Oryza coarctata plant, collected from Sundarban delta of West Bengal, India,  has been used in the present study to generate draft genome sequences, employing the hybrid genome assembly with Illumina reads and third generation Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology. We report for the first time the draft genome with the coverage of 85.71 %  and  deposited the raw data in NCBI SRA, with BioProjec...

1 Department of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Veterinary Science and A.H., CGKV, Durg, Chhattisgarh, India 2 Department of Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences, Kolkata, India 3 Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary Science, Khanapara, Assam Agri...

We report the first records of Aedes fumidus and Ae. amesii from India based on collections made in mangrove forests of Bhitarkanika in Orissa, Sunderbans, in West Bengal, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Collection details include date, location, material examined, larval habitat, and associated species.

An intrafamilial outbreak in West Bengal, India, involving 5 deaths and person-to-person transmission was attributed to Nipah virus. Full-genome sequence of Nipah virus (18,252 nt) amplified from lung tissue showed 99.2% nt and 99.8% aa identity with the Bangladesh-2004 isolate, suggesting a common source of the virus.

AIM To determine (i) the prevalence of glaucoma in people aged > or =50 years, (ii) the proportions of different types of glaucoma, (iii) the distributions of intraocular pressure and vertical cup disc ratio. METHOD Population based prevalence survey in rural West Bengal. People aged > or =50 years in randomly selected villages in 24 Parganas South district. The main outcome measures were dia...

INTRODUCTION To understand the severity of related health effects of chronic arsenic exposure in West Bengal, a detailed 3-year study was carried out in Murshidabad, one of the nine arsenic-affected districts in West Bengal. METHODS We screened 25,274 people from 139 arsenic-affected villages in Murshidabad to identify patients suffering from chronic arsenic toxicity for evidence of multisyst...

DEAR EDITOR Tribal population constitutes about 8% of the total population of India. They are at higher risk of undernutrition because of their dependence on primitive agriculture practices and uncertainty of food supply. In general, tribal communities in India are neglected, discriminated in terms of income distribution and social status, which tend to have higher rates of undernutrition. Reco...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Filariasis is one of the major vector-borne diseases causing serious health problem in the tropics and subtropics. The coastal areas of Digha are known to be a filariasis prone region of West Bengal, India. The filarial parasite Wuchereria bancrofti is transmitted by Culex quinquefasciatus, the established filarial vector in West Bengal, India. The present work was aimed...

We investigate the roles of political ideology and electoral competition as determinants of land reform implementation in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Using a twenty five year panel dataset for a sample of 89 villages, we find evidence against the hypothesis that political ideology alone matters, and find evidence supporting the role of electoral competition. However, the pure Downs...

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Kolkata and rural West Bengal engaging with literature mobile phones the global South, gender sexuality India, this article seeks to und...