abstract the aphid parasitoids, aphidius colemnai viereck and a. matricariae (haliday) (hymenoptera: braconidae: aphidiinae) have high potential as the most effective biological control agents for controlling the cotton aphis aphis gossypii glover (hemiptera: aphididae). in this investigation, the effect of five constant temperatures (10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 °c) on the reproductive parameters was...

the effect of various host plants including chickpea (varieties arman, hashem, azad and binivich), common bean (variety khomein), white kidney bean (variety dehghan), red kidney bean (variety goli), cowpea (variety mashhad), and tomato (variety meshkin) on the reproductive performance and growth indices of the cotton bollworm, helicoverpa armigera (hübner) was determined under laboratory condit...

reproductive parameters and ovipositional preference of plutella xylostella were assessed on some mutant genotypes of canola (rgs 8-1, rgs 10-2, rgs 8-13, zar 9-9 and talaye 8-3) and their cultivars (rgs, zar, talaye) under greenhouse condition (21 ± 6 °c, 65 ± 10 rh and a photoperiod of 16l: 8d h). comparison of the reproductive parameters on rgs and its mutant genotypes revealed that mutant g...

the objective of this study was to evaluate genetic and phenotypic parameters for some reproductive traits of black bengal does. genetic parameters were estimated by residual maximum likelihood procedure, fitting an animal model ignoring maternal genetic or permanent environmental effects. the least-squares means of litter size at birth (lsb), litter size at weaning (lsw), litter weight at birt...

reproductive performance and life expectancy of the two-spotted spider mite (tssm), tetranychus urticae koch were determined on seven eggplant cultivars (isfahan, dezful, shend-abad, neishabour, bandar-abbas, jahrom and borazjan) at 25 ± 1°c, 60 ± 5% r.h. and a photoperiod of 16:8 (l:d) hours. the results revealed that the tssm gross hatch rate varied from 59% on bandar-abbas to 83% on dezful. ...

background: para-nonylphenol (p-np) is able to induce malformations in male reproductive system. objective: the aim of this study was to investigate the preventing role of vitamin e (vit.e) on sperm parameters and reproductive hormones in developing rats. materials and methods: pregnant rats were divided into 4 groups: control p-np vit.e and p-np+vit.e. treatments were performed on day 7 of ges...

Background: Recent population-based studies suggest an elevated risk for subfertility among couples in which the male partner is obese and an increased likelihood of abnormal semen parameters among heavier men. Male factor infertility is associated with a higher incidence of obesity in the male partner. The aim of this review article is to study the effect of body mass index (BMI) on semen qual...