Marine coastal fishery often yields a considerable portion of the non-target species and by-catch as trash fish in total catch. Generally, it consists edible inedible species, which are unacceptable for human consumption usually discarded waste. However, has significant potential to use animal feed. The current study was intended determine proximate composition abundant selected landing sites J...

Homonota is a Neotropical genus of nocturnal lizards characterized by the following combination of characters: absence of femoral pores, infradigital lamellae not dilated, claws without sheath, inferior lamellae laterally not denticulate, and presence of a ceratobranchial groove. Currently the genus is composed of 10 species assembled in three groups: two groups with four species, and the fasci...

A taxonomic review of the genus Lesteva Latreille, 1797 of the Central Asia is presented. The type material of the following species was revised: L. bucharica Fauvel, 1900, L. fasciata Luze, 1903, L. nova Bernhauer, 1902, L. transcaspica Bernhauer, 1935 and L. turkestanica Luze, 1904. Lectotypes for L. bucharica and L. turkestanica, a lectotype and paralectotype for L. transcaspica are designat...

The seaweeds are a promising source of natural products. In the present study, preliminary phytochemical analysis concluded that due to the presence of extra phytochemical in Ulva fasciata when compared to the Chaetomorpha, this alga is a beneficial one for its biological activity. In the DPPH scavenging assay, both the seaweed extracts showed high antioxidant activity. The Ulva fasciata sample...

In the marine environment, the bacteria that colonize the surface of a seaweed affect its growth and development. In the laboratory, several seaweeds do not develop normal foliose thalli in axenic cultures, but adopt an atypical morphology. Adding certain bacteria to the culture, however, can result in reversion to the normal morphology. The aim of the present study was to examine the effects o...

The occurrence of Cerambycidae (Lamiinae) was evaluated in trunk and branch samples of cardeiro (Scleronema micranthum), a forest species from the Central Amazon. Samples were exposed to biodegradation for 24 months on the forest soil, during which adults and larvae were collected and their attack was evaluated. From a total of 643 cerambycids collected, 606 were immatures and 37 were adults. T...

We described the development and characterization of 16 microsatellite loci for the white-banded tanager (Neothraupis fasciata), a Neotropical passerine from Cerrado (Brazilian savanna). Based on 24 N. fasciata from a single population, we detected moderate to high number of alleles per locus (2-18 alelles) with expected heterozygosities ranging from 0.12 to 0.92. The high combined paternity ex...