New Frontiers of Zoology

Contents: Preface. 1. European Eel still a mystery of the natural history/V.R.P. Sinha. 2. Challenging food security in India: aquaculture a viable option/Shyam S. Salim. 3. Indian fisheries as a tool for nutritional security, poverty alleviation and employment/B.N. Pandey. 4. Advances in freshwater aquaculture/N. Sarangi. 5.  Fisheries development in North-Eastern states/M. Sinha. 6. Breeding of Indian major carps: an overview/S.K. Sarkar and S.C. Rath. 7. Selective breeding and development of a genetically improved Rohu: the \'Jayanti Rohu\'/Ambedkar E. Eknath, Kanta Das Mahapatra, Jatendra N. Saha and Binod K. Chaudhary. 8. Freshwater pearl farming/Kuldip Kumar, Gayatri Mishra, Utkal Laxmi Mohanty and Joy Krushna Jena. 9. Breeding and culture of ornamental fishes in India: an emerging cottage industry/S.K. Swain and N.K. Barik. 10. Microbes in aquaculture/S. Ayyappan. 11. Aquaculture: public concerns and sustainable practices/T.T. George and V.R.P. Sinha. 12. Man-made modifications of rivers and their effect on its fishery/M. Sinha. 13. Inland fisheries enhancements/V.V. Sugunan. 14. Inland water pollution and algal bio indicator: a review/M.K. Bandyopadhyay and B.C. Jha. 15. Bioindicators for surveillance of the status of Indian aquatic pollution and toxicity/K.K. Vass and S. Samanta. 16. Eutrophication and succession of biota in inland aquatic ecosystem/B.C. Jha and Anita Chakraborty. 17. New approach to aquatic biodiversity conservation at NBFGR, Lucknow/W.S. Lakra and K.K. Lal. 18. Conservation of marine faunal diversity in India: an overview/R. Soundararajan and W.S. Lakra. 19. Marine faunal biodiversity of Maharashtra and Gujarat Coast and conservation strategies/Dilip Kumar and Geetanjali Deshmukhe. 20. Current status of biotechnology in Karnataka/Geetha Bali. 21. Prebiotics and probities-microflora for mankind: an overview/G.R. Bharawadkar and G.K. Kulkarni. 22. Corpuscles of Stannius of air breathing teleosts: ultrastructure and cellular composition/M. Firoz Ahmod, Abdul Salim, N.S. Sen and N.V.A. Rao. 23. Melatonin, the nature\'s own antioxidant/Amitab Hore. 24. A quantitative study on food consumption and larval growth of Sarihan ecorace of Antheraea mylitta Drury/R.B. Sinha and P.N. Pandey. 25. Derelict Pedosphere ecosystem and soil arthropods: a case study of Bermo coalfield area of Jharkhand/B.K. Sinha, A. Hembrom, M. Mahto, P.N. Panday and D.K. Prasad. 26. Fish nutrigenomics: fundamental research for understanding nutrient gene interactions and fish nutrition/P.P. Srivastava and W.S. Lakra. 27. Carotenoids pigments in freshwater fish: types of Carotenoids and their metabolic transformation into Vitamin A/Umesh C. Goswami.