In a series of two separate studies during January through August 2018, various birth abnormalities (BA) from 178 clinical cases and congenital malformations (CMF) from 70 consanguineous marriages (CM) and 100 non-consanguineous marriages (NCM) within the Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) area...

Ranges of two vital environmental factors like temperature and relative humidity (RH) were utilized to assess their impacts on the life-history parameters such as immature development (hrs), adult emergence (%) and sex-ratio (male: female) in the mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori L. under laboratory...

Efficacies of the chloroform and aqueous extracts of the leaf, stem and root of three indigenous plants viz. Calotropis procera, Polygonum hydropiper and Thevetia neriifolia against the larval mortality and reproductive potential of two urban mosquitoes Culex quinquefasciatus Say and Aedes...

Depending on their rearing density, female desert locusts Schistocerca gregaria epigenetically endow their offspring with differing phenotypes. To identify the chemical basis for such maternal transmission, we compared solitarious and gregarious locust egg pod foam using high performance liquid...

The behavioural phase state and coloration of hatchling Schistocerca gregaria were examined in a series of experiments to determine the means by which phase characteristics are passed between generations. Both crowding of solitary-reared females at the time of oviposition and high egg pod...

As an alternative to chemical insecticides, plant extracts showing insecticidal properties are being increasingly used nowadays in insect pest management programs. With a view to an eco-friendly approach, here we report some bioactive properties of whole-plant boiled extracts of three indigenous...

The study assessed the effects of supplementing vitamin A (VitA) and some essential amino acids (EAAs) to poultry feed on growth performance, survivability, carcass characteristics and profitability of a crossbred chicken called Sonali, derived from RIR ♂ × Fayoumi ♀. A total of 192 day-old...

Dairy enterprise is recognized as an integral component of livestock that plays important role in the economy of an agricultural country like Bangladesh. Here some vital productive and reproductive attributes from 100 indigenous and 318 crossbred dairy cattle reared in mini dairy farms of Natore...

An elaborate account of the distribution, life-history traits, genetic variability of spot patterns, compatibility relationships, cytogenetics and plant extract-induced changes in the population growth of a common ladybird beetle, Epilachna vigintioctopunctata Fab. have been studied and...

An experiment was conducted to determine the hatchability potentials of Indigenous, Fayoumi, Rhode Island Red and Sonali (Rhode Island Red X Fayoumi) chicken and compared among the genotypes by using forced draft incubator and broody hens. A total of 384 (96 from Deshi, 96 Fayoumi, 96 RIR and 96...