https://globalpresshub.com/index.php/BN/issue/feed 2025-10-08T10:53:11+00:00 Open Journal Systems <p><strong>BIONATURE</strong> (0970-9835 (Print), 0974-4282 (Online)) [NLM ID: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/?term=0970-9835%5BISSN%5D"> 8300854</a>] aims to publish high-quality papers in any branch of BIOLOGY. Special priority will be given to manuscripts dealing with population genetics, plant morphology, cultural and physical anthropology, forestry, ecology and chromosomal and enzymatic variations. This journal follows OPEN access policy. All published articles can be freely downloaded from the journal website.</p> <p><strong>NAAS Rating 4.20 (2025)</strong></p> https://globalpresshub.com/index.php/BN/article/view/2063 2025-10-08T10:53:11+00:00 V.M. Sathish Kumar [email protected]

<p>Accurate identification of species of eggs is significance to ecology, conservation and enforcement of wildlife laws but sometimes can be difficult when morphological characters are not available or are unclear. A case-study is given on a DNA-based forensic pipeline that was used to determine an unknown egg that had been found and collected from a field site. Sanger sequencing and database searches (GenBank/ NCBI BLAST) using standard mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunits I (COI) barcoding protocols were used to assign species to the egg. This study present sampling, DNA isolation, COI-PCR amplification for the taxonomic assignment. Also addressed the technical difficulties (contamination, degraded DNA, reference database gap), interpretative thresholds of assigning a species, and conservation and enforcement implication. The article combines the existing procedures and published analyses of egg/ early -stage life molecular identification and offers a useful template to be used in forensic and ecological approaches.</p>

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<p>The study was designed to investigate the preferred and poisonous plants species in a fragile ecosystem of Nigeria. One hundred and twenty (120) questionnaires were used to obtained information from camel owners. Samples of preferred and poisonous plant species were also collected for analysis. The study revealed four ranking plant species Leptadenia hastata (Yadiya), Faidherbia albida (Gawo), Hygrophila auriculata (Kayar Rakumi) and Balanites egyptiaca (Aduwa) as preferred and two ranking; Ipomoea asarifolia (Duman rafi) and Euphorbia lateriflora (Fid-da-sartse) as poisonous plant species. Proximate composition revealed H. auriculata to contained significantly the highest (P&gt;0.05) value of crude protein (24.96%) compared to others. Likewise there were significant (P&gt;0.05) variations in Anti Nutritional Factors (ANFs) and mineral components amongst plant species. Conclusively, the present study was able to provide some useful data on camel reproduction, water consumption and feeding stuff.</p>

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<p>A total of 200 Day Old Chicks (DOC) of improved Nigerian Indigenous Chickens (NIC) (Alpha Funaab) raised for 8weeks at the teaching and research farm of the department of Animal science, University of Uyo, were used in this study. This study metagenomically analyzed the microbiota obtained from the gut of the improved Nigerian Chickens. The study revealed that ceacal microbial composition were dominated by two phyla - the firmicutes and bacteriodates. Firmicutes was the most abundant microbes in the layer line (24.9%) followed by bacteriodates (13.7%). In broiler, bacteriodates was the most dominant (22.4%), followed by firmicutes (20.4%). Again, in the layer line, body weight BWT showed a strong correlation with Bacteroidia (0.977) Bacilli (0.944) and Clostridia (0.861) whereas in the broiler line, BWT had a week but positive correlation of 0.287 with Bacteroidia and a strong negative correlation of -0.099 with Bacilli and Clostridia (-0.967). This metagenomic approach in gastrointestinal microbiota studies has enhanced our understanding of the role of microbes in relations to growth.</p>

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