SURVEY OF CYCLOPIDS (CRUSTACEA, COPEPODA) IN BRAZIL AND PRELIMINARY SCREENING OF THEIR POTENTIAL AS DENGUE VECTOR PREDATORS

Survey of cyclopids (Crustacea, Copepoda) in Brazil and preliminary screening of their potential as dengue vector predators

INTRODUCTION: Cyclopid copepods are known to be good mosquito controllers, specially as regards the larvae of the dengue vectors Aedes aegypti and Ae.albopictus.MATERIAL AND METHOD: The objective of the study was to survey the local copepod fauna and search for new strains of M.longisetus var.longisetus, comparing the potential of the samples found

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Esophageal xanthoma: presence of M2 macrophages suggests association with late inflammatory and reparative processes

Esophageal xanthoma is a rare lesion which is an asymptomatic small yellowish polyp, and most of the reported cases were solitary lesion.Histologically, aggregations Traditional Knives of foam cells are found under the papillary hypertrophic squamous epithelium and the foam cells express CD68.The etiology of esophageal xanthoma is unknown.The focal

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Rheology of vitrimers

Rheology studies on vitrimers have mostly focused on their linear viscoelasticity under small deformations.Here, the authors develop K SNEAKERS a full rheological understanding of vitrimer response that spans between small deformation and large-deformation regime, and across 22 decades of effective frequency, providing clear and concise analytical

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Seasonal Fluctuations in Egg Parasitoid Fauna of Sunn-Pest Eurygaster integriceps Puton in Wheat Fields of New Bonab County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran

Regarding strategic importance of wheat and occurrence of sunn pest (Eurygaster integriceps Puton), as an important pest of wheat in Iran, an efficient IPM program against the pest is needed for an acceptable production.Since natural enemies are one of the most important components in IPM programs, their identification is necessary for augmentation

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Polytheism Tendency in the Trend of Integration of the Three Major Religions: Worship of Silkworm Deity Art of Medieval China

A silkworm deity was a Trade God worshipped by the court and the folk, and was also a spiritual symbol of sericulturists in medieval China.Images of the silkworm deity in ancient Chinese art are important relics of material heritage for studying culture and ritual activities in medieval China.This paper investigates images ALOE VERA DEODORANT of si

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