Abstract :
It is my great pleasure to publish this issue of volume four of the Jordan Journal of Biological Sciences (JJBS), published by the Hashemite University in cooperation with the Jordanian Scientific Research Support Fund (SRF)-Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research-Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. JJBS is a peer reviewed quarterly international journal aims to provide readers worldwide with high quality peer-reviewed scholarly articles on a wide variety of issues related to cell biology, genomics, microbiology, immunology, molecular biology, biochemistry, embryology, immunogenetics, cell and tissue culture, molecular ecology, genetic engineering and biological engineering, bioremediation and biodegradation, bioinformatics, biotechnology regulations, gene therapy, organismal biology, microbial and environmental biotechnology, and marine sciences.