Contemporary Research and Perspectives in Biological Science Vol. 1

This book covers key areas of biological science. The contributions by the authors include leaf harvest, pod production, cowpea, defoliation, xenobiotic-induced oxidative stress, cardiac microenvironment, cardiac xenobiotics, cardiac mitochondrial metabolism, hypothetic remote memory formation, heterosynaptic long term depression, alzheimer’s disease, slow wave sleep, synapse elimination, foraging behaviour, bat ecology, roost fidelity, sex-biased dispersal patterns, enteric parasitic infection, routine therapy, host population density, productivity loss, transport protein regulations, obstructive cholestasis, bile duct ligation, digoxin, efficient micropropagation technique, mass production, germplasm conservation, citrus aurantifolia, toxic elements in the earth’s crust, phytoremediation, arsenic-contamination, hyperaccumulator, tilapia aquaculture, pre-hispanic aquaponics system, von Bertalanffy growth model, vetiver grass, bio-engineers growth, degradable face masks, medicinal plant, lagerstroemia speciose, aluminum toxicity, gene action, tropical maize, fractal evolution, molecular ancestral signatures, tadpole lineage, minimally monophyletic genus, pattern cladism. This book contains various materials suitable for students, researchers, and academicians in the fields of biological science.