In the Aleutian Islands ecosystem, food habits of many noncommercial species such as skates have not been studied. This study provides the basic information on food habits and diet overlap of 7 skate species found in the Aleutian Islands area. These species include the Aleutian skate (Bathyraja aleutica), big skate (Raja binoculata), Bering skate (B. interrupta), Alaska skate (B. parmifera), bl...

Both secondary metabolites and inorganic acids have been hypothesized to protect adult ascidians from predation, raising the possibility of alternative defensive strategies in these sessile, soft-bodied, benthic invertebrates. The objective of this investigation was to determine if ascidian species from the Western Atlantic have these chemical defenses against fish predators, and if so, to dete...

Batetangnga River is one of the rivers in West Sulawesi and well known as an ecotourism area. This preliminary study was performed to reveal fish fauna River, Sulawesi. Ichthyofauna research conducted April May 2021 at two stations namely Rawa Bangun Butute’neng. During period, a total 14 species belonging 9 families were identified. No endemic found Native such Stiphodon semoni, Butis butis, G...

The plains spotted skunk (Spilogale interrupta) is of conservation concern because widespread population declines and being considered for listing under the United States Endangered Species Act. Although taxon relatively rare difficult to study, recent research reports provided some information about skunks in Arkansas Missouri, USA. Using this information, we employed full simplified multivari...

This article is the third and last of a series models developed to investigate impact climate on spatiotemporal biology parasitoids. After two earlier papers investigating Tranosema rostrale Meteorus trachynotus, this concerns tachinid fly Actia interrupta (Diptera: Tachinidae). An individual-based model seasonal A. was determine its interactions with hosts, spruce budworm Choristoneura fumifer...

Sophora interrupta belongs to the family of Fabaceae and the species in this genus have a diverse medicinal importance as a folk medicine for preventing many ailments including cancer. In order to evaluate the anticancer activity of S.interrupta, we have performed in vitro anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-proliferative, and cell based anticancer activity in MCF-7 and PC-3 cell lines. Secon...