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Research ArticleChelonine (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cheloninae) Parasitoids of Lepidopteran Leafminers in the Indian Subcontinent, with Notes on Taxonomic Character
Zubair Ahmad, Hamed A. Ghramh, Khalid Ali Khan, Kavita Pandey, Farhat Khan
Two new species viz., Chelonus (Areselonus) caeruleus sp. nov. and Chelonus (Areselonus) lithocolletiscus, sp. nov., are described as new to science from the northern part of India. These two species were reared from Acrocercops caerulea (Meyrick) and Lithocol…
4 Sept 2020DOI 10.17582/journal.pjz/20191204091259
Research ArticleSeasonality and Climatic Factors Affect Diversity and Distribution of Arthropods Around Wetlands
Waqar Majeed, Naureen Rana, Elmo Borges de Azevedo Koch, Shahla Nargis
The diversity and distribution of arthropods associated with seasons and environmental variables in two different wetlands sites was estimated and study was performed on monthly basis for a whole year. The arthropods were collected by sweep net, direct hand pi…
4 Sept 2020DOI 10.17582/journal.pjz/20200112020107
Research ArticleVariation in Physiological Biomarkers with Different Clostridium perfringens Isolate Infections in Balkhi Sheep
Mumtaz Ali Khan, Sher Bahadar Khan, Shakoor Ahmad, Irshad Ahmad, Kashif Prince, Ghazunfar Rashid et al.
The objective of this study was to determine variations of different physiological biomarkers in Clostridium perfringens (CP) infections in Balkhi breed of sheep in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Study was conducted on 184 sheep suspected of having enterotoxemi…
25 Aug 2020DOI 10.17582/journal.pjz/20180428130414
Research ArticleRelationship between Giant Panda Ailuropoda melanoleuca Habitat use and Disturbance Density in the Daxiangling Mountains, Sichuan, China
Cheng Zhao, Jianghong Ran, Bin Wang, Qin Shi, Marwan M.A. Rashed
The giant panda Ailuropoda melanoleuca is one of the most iconic mammals in the world. The species has experienced declines in its habitat and population due to human disturbance. To protect this species, we investigated the relationship between giant panda ha…
25 Aug 2020DOI 10.17582/journal.pjz/20181106121124
Research ArticleThe Effect of Different Levels of Matricaria chamomilla on Functional Status of the Liver in Rats Injected with Carbon Tetrachloride
Magbolah Salem Helal Alzahrani
Chamomile is a member of the Asteraceae family and has been well established as a medicinal plant. There are many different species of chamomile, the two most common being German chamomile (Marticaria chamomilla) and Roman chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile). The u…
25 Aug 2020DOI 10.17582/journal.pjz/20190309080304
Research ArticleMicroarray and Bioinformatics Analysis of Differentially-Expressed MicroRNAs in Wnt/Β-Catenin Signaling-Activated Bovine Skeletal Muscle Satellite Cells
Ming-Yan Shi, Xu-Liang Yan, Ping-Ping Han, Yu-Jie Tang, Hui-Xia Li
Skeletal muscle satellite cells (SMSC) are a population of multipotent cells that exist not only during animal infancy, but are also present in the adult mammalian body. Previous studies have indicated that Wnt/β-catenin signaling is involved in the regul…
21 Aug 2020DOI 10.17582/journal.pjz/20190108100153
Research ArticleGenetic Association of Two Novel SNPs in CYP7A1 Gene with Lipid Traits of Tianzhu Black Muscovy (Cairina moschata)
Guang-Hui Tan, Yi-Yu Zhang, Yuan-Yu Qin, Lei Wu, Jie-Zhang Li
Cholesterol 7α-hydroxylase (CYP7A1) plays a crucial role in the synthesis of bile acid, fatty acid and cholesterol metabolism in human and rodent. However, a little was known in the literature on the question of the effect of CYP7A1 gene on poultry lipid…
21 Aug 2020DOI 10.17582/journal.pjz/20181227051220
Research ArticleEnvironmental Characteristics in a Fish Farm with Copper Alloy Cage System in the Dardanelles
Sinan Uzundumlu, Yesim Buyukates, Murat Yigit, Musa Bulut, Rıdvan Kaan Gurses, Barbaros Celikkol
This study was conducted in a copper alloy cage fish farm to observe the environmental properties of the marine system. Water quality parameters such as temperature, salinity, pH and dissolved oxygen, total suspended solids, chlorophyll-a and inorganic nutrien…
21 Aug 2020DOI 10.17582/journal.pjz/20190305100338
Research ArticleDo Seismic Signals Diverge at the Level of Cytotypes in Turkish Blind Mole Rats?
Faruk Çolak, Ferhat Matur
Subterranean animals are limited in mobility and have reduced sensory ability due to living underground, and therefore are presented with a challenge to communicate. One solution is to use seismic signalling, by head drumming, to convey species-specific inform…
21 Aug 2020DOI 10.17582/journal.pjz/20190219110254
Research ArticleComposition and Diversity of Dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata) in Tunan Waterfall Area, North Minahasa, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
Roni Koneri, Meis Nangoy, Pience V. Maabuat
Dragonflies play an important role in an ecosystem and can serve as control agents of agricultural insect pests. Dragonflies can be used as bioindicators for evaluating environmental changes in long-term studies (biogeography) and short-term studies (conservat…
21 Aug 2020DOI 10.17582/journal.pjz/20181214071225
Research ArticleConcentration Dependent Functions of FGF10 in Angiogenesis and Axon Guidance
Fang Liu
Previous studies suggest FGF10, which is expressed in the ventral hypothalamus, plays important roles in axon guidance and in vasculature guidance of the developing hypothalamus. Here, using ex vivo analyses in chick, we show that FGF10 exerts concentration de…
21 Aug 2020DOI 10.17582/journal.pjz/20181119041146
Research ArticleDetermination of Number and Position of Knots in Cubic Spline Regression for Modeling Individual Lactation Curves in Three Different Breed
Samet Hasan Abaci, Hasan Onder, Mustafa Sahin, Esra Yavuz
Lactation curves are one of the basic tools in animal breeding. Therefore, modeling lactation curves with appropriate and precise equations are of great importance for obtaining estimates. Lactation curves have different tendencies in different breeds. To exam…
17 Aug 2020DOI 10.17582/journal.pjz/20200129080117
Research ArticleComparison of Models for some Testicular Characteristics in Karakaş Male Lambs
Kadir Karakuş, Turgut Aygün, Åženol Çelik, Mohammad Masood Tariq, Muhammad Ali, Majed Rafeeq et al.
This study was aimed to search testis growth of Karakaş male lambs raised in intensive conditions and to build the forecasting model of live weight in lambs using 4 data mining CHAID, Exhaustive CHAID, CART, and multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS).…
17 Aug 2020DOI 10.17582/journal.pjz/20190212120218
Research ArticleBioaccumulation of Metals in the Organs of Fish inhabiting Ravi River: Serious Threat to Fish and Consumer’s Health
Zarish Yaqoob, Saleema Bashir Shams, Gaitee Joshua, Bibi Nazia Murtaza
Heavy metal contamination of river water adversely affects the growth and productivity of fish and contributes to the human health disasters. River is a trans-country river originating in Himachal Pradesh, India and joins Indus and its tributary rivers in the…
13 Aug 2020DOI 10.17582/journal.pjz/20180505000547- Short Communication
Isolation and Characterization of Agrobacterium tumefaciens Strains from Malakander Farm, University of Agriculture, Peshawar
Shaheen Rahman, Kafeel Ahmad, Niaz Ali, Muhammad Idrees, Waqar Ali
Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a plant pathogen that causes devastating Crown Gall disease. Current studies were aimed at the isolation of A. tumefaciens from local soil. Five soil samples were collected from research farm of Agricultural University Peshawar, Pa…
29 May 2020DOI 10.17582/journal.pjz/20181021061044 - Short Communication
Biology of Newly Recorded Predator Antilochus coquebertii of Red Cotton Bug, Dysdercus koenigii Fabricius (Hemiptera: Pyrrhocoridae) from Pakistan
Rabia Saeed, Muhammad Naveed, Muhammad Razaq, Muhammad Rafiq, Muhammad Tahir Jan, Syed Ishfaq Ali Shah et al.
Dysdercus koenigii Fabricius (Hemiptera: Pyrrhocoridae) has become destructive pest of cotton since 2011. The pest causes severe lint staining and seed germination reduction problems. Antilochus coquebertii (Fabricius) (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae) is significa…
29 May 2020DOI 10.17582/journal.pjz/20170309100348 
Research ArticleOverexpression of GDNF can Effectively Maintain the Pluripotency of Buffalo Spermatogonia In Vitro
Tingting Li, Shuangshuang Geng, Long Xie, Huiyan Xu, Aolin Luo, Pengwei Zhao et al.
Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) is a neurotrophic factor cloned from mouse brain tissue by Lin et al. (1993) and can also be secreted by Sertoli cells. GDNF has a variety of physiological functions and plays important roles in the nervous sy…
29 May 2020DOI ttps://dx.doi.org/10.17582/journal.pjz/20190307070347
Research ArticlePomegranate Juice Ameliorates Fetotoxic Effects of Atenolol in Developing Mice (Mus musculus)
Sara Zafar, Asmatullah
Our objective was to assess the fetotoxic effect of a commonly used antihypertensive drug, atenolol during gestation and ameliorative effect of pomegranate juice against its toxicity. Dose was administered to pregnant mice by gavage. The high dose contains Ate…
29 May 2020DOI 10.17582/journal.pjz/20181224061217
Short CommunicationAcute Toxic Effect of Technical Grade Insecticides on Behavior, Catalase Activity and Total Protein Contents of Fish, Ctenopharyngodon idella
Tehreem Usman, Sajid Abdullah, Huma Naz, Khalid Abbas, Laiba Shafique, Qaisra Siddique
The main objective of this experiment was to see the behaviour, catalase (CAT) activity and total protein contents (TPC) in Ctenopharyngodon idella under binary mixtures of insecticides viz. endosulfan(ES)+chlorpyrifos(CPF) and endosulfan(ES)+bifenthrin (BIF).…
29 May 2020DOI 10.17582/journal.pjz/20181103091108- Short Communication
Hormonal Fluctuations of Serum Prolactin and Gonadotropins in Autoimmune Thyroid Patients
Khayyam, Muhammad Zahid, Naiz Ali, Qadeem Khan
The present study was conducted to find the hormonal variations resulted after the autoimmune thyroid disease. Out of total eighty two autoimmune thyroid patients 50 were Hashimoto’s thyroiditis patients (HT) (30 female, mean age=34±1.43 years, 20…
29 May 2020DOI 10.17582/journal.pjz/20180703040705