Since 1998, an epidemic of avian influenza occurred in the Iranian poultry industry. The identified agent was a low-pathogenicity H9N2 avian influenza virus that caused frequent episodes of high mortality in broiler chicken farms in Iran and some other Asian countries. This study was designed to investigate the prevalence of AIV H9N2 subtype in commercial chicken flocks in Dezful, southern Iran...

DNA barcoding has been suggested as a universal tool for molecular species identification; however, it cannot be applied in cases when morphologically similar species share their DNA barcodes due to the common ancestry or mitochondrial introgression. Here we analyze the karyotype of Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) morgani (Le Cerf, 1909) from the region of its type locality in the southern Zagros Mou...

Bromus sect. Triniusa is revised in Khorassan based on the new taxonomic concepts of Bromus danthoniae complex group and a remarkable herbarium material collected from Khorassan (Kopetdagh, northeastern Iran), as the main center of its diversity. Bromus turcomanicus, a narrow endemic species in central Kopetdagh hitherto known only from the type locality in southern Turkmenistan, is newly recor...

İran, Nasıreddin Şah’ın 1901 yılında kuzeydeki beş eyalet hariç ülkenin tamamında petrol arama ve satma imtiyazını İngiltere vatandaşı D’Arcy’ye vermesi ile birlikte, İngiltere’nin ekonomik nüfuz alanına dahil olmuştur. Petrolün bilinirliği stratejik değeri arttıkça, D’Arcy’nin elde ettiği şahsi imtiyaza müdahil olan İngiltere, İran’daki çıkarlarını korumak amacıyla kendi yerel silahlı gücünü o...

BACKGROUND Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ZCL) is endemic in many parts of Iran. Recently its incidence is considerable in different parts of Jahrom district, in Fars Province, southern Iran. The aims of our study were to investigate the prevalence of leishmania infection, and identify and characterize the Leishmania species present, among the rodents by molecular methods in a new endemic fo...