An experiment was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of intra-amnion administration of different doses of ascorbic acid (AA) on hatchability, growth performance, blood metabolites, jejunal morphology, and tibia breaking strength in 36h post hatch fasted broiler chickens. Two hundred eighty-eight Ross-308 fertile eggs at the 15thday of incubation were divided into four treatment groups, each con...

An updated inventory of large branchiopods of the Western Maharashtra state, India is presented for the first time. Employing current identification keys, we have detailed the egg morphology of Eulimnadia indocylindrova, which shares some similarities with E. geayi from South America and E. alluaudi from Madagascar, based on these egg characters. A thorough re-description of few morphological t...

M any cellular stresses, including starvation, induce cells to up-regulate the process of auto-phagy, in which cytoplasmic content is engulfed into autophagosomes and delivered to lysosomes for degradation. Auto-phagy can promote cell homeostasis and survival by removing damaged proteins and organelles and recycling their breakdown products to enhance cell metabolism. On the other hand, autopha...

The preimaginal stages of Berosus decolor Knisch, 1924 are described for the first time, including illustrations of the egg case and all larval instars. Larval morphology of this species is studied emphasizing chaetotaxic and morphometric analyses. The egg case lacks a mast and contains 2‒3 eggs; all larval instars are characterized by the following features: presence of 6 teeth on anterior mar...