This title includes original and authentic reports on various aspects of Environmental and Fish Biology discussed at a Seminar of the same name held in 2002 in Department of Zoology, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. The aim of this publication is to provide comprehensive, integrated reviews giving sound, critical, and provocative ideas of selective presentations in the seminar covering diverse areas of environmental and fish biology, from molecular to organismic levels. The topics included in this treatise are the testimony of significant growth and development that took place in recent years. Likewise, the authors of these articles are the scientists who were responsible for many of these advances. Obviously, scientists engaged in research in the areas of environmental and fish biology will find this book of particular value. But the topics covered will also attract scientists and graduate students in animal physiology, endocrinology, cell and molecular biology, ecology, toxicology, and reproductive biology.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Saumen Kumar Maitra
Saumen Kumar Maitra, Professor of Zoology, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan is well-known for his contributions in the field of environmental endocrinology and reproductive biology. A Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta, Dr. Maitra did his post-doctoral research in Germany (as a DAAD Fellow) and has earned expertise in studying the ultrastructure and functions of pineal organ. He has authored about 100 original research papers, many review articles, and three books published both within and outside India. Dr. Maitra is a recipient of several medals and awards including UGC Career Award and GtZ Award (Germany), Fellow of Zoological Society (Cal) and Society for Reproductive Biology and Comparative Endocrinology (FRE), and is office bearer of several academic bodies. His Environmental Endocrinology Laboratory is deeply enriched and supported by financial assistance from DST, DBT, UGC, CSIR and ICAR and many students are pursuing their Ph.D. research under his able guidance and many more are established in academic institutions in India and abroad. His recent interest is on the role of photoperiods and the pineal organ in the regulation off reproduction in fish.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shelley Bhattacharya
Shelley Bhattacharya, Professor of Zoology and Coordinator of the Programme, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan is well-known for her notable contributions in the field of environmental and fish biology in general, and in the area of toxicology in particular. She is a brilliant product of Calcutta University with an illustrative academic and research career. Her unstinted efforts in research and teaching in India and abroad, especially in Germany (as DAAD Fellow) and UK (as Association of Commonwealth Universities Development Fellow), for more than three decades has enriched the current understanding of the mechanism of action of heavy metals at sub-cellular levels in various animal models. She is a Fellow of academic bodies (FNASc and FWBAST) and has to her credit a patent and more than hundred original scientific publications. With the financial assistance of various agencies like GtZ (Germany), UGC, CSIR, DST, ICAR, and DBT, she is leading a strong group of researchers who have enrolled for Ph.D. degree under her guidance, and many others are pursuing exciting research career both within and outside the country.
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