Advances in Zoology Environmental Degradation and Biodiversity

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The book incorporates the latest trend in zoology in India and covers all major topics of animal science viz., fish and fisheries, entomology, parasitology, cytogenetics, genetical engineering, physiology and biochemistry, toxicology, environmental science, wildlife and biodiversity. Each chapter is fully illustrated and referenced and will prove invaluable not only for specialist of particular area but also for zoologists, biologists and young research workers of India. Table of Contents Section I: Fish & Fisheries Piscine specialised branchial cells and their physiological significance by Jagdish Ojha, Comparative micro-architecture of intestinal epithelia of some indian freshwater teleosts: A scanning electron microscopic study by G M Sinha, An overview of the fish diversityof chatla haor floodplain lake in cachar district of Assam with a note on their sustainable harvest and conservation by Devashish Kar & M H Barbhuiya, Histopathological changes in gills associated with urea poisoning in air-breathing fish, channa-punctatus (Bloch) by N P Sah & G K Thakur Section II: Parasitology A review and assessment of the synonymy of certain species of the genus ganeo (Trematoda) by H C P Sah & Umapati Sahay, A discussion on the synonymy of T mehrai Rai, 1962 T vitelloconfluentum Rai, 1962 with T ranarum Mehra et Negi, 1926 by H C P Sah & Umapati Sahay Section III: Entomology Neuroendocrine glands of labidura riparia pallas (Dermaptera) with special reference to the brain neurosecretory cells and their neurosecretory pathways in adult insects by B K Singh & R Nath, Biological control of insect pests in horticultural fields of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh by K R Singh, Study on the prospect of tasar Silkworm culture in some unexplored areas in central Bihar by K B Sharma & Praveen Kumar, Antheraea mylitta (Saturniidae: ledidoptera) larvae and humidity by A K Tripathi, Seema Rani & Sheela Singh, Histological observations of brain neurosecretory cells in diapausing pupae of tasar silkworm, antheraea mylitta (Lepidoptera: saturniidae) by N K Maharaj & B K Singh, Gut content analysis of corixa distorta (Heteroptera) by B P Yadav, s P Singh, Om Prakash & S N Singh, Host plants of aphids (Homoptera: alphididae) from Ranchi district of chotanagar plateau (Bihar) by Y G Jha Studies on the consumption of leaves of different food plants by different ecoraces of tropical tasar silkworm, antheraea mylitta D by N G Ojha, S Rai & P N Pandey, Estimation of uric acid in tubular and rectal fluid of insects inhabiting different niches by D Dadel, K N dubey, S P Singh & P N Pandey, Efficacy of black pepper (Piper nigrum L) as pesticide on rhizopertha dominica (F) in stored wheat by Gopal Krishna Tripathi & Ajit Kumar Verma, Studies on blood sucking behaviour of culex fatigans (Wied) by A K Singh, D N P Singh & S N Singh, Rhopalocera of Jaipur region: Biodiversity & status by M M Trigunayat & N P Singh, Neem (Azadirachta indica) as an ecologically safer potential insecticide for pest control in the future by S C Singh, Studies on the food and food preference in platycorynus peregrinus (Coleoptera: chrysomelidae) by Purushottam Prasad & B K Singh, Effect of different colours on the selection of oviposition site by musca domestica nebulo by S K Singh, B K Singh & S N P Yadav Section IV: Physiology & Biochemistry Further Studies on hemolymph vitellogenin synthesis of intersex (ix) mutant of drosophila melanogaster by R N Chatterjee, M Acharyya & M Ray, Effect of quinidine on ECG and heart protein level in acridotheres tristis (Myna) by A K Singh, R K Singh, Ramanand Singh & C P Singh, Role of BOAA on some biochemical constituents of some tissues on rattus norvegicus by Shailendra Kumar, U S Sinha & V K Sinha, Effect of metacid and rogor on biochemical changes in some tissues of mystus cavasius (Ham) by Ajay Kumar & Acharya Shankar, Prevention of the gonad stimulatory effect of continuous illumination by melatonin and 5-methoxytryptamine in the Indian palm squirrel, funambulus pennanti by N Saxena & M P Sinha, Study of juxtaglomerula apparatus in the wild palm squirrel (Funambulus palmarum) by S Ghalib Hasan & Amjad Fatmi, Toxic effect of metacid on bimodel oxygen uptake in an air breathing fish, Heterpneustes fossilis (Bloch) by B N Pandey, Arun Kumar & Ranjan Kumar Section V: Cyto-Genetics The X-gene of hepatitis B-virus and its role in pathogenesis by Vijay Kumar, A Genetic Trait: The dimple cheek in various human population of south chotanagpur by H N Tiwari, Ashok Sinha & Sabita Singh Section VI: Environmental Sciences & Wild Life Wetlands of Darbhanga: Abiotic & biotic status by A K Pandey, S K Verma, B K Jha & K Pandey, Assignment of guild structure on the basis of gut contents of certain insects by N D Goswami, Meena Kumar, P N Pandey & Uday Singh, Studies on some aspects of community composition and relative abundance of invertebrate macrobenthic fauna of a newly constructed tropical reservoir by B Mahato, Meena Kumar, M P Sinha & P N Pandey, Study of diurnal variation of ozone in ambient air of Delhi by Samir Kumar Sinha & Chandrawati Jee, Study of variation range of different physico-chemical parameters in relation to fish productivity and health by Pramila Singh & Chandrawati jee, Zooplankton diversity of Andaman sea by I K Rai & Sameer Terdalkar, Impact of land use degradation of forest ecosystem: A case study of noamundi iron mine, singhbhum, Bihar by Abhijit Dutta, Sunita Dutta & P N Pandey, Ecological study of Bichhiya river with special reference to water pollution in Rewa (MP) by Usha Awasthi & A Awasthi, Effect of industrial pollution at Kalu river on the content of sodium of some of the weeds growing in her bed by S A Salgare & R N Acarekar, Some disturbing dimensions of environment degradations by Abhijit Dutta, Sunita Dutta, P N Pandey & K C Bose, Effect of industrial effluent on the liver and kidney of channa punctatus of river Sone by S P Singh & R K Singh, Acid Rain: An invisible global problem by R K Gupta & A C Gorai, Electromagnetic pollution: A review of the literature by Bhola Mahto & P N Pandey, Survival of endangered mammals of Indian subcontinent: Facts and factors by D K Belsare, Food feeding and feeding ecology of the Indian greater one horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) by Ashok Sinha & Deepak Kumar Ghosh, Some field observation on dietary components of macaca mulatta zimmermann, 1780 by Shivesh Pratap Singh Section VII: Endocrinology Bright prospective of pineal research by C Haldar.