Anindobothrium n. gen. is proposed to accommodate Caulobothrium anacolum inhabiting Himantura schmardae from Colombia, and 2 new species, one inhabiting Potamotrygon orbigny in Brazil and the other inhabiting Paratrygon aereiba in Venezuela. Members of the new genus resemble members of Pararhinebothroides, Rhinebothroides, and Anthocephalum by having bothridia with poorly differentiated apical ...

In the present study, heavy metals’ (Pb, Cd, As, Ni) status and their effect on oxidative stress parameters in cattle inhabiting Buddha Nallah was assessed. A total of 63 cows were randomly selected for the study and blood plasma samples were obtained from the animals and analyzed for heavy metals and for various oxidative stress parameters viz., GSH (Reduced glutathione), malonyldialdehyde (MD...

This study examined the dietary patterns of walleye pollock, Gadus chalcogrammus, off middle eastern coast Korea between January 2016 and December 2017 to determine influences various predictors on changes. Based stomach content analyses, pollock was found be a demersal carnivore that mainly consumes carid shrimps, euphausiids, mysids, teleosts, cephalopods. The main prey species identified in ...

In the framework of study on wood inhabiting Hyphomycetes inChalus vicinity, Mazandaran (Iran), during 2005-2006, 21 taxa belonging to different genera were identified. Among them, nine taxa have already been recorded from Iran and the other taxa are new to Iran which are listed as follows: Arthrobotryum stilboideum, Chloridium preussi, C. virescens var. virescens, Codinaeopsis gonytrichoides, ...

The entomogenous nematode species Heterorhabditis heliothidis (Kahn, Brooks, and Hirschmann), H. bacteriophora Poinar, Neoaplectana carpocapsae Weiser, and N. glaseri Steiner are promising biological control agents for a broad range of soil-inhabiting insect species (6). Many factors in soil affect nematode survival, movement, and infectivity: Moisture is probably the most important physical fa...

Understanding how genetic variation is generated and maintained in natural populations, and how this process unfolds in a changing environment, remains a central issue in biological research. In this work, we analysed patterns of genetic diversity from several populations of three cichlid species from Lake Tanganyika in parallel, using the mitochondrial DNA control region. We sampled population...

This study was conducted to verify the effect of an electric pulse on growth of crops (lettuce and hot pepper) that were cultivated in lab-scale soil. The electric pulse generated from direct-circuited 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 V of electricity by periodic exchange of the anode and cathode was charged to a culture soil that is an electrically pulsed culture soil (EPCS) but not charged to a conventiona...