At that time, wild poliovirus was endemic in more than 125 countries on five continents, paralyzing more than 1,000 children every day.
At the time, wild poliovirus was endemic in more than 125 countries on five continents, paralyzing more than 1000 children every day.
Brachypodium distachyon L., a member of the Pooideae subfamily and a temperate wild annual grass endemic to the Mediterranean and Middle East [ 18], has rapidly become a model plant, especially for potential biofuel grasses such as switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L).
distachyon), a member of the Pooideae subfamily and a temperate wild annual grass endemic to the Mediterranean and Middle East [ 13], has been rapidly established as a model plant system especially as an experimental model organism for grasses and cereals.
The year 2006 began with confirmation that indigenous wild poliovirus transmission had been stopped in Egypt and Niger, reducing the number of endemic countries to a historic low of four (in 1988, wild poliovirus was endemic in more than 125 countries).
By 2001, the number of countries where wild polioviruses were endemic had shrunk from over 100 to fewer than 10; the main residual foci are in Nigeria and a belt of Asian countries extending from Afghanistan across Pakistan to northern India (74).
The new euro coins have been designed with care: the 1, 2 and 5 cent coins will, for example, depict the moufflon, the wild sheep endemic to the island for whom dividing "green lines" mean little.
Today, Borneo is still home to an unequaled number of wild and endemic species, including the Bornean orangutan, found nowhere else in the world, that are perishing at an astonishing rate.
The wild pig, endemic to the Indonesian island of Bawean in the Java Sea, is said to be one of the world's rarest wild animals, and according to a new study published in PLoS One, the creature may be headed for extinction.
