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Floral scents, specialized metabolites and stress-response activities in Heritiera fomes and Bruguiera gymnorrhiza from Sundarban mangrove ecosystem
Floral biochemistry and stress physiology is an underexplored aspect of mangroves, which should be investigated as part of preservation and restoration efforts. A thriving true mangrove tree (Bruguiera gymnorrhiz...
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Head-Space Volatile Milieu from Leaves: A Case Study of Eggplant Infestation by Mealybug
The phloem-feeder mealybug, Coccidohystrix insolita (Green, 1908) is a common herbivore which causes economic loss in crop yield every year in India. The present article is aimed at understanding the impact of me...
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Sulfur-Markers, From Urine of Fishing Cat: the Putative Pheromonal Compounds of Water-Loving, Vulnerable State Animal of West Bengal
The present article reports the presence of “3-mercapto-3-methylbutanol” (3MMB), the distinctive compound for “Tom cat odor" from the urine of fishing cat [Prionailurus viverrinus (Bennett, 1833)], which is suppo...
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The Flower Colour Influences Spontaneous Nectaring in Butterflies: a Case Study with Twenty Subtropical Butterflies
Butterflies have a wide spectrum of colour vision, and changes in flower colour influence both the visiting and nectaring (the act of feeding on flower nectar) events of them. However, the spontaneous behaviou...
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Semiochemicals from Urine and Hair of Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa Griffith, 1821)
Cat members usually convey messages related to their territorial marking and reproductive behaviour to conspecifics by using auditory, visual and tactile cues within a short distance. However, for long distanc...
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Open AccessInner skin effects on non-Hermitian topological fractals
Non-Hermitian (NH) crystals, quasicrystals, and amorphous network display an accumulation of a macroscopic number of states near one of its specific interfaces with vacuum, such as edge, surface, hinge, or cor...
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Open AccessUndernutrition and associated factors among children aged 5–10 years in West Bengal, India: a community-based cross-sectional study
In the previous few decades, India has made significant progress in reducing child mortality and fertility rates; yet, undernutrition remains one of the country’s primary public health issues. The goal of this...
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Open AccessThe risk of low birth weight and associated factors in West Bengal, India: a community based cross-sectional study
Low birth weight (LBW) is a challenging multifaceted public health problem as it associated with infant mortality. Present study was undertaken to assess magnitude and risk factors associated with LBW in West ...
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Do Urinary Volatiles Carry Communicative Messages in Himalayan Snow Leopards [Panthera uncia, (Schreber, 1775)]?
urinate and spray ‘ ’ for maintenance and to transmit messages of their reproductive . The very rare also utilises these two primary modes for . The present paper is the first report on the volatiles ...
