Mosquito control with the use of insecticides is faced with the challenges of insecticide resistance in disease vectors, community refusal, their high cost, operational difficulties, and environmental concern. In view of this, integrated vector control strategies with the use of larvivorous fishes such as Guppy (Poecilia reticulata) and Gambusia (G. affinis) as biological control agents were us...

Myxozoans are an economically important group of microscopic parasites best known for the diseases they cause in commercially important fish hosts. The classification of myxosporeans is generally based on the morphology of their myxospores. Without molecular data, it is very difficult to identify new or existing species. DNA sequence information is therefore, a prerequisite to taxonomic and phy...

The gastrointestinal (GI) microbiome in fish plays significant roles health and disease resistance. This investigation was accomplished to enumerate, characterize identify the potential probiotic bacteria from three Indian Major Carps (IMCs), viz., rohu (Labeo rohita), catla (Catla catla) mrigal (Cirrhinus mrigala) using culture dependent methods. Altogether, 105 pathogen-inhibitory (out of 121...

The present study deals with the impact of differential quantity iron oxide nanoparticles incorporated feed on growth, biochemical and haematological characteristics Mrigal. Iron were synthesised characterized by using 5 UV-Vis spectroscopy(UV-Vis ) , Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy (EDAX), Diffraction (XRD), Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) andVibrati...

Predators use cues associated with their prey to assess prey quality and to avoid consuming poisonous prey. Considerable attention has been given to predators' use of aposematic cues to assess prey quality, but little is known about predators that eavesdrop on prey cues that are not intended for them. Here we investigate the prey-cue/prey-quality associations of a predator that eavesdrops on th...

An experiment was carried out to evaluate the effects of different amounts supplementary feeds on growth and production fishes in polyculture where four species such as rui (Labeo rohita), mrigal (Cirrhinus mrigala), common carp (Cyprinus carpio) tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) were cultured 6 ponds under three treatments, each with two replications. Eighty fish per decimal stocked along stocki...

Indian major carp, Cirrhinus cirrhosus was considered to monitor culture and health status in farm condition from Bhaluka and Muktagacha of Mymensingh region of Bangladesh for a period of seven months starting from September, 2010 to March, 2011. Monthly sampling was carried out for growth and health condition. Samples of skin and muscle, gill, liver and kidney were observed by clinical and his...

In the present study, we present normative ratings of free association for 139 European Portuguese (EP) words among 7- to 8-, 9- to 10-, and 11- to 12-year-old children attending the 3rd, 5th, and 7th grades of elementary and middle school in Portugal. For each word, five indices are presented: (a) the percentage of associates, (b) the strength of the first associate, (c) the strength of the se...

myxozoans are an economically important group of microscopic parasites best known for the diseases they cause in commercially important fish hosts. the classification of myxosporeans is generally based on the morphology of their myxospores. without molecular data, it is very difficult to identify new or existing species. dna sequence information is therefore, a prerequisite to taxonomic and phy...