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The invention relates to an effect pigment, comprising a plate-shaped nonmetallic substrate and at least one coating containing copper, wherein the average particle size D50 of the effect pigment is more than 5 µm and the copper content of the effect pigment is in a range of 3 to 70 wt%, with respect ...
Background The brown ghost knifefish (Apteronotus leptorhynchus) is a weakly electric teleost fish of particular interest as a versatile model system for a variety of research areas in neuroscience and biology. The comprehensive information available on the neurophysiology and neuroanatomy of this ...
Introduction The Antarctic Ocean hosts a rich and diverse fauna despite inhospitable temperatures close to freezing, which require specialist adaptations to sustain animal activity and various underlying body functions. While oxygen transport has been suggested to be key in setting thermal tolerance ...
Background Studies examining diet scores in relation to health outcomes are gaining ground. Thus, control for dietary factors not part of the score, and lifestyle associated with adherence, is required to allow for a causal interpretation of studies on diet scores and health outcomes. Objective The ...
Recent progress in environmental microbiology has revealed vast populations of microbes in any given habitat that cannot be detected by conventional culturing strategies. The use of sensitive genetic detection methods such as CARD-FISH and in situ PCR have been limited by the cell wall permeabilization ...
Meta-analyses of field studies have shown that biomass, density, species richness, and size of organisms protected by no-take marine reserves generally increase over time. The magnitude and timing of changes in these response variables, however, vary greatly and depend upon the taxonomic groups protected, ...
Abstract Brain size is an energetically costly trait to develop and maintain. Investments into other costly aspects of an organism's biology may therefore place important constraints on brain size evolution. Sexual traits are often costly and could therefore be traded off against neural investment. ...
Somatic growth and reproduction were examined in individual laboratory-grown female Gambusia affinis fed with high (H), medium (M) and low (L) ration levels from birth to the first-time spawning. Results showed that the body length and weight, condition factor (CF), wet weight gain (WGw), specific growth ...
The gene agaA, of the isolated marine bacterium Pseudomonas vesicularis MA103, comprised 2958-bp nucleotides encoding a putative agarase AgaA of 985 amino acids, which was predicted to contain a signal peptide of 29 amino acids in the N-terminus, a catalytic domain of glycoside hydrolase 16 (GH16) family, ...
Background Fish species often exhibit significant sexual dimorphism for commercially important traits. Accordingly, the control of phenotypic sex, and in particular the production of monosex cultures, is of particular interest to the aquaculture industry. Sex determination in the widely farmed Nile ...
To address possible cell-to-cell heterogeneity in growth dynamics of isogenic cell populations of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, we developed a millifluidic drop-based device that not only allows the analysis of populations grown from single cells over periods of a week, but is also able to sort and collect ...
Molecular-based approaches were used to characterize the coastal microbiota and to elucidate the trophic state of Red Sea. Nutrient content and enterococci numbers were monitored, and used to correlate with the abundance of microbial markers. Microbial source tracking revealed the presence of >1 ...
A method of preparing a frozen food product, preferably a frozen poultry or fish product, comprising the steps of: a) providing a food portion to be frozen; b) applying to or coating the bottom or underside of said food portion with an edible hygroscopic material; c) freezing the food product; and d) ...
This invention relates to a fish carrier adapted to be connected to an overhead transport-conveyor system for carrying at least one fish at the tail part of the fish with the head of the fish facing down. The fish carrier includes spaced apart bars, where one end of the spaced apart bars acting as a ...
Networks of marine protected areas (MPAs) are being adopted globally to protect ecosystems and supplement fisheries management. The state of California recently implemented a coast-wide network of MPAs, a statewide seafloor mapping program, and ecological characterizations of species and ecosystems ...
This document describes techniques and apparatuses enabling advertisement presentation based on a current media reaction. The techniques and apparatuses can receive a current media reaction of a user watching a media program and, based on this current media reaction, determine which advertisement is ...
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for determining a future portion of a currently presented media program. The techniques and apparatuses can receive current media reactions of one or many people to a currently presented media program and determine later portions to present in the media ...
A dual-bearing reel includes a reel unit (1), a handle shaft (30) a one-way clutch (86), a drag mechanism (23), a drag regulation member (3), a handle (2), a spool (12), and a rotation transmission mechanism (19). The one-way clutch (86) includes an outer race (86a) being attached to the reel unit (1), ...
One object is to provide a fishing line guide that allows a line snagged in a loop to be released readily. The line guide 5 according to the present invention include a frame including a fixing portion fixed on the outer surface of the rod, a ring retainer retaining a guide ring that admits the line, ...
The invention relates to an organometallic complex of the amino acid/metal type. The complex is a crystalline pluri-metal complex that can be obtained in the form of a homogeneous powder that can be used to optimise animal feed. More specifically, the invention relates to an organometallic complex that ...