Aquatic Resources and Health Management

Contents: Preface. 1. Population structure in the Indian stocks of seahorse (Hippocampus kuda and H.trimaculatus) inferred from mtDNA cytochrome b gene/W.S. Lakra, Mukunda Goswami, K. Thangaraj, L.V.S.K. Bhaskar, A. Gopalakrishnan and Lalji Singh. 2. Population variations in Indian cichlid etroplus maculatus (Bloch)/G.P. Mahobia. 3. Preliminary studies on plankton of Chikhloli reservoir, Thane district, Maharashtra/M.S. Karpe and M.C. Sathe. 4. A preliminary study on productivity and ichthyofaunal diversity of Dhasai reservoir/S.K. Bhagabati, S.K. Chakraborty, A.K. Jaiswar, Chandra Prakash, Bhawesh Sawant and K. Kalita. 5. Preliminary study on phytoplankton diversity of Ukai reservoir/H.M. Manas, A.K. Jaiswar, S. Jahageerdar and S.K. Chakraborty. 6. Study on the parasite fauna of a common catfish (clarias batrachus) of Manipur, India/N.G. Zenith and R.K. Gambhir. 7. Studies on metacercariae of trematodes infecting freshwater fishes in Kannur district, Kerala/M.V. Vasandakumar and V.M. Preethakumari. 8. Three adult digenetic trematodes (family-opecoelidae) recovered from marine fishes of Dharmadam offshore/M.V. Vasandakumar, U.C. Ramitha and B.T. Shimna. 9. Effects of hormones on oxygen consumption in an air breathing murrel fish, Channa gachua/Qaisur Rahman and D.N. Sadhu. 10. Effects of circadian rhythm on aquatic and aerial oxygen consumption in fresh water teleost, Channa gachua/D.N. Sadhu and Qaisur Rahman. 11. Variations in abiotic and microbial characteristic during breeding of Cirrhinus mrigala in a closed hatchery system/Devendra Mohan, Devendra Choudhary, Ramkishor and Archana Gaur. 12. Comparative studies of lime and alum application for the control of eutrophication in aquaculture systems/Subodh Kumar, Chandra Prakash, Neelam Saharan and A.K. Verma. 13. Estimation of cumulative inbreeding rate in Indian major carps and managing effective population size in carp hatcheries/Shrinivas Jahageerdar, P.K. Deepak and R.S. Biradar. 14. Effect of environmental pollution on biochemical composition of prawn macrobrachium lamarrei/Vinod Kumar Verma and N.P. Tewari. 15. Carbohydrate metabolism in freshwater major carps Catla catla and Labeo rohita due to helminth parasitic infection/P. Anil Kumar and Geetha Rajalingam. 16. Effect of extracts of marine sponge Axinella carteri (Dendy, 1889) on the metabolic activity in mice/A.J. Rao, N. Gayathri, B.M. Gore, V.I. Katchi, S.P. Jumale and D. Dani. 17. Effect of water temperature on the occurrence of fish diseases in carp culture ponds of Assam: a case study/S.K. Bhagabati, S.K. Chakraborty, A.K. Jaiswar, B. Kalita and K. Kalita. 18. Histopathology of gill, liver, muscle and brain of Cyprinus carpio communis L. exposed to sublethal concentration of lead and cadmium/Bharat Bhusan Patnaik, J. Hongray Howrelia, Theresia Mathews and M. Selvanayagam. 19. Immunodiagnostic techniques for white spot syndrome virus/M. Makesh and K.V. Rajendran. 20. Expression and purification of macrobrachium rosenbergii Nodavirus recombinant proteins/Dilli Kumar, Abhilipsa Das, P.K. Sahoo and M.S. Shekhar.