Definition of the disease: Trypanosoma evansi causes a disease known as Trypanosomosis1 5 (‘surra’). It affects a number of domesticated animals species in Asia, Africa and Central and South 6 America. The principal host species affected varies geographically, but buffalo, cattle, camels and 7 horses are particularly affected, although other animals, including wildlife, are also susceptible. It...

A convenient synthesis of inokosterone, pterosterone and 24-epi-pterosterone has been accomplished. The former ecdysteroid exists as two C-25 epimers and could be separated from each other through their diacetonide derivatives. Each of the C-25 epimers has been subjected to moulting hormone activity testing using the Musca bioassay and it was found that the less polar isomer, inokosterone "epim...

Three natural populations of house fly Musca domestica were analyzed for eight genetic loci by means of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE). Allozyme analysis at eight loci scores nineteen putative alleles. The amount of mean observed heterozygosity (Ho) was greater for Varanasi population than the other two populations studied. Nei’s genetic identity (I) and distance (D) values reveal th...

Myiasis is the infestation of live human and vertebrate animal with dipterous larvae which feed on the host's dead or living tissue. A case of oral myiasis in the maxillary anterior region in a 42-year-old female with neurologic deficit caused by the larvae (maggots) of Musca Nebulo (Family Diptera) is reported. The treatment consisted of manual removal of the larvae by topical application of t...

Observations of the interstellar medium (ISM) show a complex density and velocity structure, which is in part attributed to turbulence. Consequently, multifractal formalism should be applied observation maps ISM order characterize its turbulent multiplicative cascade properties. However, formalism, even more advanced recent canonical versions, requires large number realizations system, usually ...

The face fly was introduced from the Palearctic region and spread across North America in 20 years after World War II. Adults feed on cattle and horses, and larvae develop in fresh cattle dung. Little genetic differentiation appears between European and North American populations and among regions within North America. After an autumnally initiated diapause, overwintered flies emerge in spring ...

There are two valuable but highly technical descriptions. The first is a study of the sucking apparatus of a small brown fly found throughout the oriental region and of a genus closely allied to Musca. It is a very common blood sucking fly of cattle in Madras. The second study by Capt. Cragg is of the Hcematopota pluvialis, a gadfly or cleg of the family of Tabanidae. It attacks man, cattle or ...