Barilius bendelisis is an important food fish and a demanding ornamental species in India. Despite its great economic importance, several wild populations have been suffering drastic reduction. The genetic variability within population is extremely useful for gathering information on individual’s identity, breeding patterns, degree of relatedness and disturbance of genetic variation among them....

Recent studies have shown that release of mitochondrial cytochrome c is a critical step in the apoptosis process. We have reported that cytosolic redistribution of cytochrome c in vivo occurred after transient focal cerebral ischemia (FCI) in rats and preceded the peak of DNA fragmentation. Although the involvement of reactive oxygen species in the cytosolic redistribution of cytochrome c in vi...

The European eel Anguilla anguilla is a critically endangered catadromous species. There an urgent need for close surveillance of the populations that are still viable in rivers. species difficult to observe freshwater because its bottom-dwelling behavior; currently employed methods monitoring Europe based on physical capture individuals stressful and may cause mortality. Here, we present new h...

The mitochondrial (mt) encoded ndh1, ndh3, ndh4, ndh5, rpl14, cyt b and atp9 gene products were identified by sequence comparisons with known proteins. Amino acid sequence comparisons between predicted Paramecium mt gene products and proteins in current databases were quantitated approximately by the means of similarity scores for pairs of aligned sequences. The comparisons show that the Parame...

Functional selection of genetic suppressor elements (GSEs), engineered gene fragments that interfere with the function of a particular gene product, was used to identify regulators of FAS-induced apoptosis. Chicken DF-1 cells expressing human FAS receptor and susceptible to FAS-induced apoptosis were infected with a GSE library consisting of randomly fragmented normalized chicken cDNAs in a rep...

Brycon is one of the main genera of Neotropical freshwater fish. In Brazil, Brycon species have been found in many hydrographic basins, such as the Amazon, Paraná, Paraguay, and Araguaia-Tocantins basins. We examined the phylogenetic relationships among the species Brycon orbignyanus, B. hilarii, B. cf. pesu, B. cephalus, B. falcatus, and B. gouldingi, using mitochondrial and nuclear molecular ...

The gene sequences for honeybee cytochrome b, ATPase 6, and ATPase 8 are presented, along with the inferred amino acid sequences of the proteins. These mitochondrial genes are in the same relative positions as are their counterparts in Drosophila mitochondrial mtDNA and have evolved at a significantly greater overall rate than have those of Drosophila. Comparisons using both amino acid identity...

An integrative taxonomic analysis of species in the colubrid genus Lycodon Fitzinger, 1826 recovered two new syntopic L. rufozonatus complex from imperiled Song Giang River valley Khan Hoa Province, Southern Vietnam. Although truongi sp. nov. and anakradaya are syntopic, they not particularly closely related can be differentiated each other all on basis meristics, morphometrics, color pattern, ...

In spite of the potential richness in biodiversity, Manipur is still one least explored areas northeastern India. this work, we report on our finding four pit viper species, namely, Trimeresurus mayaae, T. salazar, erythrurus, and Protobothrops jerdonii during herpetological surveys 2022. We affirm identity these specimens based combination standard morphological characters mitochondrial cytoch...

Very slight sequence differences in the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene, even single nucleotide substitutions, have been proposed as indicative of different species of avian malaria parasites. However, few studies have examined within-species variation in that gene for Plasmodium or related genera. We examined sequences for the entire cytochrome b gene from Plasmodium mexicanum , a parasite of ...