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Advances in Fish and Wildlife Ecology and Biology Vol II is a compendium of original research papers written by scholars in these fields. Articles in the first section include those on Physiology, metabolism, fish food organisms, alimentary canal and on quality of water inhabited by fish. Papers on transgenic fish, sewage-fed fisheries and parasities of fish have also been included in this section. Ecological crisis of Lake Mansar (J & K) and studies of rotifers which are an important component of fish food also form a part of this section. In the second section on Wildlife, articles on trutles, wall lizard, barn owl, aquatic birds and gastropods have been included. Other papers on wildlife include a note on Guindy National Park (Madras), Impact of tourism on wildlife in Patnitop (J & K) and on a new species of digenetic trematode parasite found in frog. A paper on reprotechnology in wildlife conservation also finds a place in this section. The volume is dedicated to the memory of Late Professor S M Das an eminent Zoologist of the Indian subcontinent.

Contents: Section I: Fish and Limnology Chapter 1: Role of Thyroid Gland in the Regulation of Metabolic Rate in Fishes with special Reference to Indian Teleosts by B N Pandey, Chapter 2: Alcohol Dehydrogenase Isozyme Expression in the Air-breathing Fish, Clarias batrachus and Heteropneustes fossilis of North Eastern India by Alka Prakash & Sant Prakash, Chapter 3: The Ecological Role of Algal Weeds, Charophytes in Particular in Fisheries Water by Usha Moza, Chapter 4: Importance of Fish Food Organisms (Live Food) in Aquaculture Practice by Seem Langer, K Gupta & R Gandotra, Chapter 5: Morphological Studies of Alimentary Canal of Fishes of Lake Mansar by Arunk K Gupta, Seema Langer & S C Gupta, Chapter 6: Transgenic Fish: Production and Improvement of Fish Resources by Anil K Verma & B L Kaul, Chapter 7: Sewage Fed Fisheries: A Biotechnological Application by Y R Malhotra, Seema Langer & S Raina, Chapter 8: The Histopathology of Pallisentis jagani and Pomphorhynchus bulbocolli Infection in Channa striatus and Schizothorax sinuatus by P L Kaul & M K Rana, Chapter 9: Female Reproductive System of Pallisentis jagani by P L Kaul, M K Raina & Usha Zutshi, Chapter 10: Bacterial Microflora, Their Distribution and Relationship with Fish and Its Environment: A Review by J P Sharma & V K Gupta, Chapter 11: A Comparison of the Feeding Rates of Streptocephalus torvicornis and Chirocephalus diaphanus (Crustacea: Anostraca) on Rotifers by S S S Sarma and K R Dierckens, Chapter 12: Population Growth of Brachionus calyciflorus Pallas (Rotifera) in Relation to Algal (Dictyosphaerium chlorelloides) Density by S S S Sarma, E D Fiogbe & P Kestemont, Chapter 13: Ecological Crisis in Lake Mansar Jammu, J & K State by B L Kaul & Anil K Verma, Chapter 14: Zooplankton Composition, Abundance and Dynamics in a Lentic Habitat (Kalika Pond, Dhar, M.P.) by R K Dave, M M Prakash & N K Dhakad, Chapter 15: Impact of Nutrient Influx on Water Quality Trends of a Vindhyan Lake by S Pani & A Wanganeo, Chapter 16: Seasonal Variations in Biochemical Composition of Muscle During the Annual Ovarian Cycle of Female Channa gachua (Ham.) by K Gupta, Sujata Raina, R Gandotra & S Langer, Chapter 17: Effect of Dietary Testosterone Propionate (TP) on the Growth of Common Carp, Cyprinus carpio L. by Y R Malhotra, R Gandotra & K Gupta. Section II: Wildlife Chapter 18: The Common Barn Owl, Tyto alba stertens Hartert, 1929: An Effective Bio-Control Agent of Rodent Pests by P Neelanarayanan, R Nagarajan & P Kanakasabi, Chapter 19: Morphology of the Male Reproductive Organs in the Indian Saw Back Turtle, Kachuga tecta and Brown Roofed Turtle Kachuga smithii from J & K State by Anil K Verma, D N Sahi & P L Duda, Chapter 20: Preliminary Observations on the Ecology of the Freshwater Soft-Shell Turtles (Family: Trionychidae) of J & K State by D N Sahi, P L Duda & Anil K Verma, Chapter 21: Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on the Aquatic Birds Population at Bahadur Sagar (Jhabua, M.P.) by M M Prakash & D.