the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi for the award of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF, 09/239(0555)/2019-EMR-I)
Isopod crustaceans of the family Dajidae are exclusively marine ectoparasites.The genus Notophryxus G.O.Sars,1883 currently includes nine nominal species,which are very rarely reported as the chances for encountering ...
The research was supported by the joint Hungarian—Slovenian grant for international cooperation(Hungarian National Research,Development and Innovation Office(NRDIO):SNN-125627);Slovenian Research Agency grants N1-0069 and P1-0184;NRDIO postdoctoral grant PD-132041(GeH);and theúNKP-20-4 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry of Innovation and Technology from the source of the NRDIO(GB).
Populations experiencing negligible predation pressure are expected to evolve higher behavioral activity.However,when sexes have different expected benefits from high activity,the adaptive shift is expected to be sex-...
The tropical and subtropical mangrove biomes form the foundation of a highly productive and biologically rich ecosystem providing essential goods and services to human beings. Despite its values, the stability and sur...
supported by fellowship SFRH/BPD/107878/2015 of FCT
The littoral paranthurid isopod crustacean Paranthura nigropunctata (Lucas, 1846) is recorded for the first time from the littoral of El Jadida located on the Atlantic northwest coast of Morocco. Specimens were obta...
From the marine environment, woodlice gradually colonized terrestrial areas benefiting from the symbiotic relationship with the bacterial community that they host. Indeed, they constitute the only group of Oniscidea s...
Life in desert ecosystems drives animals to adapt their surface locomotor activity according to environmental conditions. In this study, the hourly and monthly variations in the surface activity patterns of the terres...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Nos.XDB06010100,XDB06010103 and XDB06010201);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41406147 and 41406160);the Scientific and Technological Cooperation Special Foundation of Hainan Province(KJHZ2015-17).
Several specimens of the giant deep-sea isopod genus Bathynomus were collected by a deep-sea lander at a depth of 898 m near Hainan Island in the northern South China Sea.After careful examination,this material and th...
Although background matching is a common form of camouflage across a wide diversity of animals, there has been surprisingly little experimental work testing the fitness consequences of this camouflage strategy, especi...
Supported by Department of Science and Technology(Grant No:SR/FF/LS-088/2007);Ministry of Environment&Forest,Government of India(Grant No:22-18/2008-CS-I).
Objective:To carry out a detailed three-year observation study on isopod parasites infestation in fish.Methods:Fish samples were collected from different localities in various landing centers along the Tamil Nadu coas...
Supported by Department of Science and Technology(Grant No.SR/FF/LS-088/2007);Ministry of Environment&Forest,Government of India(Grant No.22-18/2008-CS-I).
Objective:To study the histopathological symptoms owing to cymothoid isopod that were categorised as gross lesions.Methods:Nature of damage fish tissues and gills were taken from the parasite attachment area of infest...