in 1969 and 1976, 237 rodents and carnivores collected from the bandar abbas area south of iran was examined fro trichianella spiralis. 23% of foxes, 25% of stray dogs and all three captured golden jackals were found to be infected.

of CFTR-Dependent Fluid Secretion Michel Bagnat,* Adam Navis, Sara Herbstreith, Koroboshka Brand-Arzamendi, Silvia Curado, Sherif Gabriel, Keith Mostov, Jan Huisken, and Didier Y.R. Stainier* (Current Biology 20, 1840–1845; October 26, 2010) In the text and in Figure 3A of this article, we refer to chromosome 12/LG12. This is incorrect; chromosome 12 in the text and LG12 in Figure 3A should ref...

Carnivores, such as the dolphin and the domestic cat, have numerous adaptations that befit consumption of diets with high protein and fat content, with little carbohydrate content. Consequently, nutrient metabolism in carnivorous species differs substantially from that of non-carnivores. Important metabolic pathways known to differ between carnivores and non-carnivores are implicated in the dev...

Capturing small carnivores is often necessary for obtaining key ecological data. We compared the efficiency of box and leg-hold traps, using live and dead bait, to capture six carnivore species (Herpailurus yagouaroundi (E. Geoffroyi, 1803), Leopardus tigrinus (Schreber, 1775), Nasua nasua (Linnaeus, 1766), Cerdocyon thous (Linnaeus, 1766), Eira barbara (Linnaeus, 1758), and Galictis cuja (Moli...

Madin et al. (1) present a hypothesis predicting that because of escalating interactions, changes in the diversity of an ecologically defined set of carnivores will cause changes of composition in noncarnivore sets, substantiating the claim that predators act as important agents of selection. Their examination of such trophically delineated groups in the Phanerozoic fossil record yielded signif...

Large carnivores face serious threats and are experiencing massive declines in their populations and geographic ranges around the world. We highlight how these threats have affected the conservation status and ecological functioning of the 31 largest mammalian carnivores on Earth. Consistent with theory, empirical studies increasingly show that large carnivores have substantial effects on the s...

L mammalian carnivores (species in the order Carnivora) are ecologically important because a few individuals can cause strong predation-driven direct effects or fear-driven indirect effects on communities and ecosystems (Ripple and Beschta 2004, Ray et al. 2005). Nevertheless, most carnivores are neither large nor at the apex of their ecological communities. Rather, they are small and midsized ...