A model system, consisting of human, mouse and chicken as homoeothermic and lizard and toad as poikilothermic blood sources, has been used here to examine inheritance of reproductive performance in the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus Say. The experiments were carried over from parental to F2...

Flies (Diptera: Muscidae and Calliphoridae) are often blamed for nasty habit since they favor filthy habitats and materials. They play the role of mechanical vectors for the transmission of many dangerous pathogens. Raw food materials including fruits are sold in our markets with little or no...

Current status of Sonali chicken farming in Rajshahi Division has been assessed and interpreted in the present study during a period of one year from March 2019 to February 2020. Data on some socioeconomic parameters of Sonali farming such as farm age, shed types, farmers’ education and...

Cypermethrin is one of the widely used broad-spectrum pyrethroid insecticides because of their high insecticidal activities and lower mammalian toxicity. But indiscriminate and unregulated uses of this insecticide in agriculture and public health in Bangladesh have led to drastic effects on many...

Effects of endosulfan (EN), an insecticide, and bleomycin (BL), an antibiotic, on the body weight in the normal mice, and the in vivo cell growth, tumor weight, and hematological parameters of the Ehrlich ascites carcinoma (EAC) cell-bearing Swiss albino mice Mus musculus were evaluated. EN and...

Wolbachia bacteria manipulate the reproduction of mosquito hosts via a form of sterility known as cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI), promoting the spread of infections into host populations. The rate at which an infection invades is affected by host fitness costs associated with the Wolbachia...

Cypermethrin-induced changes in the behavioral, clinical, morphometric, histopathological and hematological characteristics in the laboratory albino mice Mus musculus L. have been evaluated in this MS dissertation. Male mice (~20g) received 0.10mL-0.25mL-1 body weight cypermethrin...

Season- and farm-wise productivity and mortality of Sonali chickens in 53 selected poultry farms from nine Upozillas (Police Stations) of Rajshahi District during December 2018 and November 2019 were assessed. Results revealed that, on average, small farms produced 775, medium farms 1828 and...

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...