so far, four species of hemidactylus have been reported in iran as follows: h. persicus, h. robustus, h. flaviviridis, h. romeshkanicus. in this study, 108 specimens belonging to these four species of hemidactylus were examined morphologically, using 19 metric and 6 meristic characters. multivariate analyses showed morphological differences among these three species with exception h. romeshkani...

Juan Carlos Plana1, Maurizio Galderisi2, Ana Barac3, Michael S. Ewer4, Bonnie Ky5, Marielle Scherrer-Crosbie6, Javier Ganame7, Igal A. Sebag8, Deborah A. Agler1, Luigi P. Badano9, Jose Banchs4, Daniela Cardinale10, Joseph Carver11, Manuel Cerqueira1, Jeanne M. DeCara12, Thor Edvardsen13, Scott D. Flamm1, Thomas Force14, Brian P. Griffin1, Guy Jerusalem15, Jennifer E. Liu16, Andreia Magalhães17,...

Yan Zhu, Liza S. Comita, Stephen P. Hubbell and Keping Ma* State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China; School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbu...

A logic of diagnosis proceeds in terms of a set of data and one or more (prioritized) sets of expectancies. In this paper we generalize the logics of diagnosis from [27] and present some alternatives. The former operate on the premises and expectancies themselves, the latter on their consequences.

A new species of Trichodoridae, Trichodorus elefjohnsoni, is described from undisturbed regions of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, United States. It resembles T. orientalis De Waele &Hashim, 1984, T. persicus De Waele &Sturhan, 1987, and T. taylori De Waele, Mancini, Roca, ' Lamberti, 1982 in arrangement of ventromedian cervical papillae and posterior preanal supplements, but differs by co...