Entrainment and transport of larval fish assemblages by the East Australian Current (EAC) were examined from the coastal waters of northern New South Wales (NSW) to the western Tasman Front, via the separation of the EAC from the coast, during the austral spring of 2004. Shore-normal transects from the coast to the EAC off northern NSW revealed an inner shelf assemblage of near-shore families (...

Chicken anemia virus was detected by PCR in tissue samples collected from poultry flocks in Gujarat,India. The VP1, VP2 and VP3 gene sequences of CAV from Anand, Gujarat were obtained after cloning thePCR products in pDrive cloning vector. Nucleotide sequence alignment with other CAV sequencesdemonstrated overall identity of 95-98.8%, 98.8-99.8% and 98.8-100% for VP1, VP2 and VP3 regions,respec...

Coral reef environments support a great diversity of benthic organisms, of which zoanthids form an integral part. Studies have been carried out regarding the degradation of coral reefs and changes in community structure under the present dynamics of climatic change. Zoanthids are dominant among the observed fauna in these degrading reef ecosystems. Zoanthids are observed at mid and lower intert...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of oral mucosal lesions among fishermen population in the coastal region of Kutch, Gujarat, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS A descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted to assess the prevalence of oral mucosal lesions among the 979 fishermen of Kutch District, Gujarat, India. The proforma included information on demographic detai...

Pavan Gujjar1, Jyoti Zingade2, Shruthi Patil3, Jayadeva Hallur4 1Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Narsinhbhai Patel Dental College and Hospital, Visnagar, Gujarat, India, 2Postgraduate Student, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Narsinhbhai Patel Dental College and Hospital, Visnagar, Gujarat, India, 3Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral Medicine and Radio...

corneal ulcer is a major cause of blindness throughout the world. when the cornea is injured by foreign particles, there are chances of infection by the organism and development of ulcer. bacterial infection in the cornea is invariably an alteration of the defense mechanism of the outer eye. it is essential to determine the local etiology within a given region when planning a corneal ulcer mana...

Marine molluscs are economically very important and they exploited by men for various purposes since the prehistoric times. Manufacture of ornaments is an age-old industry in south south-east India as ornament or souvenir still high demand. Although there plenty literature on trade economy ornamental shells, exploitation less studied limited to regions India. The widely traded pilgrims places l...

An articulated and partially preserved skeleton of an ichthyosaur was found in the Upper Jurassic (Upper Kimmeridgian) Katrol Formation exposed at a site south of the village Lodai in Kachchh district, Gujarat (western India). Here we present a detailed description and inferred taxonomic relationship of the specimen. The present study revealed that the articulated skeleton belongs to the family...

Introduction Western Ghats of India, though covering an area of 180,000 km2, or just under 6% of the land area of India, contain more than 30% of all plant, fish, herpeto-fauna, bird, and mammal species found in India. Starting from southern tip of Gujarat and extending from Satpura Range in the north traversing through the States of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Kerala, hills of Western Ghat...

Salt-tolerant alkaliphilic actinomycetes are difficult to isolate as their natural environments are much more different and hostile than laboratory conditions. Due to these limitations, majority of the microbial population remain uncultivated. During the recent years, development and application of molecular techniques, such as; DGGE, TGGE, RFLP and DNADNA hybridization have proved quite valuab...