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Name | Impact of Stress on the Behavior and Serum Proteins in Quail (Coturnix coturnix) Post Starvation |
Description | Research article:-Zoology Eshita Pandey, Anjali Srivastava & Sabina Khanam Department of Zoology, Dayanand Girls P.G. College, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Abstract:- There are psychological, physical, and biological stressors in abundance in our environment and together with extreme environmental conditions they have significant negative effects on physiological and life history traits of organisms. The present study focusses on starvation as a stress factor on a species of Quails- Coturnix coturnix. Anthropogenic factors have reduced both feeding sites and food for animals forcing them to starve unnaturally and this led to choice of starvation as a factor for study. The study categorized the birds into two groups, non-stressed or the control group and stressed or the experimental group which were provided with water but no food. Following the completion of experiment serum was separated and electrophoresis (SDS- PAGE) was performed on the samples after which gel surfaces were photographed and analyzed for the bandwidth of the serum proteins. Birds showed normal behavior initially and their water intake was normal, later their excreta increased, they became restless and their water consumption increased significantly. The birds also showed puffing. Four bands on the whole in Coturnix coturnix were seen to be present in the control samples and not traced in the experimental samples; similarly one band could be traced in the experimental samples and not in the control sample. Three bands are found to be thicker in the experimental samples as when compared to the control sample which indicate towards proteins whose synthesis were enhanced under conditions of stress. One band in the experimental sample showed a change in position with the corresponding control sample indicating towards a change in molecular weight of the protein concerned due to stress.
Keywords:- Anthropogenic factors, Stressors, Coturnix coturnix, Starvation, SDS-PAGE. |
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