pomegranate juice (pj) and its products are directly used in foods due to their pleasant taste and palatability as well as preservative effects. in spite of useful effects of essential oils such as zataria multiflora boiss essential oil (zeo) on prolonging shelf-life of foods, their application is restricted due to their vigorous taste and aroma. in the present study, physicochemical characteri...

The ability of self-replicating RNA (replicon) vaccine vectors derived from the Australian flavivirus Kunjin (KUN) to induce protective alphabeta CD8+ T-cell responses was examined. KUN replicons encoding a model immunogen were delivered by three different vaccine modalities: (i) as naked RNA transcribed in vitro, (ii) as plasmid DNA constructed to allow in vivo transcription of replicon RNA by...

Abstract The Zagros orogen, formed by the collision of Arabian and Eurasian continental margins, represents one largest richest oil gas provinces in world. fold-thrust belt records convergence along Neotethys suture zone. By coupling field observations, sandstone modal analysis, U-Pb zircon dating, Hf isotopic data from Upper Cretaceous to Pliocene sedimentary succession Neyriz region, this pap...

The pyroxene composition of basaltic rocks from the Coloured Series and Exotic blocks in the Neyriz area are discussed. Comparison has been made with equivalent rocks from Oman. The clinopyroxene compositions are in cognation with trace and rare-earth element analyses which definately confirm the occurrence of three different trends in basic lavas: I-Depleted tholeiite, 2-Transitional basal...

A total of 1752 strains of osrnophilic yeasts were isolated from honey and po]]ens. Fody-three strains Gf esmophilic yeasts produced po]yols, among whieh 6 strains produced erythritol in good yields. On the other hand, 52 osmophilic yeasts converted sucrose te fin]etooligosaccharides, among which 8 strains produced both extra and intracel]ular P-fructofuranosidase, which conyerted sucrose to fr...

Many species of tachinid flies are viewed as generalist parasitoids because what is apparently a single species of fly has been reared from many species of caterpillars. However, an ongoing inventory of the tachinid flies parasitizing thousands of species of caterpillars in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, has encountered >400 species of specialist tachinids with only a...

the pyroxene composition of basaltic rocks from the coloured series and exotic blocks in the neyriz area are discussed. comparison has been made with equivalent rocks from oman. the clinopyroxene compositions are in cognation with trace and rare-earth element analyses which definately confirm the occurrence of three different trends in basic lavas: i-depleted tholeiite, 2-transitional basalt, 3...

Pseudorhabdosynochus Yamaguti, 1958 is a species-rich diplectanid genus, mainly restricted to the gills of groupers (Epinephelidae) and especially abundant in warm seas. Species from the Mediterranean are not fully documented. Two new and two previously known species from the gills of Mycteroperca spp. (M. costae, M. rubra, and M. marginata) in the Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic Ocean are d...