The Clarion- International Multidisciplinary Journal
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 2

Effect of municipal waste water on Catalase enzyme in the larval stages of Duttaphrynus melanostictus (Schneider 1799)

1Department of Zoology, Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati, India

2Department of Zoology, Cotton College, Guwahati, India

*Corresponding author: geetoshree.goswami@gmail.com

Online published on 8 September, 2016.

Abstract

The present study revealed that municipal waste water can alter the water quality of receiving wetland (Borsola beel) and metamorphic tadpoles treated with beel water showed increase in enzyme Catalase level indicating tissue damage and abnormal development activity.

Keywords

Polluted water, Tadpole development, Enzyme Catalase concentration