The striped snakehead Channa striata is a valuable food fish and has high market value. feeding natural breeding grounds of this economically important species have been reduced due to increasing anthropogenic activities habitat alterations in the Gangetic River system. present study was undertaken assess reproductive biology C. striata, which widely distributed India many other Asian countries...

Protozoan and nematode infections of Periplaneta americana in Bulgaria were investigated. Five protozoan and 2 nematode parasites of P. americana were recorded: Endamoeba blattae, Amoeba sp., Lophomonas striata, Nyctotherus ovalis, Balantidium blattarum, Hammerschmidtiella diesingi and Leidynema appendiculatum. Parasite prevalence varied from 1,6% for Amoeba sp. to 32,8% for nematodes. Biometri...

Acquisition and allocation of resources in response to elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertilization in two perennial C3 grasses Hannah Abigail Kinmonth-Schultz Chairperson of the Supervisory Committee: Assistant Professor Soo-Hyung Kim College of Forest Resources Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) have increased over the last century, likely due to human activity, and will likely con...

Gymnophthalmoidea es un clado compuesto por las familias Alopoglossidae, Teiidae y Gymnophthalmidae. La distribución geográfica de tierras bajas a altoandinas, la existencia especies pequeñas muy grandes evolución formas con alargamiento corporal reducción extremidades hacen este grupo modelo único para explorar el desarrollo del esqueleto. Los estudios postembrionario no solo constituyen los c...

Many of the sclerosing bone dystrophies fall within the classification employed by Fairbank (1951). However, patients occasionally present features suggesting a possible relationship between osteopoikilosis (spotted bones), osteopathia striata (striated bones, Voorhoeve’s disease), melorheostosis (running wax bones) and osteopetrosis (dense or marble bones). Areas of dense bone arranged in diff...

Ten species of the subgenus Cantotrella Gorochov, 2006 belonging to the genus Varitrella Gorochov, 2003 of the tribe Podoscirtini are recorded from Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Eight of them are new and described here: V. (C.) orion sp. nov.; V. (C.) trusmadi sp. nov.; V. (C.) striata sp. nov.; V. (C.) robusta sp. nov., V. (C.) sukau sp. nov., V. (C.) tawau sp. nov., V. (C.) amoena sp. no...

The south Asian amisegine genus Atoposega Krombein, 1957, is reevaluated. Three new species, A. rufithorax, A. striata and A. thailandica are described from Thailand and the previously described species, A. lineata (Krombein, 1957) from Borneo, A. rieki (Krombein, 1957) from Myanmar and A. simulans Kimsey, 1986 from Malaysia are redescribed. The species, A. decorata Kimsey, 1995, was found to l...

Bletilla striata is an endangered medicinal plant the habitats of which are polluted by cadmium (Cd). Nutrient management a potential way to mitigate Cd toxicity, providing reference for B. artificial cultivation. Pot experiments were undertaken examine effect five levels concentration (control: 0.28 mg/kg; I: 0.37 II: 1.00 III: 7.39 IV: 54.6 mg/kg) on temporal dynamics nutrient allocation in c...