Biodiversity study on mushrooms of basidiomycetes was initiated and more than seven hundred species were described by Natarajan and associates during 1975-2008 from South India. But the bio-documentation of many medicinal mushrooms were initiated a decade ago by Vaidya and associates from Western India, Janardhanan and associates from Kerala and Kaviyarasan and associates from South India. Lent...

AIMS To identify the proportion of familial cases of isolated ocular colobomatous malformations in a case series from south India. METHODS Children with ocular coloboma without systemic features were recruited from multiple sources in Andhra Pradesh, India. Their families were traced, pedigrees drawn, and family members examined. RESULTS 56 probands, 25 females (44.6%) and 31 males (57.4%) ...

The Indian cobra?Naia naia vel tripudians varies from 100 to 150 cm. in length and has a variable colour but is usually black. The head is generally golden yellow in colour, spotted with yellowish white marks above and pure white beneath. The species is distributed throughout the whole of Southern Asia from the south of the Caspian Sea to the south of China, India, Burma., Ceylon and the Malay ...

G. Baskar, M. Dharmendira Kumar, A. Anand Prabu, S. Renganathan, and ChangKyoo Yoo a Department of Biotechnology, St. Joseph’s College of Engineering, Chennai 600119, India Department of Chemical Engineering, Alagappa College of Technology, Anna University, Chennai 600025, India Green Energy Center for Environmental Studies, College of Environmental and Applied Chemistry, Kyung Hee University, ...

Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Health Policy and Systems Division, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa and Health Economics and Systems Analysis Group, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygien...

Only a few Impatiens spp. from South India (one of the five centers of diversity for Impatiens species) were included in the published datum of molecular phylogeny of the family Balsaminaceae. The present investigation is a novel attempt to reveal the phylogenetic association of Impatiens species of South India, by placing them in the global phylogeny of Impatiens based on a combined analysis o...

University of Liverpool, UK University of Washington, WA, USA Gynuity Health Projects, NY, USA Mowbray Maternity Hospital, South Africa Government Medical College and Hospital Nagpur, India University of Adelaide, Australia St George’s University of London, UK Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK Busitema University, Mbale Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda Global Healthcar...

An atypical new species of Hypocaccus C. Thomson, H. hirsutus sp. nov. from south India is described and figured, but left unassigned to a subgenus. Current problems of taxonomy, morphological characters and inter-relationships of Hypocaccus subgenera are discussed and notes on the distribution of Hypocaccus C. Thomson, 1867 in India are given.

1 Department of Life Sciences, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas-ESPE, SangolquíPOBOX: 171-5-231B, Quito, Ecuador, South América. 2 Department of Biotechnology, Universidad de las Américas UDLA, Quito, Ecuador. 3 Department of Zoology, University of Pune, Pune, India. 4 Department of Environmental Engineering, Universidad Estatal Amazonica, Puyo, Ecuador. 5 Loyola ICAM College of Engineering a...

An articulated and partially preserved skeleton of an ichthyosaur was found in the Upper Jurassic (Upper Kimmeridgian) Katrol Formation exposed at a site south of the village Lodai in Kachchh district, Gujarat (western India). Here we present a detailed description and inferred taxonomic relationship of the specimen. The present study revealed that the articulated skeleton belongs to the family...