Outbreak of Morel's disease in a Swiss goat flock

Staphylococcus aureus subsp. anaerobius is the causative agent of Morel’s disease in goats and sheep. We report the first outbreak of Morel’s disease in a Swiss goat flock. Multilocus sequence typing revealed that the Swiss isolates belong to sequence type (ST)1464, which is the ST responsible for outbreaks worldwide.

Patterns in fish radiation are compatible with Pleistocene desiccation of Lake Victoria and 14 600 year history for its cichlid species flock

Geophysical data are currently being interpreted as evidence for a late Pleistocene desiccation of Lake Victoria and its refilling 14 600 years ago. This implies that between 500 and 1000 endemic cichlid fish species must have evolved in 14 600 years, the fastest large-scale species radiation known. A recent review concludes that biological evidence clearly rejects the postulated Pleistocene desiccation of the lake: a 14 600 year history would imply exceptionally high speciation rates across a range of unrelated fish taxa. To test this suggestion, I calculated speciation rates for all 41 phylogenetic lineages of fish in the lake. Except for one cichlid lineage, accepting a 14 600 year history does not require any speciation rates that fall outside the range observed in fishes in other young lakes around the world. The exceptional taxon is a lineage of haplochromine cichlids that is also known for its rapid speciation elsewhere. Moreover, since it is unknown how many founding species it has, it is not certain that its speciation rates are really outside the range observed in fishes in other young lakes. Fish speciation rates are generally faster in younger than in older lakes, and those in Lake Victoria, by far the largest of the young lakes of the world, are no exception. From the speciation rates and from biogeographical observations that Lake Victoria endemics, which lack close relatives within the lake basin, have such relatives in adjacent drainage systems that may have had Holocene connections to Lake Victoria, I conclude that the composition of the fish assemblage does not provide biological evidence against Pleistocene desiccation. It supports a hypothesis of recent colonization from outside the lake basin rather than survival of a diverse assemblage within the basin.

Flick und Flock's Abenteuer : komisches Zauber-Ballet ; in drei Akten und sechs Bildern

von Paul Taglioni. Musik vom ... Hertel

Flick und Flock : humoristisch-dramatisches Ballet in 8 Bildern und 6 Erscheinungen

von Paul Taglioni. Musik von Hertel. Schlußakt (Amor) von ... Neubearb. und Textdichtung von Adolf Stoltze

Drexel, als Amor, Rollenbild, in: Nick und Flock

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F00375

Melodies and chants adapted to "Hymns for the little flock" /

Mode of access: Internet.

The Southdown flock book.

Mode of access: Internet.

The flock book of the Kent or Romney marsh sheep.

Mode of access: Internet.

[Flock book]

Mode of access: Internet.

Cheviot sheep flock book.

Mode of access: Internet.

Hampshire Down flock book.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Flock book of the Oxford Down sheep.

Vol. 32, 1920 numbered v. 31.

The Flock book of Shropshire sheep.

Imprint varies.

Flock book of Leicester sheep.

Mode of access: Internet.