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Studies of population connectivity have largely focused on along-shelf, as opposed to across-shelf, processes. We hypothesized that a discontinuity in across-shelf mixing caused by the divergence of the Eastern Maine Coastal Current (EMCC) from shore acts as an ecological barrier to the supply of mussel ...
Throughout an organism's early development, variations in physiology and behaviours may have long lasting consequences on individual life histories. While a large part of variation in critical life-history transitions remains unexplained, a significant proportion may be caused by early gender effects ...
Abstract The increased pressure on the marine ecosystems highlights the need for policies and integrated approaches for sustainable management of coastal areas. Spatial planning based on geographic information of human activities, ecological structures and functions, and their associated goods and ...
Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG), one of the most pathogenic Mycoplasma, has caused tremendous economic loss in the poultry industry. Recently, increasing evidence has suggested that micro ribonucleic acids (miRNAs) are involved in microbial pathogenesis. However, little is known about potential roles ...
Fish iridoviruses cause systemic diseases with high mortality in various species of wild and farm-raised fish, resulting in severe economic losses. In 1998, we isolated a new epizootic iridovirus in cultured grouper (Epinephelus sp.) in Taiwan, thus named as grouper iridovirus of Taiwan (TGIV). We report ...
Background Myogenesis is currently investigated in a number of invertebrate taxa using combined techniques, including fluorescence labeling, confocal microscopy, and 3D imaging, in order to understand anatomical and functional issues and to contribute to evolutionary questions. Although developmental ...
Mimesis is a relatively widespread phenomenon among reef fish, but the ontogenetic processes relevant for mimetic associations in fish are still poorly understood. In the present study, the allometric growth of two allopatric leaf-mimetic species of ephippid fishes, Chaetodipterus faber from the Atlantic ...
A large percentage of eukaryotic genomes consist of repetitive DNA that plays an important role in the organization, size and evolution. In the case of crickets, chromosomal variability has been found using classical cytogenetics, but almost no information concerning the organization of their repetitive ...
Background The Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, is one of the most important aquaculture shellfish resources worldwide. Important efforts have been undertaken towards a better knowledge of its genome and transcriptome, which makes now C. gigas becoming a model organism among lophotrochozoans, the ...
Limited information is available on artisanal and subsistence shark fisheries across the Pacific. The aim of this study was to investigate Fiji’s inshore fisheries which catch sharks. In January and February 2013, 253 semi-directive interviews were conducted in 117 villages and at local harbours on ...
Cnidarians, in general, are long-lived organisms and hence may repeatedly encounter common pathogens during their lifespans. It remains unknown whether these early diverging animals possess some type of immunological reaction that strengthens the defense response upon repeated infections, such as that ...
A co-extruded dual component food product having a cereal-based outer component and an inner cream textured component encapsulated within the cereal-based outer component. The cream textured component includes an aqueous phase dispersed in a continuous oil phase. The aqueous phase includes at least ...
The present invention relates to microalgal food products with acceptable sensory characteristics and methods of producing the food products. The flour can be produced by cultivating microalgal cells of a strain of Chlorella protothecoides under conditions of acceptable pH and dissolved oxygen to produce ...
Disclosed is a marine environment display device (10) for georeferencing an image stream of a marine environment captured by a camera (12). The marine environment display device may comprise an image receiver (14) configured to receive an image of the image stream from the camera, a location receiver ...
A fish finder device housing (10) having a watertight shell housing (10) capable of containing an electronic load having a transducer within an interior space, the housing (10) have oppositely opposed extension members (24, 26), each of the extension members (24, 26) having a keel (25, 27), the oppositely ...
Device for locating and catching fish comprising a floating body (1) from which tackle (2) containing bait (21) is hung. The floating body (1) is substantially polygonal in shape with reduced thickness in comparison to the main dimensions thereof, being made in a core (3) of highly floatable material, ...
A pole holding fork includes a pole holding fork head (1) and a base (2) for the pole holding fork head. The pole holding fork head is provided with a connecting post (11) configured to connect with the base for the pole holding fork head, and the connecting post has an axial symmetric polygonal cross ...
A fish accumulator (110) for distributing fish, the fish accumulator comprising a tank (120), an entrance (130) in fluid communication with the tank, an exit (140) in fluid communication with the tank, and at least one water rotation device (150) to cause water to rotate water within the tank. [Image ...
Wave loads and slamming loads acting on the ship's hull lead to the superposition of low-frequency wave-induced stresses and high-frequency stresses from whipping as well as springing effects. Whipping, mainly caused by slamming loads, may impact the ultimate strength of the ship's hull. Both whipping ...
Wireless data communication along with data classification techniques has got wider acceptance in various marine wireless applications. This paper exploits the power of machine learning algorithm to classify wireless communication dataset for effective decision making in marine sector. Fishing is among ...