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Prevalence of Bovine Brucellosis in Islamabad and Rawalpindi Districts of Pakistan

Tausif Ahmad, Iahtasham Khan, Saddaf Razzaq, Saeed-ul-Hassan Khan, Raheela Akhtar

A study was conducted to determine the prevalence of Brucella abortus in cattle and buffaloes in the districts of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan. A total of 120 serum samples were randomly collected from buffaloes and cattle (60 per species) at Civil Veter…

Prevalence and Molecular Detection of Dengue Virus in 2013 Outbreak in KPK and Punjab, Pakistan

Muhammad Shahid, Iram Amin, Samia Afzal, Zareen Fatima, Sadia Zahid, Usman Ashraf et al.

Dengue Virus is transmitted to humans by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus having five serotypes 1-5 and infecting about 100 million people each year. To address dengue outbreak 2013 in Pakistan we aimed to conduct a comprehensive study at molecular level to…

Comparative Efficacy of Ivermectin and Fipronil on Controlling Tick Infestation in Commercial Layers: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Salman Khalid, Abdul Rehman, Mohammad Yasin Amir, Imran Sarfaraz, Muhammad Asif

To evaluate the effects of ticks on blood parameters and efficacy of different drugs on controlling tick’s infestation in commercial layer, a double blind randomized controlled trial was conducted. For therapeutic trials, the 80 birds (n= 60 infested wit…

Reproductive Patterns of the Norway Rat (Rattus norvegicus) in Urban Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Memoona Akber, Muhammad Mushtaq, Muhammad Sajid Nadeem, Amjad Rashid Kayani, Noor-un-Nisa

To investigate the pattern of reproduction of the Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus in urban areas of Rawalpindi city, Pakistan, live trapping of commensal rodents was carried out from May 2011 through April 2012. A total of 100 rats (R. norvegicus = 65, Rattus ra…

Key to the Tribes and Genera of Tettigonioidea (Orthoptera) of Pakistan

Riffat Sultana, Waheed Ali Panhwar, Muhammad Saeed Wagan

A key to the 20 tribes and 22 genera of Tettigonioidea is provided, with figures, from Pakistan.

Molecular Identification of Bovine Brucellosis Causing Organisms at Selected Private Farms in Pothohar Plateau, Pakistan

Shahzad Ali, Heinrich Neubauer, Falk Melzer, Iahtasham Khan, Shamim Akhter, Tariq Jamil et al.

Brucellosis is a worldwide zoonotic infection in animals including Pakistan. A study was conducted to identify the potential cause of infection in three different cattle farms located at Potohar Plateau in Punjab, Pakistan. A total of399 serum samples from ind…

RNA-Seq Reveals Differentially Expressed Genes of Pig Vaccinated with Modified Live Attenuated Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea

Sung Kwon Park, Jin Young Jeong, Eun Seok Cho, Yong Dae Jeong, Chang Seok Park

Porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) was triggered by pathogenic coronavirus causing watery diarrhea and high mortality in piglets. This post-viral syndrome results in severe economic losses in the pig industry. However, limited information on the porcine epidemic…

Chemical Ecology of Asian Long Horned Beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) - A Review

Saqib Ali, Suliman Ali, Lina, Wen Zhou, Muhammad Irfan Waris, Ashfaq Ali et al.

This review defines the prose associated with the chemical ecology of the Asian Long Horn Beetle (ALB), Anoplophora glabripennis. It further provides a brief impression of ALB’s biological characteristics, ecology, chemical ecosystem, economic significan…

Exposure of Zebrafish (Danio rerio) to Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticle Causes Paraptosis: Evaluation of Ovarian Follicle Ultrastructure

Cansu Akbulut, Tuğba Kotil, Burcu Öztürk, Nazan Deniz Yön

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is widely used nanoparticle all over the world. In this study, we have investigated the histopathological effect on zebrafish ovaries after exposure to TiO2 nanoparticles. Adult zebrafish individuals were exposed to 1, 2 and 4 mg/L TiO2…

Effect of Host Size on Larval Competition of the Gregarious Parasitoid Bracon hebetor (Say.) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Sehrish Rasool, Zain ul Abdin, Saqi Kosar Abbas, Sumra Ashraf, Maryam Anwer, Atif Manzoor et al.

The effect of size of two host species Galleria mellonella (Pyralidae: Lepidoptera) and Spodotera litura (Noctuidae: Lepidoptera) was studied on larval competition, survival and development of a gregarious ectoparasitoid Bracon hebetor (Say.) (Hymenoptera: Bra…

Optimum Salinity Level for Seed Production and Survival of Red Tilapia (Hybrid) in Concrete Tanks

Abdul Malik, Ghulam Abbas, Hameeda Kalhoro, Illahi Bux Kalhoro, Syed Sajjad A. Shah, Halima Kalhoro

This study was conducted to examine the effects of varying salinity levels (0‰-30‰ with 5% increment) on breeding of red tilapia. Brood fish were stocked in hapa nets suspended in cemented rectangular tanks (11×7×4 feet) . Three femal…

Occurrence of Aflatoxin B1 Producing Fungi in Finished Commercial Broiler Feed in Quetta

Nadeem Rashid, Masroor Ahmad Bajwa, Mohammad Masood Tariq, Tanvir Ahmad, Majed Rafeeq, Zafar Ahmad et al.

Occurrence of Aspergillus flavus (A. flavus) in finished commercial broiler feed and among the isolated strains of A. flavus having capacity to produce aflatoxin was investigated in this study. Finished commercial broiler feed samples (n=96) were collected fro…

Evaluation of Alternatives to Antibiotic Feed Additives in Broiler Production

Majed Rafeeq, Nadeem Rashid, Muhammad Masood Tariq, Rassol Bakhsh Tareen, AsadUllah, Zahid Mustafa

The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of herbs as feed additive on performance of broiler alternative to antibiotics. One-day-old (N=320) broiler chicks were divided into eight treatment groups with four replicates of ten chicks. Six treatments were t…

Antimicrobial Activity from Cellular, Subcellular and Molecular Fractions of Cultured Microbes against Each Other

Mirza Imran Shahzad, Anna Iqbal, Farrah Ali, Nuzhat Sial, Muhammad Ashfaq, Abul Hasanat et al.

Mankind is using antimicrobial agents in various forms since last 2000 years. The present study was designed to evaluate the antimicrobial activities of different culture microbes against each other. A total six bacteria including Salmonella typhi, Escherichia…

Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in Women Population of Rafha City, Saudi Arabia

Akbar Ali, Khalil Mohamed, Fawzia Toulah

Toxoplasmosis, a disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii parasite, is one of the most worldwide parasitic infections of warm-blooded animals including man. In most adults it does not cause serious illness, but it can cause serious health problems in infants, pregn…

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Table of Contents for Pakistan Journal of Zoology, Volume, Number, April

Table of Contents for Pakistan Journal of Zoology, Volume 49, Number 2, April 2017

Sero-prevalence and Pathological Examination of Lymphoid Leukosis Virus Subgroup A in Chickens in Anhui Province, China

Hui Zhang, Yajing Wang, Kun Li, Mujeeb Ur Rehman, Fazul Nabi, Rui Gui et al.

The avian lymphoid leukosis is caused by various avian retroviruses which induce a variety of benign and malignant neoplasm in domestic chickens with subsequent economic losses to poultry industry. Effected birds show lymphocyte tumor, abnormal proliferation a…

Home Range and Group Characteristics of Wintering Scaly-Sided Merganser Mergus squamatus in the Watershed of Poyang Lake, China

Mingqin Shao, Bin Chen, Peng Cui, Binbin Zeng, Jianhong Jiang

Time budgets provide important information for the study of animal behavior. The present study analyzed the daily travel distance, home range and group characteristics of scaly-sided merganser Mergus squamatus in Yihuang and Wuyuan counties, Jiangxi Province,…

Immunocapture PCR Detection of ToLCNDV from Plant Extract by using Heterologous Virus Coat Protein Antisera

Zafar Iqbal, Muhammad Khurshid

Immunocapture-PCR (IC-PCR) is very versatile technique that has the potential to expedite the detection of plant viruses from plant species containing various forms of PCR amplification inhibitors. In current study, IC-PCR was used for the detection of Tomato…

Analysis of Morphometric Characteristics of Different Populations of Tabanus bromius Linne 1758 (Diptera: Tabanidae)

Horse flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) are known world-wide as important mechanical vectors of viruses, bacteria, protozoans, and helminths that cause diseases in wild and domestic animals. Tabanus bromius L. is common species worldwide, which shows considerable var…