Species living under large thermal fluctuations possibly need more flexible physiological capabilities than species living in more stable thermal environments. Deep-soil dwelling species habituate more stable thermal environments than surface dwelling species. We compared the flexibility of lipid composition in response to two acclimation temperatures of soil (4), near surface (2), and surface ...

A quantitative method based on UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) was developed that allows determination of the fraction of monomeric and polymeric VO(x) species that are present in vanadate materials. This new quantitative method allows determination of the distribution of monomeric and polymeric surface VO(x) species present in dehydrated supported V(2)O(5)/SiO(2), V(2)O(5)/Al(2)O...

a survey on parasitic copepods was carried out on pampus argenteus euphrasen, 1788 in hormozgan province. totally, 62 specimens were caught by bottom trawl from northwest of qeshm island in summer 2010 and winter 2011. these were immediately frozen in on-board deep freezer of fishing vessel. all samples were transferred to laboratory and after measuring fish weight and length, parasitological s...

Bacillus spore surface morphology was imaged with atomic force microscopy (AFM) to determine if characteristic surface features could be used to distinguish between four closely related species; Bacillus anthracis Sterne strain, Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki, Bacillus cereus strain 569, and Bacillus globigii var. niger. AFM surface height images showed an irregular topography across the ...

background and objectives: streptococcus pneumoniae, a major human pathogen, is closely related to the commensal species s. mitis and s. oralis. s. pneumoniae surface proteins are implicated in virulence and host interaction of this species, but many of them have recently been detected in s. mitis b6 in silico. we tested for the presence of such genes usinga set of eight s. mitis and eleven s. ...

The indoor air quality is much more matter of concern as relative to ambient or outdoor air quality, especially in the context of human health.  However, very few studies have been reported for remediation of indoor ozone by plant species. The main objective of this study is to evaluate ozone deposition velocities and ozone removal effectiveness of three indoor ornamental plant species (Dra...

in the present investigation a total of six parasite species, some eye-specific and others non-organ specific parasites were found in the eyes of 48 examined fish species, collected from fresh and brackish waters of iran during 2004-2006. ichthyophthirius multifiliis  was isolated from the external surface of the eyes of oncorhynchus mykiss, gyrodactylus stankovici from cyprinus carpio and lern...

30 milled rice samples were collected from retailers in four states of malaysia. these samples were evaluated for eurotium spp. contaminations by direct plating on malt extract salt agar (mesa). all eurotium were isolated and identified based on morphology and nucleotide sequences of internal transcribed spacer 1 (its1) and its2 of the rdna. four eurotium species (e. rubrum, e. amstelodami, e. ...