Zoological Research in Human Welfare : Papers Presented at the National Seminar on \'Dimensions in Zoological Research in Human Welfare\'

Contents: Key note address. 1. Emerging perspective-biodiversity and its conservation in India/K. Venkataraman. 2. Biodiversity conservation: issues and concern/A.K. Ghosh. Taxonomy, biodiversity and wildlife management: 3. Molluscan macrobenthic diversity of brackishwater Wetlands in West Bengal/M. Roy, A. Dey, S. Banerjee and N.C. Nandi. 4. Diversity of macrophyte-associated macroinvertebrates in two Wetlands of Southern West Bengal/L. Ganesan and R.A. Khan. 5. Study of marine planktonic diversity in Digha Coast, Bay of Bengal/B. Manna, S. Banerjee, G. Aditya and J. Chattopadhyay. 6. The genus drosophila (Diptera: drosophilidae) in four districts of West Bengal, India/M. Acharyya-Ari, P. Chatterjee and R.N. Chatterjee. 7. Zooplankton diversity of freshwater wetlands in the lateritic tracts of South-West Bengal, India/P. Halder, G. Bhunia, P. Pradhan, S. Banerjee and S.K. Chakraborty. 8. Community structure of macrobenthic molluscs of three contrasting intertidal belts of Midnapore Coast, West Bengal, India/R.K. Khalua, G. Chakraborty and S.K. Chakraborty. 9. Diversity of Rhopalocera in Hastinapur wildlife sanctuary, Uttar Pradesh, India/N. Sharma. 10. A compendium and a revised key of the genus aporcelaimellus heyns, 1965 (aporcelaimidae: nematoda)/V.V. Gantait, T. Bhattacharya and A. Chatterjee. 11. Pertinence of biodiversity criteria in fixing conservation priority of termites (isoptera) in the Eastern Ghats, India/P.K. Maiti. 12. Spatial and temporal variation of elasmobranchs in and around Indian Sundarbans/K. Banerjee, R. Ghosh, M. Chowdhury, S. Ghosh, S. Homechaudhuri and A. Mitra. 13. Pattern of avian diversity in urban environment: a case study in Kolkata/P.S. Ghose and S.C. Santra. 14. Chironomid midges of the fresh water ponds of Kolkata metropolis/S. Nandi, A. Majumdar and G.K. Saha. 15. Report on stored product mites collected from some areas of Hooghly District and Kolkata/A. Mukerjee, S.K. Gupta, and G.K. Saha. 16. Diversity and dominance of migratory waterbirds in six wetlands of Southern West Bengal, India/S. Mazumdar, K. Mookherjee and G.K. Saha. 17. Diversity o Piscean fauna in North Bengal Districts/M. Paul, S. Banerjee and S. Chanda. 18. Diversity of insect community in fresh water Wetlands of West Bengal, India/A. Dutta and D.K. Bhattacharya. 19. Diversity of high altitude acridids/S. Nath, N.K. Sharma and P. Haldar. 20. Biodiversity status of fresh water fishes of North Eastern Himalaya with special reference to threats and conservation measures/B.K. Mahapatra. 21. Ichthyoplankton loss in coastal West Bengal/S. Zaman, K. Banerjee, S. Basu, A. Mukherjee, B. Mandal and A. Mitra. 22. Diversity of microarthropods and their role in the plant litter decomposition in the coastal tract of East Midnapore District, West Bengal, India/M.K. Dey, A.K. Hazra and S.K. Chakrabarty. 23. Biodiversity-causes of its erosion and methods for its rejuvination/H.L. Kundu. Cytogenetics, immunology and molecular biology: 24. Cell surface activation of MMP-2/A. Banerji, J. Chakrabarti, A. Mitra and A. Chatterjee. 25. Expression patterns of developmental genes in wing and leg imaginal discs of drosophila melanogaster/P. Chatterjee, S. Banerjee and R.N. Chatterjee. 26. The Antistress activities of black tea (World blend) polyphenol, Theaflavins, in drosophila melanogaster/S. Deb and R.N. Chatterjee. 27. Anti-angiogenic therapy-new avenue for cancer treatment/S.N. Banerjee and S.K. Banerjee. Parasite and Diseases: 28. Pathological study of tuberculosis in spotted deer in West Bengal/S.K. Mukhopadhyay, D. Niyogi, D. Kumar and K.S. Singh. 29. Study of the rate of ammonia excretion in isoparorchis hypselobagri (Billet, 1898)/S. Adak and B. Manna. 30. Hookworm infestation and anaemia among primary school children/M. Bose, M. Roy and A.K. Samanta. 31. Neurosecretory innervations in a parasitic nematode Ascaridia Galli/C. Mukherjee and D.K. Nanda.  Ecology, behaviour and animal plant interaction: 32. Agonistic behaviour of blackbuck-an observation in semi-natural habitat of Ganjam District, Orissa, India/A.K. Roy. Mahato, Ramakrishna and M. Raziuddin. 33. Ecological study of rotifera and its application for biomonitoring of freshwater riverine environment of South West Bengal, India/P. Pradhan and S.K. Chakraborty. 34. Electrosensitivity and response of mud crab, scylla serrata in homogeneous and heterogeneous electric field/K.P. Biswas. 35. Biodiversity conservation through people's participation: an initiative/N. Sen Sarkar and S.N. Ghosh. 36. Influence of abiotic factors on population build up of whitefly, dialeuropora decempuncta (Quaintance and baker) and their relation with crop loss on mulberry, morus alba L/U.K. Bandyopadhyay, M.V. Santhakumar, S.K. Das and S. Raje Urs. 37. Evolution of avian jaw kinesis and trophic diversification across KT-boundary: a review/B.N. Bhattacharyya. 38. Some aspects of ecology of oribatid mite populations at high hill and foot hill regions of the Himalayas/M.N. Moitra, A.K. Sanyal and S. Chakrabarti. 39. Food preference of four agricultural pests (Orthoptera: acrididae)/A. Das, S. Das and P. Haldar. Toxicology, risk assessment and environmental management: 40. Polyculture of sex reversed tilapia with indigenous major carps: a socio-economic boon/S.B. Chakraborty and S. Banerjee. 41. Strategy of metal accumulation in fish with various food preferences/P. Maiti and S. Banerjee. 42. Dynamics of haemocyte subpopulation of lamellidens marginalis exposed to a neem based pesticide/S. Mukherjee, M. Ray and S. Ray. 43. Esterase polymorphism analysis in response to heavy metal stress in fish cirrhinus mrigala (Hamilton) in and around the Kolkata metropolis/D. Karmakar, P.P. Khan, S.A. Mir, A. Chatterjee, K. Pathak, S. Sarkar and A.K. Duttagupta. 44. A study of collembola communities in steel plant and thermal power plant sites in Bokaro District of Jharkhand in relation to some edaphic factors/D. Pahari, A.K. Hazra and G.K. Saha. 45. Studies on remedy of In vivo arsenic cytotoxicity/R. Goswami and C. Chakrabarti. 46.Nitric oxide generation by immunocytes of mud crab exposed to sodium arsenite/S. Saha, M. Ray and S. Ray. 47.  Comparative studies of water quality parameters and plankton production after the application of different fertilizers in cemented aquaculture tanks and natural water bodies in Midnapore, West Bengal/G. Bhunia, P. Pradhan, G.K. Chanda and S.K. Chakraborty. 48. First report of an unusual and unique association of insect-mite-fungi within gall-like outgrowths on an important medicinal and timber yielding plant, Samanea Saman (Jacq.) Merrill. J. Wash (Fam. Mimosaceae) in Sundarbans region of West Bengal/I. Chatterjee, S.K. Gupta and K.R. Naskar. 49. Studies on cross-infection of microsporidian spores of mulberry, ERI and tasar silkworm to Muga Silkworm, Antheraea Assamensis Wz. and a new approach for management of Pebrine disease in Muga Silkworm in Assam and West Bengal, India/S. Chakrabarti and B. Manna. 50. Threat to natural resource of marine biotic components around Sankarpur fishing Harbour of West Bengal/T.K. Chatterjee. 51. A simple device for sampling of benthic fauna in Shallow water body/R.K. Datta, M. Sengupta, P. Das, B. Patra, and D.R. Mandal. 52. Threatened faunal diversity of Indian Sundarbans Mangal with reference to their habitat identification and need for its preservation/P. Ghosh and K. Naskar.