BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Keonjhar district of Orissa State has been hyperendemic for falciparum malaria since many years with alarming deaths due to cerebral malaria. Therefore an entomological investigation to know more about the relative prevalence of Anopheles species was done. METHODS Daytime indoor resting and outdoor resting, light trap and double bed net collections were made. Surveys we...

The unusual yellow-finned morph of European perch Perca fluviatilis found in Lake Constance suffers more severely from macroparasite infections, including the tapeworm Triaenophorus nodulosus and the gill worm Ancyrocephalus percae, than conspecifics elsewhere. Microsatellite analysis of yellow-finned P. fluviatilis and red-finned variant recently discovered in Lake Constance revealed significa...

BACKGROUND: Members of the genus Gyrodactylus species are one of the extensive groups of monogenean ectoparasites which parasitize marine, brackish and freshwater fishes. OBJECTIVES: The main objective of the present study is the identification and diagnosis of the Gyrodactylus specsies on the fishes in certain rivers in the southwest of the Caspian Sea basin. METHODS: The field investigations ...

1 Department of Dermatology, Apollonia University – Iasi, Romania. 2 Department of Dermatology, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry “Petru Poni” – Iasi, Romania. 3 Department of Dermatology, Nicolina Medical Center – Iasi, Romania 4 Department of Surgery, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Targu Mures – Mures, Romania. 5 Department of Cardiology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Tar...

Fluoxetine (Prozac™) is designed to alter human behaviour; however, because many physiological pathways are conserved across vertebrates, this drug may affect the behaviour of fish living in fluoxetine-polluted environments. Although a number of studies have used behaviour to document the sub-lethal effects of fluoxetine, the repeatability of these effects across experiments, across behavioural...

Few studies have systematically investigated mid- or long-term temporal changes of biological characteristics in invasive alien species considering the different phases of an invasion. We studied the invasion performance of one of the most invasive species worldwide, the round goby Neogobius melanostomus, from total absence over first occurrence until establishment from 2010 to 2015 in the uppe...

rural plain areas of India, where Anopheles culicifacies Giles (Diptera: Culicidae) is the primary malaria vector species. This species is responsible for about 60–65% of all reported malaria cases in India1 that breeds in irrigation channels, ponds, pools and rice fields. Anopheles fluviatilis James, is another important vector of malaria in India, which is found specifically in foothills and ...