Research Publications
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1. Choudhury, Sabarna and Saikia, S.K. (2023) Evaluation of oxidative stress on Zebrafish under different pH and dissolved oxygen levels using MDA as biomarker. Journal of Fish Health, 3(2): 33-44. https://doi.org/10.29303/jfh.v3i2.3249

2. Roy, Sangeeta and Saikia, S.K. (2023) Characterization of Some Physico-Chemical Parameters of Water Bodies Inhabited by Small Indigenous Fish Species (SIFs): A Case Study. European Journal of Aquatic Sciences, 2(3): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.24018/ejaqua.2023.2.3.16

3. Choudhury, S. and Saikia, S.K. (2023). High-resolution microscopic visualization of mitochondrial damage under oxidative stress in zebrafish, Danio rerio. International Journal of Aquatic Biology, 11(4): 305-312.

4. Roy, Sangeeta, Ray, Santanu, Saikia, S.K. (2023) Seasonal variation of length-weight relationships and fulton's condition factor of five small indigenous freshwater fish species. Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, 27(3): 655-662. Doi.10.21608/EJABF.2023.305314

5. Saikia, S.K. (2023). Aquatic resources and feed diversification: Reviewing three case studies from South East Asia with a viewpoint of trophic intensification in rice fish culture. Aquaculture and Fisheries (available online).doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aaf.2023.01.006

6. Choudhury, S. and Saikia, S.K. (2022). Use of Zebrafish as a Model Organism to Study Oxidative Stress: A Review. Zebrafsih,19(5), 165-176. doi:https://doi.org/10.1089/zeb.2021.0083

7. Subhendu Kumar Chatterjee, ChandanMalick, Surajit K Banik, Samir Bhattacharya, Rakesh Kundu, Vettath Raghavan Suresh, Surjya Kumar Saikia (2021) Do hydro-biological factors influence spawning migration: A case study of Hilsa’s (Tenualosa ilisha) breeding habitat in Ganga River, India. Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology & Fisheries. 25(3): 187-199

8. Sanjeet Debnath, Sangeeta Roy and Surjya Kumar Saikia (2021) Absorption of Macronutrients in Teleost. In Current Approaches in Science and Technology Research Vol. 6 (Ed.  Essam A. Makky), BP International, 978-93-91312-29-9 (Print), 978-93- 91312-30-5  (Online). pp. 62-66. DOI: 10.9734/bpi/castr/v6/2461F

9. Sangeeta Roy, Sanjeet Debnath and Surjya Kumar Saikia (2021) Threats to Freshwater Fish and Application of Community Ecology Studies in Conservation. In Current Approaches in Science and Technology Research Vol. 6 (Ed.  Essam A. Makky), BP International, 978-93-91312-29-9 (Print), 978-93-91312-30-5  (Online). pp. 69-74. DOI: 10.9734/bpi/castr/v6/2462F

10. Saran Ishika Maiti, Surjya Kumar Saikia (2021) An approach for quantifying western blots: the case of signal intensity and the statistical analysis. Acta Fytotechnica et Zootechnica. 24, 2021(2): 141–146, https://doi.org/10.15414/afz.2021.24.02.141-146.

11. Sabarna Choudhury, Subhendu Kumar Chatterjee, Samir Bhattacharya, Sudipta Maitra, Surjya Kumar Saikia (2021) Acidic ambiance induced post-oxidative stress affects AMPK- PGC1α-SIRT1 axis in the skeletal muscles of Zebrafish Danio rerio Hamilton, 1822. Acta Biologica Szegediensis  64(2), 191-198, https://doi.org/10.14232/abs.2020.2.191-198

12. Sanjeet Debnath, Surjya Kumar Saikia (2021) Characterization of amylase and protease activity in the digestive tract of two teleosts (Labeo rohita and Anabas testudineus) with different feeding habits. Acta Biologica Szegediensis  64(2), 173-179, https://doi.org/10.14232/abs.2020.2.173-179.

13. Sabarna Chowdhury and Surjya Kumar Saikia (2021) Ammonia ambience induces SIRT5 regulated expression of EGF-AKT-mTOR axis in Asian stinging catfish Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch) 1974. Acta Biologica Szegediensis, 65(2):263-270. https://doi.org/10.14232/abs.2021.65.263-270

14. Sangita Roy, Santanu Ray, Surjya Kumar Saikia, (2021) Indicator environmental variables in regulating the distribution patterns of small freshwater fish Amblypharyngodon mola in India and Bangladesh. Ecological Indicators, 120: 106-906.

15. Sanjeet Debnath, Surjya Kumar Saikia (2021) Absorption of protein in teleosts: a review. Fish Physiology and Biochemistry. 47, 313–326  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10695-020-00913-6

16. Gogoi, B., Das, D.N., Saikia, S.K. (2020): Feeding ecology of Pachypterus atherinoides (Actinopterygii; Siluriformes; Schilbeidae): A small freshwater fish from floodplain wetlands of Northeast India. Croatian Journal of Fisheries, 78, 105-120. doi: 10.2478/cjf-2020-0011

17. Nandi, Sudarshana, Saikia, S.K. (2020) Scanning electron microscopic and histological studies of the buccal cavity of a phytoplanktivorous small freshwater fish, Amblypharyngodon mola. Microscopy Research & Technique, 84(1):119-124. doi: 10.1002/jemt.23572

18. S. Debnath, S. I. Maiti, S. K. Saikia (2020) pH and Temperature Dependent Gut Enzyme Niche in a Stomachless Herbivorous Freshwater Fish Amblypharyngodon mola (Hamilton, 1822). Journal of Scientific Research, 12 (4): 729-741, Doi: 10.3329/jsr.v12i4.46003

19. Sangita Roy, Saran Ishika Maity, Surjya Kumar Saikia, Santanu Ray (2020) Ecomorphological traits determine assemblage pattern of small freshwater fish in smaller lenticaquatic bodies. Journal of Scientific Research,12 (4): 713-727 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jsr.v12i4.45998

20. Sandip Majumder, Surjya Kumar Saikia(2020) Ecological intensification for feeding rohu Labeo rohita (Hamilton, 1822): A review and proposed steps towards an efficient resource fishery. Aquaculture Research 51(08):3072-3078. Doi. 10.1111/are.14669

21. Madhumathan Mukherjee, Ankita Nandi, Krishna Chandra, Surjya Kumar Saikia, Chandan Kumar Jana, Nilanjana Das (2020) Protein extraction from Saccharomyces cerevisiae at different growth phases. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 172: 105906.Doi.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mimet.2020.105906.

22. ChandanMalick, Subhendu Kumar Chatterjee, Samir Bhattacharya, Rakesh Kundu, Vettah Raghavan Suresh, Surjya Kumar Saikia(2020) Gustatory ultrastructures of an amphihaline migratory fish hilsa Tenualosa ilisha. Microscopy Research and Technique. 83(5): 507-513. https://doi.org/10.1002/jemt.23439

23. Sabarna Choudhury, Surjya Kumar Saikia (2020) Oxidative stress in fish: a review. Journal of Scientific Research, 12(1): 145-160. https://doi.org/10.3329/jsr.v12i1.41716

24. Saran Ishika Maiti, Surjya Kumar Saikia (2019) p<0.05 Is Not Enough. Advances in Zoology and Botany, 7(2): 24-27. DOI: 10.13189/azb.2019.070202

25. Saran Ishika Maiti, Surjya Kumar Saikia(2019) Effect size - a magic wand for fickle p- value in experimental biological research. Journal of Advanced Scientific Research, 10(4): 1-7.

26. Subhendu Kumar Chatterjee, ChandanMalick, Samir Bhattacharya, Vettath Raghavan Suresh, Rakesh Kundu, Surjya Kumar Saikia. (2019) Ectopic expression of olfactory receptors and associated G-protein subunits in the head integument of the amphihaline migratory fish hilsaTenualosailisha. Journal of Fish Biology, 95(1): 324-334. doi: 10.1111@jfb.13801

27. Chandan Malick, Subhendu Kumar Chatterjee, Samir Bhattacharya, Rakesh Kundu, VettahRaghavan Suresh, Surjya Kumar Saikia. (2018) Structural organization of the olfactory organ in an amphihaline migratory fish Hilsa, Tenualosailisha.Microscopy Research and Technique,81(10): 1120-1131 doi: 10.1002/jemt.23095

28. Subhendu Kumar Chatterjee, ChandanMalick, Samir Bhattacharya, Rakesh Kundu, VettahRaghavan Suresh, Surjya Kumar Saikia. (2018) ‘Sensory pad’- A novel chemoreceptive device in hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha) to support its amphihaline attribute. ActaBiologicaSzegediensis,62(1):1-6.doi: 10.14232/abs.2018.1.1-6

29. Malick, S. Chatterjee, S. Bhattacharya, V.R. Suresh, R. Kundu, S.K. Saikia (2018)Evidence of putative sensory receptors from snout and tongue in an upstream amphihaline migratory fish hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha). Ichthyological Research, 65(1): 42-65. DOI 10.1007/s10228-017-0592-5.

30. Sabnam Parvin, Ruchira Sarkar and Surjya Kumar Saikia(2017) People’s knowledge on small fish as source of nutrition: a case study in Birbhum District ofWest Bengal, India. In: Role of animal science in national developments- Nanotechnology in Aquaculture. Eds.B.B. Kaliwal, Pandey, B.N., Kulkarni, G.K. Today’s and Tommorrow’s Publishers and Printers, New Delhi-002.

31. S.K. Saikia (2016) On the methodology of feeding ecology in fish. European Journal of Ecology, 2(1): 35-46, doi: 10.1515/eje-2016-0004

32. S. Nandi and S.K. Saikia (2016) Does size matter? Observation on the availability of micronutrients in two different sizes of small freshwater fish Amblypharyngodon mola(Hamilton, 1822). International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Studies, 4(5): 17-19

33. S.K. Saikia (2016) Food and feeding in fishes. What we need to know? Transylvanian Review of Systematical and Ecological Research, 17(1): 71-84. DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/trser-2015-0049

34. S. Nandi and S.K. Saikia (2015) Role of morphometry in determining the feeding success of small freshwater fish species: Multivariate analysis of Amblypharyngodonmola, Puntius ticto, and Esomusdanricus. Archives of Polish Fisheries, 23: 79-90. DOI 10.1515/aopf-2015-0009.

35. S. K Saikia (2015) Statistical Blue lines: Biologist’s A-Priori Need. Annals of Biometrics& Biostatistics. 2(3): 1024.

36. S. Nandi and S.K. Saikia (2015) Size selective feeding on phytoplankton by two morphogroups of small freshwater fish Amblypharyngodonmola. Journal of Fish Biology, 87: 215-230. doi:10.1111/jfb.12706.

37. S.K. Saikia, S. Nandi and S. Majumder (2015) ‘Synbiofilm’ – a friendly microbial association in aquatic ecosystem. Annual Research and Reviews in Biology 5(2): 97-108.

38. S. Danger, S Majumder and S. K. Saikia (2014) Back calculation of body weight of Labeo rohita from different scale measures. Journal of Frontier Research 3: 34-41

39. S. K. Saikia and D.N. Das (2014) Sustainable aquaculture: agro-ecological role of periphyton in rice fish farming. Reviews in Aquaculture 6: 1-15, doi 10.1111/raq.12062

40. S. Chattopadhyay, S. Nandi, and S. K. Saikia (2014) Mouth morphometry and architecture of freshwater cat fish Mystus vittatus Bloch (1974) (Siluriformes, Bagridae) in relation to its feeding habit. Journal of Scientific Research 6(1): 169-174, doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jsr.v6i1.16369

41. I. Samajdar and S.K. Saikia (2014) Traditional fishing gears of Birbhum district, West Bengal, India. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge 13(1): 187-194.

42. S.K. Saikia, S.K. Saha and S. Majumder (2013) Preliminary investigation on the diversity of plankton and periphyton from a freshwater pond stocked with rohu, Labeo rohita (Hamilton, 1822). Ege Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 30(4), 183-186.

43. S.K. Saikia, S. Majumder, S. Nandi and S.K. Saha (2013) Feeding ecology of the freshwater fish RohuLabeorohita (Hamilton 1822): A case of intelligent feeding in a periphyton- based environment. Zoology and Ecology 23(4): 266-274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21658005.2013.859849

44. T Mandal, S Majumder and SK Saikia (2013) An analysis of girth lengths to morphometric measures of Labeobata (Hamilton 1822). International Journal of Scientific Research 2(9):16-17

45. S Das, S Nandi, S Majumder, S. K. Saikia (2013). New Characterization of Feeding habits of Puntius sophore (Hamilton, 1822) through Morphometry. Journal of fisheriesscience.com 7(3): 225-231. doi. 10.3153/jfscom.2013023

46. S.K. Saikia, S. Nandi and S. Majumder (2013) A review on the role of nutrients in development and organization of periphyton. Journal of Research in Biology, 3(1): 780-788

47. S.K. Saikia and D.N. Das (2012). Comparison Index (CI): A new and rapid procedure for measuring planktonic fluctuations. Methods in Ecology and Systematics 7(2):8-15.

48. S Nandi, S Majumder, SK Saikia (2012). Small Freshwater Fish Species (SFFs) culture: Issues from nutrient security, carp-SFF integration and feeding ecology. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 23(3): 283-291. doi. 10.1007/s11160-012-9294-2.

49. S.K. Saikia (2012). Proposal of new and simple descriptive measure of diet breadth. Ecologia, 2(3): 85-92, DOI: 10.3923/ecologia.2012.85.92.

50. S.K. Saikia (2011). Review on periphyton as mediator of nutrient transfer in aquatic ecosystem. Ecologia Balkanica, 3(2): 65-78.

51. S.K. Saikia and D.N. Das (2011). Diversity and productivity (Chlorophyll-a and Biomass) of periphyton on natural and artificial substrates from wetland ecosystem. Journal of Wetland Ecology, 5: 1-9.

52. S.K. Saikia and D.N.Das (2010). Ecology of terrace wet rice environment and role of periphyton. Journal of Wetland Ecology, 4: 102-111.

53. S.K.Saikia and D.N.Das (2010). First report on Xeng fishery: A periphyton based aquaculture practice in Assam, India, SIBCOLTEJO, 5, 102-106

54. S.K.Saikia and S. Nandi (2010). C and P in aquatic food chain: a review on C:P stoichiometry and PUFA regulation. Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems,398 (03), DOI: 10.1051/kmae/2010024.

55. S.K.Saikia and D.N.Das (2009d). Potentiality of Periphyton-based Aquaculture Technology in Rice-fish Environment, Journal of Scientific Research 1 (3), 624-634.

56. S.K.Saikia and D.N.Das (2009c).Diversity and similarity of algal communities from upland rice-fish environment: A case study, International Journal of Ecology and Development 14 No. F09.

57. P.K. Sahoo, S.K.Saikia and D.N. Das (2009b). Natural food resources and niche breadth of Barilius bendelisis (Hamilton) (Pisces, Cyprinidiae) in river Dikrong, an upland riverine ecosystem in India, Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences 4(1): 12-16.

58. S.K.Saikia and D.N.Das (2009a). Feeding ecology of Common carp (Cyprinuscarpio L.) in rice fish culture system of Apatani plateau, Arunachal Pradesh, India, Aquatic Ecology 43: 559-568

59. S.K.Saikia and D.N.Das (2008b).Periphyton Diversity in Rice Fish Integrated Fields at a High Altitude of Eastern Himalaya, International Journal of Ecology and Environment Sciences, 34 (4): 299 – 306.

60. S.K.Saikia and D.N. Das (2008a). Rice-Fish culture and its potential in rural development: A lesson from Apatani Farmers, Arunachal Pradesh, India, Journal of Agriculture & Rural Development 6(1&2), 125-131.

61. D.N.Das, A.K. Das and S.K.Saikia (2007).Periphyton in rice–fish culture system: A case study from Arunachal Pradesh, India. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems22: 316-319 Cambridge University Press.

62. S.K.Saikia and D.N.Das (2004b). ‘Aji gnui assonii’ a practice of organic hill farming among the Apatani tribe of Eastern Himalaya. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 11, 211-217.

63. S.K.Saikia and D.N.Das (2003a). Diversity indices of zooplankton and water quality in the two freshwater ponds of Arunachal Pradesh, India. GEOBIOS, 30(2-3), 113-116.

 

Book Chapters​

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1. Mandal, N and Saikia, S.K. (2024) Niche breadth indices: a review. In: Emerging Trends in Life Sciences, Edited, Rathod, V. and Singh, D. Integrated Publications, New Delhi.

2. S.K. Saikia, S. Roy and J. Mukherjee (2011). Aquatic Ecosystem Health: A Review. In: Aquatic Ecosystems (Ed. Sheila A. Browne), Nova Science PubishersInc, UK. Pp 1-47. (ISBN: 978-1-61324-399-2)

3. S. Roy, S. Mandal, J. Mukherjee, M. Roy, S. Mandal and S.K. Saikia (2011). Body Size versus Rate Parameters of Zooplankton and Phytoplankton: Effects on Aquatic Ecosystems. In: Zooplankton and Phytoplankton: Types, Characteristics and Ecology (Ed. GiriKattel) Nova Science PubishersInc, UK. pp.193-218 (ISBN: 978-1-61324-508-8)

4. S.K. Saikia, S. Roy and J. Mukherjee (2011). The Upside of Grazer-Periphyton Interactions: A Review. In: Zooplankton and Phytoplankton: Types, Characteristics and Ecology (Ed. GiriKattel) Nova Science PubishersInc, UK p.89-106 (ISBN: 978-1-61324-508-8)