upon descriptions given during the 19th century, specimens of the genus Mesacanthus from the Orcadian Basin and Midlan...

Abstract The Genaveh commercial port was placed on the agenda of Iranian PMO (ports and maritime organization) to consider economic, residential development in Bushehr province specifically city. In order increase water capacity port, it is necessary build a new harbour basin for exploitation purposes at depth 5 6 meters by extending existing jetties arms front port. This research aims investig...

Mike Greenberg Harvard Medical School Mike Greenberg grew up in Brooklyn, New York, but has lived and worked in the Boston area for the last 30 years. He is currently the Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology and Chair of the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. His scientific passion is to understand how genes and the environment (nature and nurture) are intertwined at ...

Mike Levine is at the University of California, Berkeley where he is coDirector of the newly formed Center for Integrative Genomics. He obtained his Ph.D. from Yale University with Alan Garen studying steroid-regulated gene expression in Drosophila larvae. As a Jane Coffin Childs fellow he did postdoctoral research with Walter Gehring at the University of Basel in 1982. After a second short pos...