Infernão Lake, located within the Jataí Ecological Station in Luiz Ant nio Municipal district (São Paulo State, Brazil), is one of the most typical ox-bow lake of the Mogi-Guaçu River, and it presents, as the main feature, its great quantity of aquatic macrophytes, whose intensive development, in the last years practically covered the whole mirror of water. With the purpose to point out the com...

Labeo rohita fingerlings were exposed to zinc metal toxicity (5 and 10 ppm) for duration of 5 and 15 days. The histological changes were studied in brain and liver of the treated fish. The brain tissues showed enlarged pyramidal cells with extensive vacoulation while severe necrosis, haemorrhage and degeneration of hepatocytes were witnessed in the liver tissues.

Freshwater lakes are sensitive ecosystem and respond to the episodic changes from its surrounding environment. The physico-chemical factors of water and biological processes determine the quality of water which in turn indicates the diversity of fauna and flora that the water would support. However, the ecological factors of lake correlating with parasitic isopods under natural conditions are p...

Aim : To study the acute toxicity of λ-cyhalothrin in freshwater fish Labeo rohita by determining the 96 hours lethal concentration 50 (96 hrs LC ) and behavioural patterns of exposed fish. 50 Materials and Methods: A total 270 fingerling size fish were used to determine the 96 hours lethal concentration 50 (96 hrs LC ) of λ-cyhalothrin as per the guideline of Organization for Economic Co-opera...

Angesichts steigender Komplexität moderner Automatisierungssysteme gewinnen Netzwerkregelungssysteme wegen ihrer Modularität und vereinfachten Diagnose mehr und mehr an Bedeutung. In derartigen Systemen sind Prozess und Regler räumlich getrennt und über ein Kommunikationsnetz verbunden. Die dadurch induzierte Kommunikationstotzeit wirkt potenziell destabilisierend. In diesem Artikel wird eine n...

The present communication describes three new species of myxosporeans (Myxozoa: Myxosporea: Bivalvulida), Myxobilatus odontamblyopusi sp. n., Myxobolus catmrigalae sp. n. and M. buccoroofus sp. n. from Odontamblyopus rubicundus (HamiltonBuchanan), Catla-Mrigal hybrid carp [male parent fish Catla catla (Hamilton-Buchanan) × female parent fish Cirrhinus mrigala (Hamilton-Buchanan)] and Labeo bata...

Annelid worms represent a significant part of freshwater benthic communities worldwide and Oligochaeta is a particularly species-rich group. Dero (A) bimagnasetus (Naididae) previously found and described from a small marsh in Surinam in 1974, has now been found for the first time in Barra Lake, MG, Brazil. Due to the scarce biological data and absence of ecological information in the literatur...