Four species of Devario are recorded from Bangladesh: D. aequipinnatus, D. anomalus, D. coxi, new species, and D. devario. Devario aequipinnatus has a wide distribution in northern India and Bangladesh. Devario coxi, from southeastern Bangladesh near Cox's Bazar, differs from D. aequipinnatus in mtDNA (COI, p-distance 1.8%), colouration, proportional measurements, and meristics. The minor morph...

The nomenclatural identity of species C of the Anopheles minimus complex is resolved by excluding the available junior synonyms of the nominotypical member of the complex and naming it An. harrisoni Harbach & Manguin, sp. n. Anopheles formosaensis I Tsuzuki, An. christophersi Theobald and An. christophersi var. alboapicalis Theobald are retained as junior synonyms of An. minimus Theobald based ...

AbstractIn recent years, six species within the Superfamily Sehirinae that progressively provision seeds/drupes/nutlets to their young have been identified, one cydnid in North America and four cydnids Parastrachia japonensis (Parastrachiidae) Japan. This chapter begins with a reflection on some of similarities differences among members this parental cluster. It then considers various direction...

background: malnutrition among tribal preschool children is highly prevalent in almost all states of india and is the predisposing factor for morbidity as well as mortality. objectives: aim of the study was to detect prevalence of malnutrition and their associated factors. study design: a cross sectional study. study subjects: lodha tribal children aged 1-5 years. sample size: a total of 141 ch...

the prevalence of vesicoureteral reflux (vur) among siblings of children with vur has been reported to be from 4.7% to 51%. the incidence of vur in the general population is less than 1% but it is high in risk groups. in a prospective study we started identifying the incidence and severity of vur and renal parenchymal lesions in the siblings of patients known to have urinary tract infection (ut...

Specimens with white head spots are present at low frequency in the natural populations of South American water rat (Nectomys squamipes) and absent in the sibling species Nectomys rattus. We analyzed the pattern of inheritance of the phenotype using complex segregation analysis of pedigrees of a captive-bred population of N. squamipes. We found that the inheritance of the white head spot in thi...

The gene for a male ejaculatory protein, Acp26Aa, in four sibling species of the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup has previously been shown to have a nonsynonymous rate (Ka) of nucleotide substitution that is indistinguishable from the synonymous rate (Ks). By examining this gene in two other species of this subgroup, we found that Ka is generally large and can sometimes be more than twice as l...