BACKGROUND The Australian federal government introduced private health insurance incentive policy reforms in 2000 that increased the uptake of private health insurance in Australia. There is currently a lack of evidence on the effect of the policy reforms on access to cardiovascular interventions in public and private hospitals in Australia. The aim was to investigate whether the increased priv...

The relationship of gonad weight and liver weight with body weight of six fish species viz; Catla catla, Labeo rohita, Cirrhina mrigala, Hypophthlamichthys molitrix, Ctenopharyngodon idella and Cyprinus carpio under the influence of artificial feed, broiler manure, buffalo manure, N:P:K (25:25:0) and a control pond were examined after a rearing period of one year. The positive relationship betw...

Invasive carps are ecologically and economically problematic fish species in many large river basins the United States pose a threat to aquatic ecosystems throughout much of North America. Four invasive carps: black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus), grass (Ctenopharyngodon idella), silver (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) bighead nobilis), particularly concerning for native because they occupy disrupt...

Continued on back page The most recent invasive species threatening Illinois’ aquatic ecosystems are the bighead and silver carps, two of four species commonly called Asian carps. These fish grow quickly to more than 50 lbs by consuming 30– 50% of their body weight each day in small algae and other tiny organisms. They also reproduce quickly and migrate long distances to spawn. Currently, in th...

As bighead carp Hypophthalmichthysnobilis and silver carp H. molitrix (the bigheaded carps) are poised to enter the Laurentian Great Lakes and potentially damage the region's economically important fishery, information on developmental rates and behaviors of carps is critical to assessing their ability to establish sustainable populations within the Great Lakes basin. In laboratory experiments,...

CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 88, NO. 12, 25 JUNE 2005 1897 It provides an important link in the evolution of insects. The morphological characters of the reported bug, such as small body, short antennae comprising three segments, three-segmented, backwardly directed rostrum with thorax being the largest among the three parts of the insect body, are not yet known in a living or fossil insect family. It...

The prevention of non-indigenous aquatic invasive species spreading into new areas is a goal of many resource managers. New techniques have been developed to survey for species that are difficult to capture with conventional gears that involve the detection of their DNA in water samples (eDNA). This technique is currently used to track the invasion of bigheaded carps (silver carp and bighead ca...