This study examines the effects on fertilization rate (FR), hatching rate (HR), and normal individual rate after artificial fertilization using frozen thawed sperm according to the cryoprotectant (DMSO) concentration and the period of cryopreserved sperm of longtooth grouper, Epinephelus bruneus. Performing artificial fertilization using frozen-thawed sperm, after freezing the sperm at differen...

Background & Aim: Tetranychus urticae Koch is one of the most important pests of crops, ornamental and greenhouse plants in the world and, can damage to 900 plant species. Resistances to pesticides and acaricides have guided researches to introduce new methods to control T. urticae. Botanical pesticides are an important group of natural productions that are usually safer than ...

Avian brood parasites, including cuckoos and cowbirds, have multiple negative effects on their hosts. We analysed the effects of Shiny Cowbird Molothrus bonariensis parasitism on different components (e.g. egg losses, hatching success, chick survival and nest abandonment) of House Wren Troglodytes aedon reproductive success. We also conducted an experiment to discriminate between two mechanisms...

background & aim: tetranychus urticae koch is one of the most important pests of crops, ornamental and greenhouse plants in the world and, can damage to 900 plant species. resistances to pesticides and acaricides have guided researches to introduce new methods to control t. urticae. botanical pesticides are an important group of natural productions that are usually safer than conventional p...

The Use of Laser-Assisted Hatching in Bovine in Vitro Produced Embryos to Improve Pregnancy Rate. (August 2008) Suzanne Lynn Menges, B.S., Texas A&M University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Duane Kraemer In vitro produced (IVP) embryos not hatching from the zona pellucida (ZP) after transfer is one possible contributing factor of a lower pregnancy rate when compared to in vivo embryos. This ...

Cladocerans are able to produce resting eggs inside a protective resistant capsule, the ephippium, that difficults the visualization of the resting eggs, because of the dark pigmentation. Therefore, before hatching experiments, methods to verify viable resting eggs in ephippia must be considered. This study aimed to evaluate the number of eggs per ephippium of Daphnia from two tropical aquatic ...

In chick embryos, various instantaneous heart rate (IHR) fluctuations (e.g. HR variability, HR irregularities) have been found and developmental patterns of mean heart rate (MHR) have been elucidated. IHR changes have also measured in newly hatched and young chickens in order to investigate the developmental patterns of MHR and any potential diurnal HR rhythmicity such as a circadian rhythm. Th...