Current Issues In Environmental And Fish Biology

This title includes original and authentic reports on various aspects of Environmental and Fish Biology discussed at a Seminar of the same name held in 2002 in Department of Zoology, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. The aim of this publication is to provide comprehensive, integrated reviews giving sound, critical, and provocative ideas of selective presentations in the seminar covering diverse areas of environmental and fish biology, from molecular to organismic levels. The topics included in this treatise are the testimony of significant growth and development that took place in recent years. Likewise, the authors of these articles are the scientists who were responsible for many of these advances. Obviously, scientist engaged in research in the areas of environmental and fish biology will find this book of particular value. But the topics covered will also attract scientists and graduate students in animal physiology, endocrinology, cell and molecular biology, ecology, toxicology and reproductive biology. Contents Chapter 1: Cloning, Sequencing and Analysis of Black Carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) Pituitary Glycoprotein Hormone (PGH) a and TSH b and Bighead (Aristichthys nobilis) TSH b cDNAs by Abhijit Chatterjee, Ya-lun Hsieh & John Y L Yu; Chapter 2: Assessment of Pulmonary Effects of Air Pollution: A Study on the Residents of Kolkata by Pulak Lahiri, Manas Ranjan Ray, Senjuti Roy, Chandreyi Basu & Twisha Lahiri; Chapter 3: Periphyton/Biofilm and its Role in Pond Aquaculture by P Keshavanath & B Gangadhara; Chapter 4: Arsenic-incuded Lipid Peroxidation at Non-lethal Doses by Sonali Roy, Anirban Bhattacharya, Shakuntala Roy & Shelley Bhattacharya; Chapter 5: Modelling of Algal-Microbial-Crustacean and Fish Interactions in a Temperate Reservoir by Santanu Ray; Chapter 6: Hexachlorocyclohexane-induced Oxidative Stress: A Mechanism for MCH Mediated Testicular Toxicity by Luna Samanta & G B N Chainy; Chapter 7: A Comparative Physiological Study on Allelopathy of Eucalyptus and Parthenium by A Nayek, U K Kanp, R K Das, R K Bhakat & A Bhattacharjee; Chapter 8: Influence of Two Commonly Used Organophosphate Pesticides, Methyl Parathion and Phosphamidon, on the Reproductive Activities of Female Spotted Munia (Lonchura punctulata): A Comparative Study by Anindita Mitra & Sauman Kumar Maitra; Chapter 9: Role of Oxya fuscovittata (Marschall) in Acridid Culture for Biomass Production by Amlan Das, Sarasi Das & P Haldar, Chapter 10: Tropical Specialisation in Wild Population of Metapenaeus monoceros (Fabricus) During Post-juvenile Development: I-Carbohydrases by Aniruddha Jhan & Sumit Hemochaudhuri; Chapter 11: Eco-friendly Management of Pig Waste through Integrated Pig-fish Farming: A Case Study by S Naskar, B K Mahapatra & Anubrata Das; Chapter 12: Studies on Reproductive Biology of a Native Ornamental Fish, Brachydanio rerio for NEH Region by B K Mahapatra, K Vinod & B K Mandal; Chapter 13: Some Observations on the Biology of Ophisternon bengalensis (McClelland) from the New Alluvial Zone of West Bengal by Soma Goswani & M Dasgupta; Chapter 14: Plants and Air Pollution by Pratap Kumar Padhy; Chapter 15: Characteristics of Progenitor Cells in the Erythrocytic Lineage of Two Ecological Equivalent Air Breathing Fishes, Clarias batrachus and Clarias gariepinus by Krishna Gangopadhyay & Sumit Homechaudhuri; Chapter 16: Reproductive Biology of an Exotic Ornamental Cichlid, the Ram, Apistogramma ramirezi Myers and Harry by Ambalika Ghosh, B K Mahapatra & N C Datta.