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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Institute of Zoology and Parasitology

The E. N. Pavlovsky Institute of Zoology and Parasitology was founded in 1941. It

consists of 4 departments

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  Taxonomy of Invertebrate Animals

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  Ecology of Land Vertebrate Animals

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  Ichthyology and Hydrobiology

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  Parasitology, Laboratory of Experimental Ecology,

This Department devises biological methods to combat pests

The major fields of investigation include the following:

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  Catalogue Tajikistan's fauna;

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  Determine the dynamics of the animal population;

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  Determine the role of animals in the different biocenosis;

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  Assess the natural nidulites of animal diseases;

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  Perfect biological methods to regulate the number of pests of agricultural

crops;

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  Increase the biological productivity of the republic's reservoirs, lakes and

rivers; and

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  Study the evolution of fauna from paleontological and archeological remains

which were collected.

Following are the major scientific results:

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  The composition of different species of fish, reptiles, rodentias, birds,

modern and fossil mammalia was studied. The biology of economically

important fish, birds, and mammals and the influence of man on animal life

was also studied. Recommendations were made for protecting and using rare

and endangered species.

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  Animal life in many rivers, lakes, and reservoirs, and the food base of fish

was studied and recommendations were made to improve and to expand the

technology of fish-breeding ponds, including the voluble, edible fish

Gorigonus Peledi in the lakes of the Pamir. The following invertebrate

animals were discovered: Mantoidea, Auchenorryncha, Psylloidea,

Aphidoidea, Coccoidea, Lepidoptera, Heteroptera, Anoplura, Siphonaptera,

Mallophaga, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Neuroptera, some Orthoptera and

Diptera, Tetranichoidea, and Mollusca. Dozens of new scientific species and

genuses have been described, and higher taxons have been well established.

Methods combating cotton pests and protecting tomatoes and other crops

from root-rot nematodes were worked out and are now widely used.

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  The species composition of Protozoan pathogens and their carriers, Ixodidae

and Argasidae were studied in the field of Parasitology. The parasitical

fauna of fish, rodents, insectivores, and wild pigs and helminthology of

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Iraj Bashiri

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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birds, cattle, and wild mammals have been studied. The role of Coleoptera

as intermediate hosts of animal helminths has also been studied. A method

for preparing IMR unoglobutin against cattle theileriosis has been worked

out. Methods for the control of blood-sucking insects (Tabanidae,

Simuliidae, and Ceratopogonidae) and ticks that are carriers of parasites

were improved.

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  A uniquely designed zoological museum has been set up.

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  Twelve volumes of fauna, 20 monographic books, 14 collected articles, 20

scientific-popular booklets, two textbooks for secondary school and more

than 500 scientific articles have been published.

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  Thirteen doctors of science and 80 candidates of science have been trained at

the Institute.