Publications by authors named "H K Sameera DE Zoysa"

A wide variety of substances have been used to anaesthetise invertebrates, but many are not anaesthetics and merely incapacitate animals rather than preventing pain. In essence, the role of an ideal general anaesthetic is to act as a muscle relaxant, an analgesic, an anaesthetic, and an amnesic. To achieve all these properties with a single substance is difficult, and various adjuvants usually need to be administered, resulting in a cocktail of drugs.

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  • - Fungi are important in ecosystems and their accurate identification is crucial, evolving from traditional morphological methods to modern techniques like PCR and DNA sequencing for better taxonomy and classification.
  • - Challenges arise with "dark taxa," which lack distinct physical features, but tools like high-throughput sequencing and metagenomics help uncover new fungal lineages.
  • - The paper emphasizes various advanced "omics" technologies (proteomics, transcriptomics, etc.) to deepen our understanding of fungi, their roles in food safety, medicine, and the potential to discover novel fungi from extreme environments.
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Aflatoxin B1 contamination adversely affects human health by impairing long-term physical and cognitive development. Several crops have been associated with aflatoxin B1 contamination and corn is one of them. In the Anuradhapura district of the North Central Province of Sri Lanka, corn is one of the main agricultural produce.

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Among the eight species of Eutropis Fitzinger currently known from Sri Lanka, Eutropis bibronii (Gray, 1838) is among the least known. Hence, the occurrence of this species in Sri Lanka has been doubted by some authors since there were no confirmed records from live specimens for the past 70 years. The species has been previously reported mostly from northern regions of Sri Lanka.

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