The past few years witnessed a dramatic shift in computer microprocessor design. Rather than continue with the traditional pursuit of increased sequential program performance, industry and academia alike chose to focus on distributed, multi-core designs. If multi-core designs are to maintain the decades-long trend of increased single threaded performance, compiler technology capable of converti...

INTRODUCTION Endoscopy has proven to be a most useful diagnostic tool in veterinary medicine. In the field of zoological medicine, the application of diagnostic endoscopy has shown great promise in a variety of species, including reptiles. The majority of previous reports describe the use of the endoscope to examine or retrieve foreign objects from the gastro-intestinal tract. There are some de...

Bearded dragons are a popular reptile. This paper reviews natural history, husbandry, behavior, nutrition, and reproduction of the bearded dragon. In addition, important aspects of physical examination, diagnostic techniques, and common diseases are included.

The genome of the platypus has been sequenced, assembled, and annotated by an international genomics team. Like the animal itself the platypus genome contains an amalgam of mammal, reptile, and bird-like features.

Antipredatory defenses are maintained when benefit exceeds cost. A weak predation pressure may lead insular lizards to tameness. Podarcis lilfordi exhibits a high degree of insular tameness, which may explain its extinction from the main island of Menorca when humans introduced predators. There are three species of lizards in Menorca: the native P. lilfordi, only on the surrounding islets, and ...

In several districts of Boa Vista, state of Roraima, Brazil we found Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) albitarsis E to be the primary vector of human malaria parasites, and during 2001-2002 it was significantly more abundant than An. darlingi (p < 0.001). Other species sampled were An. (Nys.) braziliensis, An. (Ano.) peryassui, An. (Nys.) nuneztovari, An. (Nys.) oswaldoi s.l., and An. (Nys.) triannulat...

Two new species of the genus Uloma Dejean, 1821, Uloma fengyangensis sp. n. and Uloma acrodonta sp. n., are described and figured from Zhejiang Province of China. Uloma bonzica Marseul, 1876 is recorded from China for the first time. A key to the known Uloma species from Zhejiang of China and a list of Uloma species from China are provided.